ReadWriteWeb:
Google announced this morning that it has acquired 3-year old mobile display ad serving platform AdMob for $750 million, half the price it paid for YouTube in 2006. Why did Google make this move? Two probably reasons stand out.First, AdMob is a very strong company in a sector (mobile advertising) that everyone expects to (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Microblogging clients, media players, news tickers and more built on Adobe's popular Rich Internet App framework AIR will soon become a lot more powerful and efficient.Version 2.0 of of AIR will hit Adobe Labs later this year and be available for everyone in the first half of 2010, the company said this week. A good list o (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Mobile ad firm AdMob has revealed the dramatic changes the mobile industry has seen in their second annual Mobile Metrics Report, released just this morning. Believe it or not, it was only a year ago that the Motorola RAZR scored as the number one phone here in the U.S. while the iPhone was the only touchscreen device to ev (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
As iPhone and Android users, it's easy to forget that Facebook hasn't been fully optimized for all touchscreen phones. Many of us sit here from the comfort of our sleek mobile applications, never knowing the drudgery that Palm owners have to face as they type in URLs to open their favorite services. Well Palm owners, you're (Read More)
: I like the mobile version. Maybe the simplicity offered by the mobile apps and sites of Facebook is offered for the normal homepage in the future as well.
Ars Technica:
Apple dropped a hardware update bomb Tuesday morning with a brand-new desktop mouse, new iMacs, new low-end MacBooks, a new Mac mini. All of the above had been rumored for some time, but a new mouse was the first to captivate Apple fans' attention due to its multi-touch makeover (Read More)
Ars Technica:
At the Maemo Summit last week in Amsterdam, Nokia unveiled its ambitious goals for the next version of its Linux-based mobile platform. Maemo 6, which is codenamed Harmattan, promises to bring a significant user interface overhaul and will offer a number of important new capabil (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Thanks to mobile devices like the iPhone and recent efforts by numerous hardware manufacturers like HP, touch and multi-touch enabled devices are slowly becoming more ubiquitous. While Apple users have the mythical iTablet to look forward to, Windows users didn't really have a similar project to latch on to, except maybe fo (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
Steve Jobs said people don't read any more. But Apple (AAPL) is in talks with several media companies rooted in print, negotiating content for a "new device." And they're not just going for e-books and mags. They're aiming to redefine print.Several years ago, a modified version of OS X was presented to Steve Jobs, running o (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Anyone who has followed Apple news/rumors/patents over the past couple of years has probably noticed a certain trend emerging: Apple seems to be slowly shifting its entire line of products to touch-based computing. That is to say, it’s moving its products away from buttons and keys, towards manipulation through a touchscree (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
We've spent a few hours this weekend playing "Madden NFL 10" for the iPhone, Electronic Arts' first try porting its football franchise title to Apple's phone.It's very good, and much better than its main competitor, Gameloft's "NFL 2010," which has dropped its price down to $2.99 (from $7.99 at launch) to stay in the game.O (Read More)
readwriteweb:
Augmented Reality, the class of technologies that overlay data on top a user's view of the real world, is a very hot field right now. Mobile AR apps, like Layar and Wikitude are getting the most attention, but there are other ways Augmented Reality can be implemented beyond the mobile phone.Nokia released a video today tha (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
Apple (AAPL) may or may not announce a tablet computer at an event in San Francisco next month; the consensus now is that it's going to wait until next year. But it seems that either way, this isn't just a one-off gadget.It now appears that Apple is working toward an entire line of touchscreen computers -- a natural evoluti (Read More)
TechCrunch:
We'll probably have some more details on this later today, but we're able to spill some of it now seeing as much of it just went live on Samsung's own site.If you haven't been keeping up with all the latest in Samsung news, here's what you need to know: Samsung's got a widget interface called TouchWiz, which they've been ro (Read More)
Ars Technica:
Today, Sony officially launched the latest salvos in the increasingly intense e-book wars. Depending on your perspective, this was either a big deal, or a collection of incremental changes: new models, new supported formats, and cheaper e-books, but little that signific (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Everyone is falling all over themselves to talk about tablets. Yesterday Wired.com topped them all in the hype department by declaring 2010 to be the year of the tablet. But let's just slow down a minute. Yes, a big old pane of multitouch goodness is a thing of beauty, and we're just as susceptible to its magic as you are. (Read More)