Samsung’s ads keep getting better and better. Usually the Galaxy-maker is ripping on Apple and its epic product launch lines, but now Samsung has switched its focus to Blackberry and business users. The spot touts Samsung’s standard 256-AES encryption, multi-tasking, and NFC sharing. We first saw this ad over at TechCrunch. Check it out for...
Daily Archives: January 21, 2013
BII REPORT: The Race To Be The Third Mobile Platform
Email More Android and iOS account for almost 90 percent of the global smartphone market. They control a similar share of the U.S. smartphone market, the world’s largest by revenue. For now there’s no certainty about which company, if any, will be able to mount a serious challenge to Google’s and Apple’s dominance. In a recent...
Report: The Next BlackBerry Will Cost Less Than $199 (RIMM)
Tinh Te See Also BlackBerry’s Next Smartphone Is Just As Fast As The iPhone 5 There Are Thousands Of People Already Testing The Next BlackBerry Phone And That’s A Good Sign For RIM Here’s A Look At How The Next BlackBerry Phone Will Work BGR has a huge feature on BlackBerry 10 with a...
Mega.co owner auctioning domain for $500,000 to fund ‘open Internet’ causes
On the heels of the launch of Kim Dotcom’s new Mega file sharing service, the owners of a separate but similar domain, Mega.co, are auctioning it for as much as $500,000, ostensibly in support of causes for the free and open Internet. The site currently redirects to join.ome.ga and promotes “The Omega Project”, though there...
RIM extends BlackBerry 10 app incentive deadlines following ‘remarkable’ number of submissions
In the final mile before it officially unveils its new BlackBerry 10 smartphones, RIM’s quest for mobile apps and content appears to be going well. So well, in fact, that it says it is pushing back the deadline for its developer incentive programs due to the large number of apps that have been submitted...
Uber finally drives into Asia as the private car service begins testing in Singapore
Uber, the private car hire service that has taken the US by storm, has ramped up its global expansion plans after stepping into Asia for the first time with a soft launch in Singapore. There have been rumors of Uber’s launch in Singapore since October 2012 when tech blog SGE spotted the firm advertising...
This Is Why Sergey Brin Hates Doing Press
Google co-founder Sergey Brin famously hates doing press interviews, in part because he thinks it’s a waste of his time (which it probably is) and in part because he treasures his privacy. Despite being one of the richest people in the world, Brin still enjoys almost complete anonymity. He can go anywhere in the...
Can Venture Capital Fix Our Dysfunctional Educational System?
Venture capitalists are betting that technology will play a major role in fixing a broken U.S. educational system. Accel Partners, Spectrum Equity and Meritech Capital Partners put their chips down last week with a $103 million investment in Lynda.com, which sells monthly subscriptions for training videos in business, technology and creative skills. The investment...
Bringing data loss prevention to the little guy
Data loss prevention is something that all CEOs worry about and if they don’t, they should. Just ask AMD, which last week charged four former employees with taking trade secrets over to rival Nvidia. What company that does not have sensitive information — source code, customer lists, blueprints, MA plans — that it doesn’t want...
The social network where we’re all just a number
If you Google my name, you’ll find there’s an Eliza Kern listed on a bunch of social networks. There’s an Eliza Kern on Google+, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Pinterest, Foursquare, Instagram, Snapchat, Tumblr, along with a whole host of others I can’t even remember. For most of them, it’s pretty clear that those Eliza Kerns...