If you haven’t already heard, Google announced today that it will acquire AdMob – a mobile advertising company. Such a significant investment ($750 million to be exact) is a significant sign that mobile is the present, not just the future. In a letter about the acquisition by AdMob Founder Omar Hamoui, he writes that “until [...]
Check out this NY Times post: Gravity Tank, a Chicago-based creative consulting firm, surveyed over a thousand iPhone and Android G1 users in April and May. Among some of the findings from the report: respondents have downloaded an average of 23.6 applications to their phone and use an average of 6.8 apps every day. Also, [...]
Google just released improvements to its web interface for iPhone and Android. The improvements include: Faster load times for actions such as opening an e-mail or searching Ability to read Gmail over a flaky or non-existent network connection Floating bar appears so you can manage multiple e-mails at the same time. Bar floats on the [...]
BlackBerry App World launch came too late for Research in Motion to be the mobile app winner. It’s no joke, on April 1 RIM debuted BlackBerry App World for the U.S., U.K. and Canada so users can buy apps via mobile over WiFi and cellular networks. The app store brings the convenience of buying apps [...]
Google’s new location-sharing service called Longitude (screenshot off site at right) does not sound like it will be the best service, just the wagon most everyone will jump on. Brightkite and Loopt have both been on the market for a while and offer good service, but Google’s Latitude brings — well — Google. After using [...]
