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Google’s Larry Page Google has started testing a same-day delivery shopping service in San Francisco, according to the New York Times. This could be huge for Google’s mobile consumer intent targeting strategy (dominated by search, currently). The move puts Google in direct competition with Amazon, which has a more prominent reputation among consumers for...
It’s a tradition that had all but flickered out: the sending of cakes by Microsoft to Mozilla for major Firefox releases. It started downhill when Mozilla switched – a la Chrome – to smaller, more frequent releases. Microsoft downgraded the cake size as Firefox streamlined its update process, when the below treat was sent,...
Four out to the six available iPad mini SKUs are sold out on the Apple online store, having their shipping date pushed back several weeks. It appears that today the 16 gigabyte, black-color iPad mini sold through the last of its initial batch of pre-order stock. It is a standard practice for hardware manufacturers...
This seems to be the year of the website redesign. So many companies and startups are relaunching brand new websites, and with good reason. Technology is changing, design trends are coming and going, how sites are used is changing, even things such as social media and community interaction are changing and shaping how websites...
The U.S. presidential election is now only a week away, and if there is one thing that this election is about, it’s jobs. The tech world has had its own running debate about jobs—one focused on the question of just how much large-scale data centers contribute to employment and the economy. After all, not only...
Diigo, a social bookmarking and annotation site, is finally back online 50 hours after the domain was first hijacked. It’s an incredible story that involves crisis management, blackmail, investigative research, payoffs, a clever thief, and points to potential problems with the domain name registry system that could affect anyone with a website. Diigo’s co-founder...
Welcome to the future, where you can essentially make a movie with believable special effects right on your smartphone. Cinefy, an app that just launched on the App Store, makes this possible. You can choose from literally hundreds of CGI effects to lay over your video. You can also drop music over the video...
Big Data is on every CIO’s mind this quarter, and for good reason. Companies will have spent $4.3 billion on Big Data technologies by the end of 2012. But here’s where it gets interesting. Those initial investments will in turn trigger a domino effect of upgrades and new initiatives that are valued at $34...