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A Brief History of Computer Devices, from 1939 On [Infographic]
The 1940’s was quite a decade, the topics spanning the Second World War, science discoveries such as the game theory, technology innovations like the radar and the microwave, and the most influential piece of the century: the computer. In 1939 Hewlett-Packard took shape as a company in California and released their first device, the HP ...
Apple’s March Event Hints at iPad 2 Launch
Please join us for an invitation-only event at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater in San Francisco on March 2 at 10:00 a.m. Registration begins at 9:00 a.m. Please arrive early. The invitation comes from Apple and judging by the picture of the invitation featuring an iPad corner revealed, it is more than ...
Facebook Impacts Our Social Behavior. Turns Out, We’re Obsessed.
According to a New York Times insight, social media sites that enable rendering short messages such as Facebook and Twitter are gaining more and more ground, leaving blogs well behind. The latter are preferred by users that want to tackle various issues in detail, whether the former are easier in managing relationships with families and ...
Apple, Google Under FTC’s Watch for In-App Purchases
The Federal Trade Commission is starting to proceed on investigating Apple for its in-app purchases and their charges. In order to have a fair view on the matter, the Federal Trade Commission will closely examine ‘the current industry practice with respect to the marketing and delivering of these types of applications,’ FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz ...
Windows Phone 7 Drums Out of Silence
The first update for the Windows Phone 7 is available today, according to Michael Stroh on the Windows blog. The update is the first in the series that is expected any day now (such as copy and paste features or improved Marketplace search), and was created to improve the software update process itself. Sounds like ...
Microsoft Embraces Kinect Hacks, Makes the Best of It
Microsoft announced today that in a few months’ time will release a software development kit for programmers to design software for Windows 7 PCs that can exploit Kinect. This is how Microsoft responds to previous successful attempts dating a few months ago from programmers that created Kinect applications for PC, available on online video websites, ...
Renren Goes Public Before Facebook & Co.
Renren, a Facebook homologue in China with over 160 million users, has announced that it plans an initial public offering in the United States. The IPO is expected to go as high as $500 million and would be the first social network service to go public, as Facebook & Co. refrained from listing shares. Social ...
Stay.com Turns to Google Places for Traveler Perks, Personal Cloud
Location-based services have been gaining attention in the last period, and the latest announcement coming from Stay.com reiterates that cloud travel-related services are consequential products of this trend. Stay.com saw a great opportunity in integrating Google Places API for its users to identify items listed in search to produce their own guidebooks and share their ...
Music In Cloudland. Can Apple Face this Tune?
Apple’s got now serious reasons to feel threatened by a sound competitor, as Sony is about to continue in the US, Australia and New Zeeland what has started in Europe a few months ago: launching its new streaming service. There are also rumours of Sony restricting its content from being released via iTunes, which will ...
MWC Populated By Funny and Tenable Apps, Validates Mobile Markets
The latest agreement between IBM and WAC (Wholesale Applications Community) to produce a cloud-based “white label” mobile app store revolves around the powerful prospects mobile apps possess. The storefront enables mobile operators such as China Mobile, MTS, Orange, Smart, Telefonica and mobile operator AT&T to upload apps in the cloud. The resulting data, such as ...