Daily Archives: November 1, 2011

Yes, The iPhone Is Still The Best Smartphone You Can Buy (AAPL)

November 1, 2011
Yes, The iPhone Is Still The Best Smartphone You Can Buy (AAPL)

$200 is a steal for this device. Image: Ellis Hamburger, Business Insider Ellis Hamburger See Also: 11 Killer iPhone Features That Apple Needs To Stick On Every Mac Gmail’s ‘Pretty Fantastic’ iPhone App Is On The Way An iPhone App Mapping Every Food Truck In New York City Is Finally Here The iPhone 4S...

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What’s Changed At Apple Since Tim Cook Took Over (AAPL)

November 1, 2011
What’s Changed At Apple Since Tim Cook Took Over (AAPL)

Image: Apple See Also: Why I Finally Decided To Ditch The BlackBerry And Run Off With An iPhone Apple Made The Right Decision When It Canned Steve Jobs In 1985 Bill Gates Responds To All The Potshots Steve Jobs Took At Him In His Bio Tim Cook has made only minor changes since he...

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5 Takeaways from the VMware/Intel Virtualization Chat

November 1, 2011
5 Takeaways from the VMware/Intel Virtualization Chat

The transcript of the entire chat is located here, but if you only have a few minutes, here’s some of the main points we learned: 1. Virtualization management software has applied itself more to business intelligence workloads in the past 12 months. BI databases tend to be, first and foremost, big. But perhaps not...

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Daily Wrap-Up: No Alternatives to Google Reader and More

November 1, 2011
Daily Wrap-Up: No Alternatives to Google Reader and More

Google Reader was Plussed, losing some dearly beloved moving parts, especially the sharing options. Love the changes or leave them, you’re probably not going anywhere. There are no real alternatives to Google Reader. All of this and more in today’s Daily Wrap. Sometimes it’s difficult to catch every story that hits tech media in...

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Apple set to introduce new ‘EasyPay’ system on November 3

November 1, 2011

Apple’s new sales system, EasyPay,which is tipped to allow customers to purchase items without going through sales staff, could launch this coming Thursday, according to 9to5mac. The report suggests that the Cupertino-based firm is talking staff through the changes overnight tonight (US time) before the new system goes live on Thursday November 3. Rumours suggest...

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PayPal opens Malaysia office to increase customer support in SE Asia

November 1, 2011

PayPal has opened its first Southeast Asian operations centre in Malaysia, according to a report from Business Times. The online payment giant, whose international headquarters is located in near-by Singapore, has confirmed that its plans to hire as it seeks to increase the initial 200 strong work force to a staff of 500 by...

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Wave hello to a new interface: gesture-based phones

November 1, 2011
Wave hello to a new interface: gesture-based phones

It’s time those front-facing cameras on smartphones were used for more than just video chatting or taking low-resolution pictures: Pantech is adding software in its phones that will allow users to control the handset with gestures. The concept is similar to Microsoft’s Xbox Kinect but on a smaller scale. Pantech’s new Vega LTE smartphones...

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Where NoSQL, cloud computing and free texting converge

November 1, 2011
Where NoSQL, cloud computing and free texting converge

Viber Media, provider of iPhone and Android apps that let users talk and text for free over 3G and Wi-Fi networks, is built upon a foundation of the MongoDB NoSQL database running atop the Amazon Web Services cloud. A press release issued Tuesday by commercial MongoDB entity 10gen explains how Viber’s service works and...

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Hot Startup Box.net Is Burning $18 Million Annually On Revenues Of $40-$80 Million

November 1, 2011
Hot Startup Box.net Is Burning $18 Million Annually On Revenues Of $40-$80 Million

Image: Box.net See Also: Box.net Just Scored $81 Million — Here’s What They’ll Spend It On Not Sure About iCloud? Here’s How To Get 50GB Of Free Storage For Your iPhone And iPad An iPhone App Mapping Every Food Truck In New York City Is Finally Here Cloud storage provider Box.net operates at a...

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Giving Music Away On Facebook Is A Winning Formula For MOG

November 1, 2011
Giving Music Away On Facebook Is A Winning Formula For MOG

See Also: MOG And Samsung Offer Up Unlimited Music Through Your Home Theater Speakers Say Goodbye To Your Car’s XM Radio, MOG And BMW Will Let You Stream On-Demand Music From Your iPhone Spammers Try To Break Into Facebook Seven Times PER SECOND* Music service MOG saw its userbase more than triple in the...

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