Top Stories of the Week This week’s Google Plus traffic win was a favorite of ReadWriteWeb readers. Contrasting that to Facebook’s re-design, which also garnered much attention, shows you the impact of this rivalry for social networking domination. Wikipedia also impressed this week with a very cool QR implementation. Take a photo of a...
Monthly Archives: October 2011
Fly Or Die: The Compex Sport Elite
With Halloween around the corner, what better way to celebrate than to watch us animate my desiccated, lifeless limbs with jolts of fiery electricity? In this episode of Fly or Die, Erick and I look at the Compex Sport Elite. It zaps muscles to improve fitness, recovery, and general strength and it can, in...
Actually, Amazon Will Only Lose About $10 On Each Kindle Fire (AMZN)
Image: Steve Kovach, Business Insider See Also: Here’s The Full, Unedited Kindle Fire Keynote From Jeff Bezos THE APPLE INVESTOR: Get Ready For A Massive iPhone Upgrade Cycle Amazon Will Lose Millions Selling The Kindle Fire, But That’s The Point The Kindle Fire costs $209.63 to produce, according to an analysis from iSuppli. Factoring...
The Internet Isn’t Just Another TV Pipe
Editor’s Note: Guest contributor Ben Decker works in corporate strategy at NBCU and does research on new media at NYU. Ben has recently begun an open dialogue around these issues and the future of traditional media. If you’d like to be involved, contact him @BDecker19 As everyone knows, Facebook schooled the web last week,...
Android this week: AT&T Galaxy S II video look; Android event Oct.11; Kindle Fire
The next U.S. version of Samsung’s Galaxy S II phone is due to arrive in ATT stores on Sunday, so to help prepare potential buyers, we have a short video overview of a review unit. The Android 2.3.4 smartphone has a peppy dual-core processor that makes this one of the fastest Android phones yet...
How BalconyTV has built a worldwide online media sensation on a passion for music and video
Amongst the young companies building apps and services at the Startup Bootcamp accelerator in Copenhagen is something you rarely see in such schemes – a startup focused on content. BalconyTV is devoted to the idea of music being performed on balconies. It sounds like a simple, if oddly specific, concept, but its one that...
Daily Crunch: Hunter
Here are some of yesterday’s Gadgets stories:Video: AlphaDog Is A Bigger, Faster, Quieter BigDogMicrosoft “Accidentally” Tags Chrome As MalwareSamsung Announces The Dual-Core Galaxy Tab 7.0 PlusCanonical Releases Windows Version of Ubuntu OneReport: HP Still Looking To Offload Palm, Amazon Named As Top Contender Article source: TechCrunch http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/ZHY0wtU3490/
The9 Launches Mobile Gaming Platform & SDK To Give Developers Access To The Chinese Market
The9, the sizable NASDAQ-listed Chinese game publisher and developer, has made quite a few investments in the U.S. gaming market over the last year. (Reflecting, it seems, a rising Asian interest in U.S. companies, especially gaming.) As part of its international strategy, The9 has been full-steam ahead on creating better ways for international gaming...
10 stories to read this week
After a brief break, this week I return with some great readings that involve Biggie Smalls, Steve Jobs, Thomas Edison, Google’s Larry Page and Amazon’s Kindle Fire. And just when you were feeling too smart, well, I got some news for you. The age of the consumer-innovator. Professor Eric von Hippel and others argue that...