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Amazon Cloud Drive and app arrive in UK at last, sans fanfare
www.engadget.com
Eons after it appeared in the US, Amazon's Cloud Drive is at last available in the UK. Brits can manage the service from within their Amazon account online, or get the free standalone Mac or PC app for desktop dragging and dropping. It slipped in with nary a peep...
Acer reveals sub-$200 7-inch quad-core Iconia Tab A110
www.theverge.com
Android's had a quiet showing here at Computex Taipei, but Acer just snuck out a new product that could well have represent a breakthrough for the platform at large. The Iconia Tab A110 is at the company's booth without much fanfare, and on the face of it isn't particularly...
Google Fiber is live in Kansas City, real-world speeds at 700 Mbps
arstechnica.com
Mike Demarais posted this to Twitter during the first few minutes that Google Fiber went live in his Kansas City home. Mike Demarais After months of fanfare and anticipation, gigabit home Internet service Google Fiber finally went live on Tuesday in Kansas City. The search giant is offering 1 Gbps...
With "Lillyhammer" Netflix Wants To Destroy Traditional TV, Get You "Hooked" On All-At-Once Watching
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There was no premiere episode. And not much fanfare. Monday morning the show went online, its entire first series watchable in one sitting. What is Netflix thinking?If a show debuts without a premiere, will anyone watch it? That's the multi-million-dollar koan Netflix is looking to answer. And fast.Earlier this week...
With "Lillyhammer" Netflix Wants To Destroy Traditional TV, Get You "Hooked" On All-At-Once Watching
Apple Fans Are Angry About The New iPads (AAPL)
www.businessinsider.com
The fanfare of Apple's (AAPL) announcement of two new iPads Tuesday quickly gave way to backlash from consumers who say the short life span of Apple products is becoming wearisome -- and expensive. Apple surprised fans by unveiling a revamped, full-size iPad, just seven months after releasing the third-generation iPad....
Apple's new iPad 3 – review
www.guardian.co.uk
The voice dictation isn't much good, and those who want to plug in a USB hub will be disappointed. Everyone else will find the retina display and better graphics a delightIn answer to your first question: yes, there is a difference. In answer to your second: yes, you can actually...
Samsung Galaxy Note II for T-Mobile now available for $370 on contract
www.engadget.com
T-Mobile may be a bit late to the Samsung Galaxy Note II party, but the mega-sized 5.5-inch smartphone has now landed in its online store for $370 on contract. You'll need to commit yourself to one of several of the carrier's two year contracts, but if you can manage...
Zuckerberg Could Make Facebook Members, Advertisers & Investors Happier
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In his first public comments since Facebook went public, CEO Mark Zuckerberg expressed disappointment with the company's recent performance and hinted at new search and mobile strategies. But here are three concrete ways Facebook can make members, advertisers and shareholders happy again. Wall Street already likes Zuckerberg's seemingly new approach: Shares of...
The Microsoft Surface, A 10.6-inch Windows 8 Tablet From Microsoft
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“It embodies hardware and software working together. People want to work and play,” Said Steve Ballmer amid much fanfare at Milk Studios in downtown Los Angeles. Microsoft has officially entered the ring with Apple. Microsoft just announced the Xbox Surface, a tablet aimed directly at consumers, and with that, the...
Colors! Samsung's Galaxy Camera pops at Photokina with vibrant orange and magenta paint jobs
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Another Photokina star is Samsung's Galaxy Camera, which launched to much fanfare several weeks ago at IFA, but dominates the company's photo-themed booth at the biennial photography show in Cologne, Germany. There's not much more to report on the hardware side, apart from confirmation that certain versions of the...
That Which We Call An UltraBook By Any Other Name Would Smell As Sleek
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Yesterday, to much fanfare and resolute sentiment, HP announced a return to what made it a great company to begin with: poorly-named and generic computing devices tarted up to take on Dell. This year it’s the HP Envy SpectreXT, a thin and light that can’t officially be called an Ultrabook...
Is Google Drive worse for privacy than iCloud, Skydrive, and Dropbox?
www.theverge.com
The Google Drive cloud storage service launched yesterday to much fanfare, but as with any new Google product, there are important questions about how the company will actually use personal data uploaded to the system. Google sells ads against your data, after all, and the more data you give...
Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 (10.1) hands-on (video)
www.engadget.com
As far as product launches go, the 10-inch Galaxy Tab 2's debut was relatively discreet. Announced with little fanfare, it's not even on display in Samsung's booth here at Mobile World Congress; you'll have to talk your way into a private room if you want a shot at getting...
Mobile app startups are failing like it's 1999
andrewchen.co
Stop the madness The long cycle times for developing mobile apps have led to startup failures that look more like 1999 – it’s like we’ve forgotten all the agile and rapid iteration stuff that we learned over the last 10 years. Stop the madness! Today, seed stage startups can...
Nest launches slimmer, smarter learning thermostat
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Startup Nest Labs is ready to launch the next generation of its connected learning thermostat. The device, which you can pre-order now and which ships in mid-October, is 20 percent slimmer than the original thermostat, and has new features that make it compatible with 95 percent of heating and cooling...
Airbnb Acquires UK-based Crashpadder As Part Of International Growth Push
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Airbnb has been ambitious on the international expansion front in recent months, having drummed up lots of fanfare about its “European launch” about a month back. The timing on its expansion in London especially is key, with the 2012 Olympics slated to be held there this summer. We will...
Option XYFI is 'world's smallest' personal hotspot -- we go hands-on!
www.engadget.com
Option's XYFI (pronounced ex-WiFi) was announced earlier this week with little fanfare but piqued our interest with its claim to being the world's smallest personal hotspot. We had an opportunity to look and discuss it at a quiet table at MWC today, a nice change from a showy booth....
Mark Zuckerberg, the new dictator of Facebookistan
arstechnica.com
Paramount Pictures / Aurich Lawson Facebook moved last week to eliminate the ability of users to vote on data use and privacy policy changes, according to posts in several languages on its site governance page on November 21. Both the timing (immediately before the Thanksgiving holiday in America) and the...
Among many hits, Apple's lonely flop
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The company's iAd advertising platform was launched with great fanfare two years ago. But it's remained a painfully niche product. By Verne Kopytoff, contributor FORTUNE -- Two years ago, Steve Jobs introduced Apple's iAd, the company's first foray into mobile advertising. On stage at Apple's headquarters, he called the new...
Sony Xperia tipo dual shares SIMs, still fits in tiny pockets
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It looks like Sony's not quite finished today, with two more phones sneaking out on its YouTube channel ahead of any official fanfare. The Xperia tipo dual (and its single-SIM version, the tipo) keep things small and simple, with a 3.2-inch TFT screen and 800MHz Snapdragon. Both, however, will...
Where oh where is Windows Phone 8?
arstechnica.com
Two companies have now announced their Windows Phone 8 hardware. Samsung was first out of the blocks, showing off its ATIV S at IFA last month. With much fanfare, Nokia revealed its first pair of Windows Phone 8 handsets, the Lumia 820 and Lumia 920. But in spite of gathering...
Who needs WHOIS? Kanye West launches WhoDat instead
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File this one under "things we never thought would exist." If you recall, Kanye West launched his own startup, Donda Media, to much fanfare earlier this year. Taking to Twitter, the American rapper quickly put forth a call for "architects, graphic designers, directors musicians, producers, AnRs, writers, publicist[s], social...
This is how you shut down your MMO's servers for good: Glitch's graceful exit
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Developers and players pour themselves into building up MMOs, but the games can't always support themselves, and then those worlds blink out. All too often, MMOs close but don't offer closure for the workers who spent so much time on them--nor for the players who expected to keep playing...
Indeed - A Hiring Powerhouse
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Some of our most successful portfolio companies are household names and get tremendous coverage in the press. Others are equally successful but have done it quietly, mostly under the radar of the the media and the blogosphere. The poster child for the second group is Indeed. Over the past couple...
Nokia’s Lumia gambit: TNW’s take on the company’s biggest bet
thenextweb.com
It’s game time for Nokia, as the firm has initiated its advertising campaign to launch the Lumia 900, its great hope for a massive return to glory in the United States, a critical mobile market. We’ve written much on the Lumia 900, a handset that we have reviewed favorably in our testing thus...
Rovio: Angry Birds Space Downloaded 50 Million Times In 35 Days
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Rovio to Houston. The Mighty Eagle as landed. Big time. Rovio just took to Twitter to announce that its latest Angry Birds installment, Angry Birds Space, was downloaded 50 Million times in 35 days. As the company brags, that makes Angry Birds Space the fastest growing mobile game in history....
Japan’s DeNA launches its first mobile social games for the iPhone and iPad in the US
thenextweb.com
It’s finally happened, albeit without the big stage launch that we may have expected, Japanese mobile social gaming firm DeNA has begun offering games from its ‘Mobage’ social gaming platform for iOS devices in America and other regions worldwide. Just last week, the company said that support for Apple devices...
Google on a hiring spree in UK and Ireland
gigaom.com
The London offices that Google’s European boss says don’t do much innovative engineering is on a hiring spree — but Google doesn’t want to talk about it. Google is currently advertising for 134 positions at its locations in the capital, after posting dozens of vacancies last week. A further 156...
Apple takes iTunes to Asia without a fanfare
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Nine years after the US version opened its doors, the iTunes platform has made its way to Asia. [Read more]...
MobileApps.com, the 'AdSense for mobile apps', shuts down - domain can be yours for $1 million
thenextweb.com
Singapore-based startup MobileApps.com, which launched its mobile app discovery platform to some fanfare last year, recently decided to call it quits and re-focus on ‘rich media ads’. The company had raised $400,000 in seed funding from Tokyo-based mobile company I-FREEK. This morning, founder and CEO Alvin Koay published a press...
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