Daily Archives: July 1, 2012

How Google+ Has Morphed Over The Past Year & What We Can Expect in 2013

July 1, 2012
How Google+ Has Morphed Over The Past Year & What We Can Expect in 2013

First the statistics, at least those presented to us by the corporations involved. 150 million people log in at least once a month to Google+, with half of those signing in daily. As a comparison, Facebook has 900 million “monthly active users” and Twitter has 140 million “active users.” Facebook is the undoubted 900-pound...

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Uber Opens Up Platform To Non-Limo Vehicles With “Uber X,” Service Will Be 35% Less Expensive

July 1, 2012
Uber Opens Up Platform To Non-Limo Vehicles With “Uber X,” Service Will Be 35% Less Expensive

Declaring its independence from the traditional Lincoln Towncar (sorry, couldn’t resist), Uber is going beyond black cars this Fourth of July, bringing its up until now secret “Uber X” project public. “Uber X” will allow Uber partners to use its dispatching software in order to dole out vehicles beyond Lincoln Towncars, giving passengers a...

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Apple Finally Settles A Dispute Over The iPad Trademark, It Costs Them $60 Million (AAPL)

July 1, 2012
Apple Finally Settles A Dispute Over The iPad Trademark, It Costs Them $60 Million (AAPL)

Dylan Love BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese court says Apple has agreed to pay a local company $60 million to settle a dispute over ownership of the iPad name. The Guangdong High People’s Court said Monday that Apple and Proview Technology reached the settlement through mediation. The court said that ended the legal case....

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Microsoft mulls redundancy program in France, blames Google

July 1, 2012

Microsoft’s subsidiary in France has presented a redundancy plan to its works council, a consultative committee, the French financial newspaper La Tribune reports. A first for the company, this plan would entail voluntary redundancy for 30 staff members of its ‘Advertising Online’ division. According to Microsoft France, this division’s current difficulties are the direct...

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Uber customers will soon be able to summon cheaper cabs and wait for it…Ice Cream trucks.

July 1, 2012

Luxury, on-demand, private driver service Uber will soon be allowing its customers to summon ice cream trucks and cheaper taxis according to the NY Times. Somewhat odd, and presumably not high on its customers feature request list, ice cream trucks will soon be available to Uber customers in Boston. Uber CEO Travis Kalanick explains: “It’s...

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RIM Is Hurting, But It’s Not Dead Just Yet

July 1, 2012
RIM Is Hurting, But It’s Not Dead Just Yet

There’s been plenty said about RIM since it released its rough fiscal financials a few days ago, just about all of it negative. It’s hard not to be, honestly — the company reported its first operating loss in eight years, announced that a full 5,000 employees would be getting the axe, and topped it...

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Saturday’s ‘Leap Second’ Added More Heat To This Weekend’s Tech Meltdowns

July 1, 2012
Saturday’s ‘Leap Second’ Added More Heat To This Weekend’s Tech Meltdowns

If you were hoping to spend the last couple days catching up with your favorite websites while maybe streaming a Netflix movie, you’ve probably discovered by now that you had pretty lousy timing for a lazy web-surfing weekend. On Friday, bad storms in the Southeastern United States knocked out a big swath of Amazon...

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This Week in Media, From Google I/O to News Corp’s Split

July 1, 2012
This Week in Media, From Google I/O to News Corp’s Split

From Google I/O to News Corp’s plans, here’s a look at the most important news in the media world this week. Google I/O from a media perspective Google I/O developers conference in San Francisco was definitely the biggest piece of tech news this week, and also delivered its fair share of media-related announcements. As we...

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Why Everyone In America Briefly Lost Access To ESPN In The Middle Of The Championship Soccer Match

July 1, 2012
Why Everyone In America Briefly Lost Access To ESPN In The Middle Of The Championship Soccer Match

The final of the Spain vs. Italy match is happening right now airing on ESPN, and pretty much everyone on Twitter says that for a couple moments the feed blacked out. Why? Big storms in Bristol, CT, where ESPN is located, according to ESPN’s Bill Hofheimer, who tweeted Here’s a weather map from Weather.com......

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[Video] First Impressions of Google’s Nexus 7 Tablet

July 1, 2012

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