Ford has teamed up with Google and is now using the Google Prediction API to optimize cars output. Ford believes that using the cloud can make their cars better by aggregating data, perform scaled computations and ultimately result in greater efficiency. “The Google Prediction API allows us to utilize information that an individual driver creates more »

Analyst IDC announced where they believe smartphones will be in 2014. This year, IDC predicts manufacturers will ship nearly 270 million smartphones (compared to just 173 million in 2009) which equates to a 55.5% increase. There’s no question the smartphone market is booming, where questions arise is IDC’s prediction of market share. IDC extended their more »

Back on June 23, when Verizon announced the Motorola Droid X, Google announced some important information as well. If you recall, Eric Schmidt said Google activates 160,000 Android smartphones daily and the Android Market now touts over 65,000 apps. By extrapolating data, AndroLib has good reason to believe the Android Market will reach the coveted more »

Whenever a hyped phone debuts in its first month, it is always interesting to see how well it does, compared to other hyped phones. As you can imagine, every number released by Palm and analysts would be compared to Apple. According to Ed Snyder, of Charter Equity Research, 300,000 Pres have been sold by Sprint more »

After reading that television sales were going to be huge this holiday season, DisplaySearch has made an astonishing prediction. DisplaySearch predicts that TV sales will drop by 4% in 2009. This figure is a decline in all television sales, LCD sales are predicted to increase by 2%. Call me crazy, but that seems to make more »

Dave Winer, who’s best known for his popularization of these things called weblogs (bio here), made a prediction today regarding Microsoft’s bid to acquire Yahoo!.