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Gartner: Mobile Web Will Outstrip Other Platforms
New research from Gartner indicates that the mobile Web--as in cell phones and smartphones--will overtake PCs as the most common devices used for Web access sometime during the next three years. MediaPost reports that it's a more aggressive projection than the one Morgan Stanley issued, which had forecast five years as the time frame. To put ...
Comcast Pushes Court to Reverse FCC Decision
Comcast on Monday continued its push for a reversal of a 2008 Federal Communications Commission enforcement action, but denied that the issue was related to net neutrality. A D.C. appeals court heard arguments from the FCC and Comcast on Friday. A final ruling has not been handed down, but Reuters reports the three-judge panel appeared critical ...
Harvard Prof: Google Overcharges Advertisers
researcher Ben Edelman has released analysis showing that Google has continued to maintain certain advertising relationships that overcharge advertisers and violate their own policies. The main complaint is over relationships with WhenU, a vendor of spyware, typically bundled with other downloaded products. It monitors your computer usage and pops up ads, including Google ads, it claims ...
Netgear's New Products Take Aim at Home Media Challenges
A new media server, a media player, a switch, two powerline adapters, and three routers are among Netgear's CES 2010 products. Networking was complicated (and slow) enough when people were just sending around text and non-moving images, so the question of what to do with today's heavy-duty (and high-definition) content is one that just won't go ...
Monster Continues to Move Way Past Cables
Monster may have gotten its start manufacturing cables, but in the past couple of years, the company has expanded its offerings, most notably with its earphone and headphone lines. Today, at a press conference at CES, Noel Lee, the “Head Monster", announced even more headphones that will come with the now-familiar Monster trademark: celebrity endorsements. Dr. ...
Apple Acquires Its Own Mobile Ad Network
Apple review, Apple commentary, Apple news... Everything Apple Apple has acquired Quattro Wireless, giving the consumer-electronics giant a mobile ad network to rival the AdMob network that Google is in the process of purchasing. The announcement was not disclosed by Apple, but in a blog post by Andy Miller, now vice president of mobile advertising at ...
Average Person Spends 13 Hours Online Per Week
The average person now spends about 13 hours online each week, according to a Wednesday report from Harris Interactive. Online times differed greatly depending on who you talk to. Of the 2,029 adults polled by Harris, about 20 percent of adults are only online for two hours or less a week, while 14 percent are on ...
10 Predictions for 2010
Every December I look forward to compiling a list of predictions for the coming calendar year. I have been doing this for almost 20 years now, and thanks to a combination of heavy research and a little bit of luck, I've had a pretty high accuracy rate. Sure, there have been some misses in the past, ...
Mobile Web Surge Continues in October
HELSINKI - Global mobile data traffic continued to surge in October, growing at the fastest pace in seven months, Internet browser company Opera Software said on Wednesday. Data traffic through Opera's mobile browserwhich packages up to 90 percent of the data to save network bandwidthrose 16 percent in October from September, the company said. Tech-savvy consumers ...
Linkedin Launches Platform; Tweetdeck Joins
LinkedIn formally launched its developer network Monday, and TweetDeck will be among the first to integrate the social networking site into its results. With the launch of the LinkedIn Platform, developers can now access the site's API and incorporate LinkedIn into their business apps and Web sites. “At LinkedIn, we have always believed that business applications ...
