In addition to crunching and changing search results as you type you query, saving you time to get what you want, Google also changes ads along the way as you type resulting in 10% more paid impressions and 5% more clickthroughs on those ads. Meanwhile since Instant was rolled out advertisers have increased their spending … Read more
Off-topic rant time! Sysadmins, designers and marketers, please stop feeling the need to include the www subdomain when giving out your website’s address and bouncing visitors who didn’t include the www to a rewritten URL with the www in it – and even worse than that, domains that only accept connections aimed at the www … Read more
Here it is, the HD7 and all its anticipated glory. Some might not be aware of the amazing heritage this phone carries around with it. It all started out with the famed HD2. At its release there was nothing like it. The 1 GHz processor, the 3.5mm jack, the amazing build quality and oh yea, … Read more
Wow, an all caps ‘must’…well I guess it’s not that important unless you want to wake up on time. As you know by now, iOS has a bug where repeating alarms do not account for daylight savings time (those Europeans took one for the team). And now it’s our turn to go through daylight savings … Read more
You asked for it so let’s do it. With the upcoming sale of Windows Phones in the US starting Sunday (fine, Monday for those who don’t ask nice) here’s a list of the first series of apps you’ll want to look into. Remember, I’m doing this without a device in hand so it’s based on … Read more
There are a lot of cases on the market, but there is one name that stands out among all other cases, OtterBox. OtterBox cases offer the best fit, quality, and protect for your smartphone that money can buy. They are easily obtained through wireless carriers like AT&T or retail outlets like Best Buy. No matter … Read more
Epic Games and Chair Entertainment have started to show off an action-RPG game they call Infinity Blade that’s powered by the Unreal Engine 3 and looks sick. You know I’m not into iOS, but this is something special: We’ll keep you posted on when it’s available. It’s slated to come out for all form factors.
Collectively Bank of America and Citi have over 500,000 employees and they’re currently testing to see if Android and iPhone can meet the security standards that the banks require. Now this doesn’t mean that they are selling all of the Blackberry’s on eBay, but they will allow their employees to choose between devices. Currently there … Read more
The new expansion to come to Xbox is here. Kinect allows users to play games and control various parts of their Xbox with their motions instead of controllers. We all remember when the Wii came out, Wii bowling and tennis player were throwing their controllers left and right. Without controllers, Kinect seems to be perfectly … Read more
Just yesterday in the comments I noted that I’ll be reaching out to David Pogue when “the first Service Pack comes out in mid-January (with copy and paste, turn-by-turn directions, task switching and plugins for Flash and Silverlight)”. That was based on a rumor first published by MSNerd. Today we have reconfirmation of that rumor. … Read more
I am a huge Jawbone fan. They have always been on the fore front of mobile Bluetooth Headset Technology and when I hear that they have just come out with a new product, my first instinct is that it is going to be awesome. Such is the case today with their press release announcing the … Read more
Bravo Google, you’ve had an impressive amount of fail lately. On Monday (Election Day) Google Maps provided polling place information on their site…and they got it wrong. There were 700,000 people who would have been sent to the wrong polling place had they relied on Google. We don’t know how many did or if this … Read more