“Just you wait,” Intel kept telling us, year after year. “Yes, our legacy x86 architecture, dominant in the PC world, hasn’t yet won a place…
Mobile Web
In both poorer countries (see "The Next Billion") and richer ones, any company's success online is coming to be defined by how well it serves mobile users. Here we track the contests between device makers, the burgeoning app economy, the great mobile debates (App or web? Phone or phablet? Laptop or tablet?) and the struggles to satisfy the mobile world's insatiable thirst for bandwidth.
Global interest in the iPhone SE is weaker than for earlier models, but not in two key markets
Apple’s new, small iPhone isn’t generating as much interest among consumers as its earlier phone launches, according to data from web traffic analytics company SimilarWeb.…
AGREE TO DISAGREE
Apple insists tablets are the future of computing, but consumers aren’t buying it
Apple has made no secret about its preference for the iPad as the platform for future. “This is the way we think that personal computing…
NOT SO DELICIOUS
A short guide to supercookies: whether you’re being tracked and how to opt out
Verizon, the largest US wireless carrier by subscribers, was slapped with a $1.35 million fine by the US Federal Communications Commission yesterday (March 7) for…
MEERLY A PIVOT
It’s official: Meerkat has lost the live-streaming battle to Periscope
Meerkat—the live video-streaming app that was the buzz of SXSW last year—is admitting defeat against rival Periscope. Recode reported yesterday (March 4) that the startup…
HEAD ROOM
There’s still plenty of room for Instagram to grow in the US
By now, it seems everyone and their grandma is on Facebook. While the social network might view the US as a saturated market, it is…
FROM ZERO TO 13 BILLION
Facebook has created a $13 billion mobile-ad business in four years
The story of Facebook right now is its mobile dominance—all the more interesting because four years ago investors were wary of the company for its…
GET CHARGING
Nine ways to make your smartphone last the whole blizzard, even if the power goes out
The eastern US, including Washington DC, New York, and Philadelphia, are preparing for what could be a powerful winter storm this weekend. If the electricity…
NEED FOR NEWSFEED
Facebook is giving users a new way to access it on the “dark web”
Online markets trafficking in illicit goods, such as the now defunct Silk Road, are probably the best known examples of destinations on the dark web,…
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Apple just made it easy for anyone with an iPhone to sound like a rockstar
Back in the day, those who dreamed of playing Carnegie Hall or going on international stadium tours had to start their quest by buying time…
CALLING IN THE REFS
South Africa will debate how to stop WhatsApp freeloading off local networks
South Africa’s parliament will hold hearings this month to decide whether to regulate messaging service WhatsApp, and other platforms that operate over data networks, following…
STOP THE LA PRESSES
Why one Canadian newspaper has doubled down on digital
The 132-year-old Montreal newspaper La Presse has dumped its weekday editions. From now on, its only channels will be its iPad app and the Saturday…
