Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Steve Jobs on Apple's iAd Network

Steve Jobs talks about the iAd network at "All Things Digital."

Steve Jobs on Where Apple is Going

Steve Jobs, Apple CEO, expounding on a number of subjects at "All Things Digital." Jobs says Apple is not interested in search or TV. But Apple also said it was not interested in phones. I seem to recall that Apple wasn't all that hot on tablets, either.

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

No More Windows at Google?

According to the Financial Times, Google has banned the use of the Microsoft operating system, company wide. read the story here.


“We’re not doing any more Windows," said one Google employee. New hires are now given the option of using Apple’s Mac computers or PCs running the Linux operating system.



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Can Google Apps Save a Business Money?

Many enterprises would have a really hard time quantifying the benefits from cloud applications, hosted applications or software as a service.

Google claims it can help businesses quantify how much they can save by switching to Google Apps. Smaller organizations might buy the logic.

Hulu Growth Flattens

Hulu's growth, at least as measured by views, appears to have flattened over the last six months. On the other hand, it appears to be profitable, if not by much.

As it gears up to offer subscription plans, and more content moves behind a pay wall, growth might even dip a bit.

That's the challenge for any content provider that opts for pay walls: fewer users but more revenue.

Games, Music, Social Networking, News and Maps Top Smartphone Downloads



About 21 percent of American wireless subscribers had a smartphone in the fourth quarter of 2009, up from 19 percent in the previous quarter and significantly higher than the 14 percent at the end of 2008.

About 14 percent of mobile subscribers have downloaded an app in the last 30 days. Games, music and social networking apps seem to be high on the list for both smartphone and feature phone users.

News and map applications get much higher use by smartphone users.
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U.S. Users Watched 30.3 Billion Videos in April 2010

U.S. Internet users watched 30.3 billion videos in April, with Google Sites ranking as the top video property with 13.1 billion videos, representing 43.2 percent of all videos viewed online.

YouTube accounted for the vast majority of videos viewed at the property. Hulu ranked second with 958 million videos, or 3.2 percent of all online videos viewed. Microsoft Sites ranked third with 644 million (2.1 percent), followed by Viacom Digital with 384 million (1.3 percent) and Yahoo! Sites with 371 million (1.2 percent).

Some 178 million U.S. Internet users watched online video during the month. Recently launched in December 2009, Vevo (which includes viewing from the Vevo channel on YouTube) attracted 43.6 million viewers in April, representing a quarter of the U.S. online video audience.

The Roots of our Discontent

Political disagreements these days seem particularly intractable for all sorts of reasons, but among them are radically conflicting ideas ab...