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TechCrunch
Last year, there was no shortage of developers who were complaining about Apple's App Store. The situation got so heated that no less than Apple senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing, Phil Schiller, got personally involved with a number of developers having issues. Since then, the complaints seem to have died down quite a bit, but ...
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ILounge
News: zoomIt brings SD card access to iPhone, iPod touch
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ZoomMediaPlus has announced its new zoomIt application-enabled accessory for the iPhone and iPod touch. Working in conjunction with the company’s free zoomIt app, the Works With iPhone- and Made For iPod-certified Dock-connecting accessory enables users to access a variety of content stored on any SD card mounted in the zoomIt’s SD card slot. ...
Venturebeat.com
How Apple’s A4 chip lets iPad run cooler, save battery life
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Apple broke with the consumer electronics industry’s accepted wisdom by designing its own processor chips for the upcoming iPad tablet computer. In the past, Apple persuaded Intel to build a custom central processor chip for its super-skinny MacBook Air. But iPad design goes one further by bringing the chips in-house, using the talents of a ...
Arstechnica.com
Poll Technica: thoughts on the upcoming 2010 Macworld Expo?
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The Apple press has been all about iPads since January 27—and how can you blame them? There's a lot to talk about before the device gets into our grubby little hands. But there are other things going on in the Apple space in the meantime. One such thing is the new, improved, and Apple-free 2010 Macworld Expo which is taking place next week.
Digitaldaily.allthingsd.com
IPad Pricing: How Low Can You Go, Apple?
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The iPad’s lower-than-expected price may go lower still if the device doesn’t perform as well at market as Apple hopes. Recounting his recent meeting with some executives from the company in a research note issued last night, Credit Suisse analyst Bill Shope said Apple is evidently quite willing to get even more aggressive with the iPad’ ...
Www.medialets.com
14% of iPhone users installed v3.1.3 last week
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We’ve crunched the adoption numbers for last week’s release of iPhone OS v3.1.3 and found that among the developers’ apps we track 14% of their users installed v3.1.3 between 2/1 and 2/6, with adoption growing steadily each day.
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Silicon Alley Insider
Apple To Upgrade MacBook Pros Tuesday Ahead Of Macworld Conference?
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Apple may finally announce a new MacBook Pro lineup tomorrow, perhaps including new, faster Intel chips , as the Macworld conference gets underway in San Francisco. Read the rest of this story » See Also: Apple Already Talking About Cutting Prices On The iPad Apple Bans Location-Based Ads In Apps Where Location Isn't Core CHART OF THE DAY: ...
MacRumors
Apple Job Posting Suggests Video Recording Coming to Future iPad Models
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A new job posting on Apple's site suggests that the company is preparing to add still and video camera capabilities to its iPad tablet device in the future. The position is for a quality assurance engineer in the Media Systems division of Apple's br...
Ubergizmo
Analyst: Apple Might Lower Price Of iPad
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If you’re the type of person who likes a bargain, and are thinking of picking up Apple’s iPad , you might want to take note of this. According to Credit Suisse analyst Bill Shope, Apple executives have said that the pricing will be “nimble”, hinting that the pricing could change if needed. Of course, that’s not an ...
David
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Signal vs. Noise
The App Store: Quality control without the quality
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I love my iPhone and I love Apple (cue images of flag pins and “I love muh countray!”), but I believe they’re blowing it with the App Store gate keeping. That’s of course not a new opinion. Developers left and right have been decrying the broken process. But there’s nothing like feeling it on your own bones to make ...
Mike Schramm
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The Unofficial Apple (TUAW)
Loopt teams with Mobile Spinach for check-in discounts, Booyah talks about MyTown
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Filed under: Software , iPhone , App Store If the iPhone has a leading app genre, aside from gaming, I'd say the current surge of "check-in" apps is probably it. Sure, back when the App Store first opened up, Twitter apps were everywhere (and they're still being made daily, it seems), but in terms of a genre that can only exist on a location- ...
Ubergizmo
ZoomIt iPhone Accessory Allows You To Access SD Cards
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ZoomMediaPlus has announced its now zoomIt application-enabled accessory for the iPhone and iPod touch. If you’re a shutterbug, this is probably going to be one rather useful accessory for you. When used in conjunction with the free zoomIt app, you’ll be able to connect your SD card to your iPhone (via the accessory, of course), and ...
Digg.com
New iPhone App keeps track of MP
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Want to know what your local MP is doing? There's an app for that. Labour MP Derek Wyatt has become the world's first serving politician to launch an iPhone app which he said makes him more accountable to constituents.The free MyMP app shows users what their MP is doing, where they are and lets the public send messages to them directly!
Games.venturebeat.com
Game developers move to iPhone, ignore Wii
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Game developers are shifting their attention to the iPhone and starting to ignore the Nintendo Wii, according to Game Developer Research. Developers creating games for mobile phones increased to 25 percent, up from 12 percent a year ago. Of those mobile developers, 75 percent are targeting iPhone and iPod Touch games. The total number of iPhone ...
Devin Coldewey
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MobileCrunch
Rad: Rise of the Triad comes to iPhone
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While pundits were arguing about whether Doom was damaging to us kids, we were busy having our sensibilities shocked by the phenomenally violent Rise of the Triad. While it wasn’t as flashy as Doom (it was Wolf3D-based), it had crazy weapons, fire, and enemies that would beg for their lives. So ahead of its time! [...]
MacNN
ZoomMediaPlus intros new SD card reader for iPhone
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ZoomMediaPlus has introduced the ZoomIt memory card reader for the iPhone and iPod touch. The new dock-connecting accessory works with the companyís ZoomIt application that provides access to content stored on SD cards. Support is offered for all file types recognized by iPhone OS 3.0, ranging from photos and videos to PowerPoint documents. The ...
Digitaldaily.allthingsd.com
ISorry
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Well, that was fast. Apple’s decided to offer ornery iPhone early adopters a $100 store credit to make amends for the bad feelings inspired by yesterday’s price cut. Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced the decision in a letter to iPhone customers.
Www.everyjoe.com
IPhone App Impact on Speeding Ticket Revenue
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The other day I drove down to Lexington, Kentucky to go see the University of Kentucky Wildcats play the Ole Miss Rebels. On the way over I picked up my friend Ryan in Cincinnati and we headed down to Kentucky.
Mike Schramm
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The Unofficial Apple (TUAW)
Plants vs. Zombies coming to iPhone on February 15th
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Filed under: Gaming , Software , Developer , iPhone , App Store Yes, PopCap is at it again -- this time, their crazy addictive (just like all of their games) take on the tower defense genre, Plants vs. Zombies, is headed off to the iPhone. They just tweeted confirmation a little while ago, and released this trailer showing all of the flower vs. ...
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Neowin.net
Latest iPhone update breaks T-Mobile unlock
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Many iPhone-ers out there prefer T-Mobile's network over AT&T's. By unlocking their phones, they have been able to use it on the magenta underdog without a problem (EDGE only, of course). If you're one of those daredevils who has parted ways with AT&T and is looking to take your iPhone...
PCWorld Latest
IHound Aims to Help You Find Your Missing IPhone
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If you're outside Moscone Center for this week's Macworld Expo, and someone hands you a "Lost iPhone" sticker, don't toss it away. It could help you track down...
PCWorld Latest
Apple to Remain 'Nimble' on iPad Pricing
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Apple indicates that it's not against cutting prices for the iPad if initial sales are less than stellar.
Macworld
Apple offers 'find out how' tutorials as podcasts
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Apple has re-released the "find out how" tutorial videos from its site as podcasts. Presumably, more videos are on their way to keep aspiring i-everything users occupied.
Jesus Diaz
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Gizmodo
BirdBox Wakes You Up With the Sound of Hungry Birds In Your iPhone
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I love little birds. They are so cute. And they taste delicious and crunchy fried in beer batter. If you want them to wake you up, however, try BirdBox. BirdBox is a $12.75 bedside bird home with a matching free application that turns your iPhone or iPod touch into a cuckoo alarm clock. You know, because nothing says good morning like "the sound ...
EWeek
10 Reasons Why the Linux Community Could Influence iPhone Sales
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News Analysis: Linux creator Linus Torvalds has publicly stated that he has purchased and likes Google's Nexus One smartphone. It's no small endorsement. With Torvalds' support comes a full Linux community that is ready and willing to take on the iPhone. - Although the combined market share of Linux distributions pales in comparison with Windows ...
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TechCrunch
It actually took longer than I would have expected for someone to come up with a good mocking of Google's "Parisian Love" commercial that played during the Super Bowl yesterday. But today brings us just that. The video comes compliments of the Upright Citizens Brigade Beta Team "The Brig." They've named their video " Parisian Oops " and have ...
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The Official Google Blog
Love and the Super Bowl
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If you watched the Super Bowl this evening you'll have seen a video from Google called " Parisian Love ". In fact you might have watched it before, because it's been on YouTube for over three months. We didn't set out to do a Super Bowl ad, or even a TV ad for search. Our goal was simply to create a series of short online videos about our ...
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Super Bowl ratings poised for all-time high
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The New Orleans Saints vs. Indianapolis Colts showdown drew a 46.4 overnight metered-market household rating and a 68 share. That's up 10% from the household rating of 2009's Pittsburgh Steelers vs. Arizona Cardinals nail-biter, which was seen by a record 98.7 million viewers.
SocalTECH.com
Hulu Gets 1M Votes On Super Bowl Commercials
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Los Angeles-based video site Hulu reports this afternoon that the firm has received more than one million votes in its Super Bowl commercial rankings on its Hulu Adzone, where the firm has posted all of the ads from Sunday's Super Bowl. The firm--which is announcing a winner on Wednesday for the most popular commercial--said so far, include ...
Christina Warren
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Mashable!
Super Bowl Ads: Hulu’s Winners and Losers
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We’ve already looked at how on-air Super Bowl advertisers fared with audiences during the Big Game, but how did online viewers react to the spots? Check out which ads were the biggest winners — or losers — with the Hulu crowd. The 2010 Super Bowl was a big win for more than just the New Orleans Saints, CBS scored big-time, too, ...
Adam Hirsch
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Mashable!
Tell Us Your Favorite Super Bowl Moment, Win a FLO TV
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What was your favorite moment during the Super Bowl? Was it the fast-paced game or the ads that got your attention? If the ads caught your eye, which moment stood out for you? If it was the game, which play was most memorable? Why did it stick with you? We want to know! FLO TV, which ran its “ Moments ” commercial as one of the Super ...
Mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com
How the Letterman-Oprah-Leno Super Bowl Ad Came Together
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It is, and there they were, Jay Leno and David Letterman sitting on a couch – with Oprah Winfrey between them - upstairs at the Ed Sullivan Theater, where Mr. Letterman tapes his show.
Jason Kincaid
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TechCrunch
Google Launches Phone Support For The Nexus One, Lowers ETF By $200
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Since the launch of the Nexus One , early adopters have likely had one question lurking in the back of their minds: who to take the phone to if it broke. You see, when the phone was first launched, Google was directing people to either T-Mobile (Google's carrier partner) or HTC (the device manufacturer) depending on the problem, which could lead ...
ScuttleMonkey
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Slashdot
Google Shooting For Smartphone Universal Translator
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Nikki4 writes to tell us that in giving some major improvement tweaks to its existing voice recognition tool for the Smartphone, Google is aiming for new translator software that will provide instant translation of foreign languages. "The company has already created an automatic system for translating text on computers, which is being honed by ...
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Gawker
Google's Chief of Fabulous Opens a Disco — In His Penthouse
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We couldn't persuade Orkut Büyükkökten to invite us to his opulent birthday-and-housewarmingparty Saturday, but we won't hold it against him. After all, Google's ambassador to the gay party scene had to fit several billionaires between his new dance poles. Orkut, in case you've forgotten , is by far the most interesting person to work for the ...
Www.tmonews.com
Google Customer Service Number Now Live
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After taking quite a beating in the blogosphere after the initial launch of the Nexus One, Google has officially launched phone support. That’s right; 888-48-NEXUS (63987) will get you customer service from Google, open daily from 7AM to 10PM EST. That’s right, from Google. Read those words, stop, close your mouth and let the wow factor hit ...
Jason Kottke
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Kottke.org
Google's Super Bowl ad
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It didn't feature an athletic woman with a flimsy bra throwing a hammer through a screen, but I thought Google's Super Bowl ad was pretty well done: Tags: advertising Google search Super Bowl TV
Technology news
Super Bowl ad breaks Google's TV silence
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If you watched the Super Bowl Sunday night, you saw at least two unprecedented events: The New Orleans Saints won their first championship, and Google ran an ad for its search engine on television.
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Neowin.net
Google to unveil new social tool tomorrow
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Google is set to unveil a brand new social networking application, that is all set to integrate with at least two Google products.� The new social network will go head-to-head to compete with the likes of Facebook and Twitter, bringing in a whole new competitor to the market. According to details...
Mike Masnick
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Techdirt
Author's Guild Didn't Want To 'Pull An RIAA' But Still Misses The Point
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Last week, in discussing its attempt to settle its lawsuit with Google over the Google book scanning project, the Authors Guild posted a rather interesting public letter, entitled To RIAA or Not to RIAA, That was the Question . In defending the settlement, it notes that it could have fought the lawsuit to the end, but that it might have lost. In ...
Silicon Valley Watcher
Analysis: Bad News For Startups If ISPs Start Charging Google
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Associated Press reports: Spain's Telefonica considers charging Google - Yahoo! News Speaking Monday at a press conference in the northern city of Bilbao, President Cesar Alierta said companies like Google use a lot of network bandwidth for free, something which was lucky for them but not for Telefonica. ...He says things had to change. Foremski' ...
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TechCrunch
Last month SecondMarket published data on private company stock sales that they helped complete in 2009. They've now released last month's data as well. A total of a little more than $13 million in sales occurred, with the average transaction size of around $2 million. There continues to be very strong demand for consumer products and services ...
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P-plate carnage: Death on Facebook first
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A waste of young lives ... police examine the crash scene / Pic: Daniel Shaw Source: The Daily Telegraph WHEN Angela and Maryanne Vourlis woke up yesterday, their 20th birthday, they logged on to Facebook expecting to read well wishes and greetings from friends.
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CNET
EA's game arsenal coming to Facebook?
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An exec at the gaming company hinted that its 'Madden NFL' franchise will launch a Facebook version, the first application we've seen of EA's Playfish acquisition to its existing game titles.
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Thenextweb.com
Facebook Email? No Thanks!
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The blogging world is abuzz with rumors of Facebook’s supposed “Project Titan,” a full email client for Facebook that will create hundreds of millions of new email addresses for the Facebook masses.
Ask Dave Taylor!
How do I make my Facebook group or fan page interesting?
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I run a Facebook group and am considering switching it to a Facebook fan page, but I don't think it'll address my basic problem: how do I make a Facebook group or fan page interesting and lively to my online community? Do I need to have giveaways? Spend an hour each day making new postings? What's the secret, Dave?
Mike Butcher
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TechCrunch Europe
Startup to launch after Secret London Facebook group amasses 180,000
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There's a certain irony that TechCrunch's in-house satirist Paul Carr is currently slaving over the sequel to his book about his failure to launch a startup. Fridaycities was to be a site which allowed anyone to swap information about London, in real time, and eventually other cities. The site failed, Paul wrote his book (and a few other things, ...
Jason Kincaid
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TechCrunch
Give Your Index Finger A Rest With Facebook’s New Photo Slideshows
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Since the dawn of Facebook's Photos feature, users have been tasked with the not-so-terrible burden of having to manually click through every photo in an album. Sure, you can also hit the arrow key on your keyboard to jump to the next picture, but even that repetitive task could send you inching down the treacherous path toward carpal tunnel ...
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Fast Company
Work Smart: Mastering Your Social Media Life
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When you're active on the Web, keeping up with all your online accounts can feel like a full-time job. You want your high school friends to find you on Facebook, your co-workers to follow you on Twitter, and business associates to find you on LinkedIn. But there are only so many hours in the day, and too many Web sites to check in and update. ...
Digg.com
Facebook "Cash Scam" Continues to Grow Bigger
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Users personal information is revealed through photos, status updates and conversations that are being well documented online. Last week, the Serious Fraud Office of London (SFO) warned that Facebook and Twitter are being used to harvest users’ personal financial details by fraudsters in order to operate "boiler rooms" offshore.
USATODAY.com Tech
Google's Gmail to try to challenge Facebook
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Search giant Google is upgrading its Gmail program to add social-media tools similar to those found on Facebook.
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TechCrunch
Last year, Yahoo still dominated display advertising on the Web in terms of sheer number of ad impressions on its properties, but social networking sites MySpace and Facebook came on strong. Some new data from comScore in its just-released 2009 U.S. Digital Year in Review ranks the top Web properties by the number of display ad impressions. ...
MG Siegler
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TechCrunch
Probably the most controversial thing about the blogging service Tumblr is that it doesn't have a built-in way to comment on posts. You sort of can do it now if you reblog an item and add your own note (which then shows up under the original post), but it's not the same. And while they still haven't added comments, tonight they've temporarily ...
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TechCrunch
We're big fans of The Richter Scales, the musical group that have brought us Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas, Here Comes Another Bubble, and gut-busting songs at the 2008 Crunchies and most recently the parody of Silicon Valley at the 2009 Crunchies a few weeks ago. The group is releasing an animated video of its song 'I've Got Mail and I' ...
Leena Rao
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TechCrunch
With the East Coast and Midwest awaiting a monster snowstorm, popular weather forecasting site Accuweather, is rolling out a timely relaunch of its site. The site, which provides up-to-date local information on weather in the U.S., is launching a beta version of the site that includes a complete redesign and a few extra user-friendly features. ...
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TechCrunch
Are you a budding Web entrepreneur who would like some pointers or advice from seasoned company founders? MayField Fund and First Round Capital are sponsoring a raffle to give away mentoring sessions with the founders of Digg ( Jay Adelson ), Flickr ( Caterina Fake ), Mint ( Aaron Patzer ), Ning (G ina Bianchini ), Slide ( Max Levchin ), and ...
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TechCrunch Europe
New Tweetdeck version puts Twitter on crack, brings in YouTube and Flickr
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There remains an ongoing desktop Twitter application war. Traditionally Tweetdeck and Seesmic have been at loggerheads for the lion share, although Tweetdeck has remained in the lead so far. Increasingly it appears that Seesmic is heading towards trying to be a much more mainstream application, for anyone on any platform, from celebs to your non- ...
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Erick Schonfeld
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TechCrunch Europe
Almost two years ago The Filter , a startup backed by Peter Gabriel, launched to bring better music and movie recommendations to consumers. The site got lost in the abundance of more popular music and movie sites out there, so about a year ago CEO David Maher Roberts decided to shift gears and start licensing his recommendation engine to other ...
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WebProNews Feed
Spanish Telecom May Seek To Charge Search Engines
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The CEO of Spanish telecom company Telefonica might soon try to obtain some money from Google and its rivals. Cesar Alierta said today that search engines' popularity creates something of a burden for his organization, and that he'd like Telefonica to share in their profits. As reported by John W. Daly , Alierta told Spanish newspaper El Pais, & ...
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So for a bit of fun we've decided to open a TechCrunch Europe T-Shirt store on that European startup Spreadshirt. We're going to see how it goes (your feedback is welcome) and the store is very simple (black and white T-shirts). But for now, you can grab a T-shirt here . We'll be giving a few away in an upcoming competition at some point, plus we'
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It looks like some major consolidation is about to go down in the Central European Internet market, and in particular Poland. According to local newspaper reports, the largest Internet group in the region, Naspers /MIH Group, is conducting due diligence of assets belonging to DST (Digital Sky Technology)-owned holding Forticom. Naspers/MIH Group ...
Nokia this morning published two press releases on its website, one talking about the 'development' of one of its manufacturing plants and one commenting on a class action lawsuit filed in the United States. The Finnish mobile juggernaut says it plans to develop the operating mode of its Salo, Finland plant to ensure production is "focused on ...
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Nokia Nuron Shows Itself
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While it’s only been a few days since we first got wind of the Nokia “Nuron”, aka Nokia 5230, the name hasn’t gotten any better. Dropping March 17th as we first predicted, the Nuron will come in with some 3G goodness, a 3.2” touchscreen and the Ovi Application Store. Interestingly enough this phone is being billed to both “Connected ...
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[UK] The London-based online identity startup Garlik has partnered with the UK online stockbroker Selftrade to offer its customers identity fraud protection. In what looks like a classic premium play, a basic free version of Garlik's offering, rebranded Selftrade Identity Monitor Lite, is being made available to all of Selftrade's customers with ...
AMEE , the US/UK-based startup that aims to build the largest engine for computing greenhouse gas emissions, has secured a $5.5m series B financing lead by Amadeus Capital Partners alongside existing investors, including O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures and Union Square Ventures. AMEE will use the funding to expand its geographic reach and platform.
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