THE BUSINESS OF TECHNOLOGY
Sharing photos on Facebook should be easy. Automatically sharing your entire photo collection unknowingly with app developers should be impossible, but it isn't. A recently exposed loophole in the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch reveals that app developers can easily download a device's entire photo collections by asking the user to disclose her … [Read more...]
Oh, what a tangled web an iPad trademark weaves. After the Chinese software company Proview Shenzan Technology accused Apple of ripping off the iPad trademark, various Chinese courts have bounced the issue back and forth, with a Hong Kong court ruling in Apple's favor while another in the Guangdong province ruled against the company with the … [Read more...]
Video Played on Mobile Devices, Tablets and Connected TVs Nearly Doubled in Q4 Ooyala, a provider of online video, recently published a report that documents the accelerating use of online video due to the popularity of tablets, mobile devices and connected TVs. Analyzing the viewing behavior of more than 100 million monthly unique users, the … [Read more...]
Gartner recently released a report naming Apple the world's largest smartphone manufacturer. The iPhone made up 23.8 percent of all smartphone sales in Q4 of 2011, selling 35.5 million phones. It was the most phones Apple ever sold in a quarter. This makes Apple the third largest mobile phone vendor in the world at 5 percent market share, up from … [Read more...]
The number of mobile Internet devices will outnumber people by the end of the year, Cisco reported in its Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast Update. “By the end of 2012, the number of mobile-connected devices will exceed the number of people on earth, and by 2016 there will be 1.4 mobile devices per capita,” the report stated. “There will … [Read more...]
By Erdolo Eromo*, MBA The mobile industry is growing rapidly both domestically and internationally. Many aggregators such as Mobile Messenger (MM) are concentrating on this industry as a new and thriving market. Annual wireless data revenues are up by 20.8%, and are expected to increase for the next 10 years before reaching a plateau. SMS and … [Read more...]
Mosoro, a Bluetooth accessory startup that utilizes internal sensors to do everything from judge your golf swing to streaming media directly to a device, has raised $1.5 million in Series A funding. The round was led by leading Internet entrepreneurs and co-founders of ServiceMagic.com, Mike Beaudoin and Rodney Rice as well as Boulder venture … [Read more...]
Now the largest smartphone in the world, Apple claimed ranks as the third largest phone manufacturer in the world, according to recent IDC research. Now available in more than 90 countries, the new iPhone 4S is largely to thank for the computer conglomerate 's success, selling a record breaking 37 million iPhones in the fourth quarter. In the … [Read more...]
Google Android is the world's most popular smartphone platform with 47.3 percent of the market, up 2.5 percentage points since September, according to recently released figures from comScore. The research company studied sales for the three month period ending in December 2011. Android has been activated on over 250 million devices, up 50 … [Read more...]
Sculpteo, the 3D printing service, recently unveiled an app that allows you to design 3D objects, upload the design to the cloud, and then receive a ceramic creation of the design in the mail three days later. The designs are created based on photographs taken by the user. The app essentially allows you to turn your face or someone else's face … [Read more...]