It’s been an interesting day for a developing market which seems so utterly niche as to be untrue. There really are startups out there linking recipes to supermarket so you can just buy the food you need to make the dishes. Niche,…
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YouTube’s Next New Creator Program Is Meant To Bring In The LOLs
Over the past year, YouTube has been busy with outreach to its community of independent creators through its YouTube Next program. The idea is to identify the next big YouTube stars and to provide them with the resources they need t…
Facebook could one day let you ‘want’ what you ‘like’
What do Mark Zuckerberg and his colleagues at Facebook have up their sleeves?(Credit: James Martin/CNET)Facebook has let slip a purported plugin that would allow users on Web sites across the Internet to “want” specific items.Deve…
RIM turns in lousy Q1, delays BlackBerry 10
Research in Motion said its first quarter would be bad. It turned out to be worse. And RIM will struggle more because the company said its BlackBerry 10 platform will slip into the first quarter of 2013.The BlackBerry maker report…
Remembering my first iPhone
(Credit: Sarah Tew)Editor’s note: The iPhone is 5 years old. Last year, I reflected on my very first iPhone, and what owning one was like before the smartphone landscape had utterly changed…before the App Store…before iPads. W…
Turns out Kinect is for fashionistas and surgeons, too
Styku Chief Executive Raj Sareen demonstrating the company’s virtual fitting room technology, which uses the Kinect motion-sensing game controller to measure bodies for clothes fitting.(Credit: Jay Greene/CNET)REDMOND, Wash. — An…
Turns out Kinect is for fashionistas and surgeons, too
Styku Chief Executive Raj Sareen demonstrating the company’s virtual fitting room technology, which uses the Kinect motion-sensing game controller to measure bodies for clothes fitting.(Credit: Jay Greene/CNET)REDMOND, Wash. — An…
Google Play comes to Google TV
SAN FRANCISCO — Google’s online app market for Android apps, movies, music, and books is coming to Google TV, the company announced Thursday in a blog post from the Google I/O developer conference here.Later this summer, Google s…
An in-depth look at Google’s newest (and oldest) cloud
Compute Engine is the newest kid on Google’s block of cloud products. It sits in the same suite as App Engine, Big Query, and other products that allow Google to make money on what it does best: Big, hairy server/data center work…
RIM Hits 78 Million BlackBerry Subscribers, Up From 70 Million In September 2011
Today on RIM’s Q1 2013 conference call, CEO Thorsten Heins admitted that “this was a challenging quarter for the company,” but announced 78 million subscribers with “churn remaining high.” He admitted particular success wi…
RIM Hits 78 Million BlackBerry Subscribers, Up From 70 Million In September 2011
Today on RIM’s Q1 2013 conference call, CEO Thorsten Heins admitted that “this was a challenging quarter for the company,” but announced 78 million subscribers with “churn remaining high.” He admitted particular success wi…
RIM earnings: bad financials, axing 5K jobs, BlackBerry 10 delayed again
Research in Motion reported its worst quarter in ages after the market closed on Thursday, and showed that it deserved every bit of scorn with the delay of its vital BlackBerry 10 OS until the first quarter of 2013.RIM reported a …
RIM earnings: bad financials, axing 5K jobs, BlackBerry 10 delayed again
Research in Motion reported its worst quarter in ages after the market closed on Thursday, and showed that it deserved every bit of scorn with the delay of its vital BlackBerry 10 OS until the first quarter of 2013.RIM reported a …
With 3 new flagship apps for iOS, Google looks to eat Apple from the inside out
What a difference a year makes. Instead of insinuating that it was eating Apple for lunch, Google this year sent a message to consumers, developers, and the media at its Google I/O conference that its appetite for mobile is so rave…
Google Compute Engine a Direct Challenge to Amazon Web Services
Google’s Compute Engine, announced Thursday morning at the company’s annual developers’ conference, gives Google a new way to monetize its huge investment in data centers and networking, offers new options for companies looking to r…