Analysis Regator Brings the Best Niche Blogs to Your iPhone Scott Lockhart used to tell his co-workers in the real estate industry that there was a lot of valuable information to be found by reading blogs. They, like all of us, would try blog search engines and end up frustrated with spam, abandoned blogs and low-quality content. So Lockhart quit his job and built an application he thought could solve… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
News Google Apps for Blackberry: Now for Businesses of all Sizes Google Apps is making it a bit more enticing for companies of all sizes to adopt its service for the Blackberry smart phone. In a post this morning on the Google Enterprise blog, the group announced Google Apps Connector for Blackberry Enterprise Server has doubled the number of Blackberry phones it can support. This effectively allows larger… Enterprise Alex Williams View comments
E-Commerce Mint Data Shows Online Retail Rebounding Last night we wrote about Forrester's prediction that online holiday retail sales will grow 8% this year to $44.7 billion. comScore had similar numbers about the growth of online retail - toy web sites grew 9% in October, as did the retail apparel segment. Online personal finance service Mint.com has joined the festive statistics parade, with… Richard MacManus View comments
News Rival Magazine Publishers Plan to Launch iTunes for Magazines It's no secret that most magazines are struggling to hold on to their subscribers. Just like the newspaper industry is under a lot of pressure from the Internet, magazines are also having a hard time adjusting to the reality of the Internet. Now, Time Inc., Condé Nast and Hearst are planning to form an alliance that would bring more than 50… Frederic Lardinois View comments
Browsers Hardware Acceleration: The Next Frontier in the Browser Wars Microsoft announced Internet Explorer 9 at its Professional Developers Conference earlier this month. One of the unique features of IE9 that Microsoft announced at that time was hardware acceleration for its browser. Thanks to technologies like Direct2D and Direct Write that are available for Windows7, Windows developers can use a computer's… Frederic Lardinois View comments