There’s all sorts of news floating around today aboutSprint agreeing to purchasea massive cache of iPhones over the next few years. It’s great news for Sprint, which has been having trouble keeping up in the iPhone-heavy world of AT&T and Verizon, and it could be great news for Apple, too. You see, if 2 and 2 really are adding up to make 4, Apple just bought itself a carrier, but not necessarily in the fashion you might think....
While most Pacific islands haveescaped the worst of COVID-19, a cornerstone of their economies, tourism, has taken a big hit. By June 2020, visitor arrivals in Fiji, Samoa, Tonga and Vanuatu had completely ceased, as borders were closed and even internal travelrestricted. In Fiji, where tourism generated about 40% of GDP before the pandemic, theeconomy contracted by 19%in 2020. One economic alternative lies just offshore. The Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) is a deep-sea trench spanning 4....
Suddenly, the likes of Shazam and SoundHound are set to have alotof competition. The Echo Nestis a ridiculously smart ‘music intelligence’ company, offering products that help developers and media companies build rich music data into their apps and products. Now it’s partnering with 7digital and MusicBrainz to launch what amounts to an open source version of Shazam. Echoprintharnesses data on 13 million songs and will allow developers build music identification features into their apps....
BranchOuthas been talked about for the last 6 months as a potential competitor toLinkedinbut just recently I started seeing the connection requests rolling in and all the usual suspects jumping on board very much in the same wayQuorahas been explodingin the last week. BranchOut is essentially a professional network very similar to Linkedin that is built as an app that sits on top ofFacebookand its 600 million users. From what I can see it is incredibly viral in nature and it aims to tap in to your friends’ network to provide job opportunities and candidates for people looking to hire via Facebook....
Over the last couple of years, Android has been fixing a lot of the problems that keep it from being as polished as its slicker and more profitable counterpart, iOS. With the huge array of Android devices on the market from dozens of manufacturers, it’s incredibly difficult for applications to run identically on wildly different hardware. This means that even current Android hardware isn’t always guaranteed to run the most current version of the OS....
