Adoption of geolocation applications is still stagnant
Thirty percent of online adults in the U.S. are familiar with geolocation applications, but less than six percent of online adults use these apps, and only two percent use them once a week or more, according to new data from research company Forrester.
Forrester conducted an online survey with more than 37,000 respondents ages 18 to 88 in August 2011 and found that just two percent more of online adults have started using location-based applications … Continue Reading
Paying for the petabyte future, one gigabyte at a time
Cloud storage is easy, but if you’ve got a lot of data, the costs can escalate quickly.
Case in point: DNAnexus, a startup that is storing DNA data so researchers can access and analyze it through a web interface, is using Amazon Web Services (AWS) to power its applications, and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) to store data.
The company now has half a petabyte of data stored in the cloud, at a cost of … Continue Reading
Analyst predicts Amazon’s iPad competitor could sell up to 5M units in 2011
Amazon could sell as many as five million tablet PCs in 2011 and become the top challenger to Apple in the tablet space, according to an analyst at Forrester Research.
Back in July it was reported that Amazon was working on an Android-based tablet to be released in October, 2011 that could be serious competition with the Apple iPad. So far, Android tablets have cornered just 20 percent of the tablet market share, and no … Continue Reading
Reader poll: Which pundit best summed up the stock market slide?
The pundits were out in force today as they described the big drop in the stock market. Which quote was your favorite?
“Markets will rise and fall, but this is the United States of America,” Barack Obama said. “No matter what some agency may say, we’ve always been and always will be a triple-A country.”
“Any company with an IPO planned for this week will probably pull it,” said Dow Jones Investment Banking deputy managing … Continue Reading
Verizon announces 4G LTE Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1
Verizon Wireless on Tuesday added a little bit of 4G magic to its Android tablet lineup with the 4G LTE Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1.
Verizon has shown off its impressive reach by expanding its blazing fast 4G LTE network at an impressive clip since its introduction in Dec. 2010. The 4G network now serves more than 70 metropolitan areas.
The Android-3.1-running tablet is equipped with a 10.1-inch 1280 x 800 resolution screen, a dual-core NVidia … Continue Reading
Forrester: U.S. mobile commerce will hit $31B by 2016, still a tiny sliver of ecommerce
Mobile commerce in the United States will reach $31 billion by 2016, Forrester Research estimates in its latest report. But while that represents significant growth for mobile commerce, it will still remain just a tiny portion of overall ecommerce sales in 2016 and an even smaller portion of total retail sales.
Forrester says that only 2 percent of web sales (itself a tiny sliver of total retail sales) will take place on mobile devices this … Continue Reading
