We’ve written previously about Harvard marketing guru John Quelch’s research into how companies deliberately create an “illusion of scarcity” to elevate product successes and profits. See, How to use the ‘Scarcity Illusion’ to boost your launch. For a while now people have been writing about the perceived scarcity of iPhones. Earlier this week Om conducted a reportorial gut check, and determined–o
We’ve written previously about Harvard marketing guru John Quelch’s research into how companies deliberately create an “illusion of scarcity” to elevate product successes and profits. See, How to use the ‘Scarcity Illusion’ to boost your launch. For a while now people have been writing about the perceived scarcity of iPhones. Earlier this week Om conducted a reportorial gut check, and determined–o
Startups Mogreet Releases APIs To Let Developers Quickly Add SMS, Video, Rich Media Messaging To Apps Mogreet, the Los Angeles-based startup that provides brands and marketers with a distribution platform for mobile video messaging, today announced the release of its API developer portal, which allows third party-developers to easily integrate MMS, SMS, video and in-app messaging into their applic
Libboo, a TechStars Boston startup that aims to “create the next digital bestseller,” has raised $1.1 million in seed funding. The round was led by Massachusetts VC firm MassVentures. Libboo’s goal is to build buzz around books by connecting “buzzers,” or “readers who love to share and talk about books,” with books in order to “create the next digital bestseller and help talented authors get disco
Hardware Discovery Networks Is Brightcove’s First Partner For Its Dual-Screen Apple TV Service, Live First In Italy Back in June, Brightcove unveiled a new strategy to take its App Cloud development platform open source, and at the same time it introduced a new dual-screen Apple TV feature aimed at growing its business on connected TVs. Today, Brightcove is announcing the very first implementation
The “Lost” Steve Jobs Speech from 1983; Foreshadowing Wireless Networking, the iPad, and the App Store In 1983, Steve Jobs gave a speech to a relatively small audience at a somewhat obscure event called the International Design Conference in Aspen (IDCA). The theme of that year’s conference was “The Future Isn’t What It Used To Be”, which looking back seems all too fitting. Circumstances being wha
Appcelerator Launches “Innovation Fund” To Help Startups Speed Up Mobile App Development Appcelerator is all about speeding the development of rich, native mobile apps. One way it does this is with Titanium, its next-gen mobile app development platform. But now it’s looking to accelerate app development* by helping other startups focused on features, capabilities, or verticals that it’s not focuse
Appcelerator, a mobile cloud development platform, has been used by thousands of developers to create mobile apps. Now, the company is moving beyond creating tools for developers to actively backing some mobile startups with a new Innovation Fund. The fund will target early-stage startups across the mobile spectrum, providing them with capital, engineering expertise, access to Appcelerator’s tools
Charging Your Phone Becomes a Game With This Toyota App [VIDEO] Charging your phone is nothing more than a mundane necessity -- not likely anyone's idea of fun. But a new app aims to transform the process into an entertaining game. Called "Plug-in Championship," it displays a power meter that moves up and down. The goal is for users to plug in their charger when the meter is at its highest; the mo
Hardware iPad Mini Production Has Kicked Off, Says WSJ: 7.85-Inch LCD Screen, No Retina Display The iPad mini speculation could be about to be put to bed if a report in the WSJ is on the money. The paper is reporting that Asian suppliers to Apple have kicked off mass production of components required to make a smaller version of the iPad. The paper cites “people with knowledge of the situation”. S
Media & Entertainment Apple’s Siri, Google’s Voice Recognition Technology Targeted By Patent Troll A company that has acquired 100% ownership of a patent for an off-site transcription system — United States Patent 6,298,326 — in order to, in its words, “effectively administer certain patents for technology”, says it will be seeking residual royalties from Apple, for its Siri voice assistant, and G
iFixit has torn down another new gadget -- this time, it's the new, super-slim PlayStation 3 that Sony debuted last month. The teardown reveals a machine that's quite similar to the previous version of PlayStation 3, but easier to repair. iFixit scores it 7 out of 10 on the repairability scale; this especially goes for the hard drive, which can easily be accessed and upgraded -- if you're the tink
Name: Bonfaire Quick Pitch: Pre-order accessories "straight off the runway." Genius Idea: Gives shoppers another incentive to pre-order by stocking brands difficult to obtain in the U.S.. Keiron McCammon and Shari Rudolph thinks there's room for more than one Moda Operandi on the web. McCammon and Rudolph, both former executives of Hearst-owned style discovery platform Kaboodle, took the wraps off
Cachetown is a mobile app technology that uses your smartphone's camera to turn the world into a video game via augmented reality -- with lots of advertising potential for brands. GamesBeat Next is connecting the next generation of video game leaders. And you can join us, coming up October 28th and 29th in San Francisco! Take advantage of our buy one, get one free pass offer. Sale ends this Friday
The iPhone 5 has some nice features, but to paraphrase Jay-Z, a choice of colors ain't one. Considering the positive reviews and brisk sales for the device, most consumers don't seem to mind that the phone only comes in white and black. But Nokia apparently thinks the lack of chromatics is a deal-breaker for some or at least a reason to take a flyer on its Lumia 920, which comes in black, white, g
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in an interview on NBC's Today set to air on Thursday that he lives a "simple" life and proudly wears the same thing every day. Zuckerberg -- who has appeared on GQ and Esquire's worst-dressed list in 2011 -- confessed in an interview taped last week with Today host Matt Lauer that he owns "maybe about 20" identical grey t-shirts. "I mean, I wear the same thing ev
If you’ve followed the news, a collective of hackers recently rented a 3D printer to build a real, working gun. The group, Defense Distributed, began the project but once the renter, Stratasys, discovered what they were building, they took the printer back. Writes the Danger Room: Cody Wilson planned in the coming weeks to make and test a 3-D printed pistol. Now those plans have been put on hold a
Samsung loves to bash the iPhone and its legions of dedicated fans. And now Nokia has thrown down, too. Nokia announced the stunning Lumia 920 last month. In several ways, it’s an anti-iPhone with a large screen, forward-thinking hardware features, and, yes like this ad brags, multiple color options. For better or worse, phone manufacturers have turned to attacking the Apple and the iPhone rather
[brightcove video="1873651141001 " /] They told us, but we did not believe them: The Oct. 5 print edition of Entertainment Weekly, which features a one-of-a-kind digital ad running video and live tweets, actually has a smartphone inside of it. A real, full-sized 3G cellphone inside a print magazine. The digital ad is designed to promote the CW network's fresh lineup of action shows (The Arrow and
Nimble CEO to Salesforce: We’re bringing a new brand of disruptive ‘social CRM’ Nimble, the startup that burst into the enterprise with the bold statement “customer relationship management sucks,” is going strong. Today, it announced a series of product updates that will help salespeople more effectively manage their contacts. Nimble, the startup that burst into the enterprise with the bold statem
Digital music sales are expected to reach record breaking numbers in 2012, according to data from a Nielsen study published today. Digital music sales are expected to reach record-breaking numbers in 2012, according to data from a Nielsen study published today. The previous year held some important milestones for the music business, with a record 1.3 billion digital songs sold and over 100 million
Hardware Finally, A Dock That Doesn’t Blink When Apple Changes iPhone Connectors Or Device Design The update cycle of consumer electronics can make a mess of your Kickstarter plans, but one new project that just launched is designed to provide a useful products that remains useful no matter what changes come down the road, in terms of modes of connectivity or hardware design. It’s the CompleteDock
Media & Entertainment Marc Andreessen On Facebook’s Monetization Plans: Successful Companies Defer Gratification There’s lots of criticism going around about Facebook’s monetization strategy, and in a similar vein, it’s pretty common to criticize startups that grow without worrying about revenue. But venture capitalist and Facebook board member Marc Andreessen said today that’s looking at things t
Sheryl Sandberg: We’re More Afraid Of Losing By Standing Still In an interview at New York’s IAB conference, Charlie Rose asked Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg if Facebook had ever made assumptions that weren’t right. Sheryl Sandberg confirmed yes, and referenced Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s comments about the failure of Facebook’s HTML 5 efforts at TechCrunch Disrupt. Sandberg implied that these s
Are you looking to showcase your brand in front of the gaming industry’s top leaders? Learn more about GamesBeat Summit sponsorship opportunities here. In less than two weeks, a majority of iPhone owners have updated to the latest version of Apple’s mobile operating system, warts and all, according to data compiled by web and mobile ad network operator Chitika Insights. An estimated 60 percent of
[brightcove video="1873383678001" /] Toyota Tuesday demo'd its own version of a "smart car." The single-user vehicle, called the Smart INSECT (short for "Information Network Social Electric City Transporter"), uses the company’s COMS ("super-compact electric vehicle") system to create a variety of hands-free features. The five-minute demo introduced some of those features, including facial recogni
Forget Saying Happy Birthday To Your Friends On Facebook, It’s All About Gifts Now We know that Facebook is in full gear when it comes to monetization. It was obvious the second that the company announced its “Gifts” offering, which lets you send a physical or virtual item to your buddies. It’s kind of cool, and the first gift I’ve ordered is in the mail. One of the things that I enjoy doing the m
U.S. Patent Office Opens First Branch on University Campus Cornell's New York City Tech campus will be the first university to have a direct partnership with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, giving future students access to resources and expert advice as they look to bring ideas and innovations to market. The university made the announcement on Tuesday morning at its temporary campus in New Y
Former Apple, Nasa Engineers Design $11,000 Coffee Machine [brightcove video="1871625777001" /] Get ready to rethink the way you brew coffee -- and the cost of it. The Blossom One Limited machine makes a fresh, hot cup of coffee, but it's not your average coffeemaker. A team of engineers who worked previously at Apple and at NASA designed the $11,000 coffeemaker that brews coffee at just the right
Opera 12.10 Beta Now Supports SPDY, Retina Displays And More Web Standards Opera just released the first beta of Opera 12.10 for Windows, Mac and Linux. With this update, which should reach the stable release channel within the next few weeks, Opera’s desktop browser now supports Google’s SPDY protocol, Apple’s Retina displays and numerous new web standards like the Fullscreen API and the Page Vis
While the New York Times (s nyt) has been firmly on the native app bandwagon, it’s now showing some interest in web apps with Tuesday’s launch of an experimental HTML5 app for iPad (s aapl). The app, which only works on Apple’s Safari browser, is available to digital subscribers of the NYT’s Web + Tablet and All Digital Access plans. The app allows users to consume content in a number of ways, inc
We’ve written previously about Harvard marketing guru John Quelch’s research into how companies deliberately create an “illusion of scarcity” to elevate product successes and profits. See, How to use the ‘Scarcity Illusion’ to boost your launch. For a while now people have been writing about the perceived scarcity of iPhones. Earlier this week Om conducted a reportorial gut check, and determined–o
Social Reading App Readmill Adds Adobe DRM and PDF, Adds New Stores Social reading iPad app Readmill has been slowly increasing its footprint among publishers and today announces new support for Adobe DRM-protected ePub and PDF formats. The new app is coming next week, but you can grab it an update later. While the startup has oft been associated with socialising books, its ability to make excerpt
[brightcove video="1866565579001" /] Inspired by hardware companies Raspberry Pi and Arduino, the chip startup company Adapteva wants to make the supercomputer available to everyone. The company's Kickstarter project, Parallella, is based on its Epiphany multicore chips that have been developed during the past four years. The Epiphany Accelerator "consists of a scalable array of simple RISC proces
Lenovo is looking to set up shop in America but don’t expect your next ThinkPad computer to sport a Made In The USA sticker just yet. IBM offloaded its computer business to China-based Lenovo in 2005. This brought harsh criticism upon IBM, a shining example of American success. But soon Lenovo will be able to advertise something long forgotten by American computer companies Dell and HP. Lenovo pla
Ahead Of The Presidential Debates, Ustream Is Launching A Redesign To Highlight News And Trending Videos Live streaming startup Ustream has come a long way over the last several years, but one thing holding it back is its homepage, which is a hodgepodge of “featured” and recommended live stream feeds, some of which are active, some of which click through to archived, on-demand videos. It’s not ent
Hardware comScore: Samsung Flat, Android Grows Stronger In U.S.; Apple Grew Most Leading Up To iPhone 5 Launch comScore today released its latest U.S. mobile market rankings, covering usage by 30,000 consumers over a three-month period ending August 2012 — that is, in the period just before the launch of Apple’s newest iPhone, and during the time when Samsung was slapped with a $1 billion+ fine ov
Startups Gravity Raises $10.6M For Content Personalization And Marketing, Round Led by GRP Partners Gravity, the content personalization startup founded by a team of former Myspace executives, just announced that it has raised $10.6 million in Series B funding. When Gravity launched in 2009, it offered some content recommendation products for consumers, but its real goal was to convince publishers
Startups DocTrackr Secures $2M From Atlas, Polaris, To Help Secure Your Documents Via The Cloud Sharing a document online has never been easier, but maintaining control over that document once it’s left home, so to speak, is something different altogether. In the enterprise, that potential loss of control — who can view it, edit it or even print it — is a big deal. Therefore, making it easy for bu
Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen Reviews Windows 8: Elegant, Innovative And Puzzling A few days ago, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen quietly published an extensive review of Windows 8. In it, Allen – who resigned from the Microsoft board in 2000 but still consults for the company – calls Windows 8 “a significant evolutionary milestone in Windows development,” but his praise mostly focuses on the ta
Hardware Study: Apple’s iPhone 5 Is The Wind Beneath The Samsung Galaxy S III’s Wings Earlier today I posted about the comparative merits of Apple’s iPhone 5 and Samsung’s Galaxy S III, and in doing so it turns out that no matter what my conclusion, I probably helped Samsung move a few Galaxy smartphones. That’s according to new info from analytics firm Localytics, which says that Samsung sees a G
The average modern family still has two children, two cars and two TVs, but cutting-edge gadgets are moving right on in and making themselves at home. In fact, according to a new study by ABC's popular TV show Modern Family, families now own three mobile devices and three computers -- for a total of six devices. The study was conducted on 2,000 British adults in a four-person family. “Technology p
Since its first software update in 2009, Google Android(s goog) has been spread out across multiple old software versions, causing challenges for consumers and developers alike. As of Oct. 1, however, adoption of Android version 4.0 and up has crossed the 25 percent level according to Google’s own Android device targeting dashboard: The data is tabulated by looking at software versions on devices
Media & Entertainment Twitter Says More Than Half Its Users Follow Six Or More Brands It turns out that people really are interested in hearing what brands have to say on Twitter — in a presentation today at the IAB MIXX advertising conference, Twitter’s vice president of global brand strategy Joel Lunenfeld said that 88 percent of Twitter users follow at least one brand, and that more than half o
New York Times' HTML5 App for iPad Is No Substitute for Native The New York Times's web app for iPad, native iPad app and the NYTimes.com on iPad. (Click to zoom.)Not everyone prefers to get news through apps on their tablets. In fact, 60% of tablet news readers say they get most of their news through web browsers, while only 16% say they get most of their news through apps on their devices, accor
In-Q-Tel, an investment company with ties to the U.S. intelligence community is taking a stake — the amount is undisclosed — in Cloudant, the Boston-based NoSQL specialist. The beauty of Cloudant’s technology is it lets web and mobile companies build and deploy big data applications fairly easily without having to worry about underlying infrastructure. The strategic stake means that IQT will vet a
We’ve written previously about Harvard marketing guru John Quelch’s research into how companies deliberately create an “illusion of scarcity” to elevate product successes and profits. See, How to use the ‘Scarcity Illusion’ to boost your launch. For a while now people have been writing about the perceived scarcity of iPhones. Earlier this week Om conducted a reportorial gut check, and determined–o
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