Much of the hype in the mobile application space has come to be dominated by Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android operating system. Emerging markets will play a huge role as the worldwide market matures, though, and developers and app vendors should be paying close attention. Read More »
Archive for March 2010
Solyndra, the thin film solar startup that filed for an IPO back in December has updated its latest financial figures for the fiscal year that ended January 2, 2010 in an amended S-1 filing on Tuesday. According to the document Solyndra brought in revenues… Read More »
LikeCube combines metadata, user activity and personalization to help its clients, such as Qype, the European Yelp, recommend locations on a per-user basis. It works around the idea that the wisdom of the crowds isn’t smart enough to find the right place for everybody. Read More »
Previously only on the iPhone, ZumoDrive today introduced a mobile client for Android and webOS devices. It’s a top-notch solution for remote access to files, music or photos and works great for streaming tunes if you don’t want to carry all of your digital media. Read More »
How many times have you returned from a conference only to file the materials and never look at them again? Attending the event is only half of the equation. The other half is what you do with the information after you return home. Read More »
Hitwise research shows that less than 0.2 percent of Twitter users go to news and media sites after they visit the social network’s web site, which says more about the failure of media outlets to take advantage of Twitter than it does about Twitter users. Read More »
Xobni is one of those email utilities that when you try it you wonder how you lived without it. It integrates into Outlook and turns your email into a personal assistant. Xobni Mobile for BlackBerry is now available and brings the program’s power to the phone. Read More »
The American Film Institute (AFI) informed its supporters late last week that it will put its Digital Content Lab on hiatus, effectively ending a long-running program that matched up broadcasters and studios with software and device vendors, as well… Read More »
With a Pogoplug, getting files on the web for remote use couldn’t be easier. New features make the device more fun and useful: you can stream your media to an Xbox 360 or Playstation3 and data can be backed up automatically to a second Pogoplug. Read More »
“The web is becoming a live medium — sales and auctions happen in time, product launches, chats with celebrities, live video events and audio, games, events in virtual worlds — there are a huge amount of scheduled things taking place,” says Nova Spivack,… Read More »
Japan is the official leader when it comes to using its own sodium sulfur (NAS) batteries for energy storage on the power grid. There are close to 270 MW of NAS batteries on the grid in Japan and the country’s NGK Insulators is a… Read More »
The web is now host to many live events — streaming video, virtual worlds meetings, online sample sales — but there’s no grid to tell us where it all lives and what’s on at any one time. That’s what Live Matrix wants to do. Read More »
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