| Run Android Apps on Windows with BlueStacks Virtualization promises many things: more efficiency, more cost-savings, easier IT management. And now BlueStacks, a startup emerging from stealth today wants to add to that list the ability to run Android applications on Windows devices. That should be a pretty compelling offer for many businesses and consumers that are already familiar with (and/or committed to) Windows but who want to be able to take advantage of Android apps.
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Indie Music Fans More Likely to Pay for Digital Streams Streaming music services like Spotify, MOG, Rdio, Grooveshark, Slacker Radio and others are making headlines for their innovations in today's digital music economy and its extension onto our mobile devices, into our homes and even into our cars. But when it comes to who's paying for the premium (i.e., "paid") level of these services, a new study shows that it's often indie music fans who are footing the bill.
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Gootip Brings Live Questions and Answers To Your Location A team of developers from a garage in France launched a location-based question and answer site today called Gootip. The service uses Google Places API tied with its own algorithm to specify where a question is being asked and tries to increase the relevance of the answer with users IP location from Foursquare and the Facebook Graph. Gootip emerged in beta today without having any buzz ahead of time and no funding from any venture capitalists. It has been bootstrapped by three founders who worked at e-merchant Price Minister - Mathieu Bidart, Eric Gagnaire and Thierry Sebba - who claim to have shut themselves in a garage with bottles of wine for the last six months to push out the product.
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YouTube Sees 3 Billion Views per Day How big is YouTube? It's biiiiig. 3 billion views per day big. On this, YouTube's 6th birthday, the Google-owned video sharing service released a few impressive stats (via infographic, of course), detailing its impressive numbers. Today, users upload more than 48 hours - yes, 2 days worth! - of videos every minute. This represents a 37% increase over the last six months and a 100% increase over last year.
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Nearly 80% of "On-the-Go" Audience Shops on Mobile, 72% Buy Local Deals Location-based media company JiWire has released a new report detailing the mobile shopping trends among the "on-the-go" audience, which JiWire defines as people using tablets, smartphones or laptops away from their home or workplace. According to the study, 79% of these users are becoming more comfortable making purchases on their mobile devices, even for big ticket items over $1,000. It also found that these consumers are heavily engaged with local deals services like Groupon and LivingSocial, for example, and had a high demand for tablet computers.
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New Web Analytics May Track Not Just Where You Click, But Where You Move Your Cursor Tracking what you click on has been one of the fundamental pieces of Web analytics. But your clickthroughs represent only part of what you actually do online. Eye-tracking studies have often been seen as the best way to determine what people are actually thinking as they browse, but these sorts of experiments - until recently - have been either technology- or cost-prohibitive for many people. But now researchers at Microsoft may have found an easier way to track where people are looking as they browse the Web. The new process doesn't actually utilize eye-tracking hardware, but rather uses the position of the cursor as a stand-in - where your cursor moves, where you hover, and of course sometimes where you click. According to their research, the cursor's position as actually a pretty good sign of what you're looking at and what's important, particularly when it comes to search results.
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Fate of Data.gov Revealed; US Gov Almost Completely Drops the Ball When the annual budgets for e-government initiatives including Data.gov were slashed by 75% last month, it didn't look good for the tech side of transparency. Today federal CIO Vivek Kundra has adressed the fate of these e-government programs in a letter to congress: "No project will go unaffected" he said. Data.gov, the repository for publicly available data that was promised as a platform to power software and analysis created by and for the public, will remain open. But "there will be no enhancements or other development to address needs for improvement." According to an analysis of Kundra's letter by the watchdog Sunlight Foundation, Data.gov may slow drastically in its efforts to both offer more data and ensure the quality of that data. Other programs, specifically the Fedspace social network for collaboration between federal employees and the Citizen Services Dashboard for reviewing the quality of federal services, will be shut down.
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Survey Finds E-Book Piracy Occurs Among a Surprising Demographic Digital piracy. It's an illicit activity undertaken by college students in their dorm rooms or by teenagers in their parents' basements, right? Wrong, according to a recent survey by the British law firm Wiggin. Or wrong when it comes to e-book digital piracy at least. According to the firm's annual Digital Entertainment Survey, one in eight women over age 35 who owns an e-reader admits to having downloaded an illegal version of an e-book. That compares to just one in 20 women in the same age group who admits to having pirated music.
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Twitter Reveals British Celebrity Sins Despite Legal Injunctions In British law, a "superinjunction" is a gag order on the press that extends even to reporting on the fact that there is a gag order on the press. In U.K. courts, these superinjunctions are apparently handed out like popcorn on behalf of any strutting boob with enough pounds sterling or screen time to get the judge's attention. This can hardly be surprising for a country whose libel laws are so biased that they have given birth to "libel tourism." Now, the Twitterverse has no such law. I think you can figure out what happened next. Although newspapers have been fighting against superinjunctions for some time, with one, the Sun, even kicking at the boundaries, one Twitter user just up and pegged it right in the gear.
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Google May Unveil Its Mobile Payments System This Week Google will announce a new mobile payments service on Thursday, Bloomberg reports. The new service utilizes Near Field Communications (NFC) and so will be only be available on those Android phones that have that technology - namely, the Nexus S from Sprint. By utilizing NFC, this new mobile payments service will mean that consumers will be able to pay for goods and redeem handsets via specially equipped NFC cash registers. According to Bloomberg, the service will get a trial run in five cities - New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Los Angeles and Washington DC.
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