On Thursday Apple introduced iBook Author, a new authoring tool that makes creating interactive iBooks as easy as putting together a Keynote presentation. By making it easy to bring content to life, Apple hopes to revolutionize learning and revitalize the market for textbooks in education. The business model [...]
Apps are changing the world. Innovative apps combine technology to disrupt established ways of doing things, enhancing our lives in the process. Take Uber, for example. This app lets you use your phone to order a ride. They contract with established limousine services and they have an innovative and transparent [...]
We expect more from Eric Schmidt. This is the guy who pushed antitrust regulators to get involved in the tech industry throughout his career at Sun and Novell. He wrote the book on how "tying" a new product to your existing technological monopoly should be considered an aggressive, anticompetitive act. [...]
Today I wrote the FCC to express support for the AT&T-T-Mobile merger because it would greatly help app developers. The spectrum crunch is forcing carriers to throttle speeds for high data users. These are the kind of users that buy apps and contribute to the explosive growth in the apps [...]
[Crossposted at Huffington Post] The next time you download a mobile app, think about the company that produced it. If you guessed it came from a large, California-based company, you're likely wrong. Most mobile apps are actually created by small companies from all across the country. These are the findings [...]