So far this year Facebook has bought six companies ranging from the mobile app developer, Snaptu, to the mobile advertising firm, Rel8tion. One acquisition, Beluga, whose business centred on group messaging, was eventually integrated into the Facebook Messenger app. The most recent acquisition – announced this week – is the purchase of small geosocial networking [...]
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Let’s pick up where we left off, shall we? In my previous blog entry, I remarked on the fact that a file had been discovered in the back-end of devices running iOS4 that stored location data pertaining to the device: this led, unsurprisingly, to a rather loud outcry in the media (and from members of [...]
Apple has been in the news again for a variety of reasons, not least because it trotted out another set of record results yesterday. The company posted revenues for the three months ended March 26, 2011 of $24.67 billion and net profits of $5.99 billion – both personal bests for a Jan-March quarter – on [...]
We learned today that Layar, the trailblazing augmented reality (AR) browser, has been downloaded more than 1.5 million times to iPhones and Android handsets, making it comfortably the most popular AR app by that metric. As I wrote that I was poised to incorporate that old simile about selling like hot cakes, but then I [...]
I suppose it was inevitable, given the intensity of the media focus on the handset industry’s collective leap onto the smartphone bandwagon, but it seems that hardly a day can go by without another technology company getting in on the act. It’s been announced that Taiwan-based PDA and computer equipment maker ASUSTeK Computer is teaming [...]
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