The mobile market continued to grow in the second quarter of 2011 as worldwide mobile device sales rose 16.5% on year to total 428.7 million units, as smartphones accounted for a quarter of overall sales, a new report by technology research specialists Gartner suggests. Smartphone sales grew 74% in the second quarter as consumers...
Daily Archives: August 11, 2011
Buy event tickets directly from an image, with Thinglink and Eventbrite
ThingLink, the Finland and US-based startup that allows images to be embedded with rich media such as audio and video, has announced a partnership with Eventbrite which will see images on Web pages become able to sell you event tickets directly. Using ThingLink’s Rich Media Tags platform, launched in June, anyone promoting an event...
Making the Transition to Apple’s iCloud
This post is part of our ReadWriteCloud channel, which is dedicated to covering virtualization and cloud computing. The channel is sponsored by Intel and VMware. Read the white paper about how Intel Xeon processors help organizations get unprecedented levels of performance. If you are an Apple MobileMe customer, now is the time to start...
“Absolute Explosion” — How BlackBerry BBM Fed The London Riots
With riots and looting breaking out all over London earlier this week, media outlets have been poring over how the violence spread. We were amongst the first to identify the BlackBerry mobile handset and its unique, private Blackberry Messaging service (BBM) as a method whereby rioters and looters, many of them teenagers, broadcast and...
If you can’t trust your ISP, who can you trust?
Some Internet Service Providers have apparently been hijacking the search traffic from customers typing keywords into Yahoo and Bing search engines, and now the backlash has begun. Instead of searching on their chosen search page, ISPs — using gear from a company called Paxfire — are reportedly routing the traffic to the ISP’s servers...
Knocking Down Apple’s Walled Garden: HTML5 vs. iOS Apps
In order to understand why Apple’s walled garden is probably going to go the way of AOL’s walled garden from the dot com era, we first need to acknowledge the sophistication and promise of HTML5. HTML5 is the latest version of HTML, the browser markup language of the Web. It’s an increasingly popular way...