Author Archives: Tomer Tishgarten
Finding iOS4 experience a bit ho-hum but excited about FaceTime
ShareI recently upgraded my iPhone 3GS to the new iOS4. And after using it for the past 24 hours, I’ve found that it changed only a few things. Sorry Steve Jobs — it isn’t revolutionary! The primary change that I immediately liked is the folders or application organization capability but even that is limiting. The [...]
Media, Not Technology or iPad, Will Kill Flash
ShareThe demise or death of Flash has been escalating ever since Steve Jobs showed off the new iPad and explained that Flash support is not planned for the device. Instead, Apple chose to go with HTML5. This sparked a debate battle between Flash and HTML5. From a technology point of view, Flash is behind the [...]
Yahoo to be eclipsed by Bing Search in 2010
ShareComscore released the January 2010 rankings for search engines in the U.S. last week (source). In the release comScore indicated that Google lost 0.3% share of core search in the US in January 2010 (see below). This is the first indication that Google may be struggling to pick up additional market share from rivals, but [...]
Goggle Buzz fails to make gmail social
ShareGoogle made headlines today with their first foray into social activity streaming (source). The new feature is basically like a Twitter tweet or a Facebook wall post embedded into gmail (Google’s email service).
To test it out, I tried it both on my desktop and my mobile device (the iPhone). I posted a quick status update [...]
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