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Study: 'App Economy' has created 500,000 jobs since 2007
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It's no secret that the rise of smartphones, tablets and social networking has fostered an entirely new market for app developers, but a freshly released study has now attempted to quantify this impact, in terms of real jobs. According to TechNet, a bipartisan network of tech execs, the so-called...
Airbind syncs your iTunes media library to your Android smartphone
thenextweb.com
Whilst Apple likes to create an enclosed, controlled ecosystem for its myriad of products and services to flourish, that doesn’t stop third-parties coming along to ruffle the feathers. Airbind is a free Android app that lets users synchronize their iTunes media library to any Android device across WiFi. First up,...
App Store infested with zombie software, claims analytics startup Adeven
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Zombies may provide a perennial source of material for mobile games, but no developer actually wants their app to be the walking dead. Nonetheless, according to new mobile analytics and ad verification firm Adeven, that’s what almost two-thirds of the iOS App Store constitutes. The Berlin company’s Apptrace tool launches...
Play Safe For Android Locks Down Your Phone So Kids Can (Safely) Play
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Sometimes you just gotta do your own thing. Such was the case with Boris Vaisman, who dropped out of Y Combinator’s winter batch (where he was on kid-safe phone lockdown tool, Kyte). Says Vaisman, it was just a matter of “having a different vision in terms of how to move...
'China Twitter' nears ID deadline
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China's Sina Weibo microblog says less than two-thirds of its account holders will register their details ahead of a state-imposed deadline....
Walmart Adds “Pay With Cash” For Online Shoppers At Walmart.com
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Walmart.com is launching a new way to checkout, targeting customers who don’t have credit or debit cards…or money in the bank for that matter. The company is now allowing customers to buy online and pay with cash. The change reflects the current economic conditions in the U.S., as Walmart states...
Twitter: An Increasingly Great Platform For Instagram
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Twitter has been working hard over the last year to make photo sharing a core part of its product. It took over the photo-hosting role from third parties and gained deep new integration with Apple’s iOS, among other initiatives. But there’s also a big new winner coming up on top of...
Greenpeace slams Apple despite its clean power data center plans
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Despite that Apple is building one of the largest privately-owned solar and fuel cell farms at its data center in Maiden, North Carolina, the environmentalists at Greenpeace say in a new report that Apple is one of a couple of Internet companies that are falling significantly short on sourcing clean...
Two-thirds of Americans unwilling to spend over $50 a month on mobile data, says Parks Associates
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In a recent report titled Mobile Data and Applications, research outfit Parks Associates found that a large chunk of Stateside consumers aren't willing to pay more than $50 per month for a mobile data plan. What's also interesting here -- but not surprising -- is the study shows nearly...
Starbucks Just Invested $25 Million In Square, With Howard Schultz Joining The Board (SBUX)
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Starbucks, the giant coffee seller, just invested $25 million in Square, the San Francisco-based payments startup. In an email announcing the news, Square just acknowledged what we reported last month: The company is raising a Series D round of financing. Starbucks is taking a small piece of that round. Square...
What is the next industry Apple can disrupt? Banking!
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While anticipation grows for a possible Apple television launch at some point, the company may want to think about diversifying into banking. A new survey of 5,092 respondents in the U.K. and the U.S. from marketing and research consultancy KAE found that one in 10 people would consider banking with Apple, and...
Loyalty Service Swipely Adds Analytics And Targeted Campaigns
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Swipely, the startup led by TellMe Founder Angus Davis, is doubling down on its credit card-based loyalty strategy. The company first launched as a way to share your credit card purchases with your friends, but when that idea (as deployed by Swipely and others) failed to take off, Swipely shifted...
Currys launches 'Knowhow Movies' VOD service / money-pit
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Today, DSGI (Currys, PC World) and Rovi launch a UK-based VOD service under the retail giant's Knowhow paid-support brand (think: Geek Squad with more overcharging). You'll be able to buy and download movies and TV to your Windows PC or stream them to a Mac using Rovi's DivX technology...
Japanese games firm DeNA boosts its mobile presence in China with Renren partnership
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Japanese mobile social gaming company DeNA has increased its visibility on mobile devices in China after it announced a partnership with Renren that will see its titles included in the social network’s Android app. A dedicated section has been created for DeNA’s Mobage platform within the Renren app. The new addition...
Paying With Smartphones to Outpace Credit Cards by 2020, Experts Say
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More than two-thirds of technology insiders believe that paying with smartphones will overtake cash and credit card payments by 2020, according to a survey......
Comcast has been well-behaved ever since the FCC smacked it down over BitTorrent throttling
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As amazing as it may seem, corporations’ behavior can change when federal regulators decide to step in. TorrentFreak reports on a new study from Measurement Lab showing that Comcast (CMCSA) has dramatically reduced the amount of BitTorrent traffic shaping it does despite being one of the worst offenders in the industry just...
Hacktivism Trumps Money as Motivation for Denial of Service Attacks
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Two-thirds of all DDoS attacks globally were motivated by politics, ideology, nihilism or vandalism....
After Missing Out On Buying Instagram, Twitter Considered Buying Another Camera App
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Twitter considered buying Camera+, another advanced camera app for the iPhone, after it missed out on buying Instagram, Bloomberg reports. Twitter had expressed interest in buying Instagram, but Instagram ended up selling to Facebook for $1 billion, The New York Times reported last month. The talks between Camera+ and Twitter...
Android reclaims 61 percent of all U.S. smartphone sales
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Grabbing ground lost during the holiday quarter, Android now holds almost two-thirds of the U.S. market, says NPD Group. [Read more]...
Private: some search engines make money by not tracking users
arstechnica.com
In the United States, two out of every three searches go through Google, which serves up a total of three billion search queries per day. "Googling" has become so ubiquitous that the company has become a verb in English (and in other languages, too). Given that most of us use...
Nielsen: Smartphones account for nearly 50 percent of US mobile phones as of February
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Nielsen Mobile Insights' latest statistics are in -- and would you look at that. It's the rise of smartphone owners crossing paths with the decline of those still clinging to their feature-focused devices. According to its latest Smartphone Penetration report, through February 2012, 49.7 percent of US mobile phone...
The magic moment: Smartphones now half of all U.S. mobiles
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We’ve finally reached the point where half of U.S. mobile consumers own smartphones — a significant moment that proves the smartphone revolution is more than just hype. As of February, 49.7 percent of U.S. mobile owners have smartphones, according to the latest figures from Nielsen. Additionally, the research group...
IDC: Android has a heady 59 percent of world smartphone share, iPhone still on the way up
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We've been jonesing for a more international look at smartphone market share for the start of 2012, and IDC is now more than willing to oblige. In case you'd thought Android's relentless march upwards was just an American fling, Google's OS has jumped from 36.1 percent of the world's...
Ofcom aims to cap BT line rental charges from April
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Ofcom, has proposed price cuts of up to 19% in the amount that Openreach – BT's network of landlines – charges rival operatorsThe prices consumers pay for broadband and landline telephone services are expected to fall after Ofcom announced plans to reduce the amount BT can charge rivals to rent...
RIAA: Online Music Piracy Pales In Comparison to Offline Swapping
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In April, one of the RIAA’s key employees informed a group of music industry insiders about the upcoming six-strikes anti-piracy scheme in the U.S. TorrentFreak received a copy of the presentation sheets which include a rather interesting chart on where people get their music files from. The data presented by...
How’s The Gold Rush Panning Out? 70% Of Mobile App Users Pay Little Or Nothing, Study Says
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There’s been a lot of buzz about how important mobile apps are for years now, and an increasing number of tech startups are launching with mobile-only strategies. But a new study indicates the sector still has a ways to go before it attracts significant money from a wide breadth of...
Toshiba to make quad-core Android 4.0 tablets in 7, 10, and 13 inch sizes
arstechnica.com
Toshiba is launching a new line of tablets running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich in May and June, the company announced Tuesday. The "Excite" tablet family will come in 7.7-inch, 10-inch, and 13-inch sizes, and all will have Tegra 3 quad-core processors. The WiFi-only Excite tablets will all have...
Nielsen: As U.S. Nears Smartphone Majority, It’s A Two-Horse Race Between Android and Apple’s iOS
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New numbers out from Nielsen today point to just how close the U.S. is to having more smartphone than feature phone users: the proportion that currently owns a smartphone, as of February 2012, is 49.7 percent, say the analysts, a big leap on the 36 percent who owned smartphones a...
Badgeville mobilizes gamification with mobile SDK
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When Badgeville started rolling out its gamification software a couple years ago, CEO Kris Duggan said most critics suggested it might only get applied to media or content sites looking to add some simple game mechanics. But Badgeville has just kept growing, expanding its audience to not just consumer-facing...
How Up To 85% Of Google Search Results Are Actually Paid Ads (GOOG)
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Sponsored results frequently overwhelm Google search results, according to a study by Wordstream, a search marketing management company. Wordstream founder Larry Kim and his team found that for search results about shopping items, as much as 85.2% of the real estate in which users might expect to see results are...
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