Email More reuters.com Let’s have a moment of thanksgiving for Bill Gates. Two reasons. More than any other entrepreneur, Bill Gates is the reason you’re using a personal computing device to look at this story right now. For that, he became the world’s richest man. Now, Gates is no longer the world’s richest man...
Anna Bialkowska via Flickr Called patent trolls or non-practising entities (NPE), companies that make most of their money from licensing patents don’t have the best reputation. Just this week, the Wall Street Journal reported U.S. antitrust authorities are probing whether these firms are making high-tech markets less competitive. Indeed, many tech companies live in...
Email More Onliner See Also Holiday Buyer’s Guide: Here Are The Best Gifts In Tech This Year Google’s Latest Smartphone Is Already Having Issues A First Look At Nokia’s Blazingly Fast iPhone Maps App Since the launch of Apple’s App Store in 2008 there has been a flood of smartphone apps all with the...
Earlier today TNW brought forward the argument that it was all but time for Microsoft to release new information, detail, and confirmation on the coming 7.8 build of its Windows Phone mobile operating system. To that end, the following video clip does that for the company, even as it sits by and says nothing. Brought...
Happy Saturday Super Troopers, it’s good that you are still with us. For the more than 1% of the world computing community, and I suspect a far larger chunk of you lot, Windows 8 is the operating system du jour. That in mind, I’ll bet you miss your Start Menu. It was familiar, comfortable,...
We’ve heard this one before, over and over again: pirates are the biggest spenders. It therefore shouldn’t surprise too many people to learn that shutting down Megaupload earlier this year had a negative effect on box office revenues. The latest finding comes from a paper titled “Piracy and Movie Revenues: Evidence from Megaupload” (via...
It may be Thanksgiving Weekend over in the U.S., but at Disneyland Paris it’s Minecon, a conference devoted to all things Minecraft. And, in a glorious collision of gaming and next-level augmented reality, 13th Lab is using the opportunity to show off its latest capabilities in an iOS app, developed alongside Mojang, called Minecraft...
Many reviewers of Google’s Nexus 4 smartphone have appropriately pointed out the handset lacks support for fast LTE networks. Some have called this a fatal flaw, but as I explained in my own Nexus 4 review, the phone still provides a fast mobile broadband experience in certain coverage areas. It turns out that in...
Believe it or not, there’s a lot more to the online dating industry than an algorithmic shootout over whose matching engine is the best. For Zoosk, a dating platform that’s about to celebrate its five-year anniversary, building the right user experience is just as important — if not more so — than helping someone...
We don’t know much about how successful Google’s Chromebooks really are. Outside of talking about their adoption in schools and businesses, Google has never released any detailed sales figures. Most analysts assume they aren’t exactly a run-away hit. That hasn’t stopped Google from pushing forward with this initiative in the past, though, and this...