Tech News
26
Sep
2011
by
Charlie White -
Apparently, Facebook has a lot of work to do on its privacy controls. In some cases, the new “frictionless sharing” features of Facebook can make it so that even when you’re logged out of Facebook, your browser is still tracking every page you visit, sending that data back to Facebook.…
26
Sep
2011
by
Stan Schroeder -
Samsung has sold 10 million Galaxy S II smartphones globally, the company has announced. Samsung Galaxy S II was launched in April. In July, Samsung announced it sold 5 million units. Reaching the 10 million milestone in such a short time span is quite an achievement, given the device only…
25
Sep
2011
by
Charlie White -
The iPhone 5 is on the way, and millions of people are asking themselves, is it time to upgrade? This infographic will point you in the right direction. Let’s take a look at the current state of the iPhone 4 and its predecessors, how many apps users have installed, how…
15
Sep
2011
by
Todd Wasserman -
Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 8.9, whose retail debut has been rumored since March, is finally hitting stores. Best Buy began taking pre-orders on the device Thursday. The tablet sports an 8.9-inch screen, runs the Android 3.1 Honeycomb OS, has 16 GB of onboard memory and costs $469.99. The device is not…
15
Sep
2011
by
Stan Schroeder -
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer expressed disappointment at Windows Phone 7 sales during Microsoft’s financial analyst meeting Wednesday. “We haven’t sold quite as many as I would have liked in the first year. … I’m not saying I love where we are, but I am very optimistic on where we can…
15
Sep
2011
by
Stan Schroeder -
Windows 8 will have two versions of Internet Explorer 10 — a desktop version and the Metro version, which is optimized for tablets. Part of that optimization will be a plugin free experience, meaning Metro IE10 will be primarily HTML5 and will not support browser plugins, including Flash. “The experience…
14
Sep
2011
Keep your Facebook page more organized by separating family and closest friends from your clients and prospects. A revamped Facebook tool makes it easier....
23
Aug
2011
by
Ben Parr -
Google is making the +1 Button more social with the addition of friend annotations. “You may have already noticed faces and names when you hover over a +1 button,” Google Developer Advocate Timothy Jordan said in a post on the Google+ Platform preview. “This change rolled out late last…
22
Aug
2011
by
Sarah Kessler -
Students in a two-year ethnographic study referred to Google more than any other database when discussing their research habits. But ironically, say the study’s authors, they weren’t very good at using it. The series of studies, known as the “Ethnographic Research in Illinois Academic Libraries Project (ERIAL)” is a...
22
Aug
2011
by
Chris Taylor -
Best Buy just beat Apple to the punch when it comes to offering a free iPhone — even if it is the bottom-of-the-line 8GB iPhone 3GS, for one day only Monday, which (naturally) requires a two-year contract. Rumors and reports have suggested that Apple intends to announce a free iPhone…
22
Aug
2011
by
Christina Warren -
In death, HP’s TouchPad is finally a hit. Over the weekend, retailers in the U.S. and Canada started slashing the price on the ill-fated iPad competitor to as low as $99. It turns out lowering the price will move units. The 16 GB and 32 GB models of the TouchPad…
13
Aug
2011
Newspapers/Magazines and Product Packaging Most Likely Source of QR CodeQR Code Users Most Likely to Scan Code while at Home or StoreRESTON, VA, August 12, 2011 - comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released results of a study on mobile QR and bar code…
