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RIM shows off new features for PlayBook 2.0 at DevCon
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All eyes are on Amsterdam this morning, as RIM hosts DevCon Europe. Among all the usual avowals about how well things are going are a few nuggets of the new and the noteworthy. One such morsel was a demonstration of new BlackBerry Bridge features. Now, swipes and touches from...
Taghreedat launches Arabic Wikipedia Editors Program in cooperation with the Wikimedia Foundation
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Taghreedat, the Middle Eastern volunteer group working to increase the amount of Arabic Web content has just struck a deal with the Wikimedia Foundation, launching the Arabic Wikipedia Editors Program. The first regional program of its kind, it aims to find and train Internet users in the Middle East to...
3 strategies for making e-commerce truly social
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In just one year from now, we’ll see social technologies disrupt e-commerce the same way they’ve already disrupted online gaming, music and news. Commerce has always been social. Shopping in the real world is a form of social entertainment, and we turn to people we know for advice on products...
Wattpad raises $17 million to become the YouTube of writing
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Wattpad, which describes itself as the world’s largest online community of readers and writers, has raised a Series B funding round of $17.3 million from a group of venture funds led by Khosla Ventures and including Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang. The Toronto-based company announced the financing news on Wednesday...
CNET's TV testing lab: Behind the curtain (photos)
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Take a photo tour of CNET's Manhattan TV testing lab with your hosts, David Katzmaier and Ty Pendlebury....
From your couch, Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking
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A few weeks ago, Stephen Hawking celebrated his 70th birthday. The famous cosmologist (who is probably more widely known than any other living scientist) has written several popular books including A Brief History of Time, The Universe in a Nutshell, and most recently, The Grand Design. A documentary series...
Mobile data growth and what it means for you [Infographic]
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This week, the folks at iStrategyLabs produced and launched an infographic for Mobile Future highlighting the unprecedented growth in mobile data traffic and what it means for consumers. Just five years ago, consumers turned to their phones for basic communications – placing calls, checking email and sending texts. Today, those phones have...
Apple CEO Tim Cook interview at D10: the liveblog
www.engadget.com
We had quite the time here at the 2011 edition of D, and if you're fully caught up with last year's shenanigans, it's time to get to work. And by "work," we mean listening in to the opening keynote of DX. The 2012 conference is kicking off in earnest...
Engadget Mobile Podcast 133 - 04.04.2012
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Responding to current global events, the Engadget Mobile Podcasters have chosen to revive a Great Depression-era American tradition and expand it internationally with this, the Fireside Chat edition of The Engadget Mobile Podcast. Join us, won't you?, as we settle in to breathe heavily over the phones that have...
Airbnb partners with Lloyd’s of London for the new million dollar Host Guarantee
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The first question that people always ask me about Airbnb when I bring it up is “What if someone steals my stuff?” That’s a fair question and even though it hasn’t slowed the company down, it might stop people from listing their apartments and extra rooms. Airbnb has something in...
Coming Soon: Live Pay-Per-View Programming on YouTube
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To celebrate the first birthday of YouTube Live yesterday, Google announced that video creators can now monetize live events streaming on YouTube, either with ads or paid streaming. YouTube also made the Wirecast software free for partners, giving stream hosts the ability to do professional-quality live production. Television networks...
DogVacay adds new funding to successful pet-boarding concept
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DogVacay, a startup that pairs dog-sitters with dog owners through an AirBnB-like service, has added another investor to its seed funding as the service expands across the United States. Investor Andreessen Horowitz has joined existing investors including First Round Capital, Science Inc., Ben Ling, Ted Rheingold, Quest Venture Partners,...
Airbnb has booked 10M guest nights, with 5.6M of them booked outside of the United States
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Before Airbnb, the idea of renting out a room in your home to a complete stranger seemed absolutely absurd. To some, it still is. However, there’s no denying that the service has taken off and is becoming a true mainstream alternative to staying in a hotel for some. Today, the...
The Vergecast is live at 5:30PM EST / 10:30PM GMT!
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It's Thursday. That can mean only one thing: a brand new Vergecast for your listening and viewing pleasure. This week's Vergecast comes chock full of hosts, news, gadgets, feelings, jokes, and stories from our youth. So sit yourselves down, strap yourselves in and come with us on an journey...
Apple acknowledges ‘item cannot be downloaded’ errors due to iTunes Cloud issue, no ETA on fix
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If you’ve been trying to use your Apple TV to play iTunes in the Cloud content like TV shows but have been getting the error message ‘this item cannot be downloaded on this network, you must be connected to a WiFi network’, you’re not alone. I began experiencing the error...
Dog Vacay is basically Airbnb for dogs
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For most dog owners (like me!), finding a place for your dog to stay while traveling can be a huge pain. You can put your dog in a kennel, but most of the time that means your best friend spends several days cooped up in a cage with only limited...
Airbnb Streamlines Booking Process for Last-Minute Travel
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The average reservation on Airbnb is made a month in advance, and completing a booking can take up to eight days. So Airbnb has created an alternative booking service for last-minute travel that it calls Match, where users teach the system their preferences and send out the same booking inquiry...
Structure 2012 live coverage
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Pinar Ozger Five years ago we started bringing together the best technical minds and entrepreneurs in information technology to discuss at Structure how the growing importance of the cloud was changing their worlds. Now, it’s clear the cloud has arrived: but what impact will it continue to make on the hardware, software,...
More evidence that Google Drive could replace Google Docs
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Google’s long-anticipated file-sharing service, Google Drive, may have a lot in common with Google Docs, and might even have the same features. A sharp-eyed observer, Piers Dillon Scott, noticed today that drive.google.com hosts a robots.txt file that’s very similar to the one at docs.google.com, differing only by three or four...
Airbnb Will Now Cover Up to $1M Worth of Property Damage
allthingsd.com
Airbnb is putting up some cash to build a reputation around the safety and security of its hosts’ property. The company today committed to cover up to $1 million in damage resulting from a booking. That’s up from $50,000 “Host Guarantee” the company introduced last year. The new Host Guarantee,...
GitHub Now Has a Windows Client
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GitHub, the collaboration and version control site for open source and corporate developers, today is launching a Windows client. This is a significant move for the company as 50 percent of its traffic comes from Windows, despite the lack of any core tools for it, according to co-founder Chris Wanstrath....
Apple CEO Tim Cook interview at D10: the liveblog
www.engadget.com
We had quite the time here at the 2011 edition of D, and if you're fully caught up with last year's shenanigans, it's time to get to work. And by "work," we mean listening in to the opening keynote of DX. The 2012 conference is kicking off in earnest...
LinkedIn pays $119M for SlideShare’s professional content
gigaom.com
Professional social network LinkedIn is looking to bolster its appeal with its core business audience by buying up presentation hosting service SlideShare in a deal worth $118.75 million. The acquisition, which involves 45 percent cash and 55 percent stock, gives LinkedIn another way to connect its users, who are often...
MeetingBurner brings its cheap, WebEx-crushing meetings to the iPad
venturebeat.com
Online meeting startup MeetingBurner has updated its simple, clean iOS app to support the iPad, the company announced today. MeetingBurner launched out of beta in early February and faces steep competition in the online meeting space, including Cisco’s WebEx, Adobe’s Connect, Citrix’s GoToMeeting, and AnyMeeting. With such fierce competitors,...
Watch Rachel Sterne on ‘Morning Joe’ as Joe Scarborough Tries to Explain Foursquare to His Cohost
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via Morning Joe New York City's chief digital officer Rachel Sterne has already graced the pages of Vogue magazine. But this morning, fresh off of waving the Made in NYC™ pom-poms at SXSW, she stopped by MSNBC's "Morning Joe" to announce NYCgov's new Facebook photo contest to get your pic...
The Boondock Saints Video Game debuts at SXSW
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Most of the Boondock Saints Video Game panel at SXSW Interactive's Screenburn Arcade did not actually have much to do with the video game based on the Boondock Saints. Rather, a good 45 minutes of the 48-or-so minute-long presentation was dedicated to a Q&A in which stars Sean Patrick...
Internet TV network Revision3 has been acquired by Discovery Communications
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We’ve heard rumors of this, but now it’s been confirmed by Discovery. The company has acquired Internet TV giant Revision3 for an undisclosed sum. Rumors price the acquisition at around $30 million, which could be considered a bargain given the hot shows that Revision3 hosts. Revision3 was the headed by CEO Jim...
Reminder: Tim Cook appearing as opening speaker at D10 conference tonight
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Tonight at 6pm Pacific (9pm Eastern) Apple CEO Tim Cook is scheduled to appear as the opening-night speaker at the 10th D: All Things D conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, California. Past D: conferences were notably home to lengthy discussions between hosts Walt Mossberg and Karaswisher and former Apple CEO...
Real-time cloud juggling speeds flight to users
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Marty Kagan, co-founder and CEO, Cedexis(c)2012 Pinar Ozger pinar@pinarozger.com Everyone’s talking about how cloud-hosted services can quicken user productivity. But, as more software becomes hosted online, how should those services guarantee fast access for everyone? Minute-by-minute shuffling of hosted services between the best-performing cloud hosts around the world is the best...
BBM Challenge Council wants to 'debunk' anti-BlackBerry rumors with comedy webisodes
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Apparently BlackBerry's "be bold" infographics weren't enough to get the youth of today interested in RIM's phones. In fact, RIM says it's been hearing some downright negative rumors, and it's looking to put them to rest with the help of MTV and CollegeHumor veterans, celebrity cameos, and fan-made videos....
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