Tech Week in Review 5-27-2011
Microsoft Gets $5 Everytime HTC Sells an Android Phone Windows Phone 7 may not be the hottest mobile platform out right now, but at least Microsoft can make some change off Android. Wait…What?! According to Citi analyst Walter Pritchard, this is exactly what’s happening. Microsoft makes 5 bucks for every Android device sold by HTC. [...]
Read MoreFacebook Acquires Beluga. No Plans to Shut it Down.
As we all know, Facebook is notorious for acquiring companies simply for the talented folks that created them. This time, they’ve gone after the white whale of chat, Beluga. Since I heard about it, I’ve been using Beluga more and more for group messaging, so news of a Facebook acquisition concerned me. However, it seems [...]
Read MoreFacebook Launches a Social Inbox for SMS, Email, IM, and Messages
Facebook’s live event today, did notdisappoint. Speculation of a Gmail Killer from Facebook has been making the rounds for a minute. While Facebook has launched what looks like an extremely useful method for communicating with your friends and colleagues, Mark Zuckerberg was careful to say that it is “not a Gmail killer.” The project, previously [...]
Read MoreKik Provides Free Real-Time Texting Across Android, BlackBerry & iOS
Kik is a messaging application and service for Android, Blackberry, and iOS devices that allows for free texting across all three platforms. The service re-launched about two weeks ago and quickly jumped from 0 to 1,000,000 users: What an incredible couple of weeks. We re-launched Kik Messenger 15 days ago with 0 users, and at [...]
Read MoreChaCha Will Drop T-Mobile Over Text Tax
Earlier this week, it was reported that T-Mobile would begin charging an extra fee to businesses sending texts over its network. They plan to charge businesses a toll of one-quarter of a cent for each text delivered through its network. The change, expected to go live on Oct 1st, would mean that services like Twitter [...]
Read MoreAfrican Americans Talk and Text the Most
According to the latest from Nielsen, African Americans, Women, and Southerners talk and text the most in the United States. African Americans run up more than 1,300 minutes a month on average, followed by Hispanics at 826 minutes, Asian/Pacific Islanders at 692 minutes, and Whites at 647 minutes each month. African Americans and Hispanics also [...]
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