2012 was a defensive year for Apple. The Cupertino giant spent 2012 refining its offerings and reshuffling its management under the watchful eye of an industry that finally started to sparkle with interesting Apple alternatives. Most of its moves were successful. A few missed the mark. But things mostly worked...
HTML5 Relevance These days any time you talk mobile app development or operating systems, HTML5 is a key part of the conversation.Perhaps the biggest development for HTML5 in 2012 was its non-development. At the end of 2011, HTML5 seemed like a young athlete that had no limits to its potential. Yet,...
Even though 2012 was a tough year overall for small businesses - the stubbornly slow economy didn't help - technology improvements continued to offer hope of lowering costs, boosting efficiency, increasing sales and opening new markets. To the extent that they could find the cash, investing in technology remained a...
While it might be an overstatement to claim that Microsoft news dominated 2012, the company’s drumbeat of publicity around the launch of Windows 8 gave it a disproportionate significance.And Microsoft did gear up and execute on a series of milestones: Windows 8, the Surface tablet, Windows RT, Windows Phone 8,...
2012 was a big year in mobile. We have never seen a year like this where there were so many quality devices from so many disparate suppliers all competing for the interest of consumers and enterprises. What were the best of the best? We rank the top 10 smartphones and...
What happens when you mash up all the important cultural video artifacts of 2012? Rewind YouTube Style 2012, complete with at least 27 Web celebrities and 21 Easter eggs via video annotations, of course. Similar in theory to Google’s Zeitgeist video, Rewind YouTube Style 2012 covers all the viral video basics, from...
For Mozilla, 2012 was a year to start transitions. The browser maker started its biggest transition since releasing Firefox in 2004 when it started building Firefox OS, a HTML5 Web-based mobile operating system for smartphones.Mozilla also focused a lot of attention on its Firefox for Android browser as a bit...
Gangnam Style, the presidential election of 2012, Hurricane Sandy and Felix Baumgartner's supersonic freefall; these are just a few of Google's top searches featured in their Zeitgeist 2012: Year in Review video uploaded today. Besides historic events, scientific discoveries, celebrity deaths and the top trending videos, the 2:46 digital capsule is also a sly...
Somewhere in Hollywood, the publicists for Kim Kardashian and her sisters are raising a toast. According to Microsoft's Bing search engine, the Kardashian sisters were easily among the most searched-for terms of 2012.Monday night, Microsoft released the most popular search terms of the year, grouped into various categories, including several...
Shareholders pushed Facebook’s stock up slightly last week after reassuring comments from CEO Mark Zuckerberg. In the process, they overlooked a significant decline in two key areas reported by comScore: U.S. desktop usage, where Facebook has traditionally sold most of its ads, is down 12% among younger users (12 to...
The formal release of the final Windows Server 2012 this week sets up Microsoft for a showdown in the enterprise datacenter with its newly re-armored arch rival VMware. At issue is whether an operating system based on a consumer-grade client belongs in a server that runs thousands of virtual machines...
Hacker group Anonymous claims to have obtained 12 million iOS user IDs from the computer of an FBI agent and has released nearly 1 million of those IDs along with corresponding personal information. The claim, if it is true, raises important questions. For instance, what was an FBI agent doing...
Quick video of the Nokia N900 running a new UI with Nemo 2012.08.31 by @nsuffys via MyNokiaBlog: Video: Source My Nokia Blog
YouTube has been steadily expanding into the livestreaming business, from concerts and obscure sports to the 2012 Olympics, and now, to political coverage of the upcoming U.S. election. Today marks YouTube’s first livestream on their "Election Hub": the Republican National Convention in Jacksonville, Florida, will begin streaming at 7pm EST...
If you thought the 2008 election was defined by social media, wait until you see this one. Twitter launched the Twitter Political Index on Tuesday, a daily measurement of Twitter-wide sentiments about Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. It brings the scale of 400 million daily messages to bear. By watching...
The four-year wait for summer’s worldwide sports spectacular is over: The 2012 Summer Olympics are finally here. (Literally, with the women’s and men’s soccer tournaments kicking off in advance of the opening ceremonies from London on Friday.) And they’re online in the United States, in full – if you have...
There are a lot of ways to get your 2012 Olympics fix. Here's how to do, whether or not you're a cable subscriber.
These statistics were projected on the screen before Steve Ballmer took the stage in San Francisco on Monday to introduce the latest version of Microsoft Office:73% of business managers believe work spillover into personal time isn’t a bad thing.59% of business managers believe they make better business decisions as a...
Richard MacManus explains how Google+ has evolved over the past year and whether it delivered on its promise. Mobile continues to dominate in 2012. After the jump you'll find more of this week's top news stories on some of the key topics that are shaping the Web - plus highlights...
Microsoft continued its minimalistic approach to the latest versions of Windows, revealing Thursday that there will be only four versions of Windows Server 2012 - simplifying buying decisions but also eliminating some popular versions of the product’s previous incarnation.Simpler Is BetterThe four versions of Windows Server 2012 will be named...
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