Loc-Aid calls itself location as a service. It sits between the cellular carriers and developers and aggregates location from one and pushes it through an API to the other. During an interview with CEO Rip Gerber recently, I drew a picture to help me understand exactly what Loc-Aid does. Bear with me, I am...
Apple has today made its iBookstore available in 25 more countries, expanding the market for iBooks out to many more markets, reports author Liz Castro. The new countries available are Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden and...
Although tablets have been around for many years, Apple has been able to grab 80% of the market since they launched the iPad in 2010. Since then dozens of company’s have been trying (some more successfully than others) to grab some of the market share from Apple. Sortable’s Tablet Infographic Article source: SAI http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider/~3/alAN4GQc81k/infographic-the-amazing-recession-defying-tablet-2011-9
Unless you chose today to get marooned on a deserted island, you’ve probably heard that Amazon has announced a series of new devices, including one called the Kindle Fire that has an iPad-style touchscreen and is powered by the Android operating system. On the content side, meanwhile, Amazon has also signed deals with some...
Violin’s new 6000 Series array Violin Memory released a new line of all-flash-memory storage arrays yesterday, but my recent discussion with CEO Don Basile was all about the company’s future, which he said includes an upcoming IPO and possibly a flash acquisition or two. Fellow solid-state startup Fusion-io is flying high after going public...
One secret to success I was reminded of recently goes something like this: Set expectations and then make sure you exceed them, even by a little. That’s what Apple has done with the iPad, which is the king of the tablet market because it gives people what they want and more at a reasonable...
At Mobilize 2011 this week, we had a wealth of founders and executives of mobile companies onstage who not only talked up their products but also the things they’ve learned as they’ve built their apps and mobile services. We’ve picked out some of the best advice they had to offer for young mobile companies...
Platform-as-a-Service pioneer Heroku continues its march into the world of multi-language PaaS today by adding support for Python and the Django framework. It’s just the latest change in an evolutionary several months for Heroku, and for PaaS overall as tries to become the face of cloud computing. The history of PaaS hasn’t always been...
Credit: Amazon.com Amazon’s Kindle Fire is now a known quantity, thanks to details supplied to Bloomberg ahead of the official announcement at Amazon’s press event Wednesday. The Android-based tablet has an attractive price, but to get there, it cut so many corners it probably won’t make much of a dent in Apple’s market lead with the...
Image: All Things D See Also: THE GOOGLE INVESTOR: Google+ Needs To Capitalize On Facebook Fatigue THE MICROSOFT INVESTOR: Microsoft Could Play Kingmaker In Potential Yahoo Sale These Two Guys Can’t Stop Laughing Today* Marc Andreessen thinks that the clock is ticking on Oracle and other old-line software and infrastructure companies. His evidence: not...