Tag Archives: consumer

Reports: Facebook Is Buying Social Mapping/Traffic App Waze For Up To $1B To Court Mobile Users

Smart move by Facebook! Great app!

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50 Best Websites 2013

Some interesting sites I have never seen before that deserve to be checked out. Glad to see Quartz on the list.

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Mobile PC Market To More Than Double On Demand For Tablets And Touch PCs, According To Report

The PC is not dead it is just a transition to another form factor of computing.

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The fun and games are over. Even the internet’s got to make a living

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Metaio predicts augmented reality chips in devices by end of 2013

Originally posted on Gigaom:
Metaio, the Germany augmented reality firm, says it expects to have its dedicated chips in mobile devices by year-end, despite the collapse of its one big announced customer, ST-Ericsson. The outfit has also revealed the opening…

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LinkedIn overhauls its mobile applications to reach ‘mainstream users’

It is interesting how the ratio of HTML 5.0 vs. native code makes a difference when designing.

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Until the 1990s, companies didn’t have “business models”

Amazing how buzz words can go mainstream.

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Enough about data caps: They’re a terrible idea

Originally posted on Gigaom:
In a recently published piece, Prof. Daniel Lyons of the Boston College Law School argued that broadband data caps are a reasonable form of price discrimination. Lyons believes that data caps allow ISPs to more equitably…

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Curb your exceptionalism: App Store restrictions catch up to everyone

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OpenX Launches Revenue Intelligence To Help Online Publishers Calculate The Value Of Their Content

The ability to attach value to content will be of tremendous value to publishers.

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