Daily Archives: February 14, 2012

FCC puts the kibosh on LightSquared’s LTE plans

February 14, 2012
FCC puts the kibosh on LightSquared’s LTE plans

LightSquared’s quest to build a nationwide LTE network appears to be finished. After a year of LightSquared fighting the GPS industry and government agencies over whether its network would interfere with GPS receivers, the Federal Communications Commission dropped the hammer Tuesday, saying it would revoke the would-be carrier’s terrestrial network waiver. That leaves LightSquared...

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Minister: The UK “emphatically” supports free speech online but there are limits

February 14, 2012

The UK’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Jeremy Browne, has revealed that the country is behind freedom of speech online however he admits that there are limits to exactly how free Web users can be, according a report from The Hindu. Speaking at a function for the Madras Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI) in India,...

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If Investors Want More Voting Rights, They Should Have Invented Facebook

February 14, 2012
If Investors Want More Voting Rights, They Should Have Invented Facebook

Guess who knows what’s best for the future of Facebook? It’s certainly not public investors looking to cash in on “social” 8 years after Facebook started. That’s why those same investors should actually be happy about a warning from Institutional Shareholder Services noting that Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg will own roughly 57% of the...

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Apple said to cut iAd pricing once again

February 14, 2012
Apple said to cut iAd pricing once again

Comments (View) Text Size: A A Email Share AdAge reported Tuesday that Apple is now asking advertisers to commit just $100,000 in order to place advertise within iAds, down an enormous amount from the $1 million required when the program was first unveiled in 2010 and a significant discount from the $500,000 spend that...

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Daily Wrap: The Domination of the Mobile Hardware Landscape and more

February 14, 2012
Daily Wrap: The Domination of the Mobile Hardware Landscape and more

The Dangers of Apple and Samsung Dominance Apple and Samsung dominate the mobile hardware market. Dan Rowinski sees great dangers in the lack of hardware diversity. “If you are not making an iDevice or some type of Galaxy product, Apple and Samsung are squeezing you out of the market,” says Rowinski, and he stresses...

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What iOS apps are grabbing your data, why they do it and what should be done

February 14, 2012
What iOS apps are grabbing your data, why they do it and what should be done

Early last week the personal diary app Path became the fulcrum of a massive discussion about how cavalier mobile apps are getting with harvesting your, presumably, personal information. Path was found by a developer to send the entire contents of its users Address Books, where, it was uncovered, it was being stored locally. Predictably,...

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StumbleUpon tweaks its new redesign to include a ‘hide’ button for the StumbleBar

February 14, 2012
StumbleUpon tweaks its new redesign to include a ‘hide’ button for the StumbleBar

StumbleUpon recently rolled out a site redesign which had an unfortunate black mark on it, the company decided to remove the red “X” from its toolbar that let you close it. This “StumbleBar” lets you cycle through random sites and pages to share with others or read later. Many people suggested that the removal...

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CEO Jeff Weiner Explains Why LinkedIn Is Winning, And What The Facebook IPO Will Mean

February 14, 2012
CEO Jeff Weiner Explains Why LinkedIn Is Winning, And What The Facebook IPO Will Mean

Flickr/The DEMO Conference See Also Why LinkedIn’s IPO Was A Big Success When Almost Everyone Else Was A Bust LinkedIn Guru Reveals How To Create A Full-Featured Profile The Top 10 Business Stories Of 2011 That Made No One Else’s Top 10 List LinkedIn was the first of the new crop of Internet companies...

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Media Armor Grabs $1.5M To Help Your Company Measure The Impact Of Its Mobile Ad Dollars

February 14, 2012
Media Armor Grabs $1.5M To Help Your Company Measure The Impact Of Its Mobile Ad Dollars

In 2010, former Dotomi and Jumptap employees Eric Brown and Elizabeth Zalman founded Media Armor under the belief that mobile advertising was not yet living up to the hype. Advertisers were coming to expect as much ROI from their mobile campaigns as from their online initiatives. Their experience in digital advertising and targeting showed...

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Tesla says reservations of Model X have hit $40M worth of cars

February 14, 2012
Tesla says reservations of Model X have hit $40M worth of cars

Tesla Model X with falcon wings fully open Tesla’s flashy unveiling of its Model X electric SUV/minivan last week looks like it’s paid off in reservations. The car company announced on Tuesday that just a day after the launch, Tesla had accumulated reservations for more than $40 million worth of Model X sales, without...

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