December 2010
Liz Gannes / NetworkEffect: Myspace Mulls Significant Layoffs, With Potential Sale Looming — Myspace-the long-troubled social networking site turned social entertainment hub-is in the midst of planning that could soon result in significant layoffs of its staff, according to multiple sources familiar with the situation.
Mobile maps have never looked this good on the iPhone. The Cartographer is a new app ($3.99 on the iTunes Store) that brings support for custom Google Maps, as well as the ability to download maps for use offline, all in a slick vintage user interface.
It’s one of those rare apps that make you sit up and take notice at first, thanks to its unique design and emphasis on usability, but remains...
Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: Clearwire Chair Craig McCaw to Quit Today — Cash-strapped Clearwire says no disagreement prompted McCaw’s resignation. The company’s survival is now in question as it struggles to build a nationwide high-speed wireless 4G network — (Bloomberg) — Clearwire Corp. …
Rating: The mists are clearing and we see a licence fee emerging
So much for NeoMedia‘s Crystal ball. The company recently outlined what 2011 has in store for 2D mobile barcodes. Curiously, however, there was absolutely no mention of eBay which is strange given that news leaked out a mere two days after its predictions that eBay has just licensed a whole bunch of NeoMedia’s patents. The burning...
Neil Hughes / AppleInsider: Apple investigating Ping-like social networking for retail shops — Apple has shown interest in creating a social networking tool for brick-and-mortar shopping, allowing iPhone owners to share comments, opinions and recommendations about any type of product.
Apple may be gearing up to announce its long-rumored iPhone for Verizon’s network within the next few weeks, “maybe by Valentine’s Day”, reports BusinessWeek.
Even if the announcement doesn’t happen, the mere rumor of its possibility will cast a shadow over next week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, where many cellphone carriers and manufacturers are set to show off their new...
Rating: Epsom woman has nightmare experience with Carphone
A young woman was reduced to tears by staff at the Epsom branch of the Carphone Warehouse when her handset was stolen in a nightclub. The staff at Epsom Carphone Warehouse demanded to know why she hadn’t visited Epsom police station within 48 hours of losing her mobile phone in the early hours of Saturday morning? The best bit is when...
Peter Parkes / The Big Blog: Skype for iPhone now with video calls — It’s as simple as that: our iPhone app now comes with video. Download it now from the App Store, or read on to find out more. — Skype for iPhone lets you make and receive free Skype video calls on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch, and works over both WiFi and 3G connections*.
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A study by ABI Research finds that consumers worldwide will send more than 7 trillion SMS messages in 2011, indicating a huge opportunity for marketers.
It looks like we won’t have to wait until next week’s Consumer Electronics Show to check out Verizon’s first 4G phone. HTC’s Thunderbolt Android smartphone was just outed tonight by the Android blog Droid Life.
From the looks of it, the phone is HTC’s Verizon spin on its popular Evo 4G device on Sprint. This time around though, it will be packing support for Verizon’s LTE 4G network, instead of...
Chris Ziegler / Engadget: Skype video calling for iPhone is official, available now — All signs have been pointing to this release for a few days now, but we’ll admit: we expected Skype to wait until CES next week to pull the covers off what could become its crown jewel service over the coming months.
Another trojan horse for devices running Google’s Android mobile operating system — this one capable of stealing information and uploading it to remote servers — has been spotted on third-party Android application marketplaces.
The Geinimi trojan horse gets onto your device via games and other applications that users download off third-party application marketplaces outside of the official...
Rating: Our adventures with the Motorola Defy
Given that as a mobile phone handset OS, Android is not only supposed to be ‘Open’, it’s also supposed to be free. Hence it follows that you shouldn’t have to pay anything to customise your Android phone. Having been a self-confessed Nokia fan for years, this particular hack has grown familiar with Nokia’s best handset features as well as its worst....
Ina Fried / Mobilized: Angry Birds Executive Says Apple Will Remain Developer Favorite Over Android — While Android has been getting lots of positive buzz in recent days, the picture is not entirely rosy in that neck of the mobile woods. — A top executive at Angry Birds creator Rovio says that it is still hard …
Most impressive mobile advertising campaigns of... →
True Blood. IAd. Target. Shrek. Google. Those are all words that come to mind when thinking back on 2010 and the way that mobile advertising evolved this year.
Reuters: Clooney, Google, U.N. watch Sudan using satellites — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Groups including the United Nations, Harvard University, Google Inc and an organization co-founded by actor George Clooney are launching a project using satellites to “watch” Sudan for war crimes before a vote that could split the African country in two.
Building on the success of its Galaxy S Android phones, Samsung is set to unveil a new version of its Galaxy Player portable media device that’s basically a Galaxy S phone sans phone functionality. In short, it’s Samsung’s answer to the iPod Touch.
Samsung will show off its new Galaxy Player at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas next week, the blog Samsung Hub reports.
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Ben Worthen / Wall Street Journal: Hurd Wants Accuser’s Letter Shielded — Mark Hurd, the former Hewlett-Packard Co. chief executive, is fighting to keep private the letter that led to his resignation from the technology behemoth and has triggered an investigation by federal regulators. — The eight-page letter …
Apple said Tuesday that it has removed a WikiLeaks app from its App Store because it violated the company’s developer guidelines.
Trudy Muller, a spokeswoman for Apple, said to the New York Times that apps “must comply with all local laws and may not put an individual or group in harm’s way.” The latter is a reference to complaints that WikiLeaks’ publication of secret diplomatic cables has put...
Rating: Nigeria overtakes USA in number of users
Based on data collected from its 80 million Opera Mini browser users around the world, the Norwegian software house has discovered that Google once again tops its State of the Mobile Web chart for 2010. In 2009, Facebook held the top slot but Google has returned to claim the Number One position. What Opera conveniently forgets to mention is that...
Lowe’s enables last-minute Christmas shopping via... →
Mobile Commerce Daily today - Lowe’s enables last-minute Christmas shopping via mobile; US mobile commerce sales to top $3.4B this year: ABI Research.
Glynnis MacNicol / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider: Joe Biden Compares Julian Assange To ‘High-Tech Terrorist,’ Says Justice Dept. Looking Into Charges — From Meet the Press this morning. — Vice President Joe Biden sounded quite grave on the subject of Julian Assange, whom he compared to “a high-tech terrorist”
Here’s our roundup of the week’s tech business news. First, the most popular stories VentureBeat published in the last seven days:
VentureBeat’s top ten video games of the year (vote for your favorite) — Game publishers aren’t thrilled that video game sales are down 5 percent year to date. But for gamers, it’s been an awesome year because 2010 saw the debut of some of the best games ever made.
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Paul Buchheit: The Cloud OS — My recent remark about the future of ChromeOS generated a surprisingly passionate response. Some said that my prediction was obvious and boring, but others disagreed, arguing instead that I am ugly and “don’t get it”. I won’t disagree with either side …
Liz Claiborne: Ads targeting smartphone users... →
Mobile Commerce Daily today - Liz Claiborne: Ads targeting smartphone users driving growth in mobile commerce; Bakers launches mobile store to meet customer demand.
Sharp is gearing up to spend around $1.2 billion on expanding its product lines for small and midsize LCD panels, most of which are meant for Apple’s iPhone, Reuters reports based on news today from Japan’s Nikkei business newspaper.
Apparently, Apple will cover a large portion of the $1.2 billion investment and is going to purchase much of Sharp’s LCD output for the iPhone. Apple is clearly...
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch: Another Key Feature Of Google +1: Massive-Scale Social Video Conferencing — Over the past few weeks, we’ve been able to dig up a bunch of details about Google’s secret forthcoming social service. The service, previously codenamed “Emerald Sea” but currently being called “+1” …
Applebee's relies on mobile to cater to... →
Applebee’s is letting consumers buy their friends and family gift cards online and send them directly to the recipient’s mobile device.
Even though we’re seeing a slew of Android tablets on the horizon, Apple’s iPad is expected to maintain its leading place in the tablet market into 2012, according to J.P. Morgan analyst Mark Moskowitz.
This, of course, should surprise no one. The iPad sparked the most recent tablet craze when it was announced early last year, this after the tablet market saw several false starts over the past...
Emmanuel Orssaud / PlayStation Blog: The Official PlayStation App, Coming Soon To iPhone And Android Handsets — I’m very happy to finally be able to announce on the PlayStation.Blog that we will launch the Official PlayStation App very soon. — The app will be available to download for iPhone and iPod Touch with OS 4 and above …
Mobile Marketer's Mobile Women to Watch 2011 →
Mobile Marketer’s Mobile Women to Watch 2011 list celebrates smart women who are expected to make a difference in mobile advertising, marketing, media and commerce in 2011.
The latest version of Google Maps for Android is now available, and as we’ve reported previously, it brings some amazing features with it like 3D building support, dynamic map drawing and access to maps offline.
Google Maps 5.0 relies on vector graphics, instead of flat 2D maps, to load its map data. Vector files are smaller and more flexible than typical graphics files, both of which make a...
Singularity Stories – Reading List for Singularity... →
Last week, I was very privileged to attend the Executive Development Program at Singularity University in Mountain View. This is basically a briefing by the world’s top experts on disruptive and…
apprupt is a German-based mobile application store that I tend to keep an eye, because I enjoy the model it represents. It’s a distributed app store, also known as an “app warehouse”. Today, it has announced a deal with massive media group RTL – which finally sees apprupt getting placed on the iPad.
What’s apprupt?
apprupt acts as an app warehouse/network, and delivers applications to it’s...
Apple: Apple’s Mac App Store to Open on January 6 — Apple® today announced that the Mac® App Store℠ will open for business on Thursday, January 6. By bringing the revolutionary App Store experience to Mac OS® X, the Mac App Store makes discovering, installing and updating Mac apps easier than ever.
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