by Chris | Feb 1, 2008 | Culture, Web
That’s a big one: It really looks like Steve Ballmer want’s to get into the search engine and online advertisement market. Today, Microsoft announced, that the company proposes the acquisition of Yahoo! at a premium of 63% to the current trading price....
by Chris | Jan 29, 2008 | Applications, Development, Mobile
It was quite interesting to watch a presentation at the MobileMonday in Munich of Antonio Vince Staybl, CEO of gofresh.de the creators of the mobile off-portal community itsmy.com. They did an amazing job over the last five years in growing their mobile community and...
by Chris | Jan 29, 2008 | Applications, Development, Mobile
Google is running fast forward with the Mobile-Handset-Operating-System, called android, they are developing with the joint forces of the Open Handset Mobile Alliance. To attract the creativity of developers worldwide, they started a competition – or as Google...
by Chris | Jan 18, 2008 | Applications, Applications, Development, Development, Hardware, Mobile, Web
The people at Skyhook Wireless really did a smart job with their Wi-Fi Positioning System: They just use the highly distributed public and private Wi-Fi infrastructure of everyone as reference points for their location tracking. So basically every WiFi-enabled device...
by Chris | Jan 16, 2008 | Applications, Applications, Applications, Development, Development, Development, Mac, Mobile, Web
The cooperation with Apple in terms of iPhone and iPod touch also effects the Mac now: Today, Skyhook Wireless released their Loki 2.0 Firefox toolbar for Mac OS X and Windows XP. Now it’s possible to check the own location with Loki – if there are enogh...
