Ground Truth, a mobile measurement firm, today reported that consumers use phones more for social networking than any other purpose. This usage is giving rise to social mobile handsets, five of which are already available to ride the social mobile wave. Read More »
Archive for April 2010
Voice control of smartphones can be a useful way to interact with information and to make things happen. I use Dragon Dictation on the iPhone and the iPad. The folks at Nuance have shared that Dragon Dictation is now available for select BlackBerry phones. Read More »
The nagging cousin of the home electronics world — home energy consumption products — are finally getting some attention from the cool kids. This morning Belkin announced that it has acquired a stealth startup called Zensi that makes technology for sensing and monitoring electricity… Read More »
Just like Apple with its iBookstore, Zinio has established relationships with an impressive array of publications. As such, you can expect to find enhanced editions of magazines Cosmopolitan, T3 and Rolling Stone among others. However, unlike Apple’s iBookstore, Zinio certainly doesn’t live up to the hype. Read More »
LinkedIn has rolled out some enhancements to its sharing features that allow users to post links and images to the service, features that now look virtually identical to those at Facebook and on Google Buzz. But is copying other social networks going to help LinkedIn grow? Read More »
Warner Bros. Acquires Turbine, Developer of Lord of the Rings Online; Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, the video game division of the Burbank movie studio, said it has acquired Turbine Inc., a Massachusetts developer of massively multiplayer online games. (LA Times blog) Kit Digital to Power Tribeca… Read More »
I actually love working in Freckle. What that said, it’s always been kind of a hassle to take time tracking info from Freckle and build my invoices, so I was thrilled to hear that the Freckle team had added invoicing to the service. Read More »
Join media companies that are leading the new broadband video era — MTV Networks, NBC Sports, EPIX and IDC — for a live video discussion moderated by VideoNuze’s Will Richmond on Tuesday, April 27th at 1 p.m. ET / 10 a.m. PT. Hear how they’re using new… Read More »
I was a PC for the longest time. In the late 90s Apple caught my attention as Macs were all we had in grade school. After spending an hour on Mac OS X 10.1, I was hooked and decided it was time to switch to Mac. Read More »
AT&T’s said today its wireless division grew to account for 45 percent of revenues in the first quarter. Indeed, the carrier is betting big on wireless through the sale of phones with data plans and an emphasis on providing wireless connectivity for the Internet of things. Read More »
This morning didn’t start as planned. At 5 A.M. there was a loud “boom”, and the power went out. I have been working on my MacBook using a 3G connection. Working in the glow of the laptop screen reminds me of the period after Hurricane Ike. Read More »
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