| Netflix locks up Academy Award nominated exclusives from The Weinstein Company |
 If you re looking for more content to watch on Netflix s Watch Instantly streaming service -- especially since all those Starz movies are exiting stage left at month s end -- we have good news, as it just announced a multi-year exclusive deal with The Weinstein Company. The agreement covers foreign language, documentary and "certain other movies" that will be watchable in their pay-TV window only on Netflix, and not HBO or Showtime. That includes such high profile selections as The Artist, which is nominated for 17 Academy Awards this weekend and Best Documentary nominated Undefeated, as well as other flicks like Coriolanus and The Intouchables. Of course, this is still Netflix so while fans of subtitles and exposés may be sated, The Weinstein Company s more mainstream flicks and Dimension Films releases like Scream 4 aren t included, as they re still Showtime exclusives due to the deal it signed with the channel back in 08. Either way, more movies is more movies and you can check out all the details in the press release after the break, hopefully this deal works out better than HD DVD s exclusive Weinstein pact did back in the day.Continue reading Netflix locks up Academy Award nominated exclusives from The Weinstein Company Netflix locks up Academy Award nominated exclusives from The Weinstein Company originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:26:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink |  Netflix | Email this | Comments |
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| Facebook PS Vita app hits US PlayStation Store |
Although the PlayStation Vita s official US launch brought with it the pleasures of LiveTweeting, WiFi-only Netflix access and Flickr s photo-based networking, its Facebook and Foursquare apps were curiously absent. Today that s partially changed, however, as Sony s announced that the service that Zuckerberg built is now available as a free 12MB download from the PlayStation Store (on the wall of its PlayStation Facebook profile no less). We ve gained access to the social network without a hitch, so be sure to let us know how it goes on your side of the screen in the comments. Hopefully it s more pleasing than AR table soccer.
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| LG Optimus 4X HD unveiled: Quad-core Tegra 3, Ice Cream Sandwich, 4.7-inch display |
| If LG failed to impress so far with the Android 2.3 phones it s shown off in the run up to MWC 2012, perhaps the Optimus 4X HD can turn things around. This 4.7-inch beast will hit Europe in the second quarter and is its first to feature a 1.5GHz quad-core Tegra 3 as its benchmark destroying CPU, a 4.7-inch True HD IPS LCD (1280x720) plus what appears to be a lightly customized version of Ice Cream Sandwich. Perhaps the only logical followup to its Optimus 2X that kicked off all the dual-core madness, it also includes a 2,150mAh battery, 1GB of RAM and 16GB of internal storage. Despite that huge screen, at a depth of 8.9mm it s only slightly thicker than the superwide 4x3 Optimus Vu. Just like the Fujitsu prototype we spent some time with at CES, the Tegra 3 features a 4+1 "Companion Core" design, with a fifth low power unit available to take care of more mundane tasks without draining the battery. This is all pretty close to the leaked "X3" specs we d heard, however there s no mention of NFC or HSPA+ just yet, only DLNA and MHL. Check out the machine translated Korean press release after the break for a few more specs. Continue reading LG Optimus 4X HD unveiled: Quad-core Tegra 3, Ice Cream Sandwich, 4.7-inch display LG Optimus 4X HD unveiled: Quad-core Tegra 3, Ice Cream Sandwich, 4.7-inch display originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 22 Feb 2012 23:10:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | | Email this | Comments |
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| ZTE to unleash eight new phones at MWC, hopes multi-core chipsets and LTE push them into third place |
| If the trio of slabs ZTE announced earlier this week weren t enough for you, sit tight, the outfit just announced it s bringing a total of eight new phones to Barcelona next week. The new handsets will reportedly flaunt multi-core processors, LTE radios and the latest versions of the Aneroid and Windows Phone platforms. This announcement both echos and one-ups the recently announced Mimosa X, which gets its dual-core chops from an NVIDIA Tegra 2, but boasts only HSPA+, rather than the promised LTE. ZTE says it hopes the new devices will help it become one of the world s top three handset providers by the year 2015. Seem far off? Don t worry, at least the phones will be here by Monday. Read on for ZTE s official press statement. Continue reading ZTE to unleash eight new phones at MWC, hopes multi-core chipsets and LTE push them into third place ZTE to unleash eight new phones at MWC, hopes multi-core chipsets and LTE push them into third place originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:05:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | | Email this | Comments |
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| Clothes Horse Wants To Solve The Biggest Problem With Online Shopping: Finding Clothes That Fit |
 Clothes Horse, a fashion technology company based out of New York, is publicly launching its platform today in an attempt to address one of the biggest challenges facing online shoppers: buying clothes that fit. Through the use of a customizable widget that merchants add to their own websites, Clothes Horse can determine within just 30 seconds how the retailers items will fit any customer. The goal is not only to decrease shopping cart abandonment, but also the rate of returns due to ill-fitting clothes. |
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| Report: Video Accounts For Half Of All Mobile Traffic; Android Biggest For Mobile Ads |
 Mobile video now accounts for half of all mobile traffic; and on some networks, that number is as high as 69 percent -- a testament to the rise of smartphones and tablets as the mobile devices of choice for consumers, and their growing interest in using these devices to do a lot more than just make phone calls.
The data, from a new report on mobile data usage by mobile analytics firm Bytemobile, also found that Android is generating more mobile ad volume than iOS devices, and that Google now accounts for 75 percent of ad-generated data across all platforms. |
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| A $199 iPad: 10 Reasons Apple Should Discount its Tablet |
NEWS ANALYSIS: Apple is facing off with a growing number of tablets that come with a $199 price tag. Maybe its time the iPad maker follows suit. - Apple is the most dominant tablet
maker in the industry. The company sold more than 15 million iPads during the
fourth quarter, and secured an unbeatable share of the tablet space. All other
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| Google Street View now sending snapshots from Russia, with love |
We ve lived vicariously through Google Maps a few times in the past, including an excursion down the Amazon River. Today, those plans for a trip to Russia can get a lot more detailed as Street View is now virtually pacing the streets of Moscow and St. Petersburg. Points of interest that you ll be able to take a peek at include Red Square, Moscow Kremlin, Peterhof and both Tsaritsino and Kuskovo parks. Hit the source links below to get that sightseeing adventure started -- sans backpack, of course. Google Street View now sending snapshots from Russia, with love originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:42:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | Google Lat Long Blog, Google Maps | Email this | Comments |
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| M3 Android NFC Communicator mixes something old, something new for prepaid subs |
| Malaysia may not be on the tip of anyone s tongue when wireless comes to mind, but that s not stopping local outfit DMD Mobile from attempting to make its mark. Set for an official unveiling at next week s Mobile World Congress, the M3 Android NFC Communicator is the outfit s clumsily titled stab at the prepaid market in South Asia and the Middle East. The touchscreen handset, to be available in both 2.6-inch portrait QWERTY and 3.2-inch candybar form factors, comes loaded up with a surprising mix of last- and current-gen specs: 650Mhz single-core CPU running a skinned version of Gingerbread 2.3.5, support for dual-band HSPA+ (850 / 2100MHz) and quadband GSM, VGA front-facing / 3MP rear cameras, Bluetooth 4.0, WiFi and NFC. Sure, it s not the most thrilling of forward-looking devices to surface this year, but priced at RM500 (that s about US$165), it s certainly more of a great deal than it is bargain bin entry. Hit up the source below for additional info on this low-hanging mobile fruit. M3 Android NFC Communicator mixes something old, something new for prepaid subs originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:16:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink  The Star | DMD Mobile | Email this | Comments |
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| Browser Shootout Shows Minor Variations In Performance – It’s Still A Matter Of Taste |
 The browser wars are in a tense state of suspension right now. The once-obvious advantages of one and disadvantages of another can t be counted on as much as they could a year ago, and fast-changing standards and interaction methods have produced a sort of uneasy détente while everyone awaits the browser equivalent of the Manhattan Project to catapult them into the atomic age.
Tom s Hardware just did a nice, thorough examination of the available browsers on Windows 7 and Ubuntu, and the findings are really mixed. It used to be that Firefox always won, and we could all make fun of IE. Then Chrome came and won all the speed benchmarks. And then there was Opera. Now it s a mess. How do you pick the browser that s best for you? Easy: you flip a coin. |
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| Google’s Diversifying Display Ad Business Could Pass Facebook’s, eMarketer Guesses |
 Research firm eMarketer has put together a few interesting data points that show Google doing better in display ads than you might have realized. That is, by growing this business across properties that it at some point acquired – YouTube, DoubleClick, and mobile (AdMob) – it s set to pass Facebook s own display business.
The social network had the highest online ad sales of any company in the US last year, at $1.73 billion. But that was a mere $200 million or so above Google. This year, eMarketer expects a similar story, with Facebook bringing in $2.58 billion versus Google s $2.54 billion. Things change in 2013 and 2014, further off from what the data can tell us accurately. |
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| Rapportive Announces Acquisition By LinkedIn, (Basically) Confirms $15M Price |
 After reports earlier this month that LinkedIn was buying contact management service Rapportive, the startup just published a blog post confirming that yes, it has been acquired.
For those of you who don t use it, Rapportive is a Gmail plugin that shows you the latest social network updates from whoever you re corresponding with. (I ve gotten so used to seeing the Rapportive window next to my emails that I sometimes forget that it s not a default part of Gmail.) And if you re a Rapportive user who s worried that the deal will follow the pattern of so many other startup acquisitions, it sounds like LinkedIn won t be shutting Rapportive down. |
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| New Update Brings Collaborative Editing To Google Docs Android App |
| It s safe to say we ve all been in a situation where a few extra pairs of eyes could come in handy, and the folks at Google know just how that feels. In an effort to give people that backup when they need it, they ve just pushed out a useful new update to the Google Docs Android app. |
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| AdRoll Hires Google Sales Director Suresh Khanna |
 Aiming to become one of the giants of online advertising, ad retargeting startup AdRoll has hired Googler Suresh Khanna as its vice president of sales.
In nearly six years at Google, Khanna held a number of roles. Most recently, he was director of new advertiser sales, where he says he led the North American team for acquiring mid-market and larger advertisers. Until now, Khanna says AdRoll hasn t had anyone focused on building out the sales team, so one of his big goals is to "attract rock stars." He also says that he wants to help AdRoll build relationships with larger advertisers and ad agencies. |
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| #1 FB Dating App Zoosk’s New Model: Seducing Couples With Advice and Date Discounts |
 Every time a dating site succeeds in making a match, it loses two users. To offset churn, Zoosk tells me that tomorrow it s announcing a new business model that complements subscriptions with date discounts, expert relationship advice, gift ideas, holiday reminders, online scrapbooks.
The products could convince users to pay even after they ve found their sweethearts. If users fall in love with the new revenue streams, the whole dating industry could start courting happy couples. |
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| Wapple wins trademark fight with Apple |
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| Wapple Wins Trademark Battle Over Apple |
 While Apple is busy fighting Proview over the iPad trademark in China, it has lost a different trademark battle in Europe: Wapple, the mobile web developers, have won a suit filed by Apple over its name.
The suit, originally filed in 2007, claimed that Wapple was trading on Apple’s brand association and name, although Wapple had filed for a trademark on "Wapple" in 2006. |
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| Google Sued Over Safari Privacy Snafu |
Computer users in Missouri and Illinois havesued Google over the search engine placement of online ad cookies in Apple s Safari Web browser. The move circumvented Apple s privacy protection for Safari. -
Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) has been sued by computer users
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sidestepped control settings intended to protect users of Apple s (NASDAQ:AAPL)
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| Barnes & Noble offers to repartition Nook Tablet storage, concedes you may need more than 1GB |
| Are you one of the many infuriated with Barnes & Noble over how it partitioned the storage on the Nook Tablet -- leaving you just 1GB for you own files? Well, it looks like the company has learned from its mistakes. While only about 5GB is free to load with apps and media on the new 8GB model, just 1GB of that is reserved for Nook Store content. B&N is also offering to retroactively fix the 16GB boondoggle as well. If you visit a brick and mortar shop starting March 12th, a support rep will gladly help you repartition the internal storage, freeing up more than just one of the 13 available gigabytes for personal use. Having to bring it to the store is a bit of pain, but we suppose it s better that getting stuck with 12GB of Angry Birds and e-books. Barnes & Noble offers to repartition Nook Tablet storage, concedes you may need more than 1GB originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:38:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink Android Police, Liliputing | Barnes & Noble | Email this | Comments |
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| Flash roadmap reveals new features, improved GPU support, lack of retirement plans |
| Flash for mobile may just be a spectator at its own wake at this point, but the desktop browser plug-in is still alive and (reasonably) well. In fact, Adobe has a host of plans for its flagship multimedia platform, as outlined in its 2012 roadmap. It all starts with 11.2, which should be landing sooner, rather than later, with support for right and left mouse clicks, multithreaded video decoding and improved GPU acceleration support. That will be followed by Cyril and Dolores, which will also expand the list of hardware-accelerated video cards, as well as improve overall performance and add a few welcome tweaks, like supporting keyboard input in full screen mode. Finally, in 2013, we ll see the debut of Flash Next -- a completely overhauled platform with major updates to the runtime core and ActionScript language that are designed to "meet the needs of developers over the next five to 10 years." Check out the source for full details but, be warned -- it s PDF only. Flash roadmap reveals new features, improved GPU support, lack of retirement plans originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:02:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | Adobe (PDF) | Email this | Comments |
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| Tiny Review: Instagram + Yelp + Twitter FTW! |
Tiny Review is a photo-sharing app with a twist: Instead of adding filters and sharing with your social network a la Instagram, Tiny Review makes it easy for users to add up to three short lines of text to their photos.  |
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| BloomReach wants to save your site traffic with big data |
BloomReach emerged from stealth mode a message about how will help ensure companies get their web pages heard above the noise online. Using a potent brew of big data techniques, BloomReach says it can significantly improve traffic by making pages more relevant to consumers. |
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| BloomReach Crunches Big Data To Deliver The Future Of SEO and SEM |
 Are you ready for a revolution? Today, after 3 years of machine learning development in stealth, BloomReach reveals its big data solution for website relevance optimization. BloomReach is capable of boosting organic search traffic by whopping 80%, and will flip the search engine optimization and marketing industries upside down.
With a huge problem, a team of industry rockstars backed by $16 million from Bain Capital Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners, and the patented technology capable of executing, BloomReach could become the first $10 billion enterprise marketing company, joining other core solutions like Oracle, SAP, and Salesforce. |
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| Strategic Sharing: Zipcar Leads $13.7M Investment In Campus Car-Sharing Startup Wheelz |
 Well, you have to hand it to the strategy team over at Zipcar. Arguably the largest on-demand car-sharing network, Zipcar went public last year and not long after saw its market cap cross $1 billion. It s since fallen back, and with collaborative consumption and the market for car-sharing heating up, the big players have to make moves. Zipcar has since forged a partnership with Ford, making it the largest provider of cars for Zipcar s University program, and, in December, the company took a controlling stake in Spain s largest car-sharing network, Avancar.
Today finds Zipcar making another strategic move to get its mitts in fellow car-sharing companies, again with a focus on universities, whose students are among the most eager adopters of car-sharing models. What do I mean? The company today announced that it is a lead investor in the $13.7 million series A financing of Wheelz, a junior, university-focused version of itself. |
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| Yandex: Q4 Sales, Income Up Over 50% For Russia’s Search Giant |
 More news from Yandex, Russia s biggest search engine, that highlight the opportunity for more growth in digital in Russia and adjacent markets. One day after announcing a new real-time search partnership with Twitter, the company is reporting Q4 earnings: sales were at $200 million with net income of $71.3 million, both representing growth respectively of 56 percent and 51 percent on the same quarter a year ago. |
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| 140 Proof Introduces Video To Its Social Ad Network |
 140 Proof, a startup that says it delivers targeted ads to more than 50 social apps, is adding a video ad unit to its lineup.
Like the company s existing 140-character text units, the videos can show up in the social stream of any app running 140 Proof ads. Users should be able to click and watch the video without leaving the page, rate it, and bring up a feed of all the tweets mentioning the advertiser s hashtag. |
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| EU Will Refer ACTA To Highest European Court |
 The European Union says it will refer the controversial ACTA anti-piracy trade agreement to the institution s highest court, the European Court of Justice, to check whether it complies with the EU s fundamental rights.
EU trade chief Karel De Gucht is leading the process. He said: "We are planning to ask Europe s highest court to assess ACTA s compatibility with the EU s fundamental rights and freedoms, such as freedom of expression and information or that of protection… Let me be very clear: I share people s concern for these fundamental freedoms... especially over the freedom of the internet." |
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| More Facebook users are hiding their friends to protect themselves |
Facebook users have become dramatically more protective of not just revealing who they are, but also who they know. Significantly fewer Facebook users make their Friends list public now compared to just a couple of years ago. The trend is driven by the increased attention Facebook has received since 2010 over its privacy policies, dramatic site changes, and increased awareness that third parties can learn a lot about a person by who he or she is connected with on a social networking site, according to researchers at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University. |
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| Crowdsourcing the killer business tablet |
Last week we discussed how an iPad competitor could succeed in the tablet market -- namely, by not trying to out-Apple Apple on the UI front, and instead delivering important capabilities Apple doesn t and isn t likely to offer. Not that you would know this was the premise of the article from most of the comments posted in response. |
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| Storify Brings Drag-And-Drop Social Curation To The iPad |
 Storify has become one of the main ways that people can create stories from social media — the startup says it has been used by 22 of the top 25 news sites in the United States, and that its users have curated a total of more than 3 million social objects. And now you can do that curation from your iPad.
The company was already mobile, in the sense that stories (which are essentially curated timelines of content from Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, and more) created with its tools could be viewed on smartphones and tablets. But with the new Storify iPad app, you can create those stories on a mobile device, too. In fact, co-founder and CEO Xavier Damman argues that this may be the first great app for content creation (rather than consumption) on the iPad. |
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| Alert: Social Media Is Eating Into Carrier Revenues, And It’s Only Getting Worse |
 Twitter, Facebook and other social networks have long counted on the rise in smartphone usage to help fuel their growth: that trend, however, seems to also be taking a toll on mobile carriers -- specifically in the form of revenues.
The analyst firm of Ovum, part of the Informa Group, has estimated that operators lost $13.9 billion in SMS revenue in 2011, as a result of their customers using services like Twitter and Facebook to message each other instead of the carriers own text messaging services -- a big rise on the $8.7 billion Ovum estimates was lost in 2010. A separate report from mobile analytics firm Bytemobile has also charted huge growth in the use of social media on mobile -- with operators getting virtually no benefit as a result. |
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| WhyIsFacebookInsightsNotWorking.com Is A Site That Tells You…. |
 .... Whether or not Facebook s in-house analytics product, Insights, is working. Due to product changes in recent weeks, the tool has been particularly slow to update with the latest metrics, as the site s creator, PageLever, has discovered. The startup uses Facebook s API to provide an advanced custom interface for page owners who are trying to track impressions and a variety of other key numbers. Because of the problem, it has been getting all sorts of questions from clients lately asking a slightly different question: "Why isn t PageLever working?"
Yes, WhyIsFacebookInsightsNotworking.com doesn t actually try to answer what its name would seem to indicate. Only Facebook engineers working on the tool know exactly why Insights is not functioning at any given time, after all, and they are probably busy working to fix it instead of dealing with questions. |
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| Microsoft Office Coming to Apple iPad: Report |
Microsoft will ask Apple to approve Office for iPad, according to a new report in The Daily. A version for Android is apparently not in development. - Microsoft will ask Apple to approve a version of Office for
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| EVE Online Saw $66M In Revenue Last Year, Mulls IPO |
 CCP Games, the makers of the massively multiplayer online role-playing game EVE Online , say the company brought in $66 million in revenue last year.
The game, a science fictional adventure set in a star cluster dominated by five major civilizations, first launched in 2003, and its subscriber base (currently about 400,000) has grown every year since launch. Revenue has been growing too, at a compound annual growth rate of 53 percent, bringing in total revenue of $300 million over the game s lifetime. As for profits, CCP would only say that it has "very healthy margins" — a claim backed up by the fact that it has grown to more than 450 employees despite only raising $3 million in seed funding. |
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| BuzzFeed Adds A Little Nostalgia To Your Facebook Timeline |
 Facebook s Timeline is a cool idea, but as a representation of my life, it doesn t have much to say about my experiences before 2004. Now, in its own small way, viral content site BuzzFeed is trying to change that.
Specifically, it s adding buttons to select posts that take advantage of the Timeline s ability to backdate content. The first post with this feature asks, "What Was Your First Computer?" For example, you could say that your first computer was an Apple II, and that you got it in 1978, and that would be added to the relevant section of your Timeline. Another post asks, "What Toys Did You Play With As A Kid?" |
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| Twitter Goes Back To The Future With Mobile App Update, ‘#Discover’ Still Just As Useless |
 Twitter has just launched a new app refresh for its mobile apps in Android and iOS, as well as expanded its offerings to the Kindle Fire and the Barnes & Noble NOOK and NOOK color.
Returning to the iOS and Android apps is the ability to swipe individual tweets to reveal tweet actions like Reply, Retweet, Favorite and Profile -- a feature which was initially available in Tweetie, the app that eventually became Twitter for mobile, and then removed inexplicably. Another blast from the past is the ability to copy and paste text of tweets and user profiles, which I for one really missed. |
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| Bottlenose 2.0: Taming The “Share-pocalypse” With A Smarter Social Media Dashboard |
 There s a lot of noise in our social media channels. I m busy clogging up your Twitter feed with my deep thoughts, your friends are sharing their one-millionth baby picture on Facebook, and Scoble is filming startups in your living room on Google+. There is unfathomable amount of data being produced every second, as social networks, apps, chat, etc. now facilitate realtime communication and sharing -- making email feel like the Pony Express. This makes it nearly impossible for people (and their businesses) to stay on top of -- among other things -- the realtime communication happening between their customers. |
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| Megaupload’s Kim Dotcom Released On Bail, Perhaps Never To Be Seen Again |
 When Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom and several others in the organization were arrested in raids a month ago, it was noted by prosecutors that Dotcom s rather wild lifestyle and propensity for spontaneous international travel, combined with his vast wealth, constituted a serious flight risk. He was denied bail at the time, at least until February 22nd, when the US was to turn in its extradition paperwork.
And today in New Zealand, or tomorrow rather, Dotcom was released under a number of conditions: he will have no internet access, will not travel 80km from his home except in emergencies, and no helicopters would be permitted to fly to his property. |
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| Dell Ends Good Fiscal Year, But Outlook is Cloudy |
Dell Q4 profits fell 18 percent, based on falling revenue from the consumer PC market. All the major PC makers are facing the same sales issues as tablets, led by Apple s iPad and Android devices from several manufacturers, replace notebooks and laptops in users homes and offices. - Dell had good news and not-so-good news for its shareholders on Feb. 21, reporting record yearly revenue and return on investment for its investors in its fiscal year-end earnings report but also ceding that its profit margins have slipped.
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| Big UI Changes Coming To Flickr Next Week |
 Yahoo s management of Flickr has been something of a mystery. The photo-hosting service, once far and away the frontrunner and choice of pros and casual shooters alike, has seen few improvements in recent years — an eternity in the fast-moving online photography space. Many (including myself) cling to the service out of a kind of inertia, but it s hard not to be jealous of the whiz-bang layouts and features of newer sites and services like 500px and Instagram. Even communities like Google+ and Pinterest are making Flickr users second-guess themselves.
It looks as though Flickr is finally getting the makeover it has deserved for years, though: launching on the 28th is a whole new layout and upload style, with an emphasis on community and consumption. |
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