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Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Saturday, May 26, 2012
Is NFC is killing Google Wallet??
Google Wallet is turning one, but the application that was supposed to transform the smartphone into a wallet and revolutionize how consumers pay for things has barely gotten off the ground.Why? The reason may be that Google has bet on the wrong technology: NFC.A year ago, Google execs, along with its partners MasterCard, Citibank, and Sprint, took the stage in New York...
Friday, March 23, 2012
New iPad not quite running circles around iPad 2
At this point in the performance narrative of i...Things, I've gotten accustomed to each new iteration of the iPad or iPhone becoming demonstrably faster than the last. I'm not talking strictly about frame rates in games either. App load times, movie encoding, and app download speeds are all things that seem to noticeably improve with each new iOS device.
However, with the...
Friday, February 3, 2012
Facebook could soon be worth $200B so forget $100B
For all the naysaying about Facebook, that it's a flash in the pan and such, there are very few that say that "social" is going away.
Facebook has defined the social era of computing--and the companies that defined the previous eras of computing each command market values of $200 billion or more.
Facebook should get there, too.
IBM kicked off the mainframe era of...
Adobe gives Photoshop CS6 which is a new graphics-chip boost
Adobe Systems has released a second sneak peak of Photoshop CS6 that shows new work to give a hardware boost to the image-editing software.
The graphics processing unit (GPU) speeds the Liquify tool, which lets people smear images in a finger-painting way, according to a Zorana Gee, a Photoshop product manager. She demonstrated the change in a YouTube video, the second...
Facebook deserve its astronomical valuation or not?
A day after Facebook opened its books to support its $5 billion IPO, there is still some debate over whether the social network lives up to its astronomical valuation.
In its filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday, Facebook revealed that it had 845 million monthly users and was rapidly closing in on 1 billion. As many have noted, the key will be...
