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Facebook Mobile + Graph Search Are Great, but Need Infrastructure Investment
Facebook posted its fourth quarter earnings yesterday, showing that much of its growing success is attributed to mobile and advertising. That’s a good sign for Facebook and its investors, who had grown wary of the social network’s downward turn in stock prices shortly after launching its IPO. As Facebook’s stock begins to stabilize investors will need ...
Anonymous Defaces USSC Site in Honor of Aaron Swartz
On January 24, 2013, supporters of Aaron Swartz, the Reddit co-founder, philanthropist, and hacktivist who committed suicide earlier this month, flocked to the Internet Archive, a non-profit digital library offering free universal access to books, movies and music that occupies a former church in San Francisco, to pay their respects and continue his fight in ...
New BlackBerry Z10 vs. iPhone 5 and Other Top Smartphones
BlackBerry unveiled two devices at yesterday’s event, the Z10 and the Q10. Though the devices look promising, BlackBerry fans in the US will have to wait over a month to see the new handsets. The company has been lambasted in the past for delaying the release of its new platform and new devices, but the ...
Create Your Infographic in 30mins with Magic Piktochart
An infographic is a cool way to impart knowledge, especially if you’re dealing with a lot of boring facts, huge numbers, and incomprehensible data. They’re colorful and fun that’s why there’s a lot of them floating around the web from infographics about Batman, obesity, geeks, marriage, dating, and yes, even about infographics. But aren’t those ...
Has BlackBerry Found the Right “Keys” to Hit the High Notes?
In today’s mobile news roundup: BlackBerry appoints Alicia Keys as global creative director; Microsoft to launch Surface Pro on Feb.9; Nokia HERE will be integrated in Toyota’s mapping services; Vertu to create a $10K Android phone; and Tumblr adds mature label to iOS app. BlackBerry appoints Alicia Keys as global creative director BlackBerry, the company ...
Ready to Build a BB10 App? Start with These Tools to Port, Design and Track
When Alec Saunders took over Research in Motion’s developer relations team, he asked then co-CEO Mike Lazaridis for 25,000 BlackBerry PlayBook tablets to be given away, for free, to developers interested in creating or porting apps for the BlackBerry 10 platform. Lazaridis was shocked with his request, but approved it. Saunders then asked for 8,000 ...
Top Image Recognition Tools + Analytics for Pinterest
Social media analytics firm Pinfluencer is celebrating its first birthday, taking the opportunity to launch a new tool that will allow brands to measure consumer sentiment more effectively. The startup unveiled an image recognition engine for Pinterest that makes it possible to identify which pictures draw the most attention from viewers. The service quantifies the amount of ...
Getting Started with Your New BlackBerry 10: Must-Have Apps + Services
Research in Motion is set to officially launch its newest mobile operating system, BlackBerry 10, and two new devices today. BlackBerry 10 will feature a new user interface that lets users move back and forth between apps without closing them out, and has a new camera feature that lets you dial back to a perfect ...
RIM Set to Launch BB10 and New Devices Today
In today’s mobile news roundup: the world awaits BlackBerry’s big device launch; Apple and Samsung denied appeals for $1.05B case; and Nexus 4 back on Google Play. World awaits new BlackBerry devices Research in Motion is set to officially unveil the BlackBerry 10 mobile platform as well as two new devices, at its big event ...
The [Too] Brief History of Aaron Swartz, Robin Hood of Data
The new year is supposed to be an opportunity to start anew, but that doesn’t seem to be the case in the tech world. In 2012, Megaupload was taken down by the feds and this year, Reddit co-founder, philanthropist, and hacktivist, Aaron Swartz committed suicide. Swartz was facing 13 felony charges which include wire fraud, ...