June, 2010 — Tech News and Analysis

Archive for June 2010

PrintWhatYouLike is a free bookmarklet that lets you select regions of any web page and format them to make them suitable for printing. By removing the content you’re not interested in before hitting the print button, you’ll save paper, ink and time. Read More »

Firefox is a laggard in the mobile browser market, having lost early advantage to WebKit which is at the core popular mobile browsers including those on Android and iPhone. The not-for-profit group is confident that it can stage a comeback by focusing on MeeGo and Android. Read More »

 
 

More Internet users are tuning in to online video regularly, with half of all viewers watching video online each week, according to a survey conducted by Frank N. Magid Associates. That’s up from 43 percent of users who watched online video weekly the previous year. Read More »

Amazon today released Kindle for Android, which provides access to the more than 620,000 titles in the Kindle bookstore. Although this release of the free software has a few missing features, the app is perfect for reading when you have a few minutes to spare. Read More »

President Barack Obama today has signed a memorandum supporting the release of 500 MHz of spectrum for mobile broadband services. As gestures go, this is a nice one akin with the president’s support for network neutrality. It’s a big endorsement, but ultimately could mean little. Read More »

Several of us here at TheAppleBlog have gotten our sweaty mitts on the new iPhone 4, and have had a chance to jot down some impressions after a few days. Perhaps you’ll find the following helpful in making the decision to purchase Apple’s new mobile phone. Read More »

Today on the Net: The FCC stops the shot clock in its review of the Comcast-NBCU deal, enterprising businesses are looking to offer FaceTime sex chat services on the iPhone 4 and Canoe Ventures is launching its first interactive ads with Comcast and Time Warner Cable. Read More »

Early online video pioneer JibJab announced this morning that it reached a new milestone, having completed more than a million transactions over the past 12 months, as it transitions from a business primarily driven by advertising to one selling personalized videos, pictures and other services. Read More »

Xtreme Power is nothing if not big in its ambitions. It’s been looking to raise funding for a 2 GW battery plant and laccording to a filing posted today, the company has raised $18 million of a planned $29 million round. Read More »

If you need a throwaway email address — perhaps you’d like to sign up for an online service without providing your real email address because you’re concerned about spam — look no further than tempalias. It’s a simple service that generates a temporary email address. Read More »

Pandora has had a charmed mobile history — the company’s music streaming app is one of the most popular on just about every type of phone out there. So it’s worth hearing Pandora CTO Tom Conrad’s advice about building for various mobile platforms. Read More »

Beleaguered Sprint has taken a dual-pronged attack to stem the flood of lost subscribers. The network has jumped firmly behind Android with the EVO 4G. The announcement today of the Samsung Epic 4G demonstrates the firm’s realization that its 4G window of opportunity is closing. Read More »

More Must Reads

Apple announced today that it has sold more than 1.7 million new iPhones in the first three days of the device being on sale. That’s a record among Apple’s own product launches, and I’d guess that it’s some kind of record for the industry at large. Read More »

uTorrent, known as one of the most popular and P2P file sharing clients for Windows, is coming to the Mac: A first 1.0 stable version is available now for download, and uTorrent maker BitTorrent Inc. is planing to soon offer feature parity between the two versions. Read More »

Google Chrome is now used more than the Apple Safari browser in the U.S. for the first time on record with an 8.97 percent share, according to StatCounter. But both browsers are built on WebKit, which is becoming more important on desktops and the mobile web. Read More »

The battle over subscribers and market share between the two phone company giants AT&T and Verizon has now solidly moved onto the smart grid. The latest move from AT&T comes this morning with a partnership with smart grid firm Current Group. Read More »

Odds and ends from around the greentech web that we’re reading this morning. Read More »

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