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Nokia dominates global Internet usage in mobile devices, but Apple is king in the US, UK
thenextweb.com
According to a report by Web analytics firm StatCounter, global Internet use of mobile devices has nearly doubled over the past year, and has done so since 2009. The report, which excludes tablets, and found that the total percentage of worldwide browsing on devices like mobile phones has grown from 4.3% to 8.5% since...
Google to switch on 'semantic search' within months, emphasize things as well as words
www.engadget.com
A search engine should be about more than just keywords. MC Hammer believes that passionately and Google must do too, because over the next few months and years it'll gradually adjust its own algorithms to put greater emphasis on "semantic search". Under this system, search queries are run through...
Apple tops J.D Power smartphone customer satisfaction rankings for the seventh time in a row
thenextweb.com
For the seventh time in a row, Apple has topped the J.D Power Smartphone Customer Satisfaction Study, beating HTC and Samsung into first place, as consumers increasingly warm to its ease of operation and features. Polling 7,080 smartphone owners, J.D Power’s rankings showed that Apple scored 839 points from a 1,000-point...
Sense Networks makes location-based advertising relevant
gigaom.com
While mobile advertising is still not the big money maker that online advertising is, the hope is that location-based targeting will make mobile ads more lucrative for publishers and more efficient for advertisers. But so far, many location-based ads aren’t that sophisticated, targeting users based on their general distance to...
Flickr outs new Uploadr feature for image uploads: HTML5-based, drag-and-drop UI
www.engadget.com
If you'll recall, it was only a few weeks ago when Flickr announced Aviary was replacing the vanished Picnik as the main photo-editing tool on the site. Now, continuing its ongoing makeover, the Yahoo-owned image hosting service is introducing yet another feature. Uploadr, as it's very cleverly dubbed, is...
Pew: 8% Of U.S. Online Adults Now Use Twitter Daily
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According to the latest data from the Pew Internet & American Life project, 15% of online adults in the U.S. now say that they have used Twitter in the past and 8% told Pew that they do so on a typical day. Overall Twitter usage has actually remained pretty stable...
Google Just Got A Whole Lot Smarter, Launches Its Knowledge Graph
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Today, Google is launching one of its most ambitious and interesting updates to its search engine in recent months. Starting in a few days, you will start to see large panels with additional factual information about the topic you were searching for take over the right side of Google’s search...
Make An iPhone, Android App Without Knowing A Line Of Code
www.fastcompany.com
JamPot's new AppBuilder asks a series of questions and spits out a genuine, though limited function, app. It could blow the market wide open. With JamPot's AppBuilder, you can build a genuine iPhone or Android app in mere minutes for free--according to the company's own website. The young company, savvy...
Can You Patent How You Cut Your Meat?
www.techdirt.com
How long will it be until your entire dinner is covered by patents? A few months ago, we covered the unfortunate rise of vegetable patents, and now we need to worry about how we cut our meat as well? Kaden alerts us to a report about how some "meat processing...
Implementing Pagination Attributes Correctly For Google
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Google’s latest blog post provides details and a video from Maile Ohye about how they handle the pagination attributes within a page’s source code. You can use these attributes to indicate pages in a series (such as a multi-page article or set of product listings), which enables Google... Please visit Search...
Google launches Knowledge Graph today, wants to understand real things (video)
www.engadget.com
Americans and Brits might chuckle at their respective understandings of words like chips, pants and biscuits -- a search engine, however, can't be quite so discerning. As it turns out, Google actually thinks it can, and has been working on its Knowledge Graph project to prove it. Beginning today,...
MapsTD adds tower defense to Google Maps
www.theverge.com
Remember the 8-bit version of Maps that Google "announced" for the NES this weekend? April Fools' Day is over, but Duncan Barclay's MapsTD has put it to use by adding a simple tower defense mechanism that can be played anywhere on (or even outside) Earth. After you enter a...
500% growth? $10M in new cash? Steve Jobs-trained CEO? Magnetic has it all
venturebeat.com
Single-year revenue growth of over 500 percent is going to bring any company good things. In online marketing firm Magnetic’s case, it’s brought a new series of funding totalling $10 million. Magnetic is a leader in the search retargeting industry, an industry that allows advertisers to aggregate audiences and market to them based...
Analytics Startup Mixpanel Is Tracking 4 Billion Actions Each Month — And It’s Cash-Flow Positive
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Mixpanel, the analytics startup backed by Sequoia Capital, hasn’t yet succeeded in its goal of unseating established analytics services like Omniture — but momentum is building. Let’s start with the biggest number that co-founder Suhail Doshi shared with me this week. He says the company is now tracking 4 billion...
Top 15 Cloud Storage Tips and Tasks
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We pinpoint the cloud storage services with the best attributes for accomplishing specific tasks, and offer advice on how to use the cloud most effectively....
Apple beats Google to top spot in Harris Poll of US corporate reputation
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Apple's recent financial performance couldn't be better, and its brand reputation appears to be just as strong. Marketing research firm Harris Interactive just released the results of its 13th annual Reputation Quotient survey, anointing Apple as the most reputable brand. Apple edged out Google, which held the top spot...
Bing to embarrass: Feature lets you link Facebook friends to search results
venturebeat.com
Bing and decide? How drab. Instead, you can now use the number two search engine to embarrass your friends. Microsoft’s search engine has today introduced a feature called “Linked Pages” that encourages searchers to connect to Facebook and start linking search results to themselves. Linked Pages, as their described,...
Angelina: the experimental AI that's coming for our game dev jobs
www.engadget.com
Ok so, maybe Angelina couldn't have created Skyrim all on her own, but the experimental AI from Michael Cook (a computer scientist at Imperial College London) is still quite impressive. The artificial dev is able program enemy behavior, layout levels, and distribute power ups with random attributes. While many...
Chameleon: A must-see home screen for Android tablets
gigaom.com
Android tablet owners may have opted for their device over an iPad due to support for widgets, but a new home screen app called Chameleon is like widgets on steroids. And Chameleon’s developers are using Kickstarter to sell their app before it’s even released: A $5 backing will get you...
BlackBerry 7 rated as the most secure enterprise-ready OS by Trend Micro
www.theverge.com
It's no secret that RIM is having tough times, among its issues are the fact that a number of government agencies have started moving their employees away from BlackBerry and onto more modern and popular smartphone platforms. Despite this growing weakness in its core business and enterprise markets, BlackBerry...
Here's to the Generous Side of Social Media
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While it's fashionable in some quarters to bash social media and its shallowness, one of the key attributes of many savvy users is how generous they can be. [Read more]...
Big data startup Sociocast goes beyond analytics with new SaaS tools (exclusive)
venturebeat.com
Big data and analysis startup Sociocast has launched two new Software-as-a-Service tools aimed at helped advertising and media companies better understand their customers, the company revealed today. Sociocast’s software analyzes “big data” sets and delivers predictive real-time audience data to help companies make more informed marketing decisions. Sociocast CEO...
Google to adopt ‘semantic search’ within months, WSJ says
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Google is reportedly in the process of giving its Web-search formula a major makeover in an attempt to fix its shortcomings and maintain its dominance in the search market. In the coming months, the company is looking to use “semantic search” to analyze words and phrases and present more...
What Google’s Search Changes Might Mean for You
blogs.wsj.com
Google is undergoing a major, long-term overhaul of its search-engine, using what’s called semantic Web search to enhance the current system in the coming years. The move, starting over the next few months, will impact the way people can use the search engine as well as how the search engine...
Apsalar introduces even more advanced user segmenting analytics
www.insidemobileapps.com
Mobile analytics company Apsalar is expanding its services with a new feature called Advanced User Segments. The San Francisco-based startup, which sells itself as a much more sophisticated analytics service provider than rivals Flurry and Kontagent, now allows developers using the service to segment their audiences based on almost unlimited...
Cyberplasm: a disease-searching robot based on parasitic fish
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If you thought the parasitic, jawless sea lamprey was scary enough in the water, just imagine having a tiny robotic one inside of you. That's exactly what a research team is trying to create with Cyberplasm, a "multi-cellular biohybrid micro-robot" based on the lamprey that could be used to...
Sparrow launches email client for iOS with gorgeous UI, no push notifications [video]
www.bgr.com
Sparrow’s desktop email client for OS X includes a great UI and a number of great features such as multiple accounts, a unified inbox and a user-friendly layout. The company on Thursday brought those same attributes to Apple’s iPhone, iPod touch and iPad with the release of its much...
Barnes & Noble fiscal Q3 earnings down on higher sales
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All eyes are on bookseller Barnes & Noble this morning as it has announced earnings for the third quarter of fiscal year 2012, and it's a mixed bag: net income is down over 16 percent year over year from $60.6 million to $52 million, while sales are up some...
Flickr Adds Photo Editor, Powered by Aviary
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Aviary's new embedded editor in Flickr. Flickr, in the midst of its most drastic makeover since its acquisition by Yahoo, just announced it will be rolling out a new embedded photo editor to users over the next few weeks starting tomorrow. The HTML editor will be powered by New York...
Shades of Twitter and Delicious in New Bitly Release
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Bitly links are now "bitmarks." New York-based link shortening service Bitly just launched a major redesign that emphasizes link sharing similar to Twitter or the once-popular bookmark service Delicious. The old Bitly centered around shortening links and publishing them to Twitter, Facebook and other social networks. Log into the new...
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