On Monday, Mozilla - the company behind the popular Firefox browser - made a pretty sizable announcement. According to a post on Mozilla's blog, on November 10th, the company will release a new browser built specifically for developers. The November 10th date is also the company's 10th anniversary: It makes a lot of sense to [...]
Yes as a matter a fact Halloween was on Friday night, we rolled back the clocks on Sunday morning and now it's holiday, holiday, holiday time. Be prepared for talk of Black Friday ads and Holiday Gift Guides because the Holiday 2014 season is now in full effect. In case you missed the update over [...]
On Thursday, Lenovo finalized the $2.91 billion deal to acquire Motorola Mobility from Google. The deal has been in the works for some time, it was first announced way back on January 29 of this year.Larry Page, Official Google Blog, "Lenovo to acquire Motorola Mobility," 29 January 2014 It is important to note, however, that Larry [...]
On Wednesday, reddit - "The front page of the internet" - launched a new project, in hopes that it, "will enhance your experience on reddit, create stronger subreddit communities, allow redditors to collaborate and support each other, and empower redditors to make a difference."u/highshelfofsteam, r/modnews, "Announcing redditmade, a new way to celebrate your subreddit communities," [...]
Network security is a major expense for large companies. I must preface this by saying that I know very little about maintaining a secure network. That said, the team from AuditShark has built an incredibly simple auditing tool that can be used to programmatically determine the overall security posture of your servers. In fact it [...]
After a little more than 4 months into the Amazon Fire experiment, it is safe to say that it has been a major disaster. According to CNET, Amazon has more than $83 million in unsold Fire Phones. Further, the company spent well over $170 million to develop the device: Chief Financial Officer Tom Szkutak disclosed on [...]
As anyone who has planned a wedding can tell you, it takes a ton of work. That work doubles, if not triples, if you are planning a wedding in a different area than where you live. Surely there should be some sort of app or software to help. Ah, now there is. City Wedding [...]
Alpine Electronics announced on Monday a new 7" head unit with Apple's new Car Play infotainment system. The new iLX-007 system syncs with any iPhone 5 or better with a lightning connector. From there the head unit becomes the control system and allows the user to easily play media and control it via in dash [...]
On Monday, T-Mobile, the Un-Carrier, announced their third quarter results. In a nutshell, they were better than anyone could have reasonably predicted. The company added well over 2 million new customers: T-Mobile reported 2.3 million total net customer additions with 1.8 million total branded net customer additions for the quarter, including branded postpaid net additions [...]
Two of the countries biggest retail pharmacies, Rite Aid and CVS, have just told their store level employees to shut down all of their NFC enabled payment terminals. VentureBeat reported on Saturday that this directive would render both Apple Pay and Google Wallet useless at terminals for those two pharmacies. While you might immediately think [...]
