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There may be more than 20,000 apps in the Windows Phone Marketplace now, but it seems as though some “developers” are intent on fiddling with the cool-to-crap ratio. As low-quality, low-functionality apps flood the marketplace, Microsoft will be limiting developers to 10 app submissions per day starting tomorrow. Microsoft had previously set the number...
Fab.com didn’t exist four months ago. Now, the home-decor flash sales site has half-a-million subscribers, Ashton Kutcher as an investor, and it is on track to generate $10 million this year. How is it gaining so much traction? Part of it could be the personal touch it places on every order. Our friend made...
At yesterday’s Kindle presentation, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos gave special attention to all the people in the media who were calling for a $99 Kindle. He noted that pundits said a $99 Kindle would send people into a “fervor”. Then Bezos whipped out a $99 Kindle Touch and said the “fervor” for cheap Kindles...
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Image: Flickr/Sharon Mollerus FreshDirect Launches Android App Twitter Reveals Global Mood Swings In-Flight Wi-Fi to Grow Over 600 Percent by 2015 Twitter can help scientists peer into hearts worldwide to reveal how moods swing globally over time, a new study finds. The microblogging service Twitter is often derided as a way for people to...
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There is an announcement coming next week from Cupertino. While, there is a slight possibility that it will be about the death of the iPod Nano, it is far more likely that Apple is going to announce much-anticipated iPhone 5. Anything else would be shocking. We do not play the iPhone rumor game much...
Back in late 2009, then-free music identifying service Shazam made a rather drastic change to their business model: they went freemium. Everybody got 5 free song identifications per month… but after that, they’d have to cough up for premium app, “Shazam Encore”. That worked well enough for a while — then the competition rolled...