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The more is known about starting, updating, marketing, and customizing a web site, the more confidence and control the site owner has and the more likely the site will be successful. Of course, it is impossible to know or be skilled in everything. And a person has to start somewhere. It may be sufficient to [...]
Let’s say you, a TechCrunch reader, want to create your own magazine. You’re mainly visiting us for posts about 3D printing, like this one… about a couple of guys who made a robot hand for a boy born without fingers. Using either a new Flipboard bookmarklet… while browsing the web, or the + button now [...]
Revenue from apps is expected to reach $25 billion in 2013, according to a new forecast from ABI Research… [R]evenue from apps sold on tablets is expected to reach $8.8 billion this year, while smartphone apps are expected to bring in $16.4 billion… Apple [will] dominate the app marketplace and bring in 65 percent of [...]
The proportion of web traffic coming from tablets has pushed past smartphones for the first time, according to Adobe’s latest Digital Index which has tracked more than 100 billion visits to 1,000+ websites worldwide… While the difference between smartphone and tablet traffic is marginal… the growth in tablet page views is impressive, especially considering how new the category is…” Read [...]
Global revenue from app sales is expected to increase 62 percent this year to $25 billion, according to new research from Gartner. The Wall Street Journal has the report: ‘App stores run by Apple and Google Inc… now offer more than 700,000 apps each. With so many apps to choose from, consumers are estimated to [...]
Now that the ubiquity of tablets is giving rise to a generation of babies who expect TV sets to have touch screens, toy companies are making products to conform to their young customers’ changing instincts, many of which will be on display at the American International Toy Fair this week… Toys that connect to parents’ [...]
Ribbon, a payments service… unveiled a tool that lets sellers create a special link to a one-page checkout that can be copy and pasted directly into the Twitter news feed. Any Twitter user interested in purchasing the item can preview a description and video of it in the tweet and then click on the link [...]
The federal government wants to create super WiFi networks across the nation, so powerful and broad in reach that consumers could use them to make calls or surf the Internet without paying a cellphone bill every month. The proposal from the Federal Communications Commission has rattled the $178 billion wireless industry, which has launched a [...]
Fluency… comes not through interacting with new technologies, but through creating them. The former is like reading, while the latter is like writing. He means this figuratively — that creating new technologies, like writing a book, requires creative expression — but also literally: to make new computer programs, you actually must write the code. The [...]
Android tablets have nearly caught up to iPad devices as the world’s most popular tablet platform, and some project that they may even overtake iPads later this year. According to new research from app analytics company Localytics, the U.S., and specifically Amazon, should take the most credit for that trend: some 59% of all Android [...]
I suppose that’s a question that might raise the hackles of those few who cling to some of the rapidly obsolescing formats for dying e-readers. However, what I’m suggesting is that, from a practical standpoint, there are actually very few viable formats. So, what are they?” Read full article @ Making It Easy »»» AD: [...]
If you’re wondering, “What’s a Kobo?” Here’s the backstory: Kobo entered the scene in 2010, marketing the Kobo e-Reader as a less expensive alternative to Kindle and Nook, which are currently the best selling e-Reader devices. That will change if Hiroshi Mikitani gets his way. Mikitani is CEO of Japan’s largest e-commerce company, Rakuten, which [...]
Want some cool apps that you can use on your smartphone to improve your marketing? Mobile apps can help you manage your social media activities with your busy schedule and help you maintain your reputation. Here are 6 free smartphone apps to keep your business active on social media.” Read full article @ Social Media [...]
Research presented… at the 116th annual meeting of the American Academy of Ophthalmology shows that backlit tablets, such as the iPad and Kindle e-reader, help patients who suffer from vision problems due to eye diseases regain the ability to read at a comfortable level. The discovery could aid millions of people who have lowered vision… [...]
If there was still any debate about whether serious photojournalism can take place in the context of camera phones and cutesy retro filters, it’s over now. To document the effects of Hurricane Sandy on the northeast, Time magazine turned to Instagram, a.k.a. that iPhone app your sister-in-law uses to document her creative table settings. And [...]
It is absurdly easy to get hacked. All it takes is clicking on one malicious link or attachment. Companies’ computer systems are attacked every day by hackers looking for passwords to sell on auctionlike black market sites where a single password can fetch $20. Hackers regularly exploit tools like John the Ripper, a free password-cracking [...]
