iPhone 5 to Get Infinite Battery Life?
07 June 2012
If your iPhone battery has you seeing red more often than green, you’ll love what may be coming in the iPhone 5. The US Patent Office granted Apple a new patent yesterday for a technology that could potentially extend the life of the next iPhone…
Coming Soon: Connected, Cheap and Ubiquitous
01 June 2012
Right, we were talking about Bluetooth “Smart” and how it’s going to change Bluetooth “Lame” into Bluetooth “In The Game”. Why do you care? Because in the next six months we’re going to begin seeing a bunch of consumer products that use it and that can work easily…
Desktop Monetizes 5x Better Than Mobile. Should You Care?
30 May 2012
If you’re deciding whether to build a mobile app or mobile brand based on stats that show desktop monetizes 5x better today, you wouldn’t be alone. But you’d also be wrong. A recent report by Mary Meeker projects that while desktop may be king now, in 1-3 years…
Bluetooth “Smart” – New Tech o’ Grooviness
24 May 2012
Hey all! I’m Jason Harris and I’ll be posting here about what’s happening on the hardware side of things. The biggie that nobody’s yet talking about is Bluetooth Smart, also known as Bluetooth Low Energy, also known as Bluetooth 4, hmmm, also known as Pick A Name Bluetooth. …
Why Google is Buying Motorola Mobility–and Who Wins and Loses
21 May 2012
With Google’s acquisition of Motorla Mobility looking like a done deal this week, it’s a good time to take a fresh look at why Google is making the purchase, and what it’s going to mean to mobile in general, and Android in particular.
The Patents: Pundits argue the real…
How Many Downloads Does It Take to Reach the App Store Top 25? (And Why You Shouldn’t Care So Much)
17 May 2012
Most mobile developers dream about getting an app into the Top 25 of Apple’s app store. So what does it take to get into those illustrious ranks? A recent TechCrunch post with new stats from Distimo reveals that the answer is currently 38,400 daily downloads for free apps…
Smartphones for Dogs–A Really Dumb Idea?
11 May 2012
I was checking out new phones on the Verizon site recently after my Droid lept to an untimely death, when I noticed an ad for a product called Tagg, a GPS-enabled collar that notifies you when your dog goes outside a pre-set boundary. Similar products have been around…
Why We’re Holding Onto Phones Longer, and What it Means
04 May 2012
Why Google Glass Matters to Mobile Now
11 April 2012
Google recently gave a preview of Project Glass, a prototype heads-up display that a user wears like a pair of lightweight glasses (assuming you buy your glasses from the Matrix). While it’s questionable whether Google can ever make these stylish (or invisible) enough to encourage widespread adoption, the more interesting…
Make Your Next App Smarter With Location Sensing
06 April 2012
If you’ve ever asked Siri to remind you to buy milk when you’re at the market, you know that location sensing makes smartphones a lot smarter. Now there’s a way to easily tap the power of location sensing in your own applications.
NeuAer, a start-up that won the 2011 Launch…
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