While many people out there are clamoring for what would essentially be a larger iPhone, the Mac Tablet, others are thinking they want a smaller device. The latter group may get their wish this holiday season, as Apple is supposedly prepping an “iPhone Nano,” according to the UK’s Daily Mail.
Citing an “industry source,” the Mail [...]
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While even the popular social networks nowadays aren’t making that much money (Facebook expects to make $350 million in revenues this year), the burgeoning field of mobile social networks could be big business shortly, a new report by ABI Research indicates. Specifically, location-based mobile social networks could earn revenues of $3.3 billion within five years.
This [...]
If I were to take a poll of everyone I’ve talked to about the iPhone, my guess is that most would say its biggest problem is not related to the device or even Apple at all, but rather its carrier: AT&T. While I personally have never had a problem with the carrier, a lot of [...]
We’re one week away from the opening of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. Most of us stateside likely won’t be making the long trip, but there are a few interesting ways to keep up to date on the action around the web.
First and foremost, NBC will be streaming over 2,000 hours of live [...]
The iPhone’s Safari web browser has ignited interest in browsing the “real web” on mobile devices, but it’s not the only mobile browser out there. Skyfire lets you see the web just as you would on your home computer but on a number of Windows Mobile-based devices. Today, it’s launching the beta version of its [...]
When developing its new iPhone and iPod Touch application, online event tracker Eventful had a good idea: Don’t port the entire kitchen sink over, port only the most core features needed to make a good application. It worked.
Using the new iPhone 3G’s GPS chip (and the old iPhone and iPod Touch’s triangulation-based location sensing ability), [...]
To say that I’m bullish on the prospects of Apple’s new App Store for the iPhone and iPod Touch is putting it mildly. That said, there are plenty of apps out there that either border on useless or seem to redefine wacky. Or both.
Here are some of the latest:
Wooo Button
Picture this: A blank gray screen [...]
When I saw a bunch of tweets (Twitter messages) go out earlier that a tethering application had been released for the iPhone, my immediate reaction was: “Yeah, for unlocked iPhones.” But I kept seeing the links to the supposed product, so I clicked one and sure enough it fired up iTunes and showed me an [...]
In yet another powerful showcase of Twitter’s potential power as a disseminator of information, today several people received the first information via the micro messaging service that NASA confirmed its Phoenix Mars Lander has in fact found water on Mars. It’s still not on CNN.com, not on MSNBC.com, not Fox.com. But a Twitter Search [...]
Months in the making, Yahoo’s bookmarking site Delicious finally rolled out its 2.0 version today.
First, the good:
The confusing del.icio.us web domain has been replaced with delicious.com. While I kind of liked the quirkiness of the old name, it was hard to type into an address bar, and no doubt plenty of people had trouble remembering [...]
In what sounds more like a Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie date than a multi-billion dollar company’s shareholder meeting, Carl Icahn says he won’t show up so that it doesn’t turn into “a media event.” I can see it now, paparazzi perched in trees with zoom lenses, screaming fangirls. Mr. Icahn, you’re on Yahoo’s board [...]
Ever since Apple beefed up its Apple TV offering by announcing support for movie rentals from all the major movie studios back in January, the battle for digital distribution supremacy in the living room has been heating up. Recently, there’s been a string of big announcements and today brings another: LG is releasing a Blu-ray [...]
Relatively few people have the time and skill to sit down and hand code a community-based website. Even fewer actually want to. Webjam is a service that simplifies that process greatly. However, there are plenty of other services out there like the well-funded Ning and Soceeo. But as Webjam cofounder and chief executive Yann Motte [...]
We thought pretty highly of the online video mashup site Omnisio at this year’s Y Combinator Demo Day, and liked it even more after it launched back in March. Apparently, so did Google. Its YouTube property purchased Ominisio today as a way to expand how users interact with the videos they create online, according to [...]
Some companies you don’t want to mess around with. It’s one thing for the media conglomerate Viacom to sue Google for a billion dollars over YouTube, but it’s another when a television company owned by the Prime Minister of Italy files a lawsuit. Such is the case with Mediaset SpA, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s television [...]
The current Internet landscape is filled with distractions such as email, Twitter, FriendFeed, instant messaging, feed readers, social networks and more. It can be hard maintaining a blog, even a micro-blog. Posterous aims to simplify the blogging process as much as possible. You can post to it through the traditional way of logging in and [...]
The Pandora app for the iPhone and iPod Touch is simply brilliant because it takes the two great elements of the web browser-based experience, music discovery and no cost, and transfers them to a portable device. Pandora had previously been available on some other non-computer devices, but only if you paid a subscription fee. Now [...]
This morning a 5.4 magnitude earthquake struck Southern California near Los Angeles. Well before the information was anywhere on the major news outlets, tweets (Twitter messages) were flowing in at a rapid clip. I say again, events such as this showcase the power of the micro-messaging service Twitter.
When natural disasters strike, people want news ASAP. [...]
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