Real Estate Arguably is the Location-Based App With the Greatest Commercial Value

Mobile real estate apps, such as those available from Zillow, Redfin, ZipRealty, Century 21 and Realtor.com, have an obvious value. Home hunting is, by definition, an "out and about" experience.

So it is quite valuable to look up sale and pricing information about the house you are standing in front of, as well as sales history for other homes in the area.

In Zillow’s case, the app finds homes for sale nearby your current location, or you can look up the value of the house you are standing by.

Mobile Marketing an Appetizer, Though Some Say it is a Main Course

We are a bit early in the adoption cycle for mobile marketing to be considered a mainstay of the advertising business. It still remains a bit of an appetizer. But enthusiasm is growing.

Android the New Windows, iOS the New Apple?

Android's growth has happened so quickly that many wonder if Android will become as ubiquitous on smartphones as Windows has on PCs.

The obvious analogy then is that iOS might be likened to the Apple OS of the past.

Loyalty is fairly high for Android, with 71 percent of current Android users saying their next phone will be another Android device, according to recent Nielsen findings.

As Smartphone Growth Skyrockets, Which Brand Will Dominate?

Here's how much data 3G FaceTime Consumes

A five-minute FaceTime call with lots of movement uses 14.7 MBytes of data. That's about 3 MBytes per minute.

Here's how much data 3G FaceTime uses

Accedian Networks Raises $19.5 Million

Accedian Networks, a provider of service assurance solutions for Carrier Ethernet and IP networks, has gotten $19.5 million in a round of financing led by Summit Partners, a growth equity firm with offices in Boston, Palo Alto and London.

Rho Ventures and Skypoint Capital, existing investors in Accedian, participated in the round as well.

Accedian has had four years of 100 percent-plus, year-over-year growth and profitability.

“The rapid increase of mobile device usage and network traffic has left carriers struggling to meet consumer demand and service level agreements, with the backhaul function representing a notable bottleneck on most networks,” said Tom Jennings, a Managing Director at Summit Partners who has joined the company’s board of directors.”

Since inception, Accedian has sold over 55,000 platforms to over 150 service providers and enterprise customers world-wide. The new funding will be used to grow a global sales force, as well as further support product development, marketing, and administrative support organizations

Android 2.2 is Coming

Miss Your Interview or Lose Your Hard Drive? Tough Choice!

Fully 84 percent of computer users polled by Kelton Research believe that the contents of their computers are more a reflection of their personality than what you might find in their wallet.

That should come as no surprise. There is a limit to the amount of detail and data in a wallet. There is richness of detail on a PC's hard drive if you consider email, documents, calendars, contacts, web browsing history, applications and usage history, bookmarks and so forth.

Nearly 36 percent of respondents would rather be late to an important meeting than lose all of their personal files stored on their PC. That's a rational position and one might only be surprised that the percentage of respondents is not higher.

Despite the tough economy and the high unemployment rate, 20 percent of those polled would choose missing an important job interview over losing their data. Though this is a judgment call, job interviews can be rescheduled. Non-backed up data can be impossible to reconstruct.

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