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.
The …
Looking for a little inside info on the stock market? Try checking Yahoo. No, searching “Which stocks will go up?” won’t work; we’re talking about using search data to predict behavior in real life.
The appropriately named Institute of Complex Systems in Rome went through Yahoo searches looking for mentions of companies in the …
The last quarter has not been good to Netflix. The company reported a loss of 800,000 subscribers, mostly due to the PR nightmare that came after it raised its prices for its combined streaming and DVD plan by 60%. Netflix ended the quarter with 23.8 million U.S. subscribers, compared to 24.6 million three months ago.
It’s not all bad …
So, is Google trying to buy Yahoo or what? It’s all so confusing! Fear not, people of the Internet, because Taiwan’s Next Media Animation explains the entire situation in its latest video.
Here is the gist of what’s happening: An unnamed source told the Wall Street Journal that Google has been talking with two firms that are looking …
Until Google irons out its music licensing issues with the big record labels, its Google Music service (which the Wall Street Journal says is rumored to launch within the next few weeks) probably won’t reach the popularity of the music industry’s latest big thing: Spotify. One thing Google does want to do is emulate Spotify’s social …
Tour guides are just waiting to show you around Silicon Valley, legendary home to Facebook, Google and countless other big-name tech companies. The problem? Not too many people are lining up to see such exciting locations as the Symantec cafeteria and Fry’s.
The San Jose Mercury News recently talked to Shawn Hartung and Chris Soden of …
The one thing nobody wants to do after a long day of work is schlep to the supermarket and fight the crowds grabbing groceries for dinner. Commuters in Seoul, however, now have a different option—shopping by smartphone in the virtual grocery store in the Seolleung underground station.
It works like this: Photos of hundreds of …
It looks like all of those people scooping up new iPhones and Androids are embracing video in a big way—a new Nielsen poll reports that 36% more mobile subscribers watched video on their phones this year than last year. Also popular: watching TV without commercials, which would explain the 31% jump in DVR usage over the last two …
It looks like Gmail is getting a makeover. The brand-new version of Google’s popular, free email service features plenty of user-friendly upgrades: a cleaner design, improved search functions, high-resolution themes and more.
All of this was revealed in a new video that wasn’t meant to be seen yet. Google produced a slick presentation …
Is the holodeck from Star Trek: The Next Generation on its way to becoming a reality? While we’re a long way from gunslinging across the virtual Old West, the research team over at Microsoft has developed something pretty impressive: the holodesk, which lets users manipulate holographic images with their hands.
The video pretty much …
This Friday, crowds will swarm the Anaheim Convention Center for BlizzCon, the 6th annual celebration of all things Blizzard. Super-fans who don’t make the journey have a much more couch-friendly option—attend via the internet with a virtual ticket. But is the $40 price tag worth it?
Well, the 500,000 people who watched it online …
Groupon’s long-delayed IPO is back on track—at least according to Reuters, who quoted sources that “declined to be named because they were not authorized to speak publicly on the matter.” The Chicago-based company is supposedly planning to announce a roadshow for its initial public offering as early as Monday or Tuesday of next week. …
