Smartphones didn’t always have Wi-Fi but it is now the norm. Fifty percent of Android devices consume more than 500 MB of data monthly through Wi-Fi hotspots, much more than 3G data usage. That’s a lot of data on phones, superphones or not. Read More »
Archive for August 2010
Adding mobile apps to ride-sharing options will open up the services to all those car poolers that just don’t want to plan in advance. On the other hand, maybe that’s not such a good thing. Read More »
A new site called Digg In The Future — created by 17-year-old high-school student Raj Vir as a research project — says that its algorithm can predict with 63-percent accuracy what shared links are going to make it to the front page of the Digg website. Read More »
One annoyance that I’ve found in dealing with multiple windows in OS X is how each application seems to view the green plus button a little differently. Divvy is an app that provides a user-defined solution to that oversight, and does it in style. Read More »
Android users are 80 percent more valuable than iPhone users, says Chitika, an online advertising network that serves 2 billion monthly impressions to over more than 80,000 websites. What’s driving this higher click-through rate on Android? A bad interface, Google “magic” or something else entirely? Read More »
Do we need yet another media player? Netgear certainly thinks so, and they added Blu-ray supoort to their new NeoTV 550 device make their case. The company is also releasing a number of Powerline products specifically targeted towards bringing HD video streaming to the living room. Read More »
Tom’s Planner — a simple online planning app — will move out of beta this Sunday, August 29. If you haven’t already tried it, it’s worth signing up before then, as all beta users will get a year’s free access to all of the app’s features. Read More »
Today on the Net: Fox Soccer has launched a subscription broadband offering that will make more than 700 soccer and rugby matches available, Channel 5 has decided to rejoin Project Canvas after the completion of its sale and TiVo released a new remote with QWERTY keyboard. Read More »
Apple recently re-branded its iPhone OS to the less device-specific iOS, and not only because it seemed ridiculous to have the iPhone operating system powering the iPad. No, as rumors surrounding the upcoming iTV suggest, Apple wants to bring iOS to more hardware platforms. Read More »
We’ll be talking about this week’s news and other big changes at our GigaOM Pro bunker event, “Author to Audience: Disintermediation in Publishing.” The room is at capacity, but we’re livestreaming the event and will also have the video archives available to GigaOM Pro subscribers. Read More »
While Rapid Electric Vehicles (REV) has been quietly deploying what could be the largest vehicle-to-grid project in the world, on Tuesday, the startup detailed a partnership with the Army to provide all-electric networked cars for its micro grid research project at Wheeler Air Base, Hawaii. Read More »
There is an incredible difference between handling your work when you’re the only person who you need to keep on track and when you’ve got to work with an entire team. Chris Brogan has made the transition between those two situations and then some. Read More »
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