October 2011
10 posts
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Online Brokers Could Learn a Few Things From 8...
At TechCrunch Disrupt Beijing today, 8 Securities showed off a financial dashboard for trading that’s different than anything that I’ve seen. Simple to use, social and very fast. Take a look.
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Why Don't Android Phones Get Updated?
This is a great post from the understatement. Check out the chart below on the fragmentation of OS’s on Android devices:
This chart represents the manufacturers support of the latest OS for each smartphone device. And it doesn’t look pretty for Android devices.
So why don’t Android devices get updated?
According to Michael Degusta, “Obviously a big part of the...
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Will the Nokia Lumia Windows Phones Go Big or...
This is what many Microsoft groupies have been waiting for. Can the Microsoft/Nokia alliance pull MSFT out of the past in the smartphone business? Perhaps. Perhaps not.
Steven Overman, who heads up Nokia’s marketing strategy, said during the keynote that Nokia needs to drive demand for the product by making these consumers lust for for the Lumia devices. I’m not sure...
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Very Soon, Every Person At Facebook Is Going To Be...
The the recent Web 2.0 Summit, Facebook CTO Bret Taylor claims “A few years from now, most every single person at Facebook who works there is going to be working on mobile almost exclusively.”
Should CTO’s take note. I think yes.
It seems that VC’s are also telling portfolio companies to focus on mobile first, web second.
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Mobile Social Escalates, 40 Million Americans...
Here’s more evidence of the mobile/social revolution.
comScore estimates that nearly one-third of all U.S. mobile users are now accessing social media services, and that close to 40 million Americans are doing so on an almost daily basis.
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Mary Meeker Says iPad Growth Leaves Siblings in...
Mary Meeker made some interesting points at the Web 2.0 Summit yesterday in San Francisco. One to note is outlined in the graph below.
Take a look at the acceleration of the iPad versus the iPhone and iPod, shown in shipments per quarter. Apple currently controls 74% of all tablets sold in the United States, said Tim Cook at a recent Apple Keynote.
I find this hard to believe, but facts are...
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iOS5 Twitter Integration Increased Twitter Signups...
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo yesterday at a Web 2.0 dinner stated that “the recent iOS 5 Twitter integration has notably increased signups 3x”.
This means that many of the companies that have popular iPhone apps have already implemented the iOS 5 Twitter features.
That’s what I thought at first. But after further investigation, I realized that most of these additional signups are...
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iPhone 4S Sales Top 4 Million First Weekend
I think the most impressive figure noted in this article is the fact that 25 million Apple devices are now running iOS 5.
This means 21 million people have gone through the painful task of attaching their device to a PC to update the OS.
I wonder if, like me, they were hoping for Siri as part of the upgrade.
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Android App Number to Exceed iPhone by Summer
Xyologic, a startup that searches and indexes through App Store data, recently published some interesting data regarding the App space.
According to Xyologic projections, by August 2012 there will be an equal number of apps available for the Android as there are for the iPhone, at roughly 680,000 apps available for both platforms.
Also, according to Xyologic, the total app downloads for...
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Why don't I See Siri on my iPhone 4?
I was all excited last night when I downloaded iOS 5.0 for my iPhone 4. I was really wired to use the new Siri technology, but to my dismay apparently Siri is not available for the iPhone 4, only the 4S.
I guess it makes sense for Apple to leave out this feature for “legacy” phones. Here’s a thread from the Apple support community on the topic. It makes me want to upgrade...