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Wednesday, 22nd August 2012

YouTube Finally Offers Mobile Ads

YouTube Finally Offers Mobile Ads

In the past, content creators on YouTube couldn't make money from traffic coming in through tablets or smartphones. Today the Google-owned video site announced that it will offer ads in videos viewed through mobile devices. This is great news not only for YouTube-based businesses, but for YouTube as a company.

Mobile Fruzsina Eördögh comments

How 3 Big Enterprises Are Building Their Own Internal iPad Apps

How 3 Big Enterprises Are Building Their Own Internal iPad Apps

The heavy influx of iPads into large enterprise organizations is posing new kinds of challenges for IT departments, particiularly around developing and distributing corporate apps. At the annual Gartner Catalyst conference this week in San Diego, top companies like Genentech, Eli Lily and Northern Trust Bank shared some of the secrets behind…

Enterprise David Strom comments

DOJ Seizes Indie Android Stores for Alleged Piracy

Android app makers face difficulties that iPhone developers do not. It is harder to make money from Android apps than iOS apps, for instance. One of the (several) reasons is the ease with which pirates can copy and sell Android apps outside the purview of Google Play. The United States Department of Justice took notice this week and seized three…

Mobile Dan Rowinski comments

Video: Watch Cosmonauts Toss A 20-Pound Satellite Overboard

Russian cosmonauts tossed a 20-pound spherical satellite overboard on Monday. Scientists will track the 21-inch target to test techniques for monitoring junk objects in orbit. The treacherous cloud of space junk threatens to take out the satellites that drive GPS, broadcast, remote imaging, and other functions. Canadian satellite watcher…

Science Jon Mitchell comments

I Want My Hover Bike! Inventor Makes Real-Life Star Wars Tech

I Want My Hover Bike! Inventor Makes Real-Life Star Wars Tech

Footage of a hover bike test flight surfaced on the Internet this week and quickly sent sci-fi nerds and techies on a heavy Star Wars nostalgia trip. The video is enthralling not only because it's a futurist’s wet dream. The vehicle's user-friendly design could usher in an era of low-altitude flight as a form of daily, personal transportation.

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