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So why all the commotion over Angry Birds today? Well, not only is the app one of the most popular of all times - it sold more than 7 million copies according to VentureBeat - the app is now free, too.
For now, the free app is ad-supported, but a version without ads will be available soon for those who would prefer a cleaner experience.
Let's take a look at how VMware is expanding options with a recent beta that targets the PHP developer community.
The VMware vCloud SDK for PHP Beta is an example of expansion in available language support for the PHP developer community. The appending of beta speaks to the path and desire for inclusion longer term.
Indeed, sometimes the popularity within a developer community that includes paying customers can have an impact on a company roadmap. Perhaps this post regarding PHP and VMware reflects how continued pursuit of more options can benefit the PHP developer community.
Verizon and Apple announced this morning that the iPad will be sold by Verizon starting Oct. 28 and the offer will include an optional Mi-Fi device - a pocket sized re-broadcaster of a cloud of Wi-Fi sharable by up to four other devices. On the lowest end the Mi-Fi will cost an extra $130 at time of purchase and come with a subscription of 1GB of data for $20 per month. Imagine the iPad parties you're going to have!
Getting Apple wireless devices out of the shadow of terrible AT&T coverage is something people have long waited for. Hopefully a Verizon iPad foreshadows a Verizon iPhone, but even if that somehow weren't the case this iPad news alone is a big deal.
Verizon said last week that the first half of 2011 will bring a massive 4G network and a half-dozen smartphones and tablets to its offerings. The company has also begun to take strides to overcome its un-cool image, launching scores of innovative location and network APIs for developers to build new kinds of apps on top of.
Speculation about the long-term, big picture aside, today's news means one thing: If you've got five friends with iPads, only one of them is going to need Verizon Mi-Fi and you'll all be rocking your WiFi iPads together all over town. Perhaps more likely, you'll be able to roll into a place with laptops and no Wi-Fi and say, "Never fear - I have a magic tablet, with Mi-Fi!"
But the study also revealed that teens are now turning to mobile applications, too, with 38% of teens using downloadable apps like those from Facebook, Pandora and YouTube. And usage in this area is growing, says Nielsen.
Not surprisingly, Nielsen found teens text a lot. Any parent who doesn't have their child on an unlimited texting plan is just setting themselves up for failure, it seems. According to Nielsen's data, teens send out more than six messages per every hour they're awake, an 8% increase since just last year.
While females still text more than males (4,050 compared to 2,539 texts, females vs. males), the teen boys (ages 13-17) are still outpacing the other male age groups studied. Young adults (ages 18-24) are in second place overall with 1,630 texts per month.
Texting is also now the number one reason why teens say they get a phone, with 43% reporting this as their primary reason for mobile adoption. Safety, the number one reason back in 2008, has now fallen to second place with only 35% citing this as the top reason.
Leading global analyst firm Gartner has released its annual Hype Cycle report and it's thought provoking to see where these high-end specialists think various emerging technologies are in their path to mainstream adoption. Tablets, microblogging, cloud computing, machine/brain interfaces (!) and many more are included in this year's report. Gartner believes that emerging technologies get hyped, overhyped, then face crashing disillusionment and are later finally understood as productive, mainstream parts of the world.
Companies around the world pay $2,000 to read in-depth annual reports about the viability of each of these particular markets. Then they make buying and development decisions based on what they read. What do you think of this year's assessments?
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The favorite app of many Twitter power users, TweetDeck, has been available in beta for Android for a while. Today we see version 1.0, and the app’s debut into the Android Market. Users of the desktop, iOS, or beta Android apps will be very familiar with its features.
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Nearly three of every four handsets hitting the Android Market are now running the most modern versions of Google’s mobile operating system, just as rumors begin swirling around the next release of Android. The current picture, provided by Google’s own dashboard service, differs greatly from just six months ago, when only one in four Android phones were running version 2.0 or better. This adoption of the Eclair and Froyo versions of Android, combined with Google’s efforts to offer core apps through its Market, is helping to reduce fragmentation issues.Indeed, I saw the handwriting on the wall in May as Google began to build apps that were supported on multiple Android versions and then provide them outside the operating system. Software such as Goggles, Gesture Search and Navigation originally launched on Android 2.0 or better devices, but quickly appeared on older Android 1.6 handsets. Based on the distribution of Android versions at that time (shown below), Google effectively doubled the potential user base of such apps by offering them phones running an older version of Android.
The adoption of newer Android versions comes at a time when the next iteration is likely to appear. Developers should see the SDK of Gingerbread as early as next week, says
