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My TechCrunch Disrupt NY Highlights

Fri, 03 May 2013 10:21:00 -0400

Ok, here is everything I wrote about at TechCrunch Disrupt consolidated into one set of links. Enjoy.

The winner? IMO easily the Siva Cycle Atom!

http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/01/the-fitbark-pet-activity-monitor-is-a-reasonable-device-for-pet-owners/

http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/01/education-start-up-siminars-grabs-deepak-chopra-for-first-major-project/

http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/01/charge-your-phone-while-you-ride-your-bike-with-the-siva-cycle-atom/

http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/30/tell-silly-stories-together-with-skit/

http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/30/crowdfynd-crowdsourced-lost-and-found-network/

http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/30/ticketfire-co-founder-tanisha-robinson-discusses-digitizing-tickets-with-her-new-app/

http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/29/greentape-brings-reviews-to-consumers-and-data-to-merchants-2/

http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/29/purchext-keeps-your-kids-from-buying-beer-with-their-allowance/

Just a little perspective - The Global Smartphone Market Landscape | asymco #yam

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 09:09:01 -0500

There is finally enough information to try to give an estimate of the smartphone market as a subset of the overall phone market.

The chart to the left shows the overall picture.

To sum up: The smartphone market has now reached over 30% of shipments. Non-smart devices are at 69% of total. The individual phone platform shares are as follows:

Android (and Android-like): 17.6%

iOS (iPhone only) 4.4%

Nokia Symbian: 4.3%

BlackBerry: 2.76%

Bada: 1%

Windows Phone 0.5%

via asymco.com

Wait...Why not just use exchange support in iOS mail? I'm confused. - Gmail for iOS returns to the App Store #yam

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:45:52 -0500

Do you remember that Gmail for iOS app that popped up a couple of weeks ago — and then got yanked by Google for having broken notifications? It has made its (not-so) triumphant return to the App Store, and is now available to install on your iOS device.

The app isn’t really much of an app. It’s mostly just a wrapper for the Gmail web UI. The biggest additions are attachment support, a mailbox menu that can be accessed by swiping, and (some) push notifications. As with the web app, you will get a tablet-optimized version on the iPad, with the standard mobile UI on an iPhone.

The term “push notifications” should be used with several grains of salt here. This updated Gmail app will succeed in notifying you of new email, but with serious limitations. It doesn’t utilize iOS 5′s improved notifications, and will merely give you an icon badge and an alert sound. That means no banners, no lockscreen alerts, and no Notification Center presence.

Some users will surely find a use for the new Gmail app. There are those who just don’t like the stock iOS Mail app, and may want to mix it up. Fans of Google’s new web UI could appreciate the ability to have that same experience — only with the addition of badge notifications and attachments.

However, it’s hard to deny that this app is disappointing. When such a significant entry from Google is left out of the App Store for so long, you expect something exciting and top-of-the-line when it finally does arrive. Instead, we get the Gmail web app with a couple of extras. All of the negative press that the company will get for this app hardly seems worth it.

Download Gmail for iOS, via Google Mobile Blog

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Actually a few minutes to review some numbers today - Smartphones Q3 Market Shares (via Tomi Ahonen)

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:36:30 -0500

Then we have the operating systems. First, for those who may be here for the first time - remember, I am only counting smartphones, so where for example the iOS operating system also is used on iPad Touch and iPod devices, those are not counted as smartphones. Similarly Android tablets are not included in the Android smartphone numbers here, etc. Bear in mind that I have ‘downgraded both Android and bada from the previous numbers, so you may find especially that my Android and bada numbers may be significantly different from numbers reported by some other analysts recently. But I trust my math, so here goes:
1. (1.)    Android (Google)                   56.4 Million    48% (40%)
2. (3.)    Symbian (Nokia)                   18.1 Million    15% (17%)
3. (2.)    iOS (Apple)                           17.1 Million     15% (19%)
4. (4.)    Blackberry OS                      10.7 Million       9% (12%)
5. (5.)    bada (Samsung)                     2.6 Million       2% ( 2%)
6. (7.)    Windows Phone 7 (Microsoft) 1.3 Million       1% ( 1%)
7. (6.)    Windows Mobile (Microsoft)     0.4 Million       0% ( 1%)
(others 11.1 Million)
TOTAL        117.7 Million

via communities-dominate.blogs.com

Bye bye Berry: iPhone now top dog in workplace, study finds

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:23:34 -0500

For the first time ever, an iPhone is now more likely to show up in a conference room than a BlackBerry, a new Mobile Workforce Report from research firm iPass suggests. According to the report, 95% of mobile workers now own a smartphone, up 10 percentage points from 2010, and 45% of the enterprise workforce carries an iPhone, up from 31.1% last year. “BlackBerry has not really fallen from the top spot in so much as other smartphones have grown faster,” the report said. “BlackBerry market share has only declined slightly from 35% in 2010 to 32% today.” Read on for more.

Android’s market share doubled year over year to surpass Symbian with a 21% share of the enterprise smartphone market. 18% of mobile workers said they intend to purchase an iPhone in 2012, 11.2% are planning to buy an Android device and 3.6% want a Windows Phone. Only 2.3% of workers have plans to buy a BlackBerry next year. Several respondents reported owning multiple devices on different platforms.

The iPass study also found a number of other compelling tidbits: 40% of mobile workers would feel disoriented if they didn’t have a smartphone for a week, 34% would feel distraught and 10% would feel lonely. The iPass study was based on a survey of more than 2,300 workers around the world.

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200 million Android devices have been activated globally; 550,000 new additions daily

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:09:40 -0500

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Tidal Gets Your Blog Post On The Sites Of Big Brands and Publishers

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 14:35:56 -0500

Tidal Gets Your Blog Post On The Sites Of Big Brands and Publishers:

Amateur bloggers want exposure, while publishers and brands want cheap content they can monetize. Tidal launches today with hopes of connecting the two. Bloggers signup, and Tidal’s…

PRIMEHPC FX10: Fujitsu To Market New Supercomputer To Companies

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 12:06:49 -0500

PRIMEHPC FX10: Fujitsu To Market New Supercomputer To Companies:

Fujitsu announced it has adapted technology from its supercomputer “K” (which is the world’s fastest) into PRIMEHPC FX10, a commercial model that will be offered globally. The PRIMEHPC…

Lion Install Numbers Nothing To Roar About

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 22:12:05 -0500

Lion Install Numbers Nothing To Roar About:

First, let me apologize for the headline. And now, the news. It appears that Mac OS X Lion isn’t exactly taking the Mac world by storm: after brisk initial sales following the July 20…

Meet Swivl, The Motion Tracking iPhone Dock That Always Keeps You On Camera

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 19:19:32 -0500

Meet Swivl, The Motion Tracking iPhone Dock That Always Keeps You On Camera:

Oh, the wonderful world we live in. Less than a year ago, I was meeting with the two-man team that was Satarii in their garage-office to check out a product they called the “Star”. It was…

Steve’s Last Laugh: Adobe Killing Off Flash For Mobile Devices

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 07:08:36 -0500

Steve’s Last Laugh: Adobe Killing Off Flash For Mobile Devices :

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Stroll Down Memory Lane With These Vintage PC Ads

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 04:56:23 -0500

Stroll Down Memory Lane With These Vintage PC Ads :

I don’t usually link to huge collections of images focused on one theme unless I’m sending examples of potential frost maiden outfits to my LARP clan. However, this is too good to pass up:

Launchpad LA Receives VC Funding: $50,000 Per Startup

Tue, 08 Nov 2011 15:40:14 -0500

Launchpad LA Receives VC Funding: $50,000 Per Startup:

Launchpad LA today announces it will accept applications for its third class of Los Angeles-based tech startups. There are significant VC commitments (listed below) – every entering company…

Synaptics Demonstrates Windows 8 Trackpad Gestures On Video

Tue, 08 Nov 2011 13:08:20 -0500

Synaptics Demonstrates Windows 8 Trackpad Gestures On Video:

We heard a while back that Windows 8 would support multi-touch via the trackpad. Sure, there’s some stuff you can do right now, but the promise made by Microsoft and Synaptics has been…

Ericsson Forecasts 5 Billion Mobile Broadband Subscribers, Data Traffic To Grow Tenfold, By...

Tue, 08 Nov 2011 06:36:18 -0500

Ericsson Forecasts 5 Billion Mobile Broadband Subscribers, Data Traffic To Grow Tenfold, By 2016 http://t.co/S33QGag5 via @techcrunch

How Google+ Could One-Up Facebook’s Brand Pages

Tue, 08 Nov 2011 00:22:16 -0500

How Google+ Could One-Up Facebook’s Brand Pages:

Google today launched the first iteration of its brand Pages product for Google+. The company has some big choices to make about how it will flesh out this skeleton to challenge the Pages…

Panasonic Releases New Micro Four-Thirds And 3D Cameras, The GX1 And 3D1

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 21:06:40 -0500

Panasonic Releases New Micro Four-Thirds And 3D Cameras, The GX1 And 3D1:

Panasonic was one of the first strong competitors in the micro four-thirds camera arena, and we’ve been waiting on the next iteration of the G-series cameras for months. They’ve finally…

France Télécom, Publicis Launch Pan-European VC Fund. Target: €300 Million

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 07:56:35 -0500

France Télécom, Publicis Launch Pan-European VC Fund. Target: €300 Million:

Confirming rumors earlier reported by Bloomberg, mobile carrier France Télécom-Orange and advertising juggernaut Publicis Groupe have teamed up to launch a venture capital fund.

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The Rise Of Pinterest And The Shift From Search To Discovery

Sun, 06 Nov 2011 16:34:53 -0500

The Rise Of Pinterest And The Shift From Search To Discovery:

The current toast of the web is Pinterest, the visual pinboard for collecting and sharing content online. The “pinning” phenomena is spreading from its modest beginnings to appearing…

Weekly Wrist Watch Round Up

Sun, 06 Nov 2011 13:55:18 -0500

Weekly Wrist Watch Round Up:

The “Virgin” king Sir Richard Branson teams up with Bulova for a special limited edition watch. 46mm wide and done in titanium, the watch features a GMT hand and world time function.

May…