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A First Look at the Motorola Xoom Tablet
I get my first look at Motorola’s Xoom tablet at CES. Looking good! Also talk with Sascha Pallenberg, tablet and mobile expert, about other things at CES Quick Specs: Android Honeycomb 1Ghz CPU 10-inch screen at 720p Supports HTML 5 and Flash 2MP front and 5Mp rear cameras HDMI out at 1080p 3G will be ...
Appcelerator Kicks Off the Tablet Announcement Early
Yes Jeff Haynie is taking advantage of the Apple news, even before it happens, but I gotta appreciate that in a CEO. He’s the leader of Appcelerator, a startup that has more than 19,000 developers using its tool to create cross-platform applications including mobile apps on iPhone and Android platform and it, tonight, is announcing ...
How To: Get Your Own Custom iPhone App for $25
iSites is one of a handful of companies that are offering services that let you build iPhone apps quickly in minutes. Ben Parr wrote about this yesterday over at Mashable: iSites, a new service launching today, allows you to take your website’s RSS feed and data and quickly transform it into a full-fledged iPhone app. ...
Aricent Explains the Effects of Open Operating Systems
The communications industry is shifting to software-as-a-service model for consumer mobile products, says a marketing expert whose company plays a big role in helping cell phone carriers put new platforms into those hand-held devices. A major reason for that trend, says Keith Higgins, vice president for marketing at Silicon Valley’s Aricent, is the open-operating system. ...
Justin.TV’s Community Creates 30 Hours of Video Per Minute
Justin.tv is a technology company first, a spokesman insists, and a live video broadcaster second — a distinction that could explain why stats published late in 2009 show that more video was uploaded every minute to its servers than to YouTube’s. “We’re a technology company. We’re not a media company. We’re not a content programming ...
Vokle, the Virtual Town Hall
A microsite application puts the functionality of a television studio — switching between cameras and remote video feeds, among other things — into a simple computer, and the video stream can be embedded and displayed in a blog or Web page. The Vokle app, still in beta, allows two-way communication between a host and what ...
2010 Predictions: Rich Wong’s List [Venture Capital]
I sat down with Rich Wong Sunday, to talk 2010 tech predictions, and reflect on 2009. He helped fund AdMob as well as a raft of interesting companies as one of the venture capitalists at Accel Partners (Accel Partners, incidentally is one of the biggest investors in Facebook and helped sell AdMob to Google earlier ...
2010 Promises More Real-Time and Convergence
Jeremiah Owyang and Ray Wong are two of the best analysts in the tech industry. The two former Forrester Research Inc. analysts recently joined the Altimeter Group founded by Charlene Li, who also was an analyst at Forrester before going out on her own this summer. Jeremiah focuses on social media in his role as ...
Ad.ly Provides Twitter Analytics [Sponsored Tweets]
Like it or not, advertising is coming to Twitter. One of the first advertisers to arrive was Los Angeles-based Ad.ly, which is promoting celebrity endorsements and representatives from business categories such as technology. In the three months or so that Ad.ly has been in operation, it has signed up more than 10,000 “publishers” tweeting about ...
How To: Offer Context Everywhere to your Visitors and Customers
A new platform from Kynetx has tools that let developers use customer preferences to add features to Web sites, regardless of the browser. Phillip Windley, CTO, and Stephen Fulling, CEO of the Utah-based startup, came to Robert Scoble’s home to explain how the platform works and to show us the application in action in this ...