Vincent A. posted an article on Tech Marketing and Gadgets - Feb 9, 2012, 10:19 pm
Those who are familiar with Google products – Gmail, Docs, Calendar – will be excited to hear that Google may be finally releasing their online storage device. The storage service will be appropriately named Google Drive – or GDrive for short. The company is rumored to have had this device in ...
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Vincent A. posted an article on Tech Marketing and Gadgets - Feb 9, 2012, 1:43 pm
Since yesterday I have the new Twitter version in my accounts. I don’t know if I’m late or early but this new design is very different from the previous one. The content (tweets) is pushed completely on the right and the menus are on the left. The new design is nice but I must admit that conten...
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Vincent A. posted an article on Tech Marketing and Gadgets - Feb 9, 2012, 10:30 am
Who doesn’t agree with this ? Except the 0.01% who read 100% of the terms of use… This is one of the biggest issues when creating a new account on Internet. Why not a few lines instead of several pages of text!? Just for example, Google terms of service has 4570 words and Privacy Policy has 17...
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Vincent A. posted an article on Tech Marketing and Gadgets - Feb 9, 2012, 9:31 am
French personalized dashboard Netvibes has just been bought by Dassault Systems, a french company specialized in 3D Software and Product Lifecycle Management. The amount of the transaction is estimated at 20 million euros or 26 million US dollars. Netvibes was founded in France in 2005 by Tariq Kr...
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Vincent A. posted an article on Tech Marketing and Gadgets - Feb 9, 2012, 8:46 am
What are the most downloaded movies of all time ? TorrentFreak made a Top 10 List and Meoble put it in an infographic. 1. Avatar (2009) with 21 million downloads 2. Batman The Dark Knight (2008) : 19 million 3. Transformers (2007) : 19 million 4. Inception (2010) : 18 million 5. The Hangover (2...
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Vincent A. posted an article on Tech Marketing and Gadgets - Feb 9, 2012, 8:28 am
This is the world record in speed for playing Super Mario Bros : 4 minutes and 58 seconds. Can you do better ? Related ArticlesSuper Mario in Real LifeAngry Birds tops half a billion downloadsZoosk Dating about Super BowlUltimate Super Bowl InfographicThe Avengers : first official trailer (Marvel ...
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Vincent A. posted an article on Tech Marketing and Gadgets - Feb 8, 2012, 10:37 pm
Did you know that Pinterest is already making money ? no? This is normal as this is almost invisible. No ads, no membership fees, nothing. But how then ? “If you post a pin to Pinterest, and it links to an ecommerce site that happens to have an affiliate program, Pinterest modifies the link to a...
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Vincent A. posted an article on Tech Marketing and Gadgets - Feb 8, 2012, 9:30 pm
Apple, one of the largest manufacturers of technological products, is facing new troubles. We’ve all heard of the troubles that Samsung faced in Germany against Apple. They claimed that Apple infringed upon their patent for their 3G wireless design. Apple successfully won the case – twice, when ...
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Vincent A. posted an article on Tech Marketing and Gadgets - Feb 8, 2012, 11:58 am
Facebook new profile presentation known as Timeline is a big Fail according to a survey made by Sodahead (1327 votes). 70% of users don’t like the design, and 20% like it. These are pretty bad news because Facebook filed for IPO recently. What will happen if users are starting to deactivate or d...
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Vincent A. posted an article on Tech Marketing and Gadgets - Feb 8, 2012, 11:33 am
Here is the new version of Big Dog by Boston Dynamics : Alpha Dog Ls3 for Legged Squad Support System. This 4-legs robot is able to carry 400 lbs on a distance of 20 miles in 24 hours and without the need to be refueled. “Features to be tested and validated include the ability to carry 400lbs on...
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Vincent A. posted an article on Tech Marketing and Gadgets - Feb 3, 2012, 4:55 pm
Yesterday in a blog post about Facebook’s IPO, we briefly mentioned the story of a graffiti artist who was chosen to do some murals on the initial headquarters that Facebook used. Today, we want to go a little more into depth about it because it truly is an amazing story of an artist – even one ...
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Vincent A. posted an article on Tech Marketing and Gadgets - Feb 2, 2012, 8:31 pm
Facebook – as predicted – filed for its IPO yesterday. In doing so, the public has gained a lot of information not only on how much money Facebook makes per year, but how they generate the revenue. According to the reports filed by Zuckerberg and company, Facebook generated $3.71 billion in reve...
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Vincent A. posted an article on Tech Marketing and Gadgets - Feb 2, 2012, 8:23 pm
Mankind has 3 sex : Man, Woman and Geek. Related ArticlesGeek or Nerd : what is the difference ?Geek Wedding : Martin PihlGeek Zodiac 2.0HRP-4C Humanoid Robot walking like a womanSexy GeeketteVietnamese Woman ages 50 years in a few daysKamasutra for GeeksBlack Widow Cosplay Follow me on my Google +...
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Vincent A. posted an article on Tech Marketing and Gadgets - Feb 2, 2012, 8:01 pm
Google just updated its html code for Google + Badges (for Pages). If you have a G+ Page for a company, community, blog, website, etc… I can advise you to update this code right now because the size attribute is now deprecated. New attributes : -width=”" (is 300 by default) -height=”" (is ...
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Vincent A. posted an article on Tech Marketing and Gadgets - Feb 2, 2012, 10:35 am
According to Japanese weblog Macotakara, the new iPad 3 will launched in March. The original report had claimed that Apple would hold an iPad 3 media event in February with product launch in March. We had expressed some doubts about the long lead time between event and launch. Macotakara has had a ...
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Vincent A. posted an article on Tech Marketing and Gadgets - Feb 2, 2012, 9:49 am
It’s confirmed : Samsung Galaxy Note “Phablet” (*) is coming to canadian carriers for Valentine’s Day at 249,99 $ for a 3-year contract. It will be available at Rogers (with LTE), Bell, Telus and in Best Buy stores. You can already reserve it on Rogers by using the Rogers Reservation System...
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Vincent A. posted an article on Tech Marketing and Gadgets - Feb 1, 2012, 10:46 pm
In only 1 year, the mobile advertising industry grew like crazy : -Ad clicks were up +711% -Ad requests were up +698% -Ad revenues +522% Top platforms/Operating Systems by Ad requests are iOS (+981%) and Android (+759%). Top Regions by Ad requests are North America +983%, Europe +712% and South...
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Vincent A. posted an article on Tech Marketing and Gadgets - Feb 1, 2012, 9:57 pm
Grasp Laboratory at University of Pennsylvania develop a synchronized army of 20 Quadrocopters thanks to Professor Daniel Lee and KMel Robotics. “The ‘copters can also take flight, or resume position, after being thrown into the air, navigating real world obstacles with deft fluidity. It’s pa...
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Vincent A. posted an article on Tech Marketing and Gadgets - Feb 1, 2012, 1:38 pm
Chances are if you use any type of Google service, you have seen the recent announcements that Google is updating its privacy policies. The privacy policies they say are important to users as they plan to incorporate your username into all of the services they offer. The plan, Google execs say, is t...
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Vincent A. posted an article on Tech Marketing and Gadgets - Feb 1, 2012, 1:06 pm
This woman is 100 years old and still loves to play video games (Nintendo DS Lite here) because it’s good for skills and brain she said. “A sprightly centenarian has revealed the secret to staying sharp in old age – playing VIDEO GAMES. Instead of knitting or playing bingo Kathleen Kit Connel...
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Vincent A. posted an article on Tech Marketing and Gadgets - Jan 31, 2012, 10:02 pm
The popular Canadian dating website Rencontre.ca is now available throughout Canada in English. It has over 215,000 registered users, so there are a wide range of singles to choose from. You can use Rencontre to look for Canadian dating partners by location or relationship type. It offers options fo...
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Vincent A. posted an article on Tech Marketing and Gadgets - Jan 31, 2012, 6:25 pm
Apple TV has been a much talked about development in the world of technology with Apple fans lining up to buy the televisions. It appears that Apple has the dominating line of products in terms of up and coming technology, despite the price tag that comes when you buy an Apple product. With the comp...
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Vincent A. posted an article on Tech Marketing and Gadgets - Jan 31, 2012, 2:23 pm
This is the ultimate infographic for Twitter Marketing and internet marketers. 200,000 tweets were analyzed to understand when and how to tweet to have the best ROI. What you need to know : -even if you are allowed to post up to 140 characters, use only 120 to 130 -put your links at 25% of the s...
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Vincent A. posted an article on Tech Marketing and Gadgets - Jan 31, 2012, 1:29 pm
French Startup Semiocast just published a new study about Twitter numbers. As of January 1st, 2012, the social network has now 383 million users around the world. United States have 108 million accounts (half of them are active), Brazil 33 million (2nd position) and Japan 30 million (3rd place). Ca...
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Vincent A. posted an article on Tech Marketing and Gadgets - Jan 31, 2012, 9:33 am
Fifteen Web Giants just launched DMARC.org (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance), a project that wants to reduce phishing emails. “The companies—along with others such as financial-service companies Bank of America Corp., FMR LLC’s Fidelity Investments and eBay Inc.�...
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Vincent A. posted an article on Tech Marketing and Gadgets - Jan 30, 2012, 11:30 pm
Human planes or flying RC men were seen in New York City Sky… This is a viral buzz for Chronicle movie. “[...] After watching this video of three RC planes shaped like humans flying over the city’s bridges we wondered what people thought as they watched people fly through the sky. Were they s...
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Vincent A. posted an article on Tech Marketing and Gadgets - Jan 30, 2012, 11:22 pm
New visual social network Pinterest is starting to change the face of social commerce, as reports Monetate, via mashable. “Pinterest, a two-year-old social bookmarking site that lets users collect and share things they like on the web, is driving increasingly significant amounts of traffic to ret...
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Vincent A. posted an article on Tech Marketing and Gadgets - Jan 30, 2012, 10:30 pm
Apple’s Q1 revenues were excellent : 46.33 billion dollars (13 billion net profit). The company has now nearly 100 billion in cash. But what could Apple buy with 46 billion $US ? -all NFL franchises -Ford -20% of Google outstanding shares -46 billion McChickens (before tax) -30 Burj Khalifa ...
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Vincent A. posted an article on Tech Marketing and Gadgets - Jan 30, 2012, 1:55 pm
Facebook is preparing to offer stock in an effort to raise $10 Billion with its Initial Public Offering (IPO). The company expects to value itself at $75-100 billion which would justify its expectations of raising $10 billion. The papers are currently being prepared and are expected to be filed by F...
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Vincent A. posted an article on Tech Marketing and Gadgets - Jan 30, 2012, 1:42 pm
Samsung just announced the launch of the new Galaxy S Advance, an android gingerbread 2.3 powered smartphone. “The GALAXY S Advance adds to the successful track record of the GALAXY smartphone range with a phone that combines power and style with all the versatility of Samsung’s Hub services”...
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Vincent A. posted an article on Tech Marketing and Gadgets - Jan 27, 2012, 10:18 pm
French leading Webhosting provider OVH will finally build its Canadian Datacenter in the city of Beauharnois in Quebec. North american Head Office will be located downtown Montreal. OVH will have 360,000 new servers (they already own 100,000 servers in Europe) installed in the former area of Rio Ti...
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Vincent A. posted an article on Tech Marketing and Gadgets - Jan 27, 2012, 11:54 am
Who are the greatest innovators of all time ? Here are the results of a survey conducted by Lemelson-MIT on 1010 young americans between the ages of 16 to 25. Thomas Edison comes first with 52% of the votes, Steve Jobs is second with 24% and Alexander Graham Bell is third with 10%. Then comes fre...
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Vincent A. posted an article on Tech Marketing and Gadgets - Jan 26, 2012, 11:31 pm
Google Social Network Google + now allows teens to register. Bradley Horovitz, VP Google+ Product, just announced this in a post. Google will add some additional security rules to protect teens. For example, before a teen post something to public or to extended circles, he will have a red warning ...
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Vincent A. posted an article on Tech Marketing and Gadgets - Jan 26, 2012, 10:56 pm
Angry Birds are coming to Facebook on February 14, 2012. So you will be able to play with your love one for Valentine’s day ^^ You are invited to a special event on facebook this day. No more reason to depress on Facebook now ! Rovio mobile video game reached 500 million downloads in November 2...
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Vincent A. posted an article on Tech Marketing and Gadgets - Jan 26, 2012, 10:10 pm
For Chinese New Year (23 january 2012), 14 robots did breakdancing for Year of the Dragon in China. “Fourteen identical robots took the stage to dance to a modified version of the “Korobushka,” a traditional Russian song that you will remember from the classic puzzle game, Tetris. For many, t...
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Vincent A. posted an article on Tech Marketing and Gadgets - Jan 26, 2012, 3:59 pm
After years with the same ugly design ^^, Techmeme is now not the ugliest site on earth. Gabe Rivera says it’s now Drudge Report ;-) Techmeme, one of the top technology news aggregators has now 3 columns instead of 2 and one is dedicated for sponsored posts and job offers. If you have a nice budg...
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Vincent A. posted an article on Tech Marketing and Gadgets - Jan 26, 2012, 9:27 am
Here is a nice infographic brought by Dacast legal streaming service. As you can see by the numbers, this is a Huge Industry : Related ArticlesNetflix sign in : Movies and StreamingGoogle by the NumbersChristmas StatisticsMiniatur Wunderland Hamburg new official video Follow me on my Google + Page ...
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Vincent A. posted an article on Tech Marketing and Gadgets - Jan 25, 2012, 10:54 pm
Moe’s Southwest Grill commercial is like weird but let’s say it’s for Education. Showing images of objects and food exploding in a microwave at 500 fps, the restaurant wants to warn that microwaves are dangerous for health (title of the video is “Microwaves Ruin Everything”) and they don�...
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Vincent A. posted an article on Tech Marketing and Gadgets - Jan 25, 2012, 7:56 pm
Here is what you need to know if you are a beginner with Social Media and want to start with Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, Google + and Digg. via Related ArticlesSocial Media ROIBig Firms on Social MediaFacebook Changes by Next Media Animation Follow me on my Google + Page and on my Twitter Account ...
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Vincent A. posted an article on Tech Marketing and Gadgets - Jan 25, 2012, 6:58 pm
Too much time on Facebook would lead to depression and low self-esteem… Watching our friends in happy times of their lives (vacations, with a nice girl, dining with Obama^^,…) would make us sad and depressed. “According to a new study conducted by sociologists Hui-Tzu Grace Chou and Nicholas...
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Vincent A. posted an article on Tech Marketing and Gadgets - Oct 30, 2011, 8:48 pm
This is what might be called an inspiring project: creating a 1000 lbs mural mosaic of Martin Luther King Jr. with only Rubik’s Cubes. The American artist Pete Fecteau managed this challenge by using 4242 Rubik cubes. (at $10 each toy, it’s a minimum budget of 42,420 dollars!) The mosaic is 5m...
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Vincent A. posted an article on Tech Marketing and Gadgets - Oct 30, 2011, 8:43 pm
German magician Simon Pierro is back with a little magic for Halloween with … an iPad. As impressive as the last year trick. The artist spent two and a half months to design his magic Horror Show with the help of his favorite developer who needed 100 hours of programming. Ladies ...
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Vincent A. posted an article on Tech Marketing and Gadgets - Oct 28, 2011, 6:22 pm
Happy Halloween Geeks! This Firefox costume looks so cool… (and the geekette also). Related ArticlesZombie Halloween CostumeFirefox Error with WindowsFirefox 7 is available for DownloadFirefox Fox in 4 picsSimon Pierro iPad Halloween ShowNew Orange Angry Bird for HalloweenChrome Angry Birds Happy...
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Vincent A. posted an article on Tech Marketing and Gadgets - Oct 28, 2011, 1:57 pm
Facebook just launched Trusted Friends, an additional layer of security that can give the keys to your account to your best friends. These super-friends will be useful if your account is hacked or you have forgotten your login. In this case, you will need to ask three of your trusted friends to se...
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Vincent A. posted an article on Tech Marketing and Gadgets - Oct 28, 2011, 1:11 pm
senseFLY is a project of Swiss UAV that can take aerial photos in high definition. Coupled with a special software it will give a 3D modeling of the area. senseFly was developed by researchers at the Swiss Federal institute of technology in Lausanne. In the video below, Jean-Christophe Zufferey ma...
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Vincent A. posted an article on Tech Marketing and Gadgets - Oct 28, 2011, 1:03 pm
Mission Impossible 4 Ghost Protocol will be in theaters in December. This is the second trailer and Tom Cruise still looks in great shape for MI4. You will see in this trailer the new electric car BMW i8. Related ArticlesCan I flag spammy backlinks to Google ?What is PubSubHubbub ?Adventures of Ti...
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Vincent A. posted an article on Tech Marketing and Gadgets - Oct 28, 2011, 12:59 pm
It’s cool in California… It’s possible to customize your license plate with symbols such as + ★ ♥ Louis Gray, a new Google employee recently arrived as a marketing manager had this good idea : creating a License plate with GOOG +1 for his BMW. Related ArticlesGoogle PillowGoogle + availa...
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Vincent A. posted an article on Tech Marketing and Gadgets - Oct 28, 2011, 12:55 pm
One year after its launch, Google TV got an update : new website, Android apps, a new user interface to explore the content and a better integration of Youtube. The TV interface has been simplified so that it is easier to use, just like with a tablet or a smartphone. Sony updates ...
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Vincent A. posted an article on Tech Marketing and Gadgets - Oct 27, 2011, 5:03 pm
Google announced some new features in Google + like Whats Hot Posts and Ripples, in addition to support for Google Apps. What’s Hot displays the most popular posts or current trending images, content and videos on google +. A really interesting feature that will allow to see the most shared or...
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