One of the reasons Apple’s stock has gotten clobbered lately is that many people think Apple has lost its edge in its most important product line: smartphones. The iPhone has been such a mind-boggling success that it drives more than half of Apple’s overall profit. And for most of the past five years, Apple...
Daily Archives: January 4, 2013
Inside Facebook’s 470 Million Mobile App Users (FB)
Kevin Smith, Business Insider See Also Here’s A Theory On The Shady Instagram Numbers That Just Cost Facebook Shareholders $1.7 Billion Facebook Is Staffing Up With Apple Engineers To Build The Facebook Phone Tim Cook Sent Mark Zuckerberg A Free iPhone 5 Benedict Evans, an independent technology analyst based in London, has put together...
What I Got Wrong In The Peanut Butter Manifesto (YHOO)
YouSendIt CEO Brad Garlinghouse See Also Brad Garlinghouse: Yahoo’s Strength Is The Application Layer, The Media Stuff Is The Result Of That Ex-Exec: How Yahoo Could Pull An Apple-Like Turnaround Ex-Yahoo Brad ‘Peanut Butter’ Garlinghouse Dumping iPhone For Palm Pre This post originally appeared on LinkedIn. Follow Brad on LinkedIn. In 2006, as an...
What is the deal with Apple and Waze? Poker
The talk about Apple and Waze over the past few days has been interesting. First, it was rumored that Waze was to be acquired by Apple and that the negotiations were ‘advanced’. This story, though reported on Techcrunch, actually showed up first on an Israeli blog. Waze is an Israeli company. So far so…ok....
At the end of 2012, Steam users ditch Windows 7, Vista, and XP for Windows 8, OS X, and Ubuntu
Valve on Friday updated its Hardware Software Survey for December 2012, and the news is very good for Microsoft. Yet the company wasn’t the only one to go home with a big win at the end of last year: even Canonical has good reason to celebrate. Here is how things looked like for December...
Shenanigans: Google Maps redirect issue on Windows Phones is a matter of competition, not compatibility
Sources close to Microsoft in contact with TNW have cast doubt on Google’s telling of the Windows Phone 8 and Google Maps controversy. A thorough look shows that the situation is by no means a simple lack of support for non-Webkit browsers. When Google began redirecting Windows Phone users – Windows Phone 7.5 included...
Stop Whining And Embrace Google+ Already
Oh, the horror! Google is so evil it’s making everyone use its stupid social network. As the Wall Street Journal pointed out earlier this week, Google+, the social network all about the circles, is now inescapable. Besides Google employees being forced to use it (and now bitching about using it to the Journal), YouTubers, companies,...
A Patent Troll By Any Other Name Still Stinks
On the Internet, nobody really likes to be called a troll. Especially the people who absolutely know they are trolls. It is a derogatory term meant to denigrate somebody who is deliberately provocative to produce the maximum amount of disruption to other parties’ goals. We think of trolls as people that flame message boards...
IF HP Has A Fire Sale, What Should Go?
While Hewlett-Packard says it “continues to evaluate” the sale of underperforming businesses, the company’s cash flow problem will make the shedding of assets unavoidable. So what’s likely to head to the auction block? Everything from notebooks and desktop PCs to Itanium servers and tape drives that have been draining assets could be on the...
Twitter’s challenge for 2013: Resisting state demands for censorship
The conventional wisdom in many circles is that Twitter’s biggest challenge lies in figuring out how to monetize its growing user base. And perhaps for the company’s venture-capitalist backers or other startup founders, that is the most important question it has to answer — but it is far from the only one. Recent events...