With 1400 exhibitors, Mobile World Congress produced a lot of product and technology demos, most of the unmemorable. Three of those demos, though, really got my attention: iOnRoad’s augmented driving app, P2i’s water resistant nano-technology and Nokia’s 41-megapixel PureView camera phone sensor. Read More »
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The National Film Society channel sounds like it’s hosted by someone with a Ph.D. and a beard. Instead, it’s hosted by two guys with one mustache and barely six months of YouTube experience — who were tapped by PBS to host its first-ever Online Film … Read More »
Are Cylons in our future? Robots can already perform complicated tasks — from navigating mountain roads to winning on quiz shows. Daniel Butler explains how science fiction is starting to look more like science fact. Read More »
The big first-day pop in Yelp shares means that it’s now worth $1.5 billion. So what’s it to do with its newfound riches? Here’s a look at a few companies that might be an interesting fit, if Yelp were to go shopping for acquisitions. Read More »
Mobile World Congress took place this week, and aside from a few Microsoft-related announcements, the show was all about Android. We saw new phones from all but Samsung, with many slated for Android 4.0. OnLive Desktop launched for Android, bringing Windows to tablets and smartphones. Read More »
Early results of Udemy’s Faculty Project have been pretty successful, with more than 50,000 students signing up for the program. But that’s not all: Udemy is also bringing on ever more prestigious faculty, with its first Ivy League professor soon coming on board. Read More »
AT&T is asking its mobile customers with 2G-only phones to make the leap to 3G devices, warning them in a letter that their voice and 2G data quality may soon degrade. It looks like AT&T is following T-Mobile, replacing its GSM networks with new HSPA capacity. Read More »
What used to be exclusive to HTC is turning into an opportunity for its peers: T-Mobile is reportedly choosing handsets from Huawei to be part of the carrier’s myTouch smartphone lineup. The Chinese-based handset maker is slowly gaining a larger foothold in the U.S. Read More »
Today, Yelp had a spectacular initial public offering and is worth almost a billion dollars. There is more talk of a Twitter IPO and that too would be spectacular. But one thing in common between these two companies – a propensity for airbrushing the past. Read More »
Shooting and sharing movie footage all over New Zealand makes for connectivity challenges, but the crew of The Hobbit is making do. But not with magic; heck, even a powerful wizard such as Gandalf has limitations. Portable satellites and six kilometers of cable bring them broadband. Read More »
At their current and expected growth rates, tablet computers are on pace to start outselling traditional form-factor PCs by the third quarter of 2013, says Horace Dediu. It sounds crazy until you start looking at the numbers and the seismic shift towards highly mobile computing. Read More »
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