Daily Archives: August 28, 2012

Uh Oh! Amazon Researchers Say Pinterest Doesn’t Generate A Lot Of Sales (AMZN)

August 28, 2012
Uh Oh! Amazon Researchers Say Pinterest Doesn’t Generate A Lot Of Sales (AMZN)

Pin Pointing See Also Pinterest Goes Nuts With Mobile App Releases Apple Wants To Buy Pinterest Rival, The Fancy Pinterest Is Taking Over The Giant Warehouse In San Francisco It’s Already Moved Into Zappos Labs, the research arm of the Zappos online apparel site, has been experimenting with Pinterest—and the results are not encouraging....

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Sen. Feinstein calls on the President to go it alone on cybersecurity

August 28, 2012

Cybersecurity is all but dead in the Senate, which has put the issue on ice for the rest of the year. That’s not my take, that’s the consensus opinion. We’re going to make no progress until calendar 2013. Unless, naturally, the President steps in and issues an executive order. As you certainly recall, this...

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Twitter’s relationship with the media: It’s complicated

August 28, 2012
Twitter’s relationship with the media: It’s complicated

Although it has only been a mainstream social network for a few short years, Twitter has formed a surprisingly tight and symbiotic relationship with the media, both because it is a kind of real-time newswire for information about events like the Arab Spring and the upcoming U.S. election, and also because it gives journalists...

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Apple now bigger by market cap than Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Facebook combined

August 28, 2012
Apple now bigger by market cap than Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Facebook combined

Apple is an enormously wealthy and profitable company, we all know this. Sometimes, though, there’s a bit of context that really snaps it into crisp detail. One such observation was made earlier today by Kontra on Twitter and shared on Mactrast. The comment pointed out that the combined market caps of Microsoft, Google, Facebook and...

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YouTube Takes Another Swipe At TV With Its Election 2012 Livestreaming Coverage

August 28, 2012

YouTube has been steadily expanding into the livestreaming business, from concerts and obscure sports to the 2012 Olympics, and now, to political coverage of the upcoming U.S. election. Today marks YouTube’s first livestream on their “Election Hub”:  the Republican National Convention in Jacksonville, Florida, will begin streaming at 7pm EST tonight in partnership with...

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The iPhone 5 Leak Everyone Was Talking About Yesterday Turned Out To Be A Fake (AAPL)

August 28, 2012
The iPhone 5 Leak Everyone Was Talking About Yesterday Turned Out To Be A Fake (AAPL)

Apple.pro Yesterday’s iPhone 5 leak. See Also 10 Questions You Need To Ask Yourself Before Buying The iPhone 5 Of Course The iPhone 5 Is Going To Be A Smash Hit! Here’s Why 10 Things You Need To Be Doing If You Use Apple’s iCloud Rumors were swirling yesterday that Apple planned to add...

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Fribi Is A Social Marketplace To Give Away Or Swap Things You Don’t Need Anymore

August 28, 2012
Fribi Is A Social Marketplace To Give Away Or Swap Things You Don’t Need Anymore

Who doesn’t like receiving free things from their friends? Fribi is an iPhone and Android app developed by a Norwegian startup to get rid of your unnecessary stuff that clutters your home. Conversely, you can browse the free stuff available in your area and arrange a meeting. Fribis can be restricted to people you...

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It’s the economy, stupid: Why Congress is getting vocal about patent disputes

August 28, 2012
It’s the economy, stupid: Why Congress is getting vocal about patent disputes

What’s true for presidential campaigns is also true for patent lawsuits, it appears. To steal a phrase from political strategist James Carville, “It’s the economy, stupid.” A handful of influential U.S. senators and representatives are backing Intel, HP and Apple in their patent battle against intellectual property firm X2Y Attenuators, which is asking the U.S....

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Google.com starts displaying birthday reminders before you start searching for things

August 28, 2012
Google.com starts displaying birthday reminders before you start searching for things

Before you perform your next overly-complicated Google search, you might be met with the reminder of a special someone’s birthday. As part of the Google+ platform, the company has rolled out birthday reminders for its most popular page, Google.com. This is a pretty interesting move, since the real-estate on that usually-bare page is extremely...

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By 2013, it will be a smartphone-majority world

August 28, 2012

Smartphones have officially crossed over the halfway point as they take over the mobile phone market in the U.S. But the world is not far behind and is expected to fly past the 50 percent mark by 2013, according to a new report by IHS iSuppli. By the end of 2013, 54 percent of all phones...

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