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Quantum Entanglement May Deliver A Truly Unbreakable Way Of Sending Messages
Quantum cryptography has yet to deliver a truly unbreakable way of sending messages. Quantum entanglement may change that.Recent revelations of online snooping on an epic scale, by government agencies...
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Analysts On BlackBerry: 'DISASTER'
BlackBerry shares slumped on Friday after the troubled smartphone maker said it will slash 4,500 jobs and lose almost $1bn in the second quarter. Here is what a few analysts had to say of the...
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Nokia's 'Thanks Apple' Taunt Goes Down As One Of The Most Retweeted Brand...
A cheeky Nokia tweet poking fun at its rival Apple has gone down as one of the most retweeted brand tweets ever.During Apple's much-hyped launch event for its new iPhones earlier this month, Nokia...
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What 8 Designers Think About iOS 7
It has been a frustrating wait for some, but many iPhone users are now finally getting their hands on Apple's iOS 7 software update— described by CEO Tim Cook as “the biggest change to iOS since the...
View ArticleVideo of the Week: LeWeb 2008
I am in Paris this weekend and I always love being here. I am reminded of attending LeWeb back in 2008 and having dinner with Jeff Clavier and Reid Hoffman and our wives. And I remember meeting with...
View ArticleHow Would An Entrepreneur Attack Your Business?
This is a question I like to ask our more developed portfolio companies who have built large markets/networks/user bases. I ask them "if you were a startup and you wanted to compete with our company,...
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Twitter Users In Afghanistan Just Attended The Country's First Social Media...
More than 200 of Afghanistan's most active users of Twitter and Facebook gathered Sunday for the country's first-ever social media summit to explore how the Internet is transforming traditional...
View ArticleTurning Ten
Ten years ago today I set up a TypePad account and started writing online. That first post was not much, other than the start of a habit that has transformed my life and my career.The early years were...
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Why Foursquare, Buzzfeed, And Shopify All Use Google Snippets To Manage...
There’s one internal communication tool, little known outside of tech circles, that’s been the management engine behind many of tech’s biggest successes. Known as Google Snippets (having started as an...
View ArticleMobile Monetization Platform StartApp Rakes in One Billion Downloads
Plenty of mobile app developers think that once they’ve nailed down a great idea and turned out a solid mobile application, the money will flow in. The reality is much grimmer: mobile app developers...
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People Are Demanding More Than Ever From Technology Companies
Tablet sales showed their first sequential decline ever in the second quarter of this year, according to research firm IDC. Apple sold fewer iPads than expected in its most recent quarter. Barnes &...
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Here's How Much An iPad Costs In 46 Countries
Australia has become the 4th cheapest country in which to buy a 16GB iPad with a retina display, according to CommSec economists Craig James and Savanth Sebastian.CommSec’s latest iPad index, released...
View ArticleThe Bronx Academy Of Software Engineering (BASE)
Last Thursday morning, I took the Lexington line (4 train) up to Fordham Road in the Bronx, then transfered to the Bx12 bus for a few stops and got off at the corner of Fordham Road and Crotona Ave. I...
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Four Things Blackberry Could Have Done To Compete In The Smartphone Wars
This is a guest post for Business Insider Australia by Sydney-based social researcher Michael McQueen. More information at the foot of the article.There is little doubt that Blackberry is a brand in...
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China Is On Its Way To A 450 Million Smartphone Market In 2014
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The world's biggest smartphone market China will likely ship in more than 450 million devices in 2014, at least a quarter more than this year, research firm IDC said.IDC said the...
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Former Exec Says Apple Started Developing 'iGlasses,' A Google Glass...
Apple has been working on a product similar to Google Glass for more than half a decade but the project was sidelined by the popularity of the iPod and iPhone, one of the company's former executives...
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Malaysia Has The Cheapest iPads In The World
If you think Apple products in the U.S. are too expensive, then you definitely shouldn't go shopping in Argentina. According to Commonwealth Bank of Australia subsidiary CommSec, a 16GB iPad with...
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Larry Ellison Skips Giving Keynote Speech At Oracle Conference For America's...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Oracle Corp CEO Larry Ellison skipped a keynote address at his software company's massive annual customer conference on Tuesday to be on San Francisco Bay as his Oracle Team...
View ArticleThe AVC Funnel
I did some digging on Monday as I was thinking about ten years of AVC. Here are some of the more interesting numbers I came across:- The AVC community has donated $203,939 to DonorsChoose campaigns...
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Amazon Announces New Kindle Fire HDX Tablets
Amazon is refreshing its line-up of tablet computers with new 7-inch and 8.9-inch Kindle Fire HDX devices, which are significantly faster and lighter than the previous generation.Amazon claims that...
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