Android 97% of Android App Downloads in April were Free, Says Chomp Last week, we cited a study from mobile analytics firm Distimo that stated the majority of paid Android applications were downloaded less than 100 times. On Android, folks like the free apps, it seems. Now, to back up that report with additional data, we have mobile search firm Chomp's report for the month of April. During this past month, 97% of… Mobile Sarah Perez View comments
mobile Microsoft Could Catch-up in the Tablet Race with an Office-Optimized Device Microsoft has said that iPad-style tablets, generally referred to as "slates," that run Windows won't arrive until the next version of Windows arrives in 2012. This big beast of a WP7 tablet announced at Computex not withstanding, this rules out Windows Phone 7 based tablets. But will Microsoft get left behind if it can't bring a slate to… Enterprise Klint Finley View comments
Cloud Computing Largest Telescope to Rely on Crowdsourcing The largest telescope ever to exist (on this planet anyway) is going to be the Square Kilometre Array. The SKA will cost about $2.1 billion to construct. Australia and South Africa are bidding on the project. What may give Australia an edge is the way they intend to handle the massive computer processing and storage demands of the array… Science Curt Hopkins View comments
E-Books Unbound Aims to Be the Kickstarter for Book Publishing The incredible success of Kickstarter has demonstrated that alternative crowdfunding platforms can help fund a number of creative projects (over 7,000 projects in the case of Kickstarter). Now a new startup from the U.K. aims to take that model and apply it to the book publishing industry. Unbound is both a crowdfunding platform and a publisher… Audrey Watters View comments
News Twitter Photos Coming Soon Twitter will launch its own photo sharing feature very soon, according to a purported scoop by Alexia Tsotsis today at TechCrunch. (Similarly loose lips confirmed the same to AllThingsD's Liz Gannes later today.) After years of struggles to stay online and apparently giving up any hope of retrieving archival messages in text for its users, a move… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments