It’s not digital advertising in the sense of display ads and search results, but it looks like we are getting a bit more color on what it is that Facebook will do first in the world of mobile marketing, and it could be coming online “within weeks.”
Was Google’s Disastrous January A Passing Storm Or Sign Of Things To Come?
It’s a little stunning to contemplate how wrong things have gone for Google (NSDQ: GOOG) in just the first month of 2012, as the company hopes to put a disastrous January in the rear-view mirror with perhaps another tear-jerking Super Bowl ad this Sunday. Larry Page and Sergey Brin haven’t turned into Jim...
Khush Tries Teaching the World to Songify Live (Video)
What happens when you mash up a karoke machine with your iPhone? A cool new app.
Update: Facebook Has A Mobile Card Up Its Sleeve In Addition To Advertising
Much has been made of the mobile risks that Facebook laid out in its S-1 IPO filing earlier this week. Essentially, it’s seeing/pushing massive growth in mobile, but it still hasn’t tried out advertising, its most effective route to revenues, on this platform. That’s not to say it won’t. But meanwhile, there is another area...
U.S. Government Developing Android Phones, Promises Quick Software Updates
The U.S. government likes to do things its own way. Along those lines, it has decided to embrace Android as a smartphone platform for soldiers and other government employees because of the control it can exert over the software, which in turn underscores how much control Android partners have over the software.
Why Tech Innovation Is Taking A Breather
OK, I’ve been talking with hundreds of geeks from around the world this year at three conferences, CES, DLD, and World Economic Forum. I’m seeing a trend that is worth talking about. What is it? We’re seeing the end of one of the most disruptive ages in human history. I believe that we’re seeing a...
Zite Brings Intel Inside Its Technology Section In Sponsorship Deal
Zite has cut a deal with Intel (NSDQ: INTC) to have the chip giant sponsor the technology section of its mobile news reading app, only the second sponsor to grace its pages. Intel will sponsor Zite’s technology section and will get to promote selected articles in exchange for its financial support.
Obama Campaign Nominates Square To Gather Mobile Contributions
It’s an election year, which means politicians are frantically trying to raise money for their campaigns. President Obama’s re-election campaign has decided to add Square’s mobile payments technology to its arsenal and is deploying the company’s credit-card readers to its staff.
Former Palm CEO Rubinstein Leaving HP After Demise Of WebOS
Jon Rubinstein, the former Palm CEO who revived the company under WebOS but was never able to produce a breakthrough product after HP paid $1.2 billion for Palm, is leaving HP (NYSE: HPQ). His departure is not exactly a surprise, coming six months after he was reassigned just before HP began to wind...
Can A Streaming Audiobooks Service Work?
Audiobooks.com, a cloud-based streaming audio service for iOS and Android, launches this week as a would-be competitor to the Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) owned-Audible.com. Considering how many people listen to audiobooks while they are in transit, though, is a streaming service actually a workable solution?
Samsung: Smartphones Up 30 Percent But You Have To Guess How Many We Sold
Samsung may be king of the Android smartphone world, but it’s playing hard to get. The company declined to release smartphone sales figures late Thursday in reporting record earnings, but it is clearly faring better than some Android competitors against Apple’s iPhone juggernaut.
Tablets: Apple’s Lead Narrows Among Widening Field Of Android Makers
With the tablet market now overtaking PC sales, all eyes are on which platform will dominate this next generation of computing devices. A report out today from Strategy Analytics said that for Q4 it was Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), the company that effectively created the market for tablets two years...
