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iLounge's Jeremy Horwitz reports Apple's fifth-generation iPad will launch in October with a brand new design. Horwitz says he's seen a model of the new iPad, but isn't sure if it's the final version.
Still, the design is very similar to the iPad Mini, so it'll be thinner and lighter with rounded edges and aluminum backing.
Horwitz also claims Apple's next iPhone will look very similar to the current iPhone 5 but have a larger camera flash on the back. Apple will also release a cheaper iPhone made of plastic.
Every year IBM predicts five technology innovations that it believes will change the way we live in the next five years. Past "5 In 5" predictions include voice-controlled interfaces like Siri, mobile wallets, smarter buildings, and many others that are on their way to becoming real.
This year IBM scientists explore how computers will begin to emulate and augment human senses, each in their own way. See all IBM 5 in 5 predictions here.
In today’s market, making money online as a designer isn’t as hard as everyone makes it sound. You just need to be grounded in your skill set, believe in yourself and market like a maniac. The internet is out there to help you, you just need to find your niche in the design industry and run with it. Whether you want to sell digital downloads, freelance for companies, build WordPress themes or setup training courses for others to learn from, you should put your head down and go for it. The sky is the limit when it comes to ideas and design.
So what is the purpose of this article? It has been written to encourage you to do some research if you feel you aren’t happy in your current position as a designer. So how do you make money online? Well let me show you 5 different opportunities that you can take hold of and skyrocket your income.
How was 2012 for you? Did you have a fruitful year, or a pretty bad one? Did you achieve any or all of your resolutions for 2012? Or do you think that it could be better but it just didn’t work out as you’ve expected?
At the end of 2011, the mobile industry believed that HTML5 was on the cusp of ubiquity. Everybody would be using it to build apps and mobile websites and we would finally see real operating systems based on HTML5 start creeping towards acceptance. HTML5 was to become the dominant development stack, taking the mantle from all those native apps that had come to dominate the iOS App Store and Android’s Google Play.
What actually happened is that HTML5 more likely took a step back in developer acceptance in 2012.
Most businesses start pretty small; sometimes with only you or yourself and a partner to handle all the responsibilities. But at some point, as customers increase and business grows, you’ll need to hire an employee or a contractor to outsource work to. Hiring your first employee can be relatively simple; most managers or business owners utilize the traditional resume and interview method.
This can usually work out fine, but you might want to consider things a bit more carefully before saying yes to any applicants. Read these tips on hiring your first employee and you’ll improve your chances of ensuring that the employee or contractor is one that will perform to your expectations, as well as stay with you long-term instead of seeking employment elsewhere.
Spotify has 5 million subscribers and 20 million users, CEO Daniel Ek announced at a press event in New York.
In July, the company said it had 4 million paying subscribers and 15 million active users worldwide. That was up from 3 million paid subscribers last January and 1.5 million in the summer of 2011, right before the company arrived in the U.S.
Ek said 1 million of the company’s paid subscribers are now in the U.S. “We’ve been growing like crazy,” he deadpanned.
I have spent the better part of my adult life living Christmas like a 10 year old. A few years ago, however, one event almost destroyed my childish enthusiasm and excitement for Christmas.
I became an entrepreneur.
That's not to say that I necessarily became Ebenezer Scrooge. No, indeed I did not. But the stress of my first holiday season as an entrepreneur was almost enough to ruin my festive view of the holidays forever.
At the Mashable Media Summit in New York on Friday, founders of two social analytics start-ups--Parse.ly’s Sachin Kamdar and SocialFlow’s Frank Speiser--spoke on a number of emerging trends they’ve seen from the heaps of social data they monitor.
Below are five points that Kamdar and Speiser think businesses should know about social media...
Goodbye Thanksgiving, and hello holiday season. As we flip the calendar to December, let’s give thanks for a month that brought us new music by the folks behind Rebecca Black’s “Friday,” the five Harvard students who launched a burger into the great beyond and a convincing explanation for why MTV doesn’t play music videos anymore. These and more are our favorite viral clips of the month.
While you probably don’t need a calendar to tell you that Christmas comes after Thanksgiving, 12-year-old singer Nicole Westbrook thought we, as a society, could use a bit of help. She released “It’s Thanksgiving” earlier this month, her first foray into the world of music. If this bubblegummy ode to turkey and stuffing sounds familiar, it’s because it sprang from the mind of Patrice Wilson, the same impresario who brought us Rebecca Black’s gloriously bad 2011 tune “Friday.” And Westbrook has clearly chosen the seat right behind Rebecca Black’s. While her song didn’t make quite as many waves – or annoy as many YouTube users – it still managed to give us some comedic relief from the holiday craziness.
Today competition for traffic is fierce. Every day new bloggers join the flow of information competing to be found. Even if you have the advantage of already enjoying lots of visitors and page views, it is a brave web site owner that assumes that the success of yesterday will be automatically replayed forward into tomorrow. Audiences are smarter, and demand new, exciting insightful information in return for their attention. Since the ultimate goal is to secure their loyalty and custom a single visit can never be enough. To get a real return on your online investment in traffic generation you need to see increased sales or at the very least, lower bounce rates and a higher percentage of repeat visitors.
Fortunately, social media unlike SEO offers the versatility you need to keep your engagement fresh and alluring. However, it is important not to fall into the trap of believing that having a presence on social media is all that is required. To effectively use social media to drive traffic to your website it is important to consider the following:
When you started your freelance career, you probably thought that the beginning was the most difficult. While a beginning is usually hard, what’s after isn’t necessarily any easier. There are many things that can turn everything upside down. I wish there were only 5 things that can derail your freelance career but unfortunately there are many more. However, in my humble opinion, these 5 need to be paid special attention to...
I’m sure that you, as a web designer, have been faced with the matter of choosing or combining the colors for your website, so that your audience will be attracted to it. This is quite a tricky thing to do, which could cause you some troubles, but if you will get as many information and if you will pay attention at the following lines, then I’m sure that this problem will be solved.
Donald Trump offered to pay $5 million to the charity of President Barack Obama's choice if Obama releases his college and passport records, the real estate mogul and television personality said on Wednesday.
"Frankly, it's a check that I very much want to write," Trump said in a YouTube video released via his Twitter and Facebook pages.
One of the most powerful tools you have at your disposal to maximize sales as a freelancer is your own personal career portfolio for your freelance business.
The location of your portfolio is important. It resides at the center of your freelance business marketing.
You should host it on your own website using any number of (free or premium) awesome portfolio themes. Start with a strong template, then customize the WordPress theme for your portfolio to make it unique to your branding and freelance business goals.
This is a fairly standard workflow to follow. But how you set up your portfolio, the language you use, and the weight you give to design elements, is where the most important portfolio marketing decisions you will make reside.
Last week, I was talking with the CEO of a start-up that was so successful that in the last year it had increased its revenues and employee count by more than 50%. And at the same time, it had just raised tens of millions in venture capital.
Did this start-up have the bull by the horns? Not exactly.
That’s because the CEO was concerned about whether his start-up could do a better job of managing its growth. In particular, he thought the start-up could improve its structure, systems, and shared values.
Graphic design is a skill that offers endless potential for creating amazing digital imagery. Talent and skill aside, every designer needs a proper set of resources to get started. Below is a list of essential tools you should acquire before embarking into the design world.
We’re in the final quarter of 2012, so it’s time to start thinking of 2013, and how you can position your writing career and business for real success.
This is the first article in a series on getting ready for 2013. Remember when we did a 100 day challenge a couple of years ago? Create your own challenge — make positioning yourself for 2013 your challenge for the rest of this year.
So you’re a brand-new freelancer with no work for your portfolio. How can you get started building your business?
We all know it’s tough to get a job without experience, and tough to get experience without a job. But you can break this cycle and start getting some samples. You really only need three or four to get started marketing your freelance services to paying prospects.
The trick is, your want these samples to look great, so you’ll choose your targets carefully. If you’re a writer, for instance, clips from Associated Content or other content mills are unlikely to impress anyone.
