Famigo is expanding its efforts to help families discover appropriate mobile content by launching support for Apple iOS apps today. In July, Famigo introduced Family App Review, an interactive guide that enables families to search and sort for games, e-books and other apps. Today, families can now use Family App Review to discover, select and share favorite apps for both the Apple iOS and Android mobile platforms by visiting www.famigo.com. For many families, finding the [...]
mobileTech Tuesday, by Steve Guengerich As I was on my way to pick up my Monday morning coffee at 6am, I had an audio double-take when I heard this exchange on the morning news report between the KUT anchor and a reporter from the Austin Business Journal about chipmaker Altera Corp’s announced intentions to move some R&D operations to Austin. KUT anchor: “Why did they choose Austin for this?” ABJ reporter: “Oh, because there is [...]
mobileTech Tuesday special – A Podcast with Bril Flint, angel investor and technology strategist Note: Today, I am pleased to announce the “soft launch” of a new channel of original and curated content of best practices, profiles, features, and commentary, covering the rapid transition to the mobile, app-based economy, aka, the appconomy. This interview is cross-posted from The Appconomy channel. Click on this link to open a new browser window taking you to the channel’s [...]
mobileTech Tuesday, by Steve Guengerich Last week, I presented an initial map of Austin’s mobile scene and wrote about how mobile tech has fast become the hottest area in the industry. The Christmas holidays have given additional think-time for others to further highlight this trend, much better frankly than I could do. One of the best posts from among the more widely read publications was one by Seth Weintraub in Fortune. In his post, Weintraub [...]
In one of the worst kept secrets of the year, Apple announced the acquisition of Austin-based chip company Intrinsity. It’s rumored that their A4 chip powers Apple’s new iPad. The stream of future royalties probably far exceed the rumored $121M purchase price. Word of the acquisition began to leak out after technology trade publications noticed earlier this month that a number of Intrinsity employees had started to list Apple as their employer on the social [...]
During yesterday’s Apple developer preview, the latest addition to Apple’s arsenal was unveiled, iAd. The platform aims to make it easy for developers to monetize their free iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad applications by providing a simple, Apple controlled platform that allows them to provide ads to their users.
While there is nothing revolutionary about ad networks, I believe this specific implementation is. Why?
