Kristina Farrah
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In today’s highly-industrialized society, we often find ourselves caught in the fast-paced, hectic city life. Busy work hours, heavy traffic, deadlines, bosses etc. People say that regardless of where you live, work is work and it’s all the same. Actually, that’s not …
Bizzy + Foursquare: Building on a Social Mobile Ecosystem
As a mobile app, Bizzy allows users to recommend great places to their friends. Now, they are looking into leveraging with Foursquare’s check-in feature by offering Check-out. This offering will enable users to immediately comment on the places they’ve recently visited with …
IBM Wagers a Billion on Small Businesses
Capital has always been tricky for SMBs (small to medium-sized businesses). It restrains development and expansion, and banks are often stingy in offering financial help. Thankfully, not everybody is blind about this setback as Big Blue announced a stake of $1 billion …
Video Games Transforming Education: Infographic
Gone are the days when parents and teachers tell kids that video games are detrimental to a person’s well-being. Video games are transforming the way children learn, equipping them with flexible and adaptive skills that are not as easily achievable with traditional …
RIM Investor Wants to Sell Patents, Restructure
Canadian merchant bank Jaguar Financial Corp., an RIM investor, calls the attention of the company’s board to chew over other strategic alternatives, including selling the company or at least, some of its patent holding, following a dramatic decline stock-market performance, lost market …
DHS Tips Off Alleged Future Anonymous Attacks
The US Department of homeland Security National CyberSecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC) recently issued a bulletin alerting security community, especially financial services, of the hacker collective’s illicit activities over the coming months. Anonymous has already taken the initial steps and attempted …
WP7 User Sues Microsoft for Collecting Geolocation Data without Permission
A Seattle lawsuit filed last Friday accused Microsoft and Windows Phone 7 mobile OS of underhandedly tracking its users’ location. The act was said to have been carried out through the camera app present on all WP7 devices, transmitting data to Microsoft …
Hulu Goes to Japan, YouTube Launches Video Rentals in Canada
The newest in the streaming video arena, we’ve got about a dozen companies on the lineup to purchase Hulu with bids ranging from $500 million to $2 billion. Among the interested companies, we have giants Google, Yahoo and Amazon. Speculations push Google …
Sony and HTC Debut in the Android Tablet Market
Following the exit of HP from the tablet arena, we’ve got two companies ready to play the game. First off, we have Sony announcing the pre-sale of Sony Tablet S before it hits the rack in September. The new device boasts a …
US Gov Roadblocks AT&T, T-Mobile Deal
AT&T is in trouble. The major hitch this time is neither a rival company nor a bunch of picketing employees—it’s the U.S. DOJ itself. According to Bloomberg, the US Department of Justice has filed an anti-trust suit to jam the deal claiming …