The Android platform has garnered much attention lately because of its rapidly expanding number of apps and phones on the market, so additional growth statistics should come at no surprise. Mobile Web usage on Android devices in the U.S. quadrupled in the second quarter of 2010, stealing market share from...
Magpie, the AdSense-like service that sells product placement in Twitter users' tweets, put itself up for sale today.The service brags that its advertising network now encompasses 20 million Twitter users and about 4,700 advertisers, including Sony Playstation, Microsoft Xbox, Burger King, Snickers, Honda, Audi, Mazda, Heineken, Bacardi and Hersheys. Magpie...
Rumors about the next iteration of Apple TV have coalesced around a few key facts - the device is expected to be named iTV in the style of the company's more successful offerings, run customers an easy $99 and be fully revealed sometime in the fall.Engadget is reporting that the...
Yesterday morning, Ed Stafford and Cho Sanchez walked out of the jungle, onto the beach and into the Atlantic Ocean. 859 days earlier, Stafford had begun the walk at the headwaters of the Amazon and followed that river for almost two years and nearly 4,000 miles, picking up Sanchez five...
Recently I began to buy eBooks for the Kindle application on my iPad. While I still love paper books, the digital wiles of eBooks are looking increasingly attractive to me. Below are five eBook features that may tempt you to buy electronic books too.I should note that I wasn't a...
Research firm Canalys is today reporting a surge in the worldwide shipments of Android smartphones. Thanks to Android-based products from HTC, Motorola, Samsung, Sony Ericssion, LG and others, smartphones running the Android operating system grew 886% worldwide in Q2 2010. Also in the U.S., the largest smartphone market in the...
Taylor Swift has nothing on Boulder software startup Occipital. The pop star has been seen recently in an ad for the Sony TX7 Cyber-shot whose selling-point is the ability to create a panoramic image by sweeping the camera once from side-to-side. Occipital, makers of the popular RedLaser app (which eBay...
Is the latest, cheapest Kindle ($139) evidence of an escalating e-reader price war? The Kindle has gotten pleasantly better and cheaper since its debut for $399 in 2007, when it sold out in hours. By last year, the price was down to $259. Then in June, Barnes & Noble slashed...
Opera, the Oslo-based browser company, has released its latest monthly State of the Mobile Web Report. The company is calling this month's report the "World Cup Edition," as it takes a closer look at the continued explosion of the mobile Web in Africa and declares Chile as the winner of...
The Internet will run out of Internet addresses in about 1 year's time, we were told today by John Curran, President and CEO of the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN). The same thing was also stated recently by Vint Cerf, Google's Chief Internet Evangelist. The main reason for the...
At the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference today, Steve Ballmer promised tablets in a variety of form factors would arrive by the end of the year from partners including Asus, Dell, Samsung, Sony and Toshiba - but offered no specifics. ASUS has already announced ASUS Eee Pad and MSI has announced...
Wristwatch and apparel maker Fossil is developing a new watch with an open software development kit (SDK) to allow any kind of notifications to be pushed by bluetooth from your mobile phone to a watch display. The company believes it could win the hearts of geeks by combining programability, real-time...
You guessed it folks, it's that time again - one more rousing rendition of "Hulu is going to offer a pay service", this time as told by Peter Kafka of All Things Digital."Hulu Plus", as Kafka has called it, would be an additional paid version of the website, not a...
Adobe Systems announced today that its Flash Player 10.1 software for mobile devices is now being released to its platform partners. The plugin-based technology, which allows for a range of interactive elements including video, games and even advertising, is already available for Google Android phones running the latest operating system...
Barnes & Noble just announced the launch of a Wi-Fi-only version of its Nook e-book reader. This new version of the Nook will retail for $149. In addition, B&N also dropped the price of the 3G-enabled Nook to $199. Besides being Wi-Fi-only, the new version of the Nook is virtually...
In-stream Twitter ads are here to say, or so says Jan Schulz-Hofen, CEO of Magpie, a Twitter ad network that was among many seemingly under fire from Twitter, Inc. last week after the company announced changes to its terms of service. In this newly updated agreement between Twitter and its...
Dedicated e-readers like Amazon's Kindle and Barnes & Noble's Nook are coming under increasing pressure from mobile phones and tablet devices like the iPad. According to the latest research from Informa Telecoms & Media, sales of e-readers with broadband connections will peak in 2014, as users decide to opt for...
According to some analysts, Apple is now selling more iPads than Macs. Judging from the latest survey data from ChangeWave Research, the demand for Apple's tablets in the U.S. will only continue to grow. About 7% of all respondents to ChangeWave's survey said that they were "very likely" to buy...
Google showcased Google TV this morning at its Google I/O developer conference, entering what's been a growing arena since this year's Consumer Electronics Show last January. The most obvious feature brought to television by the company that wants to organize all the world's information is search, but that's far from...
Clicker, the Web service that aims to be the TV Guide for Internet television, just launched Clicker.tv at Google I/O. Clicker.tv is a new HTML5-based interface for Clicker's programming guide that is optimized for the "10-foot viewing experience" on a big screen in the living room. Google chose to highlight...
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