The unlimited mobile data plan is going the way of the dodo. Bring-your-own-phone carrier H2O Wireless canceled its unlimited smartphone plan after just two months. How long before Sprint and the rest of the holdouts are forced to do the same? Read More »
Archive for November 2011
If, like me, you lost your original 10W iPad charger, don’t buy an official Apple replacement. Why? Because you can have a much better one: The twelvesouth PlugBug. It’s just as good at charging as the official version, and offers two-in-one charging with all MacBook adapters. Read More »
What’s more fun than a startup launch party? It’s Silicon Valley Rocks. Now in its fourth year, this fund-raiser for music education has featured bands of tech professionals from household names such as Google, Facebook, Quora, Twilio and even GigaOM. Read More »
Apple’s market share may be slipping, but its share of app revenue is huge and not looking like it will slide anytime soon, according to Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster. Using recent numbers, Munster figures Apple owns about 85 to 90 percent of current mobile app spending. Read More »
Tablets still tend to be early adopter devices, but they’re quickly becoming mainstream tools. By the end of 2014, one in every three Americans or 90 million users is expected to have a tablet, according to a new estimate by eMarketer. Read More »
The founders aren’t happy when people call HouseTrip a clone of Airbnb, but the European holiday rental site is hoping to go head-to-head with its American rival after scooping a substantial new round of investment. Read More »
Clean power giant NRG Energy has mostly been building a solar empire based on large centralized solar farms, but it’s keenly interested in the distributed solar market. That explains the company’s announcement that it has bought a project developer Solar Power Partners. Read More »
Join GigaOM Pro and our sponsor LexisNexis for a free analyst roundtable webinar, “Unifying the approach to big data: an enterprise case study on successfully managing legacy and new data,” on Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2011, at 10 a.m. PST. Read More »
Apple’s iPad makes up 65 percent of customer demand for tablets, according to a new survey. But for the first time, another competitor has emerged to catch a very healthy percentage of attention: the Kindle Fire. Still, here’s how Apple can win back total market dominance. Read More »
As is usually the case when Facebook adds new features, the rollout of its “frictionless sharing” has caused controversy because of privacy and oversharing issues. But more than anything, what Facebook’s changes illustrate is that we still need better filters for our growing signal-to-noise problem. Read More »
There’s been a lot of media buzz in recent months about the lack of racial and gender diversity in the tech startup landscape. Now new data from the National Venture Capital Association indicates that the VC field is similarly homogenous: It’s very white and mostly male. Read More »
AT&T is in the process of developing a home energy management service, which it plans to market to its wireless and wireline customers, according to AT&T Executive Director of Public Policy Jeffery Dygert. Read More »
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