Daily Archives: August 14, 2012

YouTube Launches A PlayStation 3 App With Search, Subscribed Channels, And Mobile Device Pairing

August 14, 2012
YouTube Launches A PlayStation 3 App With Search, Subscribed Channels, And Mobile Device Pairing

YouTube has been working hard over the last several years to make its content available on a number of devices, including smartphones and game consoles. The newest device to get a native app is Sony’s PlayStation 3, the video site announced in a blog post this morning. The new app can be downloaded for...

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Mobile Apps Could Be Affected by New COPPA Privacy Rules for Kids

August 14, 2012
Mobile Apps Could Be Affected by New COPPA Privacy Rules for Kids

The Federal Trade Commission is considering new changes to the current Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)that would include more than just websites within its protective sphere: third parties such as mobile application developers and ad networks that gather information from children under 13 would also be responsible for obtaining parental permission before kids...

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Ask Ziggy, Siri For Windows Phone, Closes $5 Million Funding Round To Expand To iOS, Android

August 14, 2012
Ask Ziggy, Siri For Windows Phone, Closes $5 Million Funding Round To Expand To iOS, Android

Ask Ziggy is the Windows Phone answer to Siri. It’s a virtual voice-powered assistant that can change feet to yards, offer you stock quotes, and answer life’s most difficult questions. And today, the company announced that they have received a brand new $ 5 million round of funding from “a publicly traded multinational corporation”...

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Apple Has A New Patent That’ll Help Make Future iPhones And iPads Really Thin (AAPL)

August 14, 2012
Apple Has A New Patent That’ll Help Make Future iPhones And iPads Really Thin (AAPL)

Email More Apple See Also Martha Stewart Uses 3 iPads The 11 Best Laptops You Can Buy Right Now Apple Is Mysteriously Cutting Some Retail Employees Apple was awarded a patent recently on a special display technology that integrates the touch sensors with the screen’s display circuits, reports Apple Insider. That means Apple will...

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Yammer partners with Mindflash to bring on-site training services to its users

August 14, 2012
Yammer partners with Mindflash to bring on-site training services to its users

Yammer is bringing training solutions to companies and individuals that use the enterprise-focused social network after agreeing to a deal with online training specialist Mindflash. The partnership is a first for both services and the newly released Mindflash app allow companies to create, distribute and track courses through the site, using the training specialist’s own...

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Microsoft Kinect Research Project Lets Anyone Bring Household Objects Alive

August 14, 2012
Microsoft Kinect Research Project Lets Anyone Bring Household Objects Alive

Have you ever wanted to dance a waltz as an animatronic chair? A surprisingly fun Microsoft research project released last week allows you to do just that – and lots of other aninmated tricks. Designed for computer graphics amateurs, KinÊtre taps into Microsoft’s Kinect technology to make the magic happen. KinÊtre, a Microsoft Research...

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Yammer Releases Its First Major Upgrade Since Microsoft Acquired It (MSFT)

August 14, 2012
Yammer Releases Its First Major Upgrade Since Microsoft Acquired It (MSFT)

Boonsri Dickinson, Business Insider See Also Here’s The Clearest Sign Yet That Box Is Gunning For An IPO, Whatever Its CEO Says Microsoft Shows Off A New App Store For Office 2013 Buying Yammer For $1.2 Billion Still Won’t Protect Microsoft From This Disruptive Startup Yammer today announced a bunch of new features and...

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Yammer Cofounder: Microsoft Doesn’t Get Enough Credit For Being A Great Place To Work (MSFT)

August 14, 2012
Yammer Cofounder: Microsoft Doesn’t Get Enough Credit For Being A Great Place To Work (MSFT)

Yammer Adam Pisoni, CTO, Yammer See Also Microsoft Is Rushing To Open More Stores To Sell Its Surface Tablet Buying Yammer For $1.2 Billion Still Won’t Protect Microsoft From This Disruptive Startup Alfresco CEO: ‘There’s A Moral Obligation To Question Some Of These Things Going On’ After a month of working for his new...

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HootSuite adds Yammer to its ever-growing App Directory

August 14, 2012
HootSuite adds Yammer to its ever-growing App Directory

Two weeks after HootSuite rolled out social plugins for Evernote, Zendesk and Storify, the social media management dashboard today unveiled Yammer as the latest addition to its ever-growing App Directory. This inclusion means that users can now monitor and reply to their Yammer conversations from within their HootSuite Dashboard. Launched in 2008, HootSuite is...

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Sponsor post: Register now for JavaOne, the developer event of 2012

August 14, 2012

Structure:Data live coverage On March 21 and 22, at Structure:Data, we’ll look at how companies like @WalmartLabs, IBM, and PayPal…

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