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TechCrunch
If you are a tech lover, there is nothing quite like the launch day of a much hyped new gadget. Expectations run high. And since those expectations are rarely satisfied once you have the special little device in hand, it's a moment to savor. In the hours before you own it, that device is perfect in every way. It will make you happier, a better ...
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Www.networkworld.com
Verizon confirms Droid tethering option, hefty price tag
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Verizon has confirmed that customers will have the option of connecting a laptop to their new Motorola Droid smartphones, on sale tomorrow, using the phone as a wireless modem. The carrier won't say exactly when customers can do this tethering but they are exact about what it will cost: typically, an extra $30 per month, doubling Droid-related ...
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Erick Schonfeld
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TechCrunch
Google Pushes Droid With Rare Ad On Homepage
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Do you see something strange in this screenshot of Google's homepage today? No, not Bert and Ernie (it's Sesame Street's 40th birthday). It's that ad for the Verizon Droid right there under the search box (today is also Droid Day ). Although, the juxtaposition does make it seem like Bert and Ernie are trying to get you to buy a Droid. Google's ...
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Mark Hachman
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Gearlog
These Were the Droids Techies Were Looking For
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Officially, the Friday launch of the Droid and the Droid Eris went swimmingly, backed up by anecdotal reports from the stores themselves. While it may take a day or two to truly assess how the launch went, a small poll of stores in Northern California, a tech haven, proved that Verizon had a hit on its hands. "It's going great," Heidi Flato, a ...
Jason Kincaid
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TechCrunch
My Not-So-Epic Quest To Find The Elusive Verizon Droid Line
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Today is Droid day — an event that I, like many tech bloggers, have been looking forward to for quite some time. Unlike some people, I wasn't graced with a test Droid last week, so I was forced to go out and get one the old fashioned way: by getting to the store as early as possible, before the precious devices sold out. And while I was ...
Jkontherun.com
HTC Droid Eris Gets Official
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You’d almost have to have been sleeping under a rock to not have caught word of the other Droid handset coming to Verizon, the HTC Droid Eris. Everybody outside of Verizon, HTC and Google has been talking up the Eris for a few weeks. The three companies are coming out today with the official announcement of the Droid Eris phone coming to ...
Digg.com
Droid Launch: Is This The Start of The Android Revolution?
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The Motorola Droid hits the shelves today, ready for the Android-hungry masses. The question everyone wants to know is, is this the start of a revolution in the mobile space?
Chicagotribune.com
Review: Motorola's Droid
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Impressive hardware and a host of software make the Droid a smart, fun phone. But it has a few annoying issues, like how to get into it.
TechNews AM
Google promotes the moto droid on its homepage...
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We do know Motorola (NYSE: MOT) and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) have worked together on the Droid, but still we haven’t thought we’ll see the search giant promoting the smartphone on its homepage, which is known for not carrying any ads at all. There are no doubts in my mind, Google bets heavily on Android and [...]
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MG Siegler
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TechCrunch
I think it's safe to assume their Twitter account has been hacked. Update : Yep. Now suspended .
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Erick Schonfeld
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TechCrunch
Earlier this morning, Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis settled their lawsuits with eBay and a syndicate of investors in return for a 14 percent stake in the company they founded. The lawsuits were complicating the spin-off of Skype from eBay because the Skype founders still controlled the service's underlying peer-to-peer technology. In an ...
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Erica Ogg
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CNET
CNET News Daily Podcast: Skype, eBay move forward
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eBay will move forward with selling its stake in Skype, the company said Friday, now that a licensing dispute over the software that underlies Skype's service has been settled. eBay will get $1.9 billion in cash in the deal, which will close by the end of the year. Also on the podcast: Smartphone sales rise, the Motorola Droid has its coming out ...
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Vivek Wadhwa
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TechCrunch
I'm in India this weekend with fellow TechCrunch/BusinessWeek writer Sarah Lacy. After we’re done with the elephant rides in Jaipur, we’re going to be meeting local tech startups. Then we head back to New Delhi to meet more aspiring entrepreneurs. Sarah is writing a book on how startup culture has gone global and I’m researching how R& ...
Leena Rao
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TechCrunch
Google's Vice President of Search Product and User Experience Marissa Mayer was recently profiled in a Vogue Magazine article that offered a in-depth glimpse into the exec's lifestyle, loves, career and fashion preferences. Now, Mayer has been named as one of Glamour Magazine's 2009 Women of the Year. Joining Mayer on the list are a variety of ...
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Lawrence Chang
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Google Mobile Blog
Get Google Mobile App at Best Buy stores
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If you're a regular reader of the Google Mobile Blog , then you've probably installed or accessed our mobile applications on your phone at one point or another. You may have even shown our applications to your friends and explained how to get them. Or perhaps you've been the recipient of some helpful mobile tips from a friend of yours. In any case,
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Marissa Mayer
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She is a Woman of the Year because: “She has been a powerhouse of creativity and business acumen for one of the world’s most innovative companies. Marissa Mayer is leading the way in keeping America number one.” —Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and 2002 Woman of the Year
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Brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com
Will Microsoft become the General Motors of software?
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The more I learn about the current situation in software, the more Microsoft’s position seems to mirror General Motors’ position in the auto industry a few decades ago. Like Microsoft (MSFT) today, GM was an icon in its industry, held a quasi-monopoly, produced eye-popping profits and was often distracted by antitrust lawsuits. When a company ...
Google-latlong.blogspot.com
NYC subway system on Google Maps
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My wife and I moved out to New York last week, and we sure put Google Maps to use in our housing hunt. With Real Estate listings to help find a place, Street View to scope out the neighborhood, directions to help us find our broker, and local search to find nearby amenities, just about the only thing that we needed another source for was to see ...
EWeek
Best Buy to Install Google Mobile App, But Not For Droid, IPhone
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Beginning Nov. 9, sales associates for Best Buy Mobile will install Google Mobile App on all BlackBerry, Microsoft Windows Mobile, or Nokia S60 smartphones through the Walk Out Working program, a free in-store smartphone setup. The deal makes Best Buy the first retailer in the U.S. to distribute Google Mobile App on smartphones sold in store. ...
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Daniel Brusilovsky
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TechCrunch
textPlus , a text messaging app that's powered by GOGII , has just hit the App Store. textPlus lets any iPhone or iPod Touch send free text messages to any cell number by using in-app advertising to cover its costs. There is no limit on how many text messages you can send per month, it's just a matter of getting WiFi, 3G or an Edge connection. ...
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CNET
Reporters' Roundtable 9: The business of app stores
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The App Store business model, nearly perfected by Apple, has changed the way software is made, sold, distributed, and priced. Join Rafe Needleman in discussion with CNET's Maggie Reardon and GigaOm's Sebastian Rupley.
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Dave Caolo
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The Unofficial Apple (TUAW)
Apple Store Carrousel du Louvre opens today
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Filed under: Apple Corporate , Retail Apple typically opens retail stores in high-end shopping areas, and this one is as high-end as it gets. Beneath the great glass pyramid that marks the entrance to the Louvre Museum in Paris is Carrousel du Louvre, home to shops, a gourmet food court, exhibition space and, as of this Saturday, an Apple Store .
MG Siegler
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TechCrunch
App Store Hypocrisy Update: Mein Kampf Complete With Nazi Logo Approved
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This just keeps getting more and more ridiculous. Before I begin, let me start out by saying that all things being equal, I have no problem with the Apple putting Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf into the App Store, as they have today, as both The Next Web and Edible Apple spotted. It's a book, it's a rather big part of history, it's in book stores, etc.
Ubergizmo
Apple Store In Carrousel du Louvre
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Apple stores always look classy and expensive, but you can’t probably get classier than Apple’s latest store in the Carrousel du Louvre, beneath the great glass pyramid at the Louvre Museum. This is also the first Apple store in Paris and also in France, so it’s certainly something special. In case you couldn’t find the ...
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Celebrity Gossip
Apple Store Carrousel du Louvre opens today
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Filed under: Apple Corporate , Retail Apple typically opens retail stores in high-end shopping areas, and this one is as high-end as it gets. Beneath the great glass pyramid that marks the entrance to the Louvre Museum in Paris is Carrousel du Louvre, home to shops, a gourmet food court, exhibition space and, as of this Saturday, an Apple Store .
PC World Latest
IPhone App Store Hits 100K, Leaves Others in the Dust
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The iPhone may soon be getting stiffer competition from upcoming products like the Motorola Droid, but one area where Apple's commanding lead seems untouchable is its mobile app store.
AppleInsider
Doom game creator suggests Apple embarrassed about iPhone gaming
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John Carmack, creator of the classic PC game Doom, described working with Apple as a "rollercoaster ride," and suggested that company executives are not happy about the popularity of gaming on the iPhone and iPod touch.
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So much for the coming mobile nirvana of free mobile content - at least for iPhone users in Germany. Today Europe's biggest newspaper, BILD-Zeitung , intends to use, in effect, brute force to compel users buy its new iPhone app. The paper tabloid is to block anyone using an iPhone browser from accessing its website. Now, readers will not only ...
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Near Field Communications World
Apple testing RFID-enabled iPhone?
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Einar Rosenberg, who runs the Near Field Communications Group on Linkedin.com, has reported the following: Had to share this news. A highly reliable source has informed me that Apple has built some prototypes of the next gen iPhone with an RFID reader built in and they have seen it in action. So its not full NFC [...]
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Www.dwdl.de
"bild.de" und "welt.de" wollen iPhone aussperren
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(05.11.2009) Mit der Einführung kostenpflichtiger iPhone-Apps zur mobilen Nutzung von "Bild" und "Welt" sollen iPhone-Nutzer keine Zugriffsmöglichkeit mehr auf die normalen Webangebote bekommen. Eine gewagte Strategie
Markus Goebel
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TechCrunch Europe
Europe’s biggest newspaper decides the iPhone browser isn’t welcome
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So much for the coming mobile nirvana of free mobile content - at least for iPhone users in Germany. Today Europe's biggest newspaper, the German newspaper BILD-Zeitung intends to use, in effect, brute force to force users buy its new iPhone app. The paper tabloid is going to block anyone using an iPhone browser from accessing its website. Now, ...
Adam Ostrow
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Mashable!
IPhone Coming to Verizon in 2010
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Many signs point to the Apple and AT&T agreement that makes the latter the exclusive carrier of the iPhone within the US coming to an end within the next year. For starters, non-exclusivity has been profitable for Apple in other parts of the world. Moreover, even AT&T’s CEO acknowledges the deal won’t last forever. And while ...
Ubergizmo
Smaller iPhone Coming To Verizon?
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We haven’t heard an “iPhone Mini” rumor in a while, so the rumor mill has probably decided that it’s time to kickstart things again. According to the latest whispers, it seems that Apple has signed contracts to produce a UMTS/CDMA hybrid iPhone, which is planned to be released in Q3 of 2010. Based on the rumor, the phone ...
Dave Freeman
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MobileCrunch
The iPhone is coming to The Shack
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There were rumors out there that the iPhone would be coming to authorized resellers soon, and we’re finally starting to see it showing up. Surprisingly, The Shack will be the first one out the gate. The story dropped this morning, via an announcement from the executive vice president of store operations. The letter said that the [...]
L.A. Times
IPhone sales in China are nothing to call home about
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Only 5,000 of the Apple phones have sold since the Oct. 30 launch. High prices and a lack of Wi-Fi capability are blamed, especially with a thriving gray market in iPhones. Apple Inc.'s iPhone has been a ringing success wherever it has been launched. But in China few are picking up the buzz.
Mashable.com
IPhone Coming to Verizon in 2010
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I don't think it's going to happen. Especially with all this Verizon stuff targetting the iPhone... Apple would be foolish to go to Verizon after they trash talked not only AT&T, but the device itself. Profits or not, Apple should have some dignity.
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ResourceShelf
New iPhone App: NASA Images
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On October 23rd we posted about a new iPhone/iTouch app from NASA. All sorts of info dynamically updated info. It’s a free app. Today, something new. Now, it’s time for the NASA Images app with content coming from the nasaimages which is an effort to bring all NASA imagery and video together in a single [...]
I4u
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I4U News
The Verizon iPhone: Coming Q3, 2010?
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Verizon's recent Droid does ads are probably the most pointedly anti-iPhone pieces of advertising out there. This has led some people to theorize that Big Red has given up all hope of ever carrying the iPhone, instead choosing to focus their efforts ...
TechNews AM
The verizon iphone: coming q3, 2010?...
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Verizon's recent Droid does ads are probably the most pointedly anti-iPhone pieces of advertising out there. This has led some people to theorize that Big Red has given up all hope of ever carrying the iPhone, instead choosing to focus their efforts ... ---- link
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Medallia adds iphone to its enterprise feedback management mix...
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Software-as-a-Service company Medallia is proving once again that iPhone is a decent business device, not just a multimedia toy. They’ve released a dedicated application in the AppStore simply called Medallia for iPhone, bringing customer experience and enterprise feedback management to the palm (NSDQ: PALM) of a hand. As a result, Medallia ...
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Erick Schonfeld
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TechCrunch
The ads are destroying YouTube. At least this one is. It is a video ad for sustainable energy company from Spain called Acciona . Yeah, I had never heard of them either. The video starts with this Euro-dude in a suit starting to blow up and crack apart like he's made from plaster. Halfway through, the actual video player crack in half, and all ...
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Liz Gannes
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NewTeeVee
YouTube Comment Search Battle: “Sucks” Edges Out “Rocks”
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YouTube is playing around with real-time comment search in the vein of web darling Twitter. The new YouTube “test tube” feature provides a continuously updating list of current comments on the site and surfaces popular overlaps of conversation as trending topics. Being that YouTube is such a popular site, it’s quite possible ...
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Michael Arrington
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TechCrunch
If you're a Twitter freak and think that a dedicated Twitter device is just the thing for you, read on. This week we saw the launch of the TwitterPeek , a cute little device built by Peek that will do just about anything you want it to do, as long as all you want it to do is access Twitter. It won't surf the web. It won't make phone calls. It won'
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Xbox Live
Twitter, Facebook, Last.FM and Xbox 360 Family Settings
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As some of you might be aware, those under the age of 18 are not able to access Twitter, Facebook and Last.fm in our public preview . I want to you let you know that this will remain the case when it launches to the world soon. We made this decision because as it stands now, parents aren’t able to use Family Settings to customize which of ...
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Robin Wauters
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TechCrunch
Bettween Makes Tracking And Sharing Twitter Conversations A Breeze
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With Twitter rolling out its own retweet functionality soon, people will be pointing their followers to more users they may not be engaging with yet, which will spark users to follow more people and hence increase the amount of conversations on Twitter. At least, that's what I think. But Twitter has never been an ideal two-way conversation tool. ...
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Chris Crum
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Top News
8 Reasons You Need to Stop Ignoring Twitter
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There have been many articles written about why to use Twitter, and we've certainly published our fair share of them. However, the landscape is constantly changing. New trends, ideas, applications, and features come out, and they further emphasize Twitter's place in said landscape. Following are some reasons why it is becoming increasingly ...
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MG Siegler
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TechCrunch
Up until now, if you wanted to use the location-based service Gowalla on the go, you had to have an iPhone. Today, that expands to Android. But rather than building an app, Gowalla has extended support to Android using the mobile web . This works because Android's browser is closely tied to the device and is able to access location information, ...
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Android's Affordances
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I had an opportunity to play with the Droid yesterday (thanks to @ericfriedman). It was an overall positive experience. But, it felt like the user experience was missing a final coat of polish. Here’s one small example that is very typical of the whole Android experience.
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Lg to deliver snapdragon-based android handset...
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South Korean mobile phone maker LG Electronics has already made a move into the Android side of the smartphone market, with the launch of LG GW620, which is also known around the Web as the LG Eve. However, it seems that the company does not plan to stop only here, but that it will come to the market with yet another such device in 2010, this ...
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TechNews AM
Photoshop.Com mobile comes to android...
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Adobe Systems Incorporated announced on Friday the launch of Photoshop.com Mobile for Android, in a move aimed at extending the reach of its solution to more smartphone operating systems available on the market today. The new launch follows the recently unveiled Photoshop.com Mobile for iPhone, which has proven to be one of the “Top Free& ...
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Michael Arrington
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TechCrunch
Zynga CEO Mark Pincus said earlier this week that he intends to make sure his company's games don't include scammy offers in the future. Our full background on this story is here . But what he didn't say in that blog post is that Zynga has been scamming users from the beginning quite intentionally as part of their revenue model. Rather, he ...
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MG Siegler
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TechCrunch
Brizzly is on a roll right now. Just yesterday, it became the first web-based Twitter client to implement Lists , and last week it rolled out Facebook support . Today brings good news for its parent company: More funding. At the end of this month, Thing Labs will close a $600,000 round which is basically an extension of its Series A from back in ...
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Sean Fallon
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Gizmodo
Myka ION HD Player Is the First To Deliver Both Hulu and Boxee
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You may remember Myka from their BitTorrent player , but now they are bringing Hulu, Boxee and NVIDIA ION graphics to the table with the Myka ION . Apparently, Myka goes beyond Hulu and Boxee allowing you to run other full PC applications like XBMC and "browse to any web site and play video content directly onto your TV." Thre is no mention of ...
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MG Siegler
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TechCrunch
Seesmic Web One-Ups Brizzly With Lists AND Geolocation Support
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Earlier this week, Seesmic rolled out support for the new Twitter Lists for its Desktop client. Today, that same functionality comes to its web-based client . And with it comes a bonus: Geolocation support. Now, to be clear, most users still won't be able to use this geolocation support just yet, as Twitter has yet to enable it for most users. ...
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MG Siegler
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TechCrunch
It's not yet clear what Chomp exactly is, but we do know that it's a rather hot property right now. It took the still stealth start up just 10 days to raise a nice seed round from Ron Conway and a few other big name angel investors, we hear. So what do we know? Well, the company is definitely in the mobile space. In fact, it's a "BIG mobile play,"
Leena Rao
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TechCrunch
More good news for Indian entrepreneurs! Infosys co-founder and chairman N. R. Narayana Murthy's new VC firm, now called Catamaran Venture Fund, just added a whole lot more money to its coffers. A few weeks ago, we reported that Murthy was turning to “the dark side” after selling a large amount of company shares in order to set up a venture ...
Leena Rao
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TechCrunch
Zillow, a popular real-estate listings site, recently tweaked the pricing model in its marketplace for mortgages, angering many of the lenders who pay Zillow for customer leads. A few weeks ago, the site announced that it will be introducing a new pricing model for these leads to lenders. Zillow's mortgage marketplace, which launched in 2008, ...
It is time for the second annual TechCrunch Europe ChristmasCrunch ! Yes folks it's our annual TechCrunch Europe meetup and Festive Christmas party, in one handy package. This year we're taking a different tack - basing it around one of the the hottest themes right now, namely the rise of realtime streams. We've seen the emergence of Twitter, ...
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TechCrunch Europe ChristmasCrunch – A Realtime Holiday
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It is time for the second annual TechCrunch Europe ChristmasCrunch ! Yes folks it's our annual TechCrunch Europe meetup and Festive Holiday party, in one handy package. This year we're taking a different tack - basing it around one of the the hottest themes right now, namely the rise of realtime streams. We've seen the emergence of Twitter, ...
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[UK] Much-hyped digital music service Spotify recently announced a deal with carrier 3 UK that would bring its mobile service to 3 customers. Well, that offer is now live, as announced on the Spotify blog minutes ago. Spotify Mobile will initially be available only on the HTC Hero, the first Android handset to launch on 3 UK. To buy, head on ...
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Www.bestbuyinc.com
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Best Buy Mobile and Google will work together to bring innovative mobile services to more customers looking to maximize their smartphones MINNEAPOLIS, November 5, 2009 – Best Buy Mobile, the mobile specialty retail unit of Best Buy Co., Inc., today announced a retail partnership with Google™ that will help bring Google Mobile App to consumers ...
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James Kendrick
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JkOnTheRun
HTC Netbook on the Way?
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HTC is the phone maker these days, from the HTC Hero to the HD2. They have both Windows Mobile and Android covered in style with the Sense interface. I’ve used a bunch of phones on both platforms, and including the Motorola Droid I’m currently evaluating, after using an HTC phone with Sense, they all are [...]
Macworld
Review: HTC Hero smartphone
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Although it has some quirks, the variety of features and the high customizability that the Hero smartphone offers is hard to beat.
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Each year we happily promote the Mobile Premier Awards because we think they are among the best initiatives for mobile startups, especially in Europe. Here’s the info: The Mobile Premier Awards recognize the year’s best in Mobile Startup Innovation and are the largest open, global startup competition in the mobile industry. The awards are ...
Michael Arrington
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TechCrunch
Yesterday Offerpal Media changed CEOs. Cofounder Anu Shukla , who just last week denied that her company engaged in any questionable advertising on social gaming applications, was replaced by veteran startup executive George Garrick . For all the background, see our Scamville post and the related updates at the end. Garrick, who has been the CEO ...
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Nick O'Neill
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All Facebook
Facebook Surpasses 325 Million Users
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Facebook has continued to grow at an impressive rate throughout the year, most recently announcing the 300 million user milestone. According to Facebook’s own advertising statistics though, the company is now beyond 325 million users and continuing to grow. The story has become relatively repetitive at this point: Facebook is growing like a [
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