New trademark filings suggest Samsung has its eyes on building its in-house Tizen operating system into a full blown device-and-content ecosystem along the lines of iOS/iTunes and Android/Google Play. Read more »
The next version of iOS, scheduled to roll out this fall, will not come with a YouTube app pre-installed. But it’s not clear why. Apple had built its own YouTube app… Read more »
Google seems to have taken to heart Apple’s emphasis on design. The Nexus Q is a smooth black orb that looks like a small bowling ball with cables coming off it… Read more »
Once the SmartGlass SDK is available, developers will have what amounts to a write-once, deploy-anywhere development environment to work in. Presumably, apps can be written to the SmartGlass APIs without having… Read more »
Microsoft had a could first couple days at Computex, with OEM’s showing off some innovative new form-factors for Windows 8-powered devices, including all manner of laptop/tablet hybrids running on both Intel… Read more »
Microsoft on Thursday released the final preview version of its upcoming Windows 8 operating system ahead of the commercial release. The new version was released only as an upgrade to earlier… Read more »
Difficult as it is for many publishers to accept, content has little intrinsic value on digital platforms, no matter how beautifully presented. It’s the user’s ability to do stuff with digital… Read more »
Compared with Apple and Android, Windows doesn’t get a lot of great press. But it’s having a pretty good day today. The Wall Street Journal weighs in with an upbeat curtain-raiser… Read more »
The debate touched off last week by a story in The Guardian (a GigaOM investor) about the apparently paltry earnings Google has reaped so far from the Android OS continues into… Read more »
Today is Windows 8 Consumer Preview day. Microsoft officially unveiled the consumer beta of its new OS at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this morning, underscoring the high priority the… Read more »