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The BBC launches Facebook News Control Panel to personalize your social news feed
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As part of its campaign to increase its social presence and to change the way people access news online, the BBC has rolled out its new BBC News Control Panel for its official Facebook page to give people more control over the news that they see on their News Stream. The...
Flipboard Planning To Release Android Beta For Everyone Who Doesn’t Have A Galaxy S III
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One of the nice little surprises at Samsung’s Galaxy S III unveiling in London was that the device would be preloaded with the fabled Android version of the Flipboard social magazine app. The news came from out of the blue — while the iOS version has garned plenty of acclaim...
Google Gets Scientific, Adds A Voice-Enabled 34-Button Calculator To Desktop And Mobile Search
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Oh Google. Sometimes you’re so awesome. Google search has long featured a built-in calculator function but a recent update added a fully functional 34-button scientific calculator. Previously, when a user entered, say, 2+2, Google would simply display the sum above the search result. Now, when that equation is entered into...
What's responsive Web design all about?
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The website for Washington's Sasquatch Music Festival responds automatically to the width of the browser's window. When you consider how many different tablets, laptops, Web browsers, and operating systems access the Internet on a day-to-day basis, it's a small miracle that Web designers and developers manage to stay sane....
Betabeat’s Spring 2012 Most Poachable Players in Tech
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Silicon Alley may not have its own Bravo reality show, but if Mayor Bloomberg’s constant pomp and circumstance about New York City’s innovative spirit is any indication, New York’s startup scene is on the verge of exploding. For the first time since 1999, the tech sector beat out financial services...
How Does Y Combinator Scale Y Combinator?
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The startups that presented at Y Combinator’s Demo Day last week were remarkable in their own right, but perhaps the most striking thing was the sheer number of them. With 66 companies and 180 founders in this season’s batch, the auditorium at Mountain View’s Computer History Museum was practically bursting...
Rackspace CEO: 'We're playing a different game' than Amazon
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For Rackspace, there’s no turning back from OpenStack now. As of Wednesday, all new customer workloads will deploy on the company’s open source cloud computing platform, leaving the company’s legacy platform for existing customers that want to take their time transitioning to the new cloud. Now, the competition to dethrone...
A Look at Android Fragmentation: The Good, The Bad and the Pretty Charts
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There’s no doubt there is a great deal of diversity when it comes to Android. There are a half dozen flavors of the operating system, with products made by dozens of manufacturers and literally thousands of individual designs. Whether this is good or bad depends on one’s perspective. But the...
Nokia Stock Down By More Than 10% On Massive Overhaul: Revised Forecasts, Exec Changes, Vertu Gone, Scalado Acquired
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When it rains it pours at Nokia. The Finnish company today announced not one but four separate items of news — a major strategy refresh with revised forecasts; a host of executive departures and several internal appointments to replace them; the final confirmation at its luxury folly brand Vertu is...
Nokia Stock Down By More Than 10% On Massive Overhaul: Revised Forecasts, Exec Changes, Vertu Gone, Scalado Acquired
All The Location Apps You Have To Use At The SXSW Royal Rumble
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It’s turning into a royal rumble at SXSW — the sheer number of location-based networking apps hoping to emerge from the conference as this year’s breakout hit is nearly overwhelming. What’s worse, they’re often so similar in nature, so it’s hard to discern the advantages of one over another....
Ads by Coffee offers charities free online advertising campaigns, no strings attached
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The expression ‘non-profit advertising agency’ probably sounds like a bit of an oxymoron, but that’s exactly what Ads by Coffee is. The brand new organization provides charities with Internet-based marketing, free of charge. While Ads by Coffee is based in Australia, it is made up of a small team of...
Can Anything Take Down the Facebook Juggernaut?
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Illustration: Mister Mourao Sometime in early 2004, as Mark Zuckerberg was furiously coding the first iterations of The Facebook in his Harvard dorm room, the Internet passed what then seemed to be an impressive milestone: 750 million people worldwide had become connected. The exact birthdate of the Internet is difficult...
7-Inch iPad with Retina Display Coming in October Priced at $200-$250?
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iMore reports that Apple is "currently targeting" an October launch for a smaller iPad, with the device carrying a display of roughly 7 inches and being priced in the $200-$250 range. According to our source, which has proven reliable in the past, the reason for such aggressive pricing is to...
Hacker Culture: The Key To Future Prosperity?
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Editor’s Note: This guest post was written by Dan Abelon, Founder of SpeedDate. Dan blogs about global startup issues at WorldStartups.org. One of the most exciting trends of the early 21st century has been the explosion of hacker culture around the world. By hackers, I don’t mean people who pose...
Want Flipboard on Android? Here’s how to get it.
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Flipboard has long been a showcase app for iOS; the iPad in particular. When Samsung introduced its new Galaxy S III, however, it said that Flipboard would debut on the handset as an exclusive. I may have argued about the openness of Android just yesterday, but that same openness is...
Bing fights Google with simplicity, cleans up search results page
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Bing has had an epiphany. Rather than compete with Google in the sheer number of features it can cram onto its results page, Microsoft’s search engine is going the opposite direction towards simplification by releasing a clean, more streamlined results page. The result is pretty nice: Microsoft has stripped...
RWW Recommends: Best App For Casual Runners
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Search for running apps and you get hundreds of results. But many seem targeted at the hard-core runner logging 100+ miles per week. We ask: what app is best for newbie and weekend warrior-runners? After I crossed the finish line in New York of my third and, ultimately, final marathon,...
Angry Birds Space introduces the age of the mobile game blockbuster
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By getting 10 million downloads in three days, Angry Birds Space has vaulted the mobile game business into the stratosphere of bonified entertainment blockbusters. It’s hard to calculate how much money the game has generated because prices range from 99 cents for Angry Birds Space on iOS to $6...
Blasting the photoelectric effect out of the quantum realm with a very intense light source
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In 1905, Albert Einstein showed that the photoelectric effect—the ability of metals to produce an electric current when exposed to light—could be explained if light is quantum, traveling in discrete bundles of energy. His model, the photon theory, won him the Nobel Prize in 1921, but it left us...
Tracky wants to be your one-stop collaboration shop
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If you’ve ever found yourself frustrated over the need to constantly switch between apps to manage your calendar, collaborate on projects, assign tasks, chat, share files — you name it — Tracky wants to be your savior. The Las Vegas-based company, which just raised $1 million in angel funding, is...
Nokia site tracks software updates for the Lumia 800
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Microsoft might have abandoned the Where's My Phone Update? service, but following a major update earlier this month, Nokia has launched a similar offering for users of the Lumia 800. Nokia's new page breaks down the availability of updates by country, carrier, and product code, allowing owners to see...
Unity Technologies marks one million developers for its game development tools
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Unity Technologies has announced that is has over one million registered developers — a growth of 250,000 in just three months — with nearly 300,000 users active in the last month alone. Unity provides the Unity:3D engine, which is behind a number of games including Battlestar Galactica Online and...
Kabam joins the Mobage stable with new Ngmoco publising deal
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DeNA-owned ngmoco has signed up Kabam as the newest publishing partner for the Mobage platform. The announcement comes out of DeNA’s Mobage Forum conference in Japan this week. Kabam has only just entered the mobile market with a version of its Facebook game Kingdoms of Camelot on iOS. Kingdoms of...
Why Variety’s street value has plummeted in 4 years
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Four years ago, Dutch-Anglo publisher Reed Elsevier (NYSE: RUK) put its 107-year-old showbiz trade paper, Variety, on the auction block. It ultimately failed to find a buyer willing in the middle of a global recession to pay in the neighborhood of $2 billion for Variety and a handful of Reed’s other ad-supported...
Not-Horrible iPad Cases: a round-up of the best
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The following round-up is from our esteemed colleagues at The Wirecutter. We recently were discussing this very topic in the Editor's household, where children abound and the SmartCover fails to do much protecting. Some people think the iPad is so gorgeous it doesn't need a case. I disagree, and...
Chinese Anti-Black Card Alliance stops more than $1.5M in iOS scams
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Just how much money are virtual currency “black card” scams costing Chinese iOS developers? The Chinese Anti-Black Card Alliance has stopped more than $1.5 million USD in fraudulent transactions in just six months. Black card scams, so named because they use fake or stolen credit card numbers, operate mainly on...
Review: WaterField Muzetto Outback bag for tablets
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For a lot of people an iPad by itself is a luxury, never mind the sheer number of accessories you can buy for one. That makes the products WaterField creates even more extreme -- not only are they handmade in the US, they're often crafted with material like real leather,...
HTC tries to defrag its Android lineup with new HTC One phones
www.geekwire.com
One of the biggest challenges in the market for Android phones is the sheer number of devices — a.k.a. the notorious fragmentation of the ecosystem. When you’re buying an iPhone, you’re buying an iPhone. When you’re buying an Android device, it feels like you need a continuing education seminar to...
Pimp My Ride: RelayRides Rolls Out an OnStar Partnership
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Oh, for an old-media expense account! Well, here’s one way to cover the exorbitant cost of a parking space in New York City: peer-to-peer car-sharing marketplace RelayRides just announced a big partnership with General Motors and OnStar, meant to make it easier for drivers to rent out their idle vehicles, Airbnb-style. That is,...
Triggers transforms your iPhone into an IFTTT-like gadget
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With the sheer number of things you can do with smartphones today, it’s something of a clichéd joke to say that we can use our phones to do everything but make us our morning coffee. While that option is still only a pipe dream that some of us caffeine-dependent smartphone...
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