april 1st
Sony gets a Kaz-style kick to its corporate guts, emphasizes its oneness
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Kazuo Hirai doesn't officially grab the reins as Sony's CEO and President until April 1st, but in reality he's already at the stirrups. He's making a number of exec-level switches that he hopes will deliver "rapid and optimized decision-making processes as 'One Sony'." His strategy? An inner circle consisting...
iHome's iW2 AirPlay speaker to begin shipping this April, for $200
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It's been a while since we've heard about iHome's iW2 AirPlay speaker, but that all changed Wednesday, when the company announced that its wireless system will begin shipping on April 1st. Standing at a little under six inches tall, this setup is about 25 percent smaller than its predecessor,...
Sharp executive officer Takashi Okuda to take over as president next month
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In a move similar to the ones seen at fellow struggling Japanese electronics giants Sony and Panasonic, Sharp has announced a change at the top, swapping out president Mikio Katayama (kicked upstairs to the position of Director, Chairman) for current executive officer Takashi Okuda. The move will go into...
The Internet Has Killed April Fools’
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It’s hard to tell if the Wikipedia article on April Fools’ Day is itself an April Fools’ prank. Tidbits of the ubiquitous holiday’s history seem like jokes in and of themselves; “”In France and Italy, children and adults traditionally tack paper fish on each other’s back as a trick and shout...
YouTube founders quietly launch a Chinese fork of Delicious called Mei.fm
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Last weekend, word got out about Zeen, an upcoming magazine discovery and creation service developed by AVOS, the company formed by YouTube co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen. But that’s not the only service AVOS has quietly launched recently. Some time last week, their new site, Mei.fm, surfaced. Basically, it’s...
Hitwise: Facebook became the most visited site in Brazil over the weekend
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Facebook surpassed Google to become the most visited site by Internet users in Brazil over the weekend, Experian Hitwise reports. In total, Facebook topped the most popular destination ranking for five days this year, with a first occurrence on April 1st. This is an important milestone for the company, in...
Simple Tips To Make Miracles Happen In Your PPC Campaigns
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Last week, millions of Americans flocked to buy a Mega Millions lottery ticket or ten, each hoping for their own personal miracle. This strategy worked for all of three people. Yesterday, in their annual homage to the April 1st prankster’s holiday, Google announced the miracle of a new ad... Please...
Sony reorganizes into 'One Sony', prioritizes digital imaging, gaming, and mobile
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Sony is unveiling a new business structure today, dubbed "One Sony," which it hopes will speed up and streamline its decision making process. Under the new plan, the separate professional and consumer product and service groups will disappear, which is probably what gave rise to the aspirational name. The...
Mei.fm: Avos Forks Delicous to Suit Chinese Tastes
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Many of you might recall that Avos, the California-based internet company of YouTube co-founders Steve Chen and Chad Hurley, acquired social bookmarking service Delicious.com about a year ago. Skip to one year later, and the company has launched a fork of Delicious for the Chinese market. It’s called Mei.fm,...
A Brave New Push: Urban Airship Brings Location, Context Targeting To Mobile Notifications
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At the end of October, Urban Airship, the startup that gives developers a simple way to build in-app purchases and push notifications into their mobile apps, acquired SimpleGeo for a reported $3.5 million. At the time, it was unclear what Urban Airship would be doing with the terabyte-plus of SimpleGeo...
Anonymous revives LulzSec for new campaign of hacks and attacks
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With the arrest of its members and the revelation that its leader was an FBI informant, one might have thought that LulzSec would fade into history. Apparently not. A YouTube video posted at the weekend has announced that LulzSec will return. On April 1st the group will be back,...
Nook Audio pops up on Barnes & Noble's site, with no e-ink to speak of
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What the heck? Did Barnes & Noble score a deal with Dr. Dre? Is the whole reading thing just not doing it for the company anymore? Whatever the case may be, it seems that the Nook name is ready to branch out a bit from the e-reader space. After...
Interactive Game of Thrones content comes to HBO Go iPad app
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Home Box Office has been pushing its "interactive viewing experience" for Game of Thrones over at the HBO Go site, but if you weren't sitting in front of a computer there was no way to take part in the fantasy world fun. Now the premium channel is bringing the...
Nintendo 3DS outselling four Sony devices in Japan, now has 65 percent of the market
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The latest figures from Japan's Media Create are in, showing that last year's trend has been fully reversed. Now the consumers are hungry for Nintendo's 3DS, given that it shipped 121,921 units in the week ending April 1st. That put it comfortably ahead of the PlayStation 3 (23,771), PSP...
HBO GO teases vocal controls via Kinect, coming soon to Xbox 360 (video)
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We knew it'd be arriving on April 1st, but now we're actually longing for it. HBO has just released a half-minute teaser propping up the impending release of HBO GO on Xbox 360, and while it's available on a plethora of other platforms, being able to verbally command HBO...
Must See HDTV (March 26th - April 1st)
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Game of ThronesHBO's hottest new series is back with a new season, and there should be plenty of action in all forms coming along with it. Whether it's through betrayal, all out warfare or political intrigue everyone is making a grab for power in the land of Westeros and...
Sony, Toshiba, and Hitachi's Japan Display merger begins production
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Japan Display, the merger between Sony, Toshiba, and Hitachi's small and medium-sized touchscreen LCD manufacturing divisions, began operations on April 1st. The relationship between the three companies was announced in August last year, before being formalized in November. Each of the manufacturers has a 10 percent stake in the...
Sony tries to pivot back to premium, begins 'unilateral' pricing on consumer electronics
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Today at a small gathering of journalists, Sony COO Phil Molyneux shared plans for the company's new retail strategy, and it's a new but familiar direction for the company. Starting April 1st, the consumer electronics-maker will begin "unilateral" pricing, which will limit the absolute minimum a retailer can charge...
HBO Go, Comcast On Demand reportedly launching on Xbox Live tomorrow
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The Xbox should finally be receiving two much-anticipated video features tomorrow, according to a source at GigaOm. HBO Go and Comcast Xfinity On Demand apps are both reportedly slated to launch, which is exactly the right timing for the new season of HBO's Game of Thrones. HBO Go on...
Microsoft releases SQL Server 2012 to manufacturers
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Yes, we expected it to happen around this time, but the moment has arrived at last: SQL Server 2012 has been released to manufacturers. Microsoft has been working on SQL Server 2012, previously codenamed Denali, for so long that we’re almost sad to see it take wings and fly. We’ve...
Google is more popular than Apple, Facebook and Twitter, poll shows
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A joint survey conducted by ABC News and The Washington Post found that Google beat out Apple, Facebook and Twitter to win the title of most popular tech brand. The poll revealed that a whopping 82% of Americans have a favorable opinion of Google, with 53% expressing a “strongly” favorable...
Sony eliminates two divisions, restructures electronics unit
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In a effort to cut costs and improve its financial situation, Sony is eliminating two divisions at its main electronics unit, promoting three executives and keeping a close eye on its money-losing television unit, Bloomberg’s Businessweek reported on Tuesday. The Japanese company will shut down its consumer products and...
Jack White Releases Single... By Launching 1,000 Balloons With Flexi Discs Attached
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The tacocopter may be necessary if you want to take to the local skies to deliver a product to a specific location, but what if you just want to distribute a product semi-randomly? Famed musician Jack White -- who has quite a history of doing cool experiments with new business...
Chris Dixon, Jason Goldberg, Jeff Jordan and David Lawee Will Mix It Up At Disrupt New York
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Last week we announced some pretty impressive TechCrunch Disrupt New York veterans who will be back on the stage this year. Today we’re revealing more of our stellar lineup for May’s big event. Joining our all star cast will be co-founder of Founder Collective and CEO of recently acquired Hunch,...
Xbox Live update delivers Comcast’s VOD service, HBO Go and MLB.TV
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Microsoft has begun to roll out an update for its Xbox Live service that includes new on-demand content from Comcast, along with apps from HBO and MLB, GigaOM reported on Monday. The launch these services will give users the ability to search through a wide range of content directly...
iFixit delves inside refreshed 13-inch MacBook Air [Photos]
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iFixit is hardcore when it comes to breaking open our favorite electronics to see what’s inside, and the website did it again today with the refreshed MacBook Air that unveiled at the Worldwide Developers Conference yesterday. The updated 13-inch MacBook Air, equipped with USB 3.0 and MagSafe 2, sports a few new...
Five decades of NASA 'Blue Marble' photography in 16 images
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NASA's recently released "Blue Marble" images managed to capture our collective imaginations (the first image of the Western hemisphere has been viewed more than 3.8 million times on Flickr), but they're even more impressive when you compare them to past attempts to photograph the Earth. Information Week has gone...
Sony Pictures CEO rumored to be appointed head of SCA, will oversee entire US entertainment operation
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The Financial Times is reporting that a pending executive shake-up at Sony will name Michael Lynton, current Sony Pictures Entertainment chairman and CEO, as chief executive of Sony Corporation of America. The move would put Lynton in charge of not only the company's movie studio, but also its record...
Sony Pictures CEO rumored to be appointed head of SCA, will oversee entire US entertainment operation
HBO Go and MAX Go now available on Cablevision
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Back in December Cablevision promised its customers that the HBO Go app would be available to its customers "in the next few months." March definitely qualifies and Verge reader tomance wrote in to let us know it's now live with a simple click of the "Optimum" option as you...
Personal Info Scrubber SafeShepherd Finds its Flock, Doubles its Userbase In a Month
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The Valley loves a tale of a breakout success that finds a million users on launch day, but such things are usually the exception. While it’s great to celebrate these wins, it’s equally (or perhaps even more) important to study the companies that launch to moderate success but then...
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