Posted by Marc Flores on Oct 4, 2008 9:36 am
Filed in AT&T, Apple, Features, GSM, HSDPA, Handsets, News, Rumors, VoIP, Wi-Fi
Open up your iTunes and get this app now! Fring is a pre-release app free on iTunes which allows you to contact your friends on AIM, MSN, Yahoo, Twitter, Skype, and more. VoIP is available over WiFi and the availability of your friends are displayed in real time. The only thing is, and this is [...]
Posted by Marc Flores on Sep 22, 2008 8:49 am
Filed in GSM, Networking, News, Nokia, Opinions, Services, Video
Seesmic, the quasi-popular video micro-blogging site, just announced the release of their app for the Nokia N95. The app will allow you to record videos with your phone and upload them so you can have video conversations with all your buddies - well, all your buddies who happen to own N95s or are registered on [...]
Posted by Zach Epstein on Aug 22, 2008 4:39 pm
Filed in Services
By “Jaiku is the new Twitter”, we’re hardly suggesting it is a popular new microblogging site that may overtake the reigning king. No, that ship has sailed. We mean it never works anymore. Twitter seems to have been spending cash found during its recent funding round very well. It made a few key hires, sought [...]
Posted by Zach Epstein on Aug 11, 2008 7:06 pm
Filed in Opinions, Services
…It should start charging $1 per month for Gmail service. Twitter users probably represent one zillionth of the Gmail user base (yes, that is an exaggeration) and here is the Twitter reaction when Gmail went down for less than 30 minutes today:
Twitter reaction
Bravo Google, the world needs Gmail. I would venture a guess that at [...]
Posted by Zach Epstein on Jun 18, 2008 9:53 am
Filed in GPS, Software
The idea of a GPS device provider opening their API seems a bit odd at first. When you have as many developer customers as Dash however, opening your API is a great way to play to their geeky side. Beyond that Dash will now have a great (free) way to see how customers respond to [...]
Posted by Zach Epstein on May 27, 2008 3:28 pm
Filed in Networks, Services
Call it a modern anomaly, herd mentality or whatever else you want but Twitter seems to continue to grow in popularity as its downtime issues get more pronounced. Amidst recent news of a successful funding round, Twitter’s problems keep getting worse as buzz throughout the blogosphere questions Twitter’s staying power. Is it really that hard [...]