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Kid-Friendly Social Network Everloop Is Coming To iPhone, Raising Series A
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Everloop, the social network for children under 13, is planning to launch a mobile application, making it one of the first companies to attempt a mobile, social network just for kids. The app, arriving in the third week of June, will translate the desktop experience to the small screen, beginning...
The @outlook.com email addresses Microsoft forgot to reserve
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Microsoft's new Outlook.com webmail service launched yesterday as a public preview, leaving thousands of Hotmail users scrambling to reserve their shiny new @outlook.com email addresses. After a million signups in just a few hours, some email addresses have emerged that Microsoft may have wanted to reserve. PC Pro managed...
Google Nexus tablet appears in benchmarks, appears to run on quad-core Tegra 3
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ASUS's seven-inch MeMo tablet has just ducked under the FCC's gates, but some benchmark results for a purported Google and ASUS team-up could tally with the same device. According to the listing, the Google Asus Nexus 7 will arrive with NVIDIA's quad-core Tegra 3 CPU, clocked at 1.3 GHz,...
Mobile Developers: Have a Business and Marketing Plan to Make Money
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App stores are frustrating, cluttered places. Even with Apple’s prescreening process of every app that passes through its iOS gates, the App Store, it is often hard to find what you may want or need. This is a problem for consumers - but an even bigger problem for developers...
VIDEO: At Foxconn, An Exclusive Look At How An iPad Is Made
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Much has been written about conditions at Foxconn, the embattled Chinese manufacturer for Apple and a host of other hardware companies. But only a couple of reporters have had access to one of the sprawling company’s factory floors: Joel Johnson wrote Wired‘s March 2011 cover story, “1 Million Workers....
Archos Arnova 80 Cobalt sidles up to the FCC, leaves little to the imagination
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Archos' line of Android tablets aren't really known for setting consumer tongues a-wagging; those honors are typically reserved for more bold-faced OEMs. As a low-cost alternative to pricier offerings, however, they make mighty fine sense. And one such slate's just swung by the Commission's gates, showing off its shiny...
The Rise Of The 'Professional Amateur' And The Fall Of Gated, Exclusionary 'Clubs'
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As the gatekeepers continue to see their carefully constructed walls crumbling, they have rushed to shore up the walls using any means at their disposal, whether it's legislation, lawsuits or simple exclusion. But those within the gates aren't much happier, despite the limitations imposed by the gatekeepers, and many are...
Google Drive is live, completely replaces Google Docs. Don’t call it a Dropbox killer.
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It’s been an interesting few days around the tech world, with the imminent launch of Google Drive looming large. But now the service is live at http://drive.google.com/start so get downloading and let’s take a look: As we reported only a bit ago Google appears to be aiming the service at companies...
HP TouchPad Kernel Released, Tinkerers Rejoice
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HP decided to donate a kernel for its TouchPad, hackers ready to storm the gates....
Researchers take nanowire transistors vertical, double up on density
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3D silicon is all the rage, and now nanowire transistors have further potential to keep Moore's Law on life support. Researchers at A*STAR have found a way to double the the number of transistors on a chip by placing the atomic-scale wires vertically, rather than in the run-of-the-mill planar...
My BMW Remote app ready to Play with Android
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Stateside and overseas iOS users with a predilection for remotely controlling high-end German autos have had nearly a half year's worth of smug to lord over their Android counterparts. Not so anymore, as BMW's spreading the love and making its Remote app available now for that Google-led contingent on...
AOL says it plans to “evolve” AIM and not kill it, but it’s a bit late for that
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Oh, AOL. The company that opened the gates to the Internet for so many of us has definitely had its troubles as of late. It’s sad to see what is going on at the company, especially since products like AOL Instant Messenger were commonplace for so many of us “back...
Apple CEO Tim Cook to open D10 conference: yes, we'll be liveblogging
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The All Things D conference has a long history of wrangling an impressive speaker list, and this year's gala is no different. The outlet has just confirmed that Apple CEO Tim Cook will be the keynote speaker for D10's opening night, just two years after the late Steve Jobs...
Fortune names Steve Jobs the 'greatest entrepreneur'
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He tops a list that includes Gates, Bezos, Page, Brin, Schultz and Zuckerberg "Though he could be abusive and mean-spirited to people who threw themselves into their work on his behalf, Steve Jobs has been our generation's quintessential entrepreneur. Visionary. Inspiring. Brilliant. Mercurial." So writes Fortune's John Byrne in the...
PHOTOS: Space Shuttle Discovery Hoisted Toward New Home
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Space shuttle Discovery as she was hoisted off a 747 en route to the Smithsonian: And one by Instagram photographer Isalara as she waits by the Smithsonian gates: (via ZekeJMiller) Please follow Business Insider on Twitter and Facebook.Join the conversation about this story »...
Group Retracts Its Petition Against Apple (Not That It Matters)
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A group that petitioned Apple in January to do more to protect workers’ rights in China is withdrawing its petition. The petition, which had previously gathered over 255,000 signatures before being delivered in-person to Apple stores in major U.S. cities, including New York, recently made headlines following a New York...
Playsurface touchscreen computing table hands-on (video)
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Let's be honest -- the first time we saw the Microsoft Surface in action, we all dreamt of getting our grubby fingers on our very own unit. Five years later, we're no closer to the dream of a touchscreen coffee tablet in every living room. Templeman Automation, thankfully, shares...
Researchers create flexible, transparent, 3D non-volatile memory
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Speaking at the American Chemical Society, James Tour of Rice University has apparently demonstrated non-volatile 3D memory chips that are transparent, flexible enough to be folded like paper, and capable of withstanding temperatures up to 1,000F (537C). According to Tour, devices based on his 3D memory could survive an accidental...
'Sketch Nation Studio': create and publish an App Store game right on your iPhone (hands-on)
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Sketch Nation Studio is a free game creation tool for iOS that was launched today by Engineous Games. The company previously released the similar Sketch Nation Shooter, but Studio expands its reach to cover some of the most popular styles of games in the App Store today, such as...
RIM Opens the Gates for the Trojan Horse
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New program for mobile device management gives users carte blanche to bring in other devices....
Facebook platform update: page tabs, payments, fan gates, more
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Facebook shared a number of updates on its developer blog today, including new features, API changes and bug fixes. New link makes apps easier to add – Tab application pages now include an “Add App to Page” option to make it simpler for admins to add custom tabs to their...
Archos Arnova A9G3 tablet bares its backside for the FCC
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Tablets have fared far better than smartphones under Ice Cream Sandwich's Lady Liberty embrace. While the market's seen a paucity of smaller-screened Android 4.0 devices, the opposite is true of its slate cousins. And Archos appears determined to further spread Google's latest OS love to the people with a...
Gates, Ellison both looking to buy Hawaii's Lanai?
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Hawaii is rife with rumors that the two software heavyweights want to purchase the island of Lanai, where Gates got married and Ellison has a home. [Read more]...
Valve launches Greenlight to let community decide which games get released on Steam
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Over the past few years, Valve’s Steam platform has become the gold standard of online games marketplaces. Now, the company is launching Steam Greenlight, a new system that will allow the platform’s users to vote for games that they want to see released for purchase there. The system is simple,...
The 10 Biggest Android Tablet Fails (GOOG)
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Android tablets have come a long way since their debut in late 2010 but they have not been spared from a series of unpopular devices. Android tablets, with the notable exception of the Kindle Fire, has struggled to keep up with Apple's iPad despite sporting many additional features, sizes, colors...
Lots of investment in facial recognition, but are we any safer?
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In his review of Kelly Gates's Our Biometric Future: Facial Recognition Technology and the Culture of Surveillance, author Evgeny Morozov takes an objective look at the history of facial recognition technology (FRT). What he finds is that despite a lot of investment and the work of some really smart...
Samsung unveils quad-core Exynos 4 SoC for Galaxy S3
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Samsung has launched a new quad-core, 32nm HKMG processor today that it intends to showcase as part of the Galaxy S3, which will be officially launched next week. The new chip contains up to four Cortex-A9 cores running at 1.4GHz. It’s the first Exynos to utilize per-core scaling and voltage...
Are your brand's tweets too hot for kids? Age-screening tool comes to the rescue
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Content too hot for Twittering youngsters? Twitter and Buddy Media to the rescue. The social media analytics firm, which was recently acquired by Salesforce, is today releasing a free age-screening tool for brands that was developed in partnership with Twitter. The gatekeeper feature is meant to keep underage Twitter...
Hollywood's Gates Aren't Closed-They've Merely Moved
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There’s a saying in Hollywood that “the gates are closed.” Too many studios get too many scripts and all that gets made is the summer blockbuster stuff. The days of taking risks on quirky films are over. Rob Burnett, CEO of Worldwide Pants and our PandoMonthly NYC guest, believed...
DailyDirt: Zipping Around On Fewer Wheels
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Personal transportation is getting better and more convenient all the time -- just check out a bit of the history of the bicycle (or velocipedes). An early velocipede was even nicknamed the "boneshaker" for its uncomfortable ride. Here are just a few advances in the field of personal vehicles that...
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