MediaPost reports that Apple’s next next big thing, after iPads invade the world next weekend, will be iAd, a mobile advertising platform to be debuted April 7. Coffee dates and patent suits aside , this could be the true Apple-Google battleground.
Even as the buzz builds toward the April 3rd ship date of the iPad, Apple is preparing to announce its “next big thing” — a new personalized, mobile advertising system that could well be called the “iAd” — Online Media Daily has learned.
Apple’s iPhone App Store is still crushing its peers, especially in the number of applications available to consumers. Mobile apps have been around for years, but Apple was the first to make them popular with normal people. Now everyone else in the …
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Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
Platform shifts Mainframe to Mini to PC to Mobile. Why leaders fail to make the shift — Platform shifts happen every decade or so in computing. The leaders of the previous generation are rarely successful in dominating the next generation platform. IBM dominated the mainframe business.
AWS Evangelist / Amazon Web Services Blog:
Kindle: more than an e-book reader, it’s a development platform — Last month we announced the forthcoming release of the Kindle Development Kit, a suite of programming interfaces, tools, and documentation that allows you to build active content that you can promote in the Kindle Store.
