YouTube’s new Android app is a step backwards from Google’s overall web apps strategy. It also limits the availability of new features not just to Android users, but since it is available on Android 2.2 devices or above, still a minority of Android users, at that. Read More »
Archive for December 2010
Organizations tend to believe in collaboration as a means to make employees more productive and improve the way the institutions work, but most businesses and vendors selling collaboration tools go about it the wrong way, according to speakers at the Net:Work conference held in San Francisco.… Read More »
The analysts at Pike Research came out with a report this morning that claims that the adoption of cloud computing will lead to a 38 percent reduction in worldwide data center energy use by 2020. I’d like to respectfully disagree with such a simplistic finding. Read More »
Compellent announced today that it is in talks with Dell about a possible acquisition. Compellent would be a nice score for Dell. After failing to close the deal with 3PAR over the summer, Dell still needs a big acquisition to bolster its storage lineup. Read More »
Apple’s year-in-review iTunes Rewind special section of the iTunes Store went live today, and the App Store selections in particular give a good overview at the year that was for iOS software. Here’s a look at the big winners, and some interesting trends. Read More »
Intel CEO Paul Otellini realizes the company is late to the mobile party, and is counting on the tablet and smartphone segments to help it catch up. Those two mobile segments are dominated by competitors, so it’s not clear how successful Intel will be. Read More »
In a world where 300,000 Android phones are activated daily, does it make sense for Samsung to keep building its own smartphone platform when it also produces Android phones? Recent sales numbers and growing developer interest say yes; don’t count Bada out of anything just yet. Read More »
Michael Birch, the founder of Bebo, is returning to where it all began, signing on as an investor and advisor to the social network he built and later sold to AOL for $850 million. Read More »
Today, at our first-ever Net:Work event, we’re talking to the people developing the technology, addressing new management practices, and making online collaboration work in their own companies. Our livestream begins at 8:15 a.m. PT, and we will be live-blogging the onstage sessions throughout the day. Read More »
Today marks the introduction of GigaOm’s first Net:Work conference. The conference will examine the future of work, with topics ranging from the human cloud to new collaboration tools to the management of a remote workforce. Can’t join us in person? Then check out the live stream. Read More »
Apple made good on its promise to extend iTunes song previews to 90 seconds very early Thursday, Dec. 9. Only some songs 2:30 and longer will get the new preview length, though, with shorter tracks and some exceptions retaining the original 30 second preview length. Read More »
General Electric research shows that ZigBee uses less than half the power of Wi-Fi for home energy networking — a fact that cements its likely role as a key enabler of GE’s home energy management devices to come. Read More »
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