Following up a survey that found dissatisfaction with airport and airline tech offerings, we asked frequent fliers and a pilot if the survey reflected the reality of the tech-unfriendly skies. “Wi-Fi exists in all airports but should be free and unrestricted, like air and water.” That common sentiment was voiced by Michael Liebow, CEO...
Daily Archives: September 11, 2012
Here’s How Many iPhones Apple Will Have To Sell This Holiday To Beat Wall Street (AAPL)
AP See Also REPORT: iPhone 5 Preorders Will Start September 14 Apple May Announce A Redesigned iPod Touch Tomorrow—Here’s What It Could Look Like How Amazon Can Disrupt The Smartphone Industry Apple analyst Walter Piecyk of BTIG is known for being one of the very few analysts who is somewhat bearish on Apple. Earlier...
Marc Benioff Just Announced A Big Customer Win: Google (CRM, GOOG)
Julie Bort/Business Insider Marc Benioff and Michael Arrington at Disrupt SF See Also Marc Benioff Just Declared War on Startups Box AND Okta Look Out, Microsoft: Aaron Levie And Kevin Rose Think Enterprise Software Ready For Disruption BII REPORT: Here’s How Microsoft Is Trying To Win Mobile In The Enterprise Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff...
Reddit launches Midwest bus tour campaign for the Open Internet, asks for your donations
After rallying together against US anti-piracy legislation Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) earlier this year, Reddit has announced it will ensure Washington doesn’t try to pull a fast one on Americans again. How exactly does one do that? A bus tour, of course. Next month, Reddit is pushing its...
Apple is already fighting Amazon in the ebook price wars
Apple would prefer agency pricing on ebooks — that, we know. In fact, Apple is likely to appeal the DOJ’s ebook pricing settlement with HarperCollins, Hachette and Simon Schuster, which was approved last week. Turns out, though, that doesn’t mean Apple won’t play the price-drop game on their ebooks in the meantime. We saw...
Fontly: An app for discovering and sharing vintage typography
Photo sharing services have quickly gone from a much-needed and exciting utility to the bane of every blogger’s inbox (especially group photo sharing services). There are simply too many sub-par options out there, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t a few gems left. One of those gems, at least for typography-lovers, is Fontly; a...
IT Spending Up
New information from IDC this week reveals that despite global economic doldrums, IT spending will still grow by an average of 6% globally. But don’t look for a corresponding increase in IT jobs, which are getting substituted by more automated software and services. The growth projection comes at a time when new signs of...
Solar panel power is rocking it in the U.S. in 2012
You might not believe it when you listen to political campaign speeches, or look at the balance sheets of solar panels makers, but solar panel power projects are rockin’ in the free world in 2012. Well, in the U.S. specifically. Installations in the U.S. of solar panels more than doubled in the second quarter...
What iPhone Retailers Have Been Telling Shoppers [Infographic]
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With a new iPhone on the way, most likely by the end of the month, do you ever wonder what’s going through the minds of folks who are shopping for iPhones right now? And what happens at the store if they ask about the new model? It turns out that not all retail representatives...
Privacy Paranoia Fuels False News Reports
The privacy freakout sparked by hacker group AntiSec’s leak of Apple user identification numbers last week turned out to be unwarranted. But the Anonymous offshoot taught us some things about the culture of paranoia that has become a feature of our digital lives. The group claimed that it had pilfered millions of iPhone/iPad user IDs from...