Here’s a funny thing I was just thinking: Imagine if the EV–gasmobile story were reversed and EVs were the dominant type of vehicle while gasmobiles were just becoming mainstream. Imagine also that gasmobiles only had a range of 60–80 miles, but…
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Editor’s Note: This is a post by Jackson Bond who is the co-founder of Relayr, the team behind the WunderBar. It’s the easiest way to start developing apps for the Internet of Things — without needing to know about hardware. Crowdfunding begins…
On the last trading day of the year, Japanese shares posted their best annual performance for more than four decades, leaving other major markets in the dust. Foreign investors piled into the long-laggard market in 2013 as the government and central…
Microsoft has another big problem on its hands: Chromebooks. You know, those inexpensive laptops manufactured by the likes of Samsung, Acer, and others that run Chrome OS instead of Windows? They are selling like crazy. You may remember how we…
Arik Airlines says it has introduced a mobile and tablet booking app that can provide the airline with booking service.…
Equity transactions on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) opened after the holiday on Friday in an upward trend with the…
Apple still offers its usual App of the Week that it gives away for nothing, but the company is also hooking iOS users up with 12 days of freebies this holiday season. Technically, the giveaway, dubbed “12 Days of Gifts,” started on Thursday, but…
Shareholders of Italy’s troubled Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena — the world’s oldest bank — on Saturday voted to postpone until mid-2014 a giant capital increase needed to stave off nationalisation. Management had wanted the 3.0-billion-euro ($4.…
How technology can help keep you fit – but do watch out for those zombies – and what’s coming next after the likes of Call Of Duty and Halo.
Europe’s main stock markets rose on Friday as trading resumed after the Christmas break, but the political crisis gripping Turkey sent its currency sliding to a new record low. London’s benchmark FTSE 100 index climbed 0.85 percent to close at 6,750…
Five years after the meltdown of the Nigerian stock market, some investors and operators have shaken off their investment shocks…
To me, a version of Windows just doesn’t seem… complete until there’s the full suite of everyone’s favorite classic games available for the platform. That’s why it’s so exciting that Microsoft has just released that everyone’s favorite…
Twitter shares tumbled Friday after a brokerage analyst warned the popular messaging network was overvalued following a meteoric rise since its initial public offering in November. Twitter shares closed down 12.99 percent at $63.79. But the stock has…
Last year the biggest tech failure was Color, this year that award goes to BlackBerry (though it could have been Healthcare.gov). I’m sure you can agree with me when I say the entirety of 2013 has just been terrible for the company. But let’…
Target has publicly confirmed that the encrypted debit card PIN information of customers was, in fact, stolen during the company’s very public security breach this past month. The break-in previously was thought to be limited to only the secure information…
OutDisk FTP Add-on for Microsoft Office Outlook Helps Companies Deliver and Control Email File Attachments to RecipientsFirewalls and inbox size…
I try to go camping at least once a year. The past few trips haven’t been far from Harrisburg; in fact, they’ve actually been within the city’s limits on islands planted in middle of the Susquehanna River. There are enough trees to surround a…
Every few weeks, we seem to hear a little something new about Microsoft’s Threshold initiative, a plan the company is looking to roll out in order to unify its various Windows platforms into a more singular experience across its many devices. And…
Over the last few days, lyric annotation site Rap Genius ran afoul of Google’s Matt Cutts, the head of the search giant’s web spam team. Why? Because apparently the site—which has already generated its fair share of negative press in the last…
(BPT) – What will be the world’s next big innovation? Whether it’s a cure for a disease that has plagued…