“Who Is the New King of the Web?”, the big question which will be answered by the battle of the browsers – if that’s for real or maybe if web browsers are warriors who are fighting for their territory. Well, since that is not the case, people like you who are excited about this browser war might want to take a look the other factor such as speed, usability or user experience, performance, features, privacy, security and more.
In this era where we think of “The Big Five” technology companies that dominate our computing experience, we tend to classify each company into its own distinct bucket. Facebook is the social giant, Apple is the runaway device maker, Google controls search and advertising, Amazon is the beast of e-commerce and content and Microsoft provides us productivity and business solutions. In reality, the lines between the five companies are not so clear cut.
Think of it like the Olympic rings logo as a Venn diagram. The top five companies share features with each other and compete in the same markets. For instance, Google versus Microsoft’s Bing. Or Apple’s iOS against Google’s Android against Microsoft’s Windows Phone. Facebook versus Google+. Apple’s Mac OS X versus Windows.
Apple is known for its great design, but inside the company, there is a growing divide over the direction of its software design, Austin Carr at Fast Company reports.
Carr says the evolution of Apple's software design, which continues to emphasize skeuomorphic design, is causing embarrassment within the company.
Skeuomorphic design is a fancy way of describing when Apple replicates physical products with its software designs. For instance, when you use Apple's "notes" app, it looks like a fake legal pad. When you look at the Newsstand app, it has fake wooden shelves.
If you are a college student, there’s a high chance that you bring at least one of these three devices to class with you: a laptop, a smartphone or a tablet. It doesn’t matter which type of mobile device you are accessing online materials with; it’s what you are using it for that is contributing to the chokehold of available bandwidth, particularly on campus where understandably students make up the largest population. But it’s not really their fault; we are all suckers for bandwidth-hungry materials such as videos, music, high-resolution images, movie files and live streams.
The latest Epic Rap Battle of History pits the two biggest names in tech against one another.
World War II was a hell of a time. Ask your grandpa: He'll tell you all about the solemn, grim-faced, gritty reality of the whole thing until you become grizzled by proxy. Now, we're not going to sit here and say your grandpa is full of crap (the guy could probably still gut us with a can opener). We're just saying that maybe some of the ways we picture WWII looking -- all razor-jawed men charging through the mud in black and white -- isn't entirely accurate. Because we know for a fact that at least some of the soldiers were carrying floppy dong-shaped rifles into battle, and those air aces had the most fabulous planes ...
The juxtaposition between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama couldn’t have been starker.
Romney delivered a solid, if perfunctory, victory speech. Later in the night, President Obama appeared on Jimmy Fallon.
One one hand, this was not remarkable. Even Richard Nixon appeared on “Laugh In.” And Romney was on the ballot in five states — of course he was going to deliver a political speech.
But nothing happens in politics by accident. Obama didn’t have to go on Fallon Tuesday night. And so, perhaps the dichotomy can serve as a signal — a sort of microcosm — of the coming general election.
The latest stage of Apple’s battle to use the “iPad” trademark in China saw heated exchanges in a Shanghai court, as the technology giant fought to avoid disruption to global supplies of its best-selling tablet.
Immigration officer: What do you do for a living?
Me: I work at a startup, and I’m here to meet people from my industry.
Immigration officer: Ok. How long have you been at your current job?
Me: We started around five years ago.
Immigration officer: Five years! And you still call yourself a startup?!
Iran is getting closer to building a nuclear bomb, according to a new report from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) released Tuesday. But how tough is it to make one? And could other nations be planning the same thing?
A new report on nuclear proliferation is—surprise!—kind of terrifying, revealing some disconcerting facts about nuclear warheads, who has them, and what we don't know. The bottom line: holy hell, we've built a lot of these things.
Battlefield 3 is here and in a major way. The latest shooter in the long-running franchise hit the interweb and retailers last week and EA just announced that they moved 5 million units within the first week. For anyone that cares, that makes Battlefield 3 the fastest selling title in EA’s 29 year history. And for good reason. EA and DICE conducted a flawless marketing campaign for Battlefield 3.
There’s the top 1% of wealthy Americans (bankers, oil tycoons, hedge fund managers) and there’s the top 0.01% of wealthy Americans: the military contractor CEOs.
Winning over 60 industry awards, Battlefield 3 is out next week. Our launch trailer gives you a preview of the intense single player campaign. A sinister power is rising in the Middle-East, and Marine Sergeant "Black" discovers how far he would go to defend his country.
You like it, you really like it. Or at least you liked it enough to try it. That statement is true of 8.1 million gamers that downloaded and tried out the recent beta for Battlefield 3. To put that in perspective, that is the entire population of New York City (not counting the metro), it is the number of Kinects sold in the first 60 days, and if every person that played the beta chipped in a dollar they could all buy 6 Bugati Veyrons. Consider your mind blown.
You’ll be forgiven if you’re still wondering what the Occupy Wall Street movement is occupying things for, since they’re none too sure. The movement – which has generalized into a kind of global Occupy Whatever’s Handy protest – takes a certain pleasure in being amorphous, an umbrella group with a “Down With This Sort of Thing” mandate. Are they after income equality? An end to corporate citizenhood? Free tuition? The rich, served on a platter with a nice wine pairing? All of the above?
Another major DeviantArt contest recently ended. This Gears of War 3 art contest is giving out over $35,000 dollars in prize money to 100 winners. Start this week with a burst of new inspiration from recent artworks and websites. Feel free to suggest any recent artwork that has inspired you for the week by contacting us through Email, or through Twitter (@webdesigncrowd). Find all the Monday Inspiration here.
Samsung and Apple are trading legal potshots in courtrooms all over the globe. What's at the heart of the fight? Why do the companies have it in for each other?
As Samsung gets ready to launch legal action against the iPhone 5 — which, at this point, hasn’t even been announced — and the companies furiously trade jabs at each other in courtrooms around the world, we thought it would be useful to step back and look at the big picture. Why are Apple and Samsung fighting, anyway? What’s at stake? Haven’t the companies famously worked together to build some of Apple’s iconic products? Catch up on the scuffle with our in-depth FAQ.
Domestic violence can be defined as a pattern of behavior in any relationship that is used to gain or maintain power and control over an intimate partner. Take note that this kind of abuse can happen to anyone (even you), regardless of size, gender, or strength, yet the problem is often overlooked, excused, or denied. Like our previous post "30 Exceptional Anti-Smoking Advertising Campaigns", this is intended to open the eyes of everybody to prevent in harming your love ones, friends, and other acquaintances.
Beginning in June of 1940, the North African Campaign took place over the course of three years, as Axis and Allied forces pushed each other back and forth across the desert in a series of attacks and counterattacks. Libya had been an Italian colony for several decades and British forces had been in neighboring Egypt since 1882. When Italy declared war on the Allied Nations in 1940, the two armies began skirmishing almost immediately. An Italian invasion of Egypt in September of 1940 was followed by a December counterattack where British and Indian forces captured some 130,000 Italians.
