Siri Parody With Killer Special Effects [video]
We’ve seen tons of parodies and pranks involving Siri, the personal assistant that comes with Apple’s iPhone 4S. But rarely do you see one with serious production value or special…
Toyota Decides to Spam Twitter For Super Bowl Promotion
Twitter is a great platform to get people stoked about anything, if done right. You can promote potato chips like @popchips does, and it could turn into a huge following…
Twitter Focuses on Asia with Hiring of Google VP
Twitter has signalled its intention to grow its business and revenues in Asia after appointing the executive who headed up Google’s display advertising in the region as vice president of…
Why Notebooks and Good Ads Are About Emotions
In its well-known annual prediction report, the marketing firm JWT identified ‘objectifying objects’ as one of the key trends that will dominate 2012. We may spend our day using laptops…
Shoes Won't Stay Tied? Try This
Sometimes we stumble upon things that make us doubt everything we’ve ever known. This may very well be one of those moments, as Terry Moore explains why most of us…
Slick Hidden Buttons Make iPad's Split Keyboard Better
I’m a huge fan of the split keyboard that was added to the iPad on iOS 5. I have to credit a friend with predicting this addition several months before…
20 Cities Want Your Innovative Ideas
A gym that lets humans generate energy for a Spanish city; open data about obesity levels in the Netherlands; a smart bus network navigation system in Japan, and a wireless…
Archfiy: Your Own Personal Web-Browsing Archive
“Have you ever had the problem of finding something again you have already seen on Facebook or elsewhere on the Internet?,” asked Gerald Bäck, co-founder of Archify. A few vague…
RBS 6 Nations Live Challenge App Hits iOS and Android
It’s not often you would see a rugby app featured on The Next Web but with the RBS 6 Nations rugby tournament commencing today, Europeans will be finding that comfy…
Amazon Expands Kindle Touch Shipping Worldwide
Amazon has amended listings for its Kindle Touch e-reader, enabling visitors to Amazon.com to ship the keyboardless device to a large number of countries outside of the US. The eBook…
Direct Traffic to Fab.com Soars
Fab.com is hot, hot, hot. The daily deals site has seen some amazing growth in the past four months alone, and it doesn’t look to be slowing down at all….
Another Tethering App Slips Past Apple
Once every few weeks a new app hits Apple’s app store that has a very hidden, yet very sought after feature, tethering. We reported on one just a few weeks…
Apple Will Skip ARM-based Laptops, Focus on iPad
Just in case you were wondering if Apple would start making lower-priced MacBook airs and other mobile devices based on the ARM chip set, ala Microsoft, the company has no…
Facebook Hires Ex-Apple Exec as Global Head of Marketing
According to a report by AdAge, Facebook has made a huge hire which will change the way the company markets itself to consumers. In fact, Facebook hasn’t done much marketing…
Apple Brings Netflix-like Discovery to Apple TV with Genius
Apple has issued an update to its Apple TV software that ads the Genius feature to its Movie and TV sections, reports Appleinsider. It seems clear that this was always…
