1. Nielsen says Apple is holding onto the smartphone lead for now 1 hour ago permalinkNew numbers from Nielsen research show Apple still in the top spot in US smartphone sales. Android numbers continue to surge, while Blackberry is declining. Citing November 2010 data, Nielsen says Apple has 28.6% of the domestic smartphone market, up ever so slightly from 27.9% in October. Blackberry has slipped to 26.1%, while Android has ...
2. What’s Next for Delicious? 5 minutes ago permalinkMany of you have read the news stories about Delicious that began appearing yesterday. We’re genuinely sorry to have these stories appear with so little context for our loyal users. While we can’t answer each of your questions individually, we wanted to address what we can at this stage and we promise to keep you posted as future ... 3. J.P. Morgan: Global E-Commerce Revenue To Grow By 19 Percent In 2011 To $680B 31 minutes ago permalinkWith e-commerce spending performing well over the past holiday season, retailers are hoping this trend will continue into 2011. J.P. Morgan senior analyst Imran Kahn has released his annual report forecasting trends for the New Year that includes a number of positive projections for the e-commerce industry. The report forecasts that e-commerce ... 4. Honeycomb Needs Powerful Chip, Screen 33 minutes ago permalinkGoogle's new Android Honeycomb tablet OS will require a dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor to run properly, said Bobby Cha, managing director of Korean consumer electronics firm Enspert.
5. Join the Conversation 36 minutes ago permalinkJoin in and leave a comment below. We’re tracking examples of this trend and its impact on consumers and brands throughout the year and we want to discuss it with you. Who are we? We’re Empower MediaMarketing. Learn more about us and the No Channels project here.
6. Install Mac OS X on a Cr-48 Chrome notebook 57 minutes ago permalinkIn the hackintosh tradition , we present this method of installing Mac OS X onto a Chrome Cr-48 notebook using hexxeh's Luigi firmware toolkit . You'll void your machine's warranty in the process, as you've got to remove the bottom cover to activate developer mode. Once that's done, you can flash the machine, install the custom firmware and then ... 7. Survey Says: The iPad Is Not A Kindle Killer 1 hour ago permalinkWhile plenty of people predicted that the iPad would kill the Kindle when it first came out ( including us ), that turned out to be wrong. Very wrong. The Kindle went on to become the best selling product in Amazon's history over the holidays, selling an estimated 8 million units last year. The Kindle is a very different device which appeals to ... 8. Austin Ventures 1 hour ago permalinkAustin Ventures has worked with talented entrepreneurs to build valuable companies for nearly twenty-five years. With $3.9 billion under management, AV is the most active venture capital and growth equity firm in Texas. With an investment focus on business services and supply chain, financial services, media and information services, software and ...
9. What does Goldman's investment in Facebook mean? 6 hours ago permalinkFacebook has raised $500 million in new "venture capital" at a $50 billion valuation, according to a report late last night from DealBook. Not sure if the $50 billion is a pre-money or post-money mark, but I'm also not sure if such niggling details matter at such a nose-bleedingly high stratosphere.
10. Would You Shop At A Google Digital Newsstand? 8 hours ago permalinkWhen I worked in Manhattan about 3 or 4 lifetimes ago I used to love stopping at looking at what was offered at a newsstand. Magazines about just about everything and every daily newspaper that great city had to offer. Just scanning the contents could give you an overview of what was going on in [...] 11. Starting the sixth year of FIR with a thank you 12 hours ago permalinkToday at about 9am Pacific time, 5pm UK time, we’ll be recording this week’s episode of For Immediate Release: The Hobson and Holtz Report, as we do every Monday. Today’s episode will be show number 580. Today also marks the beginning of our sixth year of podcasting: show #1 went out on January 3, 2005. [...] 12. Adapting to a new mobile connection 13 hours ago permalinkGood news for mobile phone users in EU countries – a voluntary agreement by the major mobile phone manufacturers came into force in the EU on January 1 where all new phones announced for sale in the EU in the coming years must have a standard micro-USB socket for charging the device. GHacks.net reports that [...] |
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