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Friday, March 12, 2010

Mobile

Hearst's App Strategy: Adding More Needles To A Growing Haystack

21 minutes ago - Paid Content
Hearst has about 70 apps under its LMK banner in the iTunes App Store right now and it just plan...

PowerPage Now Accepting Reviewer Applications, Sample Pieces

26 minutes ago - O'Grady's Power Page
O’Grady’s PowerPage is looking for five or six good product review editors to hone in on peripherals, accessories, iPhone games and apps a...

F. Kaid Benfield: Village Green: Constructing a City Around the Concept of Happiness

35 minutes ago - The Huffington Post
“With our limited resources, we have to invent other ways to measure success. This might mean that all kids have access to sports facilit...

Apple And Nokia Won't Be In Court Until 2012 (AAPL, NOK)

40 minutes ago - Silicon Alley Insider
Apple and Nokia, who are suing each other over mobile patents, will not meet in court until mid

Why Social Media Policies Don’t Work

1 hour 3 minutes ago - GigaOM
Maybe Thomson Reuters was feeling nostalgic about the flurry of negative attention that both the New York Times and the Washington Post got last year...

Nokia, Apple courtroom showdown to wait until mid-2012

1 hour 50 minutes ago - Apple Insider
The legal battle over mobile technology patents between handset makers Apple and Nokia will likely drag out for years, with both companies looking for...

Unreal Engine 3 adds extra dimension with NVIDIA 3D Vision

1 hour 50 minutes ago - Engadget
Epic Games has announced that its wildly popular Unreal Engine 3 has now added NVIDIA's 3D Vision to its list of supported technologies. We've alread...

Lenovo: mobile Internet to be 80% of sales in five years

2 hours 4 minutes ago - MacNN
The vast majority of Lenovo's sales will come from Internet

Lahore Suicide Bombs: Attacks Kill 39, Wound 95 In Pakistan

2 hours 54 minutes ago - The Huffington Post
LAHORE, Pakistan — A pair of suicide bombers targeting army vehicles detonated explosives within seconds of each other Friday, killing at least...

Android Running Smoothly on HTC Touch Pro2 [Android]

3 hours 9 minutes ago - Gizmodo
Below, a video demonstrates Android running successfully on the HTC Touch Pro2, which is normally s...

One Year Of Foursquare

4 hours 19 minutes ago - A VC
Our portfolio company Foursquare turned one year old yesterday. They posted about their birthday on the company blog. It is stuff like this that makes...

First Microsoft Windows Phone 7 Series devices to boast 480 x 800 pixel displays, HD2 owners sigh

5 hours 34 minutes ago - Engadget
Even though Microsoft's big MIX event is still days away, the Windows Phone 7 Series development platform is already pretty well defined. It's also c...

Hootsuite acquires developer Swift App to bolster its Android efforts

6 hours 16 minutes ago - Venture Beat
Fresh off its recent Android launch, Canadian social media startup HootSuite acquired developer Swift App to beef up its presence on Google’s mo...

Health Clouds Forming: California's Health Internet Exchange

8 hours 8 minutes ago - Read Write Web
Today, the California Health and Human Services convened a summit with an expected three hundred people in the interest of a state HIE (Health Informa...

Check-In For Charity During SXSW With CauseWorld And TechCrunch

Yesterday - TechCrunch
There are no shortage of location

Jim Luce: Peter Buffett and Angelique Kidjo Release Single to Support Girls in Africa

Yesterday - The Huffington Post
I have been trying to interview Emmy Award

Video game awards night: irreverence, strangeness and blockbusters

Yesterday - Venture Beat
The awards night for the Game Developers Conference is always a hoot. It starts out with the Independent Games Festival, where the industry celebrates...

Android's American market share soars, WinMo pays the price

Yesterday - Engadget
Mobile manufacturer and platform market share stats for the US are in for the month of January thanks to comScore, and as usual, they tell a fascinat...

Candice Berner Killed: Wolves Suspected In Death Of Alaska Teacher

Yesterday - The Huffington Post
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Wolves likely killed a teacher jogging alone along a rural Alaska village road, public safety officials said Thursday. The...

Briefly: iPhone development platform, NeatWorks v3 update

Yesterday - MacNN
RunRev has introduced the first pre

Nokia Aims New Smartphones At U.S.

Yesterday - Paid Content
It’s long been known that Nokia’s had a hard time selling its popular devices in the...

Google Reader Mobile Adds "Magic", Faster UI

Yesterday - Louis Gray
The Google Reader team hasn't been completely at "Play" of late. They have put in some work too. The latest updates to the popular RSS reader, which I...

Industry Moves: Tremor Media; TVGuide.com; NYTCo; AP; Cablevision

Yesterday - Paid Content
—Tremor Media: Mark Pinney has been promoted to COO from CFO. He joined Tremor Media two years ago, having come from AOL’s Platform

Sequoia backs free mobile app company Snaptu

Yesterday - Venture Beat
Snaptu, a startup bringing an iPhone

Twitter lets users geotag tweets directly from Twitter.com

Yesterday - Venture Beat
Twitter has turned on a feature that lets users geotag tweets directly from the web site. So now you don’t have to rely on mobile apps like Twe...

Hot Potato Tosses A New Site, API, And iPhone App With Foursquare Integration At You

Yesterday - TechCrunch
Back in November of last year, the location

6 Thoughts About Location Madness

Yesterday - Read Write Web
Location based social networks

On The Eve Of SXSW’s Location War, Plancast Gets An iPhone App

Yesterday - TechCrunch
It’s getting tough to keep up with all of the location

Plancast iPhone App is Live & It is Good

Yesterday - Read Write Web
Plancast, the plan

Louis Belanger: Gaza Unplugged - The electricity crisis in Gaza sometimes means life or death

Yesterday - The Huffington Post
Daily power cuts in Gaza resulting from the Israeli blockade mean that Palestinians must now use cheap generators in their attempt to carry on with da...

Unreal Engine 3 up and running on webOS, and we've got video!

Yesterday - Engadget
Palm just showed us the Unreal Engine 3 running on webOS, which apparently took a couple weeks to port over to the platform using that fancy new PDK...

Google makes its local shopping move

Yesterday - CNET News
Company announces Thursday that it will offer mobile device users inventory checks on local stores, allowing them to see if products are available

Milo’s Response To Google’s Blue Dot Specials: A Picture

Yesterday - TechCrunch
This morning Google announced a new Blue Dot feature on the mobile version of Google Product Search that shows whether a product is in

12 iPhone Apps for Surviving Conference Season

Yesterday - Mashable!
Amybeth Hale is a Talent Attraction Manager with AT&T’s Interactive Staffing team. She uses social technology to help drive awareness of job o...

John Petro: A Sad Day for Brooklyn: Atlantic Yards Groundbreaking

Yesterday - The Huffington Post
In theory, it should be everything that a progressive urban policy analyst like me would want from a new development. Atlantic Yards would create lots...

Foursquare friends Starbucks, adds ‘Barista’ badge

Yesterday - The Inquisitr
Foursquare is now testing a customer loyalty program with coffee giant Starbucks. So what’s in it for you? So far, a fancy new “Barista&#...

Google Mobile Product Search Now Does Local Inventory Check

Yesterday - Mashable!
Google has announced the initial roll

Foursquare and Starbucks Team Up to Offer Customer Rewards

Yesterday - Mashable!
Foursquare means business. The 1

Why Google Releases New Apps: They're Desperate for Content

Yesterday - Read Write Web
It seems like in the past few months Google has relentlessly released new applications, some of which perhaps could have used some more baking in the...

GamesBeat 2010 in pictures – Part 3

Yesterday - Venture Beat
GamesBeat 2010 was all about networking and bringing people together. Some of the conversations spilled from the stage out into the hallways of Moscon...

How The Roxy Became the #1 Venue on Twitter [INTERVIEW]

Yesterday - Mashable!
With over 26,000 followers, West Hollywood’s Roxy Theatre is the most popular club on Twitter. Just short of half a decade earlier, however, th...

iPhone may finally receive multitasking in OS 4.0 update this summer

Yesterday - Venture Beat
Apple is working on implementing multitasking support — the ability to run more than one app at once — for the iPhone’s operating sy...

Cellphone inventor Marty Cooper uses a Droid.... and a Jitterbug

Yesterday - Engadget
Sure, you read reviews and take recommendations from friends before you buy a new cellphone, but have you ever stopped to consider what the inventor o...

Mobile Commerce Growing Rapidly This Year, But Still Years From Being Mass-Market

Yesterday - Silicon Alley Insider
This is a report from our premium subscription research service The Internet Analyst.  The service is currently in free beta.  To sign up, p...

Google faces potential AdMob antitrust test

Yesterday - Financial Times
Google’s $750m acquisition of mobile advertising company AdMob faces a potential challenge by regulators concerned about the search company’s expa...

Nick Mills: The Children's Hour

Yesterday - The Huffington Post
I visited schools in Kabul in 2004 and what I saw there reinforced what I had learned in Peshawar almost twenty years before, about Afghans and educat...

AOL Launches Lifestream As New Standalone Product. This Is What Google Buzz Should Have Been

Yesterday - TechCrunch
Aol launched Lifestream, a social aggregator and publisher, as part of their AIM platform at TechCrunch50 Last Fall. Since then it has gained nearly 2...

CHART OF THE DAY: Research In Motion Has Done A Great Job Defending Its Turf (AAPL, RIMM)

Yesterday - Silicon Alley Insider
When Apple's iPhone hit the market, it looked like it was only a matter of time before Apple ate BlackBerry maker RIM's lunch. While tha...

FTC may oppose Google's AdMob buyout

Yesterday - MacNN
The Federal Trade Commission has signaled that it may at least temporarily block Google's buyout of AdMob, a set of leaks from within the process hint...

 

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RT @webdesignledger: Forms On Mobile Devices: Modern Solutions http://bit.ly/9my9mk

by MayrenEspina

Indian Workforce Most Mobile Globally

by MigrantPlanet

Stuart Dredge: HTC is the Cuba in Apple and Google's Cold War | Mobile content opinions and analysi.. http://ow.ly/1pBwkN

by hughchambers

RememberItNow! Launches Mobile Medication Reminder and eHealth Service http://shar.es/mbFP5

by mjwysocki

on eJourna: American Airlines Expands Mobile Boarding Passes to 19 Additional Airports http://bit.ly/dk2y0y

by eJourna

Kinda wished Apple refreshed the Mac Book Pro today too. I need a new notebook but I'm holding out for the new mobile i7.

by nvoll84

iPhone Study: More Personal Usage Than Professional: A recent study of the iPhone usage by mobile data analytic f... http://bit.ly/dny8Dk

by howdous

exactly why catalogers should use mobile image recognition to link print and online http://bit.ly/a4cLLa

by LTUtechnologies

Nokia to change how they measure mobile industry unit shipments, will include Asian counterfeits: Nokia (NYSE: NO... http://bit.ly/9itQTP

by smartmobile

Volusion Makes Mobile Commerce a Reality for Thousands of Online Storeowners: AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Vol... http://bit.ly/cCQj0T

by Terry_22

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