Daily Archives: August 31, 2012

‘Gangnam Style,’ A Korean Pop Sensation, Is Big In Silicon Valley Right Now (GOOG)

August 31, 2012
‘Gangnam Style,’ A Korean Pop Sensation, Is Big In Silicon Valley Right Now (GOOG)

PSY – Gangnam Style Gangnam style! See Also Here’s The Bizarre Promo For The Baseball Playoffs That Uses The Latest Korean Music Fad This 15-Square Mile Neighborhood Is Responsible For 7 Percent Of South Korea’s GDP K-Pop Is The World’s Hottest Music Trend, But Its Stars Make Almost No Money At Home An over-the-top,...

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RIM announces BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10, launching alongside BB10 devices in Q1 2013

August 31, 2012
RIM announces BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10, launching alongside BB10 devices in Q1 2013

RIM’s Senior Director for Enterprise Product Management Jeff Holleran has just formally announced new details regarding the upcoming BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10, which will premiere alongside the first BB10 devices in Q1 of 2013. It’s no secret that RIM’s core market lies in the enterprise, and despite its massive decline in popularity, BlackBerry continues to be a...

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VMware’s getting old, get over it!

August 31, 2012
VMware’s getting old, get over it!

VMworld 2012, the annual celebration of virtualization that took place in San Francisco this week, just wasn’t that exciting. What does it tell you when the biggest round of applause (aside from the ovation for outgoing CEO Paul Maritz) was for the repeal of the unpopular VRAM licensing change, not for any of the...

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Amazon rumoured to launch two new 7-inch Kindle Fires, one of them ad-supported

August 31, 2012

Online retail giant Amazon looks set to disrupt the tablet market in the coming days when it announces the launch of an ad-supported Kindle Fire, taking a strategy that has worked well with its range of e-readers and adapting it for the personal computing market. Reports of a subsidised tablet device come from the...

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CHART OF THE DAY: Despite All The Leaks, Most People Still Haven’t Seen The iPhone 5 (AAPL)

August 31, 2012
CHART OF THE DAY: Despite All The Leaks, Most People Still Haven’t Seen The iPhone 5 (AAPL)

Apple hasn’t officially announced the iPhone 5, but we think we’ve already seen it. There has been a plethora of supply chain leaks that give us an idea about what the next iPhone might look like. It’s going to be a taller phone that looks a lot like the current iPhone, but with a...

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Gillmor Gang Live 08.31.12 (TCTV)

August 31, 2012

Robert Scoble is an American blogger, technical evangelist, and author. He is best known for his popular blog, Scobleizer, which came to prominence during his tenure as a technical evangelist at Microsoft. Scoble joined Microsoft in 2003, and although he often promoted Microsoft products like Tablet PCs and Windows Vista, he also frequently criticized...

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Apple gives developers tool to dispute cloned apps or content

August 31, 2012

Apple is outsourcing part of the job of patrolling the App Store for copyrighted material and outright copying of apps. There is now a special site for iOS developers to report such violations or infringement to Apple for review and possible removal from the App Store. The new site’s existence was noted by a...

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Animated Gifs As Ads? Tumblr Experiments With New Advertising Format

August 31, 2012
Animated Gifs As Ads? Tumblr Experiments With New Advertising Format

GIF, a filetype that celebrated its 25th anniversary this past June (don’t you feel old now?), won’t die. And the animated GIF, in particular, has seen a notable resurgence recently, as a newer, younger group of netizens rediscover its capabilities, posting GIFs to social networks, blogs and in fashion editorials. “Cinemagraph“-making apps became trendy, and...

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Tweetbot for Mac beta arrives, but you can’t add new accounts due to Twitter API restrictions

August 31, 2012

Tapbots has launched a beta version of its Tweetbot Twitter client, but it has some heavy restrictions. Essentially, if you haven’t already authorized a Twitter account with the alpha, you can’t get into the beta. This is due to restrictions the developers had to place on adding users in order to preserve slots under...

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Jurassic Ark: These Posters show what happens if you remove a letter from your favorite movies

August 31, 2012
Jurassic Ark: These Posters show what happens if you remove a letter from your favorite movies

Removies is a new blog that re-imagines what a movie would be like, had a single letter been removed from its title. To do this, the author creates quite impressive theatrical poster designs, showing what you get when something’s missing… As you can see, we’re left with timeless classics like Jurassic Ark and Harry Otter. Oh, and don’t...

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