The iPhone is to the modern mobile world as IE 6 was to the desktop world…
by
Mike
Posted February 8th, 2010 at 11:42 am
Say what? To pretty much everyone in world who has seen an iPhone, the iPhone is the pinnacle of mobile computing/smartphones. Till this day, no one has quite copied the ease of use and cohesiveness of the hardware, software, and features. Though the platform isn't without it's problems. Most notably, the walled garden that Apple has erected around the iPhone has caused controversy since day 1. The iPhone walled garden has been called many things. A "mobile platform strategist, consultant,...
Spotify to branch out beyond the normal subscription/ad based music streaming business?
by
Mike
Posted February 5th, 2010 at 10:34 am
Make no mistake about it, I love Spotify. Thankfully I got an opportunity to sample it about a month back for about 5 minutes and was instantly hooked. Living in the US however, I'm heartbroken that I can't access it. It's almost gotten to the point of searching YouTube for Spotify videos and living vicariously through the fortunate others outside of the US and it's ancient (read: bullshit) copyright laws. Today however, my longing for the UK based startup is going no where but up.
An art...
Apple preventing 3rd parties from using location based ads. Saving the spoils of visual nuisances for themselves?
by
Mike
Posted February 5th, 2010 at 12:20 am
Ads. Consumers hate them with a passion, though they're a necessary evil. Consumers like free stuff. Developers, producers, and manufacturers like money. Advertisements help to bridge the gap between the two, giving end users free or greatly reduced access to products and services while those making said products/services still get paid.
With the big push to the mobile internet, manufacturers and developers are struggling to find ways of making money on this new medium. Again, ads swoo...
Bolt browser for BlackBerry gains widget support.
by
Mike
Posted February 4th, 2010 at 9:42 am
Mark your calendars BlackBerry users and mobile internet aficionados, February 15th is the day in which the Bolt browser gets a big upgrade to version 1.7. The biggest boasting point of the new version is widget support. Using said feature will be easily accessible via a separate widget menu within the browser as to make using the widgets easy and intuitive.
In addition to the new widget support, Bolt also supports popular web technologies (not Flash) such as Ajax and Javascript. One oth...
Google and the NSA teaming up to catch the baddies.
by
Mike
Posted February 4th, 2010 at 8:56 am
The big news on the interwebs a couple of weeks ago centered around this small little attack on Google by some nefarious hackers originating outside of the county. After some digging around, the general consensus is that it came from China, more importantly the Chinese government. Even a few weeks later, the whole Google/China scene is a cluster and actually finding the people responsible has proven to be quite difficult even for someone with pretty extensive resources such as Google.
Goo...
iPhone apps join iTunes music in browser based previews.
by
Mike
Posted February 4th, 2010 at 8:18 am
For as popular and mainstream as it is, iTunes isn't necessarily the "best" desktop music program more as it is the most widely supported. It's worth pointing out that popularity and actual feature list/usefulness/design do not always go hand in hand. An easy example is can be seen in a couple of Nokia's more recent handsets such as the N97 -- chock full of features, but none of them are executed too perfectly. But that's neither here nor there.
If you are in fact one of the many who uses ...
Rupert Murdoch’s daughter actually understands her fathers business better than he does…
by
Mike
Posted February 4th, 2010 at 5:37 am
What have countless sources on the internet including myself and TechDirt said before? Paywalls, no matter how great of an idea on paper, simply don't materialize into what investors and executives want. In the age of the internet, information is available extremely cheap, extremely fast, and most importantly, without any restrictions. That's the very core of why the internet was invented in the first place.
Rupert Murdoch and many other news sites fail to see this. They seem to think s...
The long and short of it: Hulu viewers prefer single longer ad to multiple shorter variants…
by
Mike
Posted February 3rd, 2010 at 9:30 am
Watch Hulu much? I partake of the online greatness via Boxee on my Mac and have all but moved away from traditional cable. The few shows I watch I'm fortunate enough to be able to find via Boxee and Hulu. Amid the economy downturn, Hulu, like many other online media companies, started incorporating advertisements in several different forms. Most apparent however are the video ads (read: commercials) that play either before your show or in multiple chunks broken down into 30-second clips. So...
Rupert Murdoch still thinks NewsCorp is the only one reporting the news. Continues to miss the point of the internet…
by
Mike
Posted February 2nd, 2010 at 7:54 pm
We've talked about good 'ol (way over the hill) Rupert Murdoch. In a more general light, I'll commend Mr. Murdoch as he has built up a media giant. At the same time, it is an extremely backwards looking and technologically retarded giant. It's no secret to anyone in the tech world, this man hates the very mention of the word "free". To him, everything should come with a price, paywalls erected everywhere, and the free flowing internet turned into a locked down shell of what it once was. Tha...
UK Gov’t: “IE 6 exploits? Psh, IE 6 is the bomb.”
by
Mike
Posted February 1st, 2010 at 6:34 am
Oh geeze. This morning we have another example of government showing their gross incompetence when it comes to anything digital. After the big Google hack debacle, Google as well as several other large institutions and companies have come forward, speaking out against IE 6 in particular, warning of the massive risk you take when using such an old and security ridden browser. Some have even gone as far as to call out any version of IE as a "bad choice". For this article anyway, we're focusing...
35 years + unlimited friend requests: Modern “Godfather” continues life of crime behind jail walls thanks to social networking.
by
Mike
Posted January 31st, 2010 at 4:00 pm
It used to be when you committed a crime -- any crime -- you were thrown in the slammer. Those on the inside who had even one meal a day on a consistent basis were considered lucky, gods almost. These days however criminals bitch when they only get 10 TV channels instead of 100, have the same meal twice in one week, or have to suffer with a less than accommodating atmosphere. Prison it seems, is less intimidating and harsh as it used to be. Case in point: in the year 2010, mafia godfather's ...
Oh Geeze: “Adobe is fat, lazy, stupid, and slow”…so says Steve Jobs
by
Mike
Posted January 31st, 2010 at 10:35 am
If those accidental shots of the iPad running flash on Apple's sight the other day created any sense of hope in your little heads, it's best to go on ahead and chuck said hope right out the window. Shortly after the flash supporting iPad video was spied on Apple's site, the video was removed and replaced with a blue brick displaying video indicating that flash was in fact not present. But the real knee-jerker is El Jobso response when questioned about Adobe, Adobe's response to Apple's resista...
Netflix CEO sealing his companies fate: “….iPhone/iPad streaming not a priority…”
by
Dirk
Posted January 29th, 2010 at 1:07 pm
Normally I'm not one to tell of impending doomsday tales and other nonsense. It more often than not ends up being nothing buy hype and fear mongering. But the type of doomsday I'm talking about today isn't for the human race. Instead, it's about Netflix.
Netflix has been a widly popular movie rental service for many years now. While other traditional brick and mortar stores such as Blockbuster have been having red ink stained year after red ink stained year, Netflix has somehow maintained...
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