If you have yet to embrace geo-location, here are four free apps to help ease into the inevitable.
What Is Tumblr?
What you’re about to read can only be fairly categorized as a technoerotic thriller.
TechnologizerApps & Web
Yahoo-Tumblr: It’s Not What You Buy, It’s What You Do With It
Yahoo has a long record of buying cool companies — and failing to benefit from that coolness. Here’s hoping history doesn’t repeat itself with Tumblr.
Report: Yahoo Board Approves Billion-Dollar Tumblr Deal
Internet icon Yahoo is in talks to buy New York-based social blogging platform Tumblr for as much as $1 billion, according to multiple reports.
TechnologizerBusiness
Facebook’s Stock Price Is the Least Important Thing About Facebook
Facebook’s disappointing IPO and sluggish stock price don’t tell us a thing about the company’s signficance — or even its long-term potential to please investors.
Google Play Game Services Is Just What Android Needs, but Who Will Use It?
Google’s answer to Xbox Live is useful even if game developers do nothing but support cloud saves, but its Google+ branding could scare people away.
If You Expect Jaw-Dropping Things from Nintendo Direct, You’re Missing the Point
Nintendo’s latest video state-of-the-union is another relatively sedate update, and that’s a good thing.
Syrian Electronic Army Compromises Financial Times Blogs and Twitter Feeds
A clutch of blogs and Twitter accounts maintained by the Financial Times were hacked Friday, the latest in a series of cyberattacks claimed by the Syrian Electronic Army.
Google Opens Up About Glass Privacy, Zombification
During a “fireside chat” about Glass at Google’s I/O conference, Google employees opened up.
EA Isn’t Making Wii U Games: Do You Care?
Electronic Arts just confirmed that it’s not designing games for Nintendo’s Wii U.
Twitter Data Maps Show How Interconnected Our World Really Is
To create the maps, researchers analyzed the 46.7 million tweets posted between October 23 and November 30, 2012, looking specifically at those with a tagged geographic location.
Apple Says App Store Hit 50 Billion Downloads
Apple says its customers have downloaded more than 50 billon applications from its App Store since its launch in 2008.
