One of the first videos of the Barnes & Noble Nook was Matt Miller’s and I wondered how he could tolerate the slow page refresh. Others weren’t too happy with the relatively sluggish performance and unfinished feel, but a firmware update just hit for the… Read More »
Archive for December 2009
Flurry Media and Pinch Media are merging to form a new app analytics company: Flurry Media. The new firm’s analytics services will run on more than 80 percent of all iPhoneOS and Android handsets. Read More »
Microsoft Office 2010 hasn’t arrived just yet, but you can end the year with a little head start of experience and knowledge about the productivity suite. The free beta of Office 2010 has been available for some time, but I just now caught word… Read More »
Do you somehow still doubt that the App Store is a huge money-making enterprise, at least for a lucky few? Then consider the news that Tapulous, the development studio behind the wildly popular Tap Tap Revenge rhythm game franchise, rakes in a cool million every month.… Read More »
Jan. 1 is coming, and it’s time to make those New Year’s resolutions! Yes, I know I said in an earlier article that the New Year is a bad time to set arbitrary goals about changing your life. But while it may not be the… Read More »
The new App Store offering Chorus leverages user recommendations to give iPhone users an alternative to Apple’s list of best-selling apps when shopping in the App Store. And that’s good news for consumers who are bewildered by all the choices in Apple’s ever-growing storefront. Read More »
A survey of major mobile app stores shows that nearly 57 percent of paid applications in the Apple App Store have location-based functionality vs. 49 percent in RIM’s BlackBerry App World and 21 percent in Google’s Android Market. Read More »
Our subscription research service GigaOM Pro just published its list of Connected Consumer winners and losers for 2009, and while some choices may be obvious, there are actually a few surprises on the list. For instance,… Read More »
As solar panel prices fall, installers’ valuations appear to be climbing. A report from NeXt Up Research that was released Monday on SharesPost, an online marketplace for trading shares of private companies, estimates that solar developer SolarCity‘s exit valuation would be between… Read More »
The founder and CEO of Grid Net foresees numerous Smart Grid alliances involving major tech companies, the birth of “retail energy,” an easing of security debates, and much more. Read More »
Move over, Lybia: YouTube has chosen Belgium’s .be top-level domain for its new URL-shortening service. Google clearly decided to go for memorability vs. the shortest URL possible with this service — using simply http://youtu.be — which it describes as a secure URL shortener that… Read More »
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