Even if you don’t believe real-time feeds will become the dominant content consumption paradigm, they’re clearly a growing force. Consumer-paid access to real-time feeds is largely for paid mobile apps, and advertising is the immediate payoff. So here’s how social media companies can best cash in. Read More »
Archive for October 2010
Research in Motion is set to release the second BlackBerry running its new operating system. The BlackBerry Style will be hitting Sprint on Halloween and has a flip form aimed squarely at the consumer. The Style will be priced $99.99 for customers signing a new contract. Read More »
Two years after the original G1 handset, T-Mobile’s G2 improves in every way: from the newest version of Google Android to a high resolution touchscreen and an extremely usable slide-out QWERTY keyboard. At $199 and with support for T-Mobile’s fast 3G network, the G2 is excellent. Read More »
A tipster speaking to the LA Times says Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg, two of tech’s most influential figures, got together for dinner at Steve’s place two weeks ago. No word on what they ate, but fledgling music social network Ping was definitely on the menu. Read More »
0boxer is an extension for Gmail that encourages you to read and archive messages, rewarding you with points and badges for reaching “inbox zero.” The service wasn’t operational when Simon first took a look at it, but last week I put it through its paces. Read More »
Facebook has been caught in another privacy-related dust-up, after the Wall Street Journal reported that a number of the network’s most popular apps and games have been sending “personal information” to third parties, including advertisers. But is this a real privacy breach or an overreaction? Read More »
Netflix announced last week that it would begin supporting disc-free streaming from Sony PlayStation 3 game consoles today, but Nintendo Wii owners got a bit of a surprise as the subscription video rental firm also rolled out a disc-free implementation on that game platform this morning. Read More »
Mitek Systems will today introduce Mobile Photo Bill Pay, a system that allows snapping a photo of any bill and having it paid from customer’s accounts at participating financial organizations. Bills can be paid by taking a photo of a paper invoice with a smartphone. Read More »
Most people remember WeatherBug as an ad-based desktop application that was once pretty hard to uninstall. But the company has been trying to figure out how to sell its weather services to the smart grid industry, and this morning announced its first official smart grid products. Read More »
Angry Birds just passed 2 million downloads on Android, making it the fastest downloaded app on Android Market ever. The successful launch on Friday says a lot about the game and about the state of Android Market. Here are five things we learned: Read More »
Skype today announced that it has signed up KDDI, a Japanese phone company, which will integrate Skype into some of its handsets. This makes KDDI one of the handful of cellphone companies (including Verizon Wireless) Skype is looking for growth, ahead of its IPO. Read More »
You can’t accesss Hulu.com with a new Google TV device out of the box, but some of the first owners of Sony’s Google-powered Internet TV have already figured out a work-around: Apparenyly, all it takes to get all those TV shows is a simple settings change. Read More »
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