My grandma has a high score she wants to talk about. She wants to tell me about this app called Angry Birds. Yeah, that's awesome, grandma. It's so great we're connecting over this technology, I just wish we weren't connecting in the past.
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"Romotive builds accessible, highly functional, and flexible robotics platforms that are powered by a supercomputer already carried by millions–the smartphone.
Our robotics platform adds everything that the smartphone is missing–movement, accessories, and physical capabilities that a true robot needs."
"Compared with the same week in 2010, year-to-date overall albums are up 3%, albums with Track Equivalents (TEA) are up 5%, digital albums are up 20%, and tracks are up 11%, and when you dig in to the numbers, there is a strong gain in both catalog and deep catalog titles underpinning the current sales - something I think you see reflected in this week’s top releases.” he warns.
"Americans are divided on the protestors themselves. Thirty-three percent (33%) have a favorable opinion, 27% hold an unfavorable view, and a plurality of 40% have no opinion one way or the other. Fifty percent (50%) of Democrats have a favorable opinion while a plurality of Republicans (43%) say the opposite. Among those not affiliated with either major party, a solid plurality (45%) have no opinion. Most unaffiliateds are not following the story." via Slate
"NPD Group says that 21 cents out of every dollar kids spend on entertainment goes to “digital format content.” That’s up from 2009, when 85 cents went to physical goods and 15 cents went to digital stuff. Note that when NPD says “kids,” NPD really does mean kids. It’s talking about children ages two to 14, and it says 50 percent of kids have bought some digital media by the age of seven." Wow, just wow.
Amazon's latest tablet offering, Fire, is part of an impressive lineup that attacks the lower end of the tablet market.
What's really impressive, if it works as well as they say, is the web browser that only ships with the Fire Tablet. Silk leverages Amazon's cloud computing infrastructure and some fancy algorithms to cache (or pre-load) content that you regularly view.
The end result should be a significantly faster, more enjoyable internet on a tablet experience. Watch the video!
If AOL can't retain the TechCrunch team, can't maintain its voice and swagger, then TechCrunch will cease to be relevant and the audience will move on. Most likely to a new media property which most likely will be started by some number of ex TechCrunch employees. That's how it goes in media these days. Big companies don't control media assets as strongly as they used to. It doesn't cost much to publish news these days once you know what the news is. See Dan Frommer's Splatf for a great example of what can be done by one person working part time.
