You think mobile data demand is big today, with 94 million smartphone shipped this year and 5 billion mobile subscribers? Well Cisco says it’s going to get a lot bigger by 2015, with worldwide mobile data traffic set to reach 6.3 exabytes per month. Read More »
Archive for January 2011
T-Mobile is debuting the Dell Streak 7 Android tablet this week, the first 4G tablet available on the carrier’s data network. While the 21 Mbps radio shines, some design and hardware choices may hamper the Streak 7 from being a contender in the upcoming tablet wars. Read More »
Apple officially stopped producing and selling its Xserve servers today, but that doesn’t mean the consumer-centric company is done in the data center. Mac OS X as a guest operating system atop VMware is an intriguing notion should Apple decide to pursue it. Read More »
When Microsoft reported earnings for its most recent quarter, Peter Klein, chief financial officer with the company waxed eloquent about the success of Kinect, a new kind of controller based on motion sensing technology. That success is helping boost fortunes of another Silicon Valley company. Read More »
AOL is investing even more in its online video strategy, adding European video distribution network GetViral in a deal worth $97.6 million. The deal comes on top of acquisitions of startups StudioNow and 5min last year, as AOL tries to expand its video business. Read More »
Among my friends and family, I am The Apple Guy, a title which stemmed from a single computer purchase years ago. So how did a brand become so inextricably tied up in who I am as a person, and what are the consequences of that link? Read More »
As social media becomes more mainstream, we still lack effective ways to figure out who we should pay attention to, and so the race to continues to try and measure online reputation. Should it be based on activity? Number of followers? A voting system? Read More »
Last week President Obama unveiled the big picture for U.S. clean energy policy. But this week begins the long saga to actually reach those goals, and the path forward will be wrought with twists and turns and compromises. Read More »
Skyhook’s deal to provide the location information for Priceline’s Hotel Negotiator Android app illustrates the recent work Skyhook has done to get around an impasse with Google that has limited the reach of its location technology on mobile apps. Read More »
The BBC wants to bring personal video recommendations to its iPlayer catch-up service, and it’s been testing a number of methods and algorithms as part of a multiyear research project. The broadcaster just finished a final field test, and its lessons learned are worth a look. Read More »
A week after launch, Samsung, maker of the Galaxy Tab, announced more than 600,000 units had been sold. In early December, that number climbed to more than a million, and in January reached two million. But is it really a threat to the iPad’s dominance? Read More »
A year-and-a-half after an EU commission requested research into a universal phone charging standard, various telecommunications bodies around the globe have approved micro USB as the universal standard to charge data-enabled mobile phones. It’s good news, but even better is widespread support from… Read More »
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