Posts Tagged ‘windows-phone’
HP: No Windows Phone 7 for us, thanks.
Now that HP’s purchase of Palm has earned them a smartphone OS of their very own, how do they plan to offer up products running competing operating systems like Android or Windows Phone 7 without dampening their efforts? Easy answer: They don’t. Read the rest at MobileCrunch.
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Mock up your next Android app with this handy-dandy stencil
App design is a sort of art and so some might be more comfortable approaching creative process outside a computer first.
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Mock up your next Android app with this handy-dandy stencil
Saitek and Mad Catz put out new controllers for flight sim fans
I remember playing Flight Simulator 4.0 way back when I was a kid, and thinking then how it was the most realistic game of all time. It probably still is. We played it on a keyboard, though my friend’s dad eventually got a whole instrument bank and yoke, at which point he pretty much played it 24/7 and we had to find something else to do
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Saitek and Mad Catz put out new controllers for flight sim fans
An analysis of a PDF exploit
Most people think of PDF documents as static pieces of information. How could a PDF file compromise your computer? The reality is that PDF documents can contain all sorts of stuff, and clever miscreants have figured out how to exploit that stuff to wreak havoc on your computer
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An analysis of a PDF exploit
Be on the lookout for the Darth Vader bank robber!
Ladies and gentleman of Comic-Con: Please be on the lookout for anyone in a Darth Vader costume.
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Be on the lookout for the Darth Vader bank robber!
Microsoft Giving Away Windows Phone 7 Handsets To All Employees
Microsoft is in a giving mood. Just last month they gave out hundreds of Xbox 360s to E3 attendees — even sent one to the TechCrunch office for no particular reason. Now they’re going to be giving away Windows Phone 7 handsets to every Microsoft employee, if we are to believe what we read on Twitter.
We recently got our hands on a WP7 unit and put up our in-depth impressions of Microsoft’s new mobile OS, and our verdict is cautious optimism. But even if it were the hottest thing we’d ever seen, Microsoft would still be in a pickle when it comes to getting these things out there. Giving away something like 90,000 phones ought to help with that.
Netflix Now 15 Million Users Strong With Over 60 Percent Of Them Streaming Content
Business is booming for Netflix — but not quite as booming as Wall Street expected. The company announced its Q2 2010 results today and highlighted a number of key stats. Most notably, the service is now past 15 million total subscribers (15,001,000, to be exactly) — the first time they’ve crossed that threshold. A year ago, they were at about 10.6 million subscribers — meaning they’ve grown 42 percent in that time.
Q2 marks the third consecutive quarter that Netflix had added over a million new subscribers, CEO Reed Hastings says. That said, the growth was not as large as it was in Q1. But that hasn’t hurt Netflix’s bottom-line because an increasing number of these subscribers are now streaming movies and television shows rather than getting them over the mail. In fact, now 61 percent of all of Netflix’s subscribers streamed at least 15 minutes of content in Q2 — this is up from 37 percent a year ago, and 55 percent in the Q1 2010.
GAAP net income was $43.5 million in Q2, versus $32.4 million last year — and, significantly, $32.3 million last quarter. So again, income is way up. Revenue is also up — it’s at $519.8 million now, versus $408.5 million last year and $493.7 million last quarter. But Wall Street had been expecting revenue to be slightly higher. As a result, the stock is now down around 9 percent in after-hours trading. Netflix’s stock has nearly tripled in price this past year.
In its full year projections for 2010, Netflix expects to end the year with 17.7 million to 18.5 million subscribers. In total, they think revenue for the year will be at $2.14 billion to $2.16 billion — with net income at $141 million to $156 million. Again, that’s for the full year.
Netflix is clearly continuing its move towards a streaming catalog service. Deals signed this year mean they don’t even get access to most new-release DVDs until 30 after they’ve been released by studio. Rival Blockbuster doesn’t have such agreements in place, and they’re hoping it can save them from almost certain death. But Netflix is smart to realize that the future is streaming, and they’re quickly becoming the de-facto service for these catalog titles thanks largely to the deals they’ve struck to get their service on devices such as the Xbox 360 and the iPad. Soon, they’ll be bringing the streaming service to the iPhone as well.
Netflix also remains the gold standard when it comes to customer service. Whenever the streaming service experiences even a small hiccup, I get an email asking if I’d like a partial refund of the month. Can you imagine AT&T or Comcast doing that? I can’t — because it doesn’t happen.
A Quick PSA On “Dots” Vs “Pixels” In LCDs
These days, when you go to look up the specs on a new camera or camcorder, one of the first things you check out is the LCD. But as often as not, you’ll be hit with an unfamiliar number: some huge quantity of “dots.” Most people aren’t familiar with this metric, as it is a slightly technical one — which is the reason it was chosen instead of the more common plain resolution numbers.
I decided to write up this short PSA in order to make this whole business a little more clear to the average camera-buyer.
Report: Mobile App Store Downloads To Hit 25 Billion By 2015
The app store train seems unstoppable. According to a Juniper Research report out today, the number of “consumer-oriented handset downloads” is expected to rise from less than 2.6 billion per-year in 2009 to more than 25 billion in 2015.
The trend, notes the report, is being driven by industry players who are seeking to emulate Apple’s success with the App Store by launching their own branded storefronts, such as ‘Mobile Market’ from China Unicom, ‘Airtel App Central’ from Bharti and the ‘Apps & Games Shop’ on Vodafone 360.
And let’s not forget Google’s Android, Nokia Ovi, Palm, Windows Phone etc. or the independent giant GetJar, which passed 1 billion downloads earlier this month.
In other words, app stores are here to stay. Juniper has a warning, however: Copying the Apple model isn’t as straight forward as it would seem.
PopScreen Aims To Surface Viral Videos Before They Go Viral
Viral video monitoring startup PopScreen aims to save you from the disgrace you deserve when you email all your friends and relatives a link to that super funny video on YouTube only to find out they’ve all seen it a couple of times yesterday.
The company is today launching what they dub a ‘video prediction engine’, which they claim is capable of detecting which videos will spread across the Web before they actually do.
PopScreen measures online videos from over 10,000 sources, including YouTube (duh), Vimeo and DailyMotion but also content networks like Revision3 and FunnyOrDie.
Its video prediction engine indexes around 15,000 videos per day based on those sources, and analyzes them in order to collect a number of unique data points – it’s unclear which ones exactly but the number runs in the ‘hundreds of thousands’ according to PopScreen – and processes them through a proprietary algorithm in an effort to accurately predict the viral potential of videos and to identify newsworthy content before your sister finds out about it.
Its main strength lies in filtering out duplicates, repeats and similar videos that are far less likely to scale up, tapping a network of influencers to determine which videos are most likely to go mainstream in the near future.
Not interested in content related to movies or music? Simply un-check the relevant boxes in the sidebar and have PopScreen cater potential hit videos according to your interests. Find anything you like in particular? Share away via the Twitter and Facebook buttons.
PopScreen says its engine will be rolled out on a larger scale over the coming months to allow partners across all industries including news, publishing, and search, to syndicate predictive data and provide their users with access to the most timely video content on the Web, tailored specifically to their personal interests.
Founded in 2008, PopScreen is privately-held and based in Houston, Texas. The startup was founded by Kevin Nguyen and Glenn Gutierrez, who in 2003 launched Zapmeta, a meta search engine which processed 25-35 million searches a month and self-reportedly generated over $15 million in revenue.
