This week Facebook announced an offline mode, so mobile users can still see new stories in their News Feeds, even when their connections are spotty. Meanwhile, Twitter announced it would start showing ads to the vast majority of people who visit the platform, and a new study shows Snapchat is the fastest growing social network among millennials.
Gigabit broadband is spreading across the country at an accelerating pace, as this week AT&T and Google both announced plans for expansion. But AT&T is now pulling ahead in the national fiber rollout race -- thanks, in part, to Google.
Sling TV just announced it has added local live broadcasts from Univision and UniMás to its Spanish-language OTT streaming service, Sling Latino. It's a first for the company and a sign of how it might evolve next.
The Firefox OS smartphone will soon be no more. Mozilla announced on Tuesday that it would stop developing and selling smartphones based on its experimental mobile operating system.
It's not everyday that you see news about something that hasn't happened, but in the case of diversity in Silicon Valley, the fact that Amazon and Dropbox have not issued diversity reports for 2015 is beginning to garner attention.
"Star Wars: The Force Awakens" opens in theaters across America on Dec. 18, 2015. But that's not the only new Star Wars property set to be released by Disney in a couple of weeks. At the height of Star Wars fever, Disney Infinity 3.0 will be launching a new playset based on the movie, featuring stories and characters based on Episode VII.
Three stories hit the news on Monday in separate publications, concerning three different but interrelated subjects -- advertising, entertainment, and the IT backbone of the Internet. Taken together, they represent a tipping point in a trend we've seen building for a decade. Welcome to the era of cord cutting.
Latinos have been the leading edge in adoption of mobile technology and smartphones in the U.S. since the beginning of the trend. Now Hispanics outside of the U.S. may take the reigns, as a boom in Latin America's mobile market is taking shape.
Apple may be working on a new 4-inch iPhone, dubbed the iPhone 6C by the tech press, for an early 2016 release date. An unusual move for Apple, no doubt, but judging by the demand for a modern iPhone with a "classic" form factor, it may turn out be the smartest thing Apple could do.
This week in Social Media, Mark Zuckerberg announced he and his wife would donate 99 percent of their Facebook stock to charity, prompting critics to express a great deal of skepticism.
The Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge+ has a lot going for it: leading-edge hardware specs, premium materials, and well-liked software. And wow does it look good. But all of those great parts don't come together into a practical whole -- something you'll be happy using everyday for a long time -- especially considering the price.
While DirecTV and DISH have both leveraged their established pay-TV businesses to launch OTT (over-the-top) Internet streaming TV aimed at Latino audiences earlier this year, one year-old startup KlowdTV has decided to enter the fray by adding an assortment of 29 Spanish-language channels to its micro-bundle Internet TV selection.
Often discussions on the emerging technologies of virtual reality center around the user experience and the various competing devices that have been released or are coming out soon, like the HTC Vive, the Oculus Rift, and Samsung's Gear VR.
Silicon Valley has gotten a lot of attention for its lack of workforce diversity, but many of those problems of underrepresentation of minorities in the technology industry can be found in the greater business world in the U.S.
According to the International Telecommunications Union, 3.2 billion people are now on the Internet and wireless connectivity has become the dominant path for people to get online.
This week, the United Nations Climate Change Conference is taking place in Paris. At the same time, tech billionaires Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates -- along with a handful of other incredibly wealthy executives like Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, George Soros and Alibaba's Jack Ma -- have announced their own plan to boost the private sector's development of clean energy technologies.
This week in social media, experts warned that one of the most recent viral hits on Facebook, the "Most Used Words" app, is a privacy-infringing nightmare. Meanwhile, Snapchat launched a challenge to Twitter Moments called Story Explorer, and Reddit has decided to honor visitors' "Do Not Track" settings on browsers.
Whether you're looking to give the perfect gift or a fun high-tech toy for yourself, Latin Post has you covered. We've rounded up the best deals on the most in-demand gadgets, in one convenient Black Friday gift guide.
This year's Black Friday is shaping up to be an incredible one for getting some ridiculous deals on gadgets and electronics of all shapes and sizes. Whether you're looking to give the perfect gift this year or get something for yourself at the lowest prices, Latin Post has you covered. We've rounded up the best deals on HDTVs and 4K Ultra HD TVs in one convenient Black Friday gift guide.
Whether you're looking to give the perfect gift this year or upgrade for yourself at the cheapest prices possible, Latin Post has you covered. We've rounded up the best deals on the most in-demand 2015 smartphones in one convenient Black Friday gift guide.
Apple has gone to great lengths to update its emojis to be more inclusive of a wide variety of skin tones, but most of the standard graphics available still lack Latin flair -- until now. A Latino marketing company took notice of the lack of Latin-flavored emojis in the standard Unicode set, and decided it would be a good way to catch the eyes -- and it hopes, the dollars -- of tech savvy Latinos.
Silicon Valley has a diversity problem. Mostly white men work in technology, and white men hold the vast majority of leadership positions as well. In the past couple of years though, many influential technology firms have been working to fix the dearth of underrepresented minorities in their workforces. But in the latest diversity report from Microsoft, it appears that part of the company's diversity problem has actually gotten a little worse.
There was a time once when the early Internet was more or less made up of islands of information. If you wanted to get news, you'd type in the address of one of a few news websites you knew existed, and the same went for any other topic or sphere of knowledge you were interested in.
While there is a dearth of diversity in Silicon Valley, high-tech industries in the U.S. are expanding at such a rapid clip that employers are having trouble finding enough talent in the U.S. to meet their needs. One conference over the weekend aimed to encourage young Latinos and Latinas be a part of the solution to both problems, by setting their sights early on 21st century career paths.
This week in social media, Facebook introduced a new tool for the heartbroken. Meanwhile Snapchat and Twitter could be in trouble with investors, and Google Plus was resurrected with a new look and a couple of new features.
