A survey conducted by Admob shows that iPhone and iPod Touch Users Buy More, Android users are stingy. AdMob surveyed over 1,000 of iPhone, iPod Touch and Android users to find out more about their interaction and download behavior with apps. Here is what they found: * Android and iPhone users download approximately 10...
Xerox Corp. is struggling because offices are going paperless, and copy machines are not as busy or as necessary as they used to be. In an effort to offset this declining trend, they decided to buy Affiliated Computer Services for $6.4 billion in cash and stock to get in the market of providing outsourcing...
The Gotthard Base Tunnel (GBT) is a railway tunnel under construction in Switzerland. With a planned length of 57 km (35.4 mi) and a total of 153.5 km (95.4 mi) of tunnels, shafts and passages planned, it will be the longest tunnel (of all railway and road tunnels) in the world upon completion, ahead...
On Sept 21, 2009, after nearly three years, Netflix announced the winner to its Netflix Prize yesterday. The million dollar prize goes to “BellKor’s Pragmatic Chaos”, a team of seven engineers, statisticians and researchers from Austria, Canada, Israel and the U.S. At the award ceremony,Netflix CEO Reed Hastings said in an interview with Reuters...
TopicScoop launched a Twitter search service that provides more insights into the search results. Using TopicScoop is like any other search engine: Enter a keyword(s) into the search box, click Search. Within seconds, TopicScoop analyzes hundreds to thousands of tweets containing your keywords in real-time and extracts the topics people are talking about in...
New physics theories are completely changing how we look at the world. The universe is not made up of atoms, it is actually mostly dark matters. We have heard of black holes in the universe that sucks everything in. Now, physics theory believes that at the other end of a black hole is a...
More and more Twitter Advertising networks are launching. There are long time leaders RevTwt and Magpie, and there are new comers sponsored tweets and ad.ly among many others. Both sponsored tweets and ad.ly put their bets on celebrity Twitterers and are based on a cost per tweet model. The pay is quite high, hundreds...
At LinuxCon in Portland, Ore., on Monday, Linus Torvalds said that Linux is getting bloated and with no plan in sight to change that. Moderator James Bottomley cited an internal Intel study that tracked kernel releases, which showed that Linux performance had dropped about two percentage points at every release, for a cumulative drop...
After nearly three years, Netflix announced the winner to its Netflix Prize yesterday. The million dollar prize goes to “BellKor’s Pragmatic Chaos”, a team of seven engineers, statisticians and researchers from Austria, Canada, Israel and the U.S. More than 51,000 people worldwide competed for the $1 million Netflix prize for three years, trying to...
Finally, Fallout 3 downloadable content packs for the PlayStation 3 will arrive next week, the game’s publisher Bethesda Softworks revealed. PS3 gamers will finally be able to catch up with Xbox 360 owners on the game. Broken Steel will be available on PlayStation Network starting on September 24. Broken Steel raises the level cap...