I got up this morning to find the world going crazy about the new Twitter iPad application – see this glowing Engadget review and the Techcrunch titled Twitter Just Killed Something Else: Their Own Website – the title gives a hint of where I’m going with this post. (Apologies for the fact this [...]
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Last week I asked whether the TV and movie industry is ahead of the music industry in the race to build profitable streaming services. Today there is more news that suggests it is: Bloomberg reports that Apple is Said to plan Netflix service on new TV product – that would be a c$10 per [...] Netflix, the US DVD rental cum video streaming business is out cutting $1bn deals with movie studios for streaming rights and Hulu is contemplating an IPO – both developments which suggest the premium video streaming business is starting to reach maturity. The music streaming business, by contrast, is still finding its way, and is [...] Reading this Techcrunch piece on Chomp, a provider of search and discovery for iPhone apps, prompted me to explore a question that has been circling in my mind in a somewhat unstructured fashion for a couple of weeks now – namely what is the difference between an app store and a portal? It seems [...] Yesterday I wrote about Google’s HTML5 apps on mobile and I want to share this comment that my friend Jof Arnold left in response: I love what this [HTML5] is doing for browser speeds; look at the performance of Chrome and Safari now (check out the demos on the Safari HTML5 gallery; realtime 3D [...] You may have seen the various reports today about the new YouTube HTML5 mobile site (perhaps the best write up is on Techcrunch) – they all say that the site runs as well or better than the native app on the iPhone, particularly with regard to video quality. Similarly there is a Google [...] The mobile press in the last week or so has been lavishing huge praise on Apple for the iPhone 4, which by all accounts is an awesome device, and I am particularly interested to see what apps developers will build using the new gyroscope, as well as excited by the new screen and the [...] The FT reports today on a Screen Digest projection that Apple is storming forward fast in the video on demand market: Apple is on course to become the second-largest provider of paid on-demand movies in the US by the end of 2010, leapfrogging Time Warner Cable and setting itself up as viable competitor to [...]
Nokia warned last week that its second quarter results would come in below guidance and as the FT reported their shares fell 10% as a result. Many analysts are saying that Nokia’s disappointing results are here to stay. Their problem is that they are losing market share in the smartphone market which is [...] I got a new Blackberry earlier this week (a Bold 9700) and the day I got it I sent the tweet below saying that it might be my last. I said that because for the last year or so I’ve been carrying an iPhone and a Blackberry and that is a pain. It [...] |
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