I just called my senators. Over the weekend, Pandora founder Tim Westergren sent an urgent appeal to support the Internet Radio Fairness Act. With a push from Pandora’s 150-plus million users, this new law could finally make Internet radio a viable business. As an Internet radio service, Pandora shells out roughly 55% of its...
Daily Archives: September 24, 2012
Adobe Reintroduces PhoneGap, Expanding Mobile App Options
A year ago, the mobile development community was shocked to learn that one of it favorite tools, PhoneGap, was acquired by Adobe. PhoneGap promised to give the world a wider range of mobile apps by letting developers turn Web-based HTML5 apps into native apps for iOS and Android. How would PhoneGap fare after being...
Steve Wozniak Thinks People Are Making A Big Stink Out Of Apple Maps For No Reason (AAPL, GOOG)
AP I love when Steve Wozniak says things. He’s usually hilariously critical of Apple, the company he co-founded with Steve Jobs. So I was excited to see him finally comment on Apple’s controversial new Maps app that does away with Google Maps data. (My colleague Jay Yarow emailed Woz last week, but Woz had...
Why Facebook And Google’s Data Centers Are Not Killing Our Planet (GOOG, FB)
Facebook Facebook’s Jeff Rothschild See Also Facebook’s Revolutionary Data Center Was Designed On A Napkin Here’s How Long It Takes To Assemble One Of Facebook’s Custom Built Servers Inside Facebook’s Plan To Revolutionize The Entire Hardware Industry Big Internet companies like Facebook and Google are being accused of running data centers that pollute the...
Citing 2% smartphone market share, Microsoft pushes NFC as larger Windows component
In a keynote at the NFC World Congress, Microsoft detailed its Windows Phone 8 push to use the technology, in the process highlighting that Windows 8 itself is the de facto larger piece of its efforts. As reported in NFCWorld, Microsoft is cognizant of its minor footprint in smartphones, but fully aware of what Windows...
Amazon App Store Zeroes In On Strengths: Real Goods Purchasing And Recommendations
At just a year of age, Amazon’s app store is a relative newcomer against both Google Play and Apple’s app store. Yet given Amazon’s prowess in e-commerce plus the Seattle-based company’s willingness to aggressively court top-tier mobile developers, the store has certainly made itself noticed in the app ecosystem. We caught up with Aaron...
Stevie brings MTV-style social video curation to the iPad
Plenty of people are trying really hard to make online video more like TV. Israel-based web video curation startup Stevie is a little more specific about its goal: It wants online video to look like a hit show on MTV, back when MTV was still groundbreaking. “We are a product of the ’80s,” admitted...
Microsoft’s Energy-Wasting Strong-Arm Tactics Show That Redmond Hasn’t Changed
Cloud computing promises to create a more efficient, more productive global economy – but it uses gargantuan amounts of electricity: between 1.7 and 2.2 percent of U.S. power use, according to a 2010 report. That puts cloud providers in a position of responsibility with respect to the global community: We’re depending on them to deliver...
Red Hat reports Q2 revenue of $281 million, earnings per share of $0.20
RALEIGH, N.C.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced financial results for its fiscal year 2012 second quarter ended August 31, 2011. “The combination of strong sales execution and customer demand led to second quarter revenue that was above our guidance and represented our fourth straight...
Apple TV 5.1 Brings Custom Network Configurations, Could Allow For VPN Use
Apple today released its iOS 5.1 update, which brought a number of new features to the table, including the ability to set up custom network configurations using Apple Configurator, the device management tool Apple offers through the Mac App Store for management of multiple iOS devices across an organization or household. Apple doesn’t go into detail...