Mobile app downloads may be ranging in the tens of billions and apps may be the hot new topic but the Internet seems to be fighting back and regaining lost territory.
According to a study done be Nielson that tracked 5,000 metered smartphones, the top five retailers in the US, Amazon, Best Buy, eBay, Target and Walmart all found that in as much as there was a lot of app usage during the holidays, mobile Internet also peaked during the same period.
The study found that mobile users preferred …

Today, TED, the organization behind the inspiring and world-changing TED Talks has officially launched its TED Ed YouTube channel featuring 12 videos. TED Ed is an initiative dubbed “Lessons Worth Sharing” that seeks to transfer the same phenomenal success that the TED Talks have had so far to the educational arm of the organization.
The initiative will see lessons ranging from symbiosis to aliens to aviation compressed into ten or less minute/s animated clips. The lessons …

The Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced that owners who managed to grab its USB microcomputer before supplies depleted can now download and install a recommended Linux distribution.
The Raspberry Pi Fedora Remix is a distribution from software packages of the Fedora ARM project, with a “small number” of extra packs modified from Fedora versions that Fedora could not include due to licensing problems.
“There are over 16,000 software packages available from the Fedora ARM …

American scientists have invented a prototype optical chipset with data transfer speeds of up to one Terabit per second (1Tbit/s).
The US-based IBM scientists disclosed information on their research re the chipset dubbed as the “Holey Optochip”, which now is the first parallel optical transceiver to cross the one trillion bits per second mark of information transfer equivalent to 500 HD movies.
Talking to audiences at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference in Los Angeles on …

Microsoft has announced the release of its Robotics Developer Studio 4 (RDS) to give developers more options in creating apps for the company’s Kinect motion sensor array.
The Redmond-based software firm has long considered delivering Kinect array for several applications other than its Xbox gaming console, and Microsoft has eagerly urged users to use Kinect homemade DIY projects.
Microsoft has now decided to release RDS 4 after five months in beta stage for developers to start creating …

File-storage rock star start-up Dropbox has unveiled today new features for its web-based platform. The company has been on a tearing run over the past two years and the growth does not seem to be halting. In fact, in a recent study done, the company ranked as the most highly funded tech company in 2011, far out-stripping companies such as Facebook and Groupon. The new features are actually a much easier UI and the user experience becomes simplified.
User Interface
The first thing you …

Asia is currently seeing significant investors into Asia-oriented investment funds pulling out of the market. The investors, who are typically fund of funds, tend to pool money from investors and then allocate that money to smaller investment funds or start-up funds, as they are commonly known.
But with the majority of fund of funds moving towards consolidation, the smaller start-up funds are finding themselves out of cash. Statistics from Singapore based Eurekahedge Pte. show that of about …

Cameras have been around for a long while now and apart from the number of pixels it can deliver, there has not been much to write hoe about, that is, until now. The game-changing Lytro camera has simply turned photography upside down buy creating photographic capabilities never before thought possible using a simple single unit.
Light Field photography, what was used to create the famous Matrix scene where Neo dodges bullets in a slow motion, muti-angle scene, waspreviously only possible using …

LG has turned a blind eye to Windows Phone and the company is not making any excuses for it. In an interview at the ongoing , LG’s smartphone unit leader Ramchan Woo said that sales of its Microsoft-powered handsets had been “slower-than-hoped-for.” This meant that whereas the company is still developing Windows Phones, it currently has no release dates to reveal.
This telling statement serves as a chilling harbinger for the yet-to-go-mainstream Microsoft Operating System. …

Apple has acquired app discovery company Chomp. The company has been in existence since 2009 and provides users with a search engine that discovers apps based on themes and uses rather than only the name.
The service has especially become useful now with over 500,000 apps in the iPhone app store, hundreds of thousands of songs in iTunes and similarly significant numbers of apps for Android.
The service currently offers users of both Android operating system and iOS and options to search for …