Twitter is the next big tech company to go public and it's doing so in a big way. It hasn't been since the Facebook IPO that the tech community has been so obsessed with a tech company's stock. One of the things that's driving all of the talk about Twitter's IPO is how secretive they [...]
For those not in the know, PED is the abbreviation for "Personal Electronic Devices" at least in airline lingo. PED's have been in the spotlight since Thursday when the FAA finally eased up on regulations and now allow passengers to use Personal Electronic Devices gate to gate. Now as we reported on Thursday the implementation [...]
If you read any of the popular tech sites with any regularity they are all screaming "mobile, mobile, mobile" in fact we are also always reporting that mobile is exploding. Because it is. It's no mistake the opportunity for developers in mobile is there, it's the hottest space in tech right now. Revenue supports the [...]
Back in September Google announced that the next version of Android would be called KitKat following their history of using desert-esque names to go with each iteration of Android. Prior to that announcement, many thought that Google would go with the name Key Lime Pie and that the version number would be 5.0. KitKat is [...]
It's no secret in mere units Android is far outpacing the iPhone, simply because there are more units to choose from and the point of entry is much lower, in some cases free. Apple tried to compete on the cheap side with the iPhone 5C but when push came to shove there wasn't much value [...]
I must admit I'm an amazon-aholic I absolutely love Amazon, sending the $70 a year on Amazon Prime is probably the single best technology investment I've ever made. My family regular watches movies via Amazon thanks to Prime and I never pay a shipping charge on the products I order. To top that off they [...]
Three months ago during Facebook's Q2 earnings call CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg assured investors that they didn't have a problem with youth and teenagers. During their Q3 earnings call earlier this week Facebook CFO David Ebersam admitted that the social networking giant is in fact losing teenagers. In July Zuckerberg told investors and reporters: "There [...]
At the stroke of midnight this morning Walmart began marking down their Halloween 2013 seasonal items and putting up Christmas decorations. Jewish people across the world are preparing for Chanukah which coincides this year with Thanksgiving and jolly husky people are turning in their Halloween masks for Santa suits. We've already started sourcing our holiday [...]
According to the National Retail Federation (NRF), total Halloween consumer spending is projected to be more that $7B this year. However, not only is the $7B impact of Halloween the lowest of the holidays, but it is the lowest by a large margin, and is all but dwarfed by the more that $602B projection for Christmas and Hanukkah this year.
Business travelers everywhere just breathed a sigh of relief. I mean we all know that closing your iPad case without turning it off or putting your smartphone on silent isn't going to cause some catastrophic accident on a plane but now the Federal Aviation Administration has concurred according to the Washington Post. Airline passengers can [...]
