In short: innovation, execution, and a near-maniacal focus on the user experience. With the dramatic rise of Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android devices, it’s easy to forget that just a few years ago BlackBerry was the …
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Muggers Demand iPhone, Turn Down Android
Here’s some unconventional market research. According to NBC New York, a pair of robbers stopped three different people recently, each near Columbia University in Manhattan. In each instance they demanded that the person hand …
Big Deal: A Major New Player (eBay’s PayPal) Enters the Daily Deal Market
Without question, Groupon has been a tremendous business success story thus far, inspiring the legions on copycat daily deal sites, along with the previously unheard-of notion that coupons can, in fact, be cool. The latest major …
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Is Your Cell Phone Listening in on You?
Carrier IQ and other smartphone apps allow for unprecedented surveillance. And it’s all legal.
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Our Favorite Things: Last-Minute Gift Ideas (Day Four)
So you’re rich, filthy stinking rich, and you want to know what to get, well, probably for yourself, since who else can afford to buy you this stuff? In keeping with my colleagues’ Santa lineup, I guess that makes me Blitzen, …
Of Course Bill Gates Isn’t Coming Back to Microsoft
Bill Gates has shot down reports that he’ll ever go back to work full-time at Microsoft, the company he co-founded 36 years ago.
“I made the transition to work full time on the Foundation, and that will be what I do the rest …
Facebook Makes New ‘Timeline’ Design Available to Everyone
Let the chaos begin! Facebook’s new scrapbook-like Timeline design is now available to all users. Some of you will love it! Some of you already love it! Some of you will hate it! Some of you already hate it! These are Facebook …
Tech 2012: Please Don’t Call These Predictions
A few best- and worst-case scenarios for the year ahead, on Microsoft, Apple, Facebook and more.
Where to Find Santa Claus Online This Year
It stands to reason that in these days of social media awareness, one of the easiest ways of adding credibility to the Father Christmas myth is to point your kids in the direction of his Facebook or Twitter account. The problem …