Google’s Nexus S handset has landed at GigaOM HQ and we’ve got a short video showing unboxing and overview of the handset. The Nexus S will be the first smartphone to ship with Android 2.3, or Gingerbread, and offers support for near-field communications and video calls. Read More »
Archive for December 2010
Are the twisted tentacles of the so-called Kochtopus — the network of political funding from Koch Industries — moving away from support of climate change denial? That’s what a release claiming to be from the massive private company is claiming this morning. Read More »
YouTube has released their list of the 10 most watched commercials of 2010, and looking at it proves how when it comes to creating online advertising experiences, today’s Mad Men are finding real success by looking beyond the 30 second broadcast spot. Read More »
Amazon Web Services has upped the maximum image size in Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) to 5TB from 5GB. Clearly, a 1,000X increase is significant and probably is driven by the new class of customers AWS is catering to with its Cluster Compute and GPU Instances. Read More »
As WikiLeaks fights to remain online and solvent, the organization seems to be part of what could be a new form of media emerging: not a journalistic entity specifically, but a kind of investigative middleman or clearinghouse for the traditional media to use as a resource. Read More »
Google made it possible to edit and create Google Docs documents with your iPad on Nov. 17, but the editor it introduced lacked many features. Late Dec. 9, the company introduced the ability to switch to the full version of the editor to access those features. Read More »
We’re right in the middle of the holiday season, when the stress starts to accumulate until it reaches a breaking point. Start taking steps today to make some positive changes that will help you manage our stress over the next two or three weeks. Read More »
Rovio is taking its success with Angry Birds — 50 million downloads and counting — and using it to launch a new carrier-billing payment system. The mobile developer said it is launching Bad Piggy Bank early next year, allowing one-touch in-app billing to a user’s wireless… Read More »
Itron announced this morning that it plans to buy up French smart grid energy management and analytics company Asais. The deal shows how Itron continues to move beyond providing endpoints and hardware to selling end-to-end solutions, software and services. Read More »
Two months after Qualcomm decided to shut down its FLO TV service comes some good news for subscribers: The company will pro-rated refunds for the portable television service, and also give money back on device purchases. Too bad my HD-DVD player didn’t get the same treatment. Read More »
Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC has informed its suppliers at a conference this week that it expects to ship 60 million handsets in 2011. That is a phenomenal jump over the respectable 20 million handsets it will ship this year, due to the explosion of Android. Read More »
In response to complaints about MobileMe, the latest terse Steve-mail asserts Apple’s cloud services “will get a lot better in 2011.” That’s good, because it’s hard to imagine the industry-trailing MobileMe taking a downward turn from where it is in 2010. Read More »
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