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Good BlackBerry Picking: BlackBerry Acquires Good Technology
BlackBerry Limited (NASDAQ: BBRY; TSX: BB) announced this morning that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Good Technology for…
Read MoreMicrosoft’s new budget Lumias are all about the services
Microsoft has unveiled a couple new handsets, the Lumia 640 and 640 XL, at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The phones themselves…
Read MoreThere is now an API to build a low-volume hardware product
The trend toward delivering ever more complicated processes as services is well established in the computing world, but CircuitHub wants to bring it into product manufacturing.…
Read MoreTwitter’s fake ads reawaken the existential angst we feel about using cloud services
Twitter has apologized for posting fake advertising testimonials and attributing them to real users, but the slipup seemed to spark some angst among users about the company's control over their content and identities.…
Read MoreWhen can we stop talking about the cloud?
When will we stop talking about the cloud? If history is any guide, eventually the idea of the cloud as something that is separate from the web will disappear as more people get used to it -- although when that will happen is anyone's guess.…
Read MoreKey exec Ojanperä leaves Nokia, starts VC fund
Tero Ojanperä, who has been with Nokia for 21 years, is leaving the company and is going to be working for a new investment fund, Vision+, that will fund apps and services. In Ojanperä, Nokia has lost a big champion of mapping-based services.…
Read MoreHow To Shorten URLs Anywhere With Automator
It's become common practice to use services such as bit.ly to shorten URLs, but this is usually done using a bookmarklet script, which only works in browsers. This Automator service allows you to select an URL in any application and shorten it using the bit.ly API.…
Read MoreHow-To: Using Automator to Combine PDFs
OS X includes a great tool called Automator, which makes it really easy to take the sting out of repetitive tasks. Recently, I ran into a situation where I had to combine a bunch of PDF files into one. Luckily, Automator makes it dead simple.…
Read MoreOpportunity Cost: Choose the Right Products and Services to Offer
Choose to spend an hour one way, and you miss out on all the other ways you could have spent that hour. But have you ever thought about opportunity cost as it relates to the products and services you offer within your business?…
Read MoreLike AT&T, O2 Feels the Strain, but Doesn’t Whine About iPhone Customers
Shortly before Christmas, my iPhone started misbehaving. I’d get an odd little notification message popping up on the screen telling me it…
Read MoreMobileMe: Is it worth it?
If you believe the marketing hype, you aren’t really a true Mac user unless you have MobileMe. MobileMe is pushed heavily in…
Read MoreHow-to: Create Services for Quick Search Box
I’ve been playing around with Google Quick Search Box lately and am especially enjoying this services plugin from Martin Kuhl which lets…
Read MoreToday in Cloud
Dell’s decision to purchase Perot Systems certainly has received a lot of flack today. Perhaps it has something to do with Dell’s…
Read MoreQuick Tip: Automator and Services in Snow Leopard
Originally introduced in OS X Tiger, Automator is a drag-and-drop form of scripting. You can create workflows to easily speed up many…
Read MorePosterous + iPhone = Perfect Mobile Platform
Much like a migratory bird is genetically driven to fly south for the winter, I am driven to bloviate online. And so…
Read MoreMicrosoft Retail Store Proposal Leaked: 124 Pages of Execu-Speak
Last week Gizmodo published a leaked proposal (32MB PDF) from marketing agency Lippincott detailing plans for Microsoft’s (s msft) upcoming brick-and-morter retail…
Read MoreAre the Free Lunch Days Over for Web Apps?
Editor’s note: With this post we wecome Doriano Carta to the WWD team. Doriano, better known as “Paisano” on Twitter and everywhere…
Read MoreGet to the Point: OS X’s Summarize Service
There are a few really handy features in OS X that get very little attention - perhaps because they don't have a snazzy GUI, or maybe it's because they only appeal to certain users. Whatever the case, Summarize (found in the menubar under the Application menu) is one of those handy features that gets little attention, but delivers big by helping you get to the point.…
Read MoreNorth Carolina Sweetens the Deal for Apple’s New Server Farm
According to a report in Friday’s Charlotte Observer, North Carolina lawmakers are falling over themselves to entice Apple (s aapl) to build…
Read MorePsycuity: Using Psychometric Measurement To Build Teams
As web workers are generally spread across countries, timezones, cultures and organizations, creating and applying coherent management to distributed teams is challenging.…
Read MoreQapacity: Find and Provide Services Through Networking
A little while ago, I reviewed the service offered by GigPark, which was essentially a referrals network to help people find and…
Read MoreThe iPhone: A Marketer’s Fantasy
There’s a trusted maxim in the marketing game: cheap razor, expensive blades. It comes from the practice of selling razors like the…
Read MoreTime to Think Twice About Free
As we covered last week, free services I Want Sandy and Stikkit are closing shortly, joining a growing list of Web 2.0…
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