Daily Archives: August 1, 2011

Linkbait, Content Farming and Advertorial: Welcome To New Media (Circa 1842)

August 1, 2011
Linkbait, Content Farming and Advertorial: Welcome To New Media (Circa 1842)

I’m in the middle of reading Michael Slater’s biography of Charles Dickens, and it’s excellent (if a little fawning). Given that I grew up just a few miles from the Medway town where Dickens spent his childhood, it’s pretty embarrassing how little I knew about the 19th century’s greatest British author. And given my...

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Someone Finally Made A Browser Extension That Helps You Find The Tab Making Noise

August 1, 2011
Someone Finally Made A Browser Extension That Helps You Find The Tab Making Noise

You know what really grinds my gears? Having 15 browser tabs open and one playing music and not knowing which one is playing music and having to scroll through all the tabs in order to find the one that’s playing music in order to kill it because it’s making you crazy and by the...

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Skype for iPad is Here [Updated]

August 1, 2011

Update: It seems that Skype pressed the big red button a bit too fast. In a tweet, the company explains that the application “went live prematurely” and has now been pulled. Finally you can do away with the oversized iPhone version of Skype on your iPad because the official app is finally available for download....

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Google Expands International Support for Chrome Web Store

August 1, 2011
Google Expands International Support for Chrome Web Store

Google expanded Google expanded international support for its Chrome Web Store today and will now allow merchants to target or exclude individual international markets. Developers within those markets can sign up for merchant accounts and localize their app listings, but paid apps won’t be visible in those markets until later this year. The changes...

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Telus DSL down in British Columbia

August 1, 2011

nlimrex2 It’s not just Internet. It’s Internet that Telus customers pay for. As for complaining, whether I am a customer or not this is newsworthy. So consider it a first-hand account/report. Complaining it isn’t. As for Telus’ corporate standing and employee count, that has no bearing on this other than some would say that...

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Your Idea Is Worth 1 Million: And The Winners Are…

August 1, 2011

BuscaPé, keeping the startup spirit alive Created in 1999, BuscaPé is a Brazilian shopping comparison website that we recently listed as one of the Ten Latin American Startups You Should Watch Out For. It’s indeed one of the most interesting success stories among Brazilian startups. One could even argue that it isn’t a startup anymore...

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Apple iCloud upgrade fees revealed

August 1, 2011
Apple iCloud upgrade fees revealed

Apple unleashed the beta version of its iCloud service Monday and those with access to it have published details about it, including the cost to upgrade to more storage. All iOS 5 and Mac OS X Lion users can get 5 GB of storage in iCloud for free, as Apple announced in June. But...

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Tableau Brings Its BI Solution to the iPad

August 1, 2011
Tableau Brings Its BI Solution to the iPad

This post is part of our ReadWriteCloud channel, which is dedicated to covering virtualization and cloud computing. The channel is sponsored by Intel and VMware. Read the white paper about how Intel Xeon processors help organizations get unprecedented levels of performance. Today Tableau announced a new iPad app and a tablet-optimized version of its...

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Fortinet Updates Its Web Application Firewall and Launches Appliance

August 1, 2011
Fortinet Updates Its Web Application Firewall and Launches Appliance

Visit the Qwest resource center for relevant briefs and reports to help you better manage your enterprise. Learn how smart businesses harness the power of customer data to improve satisfaction and sales: Unleashing the Power of Customer Data. This week Defcon and Black Hat are taking place in Las Vegas, so get set for...

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What OMGPOP Learned From One Million Downloads of Puppy Love

August 1, 2011
What OMGPOP Learned From One Million Downloads of Puppy Love

It is true. Everyone loves puppies. Online gaming site OMGPOP wisely chose Puppy World to be its first iPhone game. In the mobile game, you take care of puppies, give them to children and increase the happiness in the world. In the two weeks since launch, the game has been downloaded almost one million...

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