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It's that time of year again. Google kicked off day one of I/O, its three day developer-oriented product and platform innovations showcase, at San Francisco's Moscone Center West on Wednesday. While there weren't any skydiving or BMX antics to marvel at this time around, the big G did deliver some news that are likely to get tongues wagging.All AccessAs has been rumoured, Google today announced a subscription music service to go up against established players like Spotify and Rdio. It's ...
Look, we all know Warren Buffett is awesome. The man is a business legend who, at 82, is still the primary shareholder, chairman and CEO of investment giant Berkshire Hathaway and now he's on Twitter.The man who once was the richest person on the planet (giving away a large portion of his fortune saw him slip down the list a little) was typically disarming in his introduction to the social network too.Warren is in the house.— Warren Buffett ...
Look, we all know that the PC market isn't in the healthiest place at the moment. And while tablets and smartphones may never completely kill off the PC, they're not about to let it make a comeback.The latest research from tech research company Gartner suggests that they PC market will decline 7.6% this year. This is not a temporary trend induced by a more austere economic environment, it is a reflection of a long-term change in user behavior. And ...
If you've been in a steel re-enforced bunker over the last few years and don't understand why everyone around you's been making "Winter is coming" quips, it's because season three of Game of Thrones just started. It just so happens that it's also breaking a whole heap of online piracy records.The incredibly popular show had over 160 000 people simultaneous peers at one stage, says torrent news site TorrentFreak. At the same time, it says, 110 303 were sharing ...
The divorce is final. As of today Instagram has officially killed off photo integration with Twitter.Last week users began noticing that Instagram photos on their Twitter feed were showing up strangely cropped, off-center, or not at all. Now they've disappeared from the social network completely.You'll still be able to click-through to the Instagram links on Twitter, but there'll be no way to preview your photos.Given last weeks events, it's hardly surprising that Instagram has completely pulled the ...
Samsung appears to be surrounded on all fronts in the smartphone patent wars. The latest company to take issue with South Korean tech giant is Ericsson.The mobile and networking infrastructure giant, says AllThingsD is suing Samsung, claiming that the company has continued using its technology despite the fact that their mobile licensing agreement has expired.According to Ericsson the suit comes after two years of failed negotiations with Samsung, during which the latter tried to significantly reduce the licensing fees ...
Online travel is big business in Latin America and it's only going to get bigger as internet penetration increases across the region.In fact, a recent study by Barclays Capital suggests that it will lead the world when it comes to online travel growth through to 2016, increasing by more than 30% through 2013.The interesting thing is the degree to which online travel sales growth is eclipsing that of the travel industry as a whole. While travel sales are ...
For the first time in Vodacom's history SMS revenue is on the decline driven, it seems, by increased use of data.The African mobile giant today released its interim results showing a decline in SMS between September 2011 and September 2012.The decline comes amid significant growth in data. Vodacom says that data traffic grew by 42.5% as its average effective price per megabyte dropped by 24.2%. Then again, it can probably afford to drop those prices a little, given ...
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