iPhone and Android phones are two different platforms and app search firm Xyologic is bringing that point home again with an analysis of the top apps on both platforms. Xyologic found that of the top 150 apps downloaded on each platform in 2011, 85 of the 150 on Android leaned toward non-gaming apps, while...
Of the top 150 downloads in the Android Market in 2011, 85 were apps against 65 games. Apps were downloaded 91.5 million times against 33.42 million for games. On iOS, 100 games were in the top 150 against 50 games. Games were downloaded 71.57 million times versus 25.64 for apps. The top publishers in...
America used to produce automobiles, and with the surplus generated from the country’s post-war appetite for mobility and horsepower, it produced other things just for the heck of it. In the 1950s, IBM had a research laboratory. Because IBM had one, to stay competitive, GE – Big Blue’s chief competition – established one. Because...
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YouTube certainly has a bright future ahead of itself, or at least a profitable future, according to Lucas Watson, YouTube’s VP of Sales and Marketing. With seemingly endless growth, the internet’s reigning king of video is focusing new efforts towards becoming a premium advertising outlet. More specifically, YouTube could endanger traditional TV programming with...
The biggest hindrance to consumer adoption of 3D technology thus far has been a lack of content, and price, of course. While I can’t vouch for their price tags quite yet, it would seem that Stream TV Networks has come up with some new 3D technology that could make that whole limited content thing...
Luis von Ahn has a pretty impressive track record when it comes to Google acquiring his companies. Not many entrepreneurs can count two exits to the search giant. Google acquired von Ahn’s ESP Game, which crowdsourced people to look at images and label them to improve image search, in 2005 and renamed it Google...
According to a preliminary assessment (via Reuters) from the Düsseldorf regional court in Germany on Thursday, Apple isn’t very likely to succeed in its attempts to get the redesigned Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1N tablet barred from sale in that country via injunction. Samsung released the Galaxy Tab 10.1N in Germany after an earlier ruling...
Two and a Half Men star and tech investor Ashton Kutcher appears to be on a rapid European city tour before the Christmas period, flying in to Stockholm from Berlin yesterday to pay the staff at Spotify’s Swedish RD offices a swift visit. Whilst Swedish newspapers focused on his partying and trips to restaurants,...
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