This chart comes from Business Insider Intelligence, a new research and and analysis service focused on the mobile and Internet industries. Sign up for a free trial here. The average selling price (ASP) of tablets keeps falling. The ASP fell 17 percent from 2010—when it was pretty much just the iPad—to 2011. Through the...
David Tisch is leaving his day to day role as Managing Director of the TechStars New York program he cofounded with David Cohen. “I’ve been doing this for 2 years and three programs. There’s some amazing traction and I want to go do something else,” he told us over the phone. “The program is...
High-profile jailbreak developer pod2g has uncovered what he calls a “severe” security flaw in iOS that allows people to spoof SMS text messages. Note to Apple HR: Hire this guy immediately. An Open Invitation to Hackers The issue, as pod2g explains it, has to do with a piece of data that’s included in every text message. In...
UPDATED: Cloud gaming pioneer OnLive has confirmed that its assets have been sold to a newly-formed company with “substantial backing.” OnLive will continue to operate its gaming and desktop streaming services and supports its current partnerships, the company said in a statement. “The new company is hiring a large percentage of OnLive, Inc.’s staff across...
U.S. mobile commerce is expected to hit $10 billion this year, up from $6 billion in 2010. Amazon, as a leading ecommerce site, is set to grab a big chunk of that. But when it comes to mobile, Amazon’s ambitions are anything but limited to ecommerce. Recent reports from BI Intelligence detail Amazon’s mobile ambitions,...
Steve Gillmor is a technology commentator, editor, and producer in the enterprise technology space. He is Head of Technical Media Strategy at salesforce.com and a TechCrunch contributing editor. Gillmor previously worked with leading musical artists including Paul Butterfield, David Sanborn, and members of The Band after an early career as a record producer and...
If you were told you could listen to the radio at a reasonable level in your cubicle and that you were going to be allowed to keep your stapler, this is probably the tape dispenser for you. The T-EM50 by Koyoku will spit out tape at pre-determined lengths again and again, ensuring a perfect...
When you have millions of location data points, figuring out how much more accurate GPS is compared to Wi-Fi is a snap. Luckily, Yelp just happens to have that type of data, captured through users of its app who check-in at various business locations. Earlier this week, the company scoured the data and shared the...
Remember Firesheep? A scary little app, it caused a stir when it was demonstrated that its users could abuse co-users of public WiFi networks, snagging their passwords and the like. Given how popular working in coffee shops has become with the rising prevalence of free WiFi, Firesheep made many uncomfortable. Here’s how TNW described using...
Rumor has it that cloud-based gaming service OnLive is set to shut its doors today. The company, which has gathered $56 million in funding, has had difficulty in finding adoption due to the bandwidth that its service requires users to have available. Their employees are sending out emails that #OnLive will be closed by...