Archive for the ‘Analysis’ Category

Photoshop for iPhone should focus on what it does best – image editing

After spending some time with the Adobe Photoshop app for the iPhone – it leaves a strange taste. Yes, the app is simple enough that users can edit photos quickly. The app has replaced my other photo editing apps – but I’m still using ToyCamera for most of my photo purposes. What I like: Simple, [...]

Mobile users talk, share more often than other people

Mobile phone users talk and share more often with friends than people using traditional media, says Pew’s latest research on tech and social. And that’s just one bit of interesting stuff I discovered in this recent Pew report “Social Isolation and New Technology.” Here’s an excerpt on mobile versus traditional communication: Traditional media: The average [...]

Facebook stealing address books from Apple, Palm, Android, Windows

Mobile phone software developers are slow to add social network links into address books while Facebook can (and is) running towards the end zone with the social football. While companies like Apple have not included social links into address books – Facebook (in its v3.0 app for iPhone) makes it quite easy to call your [...]

Fluent Mobile CEO: News moving to mobile from newspapers

Are mobile devices the newspapers of the future? Fluent Mobile Founder and CEO Michael Adler believes so, and his new iPhone app, Fluent News, debuted in the app store today. We asked him a few questions about mobile+media. Why build an app built on news information? Fluent Mobile has developed proprietary algorithms for organizing, aggregating, [...]

New iPhone has 3 megapixel still and video camera

The new iPhone 3GS (not much of a cool name, betting personally it’ll be called iPhone Video by the press) includes a 3 megapixel camera used for shooting stills and videos. Here’s Apple’s description of the camera: “iPhone 3G S features a new 3 megapixel autofocus camera that takes amazing pictures and video, making it [...]