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Still explosive growth from Android which looks like eventually settling in to a decent balance and fair choice for consumers.
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'All your checkin are belong to us' Facebook acquires mobile loyalty startup Tagtile...
Like an ever growing bad meme, Facebook bought tagtile last week, which got buried under Instagram-gate...
Very interesting, but can see facebook ditching the meatspace tile cube in stores quickly.
How to build a university mobile app: Don't get bogged down in strategy, consider short term solutions & wins
via guardian.co.uk
Great article from a few months ago in the Guardian with an iMyopic image but some some good links and a quote I love;
Don't get bogged down in the large strategy development surrounding digital - consider short term solutions and wins too
Too true, sometimes there are too many stakeholders, bureaucracy and time delays in all businesses and before you know it, your killer idea can be put through a mangle and turn out well...mangled.
Cheers to the very talented @jsnip for the heads up!
Nexus S finally gets Ice Cream Sandwich. Still not got it? Find out how to manually install...
via phandroid.com
After a good 6 months of will it, wont it arrive, and one pulled release at Christmas, Google's Android 4.04 mobile operating system update arrived today for many with a complete overhaul of the Android interface. Most Nexus S users have jumped completely past the Gingerbread release from Froyo directly to ICS.
Confused with all these cakes and desert names? Get the lowdown.
Other devices via carriers will have to wait and may take up to six months if at all, but if you can't wait, follow these instructions.
Google+ Grew 27% in March, Logged 61 Million Visits.
via mashable.com
Many find it easy to be dismissive and not see the long term strategy here for Google +, but Google CEO Larry Page claimed in a state-of-Google blog post on Thursday that Google+ now has 100 million active users, 10 million more than the figure he shared with analysts in January.
Like all stats, only an indication, but Hitwise is one of the more reliable and realistic measurement options out there. Growth vastly helped by the abundance of Android devices I believe along with the interactive button found on even more sites and services worldwide.
Samsung now the worlds largest manufacturer of mobiles. Thanks to Android...
via phandroid.com
Samsung now the worlds largest manufacturer of mobiles. Sales of high-end Android models the key factor. Their mobile division expectations for operating profit will reach somewhere between (gulp) 6.5trillion to 7.5trillion.
And in Australia millions of businesses still build for the desktop. (facepalm)
Facebook acquires Instagram for $1bn. Hipsters cry, drop organic latte's and vacate the service..
Sarcastic yes, but a sizeable chunk of users it seems are not too happy about 'farcebook' spending (in best Dr. Evil I can) 1 Billion dollars to buy out the oh so cool polaroid stylee app.
The same whiners who in droves complained bitterly about Android stealing their cool and who were desperate to keep it elite (if you call a worldwide mobile app elite, and many do).
Still hipsters aside, bloody well done for Kevin Systrom and his small team at Instagram who now no longer need to worry where the next cheque is coming from.
So what happens to the app? Cynically we could have pokes, farmville and privacy options becoming hidden and cryptic, but Zuckerberg says no changes for now.
Why? To preserve Instagrams cool status, but is too late? Could it be like Yahoo was to the then oh so cool flickr, which is barley luke warm at best these days?
Time will tell but expect deeper integration with facebook and it's main mobile app quicker than you can sell your stock on farmville or poke your pal. 1 billion dollars spent needs return on investment, and you can bet they want a return with that price tag...
Google Goggles? Not quite. Google Glasses... 'Project Glass' Kicks Ass.
Still can't quite believe this is real and although heavily massaged and styled in the video, the 'G' says it's coming this year. Of course been a few variations on this theme and even in my time with Compaq & HP we had several innovations and (admittedly bluky) working examples of Interweb enabled glasses. Still this year? With Google developing an online store for Android, and the power of their reach with that platform, this is quite a development.
Really beginning to see the strategic direction and money being poured into G+ and Android here, and makes sense to me, and is far clearer than facebook's direction. Will people soon be looking like Geordi La Forge from Star trek...would you wear them?
As one commenter on YouTube mentioned. 'Want. Hard'. I'll +1 that : )
More info at http://g.co/projectglass
In a Long Distance Relationship? This App Is For You & A Great Idea.
via mashable.com
Some excellent social features captured here in this app called Pair that incorporates very similar elements to the pretty good app at Path.com.
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