Daily Archives: August 12, 2011

Just In Time For The New NFL Season, Taptu Brings Fantasy Football To Mobile Readers

August 12, 2011
Just In Time For The New NFL Season, Taptu Brings Fantasy Football To Mobile Readers

From its founding in 2007, Taptu was a startup that specialized in search and touch-based interfaces for mobile, launching a realtime mobile search engine in conjunction with OneRiot back in 2009, for example. In November of last year, however, the startup made the smart decision to bring its mobile search proficiency into the news...

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Virgin America Chrome App Helps You Choose Where To Go, What To Pack

August 12, 2011
Virgin America Chrome App Helps You Choose Where To Go, What To Pack

Developed alongside with the Google/Virgin America Chromebooks partnership, the “Virgin America Traveler” app is now available in the Chrome app store as promised back in June. While other airlines also have branded Chrome apps and extensions (like the American Airlines Cents-per-mile Extension HOT STUFF I KNOW), Virgin has at least tried to be interesting with Traveler....

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Middle Eastern Music Site Helps Fuel Change in the Region

August 12, 2011

As popular uprisings have unfolded across the Middle East this year, much attention has been paid to the both underlying unrest that is causing them and the social media that often helps fuel them. In the background, receiving less of the limelight, lies another phenomenon: the growing community of musicians whose music is inspired...

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Community Wrap Up: London Riots, Google’s Real Name Policy and More

August 12, 2011

This week we’ve asked a few big questions, and shared many of the responses with you. As Fridays are for reminiscing, we’ve culled our favorite reader responses that didn’t make it into those big questions to share with you in our Community Wrap Up. These responses are from Google Plus, Twitter, Facebook and our...

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LEAKED: AT&T Didn’t Want To Expand Rural Coverage Because Of $3.8 Billion Price Tag (T)

August 12, 2011
LEAKED: AT&T Didn’t Want To Expand Rural Coverage Because Of $3.8 Billion Price Tag (T)

Image: AP Images See Also: 12 Athlete Endorsements That Were Lost To Scandal HP’s 4G TouchPad Sneaks On To Amazon For $700 Before The Official Launch Michelle Bachmann Is The Reason The US Lost Its AAA Rating A leaked legal filing  reveals that ATT was happy to have its 4G network cover 80% of...

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Keeping Data Centers Cool and Costs Down Through Consolidation

August 12, 2011

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. Keeping the Web alive and well isn’t easy work. In fact, it requires...

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How to Make Webinars Work

August 12, 2011

If your business is looking to webinars to reach potential customers, Bob Darabant of Astaro has a couple of tips that might keep your cast from falling flat. Hint: Making it sales-focused is probably not the answer. Darabant, VP of Astaro Americas, has a handful of suggestions for making webcasts work for VARs –...

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Google Adds Public Plus Posts to Social Search Results

August 12, 2011

Google just announced that its social search results will now include public Google Plus posts. Since the expiration of Google’s realtime search agreement with Twitter last month, it hasn’t been clear how Google will continue to integrate posts from social networks into search results. Now that Google’s in-house social network will provide a stream...

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Google+ Is Expanding Throughout Google Like An Octopus (GOOG)

August 12, 2011
Google+ Is Expanding Throughout Google Like An Octopus (GOOG)

See Also: Facebook Is Watching Google+ Like A Hawk Google Will Take Only 5% Of In-Game Sales — Facebook Takes 30% Facebook Strikes Back Against Google Games The name says it all: Google+ is eventually going to come to all parts of Google. It started at launch, when Google+ notifications began appearing on top...

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Elaborate 404 Page Is So Unfunny It’s Funny

August 12, 2011
Elaborate 404 Page Is So Unfunny It’s Funny

“When a page on this website goes rogue — and a code 404 arises — we dispatch one of our teams to bring it back. Ideally they are able to salvage the missing page, but sometimes, if the page is truly lost, they have to take it out (resulting in the subsequent code 500...

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