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Starting today, Nexus One users will begin to receive an over-the-air software update on their phones. This update provides some great new features, and fixes a few problems that some users might have experienced, including:
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Google Adding Direct Phone Support for Nexus One Customers
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The initial reviews of the Nexus One device were largely positive but one area where Google certainly faced issues was customer support. Unlike most other companies in the hardware business, Google doesn’t offer any phone support for Android / Nexus One. Customers can either report problems on public forums or, for more specific issues, ...
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You have to sympathise with The Guardian’s correspondent Andrew Clark, who, during News Corp.‘s Q2 earnings conference call Tuesday night, dared to ask Rupert Murdoch: “I don’t know if you’ve read Alan Rusbridger’s speech... ?” “No,” Murdoch interrupted.
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Normally, it takes quite a bit of time before a startup gets any sort of mainstream spotlight. That's not the case with Blippy . Tonight, the controversial social credit card data aggregator was featured on Comedy Central's Colbert Report . As you might imagine, host Stephen Colbert ripped into the service's ability to show everyday purchases at ...
 
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Evernote, a Mountain View, Calif.-based start-up that says that Nokia has developed a version of its web service that allows users to capture and store information using the built-in sharing functionality of the device. It is made possible using a plug-in using the Evernote API.
 
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The Chrome OS is a bit different than most operating systems. Scheduled to be unveiled late this year, the Chrome OS is entirely cloud-based. It's still speculative to say if Google is really working on a tablet computer. But let's assume for a minute that Google is developing such a device with a Chrome OS. Sponsor I guess that's not too hard ...
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Run, Chrome OS! Run!
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It seems that the news on Chrome OS release have left no one neutral; some observers are beating the drums of its imminent failure and premature death, by relying on rather oversimplified concepts of cloud computing and insinuating about the reasons why careless moms and dads just can't grasp the concept of strong passwords ("how many times did ...
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Bamboudesign: App Development For iPad And iPhone
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I had an interesting conversation about iPhone and iPad apps development with Marine Leroux, the CEO of San Francisco based Bamboudesign . Ms Leroux is a French entrepreneur. She worked on desktop application user interface design in France before founding her company here in 2008 to focus just on mobile applications, or specifically, the user ...
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The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Social Search Engine
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The folks at Aardvark have posted an ambitious paper over on the 'vark blog. Titled after Brin and Page's original “Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine”, the paper presents the Aardvark engine and, in its authors' words: "describes the fundamental differences between the traditional “Library” paradigm of web...
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As you’ve probably realized, local news is undergoing a massive transformation. The rapid demise of “old media” has resulted in fewer local publications, and it’s likely that in a few months your local paper may no longer exist. As “new media” takes over, users will be faced with a plethora of choices to ...
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Mobile App or Browser-Based Site? Report Says The Browser Will Win on Mobile
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Mobile search company Taptu has released a detailed report showing that the future of the Mobile Web is likely to be dominated by cross-platform browser-based mobile web sites - rather than apps built specifically for iPhone, Android, or any other platform. Taptu calls the former "the Mobile Touch Web," which it defines as "Web ...
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The term Startup Saturday was coined by our fellow HeadStart (then KickStart) co founder, Pradeep BV. (Or was it Arpit Agarwal?) At KickStart we all wanted to create more Product companies out of India. And everyone had his/her own idea on how to do it. After evaluating everything that already existed in the entrepreneurial ecosystem of the ...
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In Thursday’s (Feb. 4) hearing, the House Energy & Commerce Committee’s Communications & Internet Subcommittee will be looking at a merged Comcast/NBCU’s “unique and commanding” position in the media marketplace, including what could be its power to “fundamentally shape the way Web video evolves,”
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Dems Tee Up Comcast/NBCU Concerns
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SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp's 10-month-old search engine Bing, which has struggled to make headway against Google, can be a viable runner-up and make money online eventually, according to one of its top executives.
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From MSFT evangelist to Mac enthusiast - the other side of the road
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For five years I was a Microsoft evangelist to the startup and venture capital community. That ended a couple months ago. I am now a Developer Advocate at Google and I love it. After years of defending Microsoft against the Apple fanatics I decided to go to the other side of the road to see for myself. The move from Microsoft was complete. From ...
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Glam Media, the online women and lifestyle media and ad-network company, has raised another big round, this time a mezannine round before its logical next move of an IPO in the next year or so. It has received about $50 million in this fifth round, led by Aeris Capital, the European fund, with existing investors Hubert Burda Media and Mizuho ...
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Professional Social Network Brazen Careerist Raises About $1 Million
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Brazen Careerist , a social networking site geared towards “next-generation professionals,” has raised about $1 million in a funding round, according to an SEC filing . As the name implies, no fun and games on this site. Instead, it’s specifically designed to help young people advance in their professions—a role that the ...
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A few weeks ago, Kathleen and I went on our first cruise together. It was her fifth and my first, so I got to experience a lot of new things. If time allows, I'll try to write about that in the future. But for now, I want to talk about one of our shore excursions. Our first day in port was in Puerto Vallarta. The weather was absolutely perfect: ...
The annual Edelman Trust Barometer always yields some interesting results. The tenth survey consisted of 4,875 interviews (25 years to 64 years): The finding that jumped out at me was this one (buried in the report): - Trust in information from friends and peers, "people like me," dropped by 20 points, from 47 to 27 percent. - Trust in ...
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Social Media Week Notes..."Real-Time Data Is Like A Fish Finder"
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There are lot of events this week around various topics in social media. Yesterday I caught part of the Social Media Camp in the Presidio. It was organized by Chris Heuer, Kristie Wells with help from Rebecca Reeve and many others. I caught an interesting panel moderated by Jolie O'Dell, Read/Write Web , that included Brian Zisk, from Collecta . ...
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3Crowd , the new startup from BitGravity co-founder Barrett Lyon, is ready for its close-up. Until now little was known about the company, other than that its backers include Jay Adelson, Kevin Rose, Storm Ventures, and Greenwich Technology Associates. Now the company is talking: 3Crowd is looking to change the way people use content delivery ...
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News Corp earnings were up across the board, as the company swung to a profit of $254 million ($0.10) in Q4, reversing $6.4 billion loss. The company said this reflected double-digit growth at its “majority business segments.” Even the newspaper/information segment was up, gaining 29.5 percent over last year’s period. While the ...
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While furiously trying to organize my digital life this past weekend, I found myself as I often do - with an obscene number of tabs open at the same time while hopping from thought to thought. It was in the middle of this confusing mess that I came across list.it , the self-described "simple, free, open-source note-keeping tool to help you ...
NEWS Limited has stepped up efforts to expand its technology readership with a new free online media monitoring service customised for IT professionals.
Earlier this month I was invited to conduct an on stage interview with Jason Kilar, chief executive officer of Huluthe DLD conference in Munich. It gave me a chance to visit the city, walk around in bitter cold and look around what is arguably one of the cleanest and quietest cities in the world.
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Maybe HTML5 will indeed make the technology stack for iPhone apps obsolete. But Greg points out that there’s nothing to substitute for the business stack : Beyond the technical capacities of native vs. web apps, I think we underestimate the value of the ecosystem of small app business that Apple has created with the store. Sometimes the ...
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