All the way back in January, we speculated that Apple would introduce its then recently acquired facial recognition technology into the upcoming iPhone 5. Now, it seems that prediction has come true - and not just for the iPhone 5, but for any iPhone capable of upgrading to the new mobile...
Google is trying to keep abreast with Groupon in the mobile e-commerce wars and yesterday released an update to its Google Shopper for iPhone app that appears to be going straight after the daily deals service mobile location push, Groupon Now. Google Shopper will now show iPhone users local deals...
The new version of the Android Market promised by Google earlier this month has begun rolling out to Android 2.2+ devices in the wild. The first sightings of the updated mobile application were made by members of the XDA-Developers forum, who have already extracted the mobile application and made it...
IBM has a new Web analytics service available, as part of an announcement earlier this month that combines technologies from its acquisitions last year of Coremetrics and Unica. This continues the trend with other large software companies who have significant analytic tools such as Adobe's Omniture and Webtrends. This is...
We're reviewing the first half of 2011 and in particular 5 trends that have helped shape the year so far. Earlier this week we looked at online privacy and group messaging. Today we get a bit geeky and review the continuing growth of HTML5. HTML5 is the next version of...
In its ongoing quest to capture more local ad dollars, Google yesterday announced the launch of AdWords Express, a simplified version of their search advertising platform. This new advertising product aims to streamline the process of purchasing search ads, enabling smaller, local businesses to get on board. If AdWords Express...
Internet content hosting provider Akamai released its latest "State of the Internet" report today for the first quarter of 2011. The report shows a slight increase of 5% in total IP addresses connected to their network from last quarter and an overall increase in 20% from last year. Italy replaced...
Slacker Radio is looking for ways to add revenue to their mobile streams and is teaming with mobile video advertising company YuMe to optimize monetization of its mobile division. Slacker has between 25 and 30 million subscribers, most of whom come to the service from pre-loaded devices on most of...
According to Ongo, a curated news service, more than half of Americans go online for news once or twice per day, and nearly one-third check for news three or more times. As we've reported, online news consumption reached a major milestone this year, surpassing newspapers as a preferred news source...
Netflix stores 50 different files for every viewable media asset, including 3 copies of every movie, ten years of user ratings, extensive user account info and metadata including complex licensing rights for everything. Audio files, log files, subtitles, etc. A year ago the fast-growing consumer service saw its own data...
The first-ever technology promising to give consumer and corporate end-users a dashboard to control access to the data they store online will take its first step this month toward standardization.The User-Managed Access (UMA) protocol is an authorization engine for individuals. It lets users selectively share data, via a set of...
Add LogMeIn to the growing number of mobile access control products out there (Rover, MobilEcho, and Accellion, just to name a few of the ones we have covered recently.) The new service, which will be entering beta shortly, will pair access to particular apps and files initially on iOS devices...
This week we're running a 5-part series of posts looking back on the significant trends of 2011. Today we're reviewing group messaging, the hot trend at this year's SXSW festival. Group messaging started out as a battle between several startups, but over the past few months it's turned into a...
Every time I look at the visitor statistics for my blog, I'm amazed at the plethora of ways that people consume the content I create. Apart from the people who merely read my posts within a third-party feed reader, I have site visitors that are viewing on mobile devices of...
The World Wide Web was originally created as a web of connected documents. What if that's no longer an appropriate, or sufficient, metaphor? A group of geospatial data specialists today published a call for a new web architecture that would supplant the Internet of Documents with a spatio-temporal Internet of...
New rules governing how iOS apps handle in-app purchases went into effect on June 30, and the date passed without much fanfare and seemingly without much compliance from many apps that continued to offer content for sale. These apps included e-reader apps with links to their associated online bookstores, as...
Apple's acquisition of mobile assistant Siri and its partnership with speech recognition leader Nuance Communications (the latter confirmed by references found in code), appear to be coming together in the launch of a new feature called "Assistant," to appear in the forthcoming update to iOS 5, Apple's mobile operating system.According to leaked information,...
Analtyics firm Zokem recently released data related to smartphone usage trends, based on its panel of global studies involving consumer behavior. The goal was to identify mobile consumer trends as related to smartphone enagement.The company found that there is a slight peak in the afternoon on work days, related to...
Adobe is shutting down two of its app stores dedicated to mobile and desktop application distribution, Adobe InMarket and the Adobe AIR Marketplace. The decision, the company says, was based on developer feedback. Adobe says it will now focus its efforts on helping developers publish their apps on multiple platforms,...
Today, mobile application development vendor appMobi launched a new 1-Click payment technology called cloudKey which secures users' credit card information for online purchases on their device, not on remote servers. With the wave of recent high-profile hacking attacks on companies like Sony, Citi and AT&T, even non-security minded folks have...
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