Download Squad (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Filed under: Social Software , BlackBerry , Beta Foursquare delivers a fun location-based social game to iPhone and Android users, and also has a less-than-stellar mobile website that works on some other platforms. While people with iPhones and Android devices have been talking up FourSquare as the social network of the future, BlackBerry users have been waiting their turn for a FourSquare app of...
Mobile Orchard (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Henry Balanon is part of the writing team for Giga Om’s The Apple Blog and co-founder of the iPhone app development shop Bickbot. This podcast features Henry’s speech on iPhone marketing and the panel discussion he organized for his segment at the 360iDev conference. Henry’s speech is filled with goodies, including glimpses [...]
Mac|Life all RSS Feed (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Apple may have to fend off a number of competitors for the iPhone’s crown of smartphone dominance, but one area where there seems to be comparatively little competition is the roost ruled by the iPod touch. Based upon a report by Flurry , a San Francisco mobile analytics company, there are 24 million iPod touches in use, which represent 40% of the total 58 million iPhone OS devices, according...
Tyic | Popular Web 2.0 Blog | Tech (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
Om Malik / GigaOM: FCC Wants to Know Why Verizon Increased Termination Fees — Updated with Verizon’s response: The Federal Communications Commission wants to know why Verizon decided to double its early termination fee (ETF) for new customers who sign on to the wireless service using advanced devices…longhand for smartphones. More: continued here
Second Verse (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
I had been expecting December to be quiet from a business development perspective, and had front-loaded the workload for the quarter to compensate. I decamped for New Orleans in week 20 having successfully delivered on all of Second Verse’s outstanding obligations. While I was off eating more po’ boys than I really should have, Om Malik [...]
AppsFire.com ★ blog ★ (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
Little surprise for those in Paris next week. AppsFire will hold along with GigaOM a meetup in Paris 1 day before LeWeb , our partner for the App Star Awards . Om Malik is attending the conference and he had the awesome idea of this meetup. The meetup will take place in the awesome offices of FaberNovel (thanks to Stephane Distinguin for the generous offer) It will take place between 2-4pm Paris....
Black Phoebe :: Ms. Jen (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Photo taken today by Ms. Jen with a Nokia N900 Tues 12.01.09 - Rabbit rabbit. With the greeting to the new month out of the way, I would like to alert you to several interesting takes on Nokia's strategy and mentions of the N900: GigaOm's very own Om Malik had a chat with Nokia's Tero Ojanperä last week and Om now has a wee bit more faith in Nokia's direction. Read it at, "For Nokia's Ovi,...
Mark Evans (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
Om Malik had an interesting blog post yesterday about an interview he did with Tero Ojanperä, Nokia executive vice-president of services. What caught my eye was how Om set up the interview by making outlining his criticisms of Nokia, “including its denial of competition from Apple’s iPhone, its hardware, and a botched launch of its [...]
All About Symbian (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
A fun discussion with Om Malik and Nokia's Services EVP Tero Ojanpera has been posted on GigaOm . Malik rightly points out that, given his previous coverage, this wasn't going to be a chat over tea and cream cakes for the Finn. Still, it's a good sign that it did happen. My comments below. This is a smart move from Nokia and Ojanpera – much as they are a very small group, the online community...
TechSheep (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
Om Malik / GigaOM: Droid Nears Its Million-Device Target — Motorola and Verizon’s $100 million marketing push seems to be paying off: The much-ballyhooed Droid smartphone made by Motorola and powered by Google’s Android 2.0 OS is inching toward its goal of a million devices sold during the fourth quarter of 2009.
TechRadar (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Facebook is having a mid-life crisis. Despite attracting over 300 million users, the social network that pioneered the 'poke' is anxious about growing older. "What was once a convenient way for college kids to hook up," says Om Malik at GigaOm , "has now become the newsfeed of our post-Google lives." Journalists once raved about Facebook as the new MySpace, but attention has since...
Fast Company (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Since we reported yesterday on AOL's new logo, vision and creative punctuation tactics, reactions to the new Aol. have flooded in. As did this video, a sneak peek of Aol.'s new campaign: Today, some professional opinions from a few of our design experts: Ken Carbone , CarboneSmolan : This new identity is stillborn. It's old before it is new and signals a desperate attempt to be hip and relevant, somewhat...
Tempus Fugit | TxFx.net (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Om Malik on AOL’s new look and logo: AOL should ask for its money back! These are the same idiots responsible for the 2012 Olympics logo (some have noted it looks like Lisa Simpson performing… er, just look), and the horrible muddled NYC Taxi logo. And this monstrosity is their website. People pay them for this? Seriously?
BetaNews (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
By Joe Wilcox , Betanews Not since AT&T gobbled up Cingular and rebranded as at&t with that ugly Death Star-like logo has a company erred so far from sensibility. The new AOL brand, Aol., is coming soon to frighten you. AOL's attempt to be hip is anything but. Not that AOL, distributor of a billion CD coasters , was ever cool. The service may have been the biggest online community of the 1990s,...
ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Late last night, AOL revealed a sneak peek at their new branding campaign for their soon-to-be standalone content-focused business. The rebranding effort will officially launch on December 10th when AOL begins trading on the New York Stock Exchange as a separate company from Time Warner, its current owner. The new logos - yes, there are more than one - feature a lowercase "aol" on top of...
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