BBC TV Apprentice finalist Nick Holzherr officially launched his ‘Whisk’ food app business today (January 7), which has integrated the online delivery systems of Tesco and Waitrose. Nick Holzherr bears no grudges against ...
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Tech gadgets have proven to be popular Christmas gifts this year, leading the last week of 2012 to see the most new device activations and app downloads in iOS and Android history, a new report has revealed. Flurry, a mobile analytics ...
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Polaroid is making an ambitious move into the children's tablet market - unveiling its first product in Las Vegas this week at the Consumer Electronics Show. Featuring the Android 4.0 OS, the tablet has already been named a CES ...
General Mills recently put up a Facebook app asking consumers to share what one of their products,Cheerios,meant to them.The app was appropriated by proponents of Proposition 37,most of them protesting the company's$1.1 million contribution ...
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Computerworld-Facebook wants to get mobile phone users to forget text messaging and switch to its updated Messenger service. Facebook Messenger has been an instant messaging service of sorts for Facebook users until now.On Tuesday,the ...
Macworld-Apple's new Podcasts app is a welcome step to bringing attention to audio and video podcasts that were previously buried in the Music app.But while it has some good things going for it,it's a step that's not yet fully realized. ...
IDG News Service-SAP is working on a number of potential next-generation BI(business intelligence)technologies meant to exploit the company's HANA in-memory database,including a new version of the popular Explorer visualization ...
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In the terrific little iOS Game Tiny Tower, developer Nimblebit tasked you with building a tower that reached into the clouds. The game maker must have decided that the only place to go was up, as its latest app--Pocket Planes--has you ...
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The future of appliances--refrigerators, toasters, washers, dryers, you name it--can be summed up as "smarter." But this smart revolution has already come to the trusty alarm clock, of which Stem Innovation's $100 Time Command is a good ...
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Google-owned Motorola Mobility's acquisition of Viewdle this week, a jump in the number of visitors to the insideAR conference and Nokia's recent launch of the City Lens application all illustrate growing interest in augmented reality. ...
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IDG News Service - AT&T has reversed its decision to allow Apple iPhone and iPad owners to use Apple's FaceTime videoconferencing application only on the carrier's most expensive data plans or if they are connected to Wi-Fi. AT&T on ...
Apple's App Store had the top score among mobile application storefronts ranked by ABI Research, but Microsoft's Windows Store narrowly beat the field for its degree of innovation. The rankings point to a central issue with application ...
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Microsoft has told Windows 8 app developers that if they use the word"metro"in the name of their software,the app will be denied access to the Windows Store. The warning now appears in online guidelines for developers,in a section ...
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Computerworld - Mobile payment technologies are finally vaulting forward in the U.S. after years of slow advances. The biggest move ahead could occur in September, when Apple is widely expected to embrace a mobile payment scheme with its ...
Tags: Mobile payment technologies, mobile payment network, Apple, mobile
Microsoft has sold 40 million licenses of the Windows 8 OS since its launch a month ago. "We believe Windows 8 is shaping up is as one of the company's most successful products," said Tami Reller, Microsoft's chief marketing officer and ...
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