Today I reviewed my magazine subscriptions, partly to see which of Apple’s iTunes, Amazon’s Kindle and digital magazine indie Zinio has the best offering currently. My check reaffirmed many positive things about digital magazines, but one thing still frustrates me: the user experience for subscriptions in both iTunes and Kindle. Apple and Amazon could...
After 54 hours of working, planning, networking, meeting new people and generally having a good but exhausting time, Umbrella People has won the Startup Weekend Women’s Edition. Startup Weekend surges on as a good way for people to explore their ideas as entrepreneurs. It’s a neat platform also to encourage women to stand up...
Lightbulbs may have been around for more than 125 years, but in that time they haven’t changed all that much. Filaments have become more reliable and energy-saving products have started to rise in popularity over their more wasteful counterparts, and LED lighting is also becoming more popular. After all this time, lightbulbs are still...
If you’re into the history of computing, watch this History Uncut video showing a young Bill Gates taking questions from the press about Microsoft Excel for Windows, back in 1987. Glasses were really big back then, clearly. As it happens, Microsoft had already released the first version of Excel two years prior, but only...
Content recognition specialist Shazam continues to bet on the second screen, and the company’s chief revenue officer Doug Garland told me last week that he doesn’t expect connected TVs or set-top boxes to catch up with the mobile space any time soon. “If you look at interactive TV… it has been the roadkill of...
The Xbox, the Zune, Windows Phone: in ten years, these products will be the model for Microsoft, as it evolves away from a software company into a hardware-and-services provider. At least, that’s the corporate vision outlined by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer this weekend. Ballmer formalized the shift in strategy in an interview published by...