This week has been one spent fighting the flu while business in Mobile Tech Manor was conducted as usual. I had the unfortunate opportunity to find out what happens when a cloud service fails. Come on in and I’ll share my week with you. Read More »
Web
The Skyfire browser brings the desktop web experience to the phone, and until today Android phone owners were unable to share in that experience. Skyfire 2.0 has been released today for the Android platform, and the full Flash experience (sorry Jobs) is part of the package. Read More »
Given recent economic challenges around the globe, one might conclude that demand for the web is down, but apparently not. According to a report from research firm TeleGeography, international bandwidth usage continued to grow in spite of the global recession of the past few years. Read More »
In a preview of its upcoming State of the Web report, Opera says that Apple’s iPhone is the currently the No. 3 device used by Opera Mini users worldwide. That’s a nice statistic, but the follow-up information doesn’t show that iPhone owners are leaving Safari behind. Read More »
Is there room for another browser on Android? Mozilla says yes with the first experimental release of Fennec for Android. I took it for a spin and it looks promising. But why does Mozilla want its browser on smartphones? The answer has to do with desktops. Read More »
Quora is one of the few web services I actually enjoy using, mostly because of the high quality of engagement with other Silicon Valley people. But before letting me through the door today, it asked me to agree to its new terms of service. Read More »
It’s Friday and we know what that means boys and girls. Time for another look at the week in Mobile Tech Manor. This is one of those weeks when I can’t believe it’s almost over already. This week I went from four phone carriers to two. Read More »
Prior to the launch of the iPad bloggers started thinking about how convenient the slate might be for blogging. I wouldn’t want to use the iPad as my only blogging tool, but I admit I am finding it more useful than I thought it would be. Read More »
Adobe is finally throwing in the towel, saying it will no longer invest in CS5 for Apple’s mobile OS. But it shouldn’t have taken Adobe this long to realize it wasn’t welcome on the iPhone — the company played a waiting game and it lost. Read More »
At Facebook F8 conference, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the company will do a billion likes across the web by end of the day. To some it would be an infrastructure nightmare, but not so for Facebook, which is prepared well with its own data centers. Read More »
Any debate between open or closed systems has to touch on open-source software and the ways companies are attempting to build code as a community effort while profiting off of it in some way. I talked to Mark Shuttleworth about how Ubuntu walks that line. Read More »
Facebook’s third f8 developer conference kicks off tomorrow in San Francisco and online, with the social networking company likely to announce what is essentially a game plan to not only socialize the web, but to marginalize the pre-social web. But while such a plan… Read More »
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