Thursday, I guest-hosted a live Q&A session at The Washington Post. The topic was upgrading to iOS 5, and also included questions about how iOS 5 and iCloud work, what features they offer, and how to transition to iCloud from other services. Read More »
Archive for October 2011
The world of mini nuclear reactor technology has gotten a big backer. Fluor said Thursday it has bought a majority stake in NuScale Power to bring the startup’s technology to market. Read More »
Apple repair site iFixit has already managed to secure an iPhone 4S and pulled it apart. Details of what’s inside reveal a design that’s fairly similar to its predecessor, as you might expect from the outside appearance of the 4S, but also show some noteworthy changes. Read More »
Of all the iOS 5/iCloud announcements made during this summer’s WWDC, the one that excited me the most was Documents in the Cloud. Unfortunately, it’s also turned into the one that disappointed me the most at launch, thanks to a number of issues. Read More »
When you’re investor in electric car company Tesla, you get to test drive the car you helped fund. Draper Fisher Jurvetson Partner Steve Jurvetson shot this video of his recent test drive of a Model S Beta around a track at Tesla’s Fremont, Calif. factory. Read More »
Sonic.net, a Bay Area ISP, has a service package and ethos that could disrupt the broadband market. Today it’s brand of disruption is limited to California, but Dane Jasper, the company’s CEO, says that Sonic.net plans to expand outside California. Read More »
Google Translate conversation mode, which allows two people to speak in different languages and have their words translated in near real time, is now expanding beyond English and Spanish to 14 new languages. The service is also getting some additional features that help facilitate conversations. Read More »
Last year, I did a back of the envelope estimate of revenues for Spotify for 2010 at $134 million, of which $80 million came from subscriptions and rest from advertising. It’s time for a mea culpa: I blew it. Here are the updated numbers. Read More »
There are 9 billion connected devices at present and by 2020 that number is going to explode to 24 billion devices, according to new statistics released by GSMA. The total number of mobile connected devices doubles from 6 billion today to 12 billion by 2020. Read More »
Movable Ink has raised $1.3 million for its real-time email marketing platform and is launching a new app gallery for customers. The company plans to use the money to build out its platform and move into verticals such as retail, publishing, travel, ticketing and events. Read More »
With iCloud, Apple introduced Photo Stream, a new feature that automatically syncs your photos across iOS devices, Macs and Windows computers. It makes transferring photos absolutely painless, but comes with one big caveat: Synced photos can’t be deleted from iCloud as of right now. Read More »
Thanks to our obsession with our smartphones and tablets, the demand for mobile data is exploding. Ericsson, a telecom equipment maker, says that from the second quarter of 2010 to the second quarter of 2011, mobile data traffic more than doubled and will continue to grow.… Read More »
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