Daily Archives: October 16, 2012

Sheesh, Even Best Buy Is Doing Its Own Tablet (BBY, AAPL, MSFT, AMZN, GOOG)

October 16, 2012
Sheesh, Even Best Buy Is Doing Its Own Tablet (BBY, AAPL, MSFT, AMZN, GOOG)

By carl.lacey2 on Flickr See Also POLL: Would You Buy A Microsoft Surface Tablet Over The iPad? WIRED: ‘The iPad Is In Microsoft’s Head’ Apple Sends Invitations For October 23 iPad Mini Announcement Best Buy is planning on doing its own Android-based tablet, Reuters reports. It is expected to be 10-inches and cost $239...

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ZYNGA HAS A HIT: FarmVille 2 Is About To Cross 50 Million Players (ZNGA)

October 16, 2012
ZYNGA HAS A HIT: FarmVille 2 Is About To Cross 50 Million Players (ZNGA)

Flickr / Fortune Live Media See Also Zuckerberg’s Grand Vision Is Under Threat As Zynga Burns To The Ground, CEO Mark Pincus Hints He Wants To Go Private For Zynga, It’s Not Game Over Yet Remember how social games were supposed to be dead? No one’s told the people who are flocking to FarmVille...

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GOOGLE VOICE: Larry Page Speaks! (GOOG)

October 16, 2012
GOOGLE VOICE: Larry Page Speaks! (GOOG)

Screenshot See Also Google’s First Shuttle Bus Made Just Two Stops Amazon And Apple Don’t Need The Government’s Help Destroying Google Google CEO Larry Page Tells His Employees Not To Worry About His Health Google CEO Larry Page has recovered his voice. New York Times reporter Claire Cain Miller just tweeted that Page is...

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Circa and the mobile revolution: How Matt Galligan & Ben Huh dared to change the news

October 16, 2012
Circa and the mobile revolution: How Matt Galligan & Ben Huh dared to change the news

The way people are consuming news has been changing with the introduction of newer technology like the iPhone, iPad, and other smart devices. No longer are people needing to go to their familiar news stand to pick up the latest edition of the Washington Post, New York Times, or Financial Times. Instead, we’re turning...

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Eventbrite sees over 20,000 tickets uploaded to Apple’s Passbook in 1 week

October 16, 2012

Eventbrite launched Apple Passbook support in its app on October 3rd. Over the next week, it says that 20,095 tickets were uploaded to the ticketing and card-keeping app on Apple’s iOS 6 devices. The company says that’s 40 reams of paper in tickets that were sent digitally. This is the second big success story we’ve...

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Samsung’s Windows 8 devices now up for pre-order, hitting the market on October 26th

October 16, 2012

Not big on the Surface RT tablet and the Windows RT operating system? Want some complete Windows 8 action? Well, Samsung has a number of devices up for pre-sale today that may excite your inner wallet. Today, the company began to accept pre-orders for its line of Windows 8 machines, which will become available...

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Still Battling "Reply Girls," YouTube Tweaks Algorithms To Reflect Watch Time

October 16, 2012

The YouTube community is still feeling the aftershocks of last Spring’s “Reply Girls” controversy, as the video giant revamps its internal search rankings to reward not just the initial click but how long a video is watched. The Reply Girls Controversy Announced in an official blog post last week, this tweak is part of...

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The iPad Mini’s Killer Feature = Price

October 16, 2012
The iPad Mini’s Killer Feature = Price

Consumers looking for a tablet computer this holiday season will have plenty of great choices. Microsoft has its Surface RT tablets ready for pre-order, there are new Kindle Fires from Amazon, and Google’s Nexus 7 tablet leads a wide variety of quality Android options. And the big dog of the tablet market is about...

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How To Watch The U.S. Presidential Debates Online

October 16, 2012
How To Watch The U.S. Presidential Debates Online

Tuesday night is the second of three debates leading up to next month’s U.S. presidential election. As Mitt Romney and Barack Obama verbally duke it out in a townhall-style forum, your options for tuning in are greater than ever before.  Much has changed in the last four years. In 2008, watching the debates online without...

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Infogr.am tries to keep the ugly out of graphic design

October 16, 2012
Infogr.am tries to keep the ugly out of graphic design

Sites of all kinds are pushing to be more visual, and there are a growing number of tools that make that possible without exhausting huge amounts of money or time, from IBM’s Many Eyes, to other free programs like Tableau Public and Google Fusion Tables or Piktochart. The problem with much of that software, however, is that...

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