Hans Eilers

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• Android Mobile Web Use Up 400% in Q2, Outpacing Apple & BlackBerry
  The Android platform has garnered much attention lately because of its rapidly expanding number of apps and phones on the market, so additional growth statistics should come at no surprise. Mobile Web usage on Android devices in the U.S. quadrupled in the second quarter of 2010, stealing market share from Apple and BlackBerry devices, says U.K. mobile analyt […]
  Chris Cameron
• "What Mountain is That?" New App Takes Augmented Reality Outside the City Limits
  How many times have you been driving and wondered "What's the name of that mountain?" or "Which river is this I'm crossing?" Maybe you consulted a paper map, or even your GPS, and were still uncertain. Well, that uncertainty may be a thing of the past with a new topographical augmented reality app called Marmota. Up to now, when […]
  Curt Hopkins
• Seth Godin Gives Up on Traditional Book Publishing
  Writer and marketing guru Seth Godin doesn’t plan to publish any more books — at least not in the traditional sense.After writing 12 books, he doesn’t think the traditional publishing process is “worth the effort,” he revealed in an interview with Mediabistro. Godin, the author of bestsellers such as Purple Cow and The Dip, has quite a bleak view o […]
  Stan Schroeder
• Chrome Web Store and Online Games
  1up.com reports that Google Chrome Web Store will be launched in October and online games will be one of its main attractions. "Set to launch this October, the store aims to make a proper marketplace for browser games -- one that solves a lot of the issues of games on the web today, from discovery to monetization."Google's game developer advoc […]
  Alex Chitu
• Use Adobe Fonts in Your Own Web Designs
  Typekit, a company doing its part to help bring better typography to the web, has just announced an new partnership with Adobe.The partnership means that Typekit users can now integrate famous fonts like Myriad, Cooper Black and Adobe Garamond into their own sites and designs. Adobe took the time to optimize and hint its collection of fonts for the screen, e […]
  Christina Warren
• A PlayStation Phone is Coming, and It’s Powered By Android [RUMOR]
  If rumors are true, the mobile and gaming markets are about to get a big surprise from Sony Ericsson: a PlayStation-branded gaming phone, powered by Android 3.0.According to Engadget, Sony Ericsson is working on a hybrid mobile phone and gaming device that is a “cross between the Samsung Captivate and the PSP Go.” It supposedly includes a landscape slide […]
  Ben Parr
• SPARQLZ Shines as a Vision for Linked Data Made Easy
  SPARQLZ is a stealth technology project aimed to provide a graphical user interface for everyday users to assemble, edit, share and mash-up modular, persistent, real-time searches across the web of Linked Data. It's a side project by an independent team within a large data corporation, with dreams of spinning their work off as a startup. It's a pre […]
  Marshall Kirkpatrick
• Genius: FridgePad Turns iPad into Giant Fridge-Magnet
  The FridgePad is billed as the “ultimate fridge magnet”. I’d say it’s probably the ultimate anything. Think about it. Even with my obviously awesome “Waterproof, Kitchen-Proof iPad Case” (a ziploc bag), your iPad still gets in harms way in the kitchen. The FridgePad fixes this by mounting the iPad up where nature intended: on the front of the ref […]
  Charlie Sorrel
• The iPad just got a game changing news reader, it’s called Flipboard.
  Shared by Hans Eilers Wow Those of you who follow @Scobleizer might very well have heard him rave about an upcoming app release for the iPad. Well, while not confirmed (update: now confirmed!), we believe we’ve got our hands on the app he’s betting will be a game changer – it’s called Flipboard. Before we carry on, lets take a quick look and some o […]
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