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FTC To Toughen Up Parental Controls for Mobile Web
As more children grow fonder of their mobile devices and mobile apps, parents are growing concerned with the apps their kids are downloading. Though there are some legit and trustworthy educational or fun kids app, parents can’t really monitor their kids’ internet activity 24/7, especially those parents who are busy working. Some apps require private ...
RIM Says New BlackBerries Will Revive Sales, Investor Interest
Research in Motion held their second quarter earnings call yesterday and reported a 59% loss in profit as mobile handset shipment is lower than expected. Revenue for the quarter was at $4.2 billion, with net income of $329 million, or at 63 cents per share. On an adjusted basis, per-share earnings came to 80 cents ...
McAfee’s 2011 Most Dangerous Celebrities
Recently, news regarding famous actress Scarlett Johansson’s nude photos surfaced the Web as the actress’ mobile phone was allegedly hacked by cybercriminals. Now if you’re a curious cat and set out searching for nude photos of Johansson without finishing this article, chances are you’d probably get a virus in doing so. “The bad guys really ...
Music Cloud Wars: Are The Best Things In Life Always Free?
There’s a string of new services, apps and features emerging from the music cloud, Songza’s free streaming apps for iOS and Android marking the latest. With large and small players beefing up their tactics, it’s becoming increasingly clear that this industry is primed to be a highly competitive one. Now that the music ...
Netflix and Hulu Suffer From Their Huge Mistakes
After Netflix announced their 60% price hike back in July, they have been bombarded with harsh words from an angry mob of subscribers who voiced their anguish on Facebook and other outlets. Netflix was a bit too confident and stood by their price increase, relying on the fact that they have millions of subscribers from ...
Reading Rainbow Brightens iPad Play as Educational Apps Gain Traction
These days, I’m amazed at how kids are so efficient in playing video games or apps on their parents’ mobile phone or tablet, and some lucky rascals, as young as four years old, even have their own gadgets. I remember when I was a kid, I enjoyed playing out in the sun, running around with ...
InMobi Raises $200M, Shakes Up the Mobile Ad War
Mobile advertising is a fast growing industry utilized by advertisers and developers as mobile devices (smartphones and tablets) and their consumer use continuously grow. InMobi, a leading mobile advertising company, raised $200 million in funding from Softbank, a Japanese internet company. The Bangladore, India-based InMobi already reaches 340 million consumers in more than 165 countries and ...
How Do You Grep the Web? Blekko Tells All
Blekko, the search engine known for blocking out spam, came quite a long way since their rough launch last year. People weren’t really expecting too much from them, especially when they downplayed their product as “not a Google killer,” accompanied by a not-so-outstanding release. Blekko didn’t get frazzled with all the criticism and they even ...
The Larry’s Head to Court as Google Faces Fire from All Sides
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and Google CEO Larry Page have been ordered to mediations, and both CEOs are requested to both appear for at least two full days in court for the hearing set on October. It’s a possibility that first came up last week, and the presiding judge is seeing this through. According to ...
Google Flight Search Takes Off, Long Journey Ahead
Last April, Google’s $700 million ITA acquisition was finally approved with conditions (restrictions?) regarding other travel search competitors, as Google cannot block results coming from them. And today, Google finally launched the ITA-powered flight search service. Google’s Flight Search is a user-friendly tool that allows users to input origin, destination, price, duration and departure as ...