iPhone app developer MobilityWare just let us in on some pretty impressive revenue stats for its game Word Warp. On average, Word Warp brings in just over $10,000 a month. That isn’t revenue from sales of the app, however, but via advertising, at an eCPM… Read More »
Archive for July 2009
Readers, I need your thoughts on an etiquette issue associated with technology. Yesterday morning I was at the San Francisco airport finishing up a story while waiting for a flight. Inspired by my colleague James over at jkOnTheRun, I had my laptop… Read More »
With the release of webOS 1.1, Palm Pre users cut off from iTunes 8.2.1 are connected again, at least until iTunes 8.2.2 shows up in Software Update. For today, however, Palm can talk some trash. Or at least John Traynor, VP of Business Products for Palm, can… Read More »
The skirmishes that have been taking place between Hewlett-Packard and Cisco as each tries to encroach on the other’s territory in an effort to own both the enterprise and consumer IT markets have been heating up over the past year. HP has been strengthening… Read More »
Bootstrapped startup Lorax Motor Works has a love-hate relationship with India’s Tata Motors. The team, based in Hood River, Ore., and working on a three-wheeled electric “human utility vehicle,” wants to follow Tata’s lead in supplying ultra-low-cost vehicles in developing countries. But as founders Adam… Read More »
We knew we were in for a battle royale between Palm and Apple over the iTunes syncing built into the Pre. First Palm figured out a way to build iTunes syncing right into the Pre, by making iTunes think it was an iPod. Then Apple… Read More »
Venture funding for U.S.-based video-related companies so far in 2009 has dropped more than 60 percent over the same period last year, according to data provided to NewTeeVee by Dow Jones VentureSource. Video firms raised $135.26 million in the first half of 2009, compared to $348.33… Read More »
Portland, Ore., has had more than its fair share of trouble from the current recession — it’s seen the biggest drop in employment of any metro area in the country, with jobless rates clocking in at a dismal 12.2 percent in June. But… Read More »
It used to be that large corporations were the biggest boosters of new and cool technologies; more recently the consumer has been driving technology trends. But with the timing of an economic recovery still uncertain and VC dollars hard to come by, it may be… Read More »
Earlier today, I mentioned the latest Google Maps for Mobileversion was available for Windows Mobile and Symbian S60 devices. As I looked at the web version of Maps on my iPhone, I noticed that Google Latitude was working. Some readers found the same, but… Read More »
The Pirate Bay has been front and center of the blog and mainstream tech news cycle over the last month, ever since the site’s founders announced they had found a buyer. Hardly a day goes by without new and oftentimes conflicting reports about the impending… Read More »
When you’re looking to find out what folks are saying about hot political events such as the protests in Iran — or on the more trivial end of the spectrum, the new Harry Potter movie — searching for specific keywords on Twitter and … Read More »
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