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Stimulating the money-making part of your brain, the South African Protea Hotels try to give you a taste of what it's like being in their shoes. So watch out Railroad Tycoon, Protea Hospitality Group just launched its own business simulation app. This is to see if we've got what it takes to successfully manage a hotel.This iOS app runs like a game and is meant to be "simple and entertaining" while teaching you financial skills. This is done by ...
There were always going to be questions around BlackBerry's decision to open up its BBM messaging platform and some of the loudest came from the stock market.Shares in the Canadian smartphone maker dropped four percent following CEO Thorsten Heins' keynote at the BlackBerry Live conference yesterday.During the keynote, Heins announced a new mid-range Qwerty phone for emerging markets, channels for BBM and the launch of BBM for iOS and Android.While the Q5, a 3.1-inch touch and keyboard ...
Google reportedly wants to take on Spotify. The news, which was first reported on The Verge, says that the internet giant is planning on rolling out a subscription music streaming service as early as this week at the company's I/O event.The news is hardly surprising as Google signed a deal with Warner Music for two streaming services last year, one tied to YouTube and the other to Android Music.Citing people familiar with the matter, the New York Times ...
This is interesting. Outlook.com users will now be able to chat with their Google friends from within the webmail service.Since launching its revamped email service in mid-2012, Microsoft has done a number of things to try to get people to make the switch from Gmail. These include baking Skype-functionality into it, the ability to chat with your Facebook friends and an Android app (talk about going into the heart of the enemy's territory).When you open the Messaging pane ...
Anyone attending this year's Google I/O developers' conference is set to be part of a massive experiment from the internet giant's Cloud Platform Developer Relations team.Google will be planting Arduino sensors all around the conference venue, measuring everything from ambient temperature to noise levels.In an official blog post Michael Manoochehri, a developer programs engineer at Google, says that altogether, the sensors network will provide over 4 000 continuous data streams collecting and visualizing ambient data about the ...
Scared about your online identity being compromised through Facebook or Google's clingy online presences? You'd probably be less happy about those you don't know about. I'm referring to those who used to spam your inbox or infect your PC with trojans and the like. Those are old school though. With the tech scene moving at such a fast pace -- becoming more device and cloud-orientated, malware and cyber-thieves are doing well in trying to stay ahead of the curve.As ...
There goes all the information at your fingertips, says every feature phone owner who uses Google's SMS search. According to reports, the search giant has shut down the service that allowed people to send search queries via text message by texting their queries to "466453" (GOOGLE).Apparently the service was stopped in the last week with no word from Google until users took to forums to query the shutdown. A Google employee going by the name of Jessica S ...
Kickstarter's founders Charles Adler, Perry Chen and Yancey Strickler have taken to the company's blog to address controversy surrounding big-name projects on the platform such as the Veronica Mars project and Zach Braff's latest film.The massive amount of money made by the celebrity-led projects has generated some serious angst about who the crowdfunding platform is really for. Anyone who could conceivably get funding elsewhere, the doubters say, should not be on Kickstarter.The founders say the aim of the ...
Google, Time Magazine, NASA and the US Geological Survey (USGS) have teamed up to create a portal showing how much the planet has changed over the past 25 years.The interactive timelapse portal uses photos from NASA's Landsat programme collected over the past quarter of a century and highlights the impact humankind has had on places such as Dubai, the Amazon, Las Vegas and the Columbia Glacier.Each section serves up a little information on the area, with ...
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