The holiday shopping season has shifted into full gear. But while online retailers are sure to see stronger sales than their offline rivals, the desperate discounts happening across the board threaten to erode any profits they may have once hoped for this season. Read More »
Thanks to the Thanksgiving holiday, this week I’ve been able to catch up with some of the companies I’ve previously written about, such as FanSnap. It’s unveiled a new feature: Seat Alert, which notifies fans when the seats that meet their specific requirements are made available. Read More »
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- Are You Ready for the TV Widget Revolution?
- Chris Albrecht in Connected Consumer
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- Paul Sweeting in Connected Consumer
- Google Chrome OS: What to Expect
- James Kendrick in Mobile
The cyber shopping rush has already begun, with Akamai reporting that at around 11:30 a.m. ET some 6,591,354 global visitors per minute were hitting retail sites, which is about 48 percent above normal. Read More »
It’s finally Black Friday, and shoppers are out looking for bargains. Apple’s in-store prices aren’t so low, but there are some bargains, and good Apple product prices from other retailers. Read More »
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SpeedBit Is Still Speeding (Downloads) Along
Israel’s SpeedBit last month saw its SpeedBit Video Accelerator pass the 20 million installs-mark. The company, which makes a handful of products, claims that it now delivers about 8 million files daily and has about 18.5 million active monthly users. Read More »
Samsung’s bada Mobile Platform Due Dec. 8th
Samsung, after unveiling its open mobile platform for touch screen-based mobile phones, bada, earlier this month, and launching a web site, has confirmed the date of its December launch event to deliver the bada SDK: Dec. 8th. Read More »
All I Want For Christmas Is My Web
I’m not really comfortable making broad technology predictions, but I’ve run across two things recently that perfectly illustrate for me the next generation of the web, which will consist of services that tell us what we want to know precisely when we want to know it. Read More »
Qualcomm’s Mobile Payment Strategy: Fix the “Costanza Wallet”
While Qualcomm for many is synonymous with wireless, the company acquired Atlanta-based mobile banking startup Firethorn two years ago with an eye to also becoming a major player in the mobile payment space — and in the process, fix the so-called “Costanza wallet.” Read More »
iCurrent Wants to Personalize News for the Masses
People are nostalgic for newspapers for a reason. The growing multitude of options for getting your daily news is more stressful than informative. We have on the one hand Google Reader, with its ever-growing mass of unread items, and on the other sites like NYTimes.com, which… Read More »
7 Fun App Ideas for the Weekend Tinkerer
Here in the U.S., we’re getting ready to celebrate Thanksgiving, which for many folks means a long weekend — my favorite time to tinker, especially with software. So I’ve gathered together seven free app tinkering ideas that you may get a kick out of. Read More »
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GigaOM Research
- Are You Ready for the TV Widget Revolution?
- Black Friday sales could propel web-connected TVs to mass market must-have, but widget developers should approach this new market with a few caveats in mind.
- Chris Albrecht in Connected Consumer
- Will Three Strikes Laws Take the Field in U.S. Copyright Ballgame?
- Events in Europe are adding impetus to the growing interest among U.S. regulators and even broadband service providers in subjecting Internet users to much closer scrutiny.
- Paul Sweeting in Connected Consumer






