Forget about your friends for a second, and start getting more community-minded; a new social network is much more interested in where you live, and who your neighbors are.
Tablet devices aren’t just changing the amount of information that users read, they’re also changing the kinds of information, according to a new study by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism about the online habits of tablet users.
Before there was Arnold (or AH-nuld), there were probably things like this: robots that can walk without sensors or other special means of propulsion. What would it say if it could talk? Probably “Look ma, no motors or electricity!”
Eight months ago, Nokia bet its future on Microsoft, abandoning other smartphone efforts so it could create Windows Phones instead. Now, we’re seeing the first fruits of that strategy shift in Nokia’s Lumia 800 and Lumia 710.
Short version: After solid growth throughout its existence, Netflix has lost more than two-thirds of its value in a little over three months, and is now worth less than half of what it was worth a year ago.
The Apple patent war is going to get a little nastier. We’ve all heard about the patent wars between Apple and Samsung, but Apple now owns the “slide to unlock” patent, available on smartphones almost everywhere.
Apparently, not only is Big Brother watching you, he also really would rather that you weren’t watching him online, thank you very much. According to Google’s most recent transparency report, the first half of 2011 saw a 70% rise in requests from U.S. government and law enforcement to remove videos from YouTube, as well as [...]
Whispers of an Apple-branded television set have been popping up since the beginning of human history (yes, that long), with even the late Steve Jobs tipping his hand to his biographer, Walter Isaacson, informing him that he’d “finally cracked” the secret to an Apple television set:
Britain’s Trevor Prideaux liked smartphones but found he had a problem—born without a left arm, touchscreens were hard to use one-handed. Luckily Nokia stepped in and worked with medical professionals at the Exeter Mobility Centre to design a specially fitted prosthetic arm with a dock that houses his Nokia C7 perfectly.
Amazon stunned the business world this afternoon with the announcement that third quarter profit had fallen 73% despite net sales rising 44% during the same period. The discrepancy was explained as an increase in spending on new products such as the Kindle Fire, due to be launched next month.
How bad is Netflix’s news that it lost 800,000 subscribers yesterday? Bad enough for financial analysts to start describing the company as going through a “nuclear winter” and “broken,” advising their clients to dump the stock and move on.
