(Credit: IDC Worldwide Mobile Phone Tracker) Android and iOS are stealing mobile market share at a shocking rate, new data from research firm IDC has revealed. During the first quarter, Android and iOS combined to secure 82 percent of the smartphone market. Android-based device vendors shipped 89.9 million smartphones last quarter, jumping 145 percent year over year. Apple's iPhone shipments soared by 88.7 percent to land at 35.1 million units. Android and iOS shipments hit 36.7 million units and 18.6 million units, respectively, during the first quarter of 2011. At that time, the platforms owned 54.4 percent of the market. So, which operating systems were hit hard in the last 12 months? According to IDC, Symbian shipments were down 60.6 percent year-over-year last quarter, to ... Continue reading →
Writing publicly about what the high-tech industry is actually doing to help itself and the world get greener or more sustainable is one way I figure I can contribute more meaningfully to said effort. I am also a big OMG-kind-of-fan of smart leadership, which is why the goodly folks who publish this blog let me go on about this topic and why I am always on the hunt for forward-looking business management ideas. My daily writing is focused on looking for topics for my blogs, GreenTech Pastures and Business Brains. I also write often about emerging technology trends such as mobile computing, unified communications and cloud computing. Occasionally, I will pop up at an industry conference in some sort of speaking capacity. In cases where ... Continue reading →
Facebook (NASDAQ FB) has worse problems than its stock price sinking well below its $38 opening price on its May 18 Initial Public Offering. This week, two class actions — a state-filed suit in California Tuesday and a federal suit in New York today — allege Facebook didn’t tell prospective investors that it had significantly lower revenue projections than what it disclosed in its prospectus. Facebook reps did not return calls immediately for this story, although it told Reuters today that “the lawsuit is without merit and will defend ourselves vigorously.” “The substance of both complaints is extremely similar,” Silicon Valley attorney Tom Ewing told TechRepublic. Both refer to anonymously sourced reports from Reuters that claimed that lead underwriters Morgan Stanley and JP Morgan cut ... Continue reading →
0 WordPress Had an interesting chat with Anil Dash today at the GigaOM/PaidContent conference in NYC, here are some tweets from the talk: https://twitter.com/iA/status/205332176475136000 Q&A: @photomatt on tools used by his employees. “We just use blogs for everything. P2 is like our internal @Twitter.” #pc2012 — Porter Anderson (@Porter_Anderson) May 23, 2012 If you’re curious about P2 check out p2theme.com where you can sign up pretty easily. Like Jay-Z obsessing over young rappers, @photomatt keeps an eye on every new content management system that comes out. #photo2012 — Ron Hogan (@RonHogan) May 23, 2012 I learned this from the Complex interview with Young Guru. (Which they present in slideshow format, for some reason.) A few very kind words from Jay Rosen: Takeaway 2 from #pC2012: ... Continue reading →
So what, though? You don’t get advances without a lot of failures, and in general, the winners will beat the losers. The last tech bubble produced Pets.com, but it also gave us Amazon, eBay, and PayPal. What’s more, people who made their money in those companies went on to fund the Valley’s latest crop of pioneering firms. Peter Thiel, one of the co-founders of PayPal, was instrumental in the founding of Facebook. And Elon Musk, another PayPal guy, went on to co-found the private space company SpaceX and the electric-car maker Tesla Motors—two firms that could radically alter transportation on the planet and beyond. Continue reading →
I can't say I support the notion of "debunking" big data or krsanford's desire to kill it. By the way, kr, you might want to explore the open source possibilities in big data (I know open source is frowned on around here) and you'd discover that one does not need to be a large institution to perform data mining on big data.I think you really need to talk to the data mining experts at http://www.kdnuggets.com/ which is the most popular portal on the web for data mining, analytics, machine learning, BI, etc. The fellow who runs it, Gregory Piatetsky, is one of the top experts in the field, founded a conference on the subject, etc. His profile is at http://www.kdnuggets.com/gps.htmlHe's been an invaluable presenter on ... Continue reading →
A jury has found that Google did not infringe upon Oracle's patents. "Today's jury verdict that Android does not infringe Oracle's patents was a victory not just for Google but the entire Android ecosystem," Google said in a statement. More to follow. Continue reading →
(Credit: Greg Sandoval/CNET) Thanks to a new agreement with Paramount Pictures, subscribers of Amazon's Prime service will now get access to "hundreds" of films, including as "Mission: Impossible 3," "Braveheart" and "Mean Girls." Sure, these are catalog titles that are long in the tooth and many of them have been in Netflix's library for some time. But the point is that Amazon continues to close the gap in regards to the amount and quality of films offered by Netflix, the top video-rental service on the Web. Amazon Prime is a membership program that costs $79 annually and offers customers free two-day shipping. In addition, members get access to the expanding pool of movies in Prime Instant Video. "We are continuing to invest in building a ... Continue reading →
