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This Is Why Mobile Wins: iPad Mini is 151x Faster than Hotel Wifi

I'm at a Sheraton hotel in downtown NYC. The iPad Mini's LTE cellular data speed is a blazing fast 39.24 megabits per second. Compare that to the slow-as-molassas 0.26 mbps of the hotel wifi that my laptop is connected to. That means the iPad Mini is one hundred

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Apple helps Microsoft: iOS 7 flatters Windows Phone 8

I've always considered Microsoft's WindowsPhone a darkhorse competitor to iOS & Android. Microsoft has boatloads of cash but has never been able to get a meaningful market share in mobile against iOS & Android. But when I saw the new iOS 7 screenshots on Matt Gemmell's blog, the first thing

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Ping... Pong

As my co-founder Isaac recently pointed out, "Even Apple has its failures" and one of those is Ping, the music social network Apple is pulling as of September 30th. (If you haven't heard of, or never used, Ping, that's probably part of the reason why). Apple is a tremendous company

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Mobile is not the 2nd Screen. It's the Brains.

Apple's new iPhone 5 looks stunning. But the most significant thing about it isn't the new form factor, or the sweet Panorama picture taking capabilities, or the turn-by-turn maps functionality, or any of the new jazzy features. The most significant thing about the iPhone is its fast LTE speed, which

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Uber: Me and my Driver... ish.

I needed to get from our office at 153 Townsend St over to Kicklabs at 181 Fremont St. In the elevator on the way down, some colleagues suggested I try Uber. I'd ridden in their pedicabs at SXSW and figured, why not, so I installed the Uber iPhone app and

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Live Streaming from the iPhone

Here's something that I'm pretty sure will completely transform the real estate industry, along with many others: A newly approved iPhone application that allows for live streaming from the iPhone. You can get the application from iTunes. uStream Will Change the Real Estate Industry