Smartphones
It’s hard to imagine a future for the once-promising operating system. But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t have one.
Hey, remember when Facebook bought Instagram for $1 billion? Well apparently buying the number one mobile photo app on the market isn’t stopping the freshly IPO-ed Facebook team from releasing a similar app of its own.
The smartphone app now lets you bump photos onto a computer — no configuration or accounts required.
Yahoo tries a new, thumbnail-centric twist on search for desktop browsers, iPhone and iPad.
Google’s overhauled iPhone app promises faster search results and more.
The demise of all-you-can-eat data might not be all bad news. Shared data plans could be money savers by letting families draw from one data pool, and by letting power users connect several devices without buying a separate plan for each one. But some big questions still linger.
Sidecar supplements traditional phone calls with photos, video and other info, which users can share back and forth as they talk.
It’s “friggin’ huge,” as my colleague Jared Newman recently quipped, and Samsung’s Galaxy S III is also going to be friggin’ expensive if you’re in the U.S. and want firsties. While the phone’s stateside launch date is still “early June,” Amazon has started taking pre-orders for the international version.
This fall, the tech market will witness a perfect storm as three major technologies and industry forces converge to deliver a whole host of new products for consumers.
From the View-Master to the iPhone, 14 memorable gizmos that exude a style all their own.
In her new book, Sleeping with Your Smartphone, Harvard Business School professor Leslie Perlow details her years-long research project with The Boston Consulting Group, an attempt to improve the work-life balance at the hard-driving firm with incremental but meaningful changes in attitude and behavior.
