Effective Instagramming is, first and foremost, about quality. Good composition, interesting angles, worthy subjects and even a bit of humor come into play. As always on social networks, though, when you post is nearly as important as what you post. Why does timing matter? Everyday Instagrammers love the dopamine rush that comes with the notification of...
In the game of Internet connectivity, it appears that size does indeed matter: size of the Internet pipe, that is. And in this game, the phone companies keep losing. A new report from the Leichtman Research Group reveals cable operators acquired 330,000 new subscribers in the second quarter of 2012, while the telephone companies...
Nokia has been having a very, very hard time of it lately, dramatically losing market share in the smartphone race to the likes of Samsung and Apple, and getting slammed on a regular basis by the credit agencies. But you know what? Our troubled Finnish handset maker still has the ability to set investors’...
I don’t know about you, but I love it when singers, songwriters and musicians from different walks of the musical spectrum join up to create new music together. Granted, sometimes throwing a bunch of music maestros together doesn’t always deliver, but other times you end up with The Traveling Wilburys, The Raconteurs or even...
Joi Ito via Flickr Evan Williams, founder of Blogger and Twitter Evan Williams just can’t quit the online publishing business. First he founded Blogger, which he sold to Google. Then he cofounded Twitter with Biz Stone and Jack Dorsey. Now he’s on to his third act, this time with Biz Stone and Jason Goldman....
Big Red is about to get a new tab. And it’s relatively cheap, too. The Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 will soon be available from Verizon starting on August 17th. The 7-inch tablet is the successor to Samsung’s original Android tablet, the aptly named Galaxy Tab. But this new model features a more slender...
Now this is cool: Content identification specialist Vobile launched a new platform for second screen app developers dubbed TVSync Wednesday that uses your phone’s camera to figure out what you’re watching. Vobile CEO Yangbin Wang told me during a phone call Tuesday that this novel approach is faster and less error-prone than traditional audio-based...
One Laptop per Child (OLPC) will launch a new device known as ‘XO-4 Touch,’ the non-profit organization confirmed today. As you may remember, OLPC’s mission is to make affordable laptops accessible to children all around the world. According to OLPC, the XO-4 Touch will be part laptop, part tablet; as a matter of fact, it will come...
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Hoping to compete with services like Pocket (formerly Read It Later) and Instapaper, Amazon has launched a “Send to Kindle” browser extension for Google Chrome. Support for Mozilla Firefox and Apple Safari is coming soon. You can download the extension from the Chrome Web Store. Once installed, it sends “news articles, blog posts and other...