All Things Digital is reporting that Apple has bought mobile advertising platform company Quattro Wireless for $275 million. Why is Apple buying a mobile advertising company? Here are four possibilities: Free ad-supported iPhones – Steve Jobs recently applied for a patent for an ad-supported operating system. Combine that with the purchase of a mobile advertising […]

Here is a lookback at social media in 2009, in cartoons GIF versions and lots more social media cartoons at Rob Cottingham’s site. via RRW

Corporate social media use grew 14% in 2009, according to The Center for Marketing Research at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Their latest study compares adoption of social media over three years (2007, 2008 and 2009) by the Inc. 500. Highlights of the report: Social networking continues to lead the way. The technology that continues […]

Radio industry news blog Radio Survivor is calling podcasting one of the most important radio trends of the last ten years: It’s fair to say that the emergence of podcasting revitalized online radio, and even audio programs in general In the same way that TiVo and PVRs breathed new life into television, podcasting suddenly gave […]

Infoworld has published an article arguing that Apple’s rumored iPad will fail big time. According to Infoworld, “to believe that Apple can somehow succeed where all others have failed is to ignore some fundamental realities of tablet computing.” Infoworld sums up the prospects for the rumored iTablet, saying “Unless Apple pulls something truly revolutionary out […]

NewTeeVee reports that there’s now porn on the Roku Internet video system: A new channel popped up on Roku yesterday called EroticVision.TV that makes adult content available on the broadband set-top box for the first time. But the new “adult entertainment” channel hasn’t actually been approved by Roku, and it operates in a kind of […]

Royal Pingdom has taken a look at social network site use by gender, and found that social network site use is dominated by women: Highlights of their research: 84% (16 out of 19) of the sites have more female than male users. The social news sites Digg, Reddit and Slashdot have significantly more male users […]

Amazon today announced two new enhancements to the latest generation Kindle—85 percent more battery life and a native PDF reader. The 6-inch Kindle now has a built-in native PDF reader. This will let users read documents in  PDF format without conversion. To read PDFs, users can email PDFs to their Kindle email address or move […]

The decline of traditional newspapers isn’t as bad as it looks – it’s worse. According to an Associated Press story, newspapers are loosing subscribers at a staggering rate, but you wouldn’t know it from their circulation figures because they’ve changed the way they count circulation: Since April 1, new auditing rules have made it easier […]

ReadWriteWeb has posted a surprisingly pessimistic look at recent stats on how many people in the US are willing to pay for access to online news: 80% of US Consumers Won’t Pay For Online News. They cite two sources on this: According to a new Forrester Survey, 80% say they wouldn’t bother to access newspaper […]