Daily Archives: November 8, 2012

Facebook Has Dropped Below $20 Again (FB)

November 8, 2012
Facebook Has Dropped Below $20 Again (FB)

AP See Also Sheryl Sandberg And Other Facebook Execs Have Started Selling Stock Mark Zuckerberg: ‘I Have This Fear’ ZUCKERBERG: We’re Going To Make A Lot Of Money On Mobile Ads Facebook shares closed below $20 today. The first time it crossed this threshold—nearly half the price at which it debuted on the stock...

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How Design Bloggers Are Taking On Pinterest And Tumblr

November 8, 2012
How Design Bloggers Are Taking On Pinterest And Tumblr

Design Sponge See Also A Real Estate Mogul Is Selling His Two Mansions For $78 Million A Pop Startup Founder Takes Us Inside The Funky Williamsburg Crash Pad He Uses Between Business Trips Why Micro Apartments Are The Next Big Trend In City Living The young, social-media crowd wants to take in design and...

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Facebook Wants To Create Powerful Computers That Melt Cleanly Away (FB)

November 8, 2012
Facebook Wants To Create Powerful Computers That Melt Cleanly Away (FB)

kid_entropy via Flickr See Also Facebook’s Revolutionary Data Center Was Designed On A Napkin Why Facebook And Google’s Data Centers Are Not Killing Our Planet Facebook Engineer Jocelyn Goldfein To Women: Stop Being Scared Of Computer Science Data centers have a nasty reputation for pollution. Now Facebook has launched a contest to solve one...

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Microsoft details the key differences between Internet Explorer 10 on Windows 8, Windows Phone 8

November 8, 2012

It’s been a blizzard of Microsoft news these past few weeks, and I understand that you are weary. I promise that it is almost over. Kidding, Microsoft hasn’t been this relevant and interesting in two product cycles, so we’re going to stay on this harder than a 10 cent sticker slapped on an active...

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Selling 270,000 units in October, the Xbox 360 notched its 22nd consecutive month atop the console market

November 8, 2012

October sales figures for the Xbox 360 have come in, and Microsoft has announced that the device has led the U.S. console market now for 22 consecutive months. Before that, the Wii was on top. In October, Microsoft moved 270,000 units. Now coming on two full years of consistent top-dog status, Microsoft is showing no signs of letting...

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Not since Bush’s reelection have people wanted to move out of the US so badly, but this time it’s to Australia

November 8, 2012
Not since Bush’s reelection have people wanted to move out of the US so badly, but this time it’s to Australia

Yes yes, this is a bit gloating in that the people we are mocking are silly, but that’s really quite alright as we’re better than them. Following Bush’s reelection in 2004, a massive surge was recorded in the number of people running a Google query for ‘move to Canada.’ Yes, we all know someone...

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In Other News… [Video]

November 8, 2012
In Other News… [Video]

Here are the links to the stories and topics we talked about: TorrentFreak: BitTorrent Traffic Increases 40% in Half a Year Dan Lyons: The Streaming Video Market Is So Messed Up It’s Scary Dan Frommer: Twitter Is Now The Best Way To Follow Election Results ReadWrite Pause Tim McCormick: How To Drop Your Data Plan And Keep Using...

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Introducing ReadWrite Mix

November 8, 2012
Introducing ReadWrite Mix

Despite our passionate and undying love of all things Internet, lately a few of us here at ReadWrite have been thinking we should pay a little more attention to the time we spend offline, in what used to be known as the real world. That’s why we’ve created our ReadWrite Pause Series, exploring ways to...

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Samsung Galaxy S III Tops The iPhone 4S: But It’s All About The Timing

November 8, 2012
Samsung Galaxy S III Tops The iPhone 4S: But It’s All About The Timing

For the first time in years, a smartphone not made by Apple is the best selling smartphone in the world. For now, at least. According to Boston-based research firm Strategy Analytics, the Samsung Galaxy S 3 has overtaken Apple’s iPhone 4S as the top dog on the block. A New Smartphone Leader? When it...

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Half of smartphone owners consult the ‘doctor in their pocket’

November 8, 2012
Half of smartphone owners consult the ‘doctor in their pocket’

Mobile health is starting to come of age.  In 2010, the Pew Internet and American Life Project reported that just 17 percent of cell phone owners used their devices to look up health information. But in a study released Thursday, the organization said that figure has climbed to 31 percent. Mobile health is unsurprisingly...

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