Only 19 percent of iPhone/iPod Touch applications in the AdMob network had more than 10,000 users in May, and a mere 5 percent had more than 100,000 users, according to the mobile ad network’s latest Mobile Metrics report. With more than 50,000 apps available on… Read More »
Archive for June 2009
Cloud infrastructure services are particularly good at supporting variable demand and peaks with unpredictable timing or amplitude. Peaks are a challenge for CIOs, because forecasting too low may lead to poor performance or service unavailability, and guessing too high means paying for unneeded capacity. Peaking through… Read More »
Nokeena Networks said today it has raised $6.5 million in funding in a round led by Mayfield Fund that’s intended to supplement the startup’s marketing and sales efforts. Nokeena makes an appliance called the Media Flow Director that takes a server-side approach to ensuring… Read More »
Evidence that the home energy management sector is reaching bubble proportions — as we’ve argued before — ratcheted up a notch today with two new entrants into the space: Microsoft and eMeter. The two companies are symbolic of the landscape of this emerging… Read More »
It can be difficult to find all of a company’s financial data in one place on the web. Sites such as Google Finance and Yahoo! Finance are good in a pinch, but can take awhile to sift through. San Francisco, Calif.-based Wikinvest is introducing… Read More »
So now we know the dark, sinister story: Steve Jobs took someone’s liver in Memphis. Yes, it’s true! I read it in the Wall Street Journal. After sequestering himself in the haunted, Faulknerian chambers of some abandoned manor in the city of Elvis… Read More »
About 10 months ago, M2E Power, a startup that has been developing motion-powered chargers and energy storage devices, showed us photos of a motion-powered external cell phone charger it had been working on. At the time, M2E Power execs told us they were hoping to… Read More »
Every so often I go through this effort. I look at the money I’m spending to see if it’s worth the services I use. It’s that time again, since I added a second phone line with my Palm Pre purchase. Oh, it’s not the initial… Read More »
HP wasn’t just exciting the netbook crowd with its new Mini 5110; it also announced a 13-inch notebook in its relatively new ProBook line, the 4310s. The ProBook 4310s is aimed at serious users who may not fit the enterprise mold but who… Read More »
Most technology vendors agree that multiple mobile networks create a lot of complexity for users trying to figure out how they should connect when Wi-Fi or 3G networks are available. Add WiMAX and LTE to the picture and things get even more complicated, according to Barbara… Read More »
It won’t send Apple running scared in Cupertino, but the Palm Pre has marked over 1 million app downloads in just 18 days of existence, which is pretty good. This number is particularly impressive when you consider the dearth of apps in the App Catalog.… Read More »
FriendFeed rolled out a new file-sharing feature on its site this afternoon in hopes of encouraging more organizations to use FriendFeed as a collaboration tool. On its blog, FriendFeed explained: This has been an especially popular request from organizations and companies that collaborate using FriendFeed groups.… Read More »
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