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Today's Vision of Tomorrow: Apps With Everything, Everything With Apps

Kit Eaton — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 10:25:57 -0500

News coming out of the Le Web conference in Paris this week has prompted me to look at Apps and App Stores in a new light: In the future we can expect pretty much everything to have apps, and apps that'll do almost anything.

Twitter's 50,000 App Spawning-Fest

Major Print Publishers Gang Up to Pre-Empt Apple, Already Make Mistakes

Kit Eaton — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:04:38 -0500

Why Apple Won't Care About Slow Chinese iPhone Sales

Kit Eaton — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 12:49:59 -0500

According to reports, Apple's ridiculously successful iPhone has stuttered badly in its attempt to conquer the Chinese market. Because conquering is very far from what's going on: It's sold just five units. But Apple probably doesn't mind.

Bing Introduces 3-D Photosynth Maps

Chris Dannen — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:37:37 -0500

Namco Networks Takes Advantage of iPhone Technology

Kate Rockwood — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:00:00 -0500

Jonathan Kromrey
General Manager, Apple Games
Namco Networks
San Francisco, California

Jonathan Kromrey, 41, worked at Apple as an iPod and iPhone games producer and designer before helping to create Namco's new games team dedicated to the platform.

Addicting Games Takes on the Teen Market

Kate Rockwood — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:00:00 -0500

Kate Connally
Vice President, AddictingGames
MTV Networks
San Francisco, California

Kate Connally, 37, manages AddictingGames, the largest free online-games site for teens, with 3,500 titles and 15.3 million monthly visitors. She's now bringing those games to the iPhone.

iMo Controller Turns the Iphone Into a Portable Console

Kate Rockwood — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:00:00 -0500

Himanshu Baweja
Cofounder, iMo Controller
DelHi, India

Himanshu Baweja, 25, created the iMo Controller with cofounder Pankaj Meena. The app, which won best demo at the TechCrunch50 conference this fall, lets users play iPhone games on a computer screen, using the iPhone itself as a joystick.

Ngmoco Socializes iPhone Gaming

Kate Rockwood — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:00:00 -0500

Neil Young & Alan Yu
Cofounders, Ngmoco
San Francisco, CAlifornia

Neil Young, 39, and Alan Yu, 36, left Electronic Arts to start Ngmoco, a company focused exclusively on iPhone games. Every Ngmoco title has charted in the App Store's top 50. Its social network, Plus, creates new revenue streams for game developers.

Conscious Capitalists Focus on the Ideals of Businesses

Fast Company staff — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:00:00 -0500

MACKEY SAYS: "The Good"

WHAT HE DOESN'T SAY:
The Container Store: The purveyor of plastic sells a "bamboo compost pail" and encourages employees to buy CFLs, but its environmental policy borders on parody: "Having salespeople who anticipate customers' needs so they get everything they need in a single trip to the store."

Nokia Sues Samsung, Philips for Price-Fixing

Stephanie Schomer — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 09:45:07 -0500

Nokia is suing 11 LCD manufacturers--including Toshiba, Sharp, Philips, Samsung, and LG Display--for price-fixing. It alleges that from 1996 to 2006, these companies artificially inflated the prices of the displays Nokia uses in its products.

iPhone App Expands Redbox's Slow-Tech Space in DVD Rental Market

Stephanie Schomer — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:23:02 -0500

iPhone Owners Spend More Money -- and Not Just on Apple Hardware

Kit Eaton — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:07:32 -0500

Mac users may be more individualistic than PC owners, but new data suggests users of another Apple gizmo--the iPhone--are, on average, much freer with their online spending than their peers.

Hey Apple, I'm Not Paying $200 for a Black Keyboard

Gregory Ferenstein — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:25:20 -0500

In an inexplicably poor marketing decision, Apple's new economic Macbook has better specs than it’s ostensibly more powerful companion, the Macbook Pro. The 13" Macbook, retailing at $999, boasts 250 gigs of hard drive space and a 2.26 Gigahertz processor, compared to a 160 gig HD and a 2.26 GHz processor in the $1,199 Macbook Pro.The Macbook pro does look different, with a stylish black keyboard and a metallic body.

Latest Hunch Report Says That Mac Users Are More Individualistic Than PC People

Ariel Schwartz — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:00:17 -0500

Android Gaining Ground in Mobile Browsing Wars

Kit Eaton — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:33:39 -0500

Though Apple's iPhone still rules the mobile browsing game, it looks like Google's Android OS--spread over numerous devices now--is beginning to catch up. Admob's stats show its actually overtaken RIM to steal second place.

Undead Tech: Apple's Magic Mouse Has Trackball Bad-Assitude

Chris Dannen — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:53:48 -0500

Until we can harness our brain-power for desktop pointing, App

Customer Care: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly II

Tibor Shanto — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:00:49 -0500

Part II: The Ugly

From The Pipeline

Tuesday, in Part I we discussed The Good side of Customer Care, using Godaddy as an example of the Good, and a couple of Canadian wireless carriers exemplifying the Bad. Today we talk UGLY.

The Enduring Genius of Dieter Rams

Cliff Kuang — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:26:30 -0500

Apple Exec's Backyard Is Designed for Barfing

Cliff Kuang — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:17:08 -0500

Apple Tablet Delayed, but With OLED Screen and Condé Nast Mags

Kit Eaton — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:53:17 -0500

Whee, the Apple Tablet merry-go-round spins and spins: Today adds a clutch of rumors that, if you grapple them all together, are another quietly confident tick in the "it's definitely real" box. But one suggestion is that the beast is delayed, which is the kind of rumor we hate to hear.

Conde Nast Getting Ready, Wired to have an iTablet Edition?

Droid's Week One Sales Impress, but Is Android OS the Real Winner?

Kit Eaton — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:30:48 -0500

Motorola's Droid smartphone got serious chunk of press coverage when it launched a few weeks back, and no wonder--it's possibly Motorola's one and only chance for a comeback. But how well did it sell?

Apple Reforms App Approval as Facebook Developer Vows "Never Again"

Chris Dannen — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:18:46 -0500

Just a day after being publicly excoriated by an influential developer, Apple has introduced new tweaks to its App Store approval process to make it more friendly to submissions.

Joe Hewitt, developer of Facebook for iPhone and an in-house Facebook employee, has vowed never to develop for iPhone again. Widely considered the most popular app in the iTunes Store, Facebook for iPhone set benchmarks for UI and interaction design on the phone.

YouTube Experiments With Ads You Can Skip

Chris Dannen — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:40:58 -0500

The company that made its bread on Web advertising has a new idea: let users skip the ads they don't like seeing.

Blackberry and Palm Apps Getting Better, but Not Fast Enough

Chris Dannen — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:43:33 -0500

Even as Apple celebrates the release of its 100,000th app--and that cash machine it calls the app store--Palm and RIM are running fast to catch up, and woo developers to their platforms.

Apple Leapfrogs Nokia as World's #1 Handset Maker

Chris Dannen — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:45:55 -0500

Apple's iPhone division cleared $1.6 billion in operating profits in Q3 of 2009, leap-frogging Nokia as the world's premier mobile money-maker, according to Strategy Analytics and GigaOm. (Chart below courtesy of GigaOm.)