Qualcomm has completed its acquisition of NUVIA, in a bid to challenge Apple’s custom silicon. Arm-based processors power the majority of smartphones and tablets, with Apple and Qualcomm both making their own line of chips. Unfortunately for Qualcomm, Apple’s custom…
Year: 2021
Nokia Cutting 10,000 Jobs to Better Focus on 5G
Nokia has announced it is cutting 10,000 jobs worldwide, with plans to use the savings to help fund its 5G growth. Nokia is one of the main companies responsible for manufacturing telecommunication equipment. The company is at the center of…
Apple Maps Now Showing COVID-19 Vaccination Locations
Apple Maps has been updated to display COVID-19 vaccination locations, making it that much easier to set up an appointment. As the US rolls out COVID-19 vaccines, one of the biggest challenges is finding a location and setting up an…
PPC award winners talk strategies for competitive times, industries, and marketplaces
The Search Engine Land SEM Awards winners discuss strategies for driving charity donations, CRO in competitive industries, and advertising with tight margins on Amazon. In an interview with contributor Matt Van Wagner, the SEM initiative Search Engine Land Award winners…
Say hello to Voice Interface Optimization
Voice interfaces are not simply front-ends for search engines or apps. They are a whole new thing. Voice Interface Optimization has now become a thing, but it’s not yet a fully realized thing. Voice interfaces are showing up everywhere, most…
Bing Predicts 2015 To Be The Year Of The Wearables
Bing uses its predictions technology to forecast what’s going to be big next year, covering everything from fashion to food and football. After looking at this year’s top searches, Bing has turned its gaze toward the future to predict the top trends…
Volvo Will Transition to All-Electric Lineup by 2030
Volvo has become the latest company to embrace an all-electric lineup, promising to achieve that goal by 2030. One company after another has committed to phasing out internal combustion engines. Subaru has committed to an all-electric lineup by the mid-2030s, Bentley by 2030, GM by 2035…
IBM Announces IBM Cloud Satellite, General Availability of its Hybrid Cloud Service
IBM has announced that its hybrid cloud service is now generally available to all clients, a major step in the company’s transformation. IBM announced in October that it would split into two companies. Its legacy business would be spun out as a…
Mark Cuban Says Mavericks Will Accept Dogecoin ‘Because We Can’
What began as a joke is increasingly becoming a serious cryptocurrency, as the Dallas Mavericks are the first to accept Dogecoin as payment via BitPay. Dogecoin was created by IBM software engineer Billy Markus and Adobe software engineer Jackson Palmer…
Be careful what content you cut from your site
Contributor Janet Driscoll Miller helps you determine how to make your website lean and mean without eliminating big traffic drivers. I recently worked with a client to relaunch their website, and as part of the process, the client chose to…