Apparently, there’s a science to naming your mobile app if you want it to be a hit. Dutch analytics company Distimo has taken a look at the keywords that tend to appear in a lot of successful apps in the Apple, BlackBerry and Android app stores, as well as the Nokia Ovi Store and Windows Phone 7 Marketplace.
The top 25 have some you …
Be careful what you post on your Facebook account, because it might end up being used against you in a court of law. This isn’t another case where someone else may be claiming that anything and everything that you post online is fair game in terms of copyright, however.
Instead, there’s the possibility that you might end up as your …
The iPad may be the mobile device that most magazine publishers are enthusiastically embracing, but it’s possible that they’re moving in the wrong direction: Female magazine readers, it seems, may prefer Barnes & Noble’s Nook Color.
The New York Times reports that Nook sales of magazines like Cosmopolitan, Women’s Health and O, The …
Throughout the early sixties, the Newport Folk Festival provided a spotlight for folk royalty like Joan Baez, Johnny Cash, and Howlin’ Wolf, under the assumed context that they’d uphold the festival’s acoustic roots.
So when a young, defiantly-haired Bob Dylan—who had previously established himself as the festival’s darling in ’63 …
Despite Apple, Mozilla and Microsoft all signing onto Do Not Track, Google remains curiously quiet on plans to add the ability for users to tell advertisers and publishers that they’d rather information on their browsing not be stored. The reason why, according to the man in charge of the company’s legal privacy matters? Because Google …
If you’re an avid gadgethead, chances are you’ve got a few misfires in your gear bin. A point-and-shoot that you quickly upgraded past, a few extra Xbox 360 controllers that your lonely, single self doesn’t really need or maybe a first-gen Kindle, even?
Well, if you want to put those leftovers to good use, the world’s largest web …
It’s almost an offer worth going back to school for. Microsoft has decided that there’s a very, very good way to make Windows attractive to the kids: Bribery. That’s why they’ve announced a new deal for students that offers, basically, a free Xbox 360 for every Windows PC they buy.
Oh, okay: It’s not quite that easy. For one thing, …
Apple is a religion for its devoted fans. Admittedly, they might not actively think of their love for iPads, iPods, iMacs and everything else in those terms, but according to neuroscientists, that doesn’t necessarily matter, because their brains do.
As part of a BBC documentary Secrets of the Superbrands, journalist Alex Riley looked …
The Apple rumor mill was aflutter earlier this week over the possibility of a new Apple product launch this weekend. But if 9to5Mac’s unnamed source is correct, the big surprise will actually be a revamped Apple Store.
Says the source, this “Apple Store 2.0” will have iPads at every turn, acting as interactive signage for other …
Why doesn’t Amazon.com collect sales tax from the majority of Americans who buy from the company? Because, according to CEO Jeff Bezos, it would be unconstitutional to do so – although the company does support a proposed change in the law that would allow everyone to pay taxes on their purchases through Amazon.
The subject came up in …
Add this to the growing idea that web users are looking more for authoritative voices and less for citizen journalism from their internet these days: As part of Google’s expansion of Google News – which offers such benefits as personalized top stories, click-to-expand options and the chance to view multimedia in the search results – …
Well, at least you’ll know when you’re spending beyond your means now. Bank of America is planning a new service that will send you a text message checking whether or not you want to allow purchases that will push your bank account into the red. The notifications will offer BoA customers the chance to go temporarily into overdraft with …
