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The iPhone Is the New Internet Explorer 6, Says Mobile Developer

On the flip side of the debate about whether Flash is ill, in rude health, or simply untroubled by Apple's wilful refusal to countenance it on the iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad, we have an analysis from Peter-Paul Koch, a "mobile platform strategist, consultant and trainer" who says (with plenty of swearing to boot, if you're in filter territory) that the iPhone is the Internet Explorer 6 de nos jours.

"Don’t Be Evil," Meet "Spy on Everyone": How the NSA Deal Could Kill Google

The company once known for its "don’t be evil" motto is now in bed with the spy agency known for the mass surveillance of American citizens.

More Posner Plagiarism

Last week, a reader tipped me to an instance of potential plagiarism by Gerald Posner in the Daily Beast, for which Posner is chief investigative reporter.

Enterprise Software Is Entirely Bereft of Soul

I was in a session last year with Dave Girouard of Google, when I asked him if he still believed in the statement he made 3 years prior about enterprise software.

Toyota's Low-Risk Dialogue on Digg

If you’re Toyota right now, the last thing you want is more surprises.

Four Square Fatigue and the Evolution of Privacy

Over the last few weeks I've started to suffer from Four Square fatigue.

The Dark Side of Crowdsourcing?

Earlier this week, at our weekly faculty research lunch seminar at the Kennedy School (one of the few "free lunches" that has survived our budget crunch-driven cost savings), Jonathan Zittrain, the Internet law and policy guru at Harvard Law School, gave a fascinating presentation on various developments in the burgeoning world of crowdsourcing, broadly conceived.
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Tuesday, February 9, 2010

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Bubble Motion Wants You to Call, Not Tweet

More talking, less texting. That’s the spin Sequoia Capital-backed Bubble Motion is putting on mobile social networking. Read More »

Digital Daily

Mobile Data Traffic: 3.6 Billion Gigabytes a Month by 2014

It’s a truism that mobile data traffic these days is growing at an extraordinary rate. But that doesn’t make the findings of mobile data growth by Cisco any less dramatic. According to the company’s Visual Networking Index Global Mobile Data Forecast, worldwide mobile data traffic could hit 40 exabytes by 2014, or 3.6 exabytes per month. Read More »

MediaMemo

Viacom, Real Networks Spin Off Rhapsody Music Service

Real Networks and Viacom are reorganizing Rhapsody, their joint-venture music service, and will be spinning it off into an independent company, they told the Securities and Exchange Commission today. Rhapsody, along with Best Buy’s Napster, sell music via monthly subscription, as opposed to Apple’s a la carte download offering. But neither service has been able to gain much traction, despite years of effort. More shortly. Read More »

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FCC Chairman on What It Means to Regulate the Internet

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski gets a little peeved when people suggests that he wants to regulate the Internet. Read More »

Google Buzz Makes Gmail Less Socially Awkward

Can a microblogging twist on Gmail raise Google’s profile in social networking? We’ll soon find out. At an event at company headquarters today, Google announced Google Buzz, a new Twitter-style status update system for the email service that will allow users to share their everyday mundanities and inanities and follow those of selected contacts. Read More »

EA Narrows Loss, Gives Weak Outlook

Electronic Arts Inc.’s loss narrowed in the holiday quarter from a year-ago period that was weighed down by charges. But the videogame publisher issued a weak outlook for the current quarter, sending its shares tumbling 10% after hours. Read More »

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IACI Q4 Beats; Stock Gains

IAC/Interactive, the Barry Diller-piloted Internet conglomerate, this morning posted Q4 results that beat Street expectations. The company reported revenue of $367.2 million, ahead of the Street at $339.6 million; adjusted EPS of 20 cents a share was two cents better than the consensus at 18 cents. Read More »

No Verizon iPhone Until 2011?

Apple’s recent reiteration of support for AT&T and its decision to debut the iPad on the carrier’s network are fueling speculation that AT&T may hold on to its iPhone exclusive far longer than anyone is expecting. Indeed, in a note to clients today, Barclays Capital analyst Vijay Jayant suggests that the arrangement will last through the summer, perhaps to year’s end. Read More »

Book Publishers Beware! At iTunes, Expensive Music Equals Slower Sales.

Book publishers itching to raise the prices on their e-books should pay attention to the music labels, which raised the prices on their downloads last spring. Consumers, it turns out, like paying less for stuff. Read More »

BoomTown

Was Google Ad Designed for Viral Mockery? “Parisian Oops,” “Is Tiger Feeling Lucky Today”…What Next?

Yesterday, the day after after Google aired its first national commercial on the Super Bowl, an exec at a rival Internet company marveled at what high favorable scores the “Parisian Love” advertisement got, adding that the possibilities for spoofs were endless. “I have a feeling that making fun of it will probably be a good thing for Google,” sighed the exec, who would dearly like such attention. And, indeed, it did not take two seconds before the takeoffs on the ad–an unusually sentimental, but effective, ongoing story about love in Paris, using only Google’s iconic search box–appeared. Read More »

Reminder: Microsoft’s WinMo on 18 Percent of U.S. Smartphones

winmo6.5 honeycombHere’s a metric to consider in advance of The Mobile World Congress next week and the likely debut of Microsoft’s Windows Mobile 7 operating system: As widely maligned as it is, Windows Mobile was still running on 18 percent of U.S. smartphones at the end of 2009, according to comScore. Read More »

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Intel’s Itanium Again Marches to Different Drummer

Intel loves to talk about Moore’s Law, its co-founder’s famed maxim about how rapidly miniaturization improves semiconductors. The company also prides itself on setting the pace, underscoring the strategy recently by deploying its most tiny circuitry in microprocessors for mainstream PCs. Read More »

A Veteran of Big Music Explains Why Big Music Is Doomed

A former Universal Music executive, now headed to Yahoo, explains concisely why his former employer and the other big guys are just playing out the string: CD sales are wasting away, and the digital boost they were counting on simply isn’t big enough. Read More »

Better Times for VCs? Redpoint Raises $400 Million Fund Focused on Social, Mobile, Cloud and Clean.

Redpoint Ventures announced that it had closed a new $400 million fund to invest in early-stage start-ups in the “social and mobile Internet, cloud computing and clean technology spaces.” Is the closing a sign that things are looking up for the venture business after one of the toughest years in a dozen, with the amount VCs made in 2009 dropping 37 percent, according to a recent report? Who knows–but here’s the skinny on the Redpoint IV fund. Read More »

Philip Eliot of Paladin Capital: Cyber Security Is Not Going Away

As high-profile cyber attacks, like the one that recently hit Google Inc., become more common, Internet security is getting more attention at commercial organizations and especially in the government. Read More »

Earlier Posts

There's more good stuff on BoomTown, Digital Daily, MediaMemo and Voices

Mossberg Discusses the iPad on “The Charlie Rose Show”

Mossberg was on "The Charlie Rose" show this past Thursday to discuss the upcoming Apple iPad. Read More »


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