Apple has filed another patent infringement complaint with the ITC against Taiwan-based smartphone manufacturer HTC, looking for an import ban on a number of the vendor’s mobile devices. The new complaint focuses on Portable Electronic Devices and Related Software, which is likely to incorporate both HTC’s smartphones and tablet devices. It requests that the Commission...
Daily Archives: July 11, 2011
The 19 Most-Liked Companies In America (BAC, DAL, POM)
Image: www.flickr.com Although consumer ratings don’t show up on any balance sheet, sooner or later customer satisfaction will decide the fate of a company. At one extreme, Apple claims ranks of rabidly devoted customers, as reflected in a high score on the American Customer Satisfaction Index. At the other extreme, the mere mention of companies...
Defining Social Commerce: A Tale of Three Conversations
Everyone, especially Wall Street, is standing up to salute social commerce. Look at the IPO pipeline – LinkedIn, Groupon, Zynga, Living Social. But despite all this attention, the definition of social commerce is fuzzy at best. How do we know if these companies will win, if we can’t even agree on what it is?...
The Truth About Who’s Responsible For Our Massive Budget Deficit
Say the words “budget deficit,” and Republicans and Democrats begin screaming at each other about who’s to blame. Republicans howl that the deficit is President Obama’s fault, because he has exploded government spending and failed to fix the economy. Democrats roar that President Obama inherited a catastrophic economic mess, that this mess will take...
Indian users can post to Google+ using SMS
It seems that often when a new service from Internet giants such as Google or Facebook is launched, all the cool features are primarily US-centric with the rest of the world left high and dry. Hence, it is quite surprising to see Google offering an exclusive feature to Indian Google+ users through which they can...
Dubai police adopt BlackBerry Messenger to talk to the public
It actually makes perfect sense to utilize BlackBerry since RIM Accepted to provide control of server traffic and data has been in-part or whole to UAE authorities. I can see more and more initiatives in the UAE. Article source: TNW http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheNextWeb/~3/1TLvoXoRBuI/
Getting Started with Social Media
By now you know that using social media is an essential part of running any-sized business, but how do you take those first baby steps towards learning about various services such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and others? The mailing list provider Constant Contact has put together an excellent site called the Social Media Quickstarter...
Delicious to relaunch later this year
Earlier this year it emerged that YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen were acquiring social bookmarking service Delicious from Yahoo. Now job listings have appeared on Hurley and Chen’s AVOS company website, listing three development positions, a community manager and a general counsel to cover legal matters related to the company. From recruitment...
Google+ Now Has More Sharing Buttons Out Than Twitter (GOOG)
Apparently Google’s “+1″ sharing buttons for Google+ have taken off so much that there are more out there than there are Twitter sharing buttons, according to a report cited by VatorNews. Third-party site owners can add little buttons on their sites to let people share on social services like Facebook, Twitter and Google+. And...
HTC to begin unlocking Sensation and Evo 3D bootloaders in August
HTC has announced that it will begin unlocking bootloaders on its HTC Sensation and Evo 3D smartphones in August, two weeks after it first declared it would reintroduce unrestricted bootloaders following consumer pressure. HTC revealed in late March was considering changing the bootloader restrictions on its Android handsets after it posted a message to its...