April, 2010 — Tech News and Analysis

Archive for April 2010

These numbers are in late, but better late than never. According to a recent post on the Silverlight Blog, NBC Sports had more than 2.2 million unique viewers streaming Sunday Night Football games during the 2009 season. With 17 games over the course of… Read More »

ARM, whose architecture is the basis of the processors inside most cell phones, plans to tour the country sharing the future of mobile computing in the coming weeks. Before that effort got underway I asked for a sneak peak which is shared in the following video. Read More »

 
 

These 10 bike sharing programs offer a glimpse of how a growing number of cities and unconventional transit players are putting wi-fi, solar power and smartphones to work in the service of mobility on demand. Read More »

ExpenseBay Takes the Pain Out of Expense Reporting

Like its competitor Expensify, ExpenseBay can automatically import transactions from credit cards. You can also enter cash transactions via your smartphone (using the free iPhone or BlackBerry apps), and scan or email photos of receipts to attach to expense items. Read More »

Daily Sprout

Recurve Launches Energy Efficiency Software: San-Francisco home energy audit startup Recurve Software has released an application that enables home energy-efficiency contractors to create home-efficiency reports with recommendations. — CNET. Read More »

Twilight Vs. Vlogger Alex Day: No Contest

Confession: I make fun of the ever-so-slightly-popular teen vampire book series Twilight a lot, but all of my information is second-hand, because I decided a long time ago to never actually read the books. Alex Day has made me feel pretty good about this decision.… Read More »

Lenovo sold its mobile handset division in 2008 only to buy it back in late 2009. It now says that up to 20 percent of its revenues will come from mobile products, including smartphones, within the next five years. How will it make this transition? Read More »

GigaOM has been nominated for a Webby in the Best Business Blog category. Winners of the 14th annual Webby Awards will be announced on May 4. We are up against some heavyweights, so help us win the People’s Voice award by voting for us. Read More »

A phone that is reported to be the next iPhone has appeared on the web and has the techerati buzzing. It was first reported to be a prototype that was found, yes found in the wild as someone supposedly left it somewhere. Read More »

Facebook today is rolling out the first set of launches around its f8 developer conference this week. The site is making user profiles more dynamic, by transforming static interests (like cooking or hiking, or a certain band) into “community pages.” Read More »

The ash cloud caused by the eruption of a volcano beneath the Eyjafjallajoekull glacier in Iceland has led to travel chaos across much of northern Europe, disruption that is now stretching into a second week. Flights are grounded and many meetings are being missed. Read More »

Recently, photos of what many thought was the next iPhone surfaced, only to then be discredited as actually being pictures of a Japanese knock-off device. It’s beginning to look like whoever was trying to discredit that photo was actually just trying to cover up the truth. Read More »

More Must Reads

Dr. Horrible is back for more. For more of its fans love and spare change, that is, as the web’s favorite musical is gearing of for a Blu-ray release next month. The disc will feature a bunch of extras, including the previously… Read More »

FCC Stops Clock on Comcast-NBCU Merger Review; the commission delayed the comment and reply deadlines on the Comcast-NBC Universal merger until it receives more information from the parties. (Broadcasting & Cable) Seagate Adds Video Streaming Services to its Media Players; streaming services from Netflix and… Read More »

My recent account of mobile blogging on the iPad with a portable keyboard touched a vein, and I have been flooded with requests for information about other keyboards that will work with the iPad. This list of portable keyboards shows there a quite a few options. Read More »

Demand Media CEO Richard Rosenblatt, whose company is widely rumored to be headed for a billion-dollar IPO, has added Hollywood movie mogul Peter Guber to the board. Rosenblatt has also been playing tennis with the former studio head, and dining with him and other Hollywood stars. Read More »

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