Email More By Justin Sullivan/Getty Images See Also REVIEW: Toshiba’s Funky New Tablet/Laptop Windows 8 Hybrid Actually, You Only Get To Use About Half The Storage On The Cheapest Surface Tablet Windows 8 Is Better Than We Thought It Would Be Microsoft has been around for a long time. It’s had its share of...
Getty Images The iPhone 5. See Also REVIEW: Nokia’s New Windows Phone, The Lumia 920 REVIEW: The iPad Mini REVIEW: Google’s Latest Smartphone, The Nexus 4 Smartphones have changed a lot this year. In January, a 5.5-inch “phablet” seemed absurd. Today, millions of people own one. And that’s just one example of how our...
Yodle CEO Court Cunningham Yodle.com, the online marketing site for small businesses, will make about $130 million in revenue in 2012, has 800 employees, and has been profitable for a year, CEO Court Cunningham tells us. So, is Yodle going to go public? That’s a question for next year, Cunningham says. “We could scale...
Do Not Track (DNT) is an HTTP header field that lets you opt out of third-party tracking by Web sites you don’t visit. It may sound straightforward, and it’s meant to be just that, but over its short life the situation surrounding the simple standard has become annoyingly complex. DNT currently accepts three values:...
When we hear the word spy, we have an instant mental picture of what a spy is, what they look like and how they behave. With 23 movies produced in the James Bond franchise and all the other copycat films, we’ve grown accustomed to thinking of a spy as someone that fits the following...
You’ve put years of work into your website or blog, but now you’ve decided that it’s time to sell. Maybe you’re not getting the satisfaction you used to from the pursuit. Maybe it’s not making as much money as you had hoped and you want to get something out of all that effort. Maybe...
This fall, the launch of Passbook marked Apple’s first foray into the crowded arena of alternative mobile payment schemes. Considering its well-founded reputation for producing disruptive tech, it’s tempting to assume Passbook is destined to do the same. And there’s certainly an argument to be made that the company has some distinct advantages in...
According to a well-publicized report, the US Senate planned to let the Post Office and other federal agencies read your email or Facebook page without a search warrant. Worse, the plan’s backer was supposed to stand up for privacy but instead caved to pressure from law enforcement. This is scary stuff and could mark...
When it comes to using data to determine how to build a team or manage a game, the National Football League appears years behind its professional sports brethren such as Major League Baseball and the National Basketball Association. But perhaps the increasing popularity of machine learning can change that by helping NFL teams make...
It’s been a big year for BitTorrent, said Matt Mason, the company’s executive director of marketing. Mason and his team have been working with big names like DJ Shadow and Tim Ferriss to figure out how to turn filesharing into a source of revenue. I met with Mason (who also wrote The Pirate’s Dilemma)...