A long, early Saturday flight home highlighted the end of our Mobilize 2012 event, giving me plenty of time to digest all of the salient points made by our speakers and panelists. Many of these spoke to not only the current state of mobile, but the future too. And that future is fast approaching...
Daily Archives: September 24, 2012
CHART OF THE DAY: This Chart Spells Out Just How Disappointing Apple’s iPhone 5 Sales Really Are (AAPL)
Apple just reported that it sold more than 5 million iPhones over the iPhone 5′s opening weekend. This is a very disappointing number. It’s below top Apple analyst Gene Munster’s estimate of 6 million to 10 million. Worse, it indicates that growth may be slowing at Apple. Take a look at this chart. Opening...
Myspace teases a completely rethought service, and believe it or not, it looks beautiful
Myspace has just revealed a video that teases the future of the once wildly popular social network, now that Justin Timberlake and others have steered it in a new direction. According to the company, the fan and entertainment-focused service is being rebuilt “entirely from scratch.” As you can see in the teaser below, discovered by...
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Now Consumer Reports Is Trashing Apple’s Maps (AAPL)
AP See Also Still Mad About Apple Maps? Nokia Has A Solution And It’s Actually Good TomTom: Don’t Blame Apple Maps Problems On Us! The iPhone 5′s Success Defines Tim Cook’s Apple Apple’s maps have come under heavy fire and now Consumer Reports is jumping in the fray. It says, “our GPS navigation team...
How Journalists Are Using Instagram
Social photo sharing is quickly finding its way into newsrooms. Even though the payoff might not be immediately clear, many media organizations are turning to Instagram as a place to experiment. (This is the first part of a four-part series on how journalists are using social networks beyond Facebook and Twitter.) Instagram’s value to news...
Facebook Shoots Down A Report That Private Messages Are Accidentally Going Public On Timelines (FB)
There was a big Facebook privacy scare today, when reports broke that old private messages were appearing on users’ timelines. The company responded to the reports saying, “A small number of users raised concerns after what they mistakenly believed to be private messages appeared on their Timeline. Our engineers investigated these reports and found that...
Larry Ellison’s Total Yearly Compensation Is Now $96 Million (ORCL)
AP See Also Startup Bromium Could End Computer Viruses Forever Oracle’s Software Business Stays Strong As Hardware Struggles With Its Latest Acquisition, Oracle Wants To Help You Get A Job Oracle has given its CEO, one of the wealthiest men in the world, a big 24 percent raise. In 2011, Larry Ellison raked in...
Is 5 million a lot of iPhones?
On Monday morning Apple released its tally of opening-weekend iPhone sale: 5 million iPhone 5 models were sold since it went on sale Friday morning in nine countries. The immediate reaction from some was negative: some Wall Street analysts had been expecting sales of twice that. The thing about this iPhone roll-out is that there were...
This Is How Analysts Are Trying To Explain Apple’s Lackluster iPhone 5 Sales (AAPL)
AP See Also MUNSTER: About That Prediction Of 8 Million iPhone 5s … Two Charts Spell Out Just How Disappointing Apple’s iPhone 5 Sales Really Are IPHONE 5 OPENING WEEKEND SALES COME IN WORSE THAN EXPECTED Apple sold 5 million iPhone 5s during the first three days it was on sale, which is way...