Tweet Apple in October announced that iPhone, iPad and iPod users had downloaded over 18 billion applications from the iTunes App Store since the service launched in 2008. The company recently released its iTunes Rewind 2011 lists, counting down some of the most popular content of the year. The annual recap looks at Apple’s favorite apps across 21 categories,
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Tweet For many, being “unfriended” is a fate worse than death. But it’s not something you’d know about right away. In previous versions of Facebook, there was no easy way to see which of your “friends” had decided to sever your relationship on the social network. Sure, you could always go to their profile to
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Tweet Could a Facebook competition encourage users to cut their utility usage? Can a mobile communication network help rural farmers share crop tips? Bringing together activists, world leaders and tech influencers, the second annual Social Good Summit seeks to answer these questions and more. The summit, which kicked off on Monday in New York, aims
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Tweet Windows 8, which was fully unveiled at the Windows Build Conference in Anaheim, California, is here, and it looks much, much different from Windows 7. Sure, it has the start-bar-and-icon “Desktop” look that Windows users are familiar with, but it also has a new, touchscreen-optimized interface called ‘Metro,’ which looks more like the Windows
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Tweet Brand Finance, a consulting agency specializing in brand valuation, has released its “Brand Finance Global 100” report ranking the world’s most valuable brands. This annual list is compiled to supplement the “Brand Finance Global 500,” which was released back in March. To create its ranking, the agency evaluates companies and awards points based on
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Tweet Steve Jobs had no formal schooling in engineering, yet he’s listed as the inventor or co-inventor on more than 200 U.S. patents. There are some of the significant products that were created under his direction. Steve Jobs pushed the envelope many times when it came to product design, and the results weren’t always pretty.
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Tweet The ever-popular Apple iPad, with its wide, high-resolution screen, is a great device for watching video (better than the tiny iPhone, anyway); and yet the options for video discovery are surprisingly limited, given how tailor-made the iPad seems to be for media consumption of all kinds. Sure, you’ve got YouTube for your standard viral
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