Tech Confidential Blog: Damn the mobile data, full speed ahead! Annotated
ndsets and the venture capitalists funding companies to provide services via mobile devices. However, new data out from M:Metrics, a research firm in London, shows that those services aren't being used with much frequency. In the U.S., the most popular services are text messages, with only 42% of subscribers using it, and photos, with 18%. Only 3% of subscribers downloaded games with the same amount also downloading screensavers and wallpapers.
There's no data on the use of location-based services or accessing maps online in the report, but another hot topic in the mobile space — connecting to a social network on a handset — attracts less than 4% of mobile subscribers in the U.S. That's more than the European countries surveyed, but is still only 7.5 million people, many of whom are under 25. Sure, the geriatric generation who didn't grow up in the age of connectivity (I'm talkin' to you, GenX and older), probably has better things to do than check their Facebook and MySpace networks from a cell phone — or maybe the type is simply too small for their aging eyes to read — but that 4% is getting an inordinate
The fact that more than half of cell-phone users apparentl
VentureBeat » What can the VC community do to help our energy crisis? Annotated
There is a tremendous opportunity in what I call “new electrons” to help drive a substantial change in the energy source of modern society. New electrons are technologies and techniques that efficiently harness and
Fighting a war in deep space is challenging enough without having a lot of competition. But sometimes a little – or in this case a lot – of competition can really make for a more engaging experience. That’s the hope with Space Wars, a new ad-supported massively multiplayer mobile game from Cellufun. This free mobile Internet game lets players battle for control of the galaxy, and compete against up to 120 other players.