Tweet For years, technology companies have touted the advent of a new fusion of your social habits and mapping. You’re driving home from work and an alert pops up on your smartphone to tell you that a close friend is at a restaurant just off your route. Or you’re on a road trip and your [...]
Tweet NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Google Inc’s Chrome and Android operating systems will remain separate products, although there could be more “commonality” between them, Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt said on Thursday. Google last week announced that Android architect Andy Rubin was moving to a still-undefined role at the company, while Sundar Pichai, the executive overseeing [...]
Tweet From bearded indie rockers to hipster barkeeps, facial hair is in. And with it come rumors of a holy renaissance. Men and women everywhere are rediscovering the hairy lore of church history, the long curly whiskers of the saints, the bearded patriarchs of the Bible, and how our own spiritual lives can be gnarly [...]
Tweet Lack of access and transparency may no longer define diplomacy. Old barriers are no longer effective or perhaps desirable from perspective of global leaders and they embrace social media out of necessity or perhaps as opportunity. From the Syria conflict to climate change to economic inequality, the debate has moved rapidly online — but [...]
Tweet One of the most talked about commercials leading up to and after the Super Bowl was Kia’s “Space Babies” spot. It hit on many determining viral cylinders — humor, babies, outer space, animals. It stretches beyond just imagination and fantasy and showcases to an uncomfortable and relateable situation for both kids and adults. Kia [...]
Tweet Proudly announce that you’re going off the grid, but accept your father’s offering of an emergency international cell phone plan anyway. Assure everyone you know that the two nice boys you’re backpacking with will protect you, and that no, you won’t get kidnapped, you promise. Remind them that cheerfully cautioning “Don’t get kidnapped!’ won’t [...]
Tweet Just about every website and app these days uses crowdsourcing to magic up ‘what’s best’ and this is a terrible mistake. I started working with the internet in the 90s when there was a handful of ‘web sites’ (yes, it was two words then) and the few of us that were aware of the [...]
Tweet At the beginning of the month we told you about a new 23 million fund started by Google called the Global Impact Awards and it was the first that I had heard of the role of Director of Giving at the company. This was intriguing and I had the chance to speak with Jacquel…. [...]
Tweet (Best Syndication News) – Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) announced new support for their latest Cloud Player service that will allow customers to play their music collection on Samsung SmartTVs and through Roku boxes. Amazon Cloud Player is also supported on the Amazon Kindle Fire, Sonos Music Players, Google Android OS mobile phones and tablets, Apple [...]
Tweet Search Engine giant Google released its 2012 Zeitgeist list, a summary of the most-searched terms of 2012, revealing just how much we care about One Direction, Whitney Houston, Hurricane Sandy and the word YOLO. The results also shed light on travel destinations, clothing brands, music, movies and–using data from Google maps–the most popular cities [...]
