Google has added yet another talented group to its team ever growing list of acquisitions. Startup Behavio announced it is joining the Mountain View crew and shutting down its closed alpha. The company built its short-lived product on top of Funf, a …
A minor update to predictive keyboard replacement SwiftKey is now available. Bringing the input method to version 4.0.1, the latest software comes with numerous bug fixes as well as improved prediction quality. Minor issues such as misplaced characters…
Intrade, the “prediction market” that let users wager on the outcomes of everything from presidential elections to air strikes, is shutting down all trading. The news was first reported on Wealth.net, and contradicts earlier statement…
After months of open beta, what was once known as SwiftKey Flow has launched via Google Play as SwiftyKey 4. Don’t worry, Flow wasn’t scrapped prior to release. The swipe-to-type functionality is the major component of this latest release, but it’s not the only update SwiftKey users can expect. Flow is SwiftKey’s answer to software [...]
Statistician Nate Silver knows numbers, and in a piece in the New York Times he’s decided to put that skill to excellent use — predicting the Super Bowl. Historically it’s great defensive teams that have a better record …
Nokia (NOK) appears to have finally turned a corner with the Lumia 920, a smartphone that is seemingly selling quite well after a string of early flops from the struggling smartphone maker. According to Keepskor founder and Forbes contributor Tristan Louis, however, Nokia’s recent efforts will ultimately be for naught. 2013 will see a great deal of movement in the mobile industry according to the executive, and Nokia’s departure from the handset market will be among the year’s most notable events. “The biggest shocker (and what I suspect will be my most controversial prediction), though, will be the the [sic] departure of Nokia from the phone business as the company sells its mobile operation and infrastructure divisions to Huawei in order to
Apple’s (AAPL) doomsday forecast is about as likely as the December 21st Mayan apocalypse prediction, but yet another analyst has lowered his expectations for the company. Christopher Caso of Susquehanna Financial Group claims that Apple has cut its iPhone orders “across a wide range of suppliers” for the March quarter to between 35 million and 40 million. The company was previously expected to see orders of between 40 million and 45 million, according to Barron’s. In light of this new supply chain information, the analyst expects Apple to miss Wall Street’s expectations in either the December quarter or the March quarter, or perhaps in both. “We conclude that iPhone shipments are likely to miss consensus expectations for [the December quarter or the
Apple’s (AAPL) next-generation iPhone 5S will reportedly launch this coming June with a number of enhancements including a new “super HD” display and camera, integrated NFC, a better battery and between six and eight different color options instead of just black and white. The report comes from Jefferies & Company analyst Peter Misek, who says Apple will break free from the annual release schedule it has used it launched the first iPhone in 2007. To qualify the analyst’s prediction, Business Insider notes that Misek also said that Apple’s HDTV was in full production and would launch by the end of 2012.
After weeks of teasing, I think it’d be safe to say that Android junkies everywhere are clamoring for the next release of SwiftKey, an app renown around the world for its almost scary, mind-reading prediction engine. For their latest release — now available for SwiftKey’s VIP members (don’t worry, it’s free to sign up) — [...]
Nokia gave us a hint of Nokia Drive 3.0′s commuter-friendly additions all the way back at Mobile World Congress in February. It’s been quite the wait, but the update is at last lurking in the Windows Phone Marketplace. Although developed at the sam…
