Amazon took to social media and YouTube Wednesday with a cagey promotion for an upcoming launch event, setting off rampant Internet speculation that its long-rumored smartphone is about to be announced. “Join Amazon’s founder Jeff Bezos for our launch event,” the company The tweet included a Amazon has been rumored to be
Outliner programs (such as A typical use for this kind of tool might be to organize research for a protracted trip. You might begin with a top-level category such as "Country," then have folders for each city in those countries, and within those, documents relating to specific spots to visit, sub-folders for things you want more detail on, and so on. In Coolbase, you can include images, links to online reviews, clippings from travel blogs, and a list of useful phrases, all organized in a way that makes sense to you and is not imposed in advance by a database developer.
Action camera manufacturer GoPro has named former Microsoft and Skype executive Tony Bates as its new president, the company said on Wednesday. Bates will also join the GoPro board of directors, the company said. Bates, 47, joined Microsoft in 2011 via its acquisition of Skype, where Bates had served as chief executive for a year. Up until March 2014, Bates served as executive vice president of business development, strategy and evangelism. However, Bates was also an
Microsoft said Wednesday that 45 new entertainment apps are due on the Xbox One and Xbox 360 platforms this year, including key apps from Twitter, HBO, and Showtime. But there’s no guarantee they’ll arrive anytime soon. A day after Microsoft began pushing an
Google has already received around 41,000 requests to delete links to personal information from its search results in the three weeks since a key ruling by the European Court of Justice about the so-called right to be forgotten. On May 13 the court ordered Google to remove links to a Spanish newspaper notice about a mortgage foreclosure against Costeja González, a 58-year-old lawyer, because it infringed his right to privacy. The paper itself was not ordered to remove the information, but González successfully argued that the links displayed by Google to this information about him had become inadequate and irrelevant over time. In response to the ruling, Google put a form on its website to make it easier for it to process requests to delete links. The search giant, which processes more than 90 percent of all web searches in Europe, described the form as “an initial effort” to comply with the ruling.
After a comedic video about net neutrality became a YouTube hit, more than 22,000 comments about proposed net neutrality rules flooded the website of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, and the traffic locked up the agency’s Web-based comments form for parts of Monday and Tuesday. Many of the comments appeared to be driven by comic news commentator John Oliver’s 13-minute piece, first airing late Sunday, on his new HBO show, Last Week Tonight. Daily Show veteran Oliver’s commentary, slamming broadband providers and the FCC, was also
Smartwatch applications can be customized for devices with round displays by tweaking the user interface, Google said as it ramps up efforts to get developers ready for the launch of Android Wear. Wear is an extension of Android, and to make the OS a better fit for smartwatches with their small screens, the user interface relies on voice control, Google Now and notifications to present relevant information to the user. “Designing for Android Wear is pretty different from designing for the desktop, phones or tablets. Just like with Glass, you really need to think carefully about the information and actions you present to the user, and even more so about the contexts in which your app will come to the surface,” said Roman Nurik and Timothy Jordan, design and developer advocates on the Android Wear team, in
As Google Glass goes on sale in the U.S., a few developers in Taiwan are working on their own smartglasses devices, including one that uses gesture controls. A prototype from Taiwan’s Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) showed up at this year’s Computex trade show in Taipei. It’s built in a similar way to Google Glass and has a head mounted display that runs Android 4.2. But rather than rely on voice commands, the device is equipped with two cameras that can read the user’s hand motions. The idea is to let the glasses remotely control the user’s smartphone, said Chih-Hsiang Yu, an ITRI researcher. “You could just leave your smartphone in your pocket, and then use your hand gestures to look up content,” he said.
Apple’s WWDC keynote was an interesting mix of user-oriented features and developer-focused announcements. While Apple didn’t announce any new hardware (as some Wall Street pundits might have liked), Apple never does at WWDC: this is a software-focused event for develpers. The fact is, Apple introduced a number of revolutionary advances described during the event that stretch across the consumer, enterprise IT, and developer spheres. One of the big questions is what happens when the consumer and enterprise spheres intersect, as they are certain to do in a world where iOS is the dominant mobile OS in the enterprise and where Apple is continuing to push for integration between its mobile, desktop, and cloud platforms.
This activity tracker will be Acer's entry into the wearables market when it arrives later this summer. Our colleagues at IDG News Service had the chance to try out the Liquid Leap at the Computex trade show in Taipei.
Bing announced on its Facebook page that it is currently accepting entries for its 2014 homepage photo contest. Coinciding with its 5th birthday, Bing is asking for photo submissions to be uploaded via a link it has posted on Facebook: It’s been 5 years since we launched Bing. To celebrate, we’re...
Bing announced today it has updated the way it delivers music video search results. According to the announcement, people search for music videos differently than when they are searching for other types of videos: When we examined search session data, we realized that when people search for music...
The caution “be careful what you wish for” might be appropriate going into a meeting of 28 European privacy regulators in Brussels this week. Following the European Court of Justice’s creation of the Right to Be Forgotten (RTBF) and Google’s launch of a web form to field...
You may recall last spring, Bing Ads issued a manifesto of sorts in response to Google’s announcement of Enhanced Campaigns titled Advertisers Deserve Control: “We do not believe bundling mobile, desktop and tablet advertising together in an opaque manner is in the best interests of our...
When it comes to SEM acquisition marketing, there’s no such thing as a free lunch. As acquisition marketers can attest, there’s almost always a tradeoff between the number of new customers acquired, and the customer lifetime value (CLV) of those customers. In short: The more new...
Here’s a painful truth: for B2B marketing success in fast-growth environments, inbound marketing only plays a small role in the process. Outbound marketing efforts, like event marketing, often play a much more significant role. In fact, according to a study released last year covered by...
Starwood Hotels & Resorts is the latest travel brand to land on Google Glass. The company has launched a Glass app called SPG for Glass that’s now available for Explorers in the official Glassware app directory. Starwood becomes the first major hospitality brand with a Google Glass app....
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: New: Connect Your Google+ Business Page To Your Google Maps Listing Google has now enabled those with Google+ business pages to connect their page to their local...
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