New stats from Nielsen show that the average U.S. home has more TVs in it than people. According to the research firm, in 2009 the average U.S. household had just 2.5 people but had 2.86 televisions. This represents a 43 percent increase since 1990, when… Read More »
Archive for July 2009
Given the fast pace of the developments in mobile, it pays to take a step back and review all the big news from the last quarter. At GigaOM Pro (subscription required), we’ve compiled the important news and analysis from the previous three months to… Read More »
There are some great things about being self-employed and working from my home via the web. One of them is that I can give myself permission to take time off whenever I need it. The flip side of that freedom is that because I am self-employed… Read More »
Last month, Barnes & Noble created an iPhone app for its brick-and-mortar stores. I was just browsing the App Store and see a free B&N eReader for iPhones. This was the next logical step for the company — it purchased Fictionwise earlier this… Read More »
It must be nice to be Verizon right now. Free from the intense scrutiny AT&T receives by having the hottest and “smartest” smartphone, it can appear to rise above it all. It can have TV ads to claim the best network on the planet, and it’s… Read More »
The folks behind PrimaCloud, a cloud computing and storage product that offers a service-level agreement that it claims delivers 99.99 reliability (that means it can go down 53 minutes each year), said today it will save $1 million by virtualizing its… Read More »
With billions of dollars in government funds coming down the pipeline for advanced batteries courtesy of the stimulus package, and the auto industry gearing up to make its first real go at marketing plug-in vehicles for the masses, the race to build lithium-ion batteries for… Read More »
Over its 3-year lifetime, Cambridge, UK-based home energy management startup AlertMe has managed to develop a slick hardware design and become one of the first startups to sell its gear to customers. In the past several months since the company decided to focus predominantly… Read More »
You might call it a loophole, an imaginative reading of the law, or perhaps just a freak situation. In 2007, the country of Antigua was awarded $21 million a year in trade sanctions on U.S. intellectual property by the World Trade Organization. It was intended… Read More »
Two years ago — when biofuels were all the rage, energy efficiency technology couldn’t get any love, and Obama’s massive energy investments were just a glimmer in entrepreneurs’ eyes — we launched Earth2Tech as part of the GigaOM Network. That was back when the… Read More »
The economy has claimed another mobile technology victim, and I’m disappointed to see this particular company gone. Polymer Vision, which developed the Readuis eInk device that rolls up into a compact size, has folded due to financial difficulties. Earlier this year, the… Read More »
Social games attract tens of millions of players on Facebook and other networks, but compared with traditional PC and console-based games, they make a lot less money, a challenge impeding the genre’s growth. While millions of “hardcore” gamers willingly pay $60 per title and $15 in… Read More »
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