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Tablets, Tablets Everywhere: Growing Trend of Task-Specific Devices
The Kno tablet is gaining ground in the textbook market and Sharp has just introduced their own tablet (although only in Japanese markets.) We are starting to see a vibrant and blooming e-reading culture—according to Amazon’s numbers—and the market is quite ready for more products that slot themselves into niches and tasks. The niche the ...
EU Abandons Antitrust Probe Against Apple
The European Commission opened antitrust probes into Apple’s business practices in relation to their App Store and iPhone restrictions. The probe was just preliminary and didn’t need to go too far as the commission accepted the response to their concerns. The Wall Street Journal brings us an update on the end of the antitrust probe, ...
Microsoft Gives Developers Visual Basic on Windows Phone 7
In an announcement today, Microsoft’s Phone Developer Blog has mentioned that developers are now able to use Visual Basic to write apps for Windows Phone 7. Windows Phone developers will be able to download a Community Technology Preview (CTP) version from Microsoft to get their teeth cut on the technology. Although it is a limited ...
FCC Relaxes White Space Policy: No More Spectrum-Sensing
For a few years now, the FCC and the wireless technology industry have been hashing out what to do with space opened up in our radio waves by switching from analog to digital TV. The so-called “white space” which exists between TV stations so that they don’t interfere with each other has become a bit ...
Verizon Invests in Geodelic’s Location-based App
With both AT&T and Verizon seeking their place amid the mobile app marketplace this investment for Verizon puts them squarely into the much vaunted “location wars.” Geodelic has just released a beta test of their app, GeoGuides, which is yet-another-location-based-app that gives users suggestions on where to go and what to do; it also enables ...
Huffington Post’s Data-Journalism Midterm Coverage now with Real-Time “Election Board” Enabled by Viralheat
The Huffington Post has rolled out a brand new web application designed to place visitors directly at the center of midterm elections analysis: their brand new dashboard style “Election Board.” The Election Board displays numerous different charts in keeping with current polling—updated in real time—by mining the depths of social networks for how the population ...
What’s Behind the Real Facebook Smartphone Line?
As the biggest social network across the Internet, Facebook has a lot of people to reach. And the current usage evidence shows that people really want to let their friends what’s going on even when they’re not near a computer—so that means mobile devices. The result: Facebook has plans for its own smartphones in the ...
Comcast in Holding Pattern with Clearwire Investments
Wednesday, Comcast’s Chief Financial Officer Michael Angelakis said that the cable giant is not likely to increase its stake in the wireless broadband provider. While Comcast has invested in Clearwire in the past and they own almost 9% of the company they’re not looking for more. The Wall Street Journal’s Digits blog brings us this ...
Animoto.com: Making Slideshow Music Videos Easy for Three Years and Counting
In the news today, Animoto.com just had a birthday bash and a cake with three candles. Animoto is an online resource and application set that allows users to collage together their photos and video then combine it with a soundtrack and text messages. Their engine filters the submitted elements through a randomizing engine and applies ...
Zynga Supports Over 215 Million Monthly Visitors and Keeps Growing
The popularity of Zynga’s online gaming market has been explosive, almost exponential. They have marched virtually unopposed into near dominance of the social gaming market through deals with Google and Facebook. They’re the innovation engine behind such incredibly trendy games like Farmville and Frontierville. Farmville itself got the strange distinction of exceeding the userbase of ...
