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Over a year ago, I wrote about P&G’s plans to lay off over 1,600 of their workforce because they’d wasted so much money on advertisements, and needed to move to more efficient expenditures like Facebook and Google.
This week, I come to find they haven’t learned a damn thing. Read more
The U.S. Air Force is expecting to save a serious amount of cash as a result of deploying 18,000 iPads.
With the iPads brought in to replace heavy, paper-bound flight manuals, a spokesman for the Air Force’s Air Mobility Command has said that the deployment will save $750,000 per year on fuel alone and “well over $50 million” in total costs over the next 10 years.
“We’re saving about 90 pounds of paper per aircraft and limiting the need for each crew member to carry a 30 to 40 pound paper…
Samsung’s programmable TecTile technology is finally coming to the Galaxy S4.
TecTiles are Samsung’s near-field communications (NFC) stickers that be placed around the house or car, so you can automate certain tasks
Want to dim the lights and not get up from the couch? How about activate a media player from afar? All you’ll need to do is to tap your Samsung smartphone against the sticker after it’s programmed within the accompanying app and life will be much better.
TecTiles first launched…
Samsung’s programmable TecTile technology is finally coming to the Galaxy S4.
TecTiles are Samsung’s near-field communications (NFC) stickers that be placed around the house or car, so you can automate certain tasks
Want to dim the lights and not get up from the couch? How about activate a media player from afar? All you’ll need to do is to tap your Samsung smartphone against the sticker after it’s programmed within the accompanying app and life will be much better.
TecTiles first launched…
Earlier this week we reported on how Backupify was closing down TweetBackup, a free service to back up your Twitter account that it acquired in 2010; now we have confirmed that, as we’d heard, this is part of a bigger plan at the company to phase out consumer services altogether, as Backupify focuses its efforts on paid services for enterprise customers. From today, it will stop accepting new sign-ups for its free tier of back-up services for personal files. It is also discontinuing by the…
Earlier this week we reported on how Backupify was closing down TweetBackup, a free service to back up your Twitter account that it acquired in 2010; now we have confirmed that, as we’d heard, this is part of a bigger plan at the company to phase out consumer services altogether, as Backupify focuses its efforts on paid services for enterprise customers. From today, it will stop accepting new sign-ups for its free tier of back-up services for personal files. It is also discontinuing by the…
Military family reunion videos are always a hit with Internet-goers happy to add some good feels to what may be an otherwise boring days. This one, however, puts a new — and especially heart-warming — twist on the genre
It features 9-year-old Alayna Adams from Dunedin, Fla., who was invited to throw out the first pitch at Thursday night’s Major League Baseball game between the Tampa Bay Rays and Boston Red Sox. Before she did the honors, Alayna’s dad, Lt. Col. Will Adams, gave her a message…
Tripshare, an iPad application for travel planning, is joining a crowded space. But its CEO knows a little something about the industry – Bob Dana was the former employee No. 1 and first CFO of Virgin America. He once wrote the business plan and feasibility study for Sir Richard Branson in 2003. And now he’s doing a travel startup.
Dana tells us the inspiration for Tripshare was based on a personal experience he had years ago. As CFO, he spent 10 hours on a plane each week flying back and…
On Wednesday June 12, Chris Webber will be hosting the 2nd Annual NBA Social Media Awards, which will be televised live on NBA TV at 8 P.M. Players and celebrities will be making appearances at the awards show as well. The awards will recognize players, teams, and fans for their engagement on social media during the 2012-2013 regular season.
The awards take into account activity on platforms including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram among others. Four new awards are being added…
Four members of the infamous hacking group LulzSec, which carried out a series of high-profile attacks in May and June of 2011, were sentenced to prison on Thursday in London. Two years after what the group dubbed the “50 days of lulz,” the four hackers received a collective sentence of seven years in prison
So much for “the lulz.”
The four hackers, who all pleaded guilty, were Jake “Topiary” (his hacker monicker) Davis, Ryan “Viral” Cleary, Mustafa “T-Flow” Al-Bassam and Ryan “Kayla”…
