A very early member of the Google+ team, Punit Soni, has just shared that he’ll be moving over to the newly Google-acquired Motorola Mobility as Vice President of Product. Soni was previously Group Leader for Google’s mobile efforts in social as well as “Lead Product Manager, Google+ Games and Mobile” according to his LinkedIn...
Daily Archives: August 22, 2012
TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2012 Agenda
The Third Annual TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco (September 10-12, 2012) is going to be the most awesome Disrupt yet. There were a record number of applications for our Startup Battlefield, which will feature 30 amazing startups competing for the Disrupt Cup and $50,000 prize in front of the sharpest minds in Silicon Valley,...
Your Facebook Messages Are About To Look Totally Different (FB)
Facebook The redesigned messages interface. See Also How To Block Ads On YouTube And 6 Other Cool Tricks Apple Has Pulled Its Terrible ‘Genius’ Ads From YouTube And Apple.com How Facebook Can Make Its Annoyingly Clunky Smartphone App A Lot Better Facebook is introducing a redesigned messages interface. A catalog of people you’ve messaged...
Chrome for iOS updated to share pages to Google+, Facebook and Twitter directly
Google’s Chrome for iOS has been updated today to add the ability to share webpages out to Google+, Facebook and Twitter as well as email. This update follows a Google+ release that added the ability to open links right in Chrome for iOS. While this seems like a minor update, it does have implications...
The iPhone 5′s Sync Cable Leaked And It Seems To Confirm There’ll Be A Smaller Dock Connector (AAPL)
Twitter Leaks for Apple’s next iPhone have persistently pointed to a smaller dock connector in the new device. Now iLounge has uncovered a photo of what appears to be the syncing/charging cable that’ll be used with the iPhone. The photo comes from the Twitter account of an employee at Veister.com, a site that sells...
New Apps "Listen" For the Secrets Behind Political Ads
Today is the day for Shazam-inspired transparency in open government. First came news about a new SuperPAC iPhone app from MIT Media Lab students that uses audio recognition to identify who’s behind online and television political advertisements. A few hours later, a similar app from the Sunlight Foundation called Ad Hawk went live. Ad...
YouTube Finally Offers Mobile Ads
In the past, content creators on YouTube couldn’t make money from traffic coming in through tablets or smartphones. Today the Google-owned video site announced that it will offer ads in videos viewed through mobile devices. This is great news not only for YouTube-based businesses, but for YouTube as a company. YouTube announced this change via...
How 3 Big Enterprises Are Building Their Own Internal iPad Apps
The heavy influx of iPads into large enterprise organizations is posing new kinds of challenges for IT departments, particiularly around developing and distributing corporate apps. At the annual Gartner Catalyst conference this week in San Diego, top companies like Genentech, Eli Lily and Northern Trust Bank shared some of the secrets behind their impressive...
DOJ Seizes Indie Android Stores for Alleged Piracy
Android app makers face difficulties that iPhone developers do not. It is harder to make money from Android apps than iOS apps, for instance. One of the (several) reasons is the ease with which pirates can copy and sell Android apps outside the purview of Google Play. The United States Department of Justice took...
Nikon Reveals The Android-Powered Coolpix S800c, Its First Camera With An Identity Crisis
Nikon put plenty of speculation to rest last night when it officially revealed the Coolpix s800c, the company’s first Android-powered digital camera. Thrilling, I know. The Gingerbread-powered point-and-shoot features a 16-megapixel sensor, 10x optical zoom, and can shoot 1080p video to boot. Of course, all of that takes a backseat to the 3.5-inch LCD...