Monthly Archives: August 2012

Here Are The Mountain Lion Features Apple Didn’t Tell You About (AAPL)

August 1, 2012
Here Are The Mountain Lion Features Apple Didn’t Tell You About (AAPL)

Email More Eric Kilby via Flickr See Also Quick Tips You Need To Know About Mountain Lion’s Voice Dictation How To Set Up Messages Across Your Mac, iPhone, And iPad 6 Reasons Apple’s New Safari Browser Crushes Chrome And Firefox Apple’s newest operating system has only been out for a week, but we’re already...

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An Australian Billionaire Is Rumored To Be Making A Real-Life Jurassic Park

August 1, 2012
An Australian Billionaire Is Rumored To Be Making A Real-Life Jurassic Park

ColorblindRain/Flickr Not the Mongolian skeleton. There’s a rumor floating around about Australian billionaire Clive Palmer. According to someone in his inner circle, Palmer may be plotting to clone a dinosaur from DNA, Sunshine Coast Daily’s Kathy Sundstrom reports. Palmer would put the dinosaur in his new Coolum Palmer Resort in the Middle East, says Sundstrom....

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Flipboard Founder Mike McCue Steps Down From Twitter Board Of Directors

August 1, 2012
Flipboard Founder Mike McCue Steps Down From Twitter Board Of Directors

Mike McCue, the longtime tech entrepreneur perhaps best known at the moment as the founder and CEO of Flipboard, is no longer serving on the board of directors at Twitter. McCue, who has been on Twitter’s board since late 2010, announced his departure via a Tweet, naturally: To the @Twitter team: it was amazing...

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TwelveSouth’s BackPack 2 stores drives, MacBook Airs and more behind your iMac or Apple display

August 1, 2012
TwelveSouth’s BackPack 2 stores drives, MacBook Airs and more behind your iMac or Apple display

The original TwelveSouth BackPack was a pretty slick way to hang a hard drive on the support bar of an iMac or Apple display, tucking it out of the way and keeping it off of your desk. The new version, the BackPack 2, adds some nice new abilities, like vertical storage for MacBook Airs....

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Momentum lost: Despite pressure, cybersecurity legislation has stalled in the Senate

August 1, 2012

There was such promise: Massive pressure to compromise had Sen. Lieberman’s cybersecurity bill moving forward in the Senate. This was to be the Week of Amendments, to which passage was to follow. However, we’ve hit a roadblock. The Hill, ever present and nearly prescient in such matters, reported the following news today: A cloture...

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Rumor: Google Puts A Hold On New Google+ Acquisitions

August 1, 2012
Rumor: Google Puts A Hold On New Google+ Acquisitions

Today in the tech news rumor mill: A source close to Google tells us that the company has put a stop to all acquisitions related to Google+, at least until the end of this year. This source also tells us that Google is weary of both growing the Google+ team right now and providing...

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Here’s why tablets (yes, tablets!) will replace the smartphone

August 1, 2012
Here’s why tablets (yes, tablets!) will replace the smartphone

I’m sure to get the “you’re off your rocker” commentary on this one, but I make a living by looking ahead in the world of mobile technology. And what I see now is a trend that I’ve watched build for nearly a half-dozen years. Thanks to pace of mobile network expansion, new audio and...

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How To Replace Your Cable Subscription With An iPad (AAPL)

August 1, 2012
How To Replace Your Cable Subscription With An iPad (AAPL)

Email More Dylan Love See Also The Phocus Is A Must-Have iPhone Photography Accessory Our Favorite Tech Superstars Use These Apps Every Day Here’s A Look At Another Windows 8 Tablet Launching Soon Do you have it in you to cut the cord? If you have an iPad, at least most of the...

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Mobile messaging service Nimbuzz flies past 100m users, driven by emerging market growth

August 1, 2012

Mobile messaging and calling service Nimbuzz announced it has passed of 100 million registered users across its multiple platforms — which include PC, iOS, Android and some 3,000 other mobile devices — thanks to strong growth in emerging markets. The mobile app space itself is gathering pace rapidly, and the service’s recent growth’s has been triggered...

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Hooked Media Group Uses Social Discovery to Fine-Tune Game Recommendations

August 1, 2012
Hooked Media Group Uses Social Discovery to Fine-Tune Game Recommendations

Social discovery is the latest buzzword on the Web, but it has limits. Here’s how one company is trying to use (but not over-use) social discovery to figure out what game you want to play before you even know you want to play it.  There are zillions of Flash games online, and finding the...

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