Jeff Veen & Doug Bowman (L to R)Our bandwidth and speeds at which we access the web are growing by five fold over the next few years thanks to advances in wired and wireless technology. Not only are we connecting faster, but we’re also doing it from more places thanks to mobile broadband. These two [...]
The biggest challenge for any touchscreen smartphone, no matter how good or great, is that it will almost always be compared to the iPhone. Some of them like Verizon’s Droid and Blackberry Storm seek that comparison. Others are just going to have to deal with it. Nokia’s new N900 device is in the second camp.I [...]
Verizon Wireless, just days after announcing a far-reaching deal with Google to collaborate on Android smartphones and services (GigaOM Pro, sub. req’d), over the weekend put up a web site touting what it’s positioning as an iPhone slayer: the Droid phone. It was buttressed by a TV ad, which puts the Droid’s launch date in [...]
If you’re launching an API or technically focused service, Cloudvox executives have some advice: Make sure you support Apple’s OS X. Cloudvox, which was built by startup Seven Scale, enables developers to bridge web applications with phone services. The company released its phone API platform last week and was surprised to see 53 percent of [...]
Apple said this afternoon that it sold 7.4 million iPhones in its most recent fiscal quarter, 7 percent more than the same three-month period a year earlier and a whopping 43 percent more on a sequential basis. The numbers illustrate two key points: Mobile is indeed the future and reducing the base iPhone model to [...]
Abu Dhabi Media invests in Vevo (NewTeeVee)Verizon Droid hits the airwaves — Yes iCan (jkOnTheRun)Nat-gas vehicle sales set to grow in U.S. over next 5 years (Earth2Tech)Rock Band comes to the App Store (TheAppleBlog)Web Work 201: Getting over the hump (WebWorkerDaily)More mudslinging in the MySQL debate (OStatic)
Updated: Today we are coming to you live from the GigaOM HQ here in San Francisco, where a group of industry insiders have gathered to peer into the future and discuss what comes next for the web. We will be live-streaming the event starting at 9:30 am PT, for three hours. We hope you can [...]
Verizon Communications today made available a quad-play bundle — wired voice, data, video and wireless services — in certain parts of the country, though customers can turn it into a triple play by dumping their landlines, a move that underscores just how unimportant the landline had become for telecommunications providers. The ability to dump the [...]
Updated: Spring Design entered the e-book market today with “Alex,” a dual-screen device running Android and boasting a full-blown mobile web browser. But is this the gadget Barnes & Noble is expected to trot out tomorrow?As outlined by James over at jkOnTheRun, Alex rocks a 6-inch e-Ink screen for book content as well as a [...]
I just learned that Apple has approved yet another VoIP application, this time from Stockholm-based company Rebtel. You can download it from the iTunes Store. The service also works over AT&T’s 3G network, making it less necessary to have a Wi-Fi connection. But in my experience, WiFi-based calling is always better. AT&T announced earlier this [...]
With little or no chance of ever being able to make it through the draconian approval process of Apple’s iTunes App Store, Mozilla, the not-for-profit organization behind the Firefox browser, is betting on two major, if emerging, mobile operating platforms: Maemo, Nokia’s new Linux-based operating system, and Google’s Android OS. But don’t count on Mozilla [...]
kaChing, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based startup backed by Netscape founder Marc Andreessen and Open Table CEO Jeff Jordan, launched a web site today that aims to be a marketplace where anyone can access talented investors. With kaChing, people can choose to invest their money according to the trades of investors featured on the site. It [...]
This year, I had the opportunity to serve as a mentor at Seedcamp. I hear pitches from wanna-be startups all the time in Silicon Valley, but the teams in London were different; the entrepreneurial dreamers that I met there typically had letters like PhD after their names. As a result, their ideas were especially [...]
The knock on direct-to-fan music marketing toolkit developer Topspin Media has always been that its tools work better for major label refugees and other established acts than for developing artists seeking to build an audience. The company, which offers “CRM-for-bands” tools that help sell deluxe editions and unique digital releases for the likes of Eminem, [...]
