Daily Archives: October 28, 2011

Yahoo’s Flipboard Killer Coming Next Wednesday (YHOO, GOOG)

October 28, 2011
Yahoo’s Flipboard Killer Coming Next Wednesday (YHOO, GOOG)

See Also: 11 Killer Features That Android Users Don’t Want The Apple Fanboys To Know About Yahoo CEO Candidate (And Yahoo Board Member) David Kenny Resigns From Akamai Google Takes A Second Shot At Google TV — And It’s Not Terrible! Yahoo will unveil its Flipboard competitor, Livestand, next Wednesday. That’s according to Kara...

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CHART OF THE DAY: Samsung’s Meteoric Rise In The Smartphone Market (APAPL, NOK)

October 28, 2011
CHART OF THE DAY: Samsung’s Meteoric Rise In The Smartphone Market (APAPL, NOK)

Samsung is now the world’s largest smartphone maker churning out 28 million phones last quarter, according to data from Strategy Analytics. In the chart below you can see its unbelievable growth. It looks like the introduction of the Samsung Galaxy in June 2010 across all the major carriers was the main cause of its...

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Supplanted By Facebook Messenger, Beluga Will Stop Swimming On November 11

October 28, 2011
Supplanted By Facebook Messenger, Beluga Will Stop Swimming On November 11

Beluga, the slick group messaging app that Facebook acquired back in March, is shutting down. In a post on Beluga’s blog, the company’s original team of three writes that, beginning November 11, you’ll no longer be able to send messages (though you’ll still be able to access old messages until December 15, at which...

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(Keen On) … Customer Service Guru: Reed Hastings Deserves Everything That He Gets (TCTV)

October 28, 2011
(Keen On) … Customer Service Guru: Reed Hastings Deserves Everything That He Gets (TCTV)

Netflix is not only in the movie business, it is also turning into this year’s biggest corporate horror story. Having increased its price by 60% earlier this summer, Netflix has lost 800,000 customers and $12 billion in 90 days – including $2.3 billion in one day earlier this week. So should we feel sorry...

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Intelligence Matters! Win an iPad 2 by Prepping for RWW’s Next Live Chat

October 28, 2011
Intelligence Matters! Win an iPad 2 by Prepping for RWW’s Next Live Chat

Join us on November 1st for the next live chat in ReadWriteWeb’s Solution Series! This chat’s topic is spot-on for all of you working with virtualization: Intelligence Matters: Virtualize your Business Critical Workloads with Confidence . Hosted by RWW enterprise correspondent Scott Fulton and experts from Intel and VMware, we’ll be looking at issues...

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Spotlighting Some of the Local Meetups for the Worldwide ReadWriteWeb Meetup

October 28, 2011

St. Louis, MO USA Cambridge, MA USA Vienna, VA USA Portland, OR USA Auckland, New Zealand Seoul, Korea Vladivostok, Russia Wellington, New Zealand Amsterdam, Netherlands Tokyo, Japan Seattle, WA USA Savannah, GA USA San Francisco, CA USA Palo Alto, CA USA Ottaway, Canada Orange, CA USA London, United Kingdom Idianapolis, IN USA Dublin, Ireland...

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Steve Martin is cramming loads of tweets into a book for charity

October 28, 2011
Steve Martin is cramming loads of tweets into a book for charity

If you dig social media and love to laugh, I’ve got some good news for you. Steve Martin, long-time actor and comedian, has announced on Twitter that he is compiling his tweets into a book with all profits set to go to charity. Included in his published piece will be tweets from his fans...

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Shall I Buy gathers instant feedback for the indecisive shopper in all of us

October 28, 2011
Shall I Buy gathers instant feedback for the indecisive shopper in all of us

There’s nothing quite as bad as buyer’s remorse when it comes to #firstworldproblems. We’ve seen socially-oriented shopping happen via different outlets and recommendations engines seem to be all the rage right now, so combining the two in order to combat remorse seems to make sense. Shall I Buy is a new app for the...

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Google TV relaunches with Android Market (video)

October 28, 2011
Google TV relaunches with Android Market (video)

Google is finally rolling out its long-awaited update to the Google TV platform this weekend, which comes with a completely revamped UI as well as access to the Android Market. The update will be rolled out to Sony devices first and reach Logitech Revue set-top boxes soon after. On both, consumers can expect access...

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Will apps or devices manage cloud complexity in the home?

October 28, 2011
Will apps or devices manage cloud complexity in the home?

The enterprise is where the big bucks used to be, but home is where the heart and consumers are. As the web becomes more integrated in people’s lives, the home will become the battleground for a coming generation of startups and big companies. There’s a huge hole in the market where broadband hits the...

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