5 Best Overstock Promo Coupon Code Deals 2012
If you couldn’t already tell, we’re big fans of E-commerce. Overstock.com, or O.co, is known to have some of the best deals around on interior decorations for the home, furniture, bedding & bath,...
View ArticleAn Inside Look At Iceland's Amazingly Beautiful -- And Cheap -- Cloud Data...
Iceland. A fascinating, strange place. And misunderstood. Did you know that the famous Blue Lagoon is actually a man-made pool filled with runoff from the power plant next door? Or that Iceland could...
View ArticleShoehorning startups into the VC model
Tech startups go in an out of fashion. When they’re in fashion, as they are now, entrepreneurs and VCs get lots of attention. Most of this attention focuses on things that involve money, like...
View ArticleGoogle partners with artists to advance HTML5 animation
Google has teamed up with a group of artists to push the boundaries of HTML5 animation and challenge Flash as the favored app for Web art. Tate Modern has partnered with Google to start an online art...
View ArticleQ&A with Jordan Casey: the top under-13 game developer in Europe
Jordan Casey is one of the world’s top under-13 game developers. Earlier this year, he exploded onto the scene as the youngest iOS game developer in Europe with the launch of Alien Ball Vs Humans on...
View ArticleFeature Friday: Android Sharing
My all-time favorite feature on Android is the way sharing works. I like this feature so much I am concerned that this might be a repeat of a prior Feature Friday post. But I searched on gawk.it and...
View ArticleIs Kickstarter Selling Dreams?
My theory, when it comes to buying lottery tickets, is that if you have disposable income to spare, then often the dreams and fantasies that accompany your lottery ticket purchase are in and of...
View ArticleIs The Instagram Effect Causing Silicon Valley To Fund The Wrong Companies?
There’s a lot of talk in Silicon Valley about a bubble in VC investing right now, with the $1 billion purchase of Instagram by Facebook seeming emblematic of high valuations for social apps without a...
View ArticleWhy Facebook, Twitter Are Accelerating The Convergence Of Ad-Tech And Software
For years, the software and ad-tech worlds have traversed different orbits in parallel universes, similar to the way that "paid" media has successfully avoided intermixing with the "earned" media...
View ArticleWhy Apple Stands Apart From The Competition
I have been covering Apple now for 31 years and have a pretty good feel for how Apple works. Of course, how they worked changed over the years depending on who was CEO at the time, but there have been...
View ArticleHow AT&T & Verizon Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Data Hogs
If you can't beat 'em, charge 'em: Not long ago, AT&T execs criticized smartphone users as data hogs. Not anymore. With a series of new pricing plans, both AT&T and its archrival Verizon have...
View ArticleLittle Labyrinths Interview With ByteSize Games' Thomas Hoeg
To mark the release of the new Generation: Sketch update for Little Labyrinths, developer ByteSize Games has made both of its App Store titles free for a limited time. The new update brings a...
View ArticleGrab a New York Times Digital Subscription for $1 through Groupon
Tired of that pesky New York Times paywall? We know the feeling. The 108-time Pulitzer Prize–winning newspaper recently halved the number of free articles online from 20 to only 10 per month in an...
View ArticleSly Fox Review (iPhone, iPad)
If you think you've sampled everything that mobile gaming has to offer, but you haven't played Sly Fox, then you still have one more app to tick off the list. Featuring a fox dangling from a...
View ArticleThe Dark Knight Rises Review (iOS, Android)
Few things are more important this weekend than seeing The Dark Knight Rises, Christopher Nolan's highly anticipated conclusion to one of the more celebrated movie trilogies of all time. That said,...
View ArticleAnother Great Tech IPO: Palo Alto Networks Soars
Shares of Palo Alto Networks Inc soared 31 percent on their market debut on the New York Stock Exchange on Friday, as investors bet on the growth of the enterprise software market. The Santa Clara,...
View ArticleThe Dark Knight Rises Cheats And Tips (iOS, Android)
We can't read minds, but odds are good we know what you're up to this weekend. It probably involves heading to the nearest theater to see The Dark Knight Rises. There's also the possibility of you...
View ArticleGoogle Hangout About The Broken Software Patent System – Today @ 1pm Pacific
I’m on a Google Hangout today at 1pm Pacific time hosted by the EFF. I’ll be discussing the broken software patent system with Jason Schultz and Parker Higgins. I know this announcement is last minute...
View ArticleiOS And Android Games Of The Week: July 20, 2012
This week is all about sequels, as two strategy games dominated the competition on iOS and Android. That said, you'll need to don your thinking cap to get the most from these head-scratching efforts,...
View ArticleWhy Data Trumps Exerience in Trial Conversions
Probably one of the biggest mistakes publishers can make on converting trials is relying on experience and intuition. The art of implementing and managing trials doesn’t match the science of new...
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