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Research in Motion (RIM) just announced two new hires to its executive leadership team, employing Kristian Tear as COO and Frank Boulben as CMO. This move is apart of new RIM boss Thorsten Heins’ massive restructuring of the company to get rid of some of the “fat on the hip,” as he called it. These…
Twitter updated their user interface late last year, and many people, myself included, hated it. They then updated their mobile apps to look like their new website. I hated the new iPhone app so much that I spent $0.99 to buy Tweetbot from Tapbots and have never looked back. Anyway, this new user interface hasn’t…
Remember how a judge recently ruled that your tweets could be subpoenaed and possibly exposed in court? This skit from Saturday Night Live highlights this new reality and reminds us how our tweets (and elderly butt internet searches) can make us look like an idiot, even when they are taken in context. Take a few…
Standards are great. People create them so that things can work together and everyone can contribute to an ecosystem, whether that be the standard power outlet in your wall, the HTML standard that powers your web browser and this website, or the chip on your credit card that works pretty much anywhere. Standards don’t work…
Tiny Wings is one of my favorite iOS games. Despite not being able to beat the last level, no matter how hard I try, I still play it whenever I have a few minutes to kill. Andreas Illiger, the guy who made the game, was recently interviewed by Flow Studio. They asked him what he…
Before we get to today’s news, you need some backstory: Nokia started work on a Linux based mobile operating system called Maemo back in 2005. It got better over time, just have a look at the Nokia N9 to get an idea of what we’re talking about. Now Maemo wasn’t the only Linux mobile OS…
Samsung’s Galaxy Note, despite being a ridiculous product on paper, has ended up in the hands of over 5 million people. It began shipping in October 2011 with Android 2.3 Gingerbread, which coincidentally was the same month that Google unveiled Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. Besides having a gorgeous new user interface, ICS was also…
Yesterday one of my friends posted an image on Facebook of one of Nokia’s offices here in Finland. What made said image striking was that the Nokia logo that was once on the building had been removed. The Ruoholahti office, from what I remember back in my Nokia days, was where the Linux people worked.…
MasterCard unveiled PayPass Wallet Services, a new global offering for banks, merchants and partners that will make it faster and easier for their customers to make purchases in stores and/or online. The solution consists of three distinct components, including PayPass Acceptance Network (PayPass Online and PayPass Contactless), PayPass Wallet and PayPass API. The first component…
Evernote acquired a new app – Penultimate. Those of you with the iPad have probably already heard about it and chances are – you have it installed on your beloved tablet. The good news is that the popular digital handwriting application will keep its core functionality, users from all around the world learned to love.…