Good perspective from Jeff Bezos who was speaking with Chicago tech company 37 Signals: He said people who were right a lot of the time were people who often changed their minds. He doesn’t think consistency of thought is a particularly positive trait. It’s perfectly healthy — encouraged, even — to have an idea...
Today, a billion users. Tomorrow, the world. Vaughan Smith, Facebook’s head of corporate development, said in a speech Friday at the Global Mobile Internet Conference in San Jose, Calif. that people in emerging markets didn’t want Internet access per se—they wanted to get on Facebook. Ina Fried at AllThingsD reported Smith’s remarks. “Facebook is...
This is a nice one for international users with Nokia Series 40 feature phones. Nokia has announced that its Nokia Nearby app has made its way to the Nokia Store after exiting a beta test that kicked off in September. The Nokia Nearby app is a local search app that gives you locations to...
Please file this in the ‘well, what a moronic move’ bag. It has become known that Microsoft has removed applications supporting Twitter and Facebook usage from its app marketplace on the Xbox 360 console. Why would the company do such a thing? It appears to be doing so to boost usage of Internet Explorer 9, thus...
When one thinks about a hacker, a couple of things probably come to mind: the classic movie starring Angelina Jolie or a computer specialist eager to either innovate or destroy something. Lately, a new use of the word “hacker” emerged. Called the “growth hacker“, this is someone who someone, typically a marketer, who is...
Ray William Johnson, the world’s most successful YouTuber, announced he is leaving his signed network Maker Studios earlier this week via video. The news sent the YouTube-o-sphere abuzz with gossip as both Johnson and Maker Studios are citing wildly different reasons for his departure. Almost everyone believes Johnson’s side of the story, however, because...
As consumer devices and services increasingly outstrip their corporate competitors in power, productivity and cachet, Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) has become the latest so-hot-you’ll-melt trend in the world of corporate IT. But plenty of IT departments see it as a demon to be exorcised from the cubicle farms – or an opportunity to...
Startups in New York have a new competition that offers more than bragging rights or a trophy — although far less than the contest organizers would have you believe. The city is kicking off a challenge that will bring free fiber to the building of small businesses, though they will have to subscribe for...
For the couple hundred lucky Model S owners out there, you can now start charging up at Tesla’s first six Superchargers in California for free. These puppies are now live — in Folsom, Gilroy, Tejon Ranch, Barstow, Coalinga and Hawthorne — and Tesla held ribbon cutting ceremonies at some of them on Friday afternoon. Last...
There are plenty of ways to become outraged about the state of affairs in global communications, but one of the easiest is to travel to a foreign country and try to use your smartphone like a normal person — in other words, check your location on a map, get your email, send text messages,...