Technology
Appolicious – Google has done an admirable job of providing web apps that lots of people use every day. Gmail is firmly ensconced as a leader in web-based email, Google Reader provides easy RSS feed access, and Google Docs allows users to create word p…
Reuters – Facebook aims to connect all two billion Internet users. So far it has captured 845 million of them. Of the rest, nearly 60 percent live in Asia and hooking them is going to be a daunting challenge.
Continue reading about Analysis: Facebook’s daunting Asian challenge (Reuters)
Reuters – Facebook unveiled plans for the biggest ever Internet IPO that could raise as much as $10 billion, but made it clear CEO Mark Zuckerberg will exercise almost complete control over the company, leaving investors with little say.
Continue reading about Facebook’s Zuckerberg to keep iron grip after IPO (Reuters)
Yahoo! News – In the months following long-time Apple CEO Steve Jobs’s untimely death, we’ve seen him resurrected in many forms. He’s already been brought back in plastic and bronze, but we never thought we’d see him reborn as an Android…
Appolicious – While there is no shortage of video to consume online and via mobile devices – 60 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute! – finding clips and programs most relevant to you is challenging.
Continue reading about New version of Showyou is a Flipboard for video (Appolicious)
Reuters – He may have derided Android devices in real life but in the afterlife Apple Inc founder Steve Jobs is glad he can use one — or at least that’s the story a Jobs look-alike tells in a recent TV commercial for a Taiwanese electronics company’s …
Continue reading about Angelic "Steve Jobs" loves Android in Taiwan TV ad (Reuters)
Appolicious – We already knew Facebook’s various mobile apps were popular, be they on Apple’s iPhone or iPad, on devices running Google’s Android operating system, or even on BlackBerry devices and feature phones.
AP – Amazon.com is coming to India, with the Thursday launch of Junglee.com, a watered-down version of its global shopping portal.
Continue reading about Amazon makes India debut with Junglee.com (AP)
Appolicious – It’s the week’s big day for games, and we’ve got quite a few great ones on offer today. Spice Invaders is a robust tower defense title with tons of content and an eight-player multiplayer mode, while Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective p…
Appolicious – MindConnex just released their latest Shakespeare in Bits app for Hamlet, available for both iPhone and iPad. All the Shakespeare in Bits apps break the works into small bits (as the name implies) and serve them to students with lots of i…
