BirdHerd, a tool that aims to make managing group Twitter accounts easier for companies and teams, today enters a month-long final round of private beta testing ahead of its public launch, and we have an exclusive invite code for WWD readers. Read More »
Archive for April 2010
In 10 years there will be 50 billion devices connected to the web, declared Ericsson’s President and CEO Hans Vestberg yesterday. Compare that with Intel’s estimates that by 2015 the world will have 15 billion connected devices up from 5 billion now. Read More »
Green:Net 2010 will see top green entrepreneurs, technologists and market-leading companies convene on April 29th in San Francisco. Register now for the conference where you can meet with thought leaders, technologists, investors, press, new startups and their future customers and get $75 off your ticket! Read More »
Warner Philips, the co-founder of Lemnis Lighting and great grandson of the founder of Philips electronics, says his company will launch a full suite of LED products at a Las Vegas lighting convention next month, and eventually “An IPO is one of the opportunities for… Read More »
For those of us who aren’t in the U.S., that “late April” international release date for the iPad was getting tantalizingly close. That’s why Apple’s announcement of a delay for international release today comes as such a disappointment. Read More »
The key to a successful social media marketing campaign, is knowing when — and how — to use the medium. That’s the central theme of my latest Long View for GigaOM Pro, “The Dos and Don’ts of Social Media Marketing” (subscription required). Read More »
It’s official — the iPad doesn’t suck — according to a press release by Apple. The company is pushing back the availability of the iPad outside the U.S. a month, due to higher than expected demand in this country. The U.S. 3G model is on schedule. Read More »
The White House wants to hear from average citizens with big ideas about what projects the government should tackle, and has asked them to respond on Twitter. The responses are being collected by Expert Labs, a non-profit run by former Six Apart executive Anil Dash. Read More »
ZAP, the low-speed electric vehicle maker with a history of making (and breaking) ambitious promises, is looking to a government lab for “smart charging” tech. The system can vary the rate and time at which a car draws juice from the grid. Read More »
For those that questioned the acquisition of Joost by ad firm Adconion last year, or the subsequent transformation of the online video portal into a video ad network, the early results are in, and they are surprisingly positive. Hidden in yesterday’s… Read More »
The Florida State Department of Juvenile Justice will use predictive analytics software from IBM to predict which of its juvenile offenders are likely to return to crime. Sounds like Minority Report, but get ready for cloud computing and real-time data analytics to usher in new surveillance technologies. Read More »
Apple’s iPad is a “runaway success” — perhaps too much of one. Today, the company delayed international iPad ordering by a full month, citing high demand. Did Apple incorrectly forecast the product mix between the Wi-Fi and 3G models? Read More »
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