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We have some good news for a slow news day. Erica Ogg, from CNET News, is joining the GigaOM team in about a week to head up our Apple coverage. I’ve known Erica for years, having first met her at a PR dinner when we both worked for CNET (now CBS Interactive). I quickly...
Apple is on track to ship 100 million iPhones over the next 12-month span, bringing the total installed base of iOS devices up to 415 million by the end of 2012, according to Canaccord Genuity analyst T. Michael Walkley. The report, summarized by Appleinsider, details several impressive statistics as well as Walkley’s predictions for...
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Apple is suing Samsung for allegedly borrowing design ideas from the iPhone for use in its line of Galaxy S Android phones. Yes, those devices are similar, but one could argue there are only so many configurations for a touchscreen smartphone. Fine. Then we saw this on Twitter. It looks like Samsung took a...
NextWeb’s design is still by far the best. Article source: TNW http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheNextWeb/~3/47lLGi1UWMc/
Verizon’s move this week to follow rival ATT by eliminating unlimited data plans may not affect most smartphone users today, but could impact them in the future as handsets are used for more purposes. Such tiered data plans, where customers buy a set amount of monthly broadband, are easy to understand at the point...
With all the buzz around gamification and how it will and should evolve for brands and users, I wanted to take a look at the brands that are using gamification mechanics to market their products and engage users effectively. How gamification will work for brands is still largely unknown and we’re yet to see...
The tablet component orders for the third quarter are in. No surprise, Apple is still miles ahead with orders between 14 and 15 million iPads on the way. What is surprising is that Amazon has finally made a real, physical blip on tablet radar. According to DigiTimes, Amazon has ordered up to 1.2 million...
Now that we know Spotify is definitely coming to the U.S., the question is when. Rumors suggest as early as next week, but in the meantime Peter Kafka has snagged a few marketing materials Spotify prepared for the U.S. launch. Of note: Spotify says Facebook will be a huge player in building a user...
I call bs on this ‘study’. Still see very little Mac products on campus, even the first year laptop deals organzied by the university are windows laptops only. I actually felt the 100$ coupon was a pretty bad promotion compared to the free ipod and printer back in the day, so i’m holding of...