Apple blazed a path into mobile charting back to the iPod and through to its newest mini-tablet. Google followed second, developing a strong mobile ecosystem and venturing into the development of its own devices. But Microsoft has lagged behind.  It was the last of the three to develop a mobile phone operating system and...

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Email More Digiday was kind enough to ask me to give a presentation on the mobile industry at their conference in New York today. Aalysts Marcelo Ballvé and Alex Cocotas and I put together the deck with slides from our BI Intelligence chart and data library.  We’ve posted the deck here. We hope you enjoy...

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Stripe on Thursday announced it has added a new two-step verification setting in an effort to improve the security of its service. To use the new feature, you’ll also need to download the Google Authenticator mobile app for Android or iOS. First, you have to turn the feature on: it can be enabled in...

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Japanese mobile social gaming giant DeNA and Korean carrier KT have announced a partnership to share select gaming titles with each other on their respective networks. Starting next year, KT says it will add some games from DeNA’s Daum Mobage platform, the localized Korean division of its popular gaming network, to its Olleh Market. ...

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Google has updated the review interface for its Google Map Maker product in order to improve readability in the editing process. In a post announcing the changes, the Maps team called out a new filter and ranking system for edits, color coding for different aspects of a feature, the ability to mark edits as...

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The days of shooting a successful Web series from out of your apartment with a low-quality camera, like EQAL’s Lonelygirl15, are long gone. Nowadays you need a well-written script, a polished musical score, big names (in the YouTube space, at least), special effects and… money. Viral video master Freddie Wong, in an interesting move...

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Understanding what technology was like back in the day just got a whole lot easier, thanks to a totally cool new Web art project from Austrian Web developer mass:werk that rolls out high-tech computing in 1960s Mad Men-style. The site, designed by Norbert Landsteiner, visually simulates a fully funcitonal IBM 362 punch-card style computer interface...

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“The easy problems in the world are solved, the hard ones are left, and we’re going to need software to fix them.” That’s how GitHub co-founder Tom Preston-Werner characterized the technological challenges ahead at a roundtable discussion of predictions for the enterprise in San Francisco Thursday. Sounds a hell of a lot more important...

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On Thursday, Apple quietly unveiled a new, very detailed and public systems status page for users and developers to monitor the status of the company’s sometimes unreliable cloud-based services. The page shows Apple Services, Stores, and Cloud and whether they are operating as normal or they are encountering an issue. While Apple had a more...

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