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– This fall, Google is expected to release not one, but five Android 5.0 flagship phones, each running a pure, unadulterated version of the new OS. Who wins — and who loses — if this bold shift in policy comes to pass?
– Facebook fever is everywhere. If you need to escape, here are seven social networking apps you can use to fill the void.
– Google’s daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.
– Google’s daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.
– Google’s daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.
– The rumor du jour is that Microsoft is just two weeks away from launching a competitor to Amazon’s massively popular EC2 service. This seems like big news, until you consider that Microsoft already offers a competitor to Amazon EC2.
– The ITC decided on Friday that Motorola’s phones and tablets should be banned from sale in 60 days due to a violation of a Microsoft patent. President Obama could possibly overturn the sale ban.
– Curious about how to burn through $2.5 billion in less than a year? Nokia might have some suggestions.
– The project turns social media into music, with the Britten Sinfonia orchestra performing pieces controlled by the content and pacing of 500 individuals’ tweets.
– There are a lot of iPhone accessories out there, but only a few of them are time tested and have an actual chance of making your iPhone photos look better. Here are the best, chosen by The Wirecutter.
– Amazon is rumored to be working on a 10-inch Kindle Fire. Apple is said to be working on a seven-inch iPad mini. It’s shaping up to be a clash of the tablet titans.
– As someone mentioned on Twitter, this is a trifecta of geek awesomeness. And it puts the iPhone in its proper place as an alien technology planted on Earth to catalyze our evolution into (more) sapient beings. You can see the original posting on Imgur here. Originally found via Daring Fireball.
– There is a lot of misguided focus on which Facebook employees and investors are amassing what size pile of money, says Meagan Marks, a former Facebook employee, and a shareholder. ?What this IPO is really about is the company now has more money to go out and make more acquisitions and build more interesting products.?
– Shaun Pendergast was working away at his Portland apartment when he heard a strange noise. He walked to the window and saw two raccoons expressing their love for each other on his roof.
– I’ve actually gotten to play with the Etcher myself: Krupnik sent me an earlier prototype (ugly, but functional) when he found out I’m an Etch-a-Sketch artist, and I wanted a first-hand impression of how the thing actually works. Because really, as one of my fellow GeekDads asked, why would you pay $45 to turn your $500 tablet into a $15 toy? Read on, and I’ll tell you.
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– Mediafly is a startup company that delivers cloud-based applications for content management and distribution on mobile devices for Fortune 500 companies. Through the Ariba Network, Mediafly gained insight and control over its cash flow and found new means of managing capital and in aiding its ability to support ongoing operations, as well as to drive future growth.
– Silverpop has been on the vanguard of old-school digital marketing providers — that is, email marketing firms — embracing social media. The company has released a slew of products designed to integrate the two disciplines. Given that history, it is difficult to imagine a subsector or market constituency that it missed in its earlier product rollouts, but apparently Silverpop has found one, and it has set out to rectify the omission.
– Over the next few years, the growth in online retail sales in markets such as Western Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America is expected to outpace U.S. growth. Given this increase in cross-border e-commerce, many retailers are rushing to reach new markets. However, the unique circumstances of international shipping call for unique systems and process capabilities.
– For all the anticipation leading up to Facebook’s initial public offering, opinions about how it performed are decidedly mixed. Clearly, though, the market didn’t think the stock, which started at $38 per unit, was a grand bargain: Facebook ended trading on Friday just a few cents over its opening price.
– As Facebook launched its IPO on Friday, it was hit with yet another class action lawsuit over its practice of tracking of users even after they had logged out of its website. The amended consolidated class action complaint was filed by Stewarts Law in a San Jose, Calif., federal court.
– Samsung overtook Nokia to become the world’s top cellular phone maker earlier this year, shipping more than 92 million handsets in the first quarter. The company’s Galaxy S II smartphone had stellar sales, reaching 20 million. The third time might be more than the charm — it could be big on an intergalactic scale, with some 9 million pre-orders reportedly placed for the upcoming Galaxy S III, which will debut in Europe on May 29.
– Wearing his trademark hoodie, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg virtually rang Nasdaq’s opening bell from Silicon Valley this morning to kick off the start of what will be a very interesting Friday. This is, of course, Facebook IPO day — the long-awaited and eagerly anticipated initial public offering of the social media giant.
– HP is planning significant layoffs with the aim of increasing efficiency and focusing on new products, according to a recent report citing an anonymous source. The company could lay off more than 30,000 workers, or nearly 10 percent of the company’s total workforce of 324,000. The large-scale cuts are reportedly part of CEO Meg Whitman’s effort to rebuild the company.
– This spring has seen a raft of software company events and announcements, and they’ve been good meetings full of real news and important new developments. It is as if these companies bided their time during the worst of the recession, building new product, thinking about the future and how customers will use their technologies.
– In the U.S. market, the percentage of broadband households owning and connecting at least one product besides PCs to the Internet has increased 45 percent between 2010 and 2011. Today, approximately 40 percent of all U.S. broadband households own at least one Internet-connected device, with game consoles accounting for 75 percent of these products.
– Twitter has made an important overture to privacy advocates: It is giving users the ability to opt out of being tracked on the service by enabling the Do Not Track feature in the Firefox browser. Ed Felten, chief technology officer for the Federal Trade Commission, broke the news at an industry event Thursday morning in New York. The company later confirmed it in a message on Twitter.
– The image-based social networking site Pinterest has raised $100 million in a financing round, and this brings the value of the company to around $1.5 billion, an unnamed source told All Things D. Rakuten, one of Japan’s biggest online retail operators, led the round of financing. It was joined by a group of investors including venture-capital firms FirstMark Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners and Andreessen Horowitz.
– Verizon will reveal a new shared data policy this summer and end its unlimited data option, according to CFO Fran Shammo. Currently, the company allows customers who had a $30-per-month unlimited data plan before Verizon’s switch to tiered plans last July to keep their unlimited plans when they upgrade their phones to LTE devices. That option will soon be eliminated.
– Google is extensively updating its search function with the rollout of a new Knowledge Graph. The heart of the Knowledge Graph is a database Google has compiled, via its own research and through its acquisition of MetaWeb Technologies, of 500 million people, places, things and points of history.
– There’s always a danger of reading analysis by others that matches your own personal experience and then simply using it to build up the foundation of what you know and believe. But hey, danger can spike adrenaline, and I like adrenaline, so check this out: Information technology research firm Gartner released a report about its worldwide tablet sales projections for 2012.
