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Flipboard for Android 'liberated' from Galaxy S III demo unit, available for all
www.engadget.com
For many, one of the biggest causes of jealousy after the Samsung Galaxy S III launch event wasn't that 4.8-inch screen, or the new Exynos innards, it was that beautiful looking Android version of Flipboard. Alas, the Korean mobile giant had enough cunning to secure that little gem all...
Best Buy to close 50 big box US retail stores, open 100 Mobile stand-alone outlets in 2013
www.engadget.com
Still driving to your local Best Buy to fondle all the latest gadgets before swiping your card, or hopping to the web to pull the trigger? That tradition could be short-lived, if you happen to live near one of 50 big box retail stores that the company plans to...
CoreMobile wants to cram a lot of apps on one screen
gigaom.com
Combine the gargantuan information flows from the web available to us everywhere with the small screen and processing power of a smartphone and you get a pretty evident bottleneck. Who among us hasn’t quickly thumbed from one app to another ahead of a client visit trying to get as much...
Megaupload’s Kim Dotcom Released On Bail, Perhaps Never To Be Seen Again
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When Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom and several others in the organization were arrested in raids a month ago, it was noted by prosecutors that Dotcom’s rather wild lifestyle and propensity for spontaneous international travel, combined with his vast wealth, constituted a serious flight risk. He was denied bail at the...
Why sustainability is a non-negotiable imperative in design
arstechnica.com
"Sustainability is a design challenge," states Chris Sherwin, the new—and first—head of sustainability at future-gazing design agency Seymour Powell. Sherwin is now working with the designers at the agency to build sustainability into the design process. He says that doing this is, in fact, a "non-negotiable imperative," especially as 80 percent...
Invy: This simple event planner app lets you pick a date with friends and family
thenextweb.com
There’s something really appealing about simple apps that let us organize our lives and bring a little order to the chaos, which is why we like this next app. We’ve gotten wind of Invy, an incredibly simple iOS app that helps you pick a date to get together with friends...
Boot up: Douglas Adams on dongly things, Twitter's growth plan, improve your Nexus 7 and more
www.guardian.co.uk
Plus the 4G PlayBook is imminent, the world food crisis, malware posing as scans and moreA quick burst of 9 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology teamTwitter pushes to boost site's utility >> WSJ.comThe efforts are part of Twitter's continuing mission to increase its service's...
Liberate your tweets: Archiving without Twitter
arstechnica.com
Some people have a lot of tweets—nearly 25,000 in my case. Many are throwaway statements or snippets of conversational snark, but I know at least some contain links or information of actual use. While I could simply use Twitter's built in favorites functionality on each of my important, memorable...
Game designers and Rockefeller Foundation attack poverty with fun
venturebeat.com
Video games aren’t all about depicting violence. They can change the world for the better too. The Institute for the Future and the Rockefeller Foundation have created an online game dubbed Catalysts for Change that helps people brainstorm about ways to attack poverty. The game invites players to share their own...
ICANN's Generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) Process .sucks
www.readwriteweb.com
The plan to create and sell new generic top-level domains should have been a boon for the Internet and a gold mine for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). It's not turning out that way. At nearly every turn, the process has been hamstrung by mistakes and...
Phew: Windows 8 won’t be completely awful on multi-monitor setups
www.extremetech.com
Microsoft has announced that the Windows 8 Release Preview, which is due in early June, will thankfully feature a bunch of much-needed multi-monitor tweaks and fixes.First and foremost, in the Release Preview (and final version, presumably), every monitor now has “hot corners.” In Windows 8, the Start Screen, Charms bar,...
StatCounter dings Microsoft for endorsing Net Application’s market share data
thenextweb.com
Microsoft is quite fond of tooting its own horn when it comes to the performance of Internet Explorer 9 on Windows 7, and the decline (at last) of Internet Explorer 6. However, it has a favorite place to get the data that it promotes: Net Applications. Now, we like Net...
Galaxy S III to have quad-core Exynos SoC with built-in LTE?
www.theverge.com
A report from the Korea Times today cites an anonymous Samsung executive as saying that the company is preparing a quad-core system-on-chip to power the successor to the Galaxy S II, which, importantly, will have Samsung's own LTE modem built in. We've written at length about Nvidia's problem of...
The new Cheezburger redesign: Faster, funnier and fewer trolls
www.geekwire.com
Cheezburger’s rise to the top of the Internet charts has certainly been impressive to watch, leaving some investors kicking themselves that they didn’t have the foresight to invest early in the online comedy network. But what’s been most impressive about Cheezburger is how the company has strung together so many...
Inside the Press-Shy Q Labs, AOL’s Great White Hope
www.betabeat.com
AOL hopes to plant seeds with hip companies coming out of QLabs and AOL Ventures. On Wednesday afternoon, Betabeat arrived at the arty brick headquarters where AOL's startup alter egos, QLabs and AOL Ventures, take up an entire floor at Broadway and Great Jones in Soho. We were greeted by...
"In the Studio," Greylock's Josh Elman is Looking for Social Products with the Power to Incept
techcrunch.com
Editor’s Note: Semil Shah (@semil) is currently an EIR with Javelin Venture Partners and has been an official contributor to TechCrunch since January 2011. “In the Studio” this week features someone who has taken on early product roles at many of the web’s definition social networking companies in the Valley, honing his craft...
Customer experience app Vital Insights nabs $20M from Bregal Sagemount
venturebeat.com
Customer experience management startup Vital Insights has raised $20 million in a growth-focused first round of funding, the company announced today. Vital Insights offers various customer experience management (CEM) solutions for desktop and mobile devices that help track customer satisfaction and happiness. It claims to have patent-pending process for...
What Yahoo Founder Jerry Yang Should've Learned From Firefox In 2005
www.fastcompany.com
Former Mozilla CEO John Lilly watched Yang blow his top when presented with a browser that put Yahoo competitors front and center. Seven years later, Yahoo finally got around to launching a browser of its own. Last night, Yahoo unveiled Axis, its first foray into the browser wars. The once-glorious...
Acta didn't stand a chance in the age of the social internet | Charles Arthur
www.guardian.co.uk
The anti-counterfeiting treaty had some good intentions behind it – but its online strictures couldn't just be forced throughThe dismissal of Acta, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, by the European parliament has left the treaty's opponents delighted, and its supporters – who principally work in the industries that rely on copyright...
What I learned from teaming up with Google
gigaom.com
Recently, I was invited by Google to participate in “Mobilizing Mobile” in Mobile, Alabama. As part of Google’s Go Mobile initiative, the event demonstrated what happens when a city’s infrastructure and community goes mobile. Below you’ll find four key take-aways from teaming up with Google. I believe they can be...
Parkmobile adds NFC to its parking payment repertoire
www.engadget.com
Let's face it, whether you're down at the laundromat or feeding the meter on a busy street, you can never find enough quarters when you need'em. Know what effectively sidesteps that lack of foresight? NFC, that's what. And that tap-to-pay convenience is ready to roll out for folks in...
ReadWriteWeb DeathWatch: Barnes & Noble
www.readwriteweb.com
Barnes & Noble remains a big player in a growing industry, and until Google changed everything this week, it made fantastic hardware for the money. But as with Nokia, a changing market and financial problems are driving a proud Number Two into a subordinate role that threatens to choke it out...
How to know when it’s time to hire an outside CEO
venturebeat.com
As anyone who has started their own company will tell you, it’s hard for others to understand your passion for your endeavor. Startup founders can seem crazy, willing to work long hours for little or no pay, driven by wanting to see their idea come to fruition. And, for...
"We're no longer a PC company, we're an IT company."
parislemon.com
"We're no longer a PC company, we're an IT company.": That’s not IBM. That’s not HP. That’s Dell. But you’ll notice the trend. Everyone is getting out of the PC business because it’s a shitty business to be in. IBM was way ahead of the curve (and is reaping the...
20 Instant Upgrades to Make Chrome Better than Firefox
www.maximumpc.com
Show of hands - how many of you are still clinging to Firefox not because it's the perfect browser, but because it's the best alternative out there to Internet Explorer? Probably a good many of you, and the reason why Firefox has been so hard to supplant as the No....
Information presentation in small screen devices: The trade-off between visual density and menu foresight: Publica... http://bit.ly/a1bRWW
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Information presentation in small screen devices: The trade-off between visual density and menu foresight: Publica... http://bit.ly/a1bRWW
This Lady Just Predicted the Future—Or at Least the Weather—with Asparagus [Video]
gizmodo.com
Jemima Packington was born with the gift of foresight. Unfortunately, that future-vision is only legible by reading the positions of thrown asparagus. That's right—she's an asparamancer and she just foretold the births of two royal British heirs and Britain's imminent trouncing of the rest of the world in the...
The Businesses of B2B Social Media
www.briansolis.com
Social Media is often misconstrued as a medium for business-to-consumer or B2C engagement and discounted as a viable communications network for those companies focused on business-to-business transactions. However, B2B, as in any other field impacted by online activity, is faced with a prime opportunity to not only cultivate communities...
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