Popular blogging hub, Tumblr, has just released a number of new refinements to its Dashboard. All of the changes, which we detail below, have been rolled out to users. Most notably, basic stats are now back in the top right corner for users, a useful feature that had been previously removed: Other adjustments include...
There’s an interesting piece out today in Business Insider (BI), highlighting a new deal that Microsoft appears to have landed with Amazon, entitled “BIG WIN FOR MICROSOFT: Bing Is The Default Search Engine On The Kindle Fire HD.” As you know from our previous coverage, the Kindle Fire HD is a new device out from Amazon, sporting a...
Chevrolet is making a radical departure from its approach to turn-by-turn navigation services. After using parent company’s General Motors’ OnStar service since its inception, Chevy is offering a competing alternative in its Sonic and Spark automobile lines. Called BringGo, it’s an integrated smartphone-dashboard system – Chevy’s first attempt at a bring-your-own-maps nav service to...
Google See Also These 5 Lousy Movies Are Why Paramount Hasn’t Hit $1 Billion At The Box Office The Kobayashi Maru Test And The Job Market Gay Star Trek Actor Plans To Teach Donald Trump About Gay Marriage Over Lunch Today is the 46th anniversary of Star Trek, so Google has cooked up an...
Consumers should soon be getting a more of a price break on electronic books following approval of a settlement between the US Department of Justice and three publishers who, along with Apple, stand accused of price-fixing eBooks to compete with Amazon.com. The publishers had agreed to the settlement in April. When the court publicized...
It looks like United Airlines isn’t the only airline that will integrate boarding passes with Apple’s new Passbook feature coming in iOS 6. Both American Airlines and Delta Airlines are likely on board as well, according to travel industry blog Skift. Passbook, if you’ll recall, is an Apple-created app that can hold digital boarding passes,...
This chart comes from Business Insider Intelligence, a new research and and analysis service focused on the mobile and Internet industries. Sign up for a free trial here. The period of explosive growth in smartphone sales is coming to an end. As Henry Blodget discussed in a special report, in any market, the peak...
When we launched our iPad app (to much fanfare) you all asked us when the Android version was coming. We finally have an answer: Right now. It’s real and it’s spectacular. The new app, built by the excellent AOL team led by David South, is a nice port of our current iPad with lots...
A reliable source provided us with some official blueprints for the Apple Campus 2 yesterday, and these are just a few of the images that illustrate the mammoth spaceship-like building currently being planned in Cupertino, Calif. A single one of these slides leaked out today, so we are putting these up now; we are resizing...
Cisco has a plan for turning big data from a technological movement to a business model that everyone can get behind, and it’s hinged on the notion that large companies can serve as centralized big data repositories that will spur innovation across entire ecosystems. The company lays out its vision in a new whitepaper...