Daily Archives: July 5, 2012

“Search & discovery in @twitter set to change forever after tmrw.” says Twitter engineer

July 5, 2012

Twitter is preparing to make a major update to the search and discovery side of the popular microblogging platform tomorrow, according to one of its senior engineers. A teasing tweet from Pankaj Gupta, an engineering manager who heads up the personalization and recommender systems group at Twitter, says the impact will be enormous: Search...

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Amazon Is Developing A Smartphone To Go After The iPhone (AMZN)

July 5, 2012
Amazon Is Developing A Smartphone To Go After The iPhone (AMZN)

Photo Illustration by Business Insider See Also Amazon Buys 3D-Mapping Startup UpNext Amazon Takes Another Step Towards A Phone Amazon Has Reportedly Ordered 2 Million Redesigned Kindle Fires For Early August Amazon working with Foxconn to develop a smartphone that would compete with the iPhone and Android devices, Bloomberg reports. Citi analyst Mark Mahaney first...

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Amazon is reportedly working with Foxconn to build an iPhone-rivalling smartphone

July 5, 2012

Rumours that Amazon is making plans to develop a smartphone are nothing new, but a report from Bloomberg has put substantially more meat on those bones by suggesting that the US-based retail giant is working with uber-mobile device maker Foxconn to make it a reality. Foxconn, which produces devices for a number of tech...

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500Friends Predicts And Rewards Big Retailers’ Most Valuable Customers

July 5, 2012
500Friends Predicts And Rewards Big Retailers’ Most Valuable Customers

Not all customers are created equal — that’s the idea behind a new product from Y Combinator-backed loyalty startup 500Friends. The company already allowed businesses to reward customers for activity like referring friends, writing reviews, checking in on Foursquare, and so on. Recently, however, it released an enterprise product that does a lot more....

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Sometimes a phone isn’t a phone. So what is it?

July 5, 2012

O2, the UK-based mobile phone company, recently released a report about smartphone usage, that shows that iPhones and its peers are being used in ways that are remarkably different from the way we used phones five years ago. Smartphone users spend more time browsing the internet (25 minutes a day), social networking (17 minutes a...

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Apple: Crashing iOS apps problem resolved

July 5, 2012
Apple: Crashing iOS apps problem resolved

An issue that caused the App Store to send out some buggy app updates to iOS users has been identified and fixed. Late Thursday Apple issued a statement saying it found there was a snafu with DRM code from one of its servers. “The issue has been rectified and we don’t expect it to occur...

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Top Trends of 2012: The Continuing Rapid Growth of Mobile

July 5, 2012
Top Trends of 2012: The Continuing Rapid Growth of Mobile

In our half-yearly review of the top Internet trends of 2012, there’s been a common theme: mobile is the main driver for all of them. The Visual Web (Instagram, Pinterest and similar image-focused apps), the Consumer Cloud (Evernote, Dropbox, iCloud and others), social video apps (Socialcam and Viddy) and video on tablets (BuzzFeed, Flipboard...

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Apple says that app corruption issue has been rectified, to delete and reinstall affected apps

July 5, 2012

Apple has issued a statement to All Things D, stating that the app corruption issue that has been plaguing the App Store has been corrected. Apple says that it affected a ‘small number of users’, though we saw relatively widespread reports of the problem. The statement from Apple: We had a temporary issue that...

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Now anyone in the UK can be an early stage startup investor as Seedrs launches

July 5, 2012
Now anyone in the UK can be an early stage startup investor as Seedrs launches

Crowdsourced investing has arrived in the UK after Seedrs officially opened the doors of its alternative funding platform in the country today, mobilising a potential army of armchair investors for promising young firms. Seedrs, which won the startup competition at the London Web Summit in March, lets investors to put anything from £10 and £150,000...

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Judge Who Tossed Out Apple/Motorola Lawsuit Says Tech Companies Are ‘Animals’ (AAPL, GOOG)

July 5, 2012
Judge Who Tossed Out Apple/Motorola Lawsuit Says Tech Companies Are ‘Animals’ (AAPL, GOOG)

Charlie Rose U.S. Judge Richard Posner See Also Google Pulls Galaxy Nexus From Its Online Store Due To Apple’s Injunction This Judge Thinks That Smart Gadgets Don’t Necessarily Need Patents Apple’s Podcast App Is Horrifically Bad The judge who tossed out Apple’s major lawsuit against Motorola—the smartphone maker now owned by Google—generally dislikes software...

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