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Want To Know What Apple Will Do Next In Mobile Commerce? Check Out The Pirq It’s Giving To Employees
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As device makers like RIM, Samsung and Nokia incorporate NFC technology into their mobile devices, Apple has been radio silent on what its plans will be in mobile commerce and payments. But a deal that is getting announced today could be a clue to one area where Apple might see...
Want To Know What Apple Will Do Next In Mobile Commerce? Check Out The Pirq It’s Giving To Employees
Path’s mistake shows a problem with Apple, Facebook…and us
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There’s a lot of press attention being paid today (by TNW as well) to Path. The life-journaling app has found itself in a tough position after it was found that it is accessing Address Book data and uploading it to its own servers without gaining express permission from users to...
Motorola now officially being investigated for abusing its patents in Europe
www.engadget.com
Both Apple and Microsoft have formally complained about Motorola's alleged abuse of "standards-essential" patents, and today the European Commission has been equally formal in starting an antitrust investigation into their claims. In fact, there'll be two separate investigations -- one to discover whether Motorola Mobility failed to honor its FRAND...
Rumor mill: Will the new iPad have a tactile display?
www.engadget.com
Remember Senseg's tactile touchscreen displays? Well, last December the company showed off a screen that used an electrostatic field to simulate friction and textures on the glass. Such technology was a couple of years away from being commercially viable, but there's a tiny glimmer of a chance it might...
Sprint shows you where and when it's disabling Nextel's iDEN legacy network
www.engadget.com
Clue's in the title, really. If you head on over to Sprint's website, you'll find a page explaining the forthcoming changes to the service for legacy iDEN customers. Nextel users can enter in their zip code to find out which cellphone towers will be decommissioned and the due dates...
AngelList Takes A Shot At Standardizing The Startup Pitch Deck
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If you’re a new entrepreneur or an angel investor and you haven’t heard of AngelList, it’s time to get a clue. The hybrid social network, communication and crowdsourcing tool is designed to connect first-time entrepreneurs with angel investors. It’s “easily the most important innovation in the industry,” as 500 Startups’...
Survey: Apple iPad’s ‘massive domination’ of market persists
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The latest ChangeWave poll finds Samsung and Amazon stuck in single digits Click to enlarge. FORTUNE — When ChangeWave polled a couple thousand business IT buyers in Februrary, 84% of those planning to buy tablets had their eye on Apple’s (AAPL) iPad. (See here.) Three months later, the numbers are...
Apple trademark may hint at processing improvement for next-gen A6 processor
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A recent trademark application from Apple for the term "Macroscalar" may give a clue about upcoming improvements for its next-generation mobile processors. The term refers to technology Apple has been working on as far back as 2004, according to Patently Apple, and appears to refer to code optimization techniques...
Analyse your ‘tweet-reach’ with social media analytical tool, Content Scorer [Invites]
thenextweb.com
While Facebook provides Page administrators with a little bit of insight into how their campaigns are doing, on Twitter, aside from retweets and replies, it’s hard to know if your updates are having any effect at all. Brands are increasingly being told to invest time into tools, without having the...
Frommees: This startup creates physical keepsakes for digital content
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“Is this the next Web?” asked Frommees self-proclaimed ‘Founding Father’ Martin Brouns, holding aloft a small, coin-shaped piece of recycled plastic. “Is this technologically anything? It doesn’t have a QR code on it. It doesn’t have a chip in it, it’s just a little piece of plastic. But still…I think it’s...
Motorola’s First Ice Cream Sandwich Handset Smiles For The Camera
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Motorola’s latest handsets have been pretty impressive. The Razr and Razr Maxx, in particular, are excellent handsets. But it would seem that the (almost) freshly acquired company has no intentions of resting on its laurels. Rather than sticking with its usual OMAP-powered devices, Motorola has slapped an Intel Medfield chip...
Origin PC gives EON15-S, EON17-S a Kepler-based GeForce GTX 680M, games get a shot in the arm
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We hope you didn't pull the trigger too quickly on one of the higher-end configurations for an EON15-S or EON17-S, because Origin PC just revamped its two gaming laptops extraordinaire with NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 680M -- a chipset so fresh that NVIDIA itself hasn't made a full public reveal...
HTC's Mobile World Congress press invite remains clue-less
www.cnet.com
HTC is playing coy with clues to what the company will announce at Mobile World Congress this month, but don't worry. We have a pretty good idea anyway....
Facebook attempts to curtail unfriending fad with new alternative
venturebeat.com
All Facebook friends are not created equal, and today the world’s most popular social network is giving its members a more socially acceptable way to separate even more of the folks they maybe sort of like from those they actually care about. Facebook has made the “Acquaintances” Friends List,...
AT&T small cell site pilot due between late 2012, 2013
www.engadget.com
AT&T has been hinting for a while that it's getting closer to implementing small cell sites in its network, and at CTIA Wireless 2012 gave a stronger clue as to when and how the mini network hubs will operate. Executive technology VP John Donovan clarified to Reuters that a...
Google+ Refresh: Just Like Facebook, It’s All About The Apps
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Barely a year into Google’s social initiative, Google+, the company has decided to re-imagine the user interface. But while Google says the focus is on a simpler, less cluttered approach, the refresh speaks volumes about where social as a whole is headed: It’s about the widgetization of social. Overall, the...
BMW and Toyota come together, right now, over batteries
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Clue's in the headline, really. Car makers BMW and Toyota have finally gotten around to confirming that they're pairing up to research next generation lithium-ion batteries. The focus will be on building environmentally friendly technologies that'll boost the power of future EVs. The duo will also examine new ways...
HTC One X And EVO 4G LTE Delayed In Customs, Sprint Pushes Back EVO Release Date
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Here’s hoping that you already managed to get your hands on an HTC One X, because it may be a while before they appear on store shelves again. According to a release put out by HTC last night, U.S. Customs has blocked shipments of AT&T’s HTC One X and Sprint’s...
Maingear teases incoming desktop line, promises smaller towers and Ivy Bridge CPUs
www.engadget.com
Maingear's Shift is a force to be feared, but it generally requires an entire wing of one's home to be assembled and configured. Hyperbole aside, there's no question that Maingear's aiming to branch out somewhat after the aforesaid rig's successful run, today teasing an "all new line of desktops."...
Study: Most Parents Have No Clue What Their Teens Are Doing On Facebook, Online
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Six out of 10 teens have witnessed cruel behavior online, and 93 percent of those who have said it took place on Facebook, according to the results of a new study by McAfee, which also found that only one out of four parents is aware of that behavior. continued… New...
HTC One X hits the FCC bound for AT&T
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What's thin, pale and sexy as hell? If you answered Twiggy you're close, but wrong. The answer we were looking for is the AT&T version of the HTC One X, which appears to have just swung through the FCC. There's not much to reveal here that we didn't already...
Why is startup compensation so mysterious
gigaom.com
If you are an entrepreneur, then it is fairly easy for you to use general rules of thumb to come up with the valuation you are likely to get for your startup — depending on the stage of the company (seed, series A and later stages) and the scale of...
First Total Recall remake teaser trailer hits YouTube
www.theverge.com
The original Total Recall is only 22 years old this year, and is widely accepted as the greatest film of all time (we're pretty sure). But if you've always thought that Colin Farrell would do a much better job than Schwarzenegger, boy have we got a treat for you....
Foursquare's Cofounder Just Dropped A Big Hint About His Next Startup
www.businessinsider.com
When Naveen Selvadurai left Foursquare, the New York startup he cofounded with Dennis Crowley that lets you broadcast your location to your friends, everyone wondered what his next move would be. Now we have a clue. Monday evening, at a talk at Union Square Ventures, Selvadurai told a crowd...
Google's Sundar Pichai confirms that offline Google Drive 'coming in five weeks,' hints at ad-supported Chromebook
www.engadget.com
During the closing session here at D10 in California, Google's on Senior Vice President of Chrome & Apps Sundar Pichai was joined by Susan Wojcicki (SVP of Advertising at Google) at Walt Mossberg. Sundar was able to drive the majority of the conversation in the realm of Chrome and...
Google's Sundar Pichai confirms that offline Google Drive 'coming in five weeks,' hints at ad-supported Chromebook
Signs in Mountain Lion point to "retina" display MacBooks sooner than later
arstechnica.com
A new clue found within in the latest developer release of OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) suggests that 2012 may bring us the "summer of retina display Macs." A source with access to the latest Mountain Lion preview alerted Ars that double-sized graphics have popped up in some unexpected...
Vizio keyboard and mouse roll through the FCC, PCs may ship by July 31st
www.engadget.com
The wait for Vizio's first PC range we first saw at CES may feel like an eternity, but our friends at the FCC have made that wait a little shorter with a pair of approvals. Both the wireless keyboard and its equally cable-free trackpad companion have been given clearance...
Seatwave screams “not guilty” ahead of UK TV ticket reselling investigation
thenextweb.com
British fan-to-fan ticket marketplace Seatwave will likely be mentioned in the next edition of the well-known investigative show ‘Dispatches’, its CEO Joe Cohen announced in a letter. Sent to the startup’s customers earlier today, it reads as preemptive albeit cautious defense against the upcoming documentary. Scheduled to air in the UK on Channel 4...
Tim Cook’s vision for Apple, and its cash
gigaom.com
At Goldman Sachs’ investor conference Tuesday, Apple CEO Tim Cook gave some rare color on how he views not only his own job as Steve Jobs’ successor, but also his views on the company’s $98 billion cash pile. While he did not make investors’ day by announcing a dividend, he...
Why Investors Reject Your Startup Pitch
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Why didn't he call? You dressed to impress, you were witty and intelligent, but still the phone isn't ringing. When you think you've made the perfect pitch to an investor (Yes, an investor. What did you think we were talking about?) and shockingly, the person leaves you hanging without a...
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