The rather lackluster uptake for desktop internet is more than being made by the number of people accessing the internet via their mobile, with Google estimating that the number of people on mobile internet in India more than doubling, from about 8-10 million in the beginning of the year 2009.
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After a series of high bandwidth websites like YouTube and Google Wave, Google is now taking the next step by unveiling plans for an uber-high speed Internet access in a small number of trial locations across the United States – fiber-optic networks for as many as 500,000 people with connections of 1 gigabit per second [...]
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Location is clearly the way forward, and Twitter is gearing up for it with the acquisition of Mixer Labs, the guys behind GeoAPI – a comprehensive service for helping developers build geolocation-aware applications.
With this, Twitter will not only allow you to answer the question “What are you doing now?” but add the contextual relevance of [...]
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Morgan Stanley has recently released some reports on the mobile internet: ‘The Mobile Internet Report,’ a massive 424 page tome which explores 8 major themes, ‘The Mobile Internet Report Key Themes,’ a 659-slide presentation that drills down on thoughts covered in the report, and for the ones in a hurry, there is ‘The Mobile Internet [...]
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Some time back, eMarketer talked about a survey according to which, a surprising number of North American papers were considering charging for online content – 60% polled were considering charging for content that was currently free, and one-quarter expected to have a paid strategy in place within six months. Could this even be an online [...]
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The Indian internet user spent $2,066 on an average during the last 12 months buying goods and services on the Net, according to a six-nation study done by payment solutions player Visa, comapred to Asia-Pacific customers, who on an average spent close to $2,526. Phew!!! that’s a lot.
According to the report, 80% of the Indian [...]
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With the LinkedIn Developer Network, LinkedIn is opening out to let developers integrate LinkedIn into their business applications and websites according to the LinkedIn blog.
So far, LinkedIn has gone down more the collaboration/ partnership route for integration – think Microsoft’s integration of LinkedIn into its 2010 version of Outlook e-mail, LinkedIn for BlackBerry, Amazon.com, shows [...]
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Of the estimated 300 million active users on Facebook, a staggering 63.7 million are on Farmville – a real-time farm simulation game from Zynga available as an application on Facebook which combines The Sims with Tamagotchi pets (in other words, 1 in 5 people you come across on Facebook are merrily tending a virtual farm, [...]
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A 19-year-old New York man who was arrested for armed robbery has been exonerated thanks to a status update he posted on social networking site Facebook.
Rodney Bradford was arrested and held for 12 days in connection with an October 17 armed robbery of two people in the Brooklyn housing project where he lives, prosecutors said.
But [...]
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Steve Jobs, has applied for a patent titled ‘Advertisement in an Operating System’, and has listed himself as an ‘inventor’ of the application (US Patent Application 20090265214), says the Business Standard.
Is that the way that Operating Systems are going to go?
According to the application, the “the operating system can disable some aspect of its operation [...]
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