The Pangu hacking team, best known as the team that delivered the first public jailbreak for iOS 9 devices, has done it again: this time, the hackers have released a jailbreak for the 4th generation Apple TV running tvOS 9.0.x. (specifically, 9.0 and 9.0.1). This jailbreak was pr … | Continue reading
Back in October, we reported that Checkr — a San Francisco startup that runs employee background checks and vets potential hires by way of an API — was raising north of $30 million as it expanded its business beyond the 300,000 checks per month it already does for some 3,000 tech … | Continue reading
Chrome's app launcher — the little app that lets you launch all the Chrome apps you have installed — is going the way of the dodo. On Tuesday, Google announced it would retire the app launcher in the summer. First, in a few weeks, the launcher will no longer be enabled when users … | Continue reading
GoCardless has become somewhat of a poster child for the London fintech scene. Offering an alternative to card payments, the startup provide’s a simple way for businesses to set up and accept bank-to-bank payments online (also known as Direct Debit), and is now processing £1 bill … | Continue reading
The new Lincoln Navigator Concept is a massive beast of an SUV. That's not surprising, given that the current Lincoln Navigator is also a massive beast of an SUV.But this concept, which is meant to give us a good idea of what the next-generation Navigator will look like, is also … | Continue reading
The shift of ecommerce sales from the desktop to mobile devices has been under way in China for a couple of years. And according to data from the end of 2015, the tilt toward mobile is clear. | Continue reading
Sometimes a mouse or touchpad just isn't fast enough when you're approaching deadline. Sometimes you want to be able to quickly switch between fullscreen windows, or easily put two windows side-by-side. There's a way to do pretty much anything you want to do on a Mac, and a way t … | Continue reading
We're streaming live on Mobcrush right now. There's a couple different ways you can watch the stream, and they all work equally well and it's really just a matter of personal preference as to which method you prefer. The easiest way to watch is just watching the embedded player r … | Continue reading
Google is working on another way to filter iOS users through its search engine: a keyboard. According to The Verge, Google is currently working on a keyboard for iOS that will have a dedicated search button. It is also said to have a GIF button, and allow for swipe text input. It … | Continue reading
VB WEBINAR: No matter the touchpoint, the channel, or the device they use, a customer is still just one person. Learn how to treat them that way and adopt an effective omnichannel strategy that unifies the customer experience. Register here for free. We’re living in an omnichann … | Continue reading
Netmarble Games grew up in the shadow of South Korea’s Nexon, but it moved to free-to-play mobile games in a timely way. Last year, it launched the huge mobile role-playing game Marvel: Future Fight, invested $130 million into casual game publisher SGN, and generated nearly $1 bi … | Continue reading
Researchers have discovered a way to remove the liquid electrolyte component of lithium ion batteries to create a far more stable power source. | Continue reading
Nintendo’s first mobile game is the most downloaded smartphone application for iOS and Android in Japan, but that isn’t exactly bringing in the big bucks. Miitomo is the 176th highest-grossing iPhone application in Japan today, according to intelligence firm Sensor Tower and mark … | Continue reading
Disclosures - When, Where, and How to Use Them Disclosures within advertising are to inform the readers that the content they're about to read is an advertisement. Previously, Nudge created a whitepaper regarding disclosures and custom native ads, where the results were surprisi … | Continue reading
Shadow Bug is a stylish upcoming platformer that was originally introduced on our forums way back in July of last year. Developer Muro Studios used our forum members to run a beta in August, and then did another round of beta testing in early January just to be sure to smooth out … | Continue reading
If you’re looking for a new way to boost your brand online, consider the content-sharing site Medium. Here's how to tackle this platform. | Continue reading
This week, Twitter turns 10. Over the next five days we’ll be exploring how far the microblogging service has come, the challenges it faces going forward and some of its key moments along the way. If you’re like most people, your life — or at least the lives of those around you — … | Continue reading
ANALYSIS: A lot has happened in the ten years since Twitter was founded — Apple’s App Store and Google Play have come to fruition, the app economy is a billion-dollar industry, and mobile phones have become the new computers. This shift in the way people communicate and interact … | Continue reading
Video: Mark Boyer, Rill Causey, Noah ThroopIn China, Xiaomi is a titan, second only to China's other giant Huawei. People go crazy for new Xiaomi phones the way fans go crazy for new iPhones.The company's latest flagship, the Mi 5, racked up 16.5 million pre-orders in the few wee … | Continue reading
Many dentists are successful in using referral-generating newsletters to build goodwill with other dentists and physicians. But even as powerful as newsletters are, they can’t build your practice all by themselves. You must always be mindful and intentional about generating patie … | Continue reading
Twitter. I hate it! I really do. I know it gives us a way of being informed of everything going on in our circles, industries and places at a brisk, 140-character space but I just can’t find the thing entertaining at all! Everything moves far too quickly for any real level of abs … | Continue reading
Key Highlights Ethereum price after correcting for the past couple of days finally moved higher and showing a lot of bullish signs, plus my play of buying with a break worked. There was a bearish trend line formed on the hourly chart (data feed via Kraken), which was broken to cl … | Continue reading
Take-Two Interactive’s 2K label has unveiled the launch of WWE SuperTokens in GameStop stores. The tokens are the latest way to blend physical objects and digital games in a way that could generate more sales for game companies. The SuperTokens are coin-like objects that can conn … | Continue reading
Adobe has a smart new way of letting advertisers market to consumes, and it just might work out for everyone involved. With what they call the Device Co-op, Adobe is making the ads you see about you, not how many devices you own. When brands join the co-op, it allows those compan … | Continue reading
Just one day before the government was set to meet Apple in court to determine whether Apple could be forced to unlock an encrypted iPhone used by terrorist Syed Rizwan Farook.. the government is saying “Nevermind (for now)!”Why?Because they might’ve found their own way in. Read … | Continue reading
The U.S. Department of Justice on Monday moved to postpone Tuesday's showdown with Apple in a federal district court, saying the FBI might have discovered a new way to hack into an iPhone even as officials were trying to force Apple to do it for them.Investigators want to break i … | Continue reading
U.S. attorneys today asked to vacate the court hearing scheduled for tomorrow, March 22, over the Apple-FBI iPhone encryption case. The reason: FBI might have just figured out a way to get into the phone on its own. “On Sunday, March 20, 2016, an outside party demonstrated to the … | Continue reading
If facts don’t matter, you can’t really be wrong. The Washington Post interviews Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams on why he started predicting last year that Trump would be elected president — back when the rest of us were saying, no way. (I still say, no way.) Here are Adam’s reas … | Continue reading
Optionsclick is a popular binary options platform that offers an attractive and highly professional binary options trading platform. OptionsClick popularity comes from way back. The company opened its doors in 2011, and up until now has been growing steady. The company even coll … | Continue reading
Election years have always proven to be fertile ground for The Daily Show, as Jon Stewart and his Peabody Award-winning band of satirists poked fun at the absurd characters, stump speeches and gaffes that populated America’s unique brand of democracy. But in 2016, Jon Stewart isn … | Continue reading
It’s been a busy month here at Moondog since our last show – just the way we like it. We’ve put out three sites for clients, several brochures and direct mail pieces, not to mention other small projects for our clients on retainer! In this week’s show I look at: Payment gateways … | Continue reading
Twenty six years ago at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival I watched Stevie Ray Vaughn rip it up in front of thousands of people. The only way people knew that I did was because I told them… | Continue reading
Jumio, an identity-verification startup we first covered way back in 2011, has agreed to sell the majority of its assets to a new company set up by backer and Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin as part of a bankruptcy procedure. Jumio launched initially in October 2011 as a way … | Continue reading
VB EVENT: Just a short couple of years ago, there were only a handful of early companies helping app developers, marketers, and publishers make data-driven decisions to grow their mobile products. We’ve come a long way since then. Emergence Capital released the “Mobile Enabler La … | Continue reading
Speaking to a crowd of investors at Deutsche Bank's Media, Internet, and Telecom conference on March 7th, T-Mobile CFO Braxton Carter suggested that unlimited data could be on its way out the door at the Uncarrier. "We've had and continue to have a strategy of pivoting away from … | Continue reading
Encryption is a cat-and-mouse game, and Johns Hopkins University researchers have found a great way to prove it. In a new research that they shared with the Washington Post, the research team has found a serious security hole that lets you see photos, videos and files sent using … | Continue reading
This week, Twitter turns 10. Over the next five days we’ll be exploring how far the microblogging service has come, the challenges it faces going forward and some of its key moments along the way. March 21 marks ten years since Twitter came to life. Since its 2006 arrival, the pl … | Continue reading
When the tyranny of distance and busy schedules mean the only way to stay in touch is to build your own telepresence robot. | Continue reading
Yoast SEO is an amazing plugin for WordPress blogs to bolster their Search Engine Optimization. One cool feature that I really like, yet find really stressful, is its breadcrumbs feature. If you don’t know what they are, it’s this part of this website: Basically, these are “bread … | Continue reading
Event organizers have a legal and moral obligation to ensure their experience can be equally enjoyed by all. This includes attendees who have special accessibility requirements. This 20 point guide will help you audit your event to ensure it allows all event attendees to equally … | Continue reading
Do you ever feel inexplicably guilty for neglecting inanimate objects? I came across my old camera recently and “felt bad” that I hadn’t used it in so long. I feel the same way every time I walk past my piano, which I rarely practise any more. It’s ridiculous. Anyway, I decided t … | Continue reading
Facebook carousel ads are extremely engaging and fun way to promote your business. According to data collected by Kinetic Social, these ads can also drive up to 10 times more traffic to advertisers’ websites than static sponsored posts on Facebook. And LOVOO found that they got a … | Continue reading
This week, Twitter turns 10. Over the next five days we’ll be exploring how far the microblogging service has come, the challenges it faces going forward and some of its key moments along the way. Twitter isn’t a social network. The company’s former VP for business and corporate … | Continue reading
The Natural Environment Research Council's newest research vessel is the result of £200 million (about $288 million) of government funding, thousands of tonnes of steel, and years of planning. It will also, if the internet gets its way, be called "Boaty McBoatface." Continue … | Continue reading
The Twitter bird is instantly recognizable as a tech entity and social platform. It wasn’t always the way you find it now, and actually went through some awkward phases. In celebrating a decade of existence, Twitter shared a brief look at the iterations it undertook over the year … | Continue reading
Great Glasses! A prototype of Google's unreleased Glass Enterprise Edition has found its way to a pawn shop, and is now being auctioned on eBay. Let's look! | Continue reading
Spring has arrived, and the best way to ring it in is with some good old-fashioned spring cleaning. But this is the 21st century, so there’s gotta be some form of electronic help for you.To help with all of your spring cleaning needs, we’ve compiled some of the best apps to help … | Continue reading
We're streaming live on Mobcrush right now. There's a couple different ways you can watch the stream, and they all work equally well and it's really just a matter of personal preference as to which method you prefer. The easiest way to watch is just watching the embedded player r … | Continue reading