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News Byte

Safe Bet: You Are Watching More Video on Your Phone Than You Did a Year Ago

in Media on December 21, 2010 at 9:52 am PT

You are almost certainly watching more moving pictures on your phone than you did a year ago–either because you have a new phone that makes that easier to do, or there’s more stuff to watch, or both. How much more? That’s a tough stat to figure out, but video search engine MeFeedia hazards a guess: It says mobile traffic to its site is up 60 percent this year. Most of that, unsurprisingly, has been driven by Google’s Android and Apple’s iPhone.

U.S. Tech Job Growth Was Strongest in…Oklahoma City?

in Enterprise on December 9, 2010 at 7:00 am PT

The TechAmerica Foundation’s annual Cybercities report covering the state of America’s local technology job markets for 2009 (the most recent data available) paints–as you might expect–a depressing picture in all but a few of the markets surveyed.

Google Tries to Ride Angry Birds’ Coattails

in Mobile on December 3, 2010 at 1:27 pm PT

Google is hoping to use the Angry Birds to show the power of mobile advertising. A YouTube video has Rovio’s “Mighty Eagle” Peter Vesterbacka talking about how great things are going. Apparently the company expects its ad-based versions of Angry Birds will soon be bringing in about $1 million per month.

Blippy Opens to Public and Scores High-Profile Investors–Including Twitter's Evan Williams–For the Twitter of $$

in News on January 14, 2010 at 6:00 am PT

Blippy, a start-up that lets users broadcast their credit card transactions online, will open itself up to the public today and announce a slate of high-profile Silicon Valley investors. The size of the investment–$1.6 million–is actually not so large as the names on its funding roster. They include: Sequoia Capital, Charles River Ventures, well-known angel investor Ron Conway, Twitter CEO and co-founder Evan Williams, and a trio of splashy entrepreneurs: Jason Calacanis, James Hong and Ariel Poler.

Voices

Behind Sexting Survey, Debate Over How to Poll Teens

in News on April 8, 2009 at 10:34 am PT

It seemed like more troubling evidence that kids these days engage in behavior they wouldn’t want to write home about. Researchers recently found that one in five teenagers have shared nude or seminude photos of themselves by cellphone or online. That statistic has become a fixture in articles about “sexting” and its social and legal implications. But that number may be inflated, because the same teenagers who have engaged in such behavior could be the ones most likely to say they have done so in an online poll.