No more check-ins for you. Facebook Places is being phased out, so you can forget telling everyone that you were at the most magical place on Earth (Disneyland) or that you were busy buying plates at IKEA.
Basically what’s happening is that the mobile check-in feature is getting killed, so you won’t be able to broadcast your …
In an interview late Wednesday night, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak told Bloomberg News exactly what he thought about Steve Jobs. Known as Woz, Wozniak went on to wax poetic about the now-former Apple CEO, calling him the “best business leader of our time.”
While Woz acknowledged that he’s not personally close to the Apple CEO …
He had hair. Hear the music. The crowd’s going positively nuts. This is the moment that Steve Jobs unleashed the Macintosh out into the world, and sealed his fate as one of the most well-known CEOs to date. Larry who?
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It’s hard to imagine Apple without Steve Jobs. But with Apple stronger than it has ever been, this might have been the best time for Tim Cook to step in as its new CEO. The company is in a position where it can probably take the biggest of hits—including losing its star chief executive.
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Who can forget where they were on September 11th? In a few weeks from now, it will be the event’s 10th anniversary, and there will be an exclusive iPad app to commemorate it.
The upcoming “9/11 Memorial: Past, Present and Future” app will be filled with photographs and videos detailing the event, and the creation of the World Trade …
If you’ve ever dreamed of watching a YouTube video of a kitty playing with a ball of yarn with your best friend a thousand miles away, the Google+ “Hangouts” feature is the answer.
No, I don’t mean I’m going to send you a link, and then you click on it, and we both watch it at different times. The Google+ Hangouts feature as …
Skype has announced that it’s acquired “GroupMe,” a group text messaging service. Financial details are still relatively unknown at this point, but AllThingsD says Skype purchased the company for around $85 million late Sunday afternoon.
(MORE: What’s Going to be Huge at SXSW? Group Messaging)
GroupMe, which lets you text with …
Late Saturday, somewhere in Libya, a blinking light on a wireless router began to pulsate. It was the first time that most of Libya’s citizens were being connected to the rest of the world since Internet access had been killed in March. Over the weekend, data connections began to trickle in and out as the rebels gained on Tripoli.
Far …
Remember Google Music? You know, the era before Spotify? Google’s launched a music blog called Magnifier to help you discover music that you can add to your Google Music Beta account.
The blog is basically updated every day, spotlighting a specific artist. A couple of songs will be featured, and then each song can be added to your
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Since my mother, father, best friend, ex-boss, neighbor, neighbor’s sister and even the guy who sells me my coffee keep asking me when the next iPhone is coming out, let me set the record straight: My name isn’t exactly Steve Jobs, but I can tell you that people are whispering that it will finally be available in early …
Now there will be no question about who is going to be the “mayor” of the White House. President Barack Obama has just made the official leap to Foursquare − and he is probably going to be checking in at more places than Carmen Sandiego.
According to the White House, Obama’s Foursquare account will feature the places he visits and …
Images of the new Apple “mothership” have landed.
Yes, Apple’s upcoming campus is circular. It won’t actually be done until 2015, but meanwhile Cupertino is assaulting the general public with a barrage of wonderfully rendered pictures of what it will look like. It’s probably not a guarantee that everyone will be so beautifully …
