From the monthly archives:

February 2010

Is it time for Apple to open up the App Store model?

February 26, 2010

I don’t often link to Daring Fireball, basically because I assume that you’re all reading it anyway. But in his post on Tits and Apps, John perfectly summarises the challenge that faces Apple in maintaining its mindshare with mobile developers: Apple sees the App Store as an aspect of its brand. Developers see the App [...]

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Good luck with making money from Android apps

February 25, 2010

Android App Store Is 57% Free Compared to Apple’s 25% – app stores – Gizmodo: App store analytics firm Distimo recently released a bunch of juicy info about the major mobile app stores, and the results are pretty interesting. For one, Android has a much higher proportion of free apps. Or, to put it another [...]

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Sometimes, “think like a startup” isn’t the best option

February 11, 2010

In an interesting piece on the problems at MySpace under Murdoch, Om Malik mentions this: Kevin also mentioned that Murdoch, and every large media company, need to think like startups. Good advice – but only to a point. The fact is that News Corp (like all major media companies) can currently make more money online [...]

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Sergey Brin on Google Buzz

February 10, 2010

Sergey Brin On His Six Months Using Google Buzz: “Extracting signal from noise is one of our core competencies, it’s one of the key things we do in our web search product every day. And I think that now peoples’ personal communications are getting to be on a scale comparable to that of web search, [...]

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Kiwi: The best Mac Twitter client yet

February 8, 2010

As you’ll know if you follow me or this blog on Twitter, I’me a voracious Twitterer. I also can’t stand Adobe Air applications, which means that my options for Twitter applications are somewhat limited. There’s a few around, of course. Tweetie is good, but hasn’t been developed for a little while and lacks support for [...]

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Sync your Mac with an LG phone with FoneSync

February 8, 2010

Shocking as this might sound, not everyone wants an iPhone. And if you have a phone from LG, you might want to check out FoneSync, a new application from Novamedia which lets you sync contacts and calendar information from your Mac to a variety of LG phones. At present, only three phones are compatible: The [...]

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HTC Bravo head-to-head with Google Nexus One?

February 8, 2010

When I predicted that Google wouldn’t launch its own phone, one of the reasons I believed it was unlikely was that everything pointed to it being a rebadged HTC Bravo (otherwise known as the HTC Passion). While I was wrong about Google launching its own phone, I was right about the rebadge job – and [...]

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Worst iPad reporting ever

February 4, 2010

This article by Jonathan Zittrain is why it’s wise not to let law professors write about technology: If Apple is the gatekeeper to a device’s uses, the governments of the world need knock on the door of only one office in Cupertino, California – Apple’s headquarters – to demand changes to code or content . [...]

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CrunchGear catches the TechCrunch bullshit bug

February 1, 2010

Apparently, Apple is now responsible for via killing hardware innovation throughout the industry, at least according to John Biggs. Remember when Apple bought up all the Flash memory? Well, Apple has also cornered the market in touchscreens. A few months ago I spoke to one inventor who had a horrible time trying to grab capitative [...]

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Guardian CEO says charging for specialist content an option

February 1, 2010

The Guardian may still be considering a paywall, at least for specialist content: [Chief Executive of Guardian Media Group Carolyn] McCall added that the Guardian, like the New York Times, had looked at six different pay models including a complete a complete “pay wall”. She said that introducing pay barriers would restrict the Guardian’s journalism. [...]

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