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Retina MacBook Pro: maximizing battery life with gfxCardStatus
arstechnica.com
Enlarge / gfxCardStatus puts control of Apple's graphics switching in the hands of the user, making it possible to maximize battery life when needed. Chris Foresman The Retina MacBook Pro eschews spinning mechanical drives—both optical and magnetic varieties—for solid state flash and tons of extra battery. Despite the larger...
$50 iStack Mac Bundle ends today, includes SnagIt, Disk Drill Pro, Parallels, Paint Supreme, more
9to5mac.com
From 9to5Toys.com: The iStack Mac Bundle from StackSocial includes over $730 worth of goods for just $49.99. That’s over a 93% savings off MSRP…and it ends tonight! What do they have on offer? Awesome anchor app in Parallels Desktop 7 A $299 iOS App Development video tutorial for the first...
Google acquires Wildfire, the Facebook-focused marketing startup
venturebeat.com
Wildfire, the social media marketing startup that’s making huge strides in online marketing — Facebook marketing in particular — has just been snapped up by Google. Nice work, Google! Picking up one of the main marketing channels to a major competitor right as that competitor’s marketing effectiveness is coming...
No API For You: Twitter Shuts Off "Find Friends" Feature For Instagram
techcrunch.com
Instagram has just announced 80 million users and a new app update; Noticeably missing in the update? The “Find Your Friends” on Twitter feature, which allowed users to follow the same people they follow on Twitter on Instagram. The “Tweet Photo” feature is still available. We’ve learned that the feature is...
2/3 of Apple's iOS App Store populated by 'zombie' apps, estimate finds
www.appleinsider.com
Most of the applications on Apple's iOS App Store are un-downloaded, unranked, and largely invisible software options....
Don't Call It A News Reader: Trapit Launches Content Browsing App For The iPad
techcrunch.com
When you write about different news apps and aggregators, the pitches can start to run together — “We do real personalization, we find content beyond the articles in your social feed, etc. etc.” Now, many of those claims may be true, but often I’m left wondering if all the touted...
Apple's Brilliant Boondoggle: MacBook Pro Retina Display
www.readwriteweb.com
Only Apple could get away with charging a $400 premium for a feature that no one needs, few people will notice, doesn't work with most apps, and was not on anyone's wish list until the company announced it last month. Apple's ultra high-resolution Retina display may be a valuable innovation...
Verizon to stop blocking tethering apps, settles with FCC for $1.25
www.engadget.com
In May of last year, our free ride came to an end. US carriers started blocking third party tethering apps in the Android Market. Not long after, the built in feature was turned off on many phones. Our fortune may be reversing, however. The FCC has ruled that Verizon...
Rovio Hopes Amazing Alex Will Catapult It Past Angry Birds Into Its $9bn IPO
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Angry-bird maker Rovio has shown that is more than a one-trick pony with the release today of Amazing Alex, a physics game that perhaps draws on the original trajectory physics of those annoyed Birds. This time, the game game centers around whiz kid Alex and his creations, where players set...
Take That, Yahoo Fantasy Football: NFL Adds Google+ Hangouts To Its Fantasy Football Site
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Google announced today a pretty major deal with the NFL which will help it to virally grow adoption of Google+ Hangouts – the live chat feature on its social networking efforts known as Google+. With a full rollout coming later this month, NFL.com will soon be offering one-click access to...
Office 2013 drops support for Windows XP and Windows Vista
www.theverge.com
Microsoft is introducing the Consumer Preview version of its Office 2013 suite today, but the latest software will only work on Windows 7 and Windows 8 PCs. The software maker has decided to drop support for its Windows XP and Windows Vista customers. Office 2010, released in June 2010,...
Research In Motion announces US$100M investment to grow developer community for BlackBerry platform
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Alec Saunders, VP Developer Relations at RIM Research in Motion engages developers at BlackBerry 10 Jam in Singapore to talk about developing for the BlackBerry 10 platform that will be released first quarter of 2013. Research In Motion (RIM) held their BlackBerry 10 Jam conference in Singapore on 9th July...
Microsoft advises users to disable Windows Gadgets following security vulnerability fears
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Microsoft is urging Windows Vista and Windows 7 users to disable the Sidebar and Gadget features of the operating systems. Desktop Gadgets, originally introduced in Windows Vista, are mini-apps based on HTML that obtain information from web feeds. Microsoft removed the Sidebar part of its Gadgets implementation in Windows...
D-Link Cloud Router 5700 marks the outfit's first foray into 802.11ac WiFi, now shipping for $190
www.engadget.com
D-Link has fulfilled its promise to support the newfangled 802.11ac wireless standard. The company has pulled the curtain back on its first router that's compatible with the aforementioned tech in the Cloud Router 5700. Boasting performance of up to 1,750Mbps (that's 1,300 ac + 450 n), the kit implements...
Brits say text beats talk - but data is going crazy
gigaom.com
We’ve all known for a while that mobile phones have become a lot more than just mobile phones: they’re computers, messaging devices, cameras, emailers, clocks, gaming handsets and more. But what was anecdotal is now official. A new study by Ofcom, the UK’s media regulator, shows that for the first...
AT&T officially releases Watson speech API, gives devs a bit of babel fish for their apps
www.engadget.com
Ma Bell's been hard at work on its Watson speech recognition system for years, and 2012 has seen the tech show up in an automobile and a real-time translator app. Months after announcing it would grant Watson's skills to the developer masses, AT&T has made good on its promise...
Apple Begins Accepting OS X Mountain Lion Apps for Mac App Store
www.macrumors.com
Following the release of the Golden Master version of OS X Mountain Lion, Apple has begun accepting Mountain Lion apps into the Mac App Store. From an email that Apple sent to registered developers:Make sure your apps take advantage of the great new features in OS X Mountain Lion...
Announcing Amazon GameCircle - A New Gaming Experience for Kindle Fire
www.amazonappstoredev.com
Announcing Amazon GameCircle, a new set of services designed to make it easier for you to create more engaging gaming experiences and grow your business on Kindle Fire. GameCircle will make achievements, leaderboards and sync APIs accessible, simple and quick for you to integrate, and will give...
Skype begins rolling out update for bug that unintentionally shared instant messaging conversations
thenextweb.com
Staying true to its word, Skype has begun rolling out a hotfix for affected versions of its software that unintentionally shared instant messages with other contacts on a user’s friend list. The update addresses more than just this one issue but the company says that the affected clients were Skype 5.10 for Windows, Skype...
Metroon for iOS theme brings Windows 8 interface to the iPhone (hands-on video)
www.theverge.com
If you're eagerly awaiting Microsoft's Windows 8 Metro interface, due in late October, then you might be interested in obtaining it a little earlier for an iPhone or iPod Touch. Metroon, a Dreamboard theme for jailbroken iOS devices, does just that — providing a near-perfect replica of Microsoft's Metro...
eBay Windows 8 Metro style app now available in the Windows Store
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Microsoft's app store for Windows 8 has been on a slow and steady push towards 400 apps recently, despite the fact app publishing is still reserved for a small number of developers right now. After being previewed at a Microsoft eventback in December, McAkins online notes that eBay has...
GoodData Raises $25 Million To Extend Cloud Based Business Intelligence Platform
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GoodData has raised $25 million to continue developing its cloud-based business intelligence technology. The funding brings GoodData’s total funding to $55 million. Founder and CEO Roman Stanek said the investment came from existing investors Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst Partners and Fidelity Growth Partners. Windcrest Partners is also contributing to the round....
Virgin Mobile USA opening flagship Chicago store, selling 'culture' on top of phones
www.engadget.com
Virgin Mobile USA is adding actual bricks and mortar to its primary selling channels -- the internet and box stores -- but said that a new flagship Chicago store will not just be about the phones. The location has been set up like a casual, music-themed lounge, where customers...
More malware found hosted in Google's official Android market
arstechnica.com
Symantec Security researchers have found more malware hosted in Google's official Android market, a discovery that once again demonstrates the limitations of a recently deployed scanning service designed to flag malicious apps before they can be downloaded by end users. Android.Dropdialer, a trojan that racks up costly charges from...
Signs Of The Semantic Web Surface In Salesforce.com Radian 6
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The Semantic Web’s promise is about developing common frameworks that allows data to be shared and reused across applications and platforms. At its heart comes the understanding that applications are loosely coupled. The apps connect with APIs that form a sort of glue. The data moves between these apps, which is...
Evernote Wants To Be The Automatic, Trusted Place To Store Your Life [Interview]
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Evernote, the multi-platform app that lets you capture notes, audio and images when you are on the go, and then access those mementos wherever you want to next, has carved out a position as one of the more consistently useful services out there for smartphone consumers. The growing number of...
Gogobot Launches Its Redesigned iPhone Travel App, Hits 2M Registered Users
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Social travel site Gogobot has been on a roll lately. Just two months ago, the company announced that it had passed 1 million registered users. Today, Gogobot announced that it now has more than 2 million users, up 100% in the past 60 days. Currently a new users signs up...
Perfectly Clear for Android makes your pictures look right
reviews.cnet.com
One of the best autocorrection apps for iOS comes to Android with new tools, a new interface, and faster performance. [Read more]...
Microsoft Hits Back at Google
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Microsoft has publicly dismissed Web-based Google Apps as a competitor. But, behind the scenes, Microsoft is stepping up its efforts to halt Google's encroachment on its business-software turf....
This Little $99 Box Could Be The Thing That Crushes The Xbox
www.businessinsider.com
Apple, Google and Microsoft are all gunning to take control of the living room. But now there's a new startup called OUYA that could give all three of them a run for their money. OUYA is a $99 Android-powered box that's open to any developer for hacking. That means you can...
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