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Microsoft Invests In 24/7 For Customer Service Software
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Microsoft announced this morning a new agreement with 24/7 Inc. , a company that designs intuitive customer experiences. As a part of the deal, Microsoft will merge its interactive self-service assets 9meaning people, clients and technologies), into 24/7 Inc. The deal also includes an R&D partnership, long-term IP licensing and Microsoft...
“Winning” SXSW Has Yet To Produce a Winning Business
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It’s pretty easy to write yet another post about who “won” SXSW or, if you’re feeling ornery or ambitious, how there are no longer any breakout stars. But there’s an important point lost in this repetitive debate. SXSW is good at producing cultural phenomena — think apps that take off...
What does 15 years of baby name data tell us about modern Britain?
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First, Anna Powell-Smith revolutionised the way women can choose clothes using data. Now she aims to do the same for that other fraught issue: baby names• More on baby names on the DatablogIf you are a parent, or soon to be a parent, you may already have discovered the US's...
The Avengers Sets New Mobile Ticket Record For Fandango
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The Avengers can add another record to its tally — it represents the most opening weekend tickets sold in Fandango history, and a new record for mobile ticket sales. Fandango didn’t share the exact number of sales, but it did say that The Avengers beat the previous record holder, The...
To Compute or Not to Compute—Wolfram|Alpha Analyzes Shakespeare’s Plays
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For hundreds of years, scholars have carefully studied the plays of Shakespeare, breaking down the language and carefully dissecting every act and scene. We thought it would be interesting to see what sorts of computational insights Wolfram|Alpha could provide, so we uploaded the complete catalog of Shakespeare’s plays into our...
Dating site eHarmony confirms password breach that affected “a small fraction” of its user base
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Online dating site eHarmony has revealed that it too suffered a hack into its password database, after it confirmed that “a small fraction” of its user base has been affected. The company says it is continuing to look into the issue but has taken the precautionary move of resetting the passwords of...
Well-Liked Android Task List Any.DO Comes to iPhone and Chrome
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Task management tool Any.DO, which has been named on many lists of top and must-have Android apps, is now available as an iPhone app and a Chrome browser plugin. The app’s aesthetic feels totally un-iPhone-like, with a sparse design that lacks a menu bar and is manipulated by gestures. (Users...
HP's Whitman to Announce Restructuring Plan Wednesday; 30,000 Jobs Targeted
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The daunting task of restructuring Hewlett-Packard will begin in earnest next Wednesday when the company reports its quarterly earnings. Sources familiar with the company’s plans say that CEO Meg Whitman will discuss the opening steps of a company-wide restructuring plan that will include the elimination of about 30,000 jobs. A...
Facebook values itself at nearly $77 billion
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Facebook picks a price. FORTUNE --- I noted this in an earlier post of Facebook's first quarter financials, but I think it deserves one of its own: Facebook is officially valuing itself at just under $77 billion. Here's how the math works: Facebook recently acquired mobile photo-sharing site Instagram, announcing...
For Advertisers And Investors, Social Network User Numbers Often Don't Add Up
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When does 845 million not equal 845 million? When it's the number of active users Facebook claims in its initial public offering filing. Last week the social networking giant amended that filing and conceded it may not be so giant. While still massive, Facebook said as many as 6%...
Good Deal: Instapaper is Starbucks' free app of the week
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For the next week, Instapaper for iOS is available for free as a part of Starbucks' "Free App of the Week" campaign. To get your free copy of the app (which normally costs $4.99), you have to physically go to a Starbucks shop and get a promo card, then...
Paul Carr’s NSFWCorp Web Publication Launches To Much Fanfare
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Former TC’er Paul Carr’s latest venture, called NSFWCorp, has launched into private beta. It’s a weekly news magazine dubbed as the “the Economist as written by ‘The Daily Show’” and will be available for $26 a year or “two bucks a month.” What’s particularly interesting, however, is how the company...
AT&T Announces Single-Day Record for iPad Sales and Activations
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AT&T has issued a brief statement indicating that they set a new single-day record for its iPad sales and activations, but stops short at providing any hard numbers.On Friday, March 16, AT&T set a new single-day record for its iPad sales and activations, demonstrating robust demand for the new iPad...
Cloud gaming finally coming to South Korea (exclusive)
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Playcast Media Systems has struck a deal with cable TV operator CJ Hellovision to launch a cloud gaming service in South Korea. The deal shows that cloud gaming continues to advance around the world, and it represents the first real cloud service in South Korea, which is an online...
Why Diablo 3′s always-online DRM is a good thing
www.extremetech.com
Diablo 3 has now been available worldwide for a week. In true, zealous, Blizzard-super-fan style, the end boss on the hardest difficulty setting has already been defeated. We don’t know the exact number of Diablo 3 sales, but with some 2 million pre-orders, we’re talking about one of the fastest-selling...
Here's The Exact Number Of Ads Per Web Page That 100% of Users Actually See
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Here's some new research by SAY Media that suggests publishers are killing their advertising returns when they clutter their pages with ads. Only around 76 percent of visitors actually look at an advertisement if there are a bunch of cluttered ads on the page, versus 100 percent if there's only...
Judge Posner denies 11 summary judgment motions before Apple v. Motorola trial
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We're only five days away from the first Apple v. Google trial in history (given that Motorola is now a wholly-owned Google subsidiary, a fact that Google just notified to courts throughout the United States), and the exact number of patents to be put before a Chicago jury is still...
ABC News applies two years of use to new iPad strategy
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The distinctive three-dimensional globe is giving way to a new three-edition iPad app strategy for ABC News. The new version, going live as this is published, relies not on ideas about what iPad users might want — as was the case when it first launched in July 2010 — but...
Sources: Google's Sparrow purchase cost under $25 million, will bring 'beauty' to Gmail
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Today Sparrow's Dom Leca announced that his third party email client company had been purchased by Google, and we just talked to sources familiar with the situation. The talks have been ongoing for a while; Sparrow was well known, and our source said Google recognized that the five-person-team had...
Netflix just became cable’s biggest TV network
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Netflix subscribers watched more than one billion hours of video in June, according to the company’s CEO Reed Hastings. That means that U.S. subscribers watched around 80 minutes of Netflix per day last month, which makes the service more popular than any traditional U.S. cable network, estimated BTIG analyst...
Twitter Finally Ditches “50+”, New and Old Tweets Now Show Their Exact Counts Of Retweets and Favorites
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Tweets past, present, and future now show their exact number of retweets and favorites instead of showing “50+” if they pass that count in a move that could promote vanity and competition on Twitter. You can see a tweet about stopping polio from Bill Gates last year got 1,178 retweets and...
Twitter Finally Ditches “50+”, New and Old Tweets Now Show Their Exact Counts Of Retweets and Favorites
Dave Morin: Path to hit 3M users this week, will release iPad app this year
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The private social network Path, originally launched on iOS and now available also on Android, is set to hit 3 million users this week, says founder Dave Morin. The statement was reported by Emily Chang of Bloomberg TV, from the network’s News Maker Lunch event. Morin also went on to say...
Samsung estimates record $5.9 billion in profit for Q2 2012
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Samsung is continuing its tradition of releasing estimates for its quarterly earnings ahead of the actual earnings, saying that it anticipates a consolidated operating profit of approximately 6.7 trillion Korean Won, or around $5.9 billion US — a record for the company. That should come on consolidated sales of...
Hot start for Nexus 7: Major chains report quick sellouts
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Reuters reports that some major retail chains have been running out of Google Nexus 7 tablets on the device’s first day of availability. According to Reuters, customers have already ripped all the Nexus 7 tablets out of GameStop’s inventory while both the Sam’s Club and Walmart websites list the device...
Sprint Cuts a Small Number of Jobs as Part of Reorganization
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Wireless carrier Sprint Nextel is cutting a small number of jobs as part of a reorganization that began with an executive shuffle last month. Sprint CEO Dan Hesse As part of that move, Sprint combined its business and consumer units. Also, as a result, the company said four top executives...
Chrome Is Rapidly Approaching Firefox In Extension Numbers
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It was only December when Google officially launched extensions for its Chrome browser. Almost immediately, there were 500 extensions in the gallery as many developers had been working on them for a while. Today, Google is saying that number is now past 3,000. And that’s significant because it’s already pretty...
VeriSign revealed to have suffered repeated security breaches in 2010
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It took some digging through more than 2,000 pages of SEC documents, but Reuters revealed today that VeriSign was attacked "repeatedly" by hackers in 2010, and that some undisclosed information was stolen from the company. The key danger there is the DNS records that the company manages -- which ensure...
Sanket: For Power Users, Gmail Set To Get Up To Speed
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Twitter Skyrocketing in Russia (Stats)
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Of course no one will argue these days that Twitter has become a huge online phenomenon and it influences lots of things for both end users, online and offline businesses. But how huge is it outside of the US where the trendy service is heavily promoted in traditional media? Russian...
The 10 Billionth Tweet (Or So) Will Take Flight In About An Hour
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According to the site Gigatweet, we are about an hour away from the 10 billionth tweet sent since the dawn of Twitter. More incredible, this milestone comes less than 5 months after the 5 billionth tweet. The only problem? It’s not an exact science. Gigatweet isn’t counting to an...
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