The CEO of South Korean consumer electronics giant LG resigned today to take responsibility for the company’s poor performance in the smartphone space. Yong Nam will be replaced by the head of LG International. LG reported a loss of $103 million in the latest quarter. Read More »
Archive for September 2010
The number of worldwide mobile subscriptions is expected to cross the 5-billion threshold this month, or roughly 73.4 percent of the global population. What happens, however, when voice migrates to expensive data networks? Might we be able to call fewer people around the world? Read More »
Itsy is a Twitter client that’s designed to take up minimal screen real estate; particularly useful if you’re working on a smaller laptop screen. It’s like a condensed version of Tweetie; it uses a smaller font and more compact design to achieve the space savings. Read More »
NewsTilt, a media startup that launched in April, shut down just two months later. Co-founder Paul Biggar has written an analysis of why it collapsed so quickly, and his post contains some useful lessons — not just for media-related startups, but for startups of all kinds. Read More »
Where does the iPad fit in to a perfect gamers lifestyle of infinitely available devices? I have found myself gravitating more towards graphically intensive puzzle games on my iPad, not the tired old handheld favorites like Bejeweled, Tetris or Trism. Read More »
Media mogul Ted Turner says if he were to start over now as an entrepreneur, he would work in clean energy. Turner, who’s been investing in solar for the past few years, made the remarks at Google Zeitgeist this week. Read More »
How do you know when phone companies are in panic mode? You see them hastily organize summits and build consortiums to compete with a hot technology and ride a popular trend. They’re doing it again: this time with plans to build an operating system. Read More »
TubeMogul’s PlayTime ad network has grown dramatically since being launched earlier this year, and is now ranked second in terms of potential reach among advertisers. With 206.7 million unique visitors and 97 percent of online viewers in August, it trails only BrightRoll in potential reach. Read More »
In the spirit of reuse, I thought it would be nice to put all of my thoughts the pros, cons and things to think about when making the move between corporate web working and freelance web working, and vice versa. Read More »
Today on the Net: A third of young Netflix users substitute the service for pay television, Jeffrey Katzenberg lashes out at 3-D skeptics, Project Canvas incorporates as YouView and Time Warner could lose subscribers in the third quarter. Read More »
Turning big, opaque datasets into online databases you can query is a worthy pursuit. Two new startups I met recently, Semantifi and FindTheBest, promise to reveal the hidden secrets of the web by understanding them semantically. They’re both using human power to format topic-specific web applications. Read More »
Microsoft is readying for the fall appearance of Windows Phone 7 handsets, but Verizon won’t have its name on any of them. Big Red will not be launching a Windows Phone 7 handset this year, but stated today it will “probably release a phone in 2011″. Read More »
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