July, 2010 — Tech News and Analysis

Archive for July 2010

Today on the net: Qualcomm wants to sell FLO TV, Canada’s Netflix users will have a hard time with bandwidth caps, 7-Eleven’s branded web show gets two million views in three weeks, YouTube has selected the jury for its Play award and more. Read More »

Apple again delayed availability of the white iPhone 4, only a week after saying the device would be available by the end of June. There might indeed be production issues related to the color, but Apple could be using the time to mitigate future antenna issues. Read More »

 
 

In July, 2010, Apple’s flagship products (not mice, keyboards or displays) but the products Apple chooses to feature at the top of the store’s main page are now 50% mobile. It’s only now that Apple’s role as a mobile tech company becomes immediately apparent. Read More »

The number of internet users in China rose by 9.4 in the first six months of the year, and is now at 420 million, according to China’s Internet Network Information Center. It’s a huge market, and one that’s getting faster speeds with government subsidized fiber deployments Read More »

Vevo and YouTube will be pushing deeper into the live music scene with a five-part concert series that will be streamed live online. Their new “Unstaged” live music series will feature artists like John Legend and interactive features, like the ability to switch camera angles. Read More »

Hybrid technology is really getting its day in court. A former General Motors worker and her husband have been accused of stealing (and trying to sell to a Chinese competitor) $40 million in trade secrets related to hybrid vehicles. Read More »

Did you buy a bumper from Apple already, or are you planning on getting one to rectify the very not-fictitious reception issues Steve Jobs petulantly made light of while at the same time acknowledging? Today is the day to begin the process of healing, if so. Read More »

The second quarter of 2010 was an especially eventful one for the fast-moving mobile space, and amid the rise of LTE and WiMAX, speculation about Palm, and the end of unlimited data plans, the biggest story to emerge was the ever-escalating battle between Apple and Google. Read More »

MobileTechRoundup 216

Join James, Matt and Kevin live for this week’s audio podcast where they’ll cover this week’s mobile technology news and share experiences with the latest software, hardware and web services. If you missed the live show, you can grab an MP3 audio recording. Read More »

I finally get to dig into all of the applications that I’ve been reading about for years but haven’t had the chance to try. My first foray was to look into the area of PKM. Would I find a tool that suited me on my Mac? Read More »

Apple has announced that the white iPhone 4 has been delayed once more, with a product launch not now expected until sometime later this year. The factory making the white model is apparently having problems achieving the “perfect combination of paint thickness and opacity”. Read More »

Along with eager smart grid acquirers EnerNOC and GridPoint, looks like Honeywell is becoming yet another firm to sell your smart grid startup to. On Thursday, building automation giant Honeywell said it has acquired E-Mon, a thirty-year-old company that sells submetering hardware and software. Read More »

More Must Reads

Another week is in the bag and time to look back and see what I learned from the happenings in Mobile Tech Manor. It was a week largely focused on apps, and I gave a lot of thought to my shift from “programs” to “apps”. Read More »

Flipboard, a new content-browsing app for the iPad, raises many of the same thorny copyright issues that Google has been dealing with for years on Google News and Google Books. Is it a value-added service that content publishers should be thankful for, or a copyright-infringing parasite? Read More »

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

Clicker is bringing new aspects to its video search and discovery engine, with the launch of new social tools that will allow its users to check in and rate their favorite programs, make recommendations to other users and find out what their friends are watching. Read More »

Thanks to several Droid handsets, Verizon is doing just fine without the coveted iPhone. Droid devices are sold out and those in use are helping to drive wireless data revenues up for the largest U.S. carrier, which added 665,000 net postpaid subscribers in the past quarter. Read More »

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