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Gonna Miss Color Labs? Checkout These Alternative Apps
After a string of rumors, drama-laden lawsuits and a seemingly botched exit strategy, Color Labs finally decided to call it quits. They announced today that their mobile photo-sharing service will no longer be available when it shuts down their operations by the end of this year. Though it wasn’t as popular or successful as the ...
Nokia Maps for iOS 6 is Already HERE!
In today’s mobile news roundup: Nokia released HERE for iOS 6; Apple teaser for Black Friday; HTC says media estimates are outrageous; and Samsung’s La Fleur collection to hit US stores. Nokia released HERE for iOS 6 Nokia introduced HERE about a week ago in hopes of trumping Google Maps, and of course alleviate iOS ...
Tired of iPhone’s Buggy iMessage & FaceTime? Try These Alternatives
A lot of users are frustrated that Apple’s iMessage and FaceTime apps have experienced downtime on several occasions in the past couple of months. As with anything in life, if something doesn’t work you can keep trying it until it does, or look for an alternative. iOS users are now looking for something else to use in ...
Video: The Impact of Twitter On Journalism
In the past, when you wanted to learn about what’s happening around you, you grabbed a newspaper. Then came the radio and television and they added even more news sources. When the cyber age arrived, it opened a whole new world for journalists as the news or articles they write can now be viewed all ...
More Questions and Challenges for Intel’s Next CEO
Intel Corporation announced during the company’s annual stockholders’ meeting that come May 2013, CEO Paul Otellini will retire from being an officer and director of the company. “Paul Otellini has been a very strong leader, only the fifth CEO in the company’s great 45-year history, and one who has managed the company through challenging times and ...
Nintendo Finally Released Wii U! Netflix On Board, but No TVii
Nintendo has finally released the long awaited Wii U. It’s the company’s next generation gaming console that features the revolutionary GamePad. Hundreds of people lined outside the Nintendo World Store in Manhattan at midnight Saturday. And those fans that didn’t want to wait in line on Saturday and got up early Sunday and purchased ...
How Samsung Could be the Winner in the Apple-HTC Deal
In today’s mobile roundup: Samsung seeks copy of Apple-HTC deal; Windows Phone 8 rebooting issue; a new smartphone that can differentiate between knuckle, finger tip and fingernail touch; and Apple’s iMessage outage. Samsung seeks copy of Apple-HTC deal Samsung is seeking to get their hands on a copy of the Apple-HTC deal, thinking it could help ...
Ask DevOps: Three Ways to Make Automated Tests Faster
A lot of us have encountered an app that suddenly won’t work, hangs, or won’t open at all. And we immediately think that the app developer slacked off and and made a really crappy app. But app development isn’t as easy as one may think. You’d have to deal with numerous libraries and code segments ...
CodeTwo Thinks Outside the Cloud with Public Folders 5
The cloud may be the next frontier but we’ve seen how vulnerable it is, and how easily personal files can become available to malicious attacks. As the consumer cloud in particular becomes more relevant, so too becomes the need for secure services. Addressing the matter head on is CodeTwo, the award-winning provider of MS Exchange and ...
Google Delving Deeper Into Infrastructure? In Talks with Dish for Wireless Service
In today’s mobile news roundup: Google and Dish to launch wireless service; Apple granted patent for page turn animation; and AT&T announced new global packages. Google and Dish to launch wireless service According to sources, Google and satellite TV provider Dish are in talks to launch their own wireless service that would directly compete with ...