Archive for April, 2011

On March 29, 2011, CIO Australia published an interview with Andy Lark, Dell‘s global head of marketing for large enterprises. In the interview, Lark made a lot of “quotable” statements, among them: “An iPad with a keyboard, a mouse and a case [means] you’ll be at $1500 or $1600; that’s double of what you’re paying,” he claimed. “That’s not feasible.” Let’s [...]

In late 2009, LinkedIn opened up its API to allow select developers make applications that tap into LinkedIn’s social network. The professional social network released nearly a dozen APIs which gave third-party developers the ability to access user profile information, message LinkedIn contacts, search LinkedIn and more. Over 1,000 developers tested the platform, which has served one billion page [...]

You can’t really tell how slim the Seagate GoFlex Slim drive really is until you see it next something like a paperback book or another drive. This wee drive is .354 inches (9mm) thick and about four inches long – about the size of a larger cellphone – and it includes a removable port adapter for USB 2.0/3.0 compatibility and an internal 320GB hard drive running at 7500RPM. Read more… [...]

Rewards management platform UsingMiles has raised $2.7 million in new funding led by iSherpa Capital with strategic investors participating in the round. The company is also announcing that eBags.com founder Jon Nordmark is joining the startup as CEO. UsingMiles, which graduated from TechStars, makes it easy for frequent flyers to aggregate and manage all of their loyalty programs in one place, including [...]

The plot, as they say, thickens. Apple has removed most visual references to the white iPhone on its US and international sites in a surprisingly wholesale manner, a move that points to more trouble with white iPhone availability world-wide. Obviously this is all Kremlinology, but as Apple Rumors.it points out, Apple removed all references to the white iPhone in a daring, early morning Apple store [...]

Last week, we wrote about Microsoft‘s chief marketer Mich Mathews stepping down from the software company. Today, we’re writing about her replacement, as Chris Capossela was just appointed senior vice president of Microsoft’s Consumer Channels and Central Marketing Group. The Consumer Channels unit is new and unifies the software giant’s Retail, Mobile Operator and Distribution [...]

We’ve written about startup Pixable previously because of its sleek web photo creation and categorization tools. Earlier this year, the startup launched Photofeed, a Facebook app and companion iPad app which will sort and categorize your friends’ Facebook photos. Today, Pixable is bringing Photofeed to the iPhone, and adding Flickr and Instagram to the mix. Founded by 3 MIT graduate students, [...]

According to Pacific Crest analyst James Faucette, quoted in Forbes, sales of the Motorola Atrix and Xoom devices, darlings of the CES rodeo, have been “disappointing.” Ironically, the very devices designed to bring Motorola out of its 2010 slump have added to its doldrums and Faucette believes that the company must “quickly adjust and refresh its product portfolio” in order to remain [...]

Social media dashboard company HootSuite this morning announced that it has acquired an add-on for the Firefox 4 browser called TwitterBar, which has been downloaded nearly 2 million times to date and enables users to post to a variety of social networks straight from the web address bar. HootSuite has renamed the add-on HootBar. In two years, HootSuite says it has grown to over 1.5 million users [...]

Xiu.com, a Chinese luxury and fashion ecommerce website, this morning announced that it has raised $20 million from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB), confirming a report published last week by the Wall Street Journal. It’s the shopping website operator’s first round of VC funding. In a statement, Xiu.com founder George (Wenhong) Ji unsubtly points out where the inspiration for [...]