I have been following the development of Windows Phone 7 for some time now, and noticed a very worrying development recently. It seems that even the most passionate supporters of the upcoming phone OS, are starting to prepare us for the worst! Windows Phone 7: Not the game-changer we were promised? Just a few weeks ago, the ...
Carol Bartz, head of Yahoo, has some business advice for Google. It's unclear why Ms Bartz thinks Google NEEDS her advice, but in a weird interview with The BBC, Ms Bartz said that Google is heading for problems, unless it takes her advice. She explains: "Google is going to have a problem because Google ...
I was reading this post on mashable earlier, from one of my favourite tech bloggers, Jennifer Van Grove. It’s about a new ‘tweet notification’ feature that Twitter are planning to add, for people who use the Twitter website to tweet.
Twitter business model to include advertising?
This got me thinking. In recent weeks, Twitter has made a number of significant improvements to the functionality of the main Twitter website. Most recently we saw the addition of the superb Twitter Lists feature, but Twitter are ALSO working on a new retweet feature too. These improvements have one thing in common; they render web-based apps like Tweetdeck and (my favourite) Seesmic Desktop less and less essential.
Here’s why this matters…
Many Windows Vista users feel they were unpaid beta testers and that Microsoft has used their time and their error reporting with Vista, to help them produce Windows 7. I agree! In fact, many people have suggested that Windows 7 should have been rolled out as a Service pack for Vista.
Here’s why…
So, bloggers failing to declare that they are taking money or freebies for writing reviews / posts, could soon be fined up to $11,000. Whilst this may stop a few smaller blogs writing undisclosed posts for PR firms, it’s hardly going to stop the big blogs – which are rewarded very highly for the coverage they give certain favoured brands. Here’s why!
Cisco’s report into global broadband speed has been published and the findings confirm what many users know; that typical broadband speeds in their country are crap.
The top 10 countries for broadband quality are:
The UK’s biggest mobile phone provider is about to be formed, with Orange and T-Mobile UK due to announce their plans to merge. This comes after T-Mobile UK have been locked in talks since July, with the UK’s three biggest mobile phone carriers; O2, Vodafone and Orange.
The new company will have around 38% of the UK phone market’s overall revenues and annual sales of around £8.2bn ($13.5bn.)
So, the tech news blog has been on holiday for the past couple of weeks. In that time, quite a bit has happened. Clearly, the BIGGEST story in tech news during that time, was that I got to name the title of last week’s Windows Weekly podcast with Leo Laporte; “bing is my back end”. Yeah, I’m a fan of the show (thanks Leo.)
Here’s the news I missed…
So, FaceBook has acquired FriendFeed – But why? It wasn’t for the platform and with a quarter of a billion users, FaceBook didn’t need to buy the relatively small FriendFeed user-base either.
However, by acquiring FriendFeed, FaceBook have bought something, which is of massively greater value to them as a company!
We are in the process of developing a whole new mojo, here at The Tech News Blog. Reader research has shown that people preferred our previous, ‘more in-depth’ approach to tech news, rather than the shorter posts we have focused on more recently.
