The transition to mobile technology has moved faster than most predicted, with more than half of US adults now having web access through a smartphone or tablet. This advance is going to have major implications for how news content is consumed and paid for. Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism and the Economist have observed that 22% of US [...]
Sales of PCs, which includes notebooks, netbooks, and desktops are on the decline for the first time since 2001. This is a landmark moment and a harbinger of the future age of mobile. While sales of tablets and smartphones will increase rapidly, sales of PCs will stay the same or decline. Pew Research says: Half [...]
Over here at NatMobi, we’re nuts for coconuts, literally. Our office stocks three different types of coconut water on a good day and sometimes, that’s still not enough. Downstairs from our building is a juice bar, and after much negotiation, we were able to secure a great rate on real coconuts! You can see the [...]
NatMobi turns 1 year old today. NatMobi has had a great first year, bringing many of our ideas to fruition, relocating to New York City, developing new products, and meeting great people. It has been a wild ride and I can honestly say that I enjoy every single day that I work on NatMobi, which [...]
If you can look past the drama caused by the original version of this image released by Neilson (which made it appear as if Windows Mobile and RIM had a much higher US market share), you can see that there is a big battle raging between Apple and Android. With a combined 51% of [...]
TechCrunch Disrupt Photos 2012 NYC UPDATE: If you are looking for day 2/3 Photos they will be up by Monday… Check the slideshow for more pictures from TechCrunch Disrupt 2012 in NYC. The pictures below are from the hackathon one Saturday and the awards on Sunday afternoon here in New York City. The TechCrunch [...]
Everything will always take a lot longer than you think. For example, the last two days we spent shooting a video. I honestly though the thing would take a few hours, but the director of the video told me, you should block off two days. Boy was he right about that. I put in a [...]
Amara’s Law is stated as: This quote applies to text messages because some people think that text messages have already had their heyday and that they are on the decline. What they don’t realize is that text messaging is still increasing. While the growth rate of person-to-person text messaging is has slowed down a little, [...]
This past weekend, NatMobi sponsored an event called 3 Day Startup, where college students get together and try to launch a startup in 3 days. It was interesting to be an observer and watch the process by which brainstorming and random ideas played out into results over only 60 hours. On Friday I was a [...]
