For a long while I thought about marketing as wordsmithing – putting an abstract idea into a sentence, picking just the right words. But then things started to change – less text please, more graphics – we’d rather see...
Facebook Adds Organ Donor Oand ption to Timeline
facebook on Tuesday unveiled an organ donor status option for Timeline, a move designed to help more than 114,000 people in the U.S. and millions more around the world who are waiting for a live-saving heart, kidney or...
Gideon Sundback's 132nd birthday: Google unzips the doodle
As you click on the doodle on the Google home page, honouring Gideon Sundback, the page unzips to reveal a search engine results page on the Swedish-born engineer.
Sundback's invention, the zipper, has been holding together...
Microsoft announces Windows 8 and offers up the consumer preview
Change has been brewing in Redmond for awhile, and today at Mobile World Congress Microsoft revealed Windows 8 in its consumer preview entirety. Here's a look at everything we now know about the new operating system....
Windows 8 Consumer Preview: What works and what doesn’t
Our unfiltered thoughts on the good and bad aspects of Microsoft's newly released Windows 8 Consumer Preview. It's looking better, but we've got a long way to go before this is ready for prime time. It’s a dangerous...
what full Windows 8 Metro application
While users have been testing out Windows 8 Consumer Preview, XGMedia redesigned Skype to give future users an idea about what Windows 8 apps will look like, and the design principals behind Metro.With the arrival of...
Yahoo versus the hedge fund billionaire: A Silicon Valley soap opera
As Yahoo! struggles to stay relevant to a changing Internet, hedge-fund billionaire Daniel S. Loeb is vying to take control of the company. Yahoo!’s homepage was, until recently, the most heavily trafficked website...
CISPA is not the new SOPA
The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) is being compared to SOPA for the outrage it's generating online. But a few key differences between the fight against SOPA and the fight against CISPA should give...
Wi-Fi is evolving, should you keep up? What 802.11ac means for you
Wi-Fi will be getting up to four times more bandwidth with 802.11ac, and gear supporting it will be hitting shelves in just a few months. Here's what you need to know before taking the plunge.Wi-Fi has become an essential...
Is Spotify a viable app platform? Brings 100,000 users to Songkick
Songkick says Spotify's app platform has helped it gain 100,000 users in the past three months.In late November 2011, Spotify unveiled its new app platform. Now, any Spotify user can install apps that enhance their...
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