Apple See Also Apple’s Maps Are A Disaster Waiting To Happen Everyone Is Saying This Is The Real iPad Mini Proof That The iPhone 5 Outperforms Samsung’s Galaxy S III At 9 p.m. Eastern on the nose today you’re going to see reviews for the iPhone 5 hit a few select blogs and newspapers....
Recent blackouts in the U.S. and India should serve as a wake-up call to an increasingly networked world. Power outages are no longer a local problem. Mission-critical websites and data centers are increasingly likely to be located in blackout zones. Today, a local blackout can become a global business catastrophe. That was one of...
Do we need another subscription service to deliver things to the doorstep? Blue Apron surprises with a new take on the market: every week, all the fresh ingredients you need to cook three meals are delivered to your home. It removes many hassles, such as having to think about a meal, finding the recipe,...
Investment firm Advanced Equities — which has raised money for cleantech companies like Bloom Energy, Fisker Automotive and SolFocus — has agreed to pay $1 million to settle charges by the Security and Exchange Commission that the firm misled investors around a fund raise for a Valley alternative energy company back in 2009 and...
Apple’s App Store is a frantic place. There’s no good way to keep track of what’s new or what’s changed among the more than 700,000 apps in there. For instance, when a great app goes free for a promotion, wouldn’t you like to know about it? Believe it or not, there’s an app for...
Facebook today begins testing its own mobile ad network where advertisers can pay to target you with ads for app stores or websites based on your Facebook data that appear while you’re on other apps and mobile sites. Facebook tells me that similar to its first off-site ad placements on Zynga.com, the goal is...
Continuing with its indoor push, Google Maps is today introducing a new way for users to view indoor panoramic imagery from businesses. Now, all you need to do is drag the orange Pegman onto an orange circle which sits above participating business in Maps, and you’ll get a panomaric view of the entire establishment. This...
“The Innocence of Muslims,” a trailer for an anti-Islamic film that has served as both an excuse and a spur for the latest round of unrest in the Middle East, is only the latest example of a longstanding YouTube tradition. The Google-owned company has been redefining activism, for better or for worse, since its...
Back in May, Facebook started testing a new feature called “Highlight”, which lets you pay actual money to make sure that more of your friends see your status update, in New Zealand (Facebook’s favorite country for testing obscure new features since it’s small but still English-speaking). Today, users of the social network from around...
Released four weeks ago, Facebook’s new iPhone and iPad apps have proven a hit: The average rating jumped from 1.5 stars to more than 4 stars on iTunes store, and users are raving about the improvement in speed when compared to Facebook’s previous HTML5 app. As in all things Facebook, though, users have complaints...