Roundup: iPhone smartphone share continues climb, Digg is not for sale (right now) and more
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The iPhone keeps smartphone sales afloat — “Right now we’re selling millions and millions and millions of phones a year. Apple is selling zero phones a year. In six months, they’ll have the most expensive phone by far ever in the marketplace, and let’s see…what’s the expression? Let’s see how the competition goes.” That was Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer in January 2007. The iPhone now accounts for 16.6 percent of the smartphone… Continue Reading
eJamming raises $150K bridge round for online jam sessions
Boca Raton, Florida’s eJamming, which has developed software that lets geographically dispersed musicians play together online, has just brought in $150,000 to sustain itself until it can start generating revenue and subsequently raise a round of venture capital.
The company’s technology enables musicians with the equipment to plug instruments into a computer to play and even record tracks together in real time. This is a hard problem: Network speeds are unreliable and even marginal latency can… Continue Reading