Facebook’s real focus with the launch of Places isn’t individual users or even Foursquare: instead, it sees the service as a way of making a major push into local businesses and local advertising markets, and the company with the most to lose isn’t Foursquare but Yelp. Read More »
Archive for August 2010
Google has sold out of its “substantial initial inventory” of the Nexus One set aside to sell to developers. HTC, the maker of the Nexus One, will have more units for Google as soon as possible. The AMOLED shortage will affect when additional inventory is available. Read More »
Steve Levitan, executive producer of ABC hit show Modern Family, has a Hulu problem. The problem, as he sees it, is that if Hulu goes public — which could happen as soon as the end of 2010 — content providers will be left in the lurch. Read More »
Congratulations to Manuel Ponce de Leon, the winner of our CrowdConf 2010 ticket giveaway. Coming to San Francisco on October 4th, CrowdConf is the first conference centered around the field of crowdsourcing and the future of distributed work, discussing the flattening of the global labor market. Read More »
Through a partnership with Japan’s conglomerate Itochu, EnerDel, is a subsidiary of Ener1, is the exclusive battery supplier for Think City electric vehicles, and has been building a battery factory in Indiana with the help of funds from the U.S. Department of Energy. Read More »
Following on from Oracle’s surprise acquisition of Sun, Stephen Jannise did some crystal-ball gazing and came up with a list of companies that could be potential targets for Oracle. He contends that the Sun move shows that Oracle isn’t afraid of doing deals in unexpected areas Read More »
Some analysts are assuming that Facebook’s new location feature will crush Foursquare, the startup that has popularized the location-based service business, because of the sheer size of the giant social network. But Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley says he is confident that his company will ultimately win. Read More »
The time lag between DVD release dates and the availability of films on cable video-on-demand services has been drastically reduced over the past year, falling from an average of 21 days in 2009 down to just five days in the first half of this year. Read More »
While everyone experiences job-related stress at one time or another, those of us who work online have a different type of stress. We trade stressful office environments for the stress that results from spending too many hours in front of the computer with little human interaction. Read More »
Nokia today purchased Motally, a San-Francisco-based web and mobile software analytics firm, which is a solid step towards improving the Ovi application store. Armed with demographic, application performance and other data, third-party developers can optimize their Qt, Symbian, Meego and Java applications for Nokia devices. Read More »
How you drive, where you drive and the weather conditions through which you drive an electric vehicle can change the vehicle’s range dramatically (how far the vehicle can go on a single battery charge). Mobile app maker Celadon wants to help. Read More »
RIM has opened the figurative doors on the newest version of the BlackBerry App World. This app store has been in beta for a while, and it brings the RIM online market more inline with the competition. Easier navigation and cheaper apps are now available. Read More »
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