Tom Foremski
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TomTom Launches High-End Devices In Bid For Navigation Leadership
Maps of one type or another are found in most smartphones and provide a variety of navigation services. For example, earlier this year Nokia made its Ovi Maps service free. To stay on top, TomTom, the Dutch navigation device manufacturer, is trying to provide the best navigation services and the best maps. This week it ...
Bees Awards: Showcasing Social Media From Around The World
I enjoyed the Bees Awards gala evening at the fabulous Legion of Honor museum in San Francisco. It was well attended and a well dressed crowd, making a nice change from the typical geek events I go to where dressing down is considered dressing up. Bastien Beauchamp and his team did a good job of ...
Songkick: Building A Business Tracking Concerts
Songkick is a rapidly growing music site focused on one simple thing: letting you know when your favorite musicians are playing in your town. Songkick won’t disclose its traffic but says it is second in size to Live Nation/Ticketmaster, which has about 12 million unique visitors per month. It believes that it can easily become ...
Broadvision Relaunches Clearvale, Takes on Jive Directly
Broadvision has relaunched its Clearvale social business platform; allied with Softbank, the Japanese telco; and has begun a marketing campaign that targets rival Jive Software. Earlier this year, Broadvision reinvented itself as a social business platform that lets enterprises create multiple social business networks. [Please see: Broadvision Reboots Its Business As A Collaborative Enterprise Platform ...
Tech Awards 2010: Humanitarian Work Around The World
I went to the Tech Awards 2010 gala and there were lots of great, inspiring stories shown via short videos of all the nominees for the five prizes of $50,000 each. The goal is to highlight the work of groups in the developing world, using technology to making life better for the less privileged. There ...
How The Cloud Will Bring The Future To The Global Masses
A simple wireless connection can bring the power of multiple supercomputers to a simple cell phone using cloud computing, the most powerful collection of technologies produced so far. Yet the concept of cloud computing isn’t well recognized even among some of our foremost technology leaders. Take for example, Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google and Jared ...
Survey Of Mobile Apps: Apple Holds Lead
Millennial Media released its State of the Apps Industry Snapshot for 2010, in association with DIGIDAY and Wall Street analyst Jordan Rohan from Stifel Nicolaus. Here are the highlights: – Growth in cross-platform development – iPhone remains the number one platform of choice, followed closely by Android, iPad, RIM and Windows Mobile. Android, iPad, Windows ...
PwC Shares Its Insights Into The Cloud And Enterprise IT
Last week I attended an event organized by PricewaterhouseCoopers, featuring some of their top tech consultants. Here are some of my notes: Phil Garland: This is an interesting time to be a CIO. Traditionally, the CIO has had three roles: managing operations, managing vendors, and innovation and strategy. The focus on these three roles tends ...
Aggregation Is Not Curation – There Is A Big Difference
Curation is becoming an increasingly important term and for good reason: the online world is increasingly messy, muddled and full of blind alleys. Search used to be the best way to navigate online but today it is only one part of an Internet user’s dashboard. Finding things is fine if you know what to look ...
FM Publishing Becomes A Media Company With Big Tent Acquisition
Federated Media Publishing, the online advertising network, has acquired BigTent, which publishes blogs and hosts groups of people focused on parenting and schools. The amount of the acquisition was not disclosed but Kara Swisher from All Things D reports: "BigTent has raised $5 million in venture funding from Menlo Ventures and Mohr Davidow Ventures." The ...