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Guest Post While I'd still recommend an iPhone for my mom, the new breed of Android devices with 5-inch screens exceed the iPhone 5 in every aspect, including hardware, operating system, and apps.
Guest Post Virtually every electronic device has now gained a smartphone controlled equivalent over the past year.
Guest Post How can a company that brings in $1.2 billion a year, and recently cut costs in order to achieve profitability, have a market value that's effectively zero? It doesn't make sense. Here's why Zynga is undervalued -- provided it does the right thing next.
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Peter Yared, CTO of CBS Interactive, stirred up a bit of controversy recently when he wrote that adaptive design techniques make it difficult for publishers to monetize content.
Peter argues for designing interfaces that take advantage of users’ familiarity with …
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Yesterday morning I read Peter Yared’s provocative article, ‘What’s next for mobile now that adaptive design has failed?’ which is based entirely on the misassumption that mobile users don’t scroll. If that were true, the reasoning might be valid, but …
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[Update: This article was written for business readers. Due to an outcry from the responsive design community after this was published, I added the word "web" to the term "adaptive design" to avoid confusion with progressive enhancement, and …
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Twitter’s momentous announcement yesterday that it would only use its patent portfolio defensively was received with wide acclaim by the tech world. With two small changes, Twitter’s Innovator’s Patent Agreement (IPA) could actually completely change the landscape of software patents.…
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Research In Motion is reportedly attempting to sell itself after rejecting the former co-CEO’s plan to open up its network to carriers. But for some reason it is not pursuing the creation of a lucrative category between smart phones and …
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In the past week, two high-profile mobile apps were effectively shut down and acquired – Hipster by Aol and Oink by Google. Both had big PR buildups, rave reviews from the tech press, and strong usage from the digerati.
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The mobile technology landscape is incredibly confusing. There are numerous choices, ranging from new HTML5 technologies, native app development methods, and all sorts of content management systems. At CBS Interactive, we have numerous mobile solutions, including native apps for CBS.com, CNET, and "60 Minutes," along with mobile-optimized Web sites for GameFaqs and global properties like ZDnet. At first blush, it seems problematic...
This story originally appeared on CNET and is republished with permission.
For the scope of this article, I am leaving all of the commentary on SOPA, PIPA, ACTA, and such aside for others much more well-versed than I to discuss.…
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This is a revised version of a story that appeared on CNET earlier today; it is republished with permission.
For all the naysaying about Facebook, that it’s a flash in the pan and such, there are very few that say …
This story originally appeared on CNET and is republished with permission.
There has been a huge maelstrom about Google integrating Google+ into its search links. And it all misses the point.
Twitter and others are complaining that Google is throwing …
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[This story originally appeared on CNET and is republished with permission.]
The battle is on to unseat Apple where Steve Jobs made it shine – and mighty Apple is already looking at risk.
It took Microsoft 10 years to catch …
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People use Facebook a lot. They use it to share photos. They use it to invite people to events. They use it as an address book and messaging system. They use it as a games platform. The growth has been …
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HP has had to face tough realities this week. Fortunately, there is a way for it to survive: Embrace the inevitable trend favoring “vertical” companies.
In the first part of the 2000s, IBM and HP went in two vastly different …
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While it comes as a big surprise that Google is buying Motorola Mobility, it is just as surprising that Apple launched a cloud service that will eventually fully compete with Google’s services and Microsoft essentially turned Nokia into its own …
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Aol released its earnings today a week after Time Warner, its former dot-com merger partner, announced earnings. The two businesses, once considered completely disparate and deemed one of the worst corporate mergers of all time, are now increasingly complementary as …
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You know a web service has reached massive scale when it can charge brands to reach their own customers. Google has been doing it for years, Facebook’s been at it for the past couple of years, and now Twitter has …
