What’s the hardest thing about building a successful mobile app? If you answered “building a mobile app,” you’re wrong. It’s getting your app found. With over 600,000+ iOS applications, and now some 450,000 on Android, the real challenge for developers is having their app surfaced higher than hundreds of other competitors in the app store [...]
Archive for February, 2012
Less than a week after Apple CEO Tim Cook told shareholders the company was working on “some products that will blow your mind,” Apple sent out an invite to a March 7 event that suggests it is readying the third-generation of the iPad tablet. Former Apple CEO Steve Jobs with the [...] Read more…
How the bot-proofing of the Internet is bringing humans down Read more…
A £22 ($35) bare-bones computer intended to help teach people programming goes on sale for the first time. Read more…
The iPad 3 is widely tipped to be launched on 7 March as Apple announces a special event in San Francisco. Read more…
The public are invited to study data from telescopes which could point to extraterrestrial life forms. Read more…
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has decided to postpone the creation of a new rule that would have required rearview back-up cameras in all new cars, pickups and SUVs by 2014. Read more…
The smartphones and tablets debuting at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week share one very important ingredient that has allowed Apple’s iPad and iPhone devices to become mainstream cash cows: videogames. Read more…
Shares of solar power company First Solar dropped in after-hours trading Tuesday following disappointing quarterly results. The Arizona-based company, a leading maker of thin-film solar panels and a developer of solar power projects, posted net sales of $660 million and earnings per share of $1.26, excluding certain charges. Analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters expected the [...]
Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, looks small here, pictured to the right of the gas giant in this Cassini spacecraft view. Titan (3,200 miles, or 5,150 kilometers across) is in the upper right. Saturn’s rings appear across the top of the image, and they cast a series of shadows onto the planet across the middle of [...]