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Microsoft Introduces a Facebook Phone; It’s New Windows Phone Called “Kin”
Finally there is a "Facebook Phone". Wait it’s not made by Facebook, but instead Microsoft. Yes you heard me right. Microsoft just introduced a Facebook Phone – that’s what I’m calling it. Today, Microsoft is introducing a new phone or smartphone aimed at the younger demographic and it’s called Windows Phone Kin One and Kin ...
Steve Jobs Mindset – An Insider View Of Apple Verses The World
Jean-Louis Gassée writes a great blog post talking about the mindset of Steve Jobs in how Apple is competing with the rest of the world in order to own the mobile application space. Jean-Louis writes a post called “The Adobe – Apple Flame War”. He writes: Who, in his right mind, expects Steve Jobs to ...
Apple Just Nuked Part of Mobile Advertising Ecosystem – Kills Flurry, Mobclix, Motally, and more
Big news on the Apple developer and iAd platform front. Developers cannot plug into 3rd party app metrics providers. I was hearing this all Friday but now it looks real. This will kill part of the mobile advertising ecosystem including handful of startups – Flurry, Mobclix, Motally just to name a few. Apple restricting developers ...
Hey Apple SCREW YOU – The Unofficial Adobe Statement
Lee Brimelow the Platform Evangelist at Adobe focusing on the Flash, Flex, and AIR developer communities, just called out Apple on their blatant attempt to ride roughshod over developers. Lee’s message to Apple – SCREW YOU! Why Lee Brimelow’s Post Is Important It’s all unofficial of course but that means it’s official. Adobe is completely ...
The Big Break Out Areas For Next Decade in Technology – USER 2.0
I received an email asking the following. John: What will be the focus of upcoming breakout technologies of the next decade. As we have seen coming out of past recessions, the emerging companies of today may become the new Microsoft, Cisco, etc. I’d like to know what tech fields you think are the emerging foundations ...
What? Juniper Networks Native on iPhone OS 4 – Not What I Expected
One thing that struck me about today’s Apple iPhone OS4 announcement is the addition of networking vendor Juniper to the list of upgrades. Juniper Networks just posted about their role in working with Apple to add software to the OS 4 release – also known as Junos. Recently Juniper announced a $50m venture fund dedicated ...
iPhone OS 4 Launched By Apple – Much Need Upgrade – Good For Users – Implications for Developers – Still No Flash
Apple is introducing a new big revision to the iPhone called OS 4. Apple® today previewed its iPhone® OS 4 software and released a beta version of the software to iPhone Developer Program members. The iPhone OS 4 beta release includes an updated Software Development Kit (SDK) with over 1,500 new Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) ...
Juniper Networks Buys Ankeena Networks: Service Providers Expand Their Revenue Model
Juniper Networks is announcing the acquisition of Ankeena Networks, a leading provider of new media infrastructure solutions. Ankeena offers solutions that deliver online media content at massive scale, while providing a television-like viewing experience for media with dramatically reduced delivery costs. The price of the acquisition is said to be less than $100 million. In ...
Mobile Ad Networks – Big Three Google, Apple, & Millennial Media And More and More Developing
UPDATE: Reuters is reporting that the FTC is about to blog the AdMob acquisition by Google. FTC is crazy. AllThingsD Mediamemo blog has a post speculating on two things: 1) Apple announcing a ad network dubbed the iAd and 2) FTC decision to approve the Google AdMob acquisition. With Google and Apple having proprietary ad ...
Yahoo Buying Foursquare: Sure Yahoo Would Benefit
Yahoo is rumored to be looking hard at Foursquare at a price of around $100 million according to Nicholas Carlson of BI. Last week I wrote a post on Foursquare when the venture capitalists started circling. Foursquare is a great example of Silicon Valley in action. Hot deals get pimped big time. Foursquare is no ...