Daily Archives: August 12, 2011

A Bold New Strategy: Give Away Your Product For Free

August 12, 2011
A Bold New Strategy: Give Away Your Product For Free

See Also: 8 Ways To Make Your Home Office More Comfortable 7 Ways To Promote Your Business Online For Free The 7 Biggest Mistakes Companies Make During A PR Crisis This article originally appeared on American Express OpenForum The Internet has forever changed the way we do business. For some companies it has brought...

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2,000 Google employees hit the streets for a Streetview shot in Dublin

August 12, 2011
2,000 Google employees hit the streets for a Streetview shot in Dublin

Google is well known as a great place to work and the entire European HQ here in Dublin had a little fun recently when 2,000 of them lined out in the streets to have their photo taken for their own streetview product as the car passed their offices (have a play with the actual...

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Apple will not hold iPhone 5 launch event on September 7th

August 12, 2011

According to Jim Dalrymple of The Loop, Apple will not be holding an event on September 7th to launch their next iPhone. According to my sources,” says Dalrymple, “Apple will not have an event or launch the next iPhone on September 7. It’s hard to say how that specific date was chosen by the...

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XBOX 360 expects to lead sales charts for 2011

August 12, 2011

Microsoft’s XBOX 360 is once again leading sales charts, reports winrumors. According to gaming industry independent market research company NPD Group, the Microsoft XBOX 360 sold 277,000 units in July, taking 45% of the overall current-generation console market. This is the seventh consecutive month that the XBOX 360 has lead the U.S. Console Market,...

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Act II: London taps Twitter and Facebook to help re-build

August 12, 2011

Cameron must have been taking a page from the Egypt Riot playbook. Article source: TNW http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheNextWeb/~3/IIWSOD8kZcw/

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ACLU Questioning Local Law Enforcement’s Use of Location Data

August 12, 2011
ACLU Questioning Local Law Enforcement’s Use of Location Data

On Monday, 34 American Civil Liberties Union affiliates across the U.S. sent 379 records requests to local law enforcement agencies seeking to know when, how and why they are using cellphone location data to track American citizens. The ACLU wants to know if law enforcement is going over the heads of the U.S. legal...

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This week at Microsoft: 3D, Birthdays, and Windows 8

August 12, 2011
This week at Microsoft: 3D, Birthdays, and Windows 8

It is Friday, ladies and gentlemen, and that means that it’s time for the classic and ever-running TNWmicrosoft Weekly Roundup. I know you look forward to reading it as much as I enjoy writing it. This week we are stuck in the shadow of the coming BUILD conference, for which Microsoft is hoarding all...

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In U.S., QR Codes Are Still Mostly For Traditional Advertising

August 12, 2011
In U.S., QR Codes Are Still Mostly For Traditional Advertising

New data from comScore show that 14 million Americans, 6.2% of all mobile users, scanned QR (quick response) codes or bar codes with their mobile devices in June 2011. Users who scanned QR codes were more likely to be male (60.5%), between ages 18-34 (53.4%), and have a household income of $100k or higher...

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Spotify’s iPhone Usage Jumps

August 12, 2011
Spotify’s iPhone Usage Jumps

No-one really knows what Spotify’s US growth has been since launch a month ago month, but it appears to be making an impact on American iPhone users. Onavo, a service which shrinks your dat ause on the iPhone, can track what dat people are using, and has thus produced some interesting stats. READ MORE...

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Maybe a little social-media fatigue isn’t such a bad idea

August 12, 2011
Maybe a little social-media fatigue isn’t such a bad idea

As Google tries to boost its social market share with its new Google+ network — which just got some Facebook-style games designed to increase engagement — and Twitter adding new activity streams to pull users in, and Facebook trying to become the one network that rules them all, social-media fatigue seems to be an increasingly...

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