On Monday of next week, T-Mobile will introduce new prepaid plans for handsets and data devices. Also launching next week is T-Mobile’s first prepaid 3G mobile broadband dongle, the Jet Prepaid USB Stick, which can be used with plans by the day, week or month. Read More »
Archive for October 2010
A web series about the inner workings of a comedy website is the kind of formula you’d think would only work once. But Cracked.com’s Agents of Cracked proves yet again that execution makes all the difference. To be clear: Agents of Cracked is really quite… Read More »
Android phones like the EVO and Droid X have a front-facing camera to enable making video calls. The iPhone 4 has a camera too, and while FaceTime is Apple’s app for making calls on that platform, newcomer Tango makes calls possible on both iOS and Android. Read More »
Nearly three of every four handsets hitting the Android Market are now running modern versions of Google’s mobile operating system, just as rumors begin swirling around Gingerbread, the next Android version. Between Froyo’s uptake and core apps developed as add-ons, Google is quietly reducing Android fragmentation. Read More »
Silicon Valley, like any other industry town, has its own rhythm: vacillating between boom and bust. The severity of the bust (or boom) might change, but the cycles don’t change very much. These days, Silicon Valley is feeling very optimistic. A very active… Read More »
The percentage of Internet users who video chat on any given day has doubled over the past year. While still a tiny percentage of the overall market, users are quickly taking to the idea of video chat and integrating it into their every day lives. Read More »
I’ve really been enjoying reading books using e-book readers. But while many e-readers are good at what they do, they are either tied to a specific vendor, or don’t support Adobe’s widely-used DRM. For reading such books, the free Bluefire Reader for iOS is now available. Read More »
As social networks become more popular, the challenge of finding relevance amid all the noise becomes exponentially harder. Klout, which is trying to build a comprehensive database of social influence online, says it is now integrating activity from Facebook into its service as well as Twitter. Read More »
Consert uses Verizon’s 3G network to curb consumption of individual home’s HVAC systems, water heaters, and pool pumps and aggregates those savings — which they claim come to between 10 and 15 percent — to offer utilities the equivalent of a “virtual peaker plant.” Read More »
Clearwire, the WiMAX operator with deep spectrum assets, huge network build out expenses and billions in debt is looking to sell up to $5 billion worth of spectrum, according to Bloomberg. I speculated in June, that Clearwire was readying for such a sale. Read More »
As data volumes skyrocket, startups looking to take advantage of the opportunity in Big Data need to focus on the art of statistical-learning algorithms, says the founder of Dataspora. Modeling and analysis through algorithms is what will determine the winners and losers in Big Data. Read More »
I’m a fan of Posterous, but I don’t actually use it all that much. For a while, I was using PicPosterous for iPhone to share photographic memories of special events, but the app was limited and it didn’t take. Now, Posterous has released an official app. Read More »
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