Google Maps with transit launches for Android – TNW

via thenextweb.com A solid innovation in mobile GPS – will we ever need a paper map again? Tweet this! Or... Facebook...

Apple’s iPad Passes One Percent Milestone in Worldwide Browsing – AllThingsD

It’s been just 14 months since the iPad first went on sale in April of 2010, and in that time the device has managed to capture a chunk of the Web browsing market belying its young age. According to Net Applications’ latest NetMarketShare report,* more than one percent of all global Web browsing occurs on an iPad. And in the U.S., the percentage rises to 2.1 percent. Small figures, sure. But significant ones. For a single device in a newly created market to capture that kind of Web browsing traffic in just over a year is an impressive achievement by any measure....

HTC to displace RIM as No. 4 smartphone vendor

HTC is set to slide into the No. 4 spot on the list of the world’s top smartphone vendors next year according to Taiwan-based research firm Market Intelligence Center. The slot is currently held by BlackBerry maker Research In Motion. Headquartered outside Taiwan’s capital, HTC has quietly built a smartphone empire as well as one of the highest market caps of any tech company on the Taiwan exchange. HTC builds some of the most popular Android smartphones in the world, and the company reported profits of NT$14.83 billion in the first quarter of 2011...

Premium Mobile Video Popularity Surges as HBO Go App Reaches 3 Million Downloads | Mobile Marketing Watch

Premium cable television giant HBO is on brag-watch. The iconic name in home entertainment says its recently released HBO Go app has reached three million downloads. HBO Go enables HBO subscribers to view more than 1,400 programs on demand via their Apple iPad tablets, iPhones, and Android devices, assuming their cable providers support the app. HBO Go saw 1 million downloads in its first week of availability alone. Distinct from the likes of Hulu+, HBO go users have unlimited access to every episode of their favorite shows. By doing so, HBO is sending a clear message...

Mobile Social Networking Continues Strong Growth – eMarketer

via emarketer.com Mobile and social are becoming joined at the hip, it would seem Tweet this! Or... Facebook...

Eyeball-controlled Laptop from Tobii: D9 Demo (Video) – from AllThingsD

via allthingsd.com Amazing. Just unsure how well this will work for those of us with trouble focusing (ie – me). Tweet this! Or... Facebook...

Apple Is Hiding Its Google-Killer

Image: YouTube It now appears that Apple is waiting for iOS 5 to be ready to release the iPhone 5, which shows how big a deal the latest version of its mobile operating system is.  However, there was a huge thing missing from that unveiling.  Siri.  Siri is the mobile assistant app Apple acquired almost a year ago.  Siri is really a mobile search engine. Or really, it’s what a mobile search engine would be like if we’d had the Internet on phones before computers.  You speak into it, you say something like, “Siri, I...

The iPhone 4 is finally here – but is it really worth the hype?

The new iPhone is here. If you managed to escape the news through US commercials (where it’s already launched), Facebook, your fanboy friends’ incessant rambling, the lineup update barrage on twitter this morning, or even the recent “antenna gate” crisis, then I’m telling you now.  It has arrived. As with the iPad and pretty much every Apple device before it, the Canadian release date has lagged behind the US. Today it finally landed in the Great White North and the regular lineups at the Apple stores, Best Buys, and the expected low grade hysteria as proud...

Facebook may be “Big Brother”, but I’m not too scared

Lately, there’s been a lot of talk in the news and on social networks about Facebook’s “evil” privacy policy.  Before you start worrying that Facebook is coming to take you down for your personal info – relax.  Take a deep breath.  Telling Facebook some things about yourself isn’t so bad. Once a novelty known as the place where “the kids” could “poke” ’til your hearts’ content, almost overnight, Facebook has now become the latest iteration of Big Brother.  And it’s not a difficult...

Promoted Tweets: Should Twitter be “playing Google”?

By now you’ve heard the big news – Twitter has (another) business model!!  It’s always slightly amused me how venture capital money can build companies that can bring the internet to a standstill with announcements like “hey everybody – we have a plan to maybe make some of that money back!”.   And when Twitter announced Promoted Tweets, that’s exactly what happened.  It caused everyday Twitterati to gossip, quip and chatter.  It caused brands to ask questions.  It caused agencies to create “official...