With all the talk about Samsung lately, you might think it has the most popular phone in the world. You would be wrong, though. As this chart from Tavis McCourt at Raymond James shows, Apple‘s iPhone line has outsold Samsung’s Galaxy line of phones every single quarter but one since the Galaxy line launched....
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If you haven’t filled out your bracket for the annual NCAA March Madness basketball extravaganza, you’ll want to check out the Simple Bracket iPhone app from Studio Neat. We dribbled with the developers, who were responsible for the Glif tripod mount and Cosmonaut stylus, when they first launched the app’s Kickstarter project last month. Funding...
Microsoft’s Azure Infrastructure as a Service and Platform as a Service cloud computing tool today turned on support for Hadoop. Or, in Microsoft-speak, HDInsight is now a go, enabling “you to easily deploy and manage Hadoop Clusters.” That warming sensation you are feeling is natural. As ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley noted in a post on the...
This post originally appeared on The Wirecutter – A list of amazing gadgets. If you’re looking for a high-capacity USB battery pack that’ll charge your USB-powered gadgets while travelling, I’d recommend the Satechi Portable Energy Station 10000 for $60. When you’re looking for USB battery pack, you should make sure that it provides enough additional power to the...
Tech startups need to innovate in order to survive, much less grow and thrive. But when there’s so much else to do, from fixing bugs to business development to sales and customer support, how do you fit innovation in? Just as important, how do you figure out which innovations are actually worth pursuing? We...
The Mozilla Corporation, the commercial vendor behind the popular Firefox browser, is pushing out a new policy for third-party cookies – a policy that’s gotten Internet advertisers in a bit of a snit. The new cookie policy, announced Feb. 25 on the Mozilla Privacy blog, will accept third-party cookies when a user is surfing...
Another hacker bites the dust. This morning, Andrew Auernheimer — aka “weev” — got handed a sentence of 41 months in prison, 3 years of supervised release and a $36,500 fine. All for basically exposing a major security hole at ATT and publicly shaming the company that hadn’t ever bothered to fix it. Back in...
Sports giant Nike has picked its winners. Three months after announcing the launch of a new TechStars-powered accelerator for digital fitness startups, the company on Monday said it had chosen the 10 companies that will participate in its first class. Nike said the 10 startups, which were culled from “thousands,” kicked off the program...