Your startup's early infrastructure decisions are probably the most painstaking and time-consuming ones you'll have to make, for both the technologists and the businesspeople on your team.It is hard to know what your company and product will need (and be) 6, 9 or even 12 months down the line -...
When Membase and CouchOne merged earlier this year to form Couchbase, the newly formed company promised to release a merged version of the NoSQL database servers the company sponsors: Apache CouchDB and Membase.Today Couchbase made good on that promise with the release of the first developer preview for Couchbase Server...
With today's launch of PhoneGap 1.0, a framework that allows developers to build mobile apps using Web standards, it seemed like a good time to put up a poll about HTML as an app platform. HTML, and in particular, HTML5, has come a long way to addressing the needs of...
Dell has published an infographic collecting various statistics about the progress of the consumerization of IT. We've covered some of this data before, such the studies sponsored by Unisys, but this does a nice job of pulling several piece of information together.I don't care for the conflation of IT consumerization...
PhoneGap, the open source mobile developement framework that allows mobile developers build apps using Web standards, is launching today into version 1.0. This is a milestone release for the platform, which now adds additional APIs, features and improvements in its newly updated product.The launch is being celebrated in Portland, at...
According to reports, the partnership between the daily deals service Groupon and location check-in platform Foursquare is launching today in select locations. As reported in late May, the two companies have been in talks and it looks like an accord has finally been reached that will integrate the deals service...
Did you miss out on the initial round of invites to Google's newest cloud locker service, Google Music? Well, today's the day to hit up your Google Music-loving friends for an invite. Existing users have been awarded just two invites each, which they can give out to anyone they choose....
We've written extensively about QR codes, including a story that ran earlier this week about using them as a virtual tourism activity. But an announcement from Hipscan.com caught our attention about how you can actually use these curious codes to generate hard cash money.Hipscan's Web site can be used by...
This week, Citibank released a new banking application for iPad, designed to give customers access to common banking tasks (balance checks, bill pay, transfers, etc.) as well as financial analysis tools. While we don't (and can't) cover all mobile application launches individually, the new Citibank iPad is an interesting case...
Nodeable is a new company that just launched a private beta. It's already generating a lot of buzz, and throws around terms like big data, social platform and "post-cloud." RedMonk co-founder and analyst Stephen O'Grady called it "Twitter for machines." But what does it do?The company was founded on the...
This chapter in Web history is marked by a number of big companies doing business at a small scale. Groupon, LivingSocial, and even tech companies with a broader reach like Google and Facebook are relentlessly working on ways to match consumers with the local businesses all around them, even though...
Marketing firm Fiksu has launched two new mobile application indexes that will of interest to both app developers and marketers alike. The indexes provide insight into industry averages related to app downloads in top app stores as well as the costs associated with acquiring new users.App Store Competitive IndexInitially, the...
The United Nations aims to take a leadership role in international geodata co-operation and infrastructure.Last month the United Nations published a report calling Internet access essential to the exercise of human rights like freedom of expression. This week the global organization has said that geospatial data is "as important for...
It's been a busy time for the Windows Phone team at Microsoft. On Tuesday, the company announced that the highly-anticipated update to the Windows Phone mobile operating system known as "Mango" had been released to manufacturing. This is an important milestone indicating the final phase of of Mango's development.Now developers are being...
Qualcomm has released its Augmented Reality (AR) SDK for iOS, which now joins the Android version launched back in April. Like the Android SDK, the new iOS toolkit will enable mobile developers to create high-performance, interactive, 3D experiences, which are triggered by pointing the device's camera at real-world objects.At the...
This week we're reviewing five trends that have helped define 2011. So far we've covered online privacy, group messaging and HTML5. Today we're looking at a still emerging trend, but one which is (pardon the pun) very much worth watching: second screen apps. By that we mean apps that run...
Google Plus has been live for a month, and some have already begun to fret about its health. According to Experian Hitwise, Google Plus traffic for last week declined 3% from the week before. This might suggest that some of the initial shine has worn off, but it's certainly too...
According to the online Swiss Orange website (http://shop.orange.ch) the Nokia N9 will be released on the 15th September. This is the first time that the Nokia N9 has been seen being sold online by a Service Provider (Courier) as I don't think I've seen it anywhere else. As many...
Facebook has a new tutorial to set up small and medium businesses on the social platform for success. Dubbed Facebook for Business, the page is an "education center" that teaches businesses how to create Pages, advertisements, Sponsored Stories and Facebook Platform, which covers apps, social plugins and Facebook Credits. Anybody...
Mobile services company Urban Airship and location provider SimpleGeo are today announcing a new partnership that will help mobile developers access the strengths in both systems. The companies' goal is to provide developers with the ability to send out geo-targeted, geo-fenced, personalized push notifications. These "smarter" notifications represent the next phase...
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