OpenGL 4.0 Comes Out To...

With Microsoft becoming increasingly marginalized in areas like mobile media, DirectX is becoming less of a must-use toolset and more of a gaming-specific one. The other side of the coin is, of course, the increasing relevance of standards like OpenGL, OpenAL, and OpenCL: powerful...

Motally Brings Mobile A...

As mobile gaming takes off, developers will need in-depth analysis to determine consumer behavior with their games and adjust their games accordingly. Motally , which provides user-action tracking services for the mobile web and apps, is expanding its product base today offering a...

Google Gains, Apple Sta...

No wonder Apple is suing HTC for patent infringement over its Android phones. In the three months between October and January, Android’s overall share of smartphone subscribers in the U.S. rose 4.3 points to 7.1 percent, according to mobile market share data released by comScore...

Redbeacon Fine Tunes Se...

2009 TechCrunch50 winner Redbeacon , a service that pairs consumers with service providers , is releasing a number of new features today, launching a distribution relationship and sharing key data from their beta trial. The 50,000 foot view is, this startup has legs. Here is the...

The Facebook Imperative...

Editor’s note : This guest post is written by Marc Benioff , chairman and CEO of salesforce.com . In it, he responds to critics of his last guest post arguing that enterprise software should be more like Facebook View original here: The Facebook Imperative Cannot Be...
comScore: Online Video Views Down Across The Board In January

comScore: Online Video ...

comScore has just released its US online video rankings for January 2010, and the results aren’t positive. Overall views dropped by around 2.5%, with  32.4 billion in January vs. 33.2 billion in December See the original post here: comScore: Online Video Views Down Across The...
Investors Say “Count Me In” To Plancast

Investors Say “Count ...

When Plancast launched last November, it immediately put other sites like Upcoming, Dopplr, and every single e-vite service on notice . The “ Foursquare for the future ” has a simplicity that leads to a lot of social activity as we’ve seen over the past few months. And...
It’s Time For Microsoft To Turn Itself Upside-Down

It’s Time For Microso...

There was recently a little skirmish on the web regarding the question of whether or not Microsoft has stopped innovating — whether the internal corporate culture there has thwarted new ideas, and so on. Well, I think we can all agree that Microsoft hasn’t exactly been an...
Steve Ballmer’s Memo To Microsoft Staff: “We Must Move At Cloud Speed”

Steve Ballmer’s Memo ...

Earlier today, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer gave a speech at the University of Washington where he said that the company was going “all in” with its strategy to move Microsoft products to the cloud. We’ve gotten our hands on an all-staff email sent out by Ballmer...
In Mobile, Fragmentation is Forever. Deal With It.

In Mobile, Fragmentatio...

Editor’s note: Richard Wong is a venture capitalist with Accel Partners, an investor in AdMob, GetJar, and SunRun, and a former mobile industry executive. In this guest post he argues that the fragmentation of mobile devices and platforms is here to stay, and offers some advice to...

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