Beats Vs. Spotify: Let The Streaming Wars Begin


Beats Music is being launched today to much fanfare and rightfully so. Using “music curation” as its main calling card, it’s a different take on a theme used by other competitive services. Whether...

Top CEOs meet in Davos


Davos is the place to be for the world’s top executives and political figures this week but what happens if you’re not deemed important enough to get in? Here’s my tale from nine years ago. Something...

ViviTouch HD Feel Technology Is Enhancing Audio, Gaming, And Even Adult Toys


Have you ever experienced sound as an actual tactile sensation? Or truly felt the difference between firing an M14A4 and a SCAR-L in Battlefield 4? That’s the promise of ViviTouch technology:...

Maria Conchita Alonso evicted from Vagina Monologues after Controversial Ad


She has appeared on screen countless times. Female thespian, Maria Conchita Alonso has played roles in The Running Man with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Moscow on the Hudson alongside Robbin Williams. A...

Proposing A Compelling OSCON Talk


By Simon St. Laurent The OSCON call for proposals closes on January 30th. I’ve seen some great explanations of how to write a conference proposal generally, and my co-chair Matthew McCullough has an...
    






Chrome Adds Welcome Relief To Noisy Tabs And Windows 8 Metro Interface


The newest stable version of Chrome (version 32) now has a way of seeing tabs that are playing audio, whether it’s music or the sound track of a video. It’s a big help for those of us who hate...
    






What Windows 9 Must Do To Avoid Flopping Like Windows 8


Windows 8 is a flop. It is a painful thing to say about one of the most ambitious operating systems ever released, but the stats don’t lie. It has taken half the OS market share Windows 7 did in its...
    






Why It’s Still Not Game Over For Nintendo


News remain grim for Nintendo's Wii U video game console, and this has led to renewed speculation over the Japanese company’s future as a hardware manufacturer. The bad news is in the numbers....