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Google sweeps its $61.5m mortgage comparison acquisition under the carpet
thenextweb.com
What do you do if you spend £37m ($61.5m) acquiring an Internet company only to then decide, well, it might not have been the best idea after all? If you’re Google, you quietly take it offline and go back to square one. You may (or may not) remember that in...
AdInsight Raises $2.6M From Eden Ventures For AdTech That Bridges Online And Offline Analytics
techcrunch.com
A lot of adtech startups have focused their attention on ways to improve the process of measuring, buying and delivering online ads, but here’s an example of a company getting some traction for a solution that to better sense of how a company’s online activities relate to what customers do...
LinkedIn updates iOS app following data transmission concerns, but insists: “It’s a great feature.”
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Earlier today we reported that the LinkedIn iOS app collects full meeting notes and details from your device’s calendar and sends them back to the company in plain text. The information is gathered without explicit permission by a feature that allows users to access their calendar within the app. Well,...
The Telegraph interviews Apple lead designer Jonathan Ive
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Being the senior vice president of Industrial Design at Apple, Jonathan Ive has played a key role over the years getting Apple products to being the most well designed out there. While Ive was out of Cupertino and back in his native homeland of Britain, The Daily Telegraph snagged a pretty lengthy interview getting some insight...
Apple ready to license its nano-SIM design for free, on one not-so-nano condition
www.engadget.com
If you hadn't heard, there are two rival nano-SIM designs going around, but only room for one of them to become an industry standard. Nokia, Motorola and RIM sit together in one corner, and we've already covered why they think their design is superior. On the other side of the...
Clarity urged over green policies
www.bbc.co.uk
Ministers must send clear signals that they believe in new forms of green technology if they want firms to invest in them, a think tank says....
'Mass Effect 3: Extended Cut' announced
www.theverge.com
BioWare has just officially announced Mass Effect 3: Extended Cut, which will "expand upon the events" of the game in order to "give fans seeking further clarity to the ending of Mass Effect 3 deeper insights into how their personal journey concludes." In response to the profound outburst of...
Patents Threaten To Silence A Little Girl, Literally
www.techdirt.com
Slashdot points us to a sad story from blogger Dana Nieder, providing yet more evidence of how patent monopolies can hold back innovation and do very real damage to people's lives in the process—and how people are interested in progress, not patents. As Dana says in her post, she understandably...
New Friends! Salesforce Confirms Buddy Media Deal
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They didn’t want to talk last week, but now they do: Salesforce.com is announcing it will acquire Buddy Media. A press release from the enterprise software company says it has a deal to buy the five-year-old social media marketing company for $689 million in cash and stock. My earlier report...
Skype for Windows Phone can't run in background due to platform limitation
www.theverge.com
Skype's big news this week is the release of a beta Windows Phone client — the first fruit of its collaboration with new owner Microsoft — and we circled back with the company today to get some more clarity on the product and its plans for the future. The...
Apple has a 7.85-inch iPad prototype in its labs, according to John Gruber
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Apple has been working on a smaller version of the iPad in its Cupertino labs, according to Daring Fireball's John Gruber. On an episode of The Talk Show podcast, Gruber said that he's heard details of a 7.85-inch prototype that runs at the same 1024 x 768 resolution as...
With Over 30 Million Users On iOS, Instagram Finally Comes To Android
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Morning guys! It’s going to be a bright, bright, bright sunshine-y day for Android users, namely because photo-sharing darling Instagram is now available in the Android Market. If you want to hurry up and try it out without having to read the rest of this (it’s that intuitive), you can...
Microsoft PM “Resigns” Via Video, Joins Justin Kan’s New Startup Exec
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Exec, the new TaskRabbit competitor from Justin.tv’s co-founder, Justin Kan, has just hired a new designer it seems. Or so she sings. In a video posted to YouTube by one Karen X. Cheng, she sings and strums – rather nicely, in fact – to the tune of “Bye, Bye Miss American...
Tennessee governor allows bill targeting science education to become law
arstechnica.com
After the US Supreme Court's 1987 decision forbidding the teaching of creationism in science classes, those who objected to the teaching of evolution modified their ideas slightly. They relabeled these ideas "Intelligent Design." In the wake of that tactic's defeat in the courts, the opponents of science education retooled...
How we visualised gay rights in America
www.guardian.co.uk
Visualisign gay rights across US states needed more than a map. Guardian in America interactive designer Feilding Cage talks through how he did it• Check out the interactive guide to gay rights, state by stateWhen the idea of doing a gay marriage interactive was mentioned I had two initial thoughts....
Advanced Landing Page Techniques: Searcher Personas
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There are a million rules for search landing page design. You have to optimize the content and decide whether more stuff is better or worse for conversion. But it’s all moot unless your focus is on getting into the head of your customers. Searcher personas are the tool that delivers...
Clarity Pal hands-on, a new phone for senior citizens
www.engadget.com
In a perfect world, your grandparents wouldn't need a lick of help getting the most out of a smartphone, but let's face it: the devices are complex, and if you don't have the proper motivation, they can be a bit difficult to learn. You've previously seen the C900 from...
What I saw in Zuckerberg’s bungalow
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Facebook’s wild, nascent summer of 2004 was loosely chronicled in the bolckbuster The Social Network. This is what it was really like. Editor’s Note: When I was still in college and dreaming of getting paid to write, my friends started a magazine. I wanted to contribute. At the first ideas...
Plans for European Extremely Large Telescope approved, is indeed extremely large
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We see a lot of "world's largest" claims around here. And this isn't even the first one for a telescope. But this one is actually for the world's biggest optical telescope, and that somehow makes it easier to grasp the magnitude of. At a cost of 1.1 billion Euros,...
With iOS 6, Apple has clearly defined the different roles of Twitter and Facebook for the masses
thenextweb.com
As we mentioned earlier, some birdies told us before Apple’s WWDC keynote today that the Facebook integrations and announcements were going to be “huge.” I had no idea how huge they’d be until I took iOS 6 for a go myself. Today, along with the Facebook integrations, Apple introduced a...
Goodbye Photoshop, Hello Cloudinary
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Manipulating images for your website is such a tedious chore. You need to open Photoshop, click your mouse about ten thousand times, then save the file and upload it. Then next month you redesign your site and suddenly need to re-size all your image elements again! Startup Cloudinary has a...
Sony: Internet video service on hold due to Comcast data cap
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An executive from Sony said Monday that concerns about Comcast's discriminatory data cap are giving the firm second thoughts about launching an Internet video service that would compete with cable and satellite TV services. In March, Comcast announced that video streamed to the Xbox from Comcast's own video service...
Apple fined $2.25m in Australia, as penalty for misleading 4G iPad ads is approved
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Apple’s proposed AU$2.25 million fine for misleading Australian consumers with advertising for its 4G-compatible iPad has now been approved by the judge in charge of the trial, just two weeks after being tentatively agreed. The suit was brought by Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) in March, when the watchdog claimed...
Google letter to standards bodies indicates no improvement whatsoever over Motorola's FRAND litigation tactics
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[DEVELOPING STORY -- still adding detail]I have just obtained a copy of Google's letter to the IEEE, one of the standard-setting organizations to which Google wrote a letter today as it previously announced. You can find it further below. Let me provide some comments beforehand, and then I'll add more...
Google letter to standards bodies indicates no improvement whatsoever over Motorola's FRAND litigation tactics
15 Gorgeous UI designs for your inspiration
thenextweb.com
Just like learning to code, the best way to improve as a designer is to learn by doing. Still, that’s not to say that admiring and even copying (aka practicing) great work can’t do wonders. More than anything, seeing what other designers have done in the past can save you...
Apple goes to Euro telecom authority seeking FRAND clarity
www.electronista.com
Apple approached the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) in November seeking clarification on what it says is a lack of "consistent policy" on how manufacturers can license and set royalty rates on patents used by mobile devices. The tech giant, which has been sued and is suing several companies worldwide...
Want to talk to Mark Cuban? Call him up on Clarity
gigaom.com
Just a couple months after Dan Martell sold his social marketing start-up Flowtown in October to Demandforce, he started thinking about his next venture. The seeds came from a little web app he made that allowed him to easily call back people who wanted his advice. The idea morphed into...
Nokia to Apple: don't cha wish your nano-SIM was hot like ours?
www.engadget.com
Don't you hate it when the biggest wars can be started over the smallest things? This time around, we're referring to this in a very literal sense, as Apple has been putting the heat on (no, not that kind of heat) against an alliance formed by Nokia, Motorola and RIM...
Windows Server 8 officially dubbed ‘Windows Server 2012,’ will land this year
thenextweb.com
As expected, Microsoft has made it known that Windows Server 8 will be called ‘Windows Server 2012.’ The software will be released later this year. Microsoft calls it a ‘cloud-optimized OS.’ The beta for the software began in March of this year. Here’s how we covered that specific milestone: Windows Server...
Canon shows off prototype 30-inch 4K reference display, won't put a price tag on love
www.engadget.com
With 4K cameras suddenly popping up everywhere we look at NAB 2012, it's little surprise that Canon is showing off this matching 30-inch prototype intended for the very professionals tasked with mastering video shot by its latest hardware. Like the retina display, it produces an effect where no matter...
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