Facebook Beefs Up Its Mobile Arsenal With Karma, a Social Gifting App
Facebook became a publicly traded company a few hours ago, but it's not wasting any time making new moves. The social networking giant acquired Karma, a mobile app...
5 Things Spotify Should Spend All That Cash On
Spotify is raking in the money. The six-year-old streaming music startup has only been live in the U.S. for about a year, but it has apparently won the confidence of investors, who are said to be ploughing hundreds of millions of dollars into...
Why the iPad Works for Writing
When the first iPad launched in 2010, critics were quick to lampoon the device for being geared too heavily toward content consumption. The criticisms weren't entirely without merit,...
Apple Gets Serious About Photo Sharing With iCloud Update
Apple's Wordwide Developers Conference is still a few weeks away, but as usual, there's no shortage of clues about what to expect.
The latest news suggests that Apple is...
After Two Months, How Does the iPad’s Retina Display Stack Up?
It's been nearly two months since the latest iteration of Apple's tablet started shipping. In that time, those of us who rushed out to buy a new iPad have been peering into a display with an incredibly high resolution.
The intial response ...
How Game of Thrones Looks From the Second Screen
In the most recent episode of Game of Thrones, a fairly significant supporting character dies. Even if you hadn’t seen it, simply watching the stream of tweets that...
Is Web TV’s Free Ride Over? How Old Media Are Striking Back
The Internet was supposed to change everything. Television would be turned on its head, and big cable would be screwed - finally.
TV is different now, to be sure,...
First Look: SoundCloud Gets an Overhaul
The growth of SoundCloud has been astonishing. In only three years of existence, the social sound-sharing service has blown past 15 million users and now has more than 100 employees. It's quickly becoming a sort of "YouTube for audio" with a massive s...
The Evolving Definition of Television
What is television? Historically, its definition was more or less set in stone. A television set was a very particular type of device, which served as the hub of audio-visual entertainment in a given household. To take Wikipedia's description, it's "a ...
Now Twitter Looks Nice Even on Your Crappy Feature Phone
When we talk about the mobile Web and apps, we're almost always talking about smartphones. Android and iOS and their competitors are getting most of the innovation these days,...
Hands On With Spotify For iPad: Their Best-Looking Effort Yet
Spotify gets praise for a lot of things, but user experience design is typically not one of them. It's not that its desktop and mobile applications are hideous. They're perfectly functional, but few would describe them as beautiful or especially entic...
OK, Can We Have Super Mario for iPhone Now?
Nintendo is in trouble. The Japanese gaming giant, which has long felt building pressure from mobile computing platforms, is now officially losing money. Lots of it.
Last week, the...
