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After a Twitter revolt, Paper.li makes its auto-tweets less spammy
“Twitter newspaper” service Paper.li has changed the way its promotional tweets work after high profile Twitter users accused them of being little more than spam.
In case you’re unfamiliar with it, Paper.li a service that organises links from the people you follow on Twitter into a ‘newspaper-style’ web page. It can create a daily newspaper from [...]
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Orange and T-Mobile To Merge Networks
Customers on either T-Mobile or Orange will soon be able to switch between the two networks as part of a number of benefits from the recent merger of the two companies.
A deal has been established allowing 30 million combined UK customers on both networks to initially share 2G signals, seamlessly switching between networks if a [...]
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Windows Phone 7 Ad Promises A Forthcoming Revolution
Everyone out there with a soft spot for Microsoft is hoping that someway, somehow Redmond pulls a victory out the mobile world’s deep hat. Microsoft hardly seems to be afraid of failure; in a new ad for Windows Phone 7 (their upcoming project) Microsoft makes a single promise: “the revolution is coming.”
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Read all about it! Newsworthy for iPhone takes your money and gives you nothing.
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Newsworthy provides its users with the news thats’ happening now, from all news sources.
Love It: Customizable topics, clean interface, instant news retrieval.
Hate It: Expensive iPhone app that only offers one option to share stories one finds when using the app.
Overall: 2/5
The Details:
I am a news fiend. As one may surmise most of that [...]
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Podio: A game-changing virtual office that forms to your needs.
One of the biggest problems of any sort of virtual office situation is communication. Sure, email works, and so does instant messaging. But sometimes it’s hard to put things into context. When you’re referencing material that was written months ago, it’s often hard to include all of the relevant information without things getting messy.
Context is, [...]
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The End of the Address Book
A few years ago I ran a Web Annotation start-up called Fleck.com. We decided to print businesscards showing nothing but our names and emailaddresses and annotate them as needed. I don’t think we ever had to annotate anything however. Once people have your emailaddress then they pretty much have everything else too. We still have [...]
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New look BBC iPlayer goes live
One of the UK’s best-loved websites, the BBC iPlayer has just launched its radically overhauled new look after a three-month beta period.
The new site offers a sleek new design, personalisation features and integration with Facebook and Twitter to make sharing programmes easier.
As we reported at the weekend, the BBC sees this new, more social iPlayer [...]
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Audioboo launches “social voicemail”, with help from Stephen Fry
Audioboo, the ‘instant podcasting’ service for iPhone, Android and the web, is introducing an intriguing new feature today – the ability to leave anyone else on the service a voicemail message without having to know their phone number.
The new ‘Messages’ function allows you to either record an audio message or upload an audio file to [...]
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Fake iPhone 5 Prototype leaves me wanting…
Image via HandyFlash.de
When I look at my iPad and iPhone 4 I can’t help but realize that one day we will regard them as dated and old. Imagine one day passing a garbage can and seeing a discarded iPad there. You will look at it, shrug, and move on. Just like you would do if [...]
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iPad Video Calls Coming Soon?
We are aware there could be changes to Apple’s line-up of iPad devices, there have been reports suggesting a new 9.7-inch iPad with a new ARM Cortex-A9-based processor with 512MB RAM and a second 7-inch iPad featuring a Cortex-A9 processor and an IPS panel could be coming next year.
9to5mac have come across a very [...]
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New MeeGo User Interface Screens Emerge
We have been keeping up with the progress of Nokia’s and Intel’s collabortaive mobile operating system, bringing you screenshots of its first stable release to developers.
Over the weekend, new shots emerged of the MeeGo UI, showing us that the OS is continuing to be highly customizable, giving the user the option to completely change the [...]
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News Digital Media acquires Australian price comparison site GetPrice
News Digital Media, the digital division of News Limited, has acquired Australia’s largest price comparison site, GetPrice, for an undisclosed amount.
The full acquisition was completed in several rounds over several years.
News Digital Media initially acquire a significant minority share in the company in October 2007 along with two further options, which it has now exercised. In [...]
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Question: What are 5 things we’d like to see Quora offer?
One of the most talked about websites to come out of beta in 2010 in Silicon Valley has been question and answer site Quora. Quora does a number of things correctly aimed at getting its users to both ask and answer questions, however, the still very new service still has some features and issues that [...]
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Question: What are 5 things we’d like to see Quora offer?
One of the most talked about websites to come out of beta in 2010 in Silicon Valley has been question and answer site Quora. Quora does a number of things correctly aimed at getting its users to both ask and answer questions, however, the still very new service still has some features and issues that [...]
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You Know Who Likes WikiLeaks? Fidel Castro.
An editorial yesterday in the LA Times called “Fidel Castro, Internet Junkie” says the 84-year-old Cuban reads 200 to 300 online articles a day, and “is fascinated by WikiLeaks”.
The LA Times article is based on an lengthy interview Castro did with the Mexican newspaper La Jornada, where he reportedly said that the Internet, “has put [...]
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iTunes Ping and Game Center, Apple’s answer to Windows Phone 7
At Apple’s music event they introduced Ping – a social network for music that lets you follow users/artists and comment on their activities. The other important announcement Apple made was about Game Center going live soon.
Over the past few days it has been interesting to follow the event’s coverage because you know who has both [...]
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Angry Birds: How one little game signals the rise of Android apps.
Without a doubt, one of the most awaited titles for Android was a simple game. That game, of course, was Angry Birds.In fact, for the past 3 months, it has been one of the search terms that has brought the most notable traffic to our Apps channel here on TNW.
Then, a few days ago, it [...]
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The dirty truth about Infographics!
I never knew this, now I understand why there are always so many interesting infographics like this one:
Original title and link for this post: The dirty truth about Infographics!
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The New iTunes 10 icon: sucks or rocks?
Just in case you’ve missed it: Apple released iTunes 10 last week and it has a new icon. In theory that wouldn’t be worth blogging about but as these things go there has been a major uprising among iTunes users who think the new logo is dumb, ugly, misplaced or simply boring.
Some people want the [...]
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Job 2.0? Whatever…
Early last week, TNW’s very own Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten posted an article titled “Job 2.0 – The End of Profession.” The general idea: having a job isn’t the be all end all these days. People don’t have jobs anymore, or, if they do, they have a lot of other occupations alongside it and they [...]
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New look BBC iPlayer set to launch within days
The new-look version of the BBC’s iPlayer TV and radio on demand service is set to go live early next week following a three-month beta period.
The new look site is a significant upgrade on the previous site, offering a sleek new design, personalisation features and integration with Facebook and Twitter to make sharing programmes easier.
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Apple: One Million Ping Signups In Under 48 Hours
Apple’s Ping music social network has been met with all sorts of user opinions; some love it, some hate it, others recognise it has potential if it continues to innovate and evolve.
Late yesterday, Apple announced that over one million people have already signed up to its Ping social network, a milestone achieved in less than [...]
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Apple UK Website Confirms September 8th iOS 4.1 Release
We may have already instructed you on how to upgrade your Apple device to iOS 4.1 a little earlier than the Cupertino-based company would have liked but today Apple have confirmed the official release date of its iOS 4.1 firmware; the 8th September.
Posting up a new page on the iPhone Update section of its website, [...]
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Google found liable in German YouTube copyright case; intends to appeal.
YouTube shall not, according to a ruling by a German court today, publish videos and must provide information to settle compensation for a holder claiming copyright to Sarah Brightman performances. The suit, which has been tied up in German court for quite some time, finalized today in a 60-page ruling.
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The Google Buzz lawsuits are finally settled. $8.5 million to be paid.
In a strange bit of serendipity, we’re learning now that the lawsuits filed shortly after the launch of Google’s Buzz are being settled on the same day that Google announces its newly-revamped privacy options.
According to Reuters, Google will set back $8.5 million to cover attorney fees, with the remainder being donated to organizations that are [...]
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Facebook displaying liked articles in search. Google last seen attempting to care.
There’s a story circulating today about how Facebook is testing a feature of its search function. The feature, it is said in an article on All Facebook, will allow news articles that have been “Liked” to show up in the search stream on Facebook. The question that must be raised by this, of course, is [...]
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You Are Now My Inbox Peasant – Confessions Of An Email Slob
Despite my using Gmail for most of this past decade, I am surprisingly bad at it. I never archive. My label use is pathetic. Gmail Labs is an unexplored, foreign world. I have 46,919 unread emails right now, and it will be much higher by the end of the day.
Most of all though, I don’t [...]
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Upcoming Media & Tech Events You Should Be Attending [Discounts & Free Tickets]
We’re starting a fortnightly series of posts giving you the heads up on interesting upcoming events in the media and technology space. For all mentioned events we’ve organized a special discount for TNW readers, so make sure to check here before you decide to buy a ticket. This post is supported by PressDoc for Events
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Have a great idea? A chance to put your best “face” forward and “ping” a billionaire.
Mark Cuban. Brilliant, entrepreneurial, and in need of something.
For those unfamiliar with Mark Cuban, here’s a brief, emphasizing brief, overview of the last 10+ years of his life. Cuban, who along with Todd Wagner, started Audionet, combining their mutual interest in college basketball and webcasting. This venture grew into what would eventually become Broadcast.com, acquired [...]
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Angry Birds beta now available for Android
We’ve waited, and so have you, to get a look at Angry Birds on the Android. The wait, it seems, is over. Well, sort of. The version that is now available from the Android Market is beta, and so there might be some bugs. But it’s also free. We did a quick play through the [...]
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Google Simplifies Its Privacy Policies, Takes Effect October 3
Google has just announced that it is “trimming” its privacy policies, eliminating 12 redundant product-specific policies and simplifying its overall privacy policy. The policy changes take effect on October 3 (i.e. one month from now). Here’s what Google had to say on it’s Official Blog:
“So we’re simplifying and updating Google’s privacy policies. To be clear, [...]
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Apple Building 2 Million iPads Monthly
Apple’s iPad is a monster hit, making it a product that Apple wants to ensure is as available as possible. Throughout the early days of its life, production lag and delays were the name of the iPad ordering game.
No more. The time required between ordering and iPad and having it be shipped to you has dropped to [...]
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Foodie geeks rejoice. Cooklet makes cooking even more fun.
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Cooklet is an “international culinary platform” for organizing recipes, finding new ones and getting cooking tips.
Love It: Really slick design. Great organization.
Hate It: Being international, there is sometimes a language barrier.
Overall: 4/5
The Details
One part that my bio doesn’t say about me is that I’m a foodie. I absolutely love to eat, and I [...]
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Google music service “to launch before Christmas”
Rumours have been rife for months that Google would be making a serious play in the music sphere and it looks like that might be happening sooner rather than later.
Reuters reports that Google is in talks with record labels to decide how a music service from the company would work and that something is hoped [...]
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How many people are actually using Twitter?
As we reported earlier, Twitter has published new figures showing that it now has 145 million registered users. The thing is, that doesn’t really tell us much about how many people are actually using the service.
“Registered users” is very different to “Active users”. Facebook, for example, announced in July that it had over 500 million [...]
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Samsung Galaxy Tab Rooted, A Whole Month Before Its Release
The Samsung Galaxy Tab went official yesterday, displayed before the masses at IFA 2010 in Berlin, creating quite a buzz around Samsung’s newest tablet device.
Not only has the device launched, its also been rooted. Yes, you read that right. A group of Android developers, based in Germany managed to get their hands on a prototype [...]
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UK consumers byte back at broadband advertising
A report released by ICM shows 9 out of 10 people find broadband terminology in advertising misleading when compared against the actual speeds they recieve.
Consumers are becoming increasingly frustrated with broadband companies describing speeds as ‘up to’ which are very rarely delivered due to the UK’s broadband infrastructure.
The main issue arises with connections over copper [...]
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Twitter Now Has 145 Million Users, Total Mobile Use Up 62%
In Twitter’s latest blog update, Twitter co-founder Evan Williams addresses developments at the company since its Chirp conference, discussing how it has overcome difficulties associated with getting Twitter on your mobile phone and growing the service outside of the main Twitter.com website.
Williams explains that whilst Twitter knew there are a large number of apps on [...]
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Google CEO Eric Schmidt selling Ice Cream is deliciously creepy.
Google’s “Don’t be Evil” mantra is frequently under attack in some humorous ways. A group called ConsumerWatchdog has posted a video, part of larger collection regarding Google, on their YouTube channel that pokes fun at Google CEO Eric Schmidt.
You’ll recall that Eric Schmidt has made some odd claims recently. One is, and I paraphrase, that [...]
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Skype for Android finally works over WiFi!
Yes, I absolutely meant to end that with an exclamation point. From day one that I downloaded Skype on my Droid, I have been frustrated by the fact that it would only work over 3G and not over WiFi. Finally, the cries of many have been answered.
According to Android Central, and verified by my download [...]
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Twitter for iPad finally lands. Includes gestures and a new UI.
As Twitter matures and more content of various forms are shared on it, we’re finding an increasing need to have better ways to access that content. Be it pictures, video or even a user’s profile, the applications that tend to shine the brightest are the ones that give us the easiest access.
Twitter is not blind [...]
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Tip: Finding your Ping profile URL
You may or may not have heard that Apple held an event today at which they announced a number of things (full recap here). One of those things was Ping.
What is Ping? According to Apple CEO Steve Jobs Ping is like “Facebook and Twitter meet iTunes.” Continuing, “But it’s not Facebook, it’s not Twitter, it’s [...]
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Missed today’s Apple keynote? iTunes has it ready for download.
In case our coverage of today’s Apple keynote wasn’t enough to fill your appetite, you can now download the entire keynote via iTunes. It is a rather gigantic 726 MB file, so you might want to get started now…
In our opinion, the download is well worth the time if only to see the amazing graphics [...]
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Yahoo Groups slims down while picking up new features
Interestingly enough, Yahoo! Groups are still heavily populated and manage to serve as a meeting grounds for millions of people worldwide. The newest update, it seems, brings about some great new features and a really slick UI. Let’s take a look, shall we?
It starts with a new homepage, which combines all of your groups memberships [...]
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Google is testing expanded Apps access for Google Apps customers
Here at TNW we often talk amongst ourselves about how we wish we had X or Y Google service for our TNW accounts. Apparently Google has heard the mumblings and has started to roll out an application to selected Google Apps customers that will allow them to try out some of the otherwise-unreachable features for [...]
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Reddit: Hey, We Are Bigger Than Digg!
Reddit is sick and tired of being called small, and puny, and little, and teeny, and microscopic, and all of that. The company is taking a stand. Using numbers that Kevin Rose himself shared for Digg and their own traffic numbers, Reddit is demanding respect:
Big huge high resolution version.
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Could it just be that good old computers are the best online video devices?
Apple today announced the new iteration of its Apple TV device that will sell for $99. As we’ve reported, it was the most popular announcement Apple made today based on Twitter stats. That said, we also said that it is nothing to write home about, and on the face of it, it certainly doesn’t seem [...]
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How the automotive industry is finally starting to ‘like’ social media
An old saying in the automotive industry states that every dollar spent on marketing should earn you three. It’s exactly this result-driven approach that makes it difficult for a rather conservative business to adopt new media as part of their marketing strategy.
Cars however, have large natural fan bases. As soon as the fans on Facebook [...]
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FCC Responds To Google-Verizon Proposal With Further Investigations
The FCC has issued a public notice (PDF) stating that it would launch further inquiries into broadband industry practices and consumer concerns. Given how long these sorts of inquiries take, this almost certainly means that we’re not going to see regulation of service provider practices anytime soon.
On the positive side, the notice very strongly indicates that [...]
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TBD director not satisfied with how Washington Post used its video feed during Discovery hostage standoff
Less than a month ago, the Washington Post published an article on the launch of DC hyperlocal news site TBD. From the very beginning, the piece was rather dismissive of the news startup:
TBD.com — odd name, but let’s move on — is a new all-local news Web site that seems to be the answer to [...]
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New Apple TV The Most Popular Release Today For Jobs
Thanks to some delicious data tracking from our good friends Rowfeeder, the most hyped product of the day from Apple’s big event is now clear: the refresh of the Apple TV took the cake by a fat margin:
Other important things to note: iPod was comfortably the second most discussed product release, and if you could [...]
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Microsoft: Windows Phone 7 is ready for phone makers
On the Windows Phone blog today, Microsoft announced that it is done with the Technical Preview of the Windows Phone 7 OS and that it now has a release to manufacturing (RTM) version, which means that it is now in the hands of phone makers to integrate the OS into their handsets.
Microsoft claims that, “Windows [...]
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Play The Epic Game From The Apple Event
If you were watching the Apple event today, you were treated to a very interesting game demonstration from Epic Games featuring a future title called “Project Sword.”
It was a great looking app, and everyone in the audience was impressed by it. Wait no more, a stripped down version of the game is in the app store, [...]
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Sony’s curiously named movie streaming service hits Europe, music to follow
While Apple’s TV announcement today wasn’t as big as expected, it wasn’t the only streaming video news today. Just before Apple’s even began, Sony announced that its Video on Demand service is to launch in select European countries later this year.
First let’s get the the ridiculous name out of the way. It’s called Qriocity. Seriously, [...]
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Apple’s Keynote App-solutely changes the games.
Today’s Apple Keynote revealed some grand new products, updates to iOS, Apple TV, iTunes, iPods, and more. Or, here is a complete wrap-up of the entire event.
Even more amazing were some of the facts and figures laid out for the viewing audience by Apple CEO Steve Jobs (paraphrasing):
iOS Revolution in touch and apps
120 million devices [...]
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Google Puts Brand Logos Into Maps
Next time you open up Google Maps in a US city, you may well see some new, but familiar landmarks. Google has announced that it is to allow well-known brands to add their own company logos to Maps in the USA.
The idea, Google says, is to help users find familiar brands and help businesses promote [...]
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Google releases SketchUp 8, includes Google Maps built in
Google has released SketchUp 8, its latest version of the popular 3D modeling software, with many new improvements, including Google Maps built right into the software.
If you’re not familiar with SketchUp, it enables you to leverage Google’s geo data and quickly make 3D models of anything from furniture to entire cities. In addition to the [...]
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iTunes 10 is Now Available for Download
Read updates first.
When officially out, you will be able to download iTunes 10 here, details of the release here and Apple’s new social network “Ping” here.
Update: Although the site appears to show the download link for iTunes 10, the download itself is still 9.2.1. Bear with us, as soon as the downloadable file shows 10, [...]
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Everything Apple Announced Today In One Handy List
It was a big day at the Apple event, and so to keep you in the loop we kept tabs on the action. Read on for darn nearly every single thing that Apple announced today:
iOS and Apps
Apple has shipped 120 million iOS devices thus far. How many iOS activations are there daily? 230,000 new iOS devices are [...]
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Next Generation Apple TV Released. Nothing to write home about.
Steve Jobs begins his “one more thing” moment with news of an update to Apple TV.
His points:
People want Hollywood movies & TV shows
everything in HD
lower prices for content
people don’t want a computer on their TV (can you hear the cries of pain from geeks across the world?)
people don’t want to manage storage
don’t want to have [...]
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Apple goes social with the Ping social network for iTunes
Stunning. Just stunning. Color me wrong for saying that Apple wasn’t going social, because it just has. The Ping social network is a social network specifically for music. As you follow friends and artists, you’ll find more information about them.
Ping is broken down into two sections, to truly be a social network for music.
Artists:
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Apple Announces iTunes 10, social network included.
Apple will surpass sales of CD’s in the US soon, and on that note, decided to ditch the old CD icon and replace it with the icon to the right.
iTunes 10 includes some refinements including; syncing and connectivity, improved organisation, UI and new ways to view your music and video.
Commercial-free HD episodes available to rent for [...]
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Apple: 275 million iPods sold, and here are the new ones!
“Even though the iPod has a very high market share, we’ve never rested…” says Steve Jobs live from the stage at the new Apple Music event. In proving that, Jobs walks us through the devices and introduces the new models which will be available for pre-order today, for shipment next week.
iPod Shuffle – Smaller than [...]
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iOS 4.2 for the iPad being released in November for Free. Brings everything together.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs has just given Apple fiends a sneak peek into iOS 4.2.
These are the basics, iOS 4.2 will bring:
Everything that is currently available for the iPhone (folders, multitasking etc.) together for the iPad.
Wireless Printing
Airplay: Stream audio, video & photos over wifi from your iPad.
Coming in November and wil be a free update.
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Apple introduces iOS 4.1 – Bluetooth, 3G and proximity bugs fixed plus new features
On stage at the Apple event, Steve Jobs has just announced iOS 4.1 that will fix some nagging issues for iOS device owners on its release next week:
Bluetooth
3G performance
Proximity sensor
Beyond the fixes, however, there are some great new features including TV show rentals, the Game Center and HDR photos.
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Blast off on your iPad with NASA HD.
The iPad, not Space: the final frontier. These are the thoughts apparently running throught the minds of the fine people at NASA, as they have today launched a free iPad app, NASA HD.
If you enjoy exploring space, remember from “Saved by the Bell” what the acronym “MVEMSJNUP” means (it’s the order of our solar system’s [...]
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Another lawsuit inevitable as Microsoft acquires patent for OS shutdown.
At some point, somebody should stop the madness. In a move that’s almost akin to patenting the wheel these days, Microsoft has just been granted the patent for an operating system shutdown procedure. The patent, apparently, was filed back in Windows XP days, a few months before Vista came into the picture.
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Coming Soon To Target: Facebook Credit Gift Cards
Facebook is coming to a store near you, but not in the the way you had probably expected. No, Facebook is not selling logo emblazoned gear, but will instead begin to hock Facebook Credit gift cards.
Gift cards have become a popular giving option in recent years, providing a simple way to give a present without [...]
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Got a song stuck in your head? This site can fix that problem.
While it’s true that what is seen cannot be unseen, Unhear it has the goal of letting you “unhear” a song that’s stuck in your head. All you do is head to the site and a random song clip will load. If you’re afraid that the random song will get stuck, a quick click of [...]
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Angry Birds For Android Beta Released This Week?
Droid Life is reporting that Rovio’s insanely popular mobile game Angry Birds will be making its way to Android handset owners in beta form by the end of this week.
One of its readers submitted a support ticket to the Rovio support team, receiving a short but friendly email note:
Hi Jeremy,
We are going to send out [...]
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Facebook Amends Its Monthly Active User Algorithm
Facebook’s monthly active user count is a curious statistic, one we have referenced to demonstrate the usage of different Facebook applications.
Until recently, Facebook’s algorithm would incorporate user likes and comments, inflating the number of monthly active users of an app, even if they weren’t actively using it.
As of last Friday, Facebook has changed the way [...]
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Alcatel-Lucent acquires OpenPlug to speed up mobile development for carriers
Alcatel-Lucent has acquired mobile app development platform OpenPlug in order to offer its enterprise and telecommunications carrier customers a faster way to get apps to market. Terms of the deal were not announced.
Southern France based OpenPlug allows developers to build an app once using its SDK based on Adobe’s Flex Builder, and then the code [...]
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ASA Moves To Regulate Twitter And Facebook Marketing
Companies that use both their own website and social media services, including Facebook and Twitter, to post marketing messages will soon be subject to the same regulations as those that are aired on television, printed in newspapers or delivered via radio.
The Guardian reports that the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has extended its remit in a response to [...]
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HD Voice Calls Go Nationwide in the UK with Orange (Updated with sound test)
Aiming to reduce the background noise and the “hisses and crackles” often heard on a normal mobile call, Orange has launched HD Voice calls nationwide in the UK today.
The technology uses the AMR-WB codec and is expected to be adopted by other carriers shortly. William Webb (Head of research and development at Ofcom) says that it [...]
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The World’s First “Infinite USB Memory” Available for Pre-order
Dubai based start-up Infinitec prepares to launch the world’s first “Infinite” USB Memory (IUM), and before the name gets you excited, it’s a wireless USB device that works by allowing access to data using an ad hoc stream from your Windows-based PC.
Originally unveiled at CES in January, the IUM is set to launch on March [...]
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Apple-only streaming isn’t foolish; it’s a load test for streaming iTunes.
When the announcement came down that Apple would be streaming its September 1st event live, there were many reactions. Not the least of which was some surprise from Windows users that they wouldn’t be able to watch the event without an Apple device. Could Apple really be so short-sighted as to exclude this segment of [...]
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So Apple’s live streaming to everyone tomorrow…except Windows and Linux users.
So it’s been a while since Apple did the whole live streaming thing, I for one have missed it. Some folk think blogs like ours are devastated by the news that Apple will be keeping page views for themselves, but in all honestly, we’re not ones to live blog anyway. We’ll bring the major announcements, our [...]
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Google Places vs Facebook Places: It’s Search vs. Social
On the surface, Google Places and Facebook Places would seem to have a lot in common.
Both services are out to create a landing page for every local business in the world.
Both services allow local merchants to “claim” their pages, giving the merchant some editorial control over content on the page.
And both services no doubt expect [...]
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Clash of the Blogosphere Titans
Salon.com’s Glenn Greenwald’s relentless criticism of The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg…
To illustrate the effect of media criticism in a Web 2.0/3.0 age, one merely has to compare Atlantic writer Jeffrey Goldberg’s defensive stance toward his critics today to when he was penning pieces for the New Yorker earlier this decade.
In 2002, the journalist had written two [...]
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Digg Sends Reddit 250,000 Hits And 9,000 New Users In A Day
Love the new Digg or hate it, the controversy surrounding its launch is a big deal.
The Digg user community is in the throes of a chaotic and noisy protest, clamoring for the ending of numerous griefs that they feel the fourth version of Digg is causing them.
What Digg’s plan is for the next few days is somewhat [...]
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TNW Mobile Review : The BlackBerry Torch 9800
The BlackBerry Torch 9800, the latest, highly anticipated, BlackBerry offering from Research in Motion (RIM) is the first BlackBerry to feature BlackBerry 6.
Further, the Torch offers BlackBerry users an all-new touch screen interface, slide-out keyboard, a WebKit browser, offers location features, and the new BlackBerry App World pre-installed.
RIM is trying to re-establish the BlackBerry as more than [...]
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The Official Post From Digg Concerning Their New CEO
We already told you who the new Digg CEO is, and now we can bring you the official copy straight from Kevin to the world about that announcement. We have pasted the entire blog post below. You can read our previous coverage of Digg’s CEO shuffle here.
Hey Everyone-
I’d like to update you on the latest change [...]
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Amazing time-waster of the day? Swarmation.
This is Swarmation. You’re a pixel. A shape gets called out and you have a limited amount of time to use your arrow keys to guide your avatar into formation. For each one you land, you get points. Fail, you lose points.
Productivity is about to hit a daily low.
Original title and link for this post: [...]
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Official Pictures Of The T-Mobile G2 Surface
We first got wind of T-Mobile’s first HSPA+ handset a couple of weeks back, as the mobile carrier flipped the switch on a new mini-site giving visitors the option to sign-up for more information on the new Android-powered handset.
CellPhoneSignal grabbed the first official shots of the T-Mobile G2, suggesting that the device will come in [...]
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34% of people believe all websites are dangerous.
This is news that, depending on how you look at it, can be either good or bad. First, however, let’s take a look at the background information.
German IT security firm Avira did a survey based on a worldwide customer base of over 100 million people. The question? “Where do you suspect is the greatest danger [...]
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Hootsuite needs your lingua franca: Help with crowd-sourced translation of Hootsuite
Vancouver-based Hootsuite is makes one of the best (if not the best) web-based Twitter clients out there. It has multiple columns, the ow.ly URL shortener, multiple accounts, group account management, social media integration…and a lot more. That doesn’t go far enough in a the Internet today. A huge percentage of people online don’t speak English [...]
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webOS 2.0 APIs, beta SDK and features surface
Palm/HP has released a beta version of the webOS 2.0 SDK, as well as APIs and a look at a few interface features.
Due out later this year, webOS 2.0, will, according to PreCentral, include these new/improved/re-branded features (as well as most likely many more):
Palm’s multitasking ‘card’ metaphor is getting a refresh with Stacks
Universal Search is getting majorly [...]
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Beware: fake Tweetdeck “download” tweets hide software trojan
Tweetdeck has announced that a series of malicious tweets are circulating that ask users to download a new version of Tweetdeck, but actually the link downloads a software trojan (virus) onto your computer.
Possibly, this attack was timed to coincide with Twitter’s move to OAuth today – i.e. the attackers may have thought that some people [...]
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This Is Digg’s New CEO: Matt Williams
This story is breaking, we are updating.
And Digg kept up the poaching game popular in the Valley, stealing Matt Williams from Amazon, his home for more than a decade, for their CEO slot.
This concludes Digg’s executive shuffle, from Jay Adelson, to Kevin Rose, and now to Williams, who we suspect will be a long term [...]
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No More Mark, Hurd Leaving News Corp. Board
Some years are just rough, and for Mark Hurd 2010 has been catastrophic. Squeezed out of HP following an ugly sexual harassment case, the former titan is losing his gilded position on the board of News Corp as well.
How did it happen? He was not nominated for re-election, meaning that he is not being fired outright, but will [...]
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Confirmed: “Who to follow” was suggesting people users already followed, Twitter disables it
This may not come as a shock to many, but Twitter’s “Who to follow” feature isn’t perfect. Since it launched recently, many Twitter users have complained that “Who to follow” often just suggests people that users have previously simply followed and then unfollowed sometime in the past.
This morning, however, the service seems to have taken [...]
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The Pirate Bay Movie Is A Go
There is a common thought that internet people hate to pay for things, which lead to an explosion of free apps and services that we called Web 2.0. That was the only price that people were supposed to be willing to pay. Sometimes however, that maxim is dumped on its head.
There is a project on [...]
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Notes for Later: A bookmarklet to remind you of where you’ve been browsing
TNW Quick Hit
Notes For Later is a bookmarklet that will email you a reminder about a site you were browsing
Love It: Easy reminders are win.
Hate It: Needs a way to add your own notes to the email. More email? Ouch.
Overall: 4/5
The Details
When you’re browsing sites, it’s easy to forget what it was that caught your [...]
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Check-in with fruit as Gowalla version 1.0 for BlackBerry now available.
Gowalla, my personal favorite check-in service of choice, have updated their previously less than great BlackBerry app, taking version 1.0 out of beta and making it available to all.
Some of the features of Gowalla for BlackBerry version 1.0 include, the ability to add pictures to spots, keep track of virtual items, check-in to and share [...]
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MTV To Reward STD Checkups With A Foursquare Badge
Foursquare users have been able to check-in at bars and restaurants to receive free meals, drinks and discounts, grabbing some free swag at some venues.
What would you say if you could grab yourself a new Foursquare badge simply by checking-in at your local STD clinic? This is what MTV and Foursquare are looking to do.
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Staples To Sell Amazon’s Kindle
Staples, one of the world’s leading office supplies retailers, is to stock the Kindle, Amazon’s hugely successful e-reading device in more than 1,500 of its US stores, according to Reuters.
The deal, which will see the $139 version of the Kindle, the 3G model and the Kindle DX going on sale, is Amazon’s attempt at getting [...]
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Job 2.0 – The End of Profession
Profession
a paid occupation, esp. one that involves prolonged training and a formal qualification : his chosen profession of teaching | a lawyer by profession.
Job
a paid position of regular employment : jobs are created in the private sector, not in Washington | a part-time job.
In his book “Hackers and Painters” Paul Graham describes his uneasiness with [...]
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YouTube signs biggest premium sports partnership in MLB Japan deal
Google’s massively popular video sharing website YouTube has penned a deal with MLB Advanced Media, the media and internet subsidiary of Major League Baseball, providing Japanese baseball fans with on-demand, full-length MLB games via its website.
The deal is YouTube’s biggest premium sports partnership to date and will allow Japanese MLB fans to catch highlight reels [...]
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Samsung Galaxy Tab Will Feature CDMA, Verizon Bound
You can’t move without seeing either a shot or additional information on the yet to be announced Samsung Galaxy Tab. For those of you living in the US, or anywhere with CDMA mobile networks, you may be pleased to know that the rumoured CDMA version of the Galaxy Tab is no longer a rumour and [...]
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Google rolls out real-time Blogger stats for all
It’s perhaps a surprise that this feature hasn’t been available before now, but Google has announced that all users of its Blogger blogging platform now have real-time stats available to them.
After a few weeks’ testing as a ‘Blogger in Draft’ feature, Google says that all users now have a new ‘Stats’ tab on their dashboard.
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