Daily Archives: July 3, 2012

Developers gets more context as Google Reviews, search and more is added to Google Places API

July 3, 2012
Developers gets more context as Google Reviews, search and more is added to Google Places API

Google has updated the Google Places API to bring a number of interesting additions that will provide developers with the tools to add more local information and context to their apps and creations. Most notably, the Web giant has now added support for Google Reviews, which can now be shown at the foot of...

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Harry Potter goes East: Pottermore to launch e-book series in Japan this summer

July 3, 2012

Pottermore, the Sony-endorsed company with exclusive digital rights to the Harry Potter series of books, is set to continue the expansion of the hugely successful JK Rowling novels after it revealed plans to bring the e-book series to Japan this summer. There’s no confirmed date or price just yet, but the Japanese Potter series will...

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Song Pop Hits 2 Million Daily Active Users, Many Of Them Probably Flirting

July 3, 2012
Song Pop Hits 2 Million Daily Active Users, Many Of Them Probably Flirting

Call it the way we flirt now. Facebook games like Song Pop and Draw Something and apps like Pair are discovering novel ways to get you to hook up connect online. The space is ballooning to the point where there’s even a couples app for co-founders. A little over a month since its late...

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FunnyJunk Attorney Charles Carreon Drops Lawsuit Against Oatmeal Creator

July 3, 2012
FunnyJunk Attorney Charles Carreon Drops Lawsuit Against Oatmeal Creator

Charles Carreon, the attorney with the the infamous lawsuit against The Oatmeal creator Matthew Inman, has withdrawn the suit. The news was announced by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which also posted Inman’s “notice of voluntary dismissal“. (I would embed the document below, but there’s basically no text, aside from “plaintiff dismisses the action.”) The EFF...

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Google is “imminently” issuing a software patch to overcome a possible Galaxy Nexus sales ban

July 3, 2012

Google has revealed that is ready to roll out a software update that it hopes will overcome a possible US sales ban on the Galaxy Nexus, which took a step closer to reality after US Federal Court Judge Lucy Koh’s decision to deny a request to stay a ban on sales of the Samsung phone while...

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The ban stays: U.S. judge denies Samsung’s request to sell Nexus phone during Apple case

July 3, 2012

According to Reuters, Samsung has lost its request to lift the stay on Nexus sales, after Apple has sued them for copyright infrintement. Samsung obviously wanted to lift this ban so that it could continue to sell devices will the court case was going on,but U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh was clearly having none...

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Lynx2Games Lets You Pass Along Used Games For Fun And Profit. Mostly Profit.

July 3, 2012
Lynx2Games Lets You Pass Along Used Games For Fun And Profit. Mostly Profit.

A website called Lynx2Games.com has a new approach to buying and sharing that could help consumers avoid paying full price for video games. When people buy a games on the site, they’re buying them in pairs — there’s a “borrower” and a “buyer” (friends can make a purchase together, or Lynx2Games can match up...

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Facebook News Feed Is Getting Faster, So I Made It This Tramp Stamp

July 3, 2012
Facebook News Feed Is Getting Faster, So I Made It This Tramp Stamp

Facebook’s news feed is so slow to give you the goods, you could almost call it prude. But you’re about to get lucky. Now the feed will load faster, as it will be pulling in fewer stories to start so you can get browsing immediately, Facebook just told us. Plus, if you don’t want to...

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A graveyard of cancelled Google products, collected on Pinterest by a helpful Microsoft employee

July 3, 2012
A graveyard of cancelled Google products, collected on Pinterest by a helpful Microsoft employee

With the closures of iGoogle and a bunch of other Google products in today’s ‘summer cleaning‘,  you may have been wondering how to keep track of all of the things that Google is shutting down these days. Well, you’re in luck, because the always outspoken lead of corporate communications for Microsoft, Frank X. Shaw,...

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Watch Google’s July 4 video, which asks the public to support a ‘free and open Internet’

July 3, 2012
Watch Google’s July 4 video, which asks the public to support a ‘free and open Internet’

As we prepare for the Fourth of July celebrations here in the United States, Google would like to remind us about something that’s very important – the free and open Internet. Along with the video below, the company is asking you to sign up and share your “voice” about everything having to do with...

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