Daily Archives: September 17, 2012

Bill Gates’ Interview Leads To An Awkward Moment At A Kleiner Event (MSFT)

September 17, 2012
Bill Gates’ Interview Leads To An Awkward Moment At A Kleiner Event (MSFT)

OnInnovation / flickr Bill Gates might have wanted to rephrase that. See Also END OF AN ERA: Once-Dominant VC Firm Kleiner Perkins Gets Blown Up In Groupon, Zynga, And Facebook Kleiner Loses Pao Ruling And Opts For Another Year Of Everyone Talking About This Sex Scandal Meet All The Players In The Kleiner Sex...

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Here’s Some Good Evidence The iPhone’s New Maps App Will Stink (AAPL, GOOG)

September 17, 2012
Here’s Some Good Evidence The iPhone’s New Maps App Will Stink (AAPL, GOOG)

512 Pixels See Also 13 Underrated Apps You Need To Download Right Now Microsoft’s Surface Tablet Will Be Priced To Compete With The iPad Here’s Why Apple Went With That Tiny New Connector Instead Of USB Everyone is caught up in iPhone 5 hysteria. But you can’t ignore that all isn’t good. We were...

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Foursquare Offers Up A Shortcut To The “Explore” Tab For Android Users

September 17, 2012
Foursquare Offers Up A Shortcut To The “Explore” Tab For Android Users

While this isn’t a major feature update by any means, foursquare is definitely pushing its Explore functionality forward by making it more prominent in its mobile apps, site and now by letting you add a shortcut directly to the tab on your Android device. In a quick post today, the company talked about the...

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Tabbedout releases SDK to give restaurant apps payment powers

September 17, 2012
Tabbedout releases SDK to give restaurant apps payment powers

One of the most broken experiences at a restaurant is paying for the check. After flagging down a waiter, I have to wait until they can bring me the bill. Then it’s another wait to give them my credit card and then one more interaction to sign the bill before I can leave. That’s...

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Apple Should Steal This Feature To Make Managing Your Inbox Easier (AAPL)

September 17, 2012
Apple Should Steal This Feature To Make Managing Your Inbox Easier (AAPL)

Screenshot I’ve been using the Sparrow mail application for my iPhone for a few months now. When the iPhone 5 comes out on Friday, I plan to switch back to Apple’s native Mail application. Sparrow is a fantastic app, but because it’s a third-party application, it’s not quite as smooth as the native Apple...

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Everything About Apple’s iMessage Drives Me Insane (AAPL)

September 17, 2012
Everything About Apple’s iMessage Drives Me Insane (AAPL)

Dan Frommer, Business Insider Apple introduces iMessage at WWDC 2011. See Also 13 Underrated Apps You Need To Download Right Now Proof That The iPhone 5 Outperforms Samsung’s Galaxy S III Samsung Is Already Bragging About Its Next Galaxy Phone, Saying It’ll Be Better Than The iPhone 5 iMessage went down again today.  Yes,...

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HTC May Fire Back At Rivals With A 5-Inch Smartphone (The “One X 5?”) Of Its Own

September 17, 2012
HTC May Fire Back At Rivals With A 5-Inch Smartphone (The “One X 5?”) Of Its Own

Samsung and LG have already crossed the 5-inch smartphone screen barrier, and now it seems that HTC is planning to make a similar leap any day now. The folks at Engadget happened upon what appears to be an early press render of a hefty new HTC handheld — supposedly dubbed the HTC One X...

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CHART OF THE DAY: And Now Let Us Gasp In Astonishment At What Just Happened To The Newspaper Business

September 17, 2012
CHART OF THE DAY: And Now Let Us Gasp In Astonishment At What Just Happened To The Newspaper Business

Over the past decade, lots of big newspaper companies have gone bust. But when you take a look at what’s happened to newspaper advertising over that period, it’s a wonder they all haven’t. Below, via Mark J. Perry and Bill Gross, is a chart we’ve run before. It shows inflation-adjusted newspaper advertising revenue over...

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Apple crests $700 a share, breaking records and posting a valuation over $656 billion

September 17, 2012
Apple crests $700 a share, breaking records and posting a valuation over $656 billion

It turns out that the new iPhone is so boring that investors have sent Apple’s stock to an all-time high today in after-hours trading, pushing the company over the $700 per share mark. The company’s new iPhone 5 broke sales records, moving 2 million units its first 24 hours on the market. In regular trading...

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How Shazam Plans To Make Money On TV’s Second Screen

September 17, 2012
How Shazam Plans To Make Money On TV’s Second Screen

No longer content to just help you confirm that, yes, the song you’re hearing is the new Justin Bieber single, Shazam is branching out. The music identification and discovery app is expanding its social TV capabilities and solidifying its role in the second-screen space. Unlike many new-media initiatives, it might even have a viable...

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