August 2011

This shows these people didn’t really need a PC in the first place. Connected Devices- How We Use Tablets in the U.S. – Nielsen Wire

Facebook’s and Google’s interest here is of course revenue and minimizing member churn. Those paying Facebook are primarily advertisers that want to be able to… Read More »Follow the money: The lack of anonymity lobby

A lot about mobile gaming these days, seemingly a very profitable area of business, if you are lucky enough to get a hit that is.… Read More »Follow the money: mobile gaming

It’s kind of interesting and confusing that you need iCloud to back up your iTunes purchases, when keeping a tab of what you have bought… Read More »The weird logic of cloud backup

iPhone Maker Foxconn Employs 1M Robots to Do Grunt Work – Gadget Lab – Wired.com Chinese workers are already very inexpensive and working under standards… Read More »Foxconn to hire robots

Advances in 3-D Computer Imaging- Can You Spot the Humans- – Alyson Shontell – Technology – The Will this lead to dead people being resurrected… Read More »CGI humans

I don’t know how solid this is, but I’ve read several posts about it lately. Also mentioned is that this results in a valuation of… Read More »Twitter to bring in $800M?

Stephen Elop (and indirectly Microsoft) is given a lot of blame in this longish but interesting commentary. Communities Dominate Brands- The Two Existential Threats to… Read More »Farewell to a king

Infographic- Apple Captures Two-Thirds of World’s Mobile Phone Profits – News & Opinion – PCMag The second graph spells disaster for Nokia. How are they… Read More »Follow the money: mobile phones

The Coupon Attraction – AnalystXpress – the Juniper Research Blog “And that’s what mobile coupons are all about – getting you in store, one way… Read More »The rationale of mobile coupons