Thanks to the rise of the popular, non-business smartphone – namely any phone that supports app creation – carriers can expect to sell 420 million units this year, taking over a quarter of total phone sales away from “traditional” phones. The winners in this race? Samsung and Apple. The loser – by a long...
Google is testing a new layout which appears designed to bring to tablet devices the new design aesthetic we’ve recently seen applied to the likes of Calendar and Gmail. As reported by Digital Inspiration, the screenshots below show a navigation bar across the top of the screen replacing the previous sidebar navigation, complete with...
Pixazza, a digital ad platform that embeds e-commerce links to items within online photos, has renamed itself Luminate. The newly branded company is also broadening its services, turning into a platform for apps that generate in-photo links for a wider array of categories beyond clothing and accessories. Since its inception in February 2008, the...
Pixazza, a Google Ventures-backed photo tagging service that has been compared to an “AdSense for Images,” is rebranding as Luminate today, and debuting a new platform for in-image apps. As we’ve written in the past, Pixazza allows publishers to identify, tag and match products found within online images on their sites and then link...
UK broadcaster ITV is introducing a micropayment system for its online TV-on-demand service, in a move designed to counteract a fall in advertising revenue. ITV reported its first fall in TV ad revenue in a year and a half back in May, and it has said that TV ad revenues will be down 2%...
The fake Chinese Apple Stores we reported on last week have certainly grabbed the attention of the mainstream media (it is the summer ‘silly season’, after all). MSNBC have even sent a camera crew down to one of the stores (presumably one that wasn’t asked to close) and took a look around. You can...
Image: YouTube The big Taiwanese phone maker HTC has said that it would stick with Qualcomm processors for its phones, instead of Samsung processors, Pudong Daily reports. The reasons were likely strategic as much as they were technological: Samsung also competes with HTC in the phone business. And this highlights Samsung’s conundrum. Samsung, a...
Image: AllThingsD Nokia’s app store for its previous generation Symbian phones, Ovi Store, just hit 7 million daily downloads. By way of comparison, Apple announced this month 15 billion downloads on its app store since the beginning, which works out to a rough average of 13 million downloads per day. The real number these...