Daily Archives: August 26, 2011

Uh Oh, Groupon, Wired Had To Pull Its IPO After Similar ‘Employee Email’ In 1996

August 26, 2011
Uh Oh, Groupon, Wired Had To Pull Its IPO After Similar ‘Employee Email’ In 1996

Image: AP Photo See Also: Andrew Mason Fires Back At Groupon Critics Groupon Tries Sneaky New Way To Get Around SEC ‘Quiet Period’ Rules—Think The SEC Will Notice? No, We Are Not Accusing News Corp And Kara Swisher Of Helping Groupon Violate The SEC’s Quiet Period Rules Did Groupon just shoot its IPO in...

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A first look at Jig, a new Q&A site from the founder of Delicious

August 26, 2011
A first look at Jig, a new Q&A site from the founder of Delicious

Got a problem and need some advice? Take it to Jig, the new answers-based community from Delicious founder Joshua Shachter and his stealth project Tasty Labs. After being acquired by Yahoo, Delicious languished inside the Sunnyvale behemoth, and many wondered what would come next when it was revealed that Schacter had moved on to...

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Forget TV — broadband is the future of cable

August 26, 2011
Forget TV — broadband is the future of cable

Time Warner Cable CEO Glenn Britt made a surprising comment earlier this month when he told the Wall Street Journal  that the operator was looking at broadband as its “anchor service.” What’s so surprising about that? Well, not only do video services still make up more than half of Time Warner Cable’s revenues, but...

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4 Things Entrepreneurs Should Ignore From the Steve Jobs Formula

August 26, 2011

Don’t Be Secretive…Go Anti-Stealth Steve Jobs is notorious for how secretive he is. Every product is built in isolation, and while the details of Apple’s product development process are not that open either from what I’ve heard, often engineers don’t even have a full picture of the product they are building. A few months...

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Schmidt: Google TV coming to Europe early next year, including the UK

August 26, 2011

Google’s Chairman Eric Schmidt today announced that Google TV will be coming to Europe early next year, including the UK, during his Mac Taggart lecture at the Edinburgh International Television Festival. Schmidt also spoke on a wide array of subjects including copyrights, the future of television and more. “Just as smartphones sparked innovation in the...

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Apple drops OS X Lion 10.7.2, iCloud beta 9 and iPhoto beta 3 to developers

August 26, 2011
Apple drops OS X Lion 10.7.2, iCloud beta 9 and iPhoto beta 3 to developers

Apple has today released a seed of OS X Lion 10.7.2 to developers. It has also released an update to iCloud for Mac, beta software that allows developers to test iCloud integration with Mac and iOS apps. The downloads are available on Apple’s Developer Site. The new Lion update, which is build number 11c43,...

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Half of U.S. Adults Use Social Networking Sites

August 26, 2011
Half of U.S. Adults Use Social Networking Sites

For the first time ever, 50% of all American adults are using social networking sites, according to new data from the Pew Internet and American Life Project. Of active Internet users in particular, 65% are social networking users, a number that continues climb. To put things in perspective, only 29% of adult American Internet...

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How to prevent the data tsunami from swamping cell networks

August 26, 2011
How to prevent the data tsunami from swamping cell networks

Nokia Siemens Networks published a blog post Friday called “Wake-up call: Industry collaboration needed to make Beyond 4G networks carry 1000 times more traffic by 2020.” Such a headline is designed to strike fear into the hearts of mobile operators (and NSN customers) everywhere as the demand for mobile broadband outstrips the carriers’ ability...

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Smartphone Evolution Over the Last 40 Years [Infographic]

August 26, 2011
Smartphone Evolution Over the Last 40 Years [Infographic]

It has only been recently that people have been able to read and write on the Web with their mobile devices. The evolution to the point where phones are now smart, mobile and ubiquitous has been a train long in transit. The infographic below from Product Development Technologies shows the evolution of the mobile...

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This week at Microsoft: PC sales, analysts, and webOS

August 26, 2011
This week at Microsoft: PC sales, analysts, and webOS

It’s almost incomprehensible, but another week has slipped us by, meaning that it is time for us to crank up the generator and take a look at the past seven days of Microsoft news. It’s been a somewhat odd week, with stories popping up from several corners of the Microsoft empire. This is not...

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