Reuters Agrees: The Next iPhone Will Be Larger
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The Wall Street Journal made waves yesterday. Citing unnamed sources, the Journal reported Apple is ordering larger touchscreens for the next iPhone. Now, citing its own unnamed sources, Reuters somewhat confirmed the reported. Prepare yourself, iPhone diehards. All signs point to a larger iPhone. The thought of a larger iPhone...
Still Smiling, Eduardo? Senators Schumer, Casey Want To Collect Your $67M In Facebook Taxes Anyway
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Another development in the ongoing story of how Eduardo Saverin has given up his U.S. citizenship to avoid paying $67 million in taxes related to Facebook’s IPO: the U.S. government doesn’t want him get away with it quite so fast. Today, Senators Charles Schumer and Bob Casey are expected to...
This is what native 4K home cinema looks like on Sony's VPL-VW1000ES projector
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Why are folks so keyed up about 4K? At first glance, that's the type of question that answers itself: by definition, a 4096-pixel wide image delivers around four times the resolution of 1920 x 1080, and that's a healthy multiple. It's actually of a broadly similar magnitude to the...
Moglue Makes It Dead Simple For Anyone To Create And Publish Interactive Ebooks
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Creating and publishing content-rich, interactive ebooks without programming skills or distribution power: that’s the problem New York- and Seoul-based startup Moglue is trying to solve. The TechCrunch Disrupt Beijing finalist offers two products: MoglueBuilder (a desktop app that makes it dead simple for authors and artists to create and publish interactive ebooks) and MoglueBooks (an ebook store...
Korea’s Treum helps companies cut through the noise and find value from social media data
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Social media platforms, along with the number of users, continue to grow at an incredible rate and the amount of updates, tweets and links that are sent all over the world each day is nothing short of staggering. An online social media presence has become the norm for any company,...
Google’s Penguin Update Makes The Wall Street Journal
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The Google Penguin Update is now mainstream after The Wall Street Journal covered it in a feature story named As Google Tweaks Searches, Some Get Lost in the Web. The story interviews a few small business owners who were hit hard by the update. One business owner saw his sales...
DirecTV to offer broadband to the boonies, teams up with ViaSat and Hughes Satellite providers
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Sure, living in the boonies may give you plenty of space to test out high-tech farming equipment, but at what cost? Rural homesteads just aren't suited for ye olde landline broadband and those fancy satellite setups cost a pretty penny. DirecTV understands, and has struck deals with ViaSat and...
Facebook Quietly Launches Pages Manager iOS App, But You Probably Can’t Use It Yet
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Carefully cultivating your Facebook presence can be tough enough when you only have your personal profile to deal with, but it’s a completely different story when you’ve got a full-blown Page (or three) to manage on top of it. To help those particular users stay on top of things, Facebook...
Samsung launches customer service app on Android as proof that it Cares
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Worried that Samsung is too busy selling millions of devices to care about you, the individual consumer? Fear not, for the company has released an app to prove its unconditional dedication to your happiness, and it's appropriately called Samsung Cares. The program serves as a hub for online support,...
From TC50 Winners To A $7.4M Round And A Home Depot Acquisition, Redbeacon Tells All
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I’ve been on a journey through the past as Disrupt NYC (tickets here) draws closer, sifting through past Disrupt and TC50 startups with the hopes of getting a clear update on the accomplishments, the trials, and the milestones between then and now. The stories have been amazing, but one of...
Facebook’s Prospects In Asia
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Editor’s note: Benjamin Joffe (@benjaminjoffe) is the CEO of the Asia-based digital research & strategy firm +8* (Plus Eight Star), a speaker in 100+ conferences including TEDx, SXSW, LeWeb and Stanford GSB. He is also a founding partner of Cmune (@cmune), the Beijing-based makers of Facebook’s largest first-person shooter UberStrike (@uberstrike),...
The Game of Thrones theme played on floppy drives is better than the original
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Not to take anything away from Game of Thrones composer Ramin Djawadi, but there’s just something about this rendition of the show’s theme on floppy drives that really tickles my fancy. The video was created by perennial floppy disk wrangler Anand Jin, who has a YouTube channel full of these...
Sparrow 1.6 for Mac adds POP support to create a ‘True’ Unified Inbox
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Sparrow has today launched version 1.6 of its Mac email client, finally providing support for POP email. With the addition of POP email, you can now include your Hotmail and other non-IMAP email accounts on Sparrow, bringing them in alongside your existing Gmail accounts to create a ‘True’ Unified Inbox. This...
Research: 44% of Facebook users will ‘never’ click sponsored ads
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Turns out GM might have been on to something. New research from marketing agency Greenlight shows 44 percent of Facebook’s users say that they will “never” click on sponsored posts or display ads on Facebook. General Motors caused a stir on Tuesday when it leaked that the company would...
Mind-operated robot arm helps paralyzed woman have her cup o' joe (video)
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Researchers at the Braingate2 consortium have made a breakthrough that allows people with spinal cord or stroke injuries to control robotic limbs with their minds. The original project allowed subjects with motor cortex-implanted chips to move cursors on a screen with their minds, but they can now command DEKA...
The Weather Channel launches redesigned iOS app, with new social, local and personal features
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The Weather Channel has rolled out a new version of its iOS app which sees a massive interface overhaul and a number of key new features introduced. Launched in the UK in July 2001, The Weather Channel constitutes a website and mobile app, and provides pretty comprehensive global weather information....
Buffer Acquires ShareFeed, Brings KISSmetrics CEO Hiten Shah On As Advisor
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Buffer, the little service for scheduling your social media updates, has some big news today: it’s acquiring competitor ShareFeed, and is bringing its CEO Hiten Shah on board as a mentor and advisor. ShareFeed was launched in 2009 as a side project from Shah’s company KISSmetrics, which is backed by...
The Weather Channel Beautifies And Socializes Its iPhone App
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In an effort to streamline its digital offerings, The Weather Channel has today announced that its popular iPhone app has undergone a major redesign. It started with the launch of the iPad app, and just a few weeks ago The Weather Channel followed suit on the web. But the iPhone...
Apple Censoring 'Jailbreak' in U.S. iTunes Store Listings
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Exploring an observation initially made by iOS hacker @planetbeing, Shoutpedia notes that Apple has mysteriously begun censoring the word "jailbreak" in the U.S. iTunes Store. While not all mentions of the word are affected, the vast majority of them across all content types are currently being censored to "j*******k". Apple...
US cybersecurity standards for critical infrastructure remain mired in politics
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If you recall, one of the points argued on behalf of the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) was that it was required, from a policy perspective, to keep the most important elements of the US’s infrastructure safe from those who might want to bring it down. However, in CISPA,...
The Facebook Stats Game: Brazil Has The Highest Active Reach; Bangkok Tops The List Of Cities
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Facebook says that it generated half of its revenues outside of the U.S. and Canada in the first quarter of 2012, and some numbers out today underscore just how extensive its reach is in different markets, with active usage in some countries outstripping that of Facebook in its home market. According...
iPad mini to debut during second half of 2012, claims report
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New iPad mini intel suggests the tablet will hit the market in the third or fourth quarter as Apple has lined up suppliers for the LCD panel. [Read more]...
Apple Takes Possession of iPhone5.com Domain
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Earlier this month, we noted that Apple had filed a claim with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) seeking to gain ownership of the iPhone5.com domain, which had hosted a small independent discussion forum for the past year and a half. The Next Web now reports that the case has...
The Pirate Bay returns, Anonymous hater takes credit for DDoS
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The Pirate Bay is back online. An Anonymous traitor who goes by the name AnonNyre has claimed responsibility for the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack that kept the site offline for days....
Anonymous takes down Indian government sites in response to clampdown on The Pirate Bay, Vimeo and others
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Anonymous have just successfully taken down their latest target, this time setting their sights on the Indian authorities, The DNetworks reports. One of the Anonymous Twitter accounts which has gained quite a following announced the attack earlier today: MT Operation #India: BREAKING: Tango Downs: supremecourtofindia.nic.in & aicc.org.in | Reason: Internet...
Anonymous takes down Indian government sites in response to clampdown on The Pirate Bay, Vimeo and others
Insert Coin: Troller 1D, the transforming robot that won't ruin your garden
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In Insert Coin, we look at an exciting new tech project that requires funding before it can hit production. If you'd like to pitch a project, please send us a tip with "Insert Coin" as the subject line. A crawling robot that, at the touch of a button, curls...
What's responsive Web design all about?
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The website for Washington's Sasquatch Music Festival responds automatically to the width of the browser's window. When you consider how many different tablets, laptops, Web browsers, and operating systems access the Internet on a day-to-day basis, it's a small miracle that Web designers and developers manage to stay sane....
Apple, on Siri complaints: Buy a different phone
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Some believe Siri is a driving force behind Apple’s record-breaking iPhone 4S sales, but not everyone is impressed with the Cupertino, California-based company’s virtual assistant. Apple’s TV ads depict Siri as an impressive, fast-acting feature that intelligently offers help or information in responds to a wide range of and...
