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| [VIDEO] THE IPAD APP UPDATE THAT APPLE DIDN'T SHOW YOU AT WWDC | Published: 13/06/12 |
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Tim Cook and the Apple crew covered a lot of ground at the annual developer conference keynote on Monday, but they didn't mention an app update that every iPad owner is going to love. It's a long-awaited, extensive refresh of an app you probably stopped using the day you bought your iPad. Check out our preview and then let us know what you think in the comments.
| TOP 5 SPOTIFY APPS FOR MUSIC DISCOVERY | Published: 01/12/12 |
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Spotify wasn't built for discovery. The Swedish music streaming company realizes this and instead of trying to natively bake a zillion features into its service, itlaunched a platform for third party developers about a year ago.
Spotify's app directory now features almost 60 HTML5-based add-ons for the service's desktop client. These apps perform a lot of different functions - some are social, w...
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| FACEBOOK LOOSENS ZYNGA'S LEASH - CAN CHANGING THE RULES SAVE ZYNGA? | Published: 30/11/12 |
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If this were a certain social network, Zynga and Facebook could probably agree that their relationship status is: It's complicated. Two new SEC filings on Thursday revealed that the social game-maker and the social network are putting a little distance between themselves, amending some rules of their multi-year agreement to give both companies a bit more autonomy.
What’s Changing In The SEC Amen...
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| CHILL DIRECT: A FARM SYSTEM FOR VIDEO DISTRIBUTION | Published: 30/11/12 |
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What's the biggest hurdle to getting people to watch your film or video? Getting it in front of them in the first place. Unfortunately, your options are limited.
Chill Direct, a new service fromthe social-video siteChill, hopes to expand those options and act as a new farm system to get content to TV, theaters and film festivals.
If you're as well-known as rising comic Louis C.K., who has famous...
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| TIME WARNER CEO THINKS YOUTUBE’S $100 MILLION CONTENT INVESTMENT IS "CUTE" | Published: 30/11/12 |
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Much has been made of Google’s foray into original content with its $100 million investments in its bid to compete with television. But as Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes pointed out at this week’s Business Insider’s IGNITION conference, Google’s content investments are essentially chump change - nowhere near enough to challenge Big Media's established players.
“To put it in perspective, we...
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| ANOTHER GLOOMY SALES REPORT ADDS TO WINDOWS 8'S TOUGH WEEK | Published: 30/11/12 |
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Just how well is Windows 8 selling so far?
A month past the launch of Microsoft’s revolutionary operating system, data released this week seems to add credence to the idea that consumers just aren’t adopting Windows 8 as fast as the company may have hoped, with negative implications both for the Holiday shopping season and beyond.
In a report released Friday, StatCounter found that by November...
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| GOOGLE BUYS BUFFERBOX TO MATCH AMAZON'S LOCKER FOR CONVENIENT SHIPPING | Published: 30/11/12 |
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Google has acquired Canadian parcel delivery start-up BufferBox Friday for an undisclosed sum. BufferBox is like a PIN-protected P.O. box for packages that solves the problem of missed deliveries. It's a service that mirrors the Locker serviceAmazon began offering earlier this month. Google's acquisition of BufferBox signals that it's serious about going head to head with Amazon on retail.
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| IDC: DEVELOPER DISINTEREST COULD KILL RIM & WINDOWS PHONE | Published: 30/11/12 |
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There is no doubt, 2013 is going to be a very interesting year for the mobile industry. Apple and Google will continue to strive for worldwide domination with iOS and Android - making it very difficult for other competitors to squeeze out profits. The day of reckoning may be at hand for old school mobile players like Research In Motion and Microsoft even as manufacturers like Nokia , HTC and even ...
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| IT HAPPENED TO ME: MY SMALL BUSINESS WAS HACKED! | Published: 30/11/12 |
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Last September, shortly after the attacks on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, a company tweeted me that they were going to make our site, SmallBizDaily.com, their “small business resource of the day.” My joy was short-lived when the next morning they tweeted that my site had been hacked.
I quickly checked (it was still early morning on the West Coast, where we’re located) and sure e...
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| WHY DO TECH COMPANIES DOMINATE "BEST PLACES TO WORK" LISTS? | Published: 30/11/12 |
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When the Great Place to Work Institute released its 2012 World's Best Multinational Workplaces list this month, ranking the world's 25 best employers - tech companies ruled. High-tech companies grabbed 9 of the 25 slots including 4 of the top 5.
It's a nice feather in the caps of Google, SAS, NetApp, Microsoft and the other winners, but beyond bragging rights, is there a point to this or any simil...
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| ORACLE HAS PROBLEMS TELLING THE TRUTH IN ITS ADVERTISING | Published: 30/11/12 |
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Oracle seems to have a problem with truth in advertising. Since April, the tech giant has had to pull three ads that claimed Oracle computers performed much better than IBM's.
Each time, Oracle offered no proof of its claims and the ads were dropped after IBM complained to the National Advertising Division (NAD) of the Better Business Bureau (BBB). This sleazy behavior, called "strategically stupi...
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