Monthly Archives: February 2012
This Ridiculously-Easy-to-Clean Whisk Needs To Exist Right Now [Wish You Were Here]
If you're like me and simply buy a new whisk every time you cook because they're too hard to clean, you'll adore Kwon Hansol's Divisible Whisk with a handle that splits in two, stretching out the wires ...
Sony: No quad-core phones until 2013
Sony has no plans to launch smartphones with more powerful quad-core processors this year, a Sony Mobile Communications executive confirmed on Wednesday. Speaking with CNET Asia, Sony Mobile product marketing manager Stephen Sneeden said he believes Sony will wait until 2013 to launch smartphones powered by quad-core processors like NVIDIA’s Tegra 3. ”We’re going to join quad-core when we feel that the performance matches the battery efficiency,” Sneeden said. “Because right now we don’t feel that is there. What we are going to be doing in the second-half of the year is moving to the Cortex A15 architecture, which we feel outperforms the current quad-core architecture.” While smartphone vendors like HTC, ZTE and others were busy unveiling quad-core Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich
The Best Way to Watch Baseball on Your Tablet or Phone This Season Is Out Now [Apps]
It's really hard to beat going to a baseball game on a summer afternoon. But if you can't be at the park, the MLB At Bat app is one of the best ways to follow any sport from a mobile device, and the 201...
DigiMo Cracks The Code: Mobile Payments With No Point Of Sale Changes
DigiMo, is a mobile payments platform that actually makes sense to me. When I sat down with CEO Yossi Yarkoni and VP of Marketing Nir Shimony at the Mobile World Congress to hear about their concept, which is piloting in Israel right now, the first thing I thought was "wow, why didn't somebody think of this before". It's a pretty good idea and solves many of the problems that plague mobile, face-to-face payments.
It actually works with existing infrastructure and requires no Point Of Sale hardware changes by merchants. Really. No NFC terminals to buy. No new card readers needed. This is a major sticking point for merchant adoption of new mobile payments platforms.
Meet the Next CEO of Microsoft: Steven Sinofsky Is the Heir Apparent [Microsoft]
It was summer 2009. Microsoft had just shipped the final code for Windows 7 to PC manufacturers, who had begun burning it onto the tens of millions of new computers that would ship that Christmas. Mo...
Analytics Startup Mixpanel Is Tracking 4 Billion Actions Each Month — And It’s Cash-Flow Positive
Mixpanel, the analytics startup backed by Sequoia Capital, hasn't yet succeeded in its goal of unseating established analytics services like Omniture — but momentum is building.
Let's start with the biggest number that co-founder Suhail Doshi shared with me this week. He says the company is now tracking 4 billion actions every month. Back in July 2010, that number was "only" 1 billion. He also says there are more than 2,500 organizations who are sending Mixpanel data every month (I guess that's Mixpanel equivalent of an "active user"). And that customer base was built through word-of-mouth because, Doshi says, "We basically do almost no marketing" the startup's total monthly marketing spend is between $3,000 and $5,000.
The New Essential Apps February 2012 [Apps]
iPhones. iPads. Android. We've updated all of our essential apps lists to include a few forgotten favorites, some long awaited arrivals and, as always, even more amazing apps. Check them out! More&nb...
Top 10 places to trade an iPad for cash or credit
The Internet is abuzz with stats about iPad trade-ins going through the roof as the March 7 iPad 3 unveiling in San Francisco looms closer, and while percentages and graphs are vaguely interesting, the real meat to the story concerns where and how people can get the most bang for their buck. Look no further [...]
Fly Or Die: Windows 8
If you were only allowed to read one piece of tech news today, I'd bet you'd read up on the Windows 8 Consumer Preview. The beta became available today, though we were lucky enough to go hands-on with the OS for the past week or so, and people can't stop talking about it.
Windows 8 is a merging of old with new. A Metro UI offers up live tiles much like Windows Phone, but there are still some apps that require the old-school XP interface, sending you directly into the past when you least expect it.
Facebook brings ads to mobile news feed and logout screen
Facebook on Wednesday announced at the company’s Marketing Conference that premium ads will now appear in its mobile application. Advertisements will be displayed on mobile news feeds — much like Twitter’s “promoted” tweets