Wouldn’t it be nice if there were a crystal ball to predict the potential success for a mobile app? Unfortunately, there isn’t, but the next best thing might be here: A look at the success rate over 6 months from more than 100,000 Android apps. Read more »
We’ve filled up a lot of posts at GigaOM discussing spectrum and the supposed capacity crunch carriers face, but all those references to megahertz and gigahertz can get somewhat confusing. Luckily RootMetrics has prepared a handy graphical primer explaining the ins and out of the airwaves. Read more »
Mobile app developers relying on ad revenues may want to invest more effort into targeting larger screen devices. A new infographic from inneractive shows that the click-through rates between smartphones and tablets is vastly different, with a 1.4 to 5 times better result on tablets. Read more »
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Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablet, widely viewed as the only real challenger to Apple’s iPad is out in the wild. Those who got the device have been putting it through the paces. Online video platform, Ooyala has taken data from its platform. Here is what Fire owners are watching. Read more »
While Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is busy courting developers with free Lumia devices to promote its new mobile OS of choice, Microsoft’s Windows Phon… Read more at paidContent »
Wow.. just like that Linux is 20-years-old. The Linux Foundation as part of the 20th anniversary celebrations has come up with this infographic that includes stats that illustrate the changes in Linux over the years. There are some great nuggets of information in here. Read more »
Netflix has a catalog of 51,000 movies and TV show episodes, which can be watched on more than 450 devices. Those numbers have helped Netflix to become the biggest video subscription service in the U.S. Check out our infographic for a success story in numbers. Read more »
Web companies like Google and Facebook gain business advantage by analyzing large volumes of rapidly changing data about their users, but they are far from alone. A recent infographic from Get Satisfaction charts the volume of data stored in 17 key industry sectors, illustrating that most ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Big data has the potential to cut operating costs by nearly 50% across all sectors of manufacturing. Get Satisfaction makes several interesting claims about opportunities for big data in an infographic released this month. Market segments such as manufacturing are generating far more data (966 petabytes […] Read more »
Some people just seem to have “it” — that spark that makes them seem like they have an inside track on everything and everyone worth knowing. There’s no question that, in the technology industry, Oracle co-founder and CEO Larry Ellison is one of those people. Read more »
Is there a tech bubble or is it really a boom? Ask a thousand people and you are going to get a thousand answers. To give you a historical perspective on the last Internet bubble/boom and the current bubble/boom, here is a handy infographic. Read more »
Nimbuzz, a Rotterdam, Netherlands-based Internet telephony company says it has signed up 50 million registered users across the globe. That’s minuscule when compared to Skype, but it’s still significant milestone for the upstart company which signs up 100,000 new users a day. Read more »
Companies worldwide are incorporating mobile technology and applications into their operations to increase productivity and revenue and reduce paperwork. This explosion in the use of mobile devices in the enterprise will help to fuel demand for mobile apps, as this infographic shows. Read more »
Mobile workers just don’t put the phone down, according a new report from iPass, which provides Wi-Fi and 3G network access to enterprise clients for use by their employees. The results of the report are illuminating, if not also a little scary. Read more »
If you, like millions of others, witnessed any of today’s Royal Wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton on the TV, Internet or in… Read more at paidContent »
There were 5 billion apps downloaded in 2010, with that number predicted to balloon to 21 billion by 2013. The infographic below details how… Read more at paidContent »
A new report from online publishing company Yudu Media presents a very convincing case that when it comes to marketing and audience, few devices can compare with the iPad. The report paints a picture of a device tailor-made to sell content, products and services. Read more »
The flood of venture capital from 2005 through 2007 slowed considerably, but after a slow 2009, the money and venture investors seem to be back in funding action. In 2010 2,792 companies raised a total of $23.7 billion. See what’s changed in this infrographic. Read more »
A comparison of demographic data about Facebook’s users vs. Twitter’s users shows that there are a lot of similarities between the two platforms, but also some key differences in how people use the two networks — including how often they visit and update their status. Read more »
iPhone and iPad app discovery website App of the Day spent some time analyzing App Store data and came up with some interesting findings, which they compiled in this infographic. Check it out for a detailed look at how Apple’s mobile marketplace ticks. Read more »
Under Carol Bartz, who took over as CEO in January 2009, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) has seen a seemingly endless number of executives coming and goi… Read more at paidContent »
This infographic, created by Jesse Thomas of digital creative agency Jess3, shows the relative size of social networks and online services such as Skype, Gmail, MySpace, Twitter and Foursquare, and also shows the proportion of their user base that access the service via a mobile device. Read more »
For the last three years, there have been more than 40 acquisitions of location-oriented technology startups. Though location startups are all the rage right now, so far this year there have only been 15 deals. Could we be due for a deluge of deals? Read more »
