Here’s something that surprised us. Apple dominates in U.S. cloud service usage with iCloud. According to Strategy Analytics, via Engadget, more people say they use iCloud than any other cloud service. This is most likely due to Apple pushing iCloud as a part of iOS. Still, given all the hype around Dropbox and Google...
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philcampbell via flickr We want to know, who are the most creative people in mobile advertising? You tell us. Nominees can be people who have created innovative tablet ads, new ways to approach mobile ad display, changed the face of in-game ads, or found novel uses for SMS and QR codes. We will rank...
Google announced today on Google+ that users of its social network can now utilize a new search filter. Now, search queries can be filtered so that they display photo only posts — nothing about Google+ Hangouts, communities, events, or status update-like posts, just photos. Back in 2011, Google’s social head Vic Gundotra said during the...
Apple has finally placed a deadline on its rejection of apps that use UDIDs. As of May 1st, Apple will no longer accept new apps that use the Universal Device Identifier. In addition, all apps must be compatible with Apple’s Retina displays and iPhone apps must support the 4″ iPhone 5 display, or they’re...
Customer service platform UserVoice announced today that it has integrated its service with ExactTarget’s Pardot marketing automation platform. With this tie-in, companies will be able to leverage their customer engagement data for lead scoring and implementing targeted marketing campaigns. UserVoice’s CEO and founder Richard White tells TNW that the integration is free to customers...
BlackBerry executives are used to bad news. Whether it’s losing contracts with large enterprises or watching the company’s stock price plummet, it has not been a pleasant couple of years for the company formerly known as Research In Motion. One of the most consistent sources of good news to BlackBerry over the years has...
Happy birthday, Twitter! In just seven years, you’ve evolved from a fringe service dubbed “twttr” to a mainstream phenomenon with more than 500 million registered users and 340 million daily tweets. But the Internet is fickle. Will the microblogging service still be around another seven years from now? To make it to 2020, Twitter is going to...
Apple is beefing up its security for users of its iTunes, App Store and iBookstore consumers. Starting today, Apple is offering two-step verification for Apple ID, the authentication mechanism it uses for customers using iPhone, iPad and Mac computers. The move is long overdue for Apple. Two-step verification is a security feature that requires users...
The financial services industry needs to store a lot of data, and the folks at NASDAQ want to use it to help build new products. But they also have to keep an eye on costs. Ann Neidenbach, an SVP at the NASDAQ OMX Group, explained how the exchange made the decision to use the...