Ratings for mobile games are nothing new, but Google has decided to take it a step further by using a global age rating on all apps on the Google Play app store. So now…
It’s St. Patrick’s Day in the U.S. and amidst the superficial Ireland worship and overflowing mugs of green beer will be a lot of people wearing shirts and buttons bearing phrases they can’t pronounce.…
BlackBerry Ltd. once ruled the mobile world with its QWERTY phones and BlackBerry Messaging service. If you weren’t using a BlackBerry device, you just weren’t that cool. Well, at least that’s how I remembered it…
Photo pinning service Pinterest, Inc. announced that it has raised $367 million in a round of funding from previous investors including Andreessen Horowitz and Bessemer Venture Partners, with the participation of new investors. This new…
While Nintendo Co., Ltd. may be known for trying out new innovations in peripherals and game hardware, the Japanese game company has been reluctant to pick up the latest gaming frontier: phone and tablet…
When your user base consists of roughly one-sixth of the world’s population, it is hard to make a content policy that can cover everyone, but Facebook is sure trying. The social media giant recently…
You’re in a strange city, and the call of nature beckons you in unfamiliar surrounds, what do you do? While some cities provide ample public amenities, many don’t, such as New York City, and…
This week’s Smart World Problems roundup features new research that reveals the vulnerabilities of the connected world. Symantec details the downside of IoT Symantec Corp. released its white paper that looked at the…
The Whole Pantry, the app created by now disgraced fake cancer survivor Belle Gibson, has been pulled from Apple’s App Store. But it continues to be linked to promotions for the Apple Watch. Gibson,…
Microsoft has just its biggest play yet to stay relevant in the growing Internet of Things (IoT) market, announcing a new highly customisable cloud-based service for its Azure platform. The new Microsoft Azure IoT…