And you thought BlackBerry had died, didn’t you?
After years of circling the drain, BlackBerry Ltd. did a big layoff and went silent. At least that is what I remember, for I had long ago decided Research In Motion, as it was…
Amazon’s enterprise push: “We’re in it to win it” | #reinvent
“The message from Amazon is, “we’re going to win the enterprise”, they’re serious now and they’re showing some proof points.” That’s how theCUBE host John Furrier sees it at the close of this year’s…
Should video game review scores change with time?
By Eric David
Halo is one of the most popular Xbox franchises of all time, and the recently released Halo: The Master Chief Collection brings the first four games from the classic series to the Xbox One. The…
3 browser extensions to improve your Facebook experience
By Eric David
Facebook’s population is currently sitting at over a billion users, but despite the seemingly never ending series of changes and updates made to the site, there can always be improvements. Here are a three…
Prynt case lets you print your smartphone photos instantly
By Collen Kriel
Prynt, a small French start-up has developed a case that will turn your smartphone into a Polaroid camera. Prynt did a show-and-tell for the team at TechCrunch. Here are the highlights: The current prototype…
US judge rules Iran’s top-level domain cannot be seized
A global diplomatic crisis seems to have been averted after a Washington DC judge ruled that it’s unlawful to seize a country’s Internet domain registry. Lawyers working on behalf of nine American citizens who…
US government warns on iOS bug, Apple says it’s not aware of customers affected
By Collen Kriel
Yesterday the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-Cert) issued an alert which warns iPhone and iPad users of “Masque Attack” technique aimed at iOS. The vulnerability, first brought to the public’s attention on…
Amazon spins out ‘lifecycle management’ tools for cloudy devs
Amazon Web Services Inc. considers itself to be quite the expert when it comes to deploying apps in the cloud, and it’s just underlined that point with the launch of a new range of…
More gov’t agencies turn to AWS to save taxpayers money| #reinvent
More government agencies are using Amazon.com, Inc.’s Amazon Web Services (AWS) to get more done while their budgets remain stagnant. Aaron Hughes, systems architect at the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife, said that…
Amazon strategy emphasizes ease of use and ecosystem partners | #reinvent
“Our customers don’t win unless the ecosystem wins,” said Terry Wise, Director of Worldwide Partner Ecosystem at Amazon.com, Inc.’s Amazon Web Services (AWS). This realization, he said, has lead to a “tweaking” of the…