Email More Steve Kovach/Business Insider Roku’s new streaming box, the Roku 3, is easily the best gadget in its category thanks to its clever new interface and huge library of streaming content. You can read the full review of the Roku 3 here. Check out the gallery below for photos of the new hardware...
This chart comes from Business Insider Intelligence, a new research and and analysis service focused on the mobile and Internet industries. Sign up for a free trial here. Game developers are increasingly turning to smartphones and tablets for their next project. A survey of 2,500 developers from the organizers of the recent Game Developers Conference found that...
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It’s been a bumpy road for Facebook in its efforts to fend off a lawsuit from Paul Ceglia, who claimed as much of 84% ownership of the social networking service, but a US federal judge has recommended that the case be dismissed since Ceglia’s contract is a “recently created fabrication.” Buffalo News was first to...
Moscow, Russia-based online hotel booking service provider Ostrovok has raised $25 million in Series B funding, a mere two weeks after one of its main local rivals, Internet travel agency Oktogo.ru, raised $11 million. Ostrovok’s capital injection comes from a mix of prior and new backers, including General Catalyst Partners – which led the...
Today Microsoft announced via Major Nelson that its Xbox-related Windows 8 applications are in the process of receiving a cycle of updates. Included in the update wave are the Xbox Games application itself, and the Xbox SmartGlass companion-media app. Both Windows 8 and Windows RT systems should receive the new code. The updates began to land...
Back in the day, Nolan Bushnell invented Pong, founded Atari and created Chuck E. Cheese. But now he says that new tools and cultural norms are enabling creativity in ways never before possible – and offers hints on how to make your company more creative. We spoke on the occasion of the release of...
To listen to the media, you would think that the end of the relational database is about to strike at any moment, leaving behind a shattered mess of tables and queries strewn about in proprietary servers, collecting silicon dust. Truth be told, the future for relational databases has really never been better — though...
Are you anxiously wondering if you’ve successfully talked your way into early access to Google Glass, the company’s wearable augmented reality technology? You can just about stop holding your breath. Almost. “Over the next few days,” Google wrote in a post on the Project Glass Google+ page, “we’ll be sending out invitations to our Explorer...
Does Apple need a cheaper iPhone to attract entry-level smartphone buyers? T-Mobile may have just found a way to do it for them here in the U.S. The idea that Apple needs to produce a phone that attracts buyers that can’t or won’t lay down $200 up front for a smartphone in addition to...