iPad purchase plans sluggish, AdMob survey finds

Only one in six iPhone owners surveyed by mobile ad network AdMob said that they “intend to purchase” an Apple iPad tablet computer. Among Android phone owners, the ratio dropped to one in seventeen.
The results, from an opt-in survey of 960 respondents that AdMob ran in January, strongly suggest that the iPad lacks the iPhone’s [...]

Samsung B7620 Giorgio Armani 2 to sport 800MHz processor

By meticulously sifting through all of the information available on the Bluetooth SIG website, it’s possible to learn about handsets before their existence has been announced by manufacturers. Once in a while however, the grunt work is done for us and someone will jump the gun by publishing some information before it’s ready to go. [...]

It’s Official (Kind Of): People Prefer the Kindle

The Catalyst Group, who ran a fairly unscientific study of Google v. Bing preferences, have run another fairly unscientific study of Kindle v. Sony Reader user preferences. The results? The Kindle won on all fronts, beating Sony’s aged ereader handily.

The Group asked 12 interviewees, six men and six women, what they thought of both devices. [...]

Y Combinator Endorses Bump Technologies In The Quest To Destroy The Business Card

Last summer, I wrote a lengthy rant against business cards, calling them “virtually useless as one of the last bits of information that we pass non-digitally”. Ten months later, I couldn’t agree with myself more. Just like the handshake, the business card is an annoying relic of the past. Each card I [...]