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Twitter alerted NBC about tweet that got journalist banned
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Yesterday, a journalist was banned from Twitter for tweeting the corporate email address of a NBC executive. Today, The Telegraph has revealed that NBC was informed of the tweet by Twitter itself. Christopher McCloskey, NBC Sport's vice president of communications, told the newspaper that NBC's social media department "was...
HP on laptop design similarities with Apple's: it's a struggle as we drive to simplicity
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HP's spent the afternoon here in Shanghai to share some details about its latest products and strategy, and to our delight, there was one session dedicated to "Style Meets Function," during which Vice President of Industrial Design Stacy Wolff talked about his design philosophy and design goals for the...
Amazon's Cloud Player Crackdown Punishes Cheapskates
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You knew it had to happen, but it still stings. With Amazon's complicated update of its Cloud Player digital music service, the company has made its cloud-based music-locker service much less friendly to users who don't want to pay for a subscription. Amazon's announcement Tuesday made it sound like the...
Former Olympus chairman Tsuyoshi Kikukawa comes down from the mount, into police custody
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If you've been following the latest camera industry accounting scandal, then you're probably well aware that all is not well at Olympus. The Japanese company took its latest blow today when former chairman Tsuyoshi Kikukawa was arrested in Tokyo on suspicion of having falsified financial statements. The Tokyo prosecutor's...
Yammer possibly seeking a new $50M investment
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Rumors are circulating that enterprise-focused social network Yammer is raising a new mega funding round of over $50 million, which would push the startup’s valuation near $1 billion. Yammer provides companies with their own social network that allows employees to quickly communicate and update their activity throughout the day. A...
Nokia Unveils Their Newest Windows Phone: The Budget-Conscious Lumia 610
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And there we have it! Nokia’s Executive Vice President of Mobile Devices has just taken the stage again here at Nokia’s MWC press conference to officially unveil their new entry-level Lumia 610 smartphone. Developing…...
Verizon Wireless launches ‘Share Everything’ family plans with shared data
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Verizon Wireless on Tuesday announced the immediate availability of its new “Share Everything” family plans, which include shared voice minutes, text messages and data. The new plans are compatible with smartphones, tablets and feature phones, and they start at $30 per device for basic phones and $40 per device...
Grovo How To Do SEO Video Series
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We've written earlier about Grovo, an online video elearning site that conducts a lot of celebrity interviews. Some of them are more interesting than others. Today they have a new series with Zach Ciperski, the Director of SEO for EliteSEM and also serves as Vice President of CoffeeForLess.com. He has...
Online Community For Small Businesses Manta Raises $44M From Norwest Venture Partners
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Manta, an online community dedicated entirely to small business, has raised $44 million in funding from Norwest Venture Partners. This brings the company’s total funding to $61 million. With this investment NVP’s Jon Kossow and David Su have joined Manta’s board of directors, which includes previous investors Athenian Venture Partners...
Google partners with Flipboard, adding Google+ streams to the app
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Speaking at Le Web ’12 in London, Google’s Vice President of Product Management Bradley Horowitz announced that Flipboard will now support Google+ streams in the app, launching soon. This is a developing story, please refresh for updates....
Another 4,000 production jobs axed at Nokia
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Nokia may have some hot new smartphone models coming this year, but it’s financial turmoil isn’t over. The Finnish phone giant said Wedneday morning that it plans to cut around 4,000 jobs. The company is reducing production at plants in Hungary, Mexico and Salo, Finland. The three plants mke...
NBC's Olympic portal goes live, ready to stream all 32 sports
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NBC is launching its Olympic website today, ready to stream all 32 sports at the London 2012 Olympics live, before the time-delayed television broadcast. The site will not only live stream content, but also provide users with access to a vast catalogue of archived material. Rick Cordella, vice president...
Feature: How Red Hat killed its core product—and became a billion-dollar business
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A decade ago, Linux developer Red Hat faced a decision that would make or break the company: whether to stop producing the very product that gave Red Hat its name. The company was built on Red Hat Linux, but when Paul Cormier—now the head of Red Hat's technologies and...
Amazon nabs Dilbert and Doonesbury digital comics anthologies as a Kindle Fire exclusive
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Two anthologies of Doonesbury and Dilbert comic strips will be available in digital format for the first time as a Kindle Fire exclusive, Amazon announced today. This is the result of a deal between the company and Andrews McMeel Publishing. Following the agreement, Kindle Fire owners will be able to buy...
The Avengers Sets New Mobile Ticket Record For Fandango
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The Avengers can add another record to its tally — it represents the most opening weekend tickets sold in Fandango history, and a new record for mobile ticket sales. Fandango didn’t share the exact number of sales, but it did say that The Avengers beat the previous record holder, The...
An Icelandic exit: Commtouch acquires FRISK's antivirus business
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Cloud-based Internet security provider Commtouch this morning announced that it has acquired Iceland-based FRISK Software International’s antivirus business. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. FRISK, established in 1993, offers antivirus solutions for the OEM, corporate, and consumer markets under the F-PROT brand (a name that will make all Dutch-speaking...
Samsung spins off its LCD business, becomes the world’s biggest display manufacturer overnight
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It’s been a long time coming but today Samsung has announced that it has successfully spun off its LCD business and formed Samsung Display. The new company that will focus on the development and sale of its display panel technologies and panels, becoming the world’s biggest display manufacturer overnight. Samsung...
AOL’s New Patent Owners: Facebook, In A $550M Deal With Microsoft
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Although Facebook didn’t buy AOL’s patent portfolio the other week — it was sold to Microsoft for $1 billion — it’s going to get a good portion of those patents anyway: Microsoft and Facebook today announced that Microsoft would be selling Facebook 650 of the 925 patents that it bought ...
Redesigned Weather.com tells you exactly when the rain will stop
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Weather.com, one of the 20 most popular sites on the web, has redesigned its site with new social and personalization features, and it can now even predict the exact minute the rain outside will stop. As someone who uses the site or its iOS apps nearly every day, I...
Nest Fires Back in Honeywell Suit, Brings Apple Chief Legal Counsel on Board
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The fight over a thermostat just heated up. Palo Alto, Calif.-based Nest, maker of a “smart” thermostat and target of a patent-infringement lawsuit filed by industrial giant Honeywell, has submitted a formal response to Honeywell’s claims. The start-up has also brought Richard “Chip” Lutton, a 10-year Apple Inc. veteran who...
Nokia head of sales steps down after only a year on Leadership Team
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Colin Giles, Nokia's executive vice president of sales and a member of the Nokia leadership team is stepping down after 20 years with the company. Nokia is not planning on replacing Giles, instead saying it sees the departure as "reducing a layer of sales management." Giles cites the desire...
Sony Mobile reshuffle sees Nordberg out, Kunimasa Suzuki in, business as usual
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Major changes are afoot over at Sony. After rebranding its mobile division, the firm has also now moved aside the former Ericsson exec who initially came with it. Kunimasa Suzuki will replace Bert Nordberg as CEO of Sony Mobile on May 16th, after leaving his current role as Executive...
Merit Badges: How Salesforce Motivates a Workforce
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Here's a very serious question: Are the tools your company's employees use to do their job more or less motivating to that end than the apps, games, and social services they use to do something other than their job? Put another way, does the software your people use for play...
Eric Schmidt-Backed Video Surveillance Startup Prism Skylabs Adds Integrations With Google+, YouTube And Picasa
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Prism SkyLabs, a cloud-based service thats allow business owners to bring video feeds online, capture images from these feeds and share this data with consumers and the public, is announcing integration with Google+, YouTube and Picasa today. Here’s how Prism Skylabs works. Most stores and restaurants have surveillance videos running...
Eric Schmidt-Backed Video Surveillance Startup Prism Skylabs Adds Integrations With Google+, YouTube And Picasa
Study Says Most IT Guys Are Ignorant
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A new study says your IT guy may not know what he's doing. (Image: Jezz/Flickr) Why can’t the IT guy fix your latest tech problem? Odds are, he’s ignorant. In a recent survey of over five hundred US business and IT managers conducted by CompTIA — a non-profit IT trade...
Google Wallet users can buy prepaid cards again as one security issue is fixed
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Google Wallet users are once again able to buy prepaid cards for the mobile payments service, after Google restored the functionality having temporarily barred the issuing of new cards following a security issue. In an update to a previous blog post, Osama Bedier, Vice President of Google Wallet and Payments, clarified...
Google's Bradley Horowitz on Google+: 'Friction can be a very good thing'
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Product vice president says balancing interests of users and developers will be key going forwardGoogle launched its Google+ initiative in June 2011: part standalone social network and part social layer for existing services like Gmail and YouTube and its search engine. A year later, how has it done?In April 2012,...
Brands Step Up Open Graph Efforts on Facebook
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Brands are increasingly abandoning efforts to get users to “like” their Facebook pages and instead focusing their marketing efforts on Open Graph, the protocol Facebook uses to reflect third-party app use in a user's social activity. Facebook has made a series of revisions to Open Graph since it was introduced in 2010;...
Telenav unveils ‘Scout for Apps’ voice-guided navigation service for developers
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Telenav on Tuesday announced the company’s “Scout for Apps” HTML5 voice-guided GPS navigation service. The service is being offered to developers who are looking for a free, turn-by-turn, voice-guided GPS navigation solution that can be built directly into their apps or websites, and the first mobile apps to incorporate...
Google+ app for iPad available now in the App Store
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In May, we redesigned the Google+ experience for iPhone, adding full bleed photos that fall into place and bold visual elements that bring your stream to life. Today, we’re introducing new features for iPhone and an iPad app that you won’t be able to put down. A hands-on iPad experience...
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