Amit Chowdhry | August 24, 2010 | 655 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under ViewSonic, ViewSonic ViewPad 7

At the IFA conference this week, ViewSonic is showcasing a 7-inch Android tablet and a 10-inch dual-boot Windows and Android tablet device. The 7-inch Android tablet will be known as the ViewPad 7.

Amit Chowdhry | August 24, 2010 | 1,279 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Adam Bain, Dick Costolo, Google, Microsoft Corporation, MySpace, News Corp, News Corporation, Twitter

Micro-blogging company Twitter has hired Adam Bain to be the head of their revenues department. Adam Bain will be reporting to Twitter COO Dick Costolo.

Amit Chowdhry | August 24, 2010 | 1,224 views | 1 Comment
Categorized under Fujitsu, Masami Yamamoto, Microsoft Corporation

Masami Yamamoto, the President of Fujitsu Ltd. said that the company is “very actively” seeking acquisitions in order to enhance their global growth. “Targets will be companies that have technologies that Fujitsu doesn’t have or that have customers that Fujitsu has never been able to reach so far,” said Yamamoto in a translated interview in New York. “We would like to get engaged very actively in M&A activities.”

Amit Chowdhry | August 23, 2010 | 3,663 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Infographics
Jesse Thomas of creative agency Jess3 has created an infographic that shows the size of social networks, including Skype, Gmail, Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare, etc.

[GigaOM]
Amit Chowdhry | August 23, 2010 | 711 views | 1 Comment
Categorized under Seth Godin

Seth Godin is an Internet entrepreneur whose name is synonymous with marketing. After graduating in computer science from Tufts and earning an MBA from Stanford, Godin worked at a company called Spinnaker Software. When working at Spinnaker, he met Mark Hurst and founded a company called Yoyodyne, an online marketing company. Yahoo! acquired Yoyodyne for $30 million in 1998.

Amit Chowdhry | August 23, 2010 | 937 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Virgin Mobile

Sprint subsidiary Virgin Mobile USA has just announced a new mobile broadband plan that is sure to impress. At $40 you can use an unlimited amount of data when you are on the go. Check out the chart above to see what I am talking about. Not bad considering that most other mobile broadband competitors cap you at different data consumption points. [Engadget]
Amit Chowdhry | August 23, 2010 | 598 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Google, Rob Ousbey

Rob Ousbey, an SEO consultant was using Google one day only to notice that it was acting very different. His search results were being found as he was typing queries in the search box. To prove to others that he wasn’t going crazy, he recorded a video of it all happening.

Amit Chowdhry | August 23, 2010 | 791 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Apple App Store, Apple Inc., Recorder

If you use the iPhone to record a phone conversation for legitimate purposes, you are not in violation of the Wiretap Act according to a federal appeals court. The lawsuit involved in this case relates to when a son secretly recording a conversation in the kitchen about how to handle a dying mother’s will between the son, stepfather, mother, and others.
