statigr.am/misserock Google employees with the Android Gingerbread Google has a huge challenge in mobile: Most Android users aren’t using the latest version of its software. That’s hobbling its efforts to compete with Apple, since older versions of Android don’t have the bells and whistles and performance improvements. The Next Web noticed that Google recently...
CNBC Friday’s Jobs Report: Gains Likely, but No Turning Point End of Stimulus? What’s Behind Fed’s Surprise Statement For Taxpayers Making More Than $250,000, a New Math 10 Most Stressful Jobs of 2013 Al Jazeera’s New U.S. Channel Already in a Battle A bubble hasn’t formed in the bond market, but the bubble in...
An Australian designer named Fred Nerby created an entirely new look for Facebook and posted it to Behance. He gave us permission to rerun it. It’s a pretty interesting look at how Facebook could overhaul its design. It actually looks like something that would be a cross between Apple and Microsoft’s design work. It...
According to a report from Politico’s Pro arm, Google’s lobbying budget is higher than many perhaps expected, TNW included: $25 million during the course of the FTC probe into its business practices, examining claims of anti-competitive behavior. The political spending database Open Secrets mostly corroborates the Politico figure, tallying a total of $24 million...
A bug in Google Now (and Google Translate) spits out some fairly amusing dialog if you ask it ‘what is a Giraffe’. It appears to be a glitch having to do with ending an open-ended phrase in ‘with’ which appears either translation or input. For instance, you can use the phrase ‘filled with‘ and...
Microsoft has lashed out at the FTC’s antitrust probe of Google’s business calling the investigation “a missed opportunity” that will see ”serious competition law concerns remain” in the search and mobile industries thanks to the FTC’s “weak” resolution. In a lengthy blog post (spotted by The Verge), Vice President and Deputy General Counsel Dave Heiner points to a series of areas where...
Text me. Wait, don’t. Not anything too private anyway. That’s because if a new proposal is approved by the Senate, each and every SMS message you send will be stored in a digital archive by your phone provider. Why, you ask? It’s all in the name of law enforcement being able to using your...
After reports streamed in at the tail end of 2012 of the end to the PlayStation 2’s nearly 13-year lifespan, the predictable response might be “so what?” After all, the end was inevitable – even the most popular game consoles don’t last forever. Microsoft gave its first Xbox the axe here in the U.S....
Microsoft had a pretty lousy year in 2012, putting out a string of big products – Windows 8, Windows Phone 8 and the Surface tablet – that all turned out to be be disappointing. But those pale in comparison to what may be the biggest disappointment in Microsoft’s history — its failure to convince...
After having spent $720 million on it two years ago, Rovi announced Thursday that it intends to sell its Rovi Entertainment Store digital video platform, which was formerly known as CinemaNow. The company said that it has retained GCA Savvian Advisorsto to facilitate the sale. It didn’t disclose all the assets to be included...