Mobile messaging and calling service Nimbuzz announced it has passed of 100 million registered users across its multiple platforms — which include PC, iOS, Android and some 3,000 other mobile devices — thanks to strong growth in emerging markets. The mobile app space itself is gathering pace rapidly, and the service’s recent growth’s has been triggered...
Daily Archives: August 1, 2012
Hooked Media Group Uses Social Discovery to Fine-Tune Game Recommendations
Social discovery is the latest buzzword on the Web, but it has limits. Here’s how one company is trying to use (but not over-use) social discovery to figure out what game you want to play before you even know you want to play it. There are zillions of Flash games online, and finding the...
Twitter’s 2012 Election Index Measures Candid Tweets About the Candidates
If you thought the 2008 election was defined by social media, wait until you see this one. Twitter launched the Twitter Political Index on Tuesday, a daily measurement of Twitter-wide sentiments about Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. It brings the scale of 400 million daily messages to bear. By watching unprompted conversations instead of...
Too soon? Path CEO Dave Morin already dreaming about an IPO
Don’t get me wrong, Path is great and all, but I have to confess that I grinned when I saw this @CNBC tweet. Apparently, Path founder and CEO Dave Morin is already thinking and/or dreaming about an initial public offering. Admittedly, I didn’t see the CNBC Squawk Box bit where Morin uttered the words,...
Artspotter Sculpts Its New App To Be The Social Platform For Art Fans
When the Artspotter app and site first appeared last year we noted it was a more of an art map that lets you discover and publish art around you, whether it be galleries, street art, you name it. It was billed as a sort of art discovery app for the iPhone . But...
Amazon Instant Video Comes To The iPad
Amazon Prime members who like to rock an iPad, not the Kindle Fire, now have access to Amazon’s ever-growing collection of movies and TV with today’s launch of the Amazon Instant Video app, which just popped up this morning in the App Store for iPad. As with the desktop and Kindle tablet version, the...
Hulu Benefits From New Mountain Lion Mirroring Feature
After a painfully long wait, Hulu Plus is available on the Apple TV. Hulu subscribers can stream TV shows and movies from the service on their televisions, just as owners of Rokus, Nintendo Wiis and a list of other devices already do. Hulu Plus, the paid-subscription counterpart to free, ad-supported Hulu.com, has been central...
Amazon brings Instant Video app to iPad. Android next?
Amazon’s push to rival Apple in the digital media space took another step forward on Wednesday with the release of an Amazon Instant Video app for iPad, as noted by 9 to 5 Mac. The free software, found in the iTunes App Store, can play back all 120,000 titles in Amazon’s video library of...
Amazon takes aim at IO bottlenecks
Amazon appears bound and determined to speed up IO for its cloud customers. New Provisioned IOPS (Input Output per Second) block storage volumes will let users set performance levels of up to 1,000 IOPS per volume and then use RAID to stripe two or more volumes together to realize 10,000 IOPS, said Arun Sundaram, product...
This Is Huge: Amazon’s New Instant Video App For iPad Offers Offline Viewing (AMZN)
Screenshot See Also The Coolest Ways To Customize Your Android Phone Amazon Introduces Its Own Version Of iTunes Match This Game-Changing TV Accessory Is Finally Available For Pre-Order Amazon’s Instant Video launched today with support for both streaming and offline video, as first reported by 9to5Mac. This means that Amazon Prime subscribers can not...