Writer for iPad is a simple text editing app for those who write for a living. Since launch earlier this fall, Writer for iPad has been selling briskly and will end 2010 with 50,000 copies sold. Additionally, the app-maker has a surprise in store for you Read More »
As consumers purchase a greater number of web-connected devices such as tablets, portable game devices and eBook readers, they don’t want to leave these items behind. Automakers are beginning to see the potential of integrated Wi-Fi in cars, which will boost revenue opportunities down the road. Read More »
I’ve seen the videos online of iOS 4.2 running smoothly on an iPhone 3G, but we did not get iOS 4.2 yesterday, we got iOS 4.2.1. I ran the update through its paces on my 3G to see if performance did indeed improve. Read More »
Skyfire benefited from Apple’s Adobe Flash ban by releasing a cloud-based mobile browser that delivers Flash video to the iPhone. Now, the company is trying to leverage interest in social browsers like RockMelt by releasing Skyfire 3.0 with Facebook Connect on Android devices today. Read More »
The location wars are heating up just in time for the holidays. Location-based services such as Foursquare, Gowalla, SCVGR, Yelp and others have brought out big-name partners and expanded rewards to help give the check-in services a big push at the end of the year. Read More »
Watching Sunday Night Football last night, I was as surprised as anyone to see the Verizon Wireless ‘teaser’ ads for the December launch of its initial LTE markets. But Verizon seems to be making the mistake of promising more than it can deliver — again. Read More »
Samsung has already sold 600,000 Galaxy Tab slates, just one month after introducing the Google Android tablet. Steve Jobs has criticized such 7-inch tablets, saying that users would need to “sand down their fingers” to use them, but clearly there’s a market for an 7-inch iPad. Read More »
Based on a timeline from last week’s MeeGo Conference, the debut MeeGo smartphone with Intel Atom processor might not appear until June of 2011. If the market wasn’t so competitive, that might not be a problem, but Nokia will be competing with Apple’s next iPhone. Read More »
Samsung, which has rode Android to success with the Galaxy S, is reportedly shifting its focus to Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 in 2011. According to iMobile.cn, 63 percent of smartphones built by Samsung will be WP7 devices, followed by Android at 32 percent. Read More »
This holiday season, 28 percent of U.S. shoppers will use a mobile either for price checking or for product recommendations from friends — all while in the aisles of a traditional retail store, says IDC. Are consumers finally ready for advanced mobile payments and digital wallets?… Read More »
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- A data-driven, unified and more efficient future awaits health care as it progresses to the cloud.
- Social Inbox vs. The Future of Email
- Will Facebook's new message system supplant our inboxes, or is the future of email still just email?
