The infographic of the day shows key points of a new survey conducted among mobile users in China revealing who is buying mobile apps, user preferences for iOS or Android, and user tolerance for ads appearing in their apps. Guohe, a mobile advertising management platform in China has just released a study, Mobile Advertising: Six Key Trends in 2012 – How marketers can best utilize mobile advertising as part of [...]
Summer is coming and the heat is already gracing Sonoma’s vineyards. Last weekend Scribe Winery hosted a members wine tasting and picnic. Their chilled Riesling was perfect for the lamb, radish and hummus hors d’oeuvres. Crunching into a not-too-pretty but absolutely delicious radish straight from their garden was a real treat and we felt privileged to share the bounty of the the earth. In the case of Scribe Winery it [...]
How often have you wished you could bring someone along on a particularly enjoyable vacation? Looxcie, the makers of the wearable mobile-connected video cam, are letting you do that…almost. Wearable over your ear or attachable to a ball cap, car visor, bicycle handle bars or helmet, the hands-free camera captures video just that way you see it. Rather than wait till you get home to share it, Looxcie Live, a [...]
UPDATE: TourWrist wins People’s Choice Award at DEMO, the emerging technology conference. TourWrist won top honors among five DEMO God finalists and was awarded one million dollars in media from IDG, producer of DEMO and publisher of VentureBeat and other technology publications. Check out the panos on TourWrist to get a real perspective of what it’s like to be a presenter at DEMO. The rabbit-hole went straight on like a [...]
Ever shoot a video with your iPhone only to have the audio disappear into mush? A new mini boom mic that fits atop your iPhone 3GS, 4 and4S phone will change all that. This little mic plugs into your earphone jack and delivers professional sound and has a near and far setting so you can capture an interview with a musician and also capture the musician’s performance on stage without [...]
When I was just a kid I asked my mother for a Dymo label maker for my birthday. I just thought it was the coolest thing and started making labels for everything in wood grain, black , and red peel-off tape with embossed lettering in white. Such a simple device but I had to figure out how exactly it worked so I took it apart. BOING! The trigger spring jumped [...]
China’s leading app store solution provider is teaming up with one of the country’s top mobile security technology providers to tackle security issues associated with mobile apps. ASC (“App Store Connect”), the leading provider of mobile app store solutions in China, today announced its strategic partnership with Tencent Mobile Security Lab, one of the leading providers of mobile security solutions in China. App Store Connect will use Tencent’s app [...]
Maybe this is exactly what the Cosmopolitan was going for — a 21 to 30 year-old stiletto-heeled and testosterone pumped crowd. While very average-looking tourists milled around the ground floor of the 100,000 square foot casino space, their numbers grew thinner with every floor as we rose up in glass elevators and escalators. Right above their heads were tight-dressed girls leaning over the balcony on upper floors, gazing through walls [...]
Unless he’s one of those Arnold Schwarzenegger-dubbed “girlie men”, no guy in his right mind will carry around this netbook himself, but he sure might consider giving it to his Sweetie. Spotted on Shanzai.com, this rhinestone sweetheart netbook comes from China, created by the very independent Shanzai developers who keep surprising us with unusual mobile products. At the heart of this, uh, heart-motif netbook beats either a VIA C7 or Intel [...]
One of the irritations that goes along with owning an iPhone is the perpetual need to clean its surface. It looks oh so pretty when you firest take it out of the box – and after that, it’s a perpetual battle to keep it clean. Seems I was constantly grabbing a sleeve, a tissue or an eyeglass cloth from the optometrist to wipe the fingerprints off. And nothing seemed to work until I tried the 3M microfiber [...]