Red hot social site Pinterest has finally moved away from its invite only status and made the pinning service open for anyone to join, the company announced today. The move to open registration comes hot on the heels of the latest redesign, which saw a redesigned version emerge with a bunch of new categories...
Daily Archives: August 8, 2012
Across the planet, broadband is getting faster & faster
This slideshow requires JavaScript. = 410 ? ’410px’ : ‘auto’); } ]]> When it comes to the Internet, the need for speed has never been higher, thanks to a growing global reliance on connected platforms, services and devices. That need is aptly reflected in the data collected by Akamai for the latest edition of...
Pinterest Finally Ditches Invitations, Now Lets Anyone Sign Up
Calling all chefs, wedding planners, stylists, and crafty-types: Pinterest has just opened registration to the public after two years of requiring an invite to join. Anyone can now sign up with Twitter, Facebook, or just an email address. Seems that $100 million cash infusion from Rakuten bought it some operations engineers. Its growth has already been...
Pay TV should be “afraid, very afraid” of Google Fiber, SNL Kagan says
While even its vast cash resources won’t allow it to roll out fiber to every TV home in the U.S., Google Fiber is something pay TV operators should be “very, very afraid of,” said a report issued Wednesday by research group SNL Kagan. “Google Inc. is reinventing the business of pay TV and broadband...
The newly refined BackPack 2 is a brilliant shelf for your Mac that stores laptops and hard drives
The original BackPack was like many Twelve South products in that it was an incredibly obvious product produced with a high level of polish. Adding a shelf to the back of your Mac to store hard drives and other knick-knacks may have seemed like a no-brainer, but the BackPack was the accessory that nailed...
Inside esports: How Team Liquid partnered up with The Little App Factory in a seminal sponsorship deal
TNW has spent significant time over the last two years covering Starcraft 2, a popular video game, and esports, the competitive gaming scene. This post is the first of several in our new ‘Inside Esports’ series that will be published from time to time, as TNW secures the interviews that it requires. Esports existed...
Use It Better Helps Developers Understand How Their Games Are Being Played
There are a bunch of companies promising to help businesses get a better understanding of user activity by recording visitor sessions (most recently we’ve covered services like userVOD and Delight.io, which are trying to bring this technology to mobile). Now a Polish startup called Use It Better has launched a user recording and analytics service...
Someone Ordered A TV On Amazon, But Received An Assault Rifle Instead
Screengrab from FOX 6 See Also Look At This Blatantly Misleading Poster From Party City Here Are The 10 Cities Where Amazon Offers Same-Day Delivery (And Why We’ll See More Soon) Amazon Has Gone To War With Zynga With Its Launch Of A Social Game, Living Classics This is one of the stranger online...
Microsoft Is Rushing To Open More Stores To Sell Its Surface Tablet (MSFT)
Matt Rosoff Business Insider See Also Microsoft Shows Off A New App Store For Office 2013 Microsoft Is Already Working On A Second Surface Tablet Why Microsoft Had To Build The Surface Tablet Microsoft has taken a big chance by releasing its own pair of Surface tablets to compete directly with its PC partners....
Meet Boo, ‘The World’s Cutest Dog’—And The Secret Facebook Employee Behind Him
Facebook/Boo Boo! Today, a great world mystery was solved by Mike Isaac, a writer at tech news site AllThingsD. Isaac unmasked the owner of Boo, “the world’s cutest dog.” No, really. Boo is the world’s cutest dog. Google it. Or check out the book that came out last year. According to Isaac, Boo belongs...