TomTom’s new app for Apple’s iPhone is getting attention for its high price tag of $99.99 but is garnering a positive first impression in the gadget blogosphere.
The app offers many of the features offered in its standalone GPS devices, including navigation help, trip-planning tools and multi-language support.
Thanks to Twitter’s rising popularity–and its finite, 140-character message length limit–free URL shortening services have been all the rage recently. But they should not become a critical part of your company’s infrastructure.
Now that Yahoo’s search deal is done, the company can finally focus on making itself a better Yahoo. The first step: Build a better homepage.
When social network app-maker Slide took $50 million in funding to set its value at $500 million in January 2008, the only way to almost justify the outrageous figure was to say Slide wasn’t really a widget-maker, but a huge ad network in the making. Since then, the ad market has cratered even while inventory continues to expand.
While many professional journalists fondly remember the work they did in college–covering townie news for the university paper or radio station–some are trying to erase their past work from the Internet because it shows up prominently on search engines like Google.
Apple continues to serve as nanny and tastemaker for its iPhone app store.
Facebook has been putting a lot of effort into its videos lately.
The latest: A beautiful, hi-def video illustrating how the company’s engineers elegantly handle almost 2,000 photo uploads per second and manage more than 40 billion photos.
Jason Calacanis just put Twitter in business. How? He offered $250,000 to be one of 20 users in Twitter’s “Suggested Follows” for two years.
Twitter is growing so fast that being on the “suggested” list for new users can generate more than 10,000 followers a day.
Is Apple in the process of reinventing the way mainstream headphones are designed for the second time this decade?
Walking into Gavin Purcell’s office at 30 Rockefeller Center the first thing you notice is his computer monitor. It’s a 52-inch flat screen mounted to the wall across from his desk. The desktop background is a picture of a Sega Light Phaser. Ladies and gentleman, the co-producer of NBC’s “Late Night With Jimmy Fallon”–debuting Monday–is a geek.
Apple is famous for keeping its gadget pricing steady. But the iPhone app store is a much different market: App developers have cut prices significantly in the last few months. And the market for $10 premium apps seems to have evaporated.
With newspapers croaking right and left, American citizens are justifiably wondering what or who is going to fill the local-paper vacuum. Most companies trying to float new local news models have failed so far. Google boss Tim Armstrong, however, seems to be on the right track with his new company, Patch.
The Web has repeatedly demonstrated its ability to evolve and leave embedded franchises struggling or in the dirt. Prodigy, AOL were early candidates. Today Yahoo and eBay are struggling, and I think Google is tipping down the same path, while Twitter continues to gain momentum.
When he joined the company last summer, Google CFO Patrick Pichette said he intended to “feed the winners” and “starve the losers.” Lately, insiders have begun crediting him for bringing new discipline to Google. One told us that Patrick has been “taking on a lot of the low-hanging fruit” and that “it’s going to make a difference in revenues over the next year.”
In what tech pundits at Gartner Research call the curve of hype and gloom, Linden Lab’s virtual world, Second Life, has officially entered the gloom stage. In October, Reuters pulled its full-time Second Life reporter Eric Krangel, who had written daily news stories about the virtual world’s economy for a year and a half, out of the virtual world.
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