I’m not so sure that the smart phone battle between Google and Apple isn’t exactly like the Windows vs. Mac battle of the 1990s. Jason D. O’Grady in ZDNet points out a number of distinct differences: App Store: Apple has four times the number of apps as Google’s Android (many of higher quality and capability). … Read More »
Dow in Worst Skid Since February
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Europe’s financial instability seems to have infected Wall Street. From WSJ Online: The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 225.06 points, or 2%, to 10926.77, its worst daily decline in both point and percentage terms since Feb. 4. The decline also represented the Dow’s fourth straight triple-digit point move, underscoring that volatility is returning after a … Read More »
Another sign of the times
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
In another sign of the changes in Microsoft’s fortunes, the popular Internet Explorer browser, once boasting 95-percent market share, is now below 60-percent and falling quickly. NetMarketShare: Microsoft’s browser dropped to 59.95 percent of web use in April after Google Chrome leapt half a point ahead to 6.73 percent in the same timeframe. Firefox and … Read More »
Why are iPad magazines $4.99?
Monday, May 3, 2010
Philip Elmer-DeWitt in Fortune: If you buy the digital editions of Popular Science or TIME Magazine on the iPad, they cost $4.99 each — same as on the newsstand. However, one-year subscriptions to Popular Science (the paper magazine) are currently selling for $12 — or $1 an issue. And TIME subscriptions can be had for … Read More »
H.264 Already Won—Makes Up 66 Percent Of Web Videos
Monday, May 3, 2010
With all the verbal sparring between Apple and Adobe regarding Flash videos, one important statistic floated quietly to the top. Most videos on the internet don’t use Flash’s proprietary codec. Most videos are the open standard H.264. Erick Schonfeld in TechCrunch: So how much video exactly is available in H.264? The H.264 format went from … Read More »