Sep
30
The saying “age is only a number” is definitely one that rings true for Will Smidlein. Will is a 13 year-old entrepreneur from Bloomfield, Michigan, and someone who has been referred to as a boy wonder and child prodigy. Will is a web designer and developer who was the “head honcho” of, NullFear labs, a [...]
Sep
30
In the last several days AOL has taken out double full-page advertisements in the New York Times showing off their new web-design philosophies. A few weeks ago there were stories of AOL’s new advertising interfaces. Today there are stories on how AOL is buying up writers from blogs and internet sites to produce more content [...]
Sep
30
With the new purchase of Air-Tran airways this week by Southwest airlines, airline consolidation is well under way. One of the potential benefits of airline consolidation is better and cheaper Wi-Fi availability. It is highly likely that different airlines will test different ways of delivering a better wireless product as a means of differentiation and [...]
Sep
30
Jeff Bewkes, the chairman and CEO of Time-Warner made an odd statement this week when he said, “People love their TV, they love it on their TV screen, and they love it on their new screens.” I am assuming this head-honcho of a content factory understands that web-based television interfaces do and will work with [...]
Sep
30
A new survey of thousands of application developers found that developers heavily prefer the Android OS and believe it will be the dominant player in the market. At the same time, multiple sources are reporting that Apple has a dominant place in media reporting. Whose bet will win the money? Check out App makers prefer [...]
Sep
30
It was confusing to read that Research in Motion was not releasing its “Playbook” tablet in time for the holiday season and that it would not automatically connect to wireless networks outside of through a blackberry smart phone. However, given that it is primarily targeting a business audience and builds on natural partnership with businesses [...]
Sep
30
Currently, Apple rules the application store roost offering over 250,000 applications. As Android catches up (winning the battle for new sales in the last quarter) they offer 80,000 applications. Research in Motion has much smaller offerings and have a much more controlled application process but also is developing partnerships that will provide incentives for more [...]
Sep
30
Today AOL continued its makeover by purchasing three businesses, the Tech Crunch blog, 5 min media (an online instructional video company), and Thing labs who produce a Twitter product called “Brizzly.” It remains to be seen if AOL will be accepted as a new hub but if it is it will generate a whole spate [...]
Sep
30
No list of things that people spend money on in the digital era (and in the current economic climate) is more surprising than the list of successful virtual goods. A new Inside Networks report concludes that the virtual goods market will make 1.6 billion dollars this year and is predicted to rise up to 2.1 [...]
Sep
30
Jocelyn Rainey is the owner of JRainey Gallery and art teacher of an all-boys school. Through her determination and desire bring a change in the lives of her students, Jocelyn developed a field trip that flies some of her art students around the world to experience art. “Art changes lives… It changes your heart which changes you [...]