The telephone heritage of mobile devices is inherently social. As a result, mobile devices play a very different role in people’s lives than PCs.
Mobile Devices
11 May 2012
10 May 2012
VCs should rethink their strategy: become more selective, halting investment of instutional capital or taking more equity for the governance.
09 May 2012
Although the jury did find that APIs could be copyrighted, it didn’t decide the bigger issue. Did Google violate that? Fair use allows limited use of copyrighted material without permission.
The study reports U.S. market penetration achieved by 8 technologies since 1876. Penetration rates have been organized to show 3 phases of a technology’s spread: traction, maturity, and saturation.
“Developers need to eliminate the PC or the TV as a reference point and instead dream up truly original, mobile ways of engaging with information and services” (Alan Knitowski, CEO of Phunware).
While Google made its mobile operating system free and commoditizing content, Apple kept a closed system, focusing on brands and enabling paid apps, differentiating web content for a price.
07 May 2012
Chinese PC maker Lenovo plans to invest more than $796m to build facilities for the development and production of tablets, smartphones, and other mobile devices.
The hackathon pairs roughly 150 developers with executives and software gurus from AT&T and Facebook, and will spotlight tools and APIs dedicated to carrier billing, messaging and other services.
04 May 2012
Smartphone penetration will increase at a compound annual growth rate of 24.9% during the 2011-2017 period, reaching 1.7 billion units worldwide by the end of the forecast.
“Today only a small fraction of our ad impressions are sponsored stories, which gives us room to grow”: these paid posts were a “natural part of the Facebook mobile experience” (Sandberg).