Just when Microsoft seemed poised to recapture some of Apple’s market dominance with the release of its Zune HD – a worthy opponent to the iPod (mp3 player of choice and current industry leader) – I read press stating that the device won’t be an open platform for third party app developers. Instead, Microsoft has [...]
Back in March, Nokia invested $35 million into Obopay, a start-up that lets people transmit money to one another via text message, making it the single largest round of funding given to any such service this year. Apparently that move was designed to bolster Nokia’s own platform, as the mobile company announced a new mobile [...]
Filed under: News, Technology on August 28th, 2009 @ 10:00 am
Tagged with: funding, investing, investment, markets, mobile, mobile payments, mobility, Nokia, Nokia Money, retail, smartphones, start-up, US
The recent collaboration between Microsoft and Yahoo! along with predictions that the future of the search could be the addition of “social relevancy” have pointed the lens squarely at the search engine as the most important piece of real estate in the quest for dominance online, but if we zoom out a frame, I have [...]
Filed under: Business, News, Technology on August 14th, 2009 @ 12:44 pm
Tagged with: Apple, browser, Google, internet, markets, microsoft, mobile, online, product, search, search engine, spaces, start-up, Technology, user experience, web
Since its merger with Nextel back in 2005, Sprint has steadily been losing ground to Verizon and AT&T, lagging behind in innovation both with its product and service offerings. But over the past year plus, the company has made attempts to right the ship, building out its network reliability, adding an iPhone competitor in the [...]
Filed under: Business, Environment, News, Technology on August 13th, 2009 @ 7:31 pm
Tagged with: Acquisitions, brands, Business, employees, Environment, Green, innovation, innovative, leaders, markets, mobile, networks, opportunities, opportunity, people, product, Sprint, success, sustainability
Fresh off the heels of last week’s blockbuster deal with Yahoo!, Microsoft announced a new partnership with Finnish cell phone manufacturer Nokia, another attempt to go after the top player in the space. While the Yahoo! deal was about tackling Google’s dominance of the search market, this newest collaboration takes aim at Research In Motion’s [...]
Filed under: Business, News, Technology on August 13th, 2009 @ 11:45 am
Tagged with: brands, Google, leaders, marketing, markets, microsoft, mobile, Mobile Office, Nokia, partnerships, RIM, smart phones, smartphones, software, strategies, strategy, Technology, Yahoo!
As our culture shifts towards greater immediacy and connectivity enabled by faster mobile networks and loaded handsets, we’re witnessing a profound change in consumer expectations that is having an effect across multiple industries from finance and technology to media and entertainment. Much of this is being fueled by the development of applications that seek to [...]
Filed under: News, Technology on July 22nd, 2009 @ 4:31 pm
Tagged with: Business, growth, innovative, interface, internet, investing, mobile, mobile applications, networks, niche, smartphones, Technology, web
‘Younger than Moses: Idle Worship’ is an art exhibit featuring 22 artists in New York.
As part of the European Project FP7 research called “Integrated System for Transport Infastructures Surveillance and Monitoring by Electromagnetic Sensing,” a team of researchers had been gathered from the countries of Israel, Italy, France, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland and Romania.