Big Tech Archive
Archives for August 2014
The publishers were demanding Google pay them for making their online articles available.
Plus, a solution to eBay’s PayPal problems and a colorful Android hardware fragmentation chart.
Production is reported to be back on track, but the effect on the availability of the new phones is unclear.
Everyone is addicted to Facebook, millennials can’t let go of Snapchat and Boomers are still playing Words With Friends.
Still more growth in the cloud.
Plus, Windows Mea Culpa and a drone-assisted Ice Bucket challenge.
Video aggregator N3twork has found a way to do something new with Apple’s Web TV box.
The company has hired Vivian Lee from EA and Sid Murlidhar, who helped develop Facebook Zero.
Late-summer corporate hijinks, featuring George Orwell.
The one-named exec posted his plans on Facebook, for which he designed the “Like” button.
Understanding why Sony pulled ahead in the console war.
Gajatri Studios’ Tiina Zilliacus wanted to make “a counterstrike to the fashion and restaurant games.”
Big Red says that, despite a report from The Information, it has no interest in going down the app store road again.