It started a couple of years ago on some of the cable channels but now it’s spreading. TV shows getting split into two mini-seasons per year with months between. I see some network shows aren’t returning in 2010 until March or even April – that’s a four month hiatus between the halves of the season. Some cable shows have even longer breaks.
December 28, 2009
Flurry: App Store Sees Record Breaking Christmas, 50% Growth From November To December
As predicted here on MobileCrunch earlier this month, Apple rocked it this holiday season, and the early numbers are showing it. According to Flurry, the biggest mobile app analytics company, iPod Touch download volume saw a nearly 1,000% jump in downloads on Christmas Day. Overall, the App Store saw a 51% increase in downloads from November to December (downloads only increased by 15% from October to November). Christmas also marked the first day that iPod Touch app downloads surpassed iPhone app downloads, which makes sense (the iPod Touch is a more common gift than an iPhone; more on that later). Furthermore, the Android Market saw a nice 20% bump in app sales as well, sparked primarily by an uptick in downloads from the Motorola Droid. Read the rest of this post at MobileCrunch >> Crunch Network: CrunchGear drool over the sexiest new gadgets and hardware.[From Flurry: App Store Sees Record Breaking Christmas, 50% Growth From November To December]
The field is shaking out.
December 23, 2009
Software development’s winners and losers, 2009 edition
In 2009, the computers got smaller, the databases got bigger, and HTML’s dominance grew. None of these trends are new, and some of these changes are as old as computers themselves, but the magnitudes are greater or smaller than ever before. Here are the winners and losers we spotted on the software development landscape in 2009. For the programmers, alas, many of the year’s ups had downsides. [From Software development’s winners and losers, 2009 edition]
Pontification and punditry for the end of the year. Some good points, some interesting links.
December 22, 2009
Will developers be the next battleground in smartphones?
A couple of weeks ago, Gartner issued a market report indicating that Microsoft’s share of the smartphone market had fallen to less than 8 percent in the last year, while Apple and RIM both made significant gains. Microsoft is at risk of falling into last place in mobile phones if it doesn’t do something about it. So what’s the one strength Microsoft can bring to the table? [From Will developers be the next battleground in smartphones?]
Commercial developers follow the money, and there’s little money in Microsoft mobile compared to iPhone. FOSS developers develop for Android first and Microsoft last.
Snow Today
Looks like the car might not be going anywhere for a few days.
But the dogs like bounding around in it.
December 21, 2009
Steve Jobs named world’s best CEO
Redmond’s Steve? Not so much The prestigious Harvard Business Review has published a ranking of the world’s best-performing CEOs, and we’ll give you one guess as to who is El Numero Uno.…Offloading malware protection to the cloud [From Steve Jobs named world’s best CEO]
And Steve Ballmer isn’t in the top 100.
December 18, 2009
Canon MP270
Arrived yesterday at 11:09.
Had the old USB cable so I didn’t need to get one. Downloaded the newest software from Canon and up and running. The envelope printing is much easier than the old printer and the OCR works better too, not that I ever find much need for that. Used up the sample photo-paper and thought the results were very good. I’ll probably never buy any more.
Cheap, prints quickly and well, works with OS X 10.6.2. Ink looks dear but I don’t print very much.
