According to a great blog post by taptaptap principal John Casasanta yesterday, advertising your iPhone or iPad application is useless. That begs the question, if you can’t sell apps by advertising them, then what exactly can you do to boost sales? Read More »
Archive for February 2011
California lawmakers have passed a bill to require all public and private utilities to get 33 percent of their electricity supplies from renewable sources by 2020. If becomes law, the legislation would make the state home to the toughest renewable energy mandate in the country. Read More »
We no longer live in a world where you’re likely to land a dream job with just a snazzy resume; employers now want hard evidence that you know your stuff and can deliver great results. Here are some tips to help you land that dream job. Read More »
Today Matt and Kevin review the week’s mobile tech news, share what to expect from next week’s Apple event and offer hands on impressions of the Motorola Xoom, the first Google Android Honeycomb tablet that’s now available. Participate in the show via the live chat session! Read More »
Crunchfish, a Swedish app company, has built software for mobile phones that turns the phone’s camera into a mouse. It’s one of several efforts to bring gesture-control to phones, and an example of how far motion control technology has come in the last few years. Read More »
We can cross off another item from the list of features that Amazon Web Services doesn’t offer, as this morning it announced an automated template feature called CloudFormation. It might not be the be-all, end-all of cloud templates, but it might not need to be. Read More »
GM isn’t the only auto maker with plans to act like a VC. This week, BMW launched BMW i Ventures, which will invest $100 million into mobile and eco-auto technologies, and has made its first investment in a mobile app called MyCityWay. Read More »
The first Honeycomb tablets are launching, but the store shelves for Android tablet apps are pretty empty, with just 16 titles appearing today. The race is on for developers to start boosting those numbers, because existing smartphone apps aren’t providing a rich tablet experience. Read More »
Apple unveiled new MacBook Pros Thursday, and the notebooks came equipped with Intel’s next-generation Sandy Bridge processors. Primate Labs gathered results from its Geekbench hardware performance measurement tool to come with some solid numbers showing the difference between the new MacBooks and their predecessors. Read More »
Google’s latest algorithm changes appear to be aimed directly at “content farms” such as Demand Media. Although the newly-public content company maintains that it won’t be affected by the changes, it seems obvious that Google is upping the ante in the content-farming game. Read More »
If you want to score early bird tickets for GreenNet 2011 — the only conference that looks at digital energy and how software, computing and the Internet can be used to fight climate change — grab ‘em while they’re still here! Early bird ticket sales end… Read More »
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