According to one report, Apple is considering a partnership with Foursquare that would involve using the location-based service’s data inside Apple’s maps. That would be a smart move for Apple at… Read more »
New CEO appears to have the savvy and the experience to help Yahoo regain its status as a major player in mobile. Here are a few things I think the company… Read more »
A new category of digital media has emerged in the living room: social TV. This relatively new concept can be defined as any application, website or software that allows viewers to… Read more »
Lots of local activity in social and online media today. A local marketing services company, Momentfeed, says its data analysis implies that Facebook has shifted its feed algorithms to promote the… Read more »
Apple is reportedly preparing an MVNO that would provide wireless services to iPhones and iPads via multiple carrier partners. But the move would be a huge mistake for Cupertino, and it’s… Read more »
Industries like Internet search, genomics, climate research and business analytics are starting to create massive data sets — in the petabyte and exabyte range — that are requiring an entirely new… Read more »
When it comes to the promise of data as the currency of the web, the current state of affairs has privacy advocates and many consumers up in arms. But it doesn’t… Read more »
Assuming cloud adoption takes off as data suggests it will, cloud services integration will provide major opportunities for cloud providers and software vendors willing to open up their platforms to the… Read more »
Last week the cloud computing world was shaken down to its foundation by the days-long outage of Amazon Web Services. The reach of the outage was enormous, especially for a company… Read more »
The increasing dominance of Facebook, and the fading of other social networks like Myspace and Classmates.com, makes me wonder about social networks. Can there really only be one? Human beings naturally… Read more »