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Daily Archives: November 14, 2011
Yummy! Ice Cream Sandwich Is Now Ready For Developers To Download (GOOG)
Image: Google See Also: Can’t Wait For A Galaxy Nexus? Google Is Giving Them Away! There’s No Way I’d Ditch My iPhone For A Windows Phone Guess What Was The Best Selling Smartphone In Q3 Google finally released the source code to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich this afternoon. That means anyone can download...
Mobile Games May Be Taking Off, But How Are Their Creators Going To Make Money? [Infographic]
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Mobile gaming is big and getting bigger. You’ve heard it once, you’ve heard it one thousand times. Japan’s mobile, social gaming giants are killing it; Android and iOS games now generate more revenue than all of Nintendo and Sony’s portable games combined; and games are the most popular mobile app category in the U.S....
7 Seats? In A Sedan? Tesla’s “Flat-Pack Battery” Model S (TCTV)
Rear-facing car seats used to come at the expense of the trunk. That’s because a giant combustion engine had to go somewhere. But that was before Tesla invented the “Flat-Pack battery”. Laid along the bottom of the car, the Flat-Pack lets Tesla’s new Model S sedan keep the trunk while seating 7 and travelling...
Twitter, WikiLeaks and the Troubling New Implications For Online Privacy
It’s that lack of a need for the government to obtain a warrant that most troubles privacy advocates, given that the right to privacy was a bedrock principle in the founding of the United States and the ratification of its Constitution. “We are gravely worried by the court’s conclusion that records about you that...
Maybe it’s Time For Kinkos to Offer 3D Printers
An op/ed piece in Make magazine by Phil Torrone talks about the many places around the world where you can stop in and learn how to make stuff. These Hackerspaces, Fab Labs, and other geeking-out lending libraries are replacing, well, lending libraries, to be blunt. “What if we were to convert just 1% or...
You might have hundreds of unread private messages on Facebook!
Thanks to a helpful suggestion from a source at Facebook, I’ve discovered a wealth of unread private messages that I’ve never seen before on my profile. And yes, as a social media editor, I’m aware that I probably should have known about this obscure messaging section ages ago, but after tweeting out the incident,...
LinkedIn-rival Viadeo has a China strategy that will interest Facebook, Twitter
Tianji is more than just China’s leading professional social network, although that position in itself is impressive enough. The service’s parent organisation - Viadeo – has an approach to China that will be of interest to any western web firm considering an entry into Chinese Web space. Tianji, which was founded in China by...
CBSi chief: Clicker being integrated into TV.com
CBS picked up a number of interesting businesses when it acquired Cnet for $1.8 billion just a few years ago. One of those assets was TV.com, which had decades worth of information about all the shows on TV, like an IMDB for TV. In a video interview backstage at GigaOM RoadMap, CBS Interactive President...
AT&T reveals final six 2011 LTE launch markets
ATT may have taken its time getting its first LTE network online, but it certainly isn’t dawdling when it comes to fulfilling its 2011 rollout commitment. The operator said it would turn on LTE networks in six new markets on Nov. 20, bringing its total to the 15 it originally promised. With another 40...