Apps Rush catch-up: 78 notable apps released in the last week
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Instapaper, Any.do, n0tice, BlindSquare, Cloudee, Top Gear, Euro 2012, Diamond Jubilee and moreDisconnecting for a week's holiday is tough, especially when part of your job is a daily roundup of new and interesting apps. While Apps Rush took a break last week (as well as Monday's bank holiday), the apps...
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Galaxy Note 10.1 video surfaces, confirms revamp rumors
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A video (embedded below) has surfaced showing the forthcoming Galaxy Tab 10.1 reboot. It appears to verify all of the key specification revisions that have been rumored following its original unveiling at Mobile World Congress in February. The revamped Galaxy Note 10.1 will also come in the troublesome pebble blue...
Booting Up: VCs Waxing Philosophic Edition
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Mr. Graham (flickr.com/pragdave) Startup soothsayer Paul Graham penned a letter to Y Combinator’s portfolio companies about withstanding the fallout from Facebook’s poorly-performing IPO. [Hacker News] Fred Wilson wants to put Mr. Graham’s musings in perspective. [A VC] Apple will yank Google Maps from iPhones later this year, which is just...
Facebook’s fate: Bulls vs. Bears
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Is Facebook entering a painful period of decline? Or, will it surge beyond its struggles? Here is the case for both. [cnnmoney-byline src="By Kevin Kelleher, contributor"] FORTUNE – It’s been more than two weeks since Facebook went public, and it’s getting harder to blame the 30% drop in its market...
Startup copycats: You’re doing it wrong.
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Yesterday I was having brunch with another Italian entrepreneur in San Francisco. He said he was thinking about going back to Italy to create startup copycats, that spurred an interesting conversation and I wanted to share my thoughts on it. I’m not going to debate on the morality of it,...
New ultra-thin glass unveiled
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A new type of ultra-thin, flexible glass which can 'wrap' around a device is unveiled....
NBC's Olympic Web Video Plan: Live, Legal and "Painful"
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Warren Little/Getty Images During the last summer Olympics, NBC wouldn’t show some of the most exciting events live on the Web, because it wanted to protect its ratings for its taped TV highlights. Four years later, the programmer has wised up, and will livestream every single event starting July...
Nokia Maps 2.0 for Windows Phone released, includes new sync favorites feature
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Nokia Maps version 2.0 is rolling out to Windows Phones today, alongside a beta Nokia Transport app. Nokia Maps 2.0 includes a new feature that syncs favorites from the online version of Nokia Maps to Nokia Maps on Windows Phone, and the mobile web version for iOS and Android...
World’s Oldest BitTorrent Site Shuts Down
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Founded in 2003, UK-based FileSoup was one of the original torrent sites. When the site started there was no Pirate Bay, no Torrentz, and isoHunt wasn’t searching .torrent files yet. FileSoup outlived many of the sites that sprung up around the time and developed an active and warm community. After...
SimCity Social finds a home on Facebook, destiny winks in approving fashion
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Given that "City" is in the name, SimCity has always felt like a title in need of a social platform. Fast forward a score or so since its inception, and fate seems to have finally played out. SimCity Social was just announced at E3 today, bringing the heralded city-building...
