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Google chairman and former CEO Eric Schmidt is talking at the Salesforce.com Dreamforce conference this afternoon, and we’re looking forward to covering it. His spontaneous comments sometimes misfire, but he’s always organized, articulate, and smart. It wasn’t always this way. Check out this YouTube video of Schmidt taking speaking lessons in 1988 when he...
Yesterday, we noted that Google quietly rolled out their +1 Button Chrome extension a couple days ago. It’s more powerful than it may seem because you can now easily +1 any page you’re browsing on the web regardless of if the owner of that content placed a button on their site. Just imagine if...
It’s a little hard to believe, but it’s been three years to the day since Google first launched its Chrome browser in September 2008 (sure, we found out about it a few days early due to a leaked comic book of all things, but September 1 was the first day you could download the...
Ever since the first rock was thrown in Egypt’s Tahrir Square, there has been a debate about how much social media such as Twitter and Facebook had to do with the events that took place there, and the downfall of dictator Hosni Mubarak. Author Malcolm Gladwell in particular has dismissed the impact of these...
Playhaven today announced the release of a platform for iOS game developers that makes releasing updates as simple as writing a blog post. While push notifications for games are a common way that developers notify players of changes, Playhaven hopes to cut through the noise by utilizing a dynamic overlay powered by HMTL5, allowing...
Has Google Chrome really been with us for three years? Apparently so, according to this blog post today from Ben Goodger and Darin Fisher, Software Engineers at Google. Google made this announcement on 1st September, 2008, though it seems the browser was actually launched the following day. So what’s Google’s take on these past...
Today, the much talked about San Francisco startup Airbnb announced that it’s expanding into monthly rentals, meaning you can now sublet your apartment and find long-term, temporary rentals on the trendy alternative to Couchsurfing. Since its launch in 2008, there have been nearly 2 million nights booked in over 18,000 cities world-wide on its website. Even...
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Nokia, believing it can capitalise on the strength of its patent portfolio, has transferred around 2,000 patents and applications to Canada-based Mosaid, which will earn both companies additional revenues from settlements and licensing deals. Nokia’s patents will now be owned by a new company formed by Mosaid, earning a third of the royalties from...