-
Flashback: How Yahoo Killed Flickr And Lost The Internet
In the wake of Yahoo’s $US1.1 billion acquisition of beloved social platform Tumblr, it’s perhaps worth looking back what the company did after it caught — and gutted — another big fish. Yes, Yahoo’s a different company now, especially with Marissa Mayer at the helm. And Tumblr, along with its price tag, are an order…
-
Hands On: Microsoft Surface For Windows RT
Microsoft’s event today was long on promise and short on specs. RAM? We dunno. Processor speed? We dunno. Price? We dunno. Release date? We dunno. But even a very brief hands-on made something abundantly clear: it’s a super solid device and if Microsoft can deliver what it demoed, the iPad finally has a real competitor…
-
Twitter’s New Logo Is Batman
Twitter has a new logo! And it also has a whole bunch of rules about how you can and can not use that new logo.
-
Windows 8 Release Preview Hands-On: Wonderful But Kind Of Boring
The Windows 8 Release Preview is among us and, boy, is it lovely. It’s so much dreamier than the Consumer Preview and makes the Developer Preview look like something cobbled together out of two-by-fours, electrical tape and rebar. It’s also quite boring.