As with anything technological and political, strange bedfellows are made! The main company this writer watches in mobile is Samsung, you might want to keep an eye to that company as well. (Reuters) – Chipmakers Intel Corp, Toshiba Corp and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd will join hands to develop technologies that could more than halve… [Read more…]
October 30, 2010
This commentator finds the attached research interesting at best. Certainly there is a demand for health APP’s or any other method of gaining knowledge about one’s health. the one thing that appears to be consistant, is that most users don’t know where to go to get the right APP’s or what to essentially do with… [Read more…]
October 30, 2010
(WSJ) TOKYO—The headline feature of Nintendo Co.’s forthcoming 3DS portable videogame system is the ability to play 3-D games without the need for eyewear, but it is the device’s ability to locate other players that may prove critical to its success. Nintendo’s 3DS game machine goes on sale in Japan in February, and in March… [Read more…]
October 30, 2010
(NYT) Microsoft said on Friday that it was buying Canesta, a small Silicon Valley company that specializes in gesture-recognition technology. Interest in this technology has surged because it lets people control computers and other devices through hand movements and other bodily gyrations, in similar fashion to the systems depicted in futuristic films like “Minority Report.”… [Read more…]
October 29, 2010
This is just the beginning of what will be a full 3 months of tablet launches (look at CES in January!). IDG News Service – Acer plans to launch “multiple” tablet devices at an event in New York on Nov. 23, with different OSes and multiple form factors, the company’s CEO said Friday. The market… [Read more…]
October 29, 2010
Is Facebook cloning groupon program with Facebook Deals? Seems so. (Allfacebook Blog) Facebook is currently testing a new “Facebook Deals” service which enables businesses to provide deals whenever visitors check-in to a physical store. The new service is being tested with a limited number of partners, and all we currently have access to is a… [Read more…]
October 28, 2010
Now the release of sales prior to ‘Black Friday’ has been going on for a few years. It used to be leaking the ads a few days early, now, its a part of the 4th quarter strategy to drop significant deals in the weeks leading up to the Friday after Thanksgiving. This is simply a… [Read more…]
October 28, 2010
This has been going on for a while (even though the lawsuits are fresh!) and here is the latest update. Keep tabs on this if for no other reason than its interesting to watch the big guys fight. If you want to keep score, Oracle and Google have roughly the same revenue at 25- 26… [Read more…]
October 28, 2010
Great observation by Jason (Fierce Mobile) When Google reported its third quarter earnings earlier this month, the company trumpeted a number of milestones, perhaps none quite so impressive as its enormous mobile search growth. According to Google, mobile queries have increased 500 percent over the past two years, with the company now on track to generate… [Read more…]
October 28, 2010
BlackBerry Partners Fund today announced that its co-managers have merged their investment teams to focus exclusively on mobile venture capital investment opportunities under the BlackBerry Partners Fund brand around the world. The $150-million BlackBerry Partners Fund was founded in 2008 with capital commitments from limited partners, including Research In Motion, Thomson Reuters and RBC.… [Read more…]
October 31, 2010
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