Last night I went shopping with my wife for treadmills at the mall down the street from our condo. At some point, I convinced her I needed to swing by the GameStop at the other end of the mall to put money down on a copy of Batman: Arkham City. Between us and the GameStop: an Apple Store, wedged between a Pearle Vision and American …
Why Does Apple Only Spend 2% of Its Money on R&D?
You read that right. While big corporations like Microsoft and Google shell out around 15% of their revenue to internal research and development labs, Apple spends only 2.2% to creating new and innovative concepts.
Strangely enough, not only does Apple spend just a small percentage of its revenue to devoting itself to innovate and …
SEC Issues New Cybersecurity Guidelines for Publicly Traded Companies
How many publicly traded companies need to improve their cybersecurity? How much danger are those companies in of actually being hacked? The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission wants you to have a better idea, especially if you’re a shareholder of one or more of the companies.
Late last week, the SEC introduced a new set of …
Review of the Apple iPhone 4S Camera
Apple is heavily promoting its new improved camera as a primary feature of the iPhone 4S. With a 60% increase in megapixels, a sharper and faster lens, and a newly engineered illumination sensor, the popular technology company is hoping consumers will now turn to the iPhone for their primary photography (and video) needs, as well as …
YouTube to Launch 25 New Professionally-Created Content Channels?
Not content going head-to-head with Netflix and iTunes by offering streaming video-on-demand movie rentals, YouTube is rumored to be close to announcing a $150-million plan to unveil multiple new channels of all-original content in the hopes of becoming a rival to major television networks
The project, which according to Deadline New …
Report: Apple Stores to Close for One Hour on Wednesday for Steve Jobs Memorial
Apple Stores will reportedly close for an hour on October 19th, according to 9to5Mac, to allow employees to watch the company’s on-site memorial to former CEO and co-founder Steve Jobs.
The closure will apparently happen between 1pm and 2pm Eastern this Wednesday, at which point employees will be able to watch a webcast of the event …
Hot Potato: Apple’s iPhone 4S Does Record 4 Million Sales
On your mark, get set, four million iPhones sold in just three days! That, according to Apple, is the number of iPhone 4S units sold worldwide during the new iOS-based handheld’s opening weekend. The iPhone 4S launched on October 14 (last Friday) in seven countries, with plans to add 22 more on October 28 and over 70 total by the end of …
Bill Shock Be Gone: FCC, Wireless Carriers Strike a Deal
Rather than face regulation, wireless service providers have struck a deal with the Federal Communications Commission to warn customers about impending overage charges for voice, text and data use.
Customers will receive free text alerts in real-time when they’re about to exceed their limits, CNET reports. The move is supposed to cut …
WATCH: Control a Wheelchair by Biting and Blinking
Imagine: You’re paralyzed from the neck down, a full-on quadriplegic with what doctors refer to as a “high level spinal cord injury.” How do you get around? There’s your voice, of course, which can drive speech-recognition software, and you may have heard about mouth-driven navigation tools, where you use your tongue to manipulate a …
RIM Says Sorry for BlackBerry Outage with Free Apps
BlackBerry owners frustrated by last week’s service outage—the longest in RIM’s history—will have access to “a selection of premium apps worth a total value of more than US $100,” according to a company press release.
The apps will become available starting on Wednesday, with additional titles added to the list over the next four …
There Was Porn on Sesame Street’s YouTube Channel This Weekend
I don’t think the P in PBS stands for “porn,” but for a brief time on Sunday, it did. PBS’ YouTube account got hacked yesterday afternoon, and for a full 20 minutes, naïve youngsters were exposed to the birds and the bees as unsuspecting parents dropped their kids off in front of the computer.
(MORE: Sesame Street – 50 Best …
In the Future, We Will All Talk to Computers
Ben Bajarin is the Director of Consumer Technology Analysis and Research at Creative Strategies, Inc, a technology industry analysis and market intelligence firm located in Silicon Valley.
When Apple showed the world Siri, I believe they showed us the next major man-to-machine user interface.
The idea of talking to computers is …