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Facebook As A Mobile Platform: 60 Million Mobile Users Visit Third-Party Apps Each Month
techcrunch.com
Facebook is huge on mobile — as an application developer. But questions have circled for years around how it can be a real mobile platform on top of operating systems controlled by Apple and Google. But we got a little more data on what it’s already accomplishing on the platform...
Mobile Devs Interested in Google Over Facebook for Social Mobile Apps
www.readwriteweb.com
Google and Facebook are in a war for user attention on the Web. This is not just about how many eyeballs are on Google+ versus Facebook but also from an end-to-end platform perspective. That includes messaging, application deployment, social graph implementations and content discovery. Like everything else in the...
Amazon, eBay Among Latest To Add Pinterest Buttons
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The pinteresting of the web continues at Amazon and eBay. The massive online retailers recently added tiny Pinterest buttons to their deck of social media sharing options on product pages. And why not? With Pinterest being the fast-growing social network, these buttons give users easy ways to share while at...
Amazon is No. 1. Who’s next in cloud computing?
gigaom.com
Amazon Web Services is, by all accounts, the largest cloud service provider by far, although good luck finding third-party numbers to verify that. Amazon, like most of the big cloud providers, doesn’t disclose much about current or planned data centers. New research from Accenture analyst Huan Liu estimates that...
Researcher uses NFC to attack Android, Nokia smartphones
news.cnet.com
Expert finds flaws in NFC implementations in Android and Nokia that could be used to compromise smartphones. [Read more]...
Survey: iOS beating Android for business apps, creating opportunity for Windows 8
www.geekwire.com
App developers see the tide turning in Apple’s favor inside many companies, with iOS outpacing Android as the preferred mobile platform for the enterprise, according to a new survey from mobile platform company Appcelerator and the IDC research firm. “The big news is that Apple’s iOS took a dramatic...
This Fanless Heatsink Is The Next Generation In CPU Cooling
techcrunch.com
CPU fans have a certain steampunkian quality to them. They’re loud, annoying, and collect all sorts of debris as they run, whirring endlessly and eventually failing. This new heatsink – more like an impeller coupled with a brushless motor – is the latest in heatsink technology and promises quiet and...
Abobe pulls support for Flash Player on Android 4.1, limits new Google Play installations from August 15
thenextweb.com
If you were hoping to run a nice new version of Flash Player on your new Nexus 7 or future Jelly Bean device, Adobe has some bad news for you. Not only has said it won’t support Flash on Android 4.1 at launch, it has ceased development on the platform...
Abobe pulls support for Flash Player on Android 4.1, limits new Google Play installations from August 15
Sprint LTE previewed: faster than HSPA+, slower than Verizon and AT&T LTE
www.theverge.com
PC Magazine recently got a chance to test out Sprint's forthcoming LTE network. The network, which is scheduled to roll out by 2014, is a very important investment for Sprint — AT&T and Verizon are already making progress on their implementations of LTE, and even T-Mobile has its speedy...
Microsoft talks touch hardware in Windows 8
arstechnica.com
Touch screens are not all the same. Even screens that use the same technology (capacitive, resistive, or optical) will show different behavior depending on the controllers used and other details. Windows 8 will have to cope with a wide range of touch implementations, and the Building Windows 8 blog...
Atlantis sucks the storage cost out of enterprise apps
gigaom.com
Atlantis Computing CEO Bernard Harguindeguy Atlantis Technology thinks that as cheap as storage has become, it’s still too expensive. Its goal is to suck as much of that cost out of your IT infrastructure as possible. First it offered software that CEO Bernard Harguindeguy says cuts the storage requirement for...
Apple Makes 500k Jobs? Cloud Services Could Help Make 14 Million, With Half In China And India
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Much was made of the news last week from Apple that its businesses had effectively created over 500,000 jobs in the U.S. not just directly at its company but at the many that link into the ecosystem it has created. Today, Microsoft teamed up with IDC to publish some research...
Intel claims Android is not ready for multi-core processors
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Intel, one of the newest chipmakers to enter the Android scene, claimed that rival chip vendors have not done enough to optimise Android for multi-core processors, The Inquirer reported. While the majority of ARM-based vendors are focusing on dual- and quad-core processors, Intel has just entered the Android market with...
BitTorrent inventor’s new p2p tech could ‘kill off television’
www.bgr.com
BitTorrent inventor Bram Cohen took the stage at the San Francisco MusicTech Summit on Monday and gave onlookers a live demonstration of his new peer-to-peer live video streaming technology. Cohen’s new tech is potentially capable of streaming live video to millions of Internet-connected devices without the need for a...
Hey, Enterprise Startups, You Should Move To New York
www.businessinsider.com
I recently read the article “17 Enterprise Startups to Bet Your Career On” in Business Insider. As a longtime enterprise investor, I was happy to see more attention being paid to this major area of venture, but a little disappointed in one dimension of the article. For the...
Ubuntu and Android make for a mobile one-two punch
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Canonical plans to turn future Android phones into Ubuntu desktops, which could eliminate the need to carry a laptop. The company announced the news on Tuesday and will be demonstrating the solution later this month at the Mobile World Congress event. The idea of using a docked phone as a...
Adobe says no Flash Player for Android 4.1, plans to withdraw app on Aug. 15
www.computerworld.com
There will be no certified implementations of Adobe Systems' Flash Player for Android 4.1, and on Aug. 15 the player will take a bow and no longer be available for download from Google's app store Play, Adobe said in blog post on Thursday....
Microsoft Nails Down Windows End-Of-Life Dates
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Still using Windows Vista? XP? Why? Well, whatever the reason, Microsoft has clarified some of their end-of-life dates for older versions of Windows, including XP. This is mostly about support on the business side but it could be useful if you’ve got an old machine that’s acting up (or you...
Why Companies Should Jump On The Cloud Bandwagon Right Now
www.businessinsider.com
We've seen how personal cloud services like Dropbox, Google Drive and iCloud have made our lives easier, and now the cloud trend is taking on the workplace. Implementing a cloud structure in companies will be a dramatic change for the office -- similar to the changes brought about by broadband...
Sponsor post: Do you need an FBI hostage negotiator to architect storage for server/client virtualization?
gigaom.com
Not only does virtualization help you reduce the capital and operating expenses for IT assets but it also offers an immediate ROI — increased utilization, up to 75 percent. The freedom to spin up or move virtual machines (VMs) quickly and easily calls for a storage layer that is tightly...
Sponsor post: Do you need an FBI hostage negotiator to architect storage for server/client virtualization?
Samsung wants to put roughly 700 questions before the jury -- Apple: only 49
www.fosspatents.com
Late on Wednesday, Apple and Samsung filed, with a view to the trial that is scheduled to start on July 30, their proposed jury verdict forms and the questions that jurors will be asked when they are selected from the "venire" (persons that have jury duty). The parties' proposals could hardly...
Orange France begins nationwide NFC SIM rollout in the name of 'Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité'
www.engadget.com
NFC's potential uses are numerous -- contactless mobile payments, automated actions and content sharing to name a few -- but aside from its scattered inclusion in a limited number of handsets in the US and overseas, we've yet to see it truly take off. Cue Orange France. The wireless...
Apple Patent Application Reveals Integrated Charging Contacts in iPod Nano Clip
www.macrumors.com
A newly-published Apple patent application (via AppleInsider) reveals Apple's interest in exploring the use of the iPod nano's clip as a charging and docking mechanism, a move that would eliminate the need for a dedicated docking port on the bottom edge of the device as found in the current design....
Netflix already in talks with cable companies, could be integrated this year: Reuters
www.theverge.com
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings isn't shy about wanting to get his service in your cable box, but we were under the impression that it was a faraway target. According to Reuters, though, Hastings has already been meeting with cable companies about the possibility of adding Netflix to their bundles,...
Amazon completes Kiva deal, welcomes its new warehouse robot overlords
www.geekwire.com
A Kiva robot in action Amazon today finished its $775 million purchase of Kiva Systems, the Massachusetts-based maker of automation technology for fulfillment centers — better known as warehouse robots. The company disclosed the completion of the deal in a (very) brief regulatory filing. Amazon had announced the acquisition agreement in March....
Apple’s iPhone 4S cleared of infringement claims in the Netherlands
www.bgr.com
A Dutch judge on Wednesday ruled that the iPhone 4S does not infringe Samsung’s patents, Dutch website Tweakers reported. The Hague court has not yet ruled whether Apple’s earlier models and iPad 2 tablet infringe the vendor’s patents due to different implementations of 3G technology that may be protected....
Samsung 3G case vs. Apple labeled 'ridiculous' by Judge
www.electronista.com
Australian Federal Court Justice Annabelle Bennett has labeled the case brought before the court by Samsung against Apple over 3G patents as "ridiculous," reports Bloomberg. Samsung is countersuing Apple in Australia in response to Apple's assertions that Samsung has copied its hardware and software designs and implementations. According to Bennett,...
Intel, Qualcomm give Apple 3G code to fend off Samsung
www.electronista.com
Apple received important ammunition on Thursday in its defense against Samsung's Australian lawsuit over the iPhone. Both Infineon's owner Intel as well as Qualcomm have both provided source code for their 3G implementations. Apple hopes to show that it's not violating Samsung's 3G patents and will likely try to argue...
HTC denies accusations of breaking Apple patents
www.electronista.com
Lawyers for HTC today defended the company in a London courtroom, insisting it isn't violating Apple patents, Bloomberg reports. At stake are four patents, covering multi-touch, slide-to-unlock, zooming and scrolling for photos, and the use of different character sets for text messages. "We are dealing with extremely simple implementations of...
Why one company is making all its employees learn how to code
venturebeat.com
The most successful companies are ones that are never satisfied with the status quo. They are too busy looking for ways to improve their products, personnel, and experience for their customers. There are many approaches a company can take to improve itself. For us, it meant trying something revolutionary...
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