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Google Mobile App for iPad now available in the App Store
Google announced that a new iPad-friendly version of Google Mobile App is now available in the App Store worldwide. By “iPad-friendly”, Google means that this new version has been designed to show neatly on the iPad’s screen, and that the usual features of Google Mobile App for iPhone, like search by voice and My Location, ...
Twelve Major Broadcast Groups to Form Joint Venture to Develop National Mobile Content Service
Belo Corp., Cox Media Group, E.W. Scripps Co., Fox, Gannett Broadcasting, Hearst Television Inc., ION Television, Media General Inc., Meredith Corp., NBC, Post-Newsweek Stations Inc. and Raycom Media today announced plans to form a standalone joint venture to develop a new national mobile content service. Utilizing existing broadcast spectrum, the service will allow member companies ...
Finally Twitter Introduces Its Business Model: Promoted Tweets
Twitter today in a blog post by @Biz Stone introduces its business model for the company. The new product is called Promoted Tweets. For folks who have been following my work over the past 1.5 years you know that I’ve been thinking a ton on the advertiser and user benefits of Twitter. So I’m excited ...
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) ...