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Apple/Quattro iPhone Ad Feature ‘Cannot Be Duplicated’ by Competition
An e-mail pitch sent by Quattro Wireless, the mobile advertising company acquired by Apple earlier this year as part of its “iAd” push into mobile advertising on its iPhone OS devices, reportedly...
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Sneak Peek: Obama Administration’s Redesigned Data.gov
One year ago this Friday, United States chief information officer Vivek Kundra launched an ambitious website called Data.gov to make the government’s vast stores of data available to the public. The...
View ArticleAmerican iPad Users Pay Among the Highest for Data Worldwide
iPad users in the United States are getting ripped off when it comes to their data plan, says a company that has compared monthly data plans for the magical Apple device across a number of countries....
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Data-Gobbling Android Users Will Likely See Bandwidth Capped
Fashionable though it may be to bash AT&T’s 3G data network, its performance is, to an extent, a victim of its own success. Subscribers with the AT&T-only iPhone consume way more data than...
View ArticleDigg in Decline? Here’s Some Data
There has been a lot made of Digg’s recent makeover and the sharp backlash it’s faced from power users over changes that reduced their, well, power. How has the site fared really? Here’s a quick metric...
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Mozilla + Google: Browser Wars Are Really Search Wars by Proxy
Five to 10 years ago, the most powerful force in web browsing was the maker of the operating system — then, overwhelmingly Microsoft. Today, it's the search and advertising engine — now, overwhelmingly...
View ArticleInterface: The Tech World Isn’t a Democracy of Data, and Neither Is the NBA...
I love Alexis Ohanian’s technology-inspired take on the Jeremy Lin phenomenon not least because I think it’s totally wrong. This is what’s great about both sports and technology, at least if you enjoy...
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Data | How One Startup Turned a $5,000 Contest Into Millions
Late last year, San Francisco startup Jetpac offered $5,000 in prizes to anyone who could figure out how to teach a computer how to tell which of your Facebook friends' vacation photos are any good....
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Data | Bringing Hidden Healthcare Data Into the Open
Self-described health IT hacktivist and author Fred Trotter has hatched a plan to bring hidden healthcare data into the open.
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Beyond Scorekeeping: Klout’s New Plan to Become a Social Network
Five years ago, Joe Fernandez, at 30, had jaw surgery. His mouth was wired shut for three months and he couldn’t carry on a conversation. He immersed himself in the online world, and realized that...
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This Man Wants to Make the NBA a Social Network — And Take It Global
Vivek Ranadive is the man who digitized Wall Street in the 1980s. Now he wants to do the same for the Sacramento Kings and reboot the NBA.
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Why Quants Don’t Know Everything
The reason the number-loving quants win is they're almost always right. But what happens after they win is not always the data-driven paradise they and their boosters expect.
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The Next Big Thing You Missed: A Tiny Startup’s Plot to Beat Google at Big Data
Some Big Data outfits offer massively complicated data analysis tools that require hard-core engineering talent. Others provide polished iPad apps that let you analyze data in simpler — and less...
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