Daily Archives: December 21, 2012

CHART OF THE DAY: The Top iPhone And Android Apps Of 2012 (GOOG, AAPL)

December 21, 2012
CHART OF THE DAY: The Top iPhone And Android Apps Of 2012 (GOOG, AAPL)

Email More Nielsen published data on the most popular iPhone and Android apps of the year. As you can see it’s mostly meat-and-potato type apps like maps and weather. The two apps that amusingly stand out, and sort of tell stories about each platform are “Advance Task Killer” for Android and “Instagram” for iPhone. ...

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Amid All The Turmoil, Martha Stewart Is Finally Talking To The Younger Version Of Herself (MSLO)

December 21, 2012
Amid All The Turmoil, Martha Stewart Is Finally Talking To The Younger Version Of Herself (MSLO)

Brit Brit Morin founded Brit, a domestic lifestyle brand for the technology age. See Also Martha Stewart CEO Steps Down After Disastrous Year Source: Martha Stewart Made A Huge Mistake Firing Yet Another CEO The ‘Martha Stewart Of Silicon Valley’ On What Makes Her Different Than The Real Martha Stewart Martha Stewart is the...

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Huffington Post Makes Bold Statement On The Cost Of Doing Nothing About Guns

December 21, 2012
Huffington Post Makes Bold Statement On The Cost Of Doing Nothing About Guns

Email More The Huffington Post’s front page is making a statement about gun control. It has 81 stories linked at the top of its site. There’s no photo — just text under the headline “TO LIVE AND DIE IN AMERICA.” The articles are from across the web and they’re all about shootings from the...

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Google finds its design voice on iOS

December 21, 2012
Google finds its design voice on iOS

From the beginning, Google’s design sensibilities on the web and Android have been unique. Whether you were a fan of the spare, utilitarian feel of products like Search or not, you knew when you were looking at something built by Google. To a degree, that’s still very true. Android apps built by the company have taken...

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Flickr gives away 3 free months of Pro service to current subscribers, with unlimited storage and views

December 21, 2012
Flickr gives away 3 free months of Pro service to current subscribers, with unlimited storage and views

In an effort to bolster interest in its platform and to reward those who have stuck with it over the years, Flickr is offering three free months of Pro access to current subscribers. With a single click, a three month extension of unlimited uploads and viewing of your whole library is yours. The free...

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Apple posts iPad mini Christmas ad spot highlighting device’s features and benefits of FaceTime

December 21, 2012

Apple has published its Christmas-themed iPad TV commercial which emphasizes the use of FaceTime for keeping in touch with family and loved ones over the festive period and the smaller device’s features. The ad itself — spotted by MacStories — features a young girl who uses FaceTime to play the popular Christmas song ‘I’ll...

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Guy Kawasaki Dishes On How Hard It Was To Work For Steve Jobs [Video]

December 21, 2012
Guy Kawasaki Dishes On How Hard It Was To Work For Steve Jobs [Video]

Author, entrepreneur and early Apple veteran Guy Kawasaki talked to ReadWrite Editor-in-Chief Dan Lyons at the second ReadWrite Mix event about how he lived in fear of being publicly humiliated by legendary Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. Far from being a Zen Master, Jobs ruled with an iron fist. “With hindsight,” Kawasaki said, “Fear drove...

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5 Last-Minute Tech Gifts For People You Hate

December 21, 2012
5 Last-Minute Tech Gifts For People You Hate

The Internet is awash in gift guides. For every imaginable combination of adjectives and people (or pets, for that matter), there’s a 20-item list of holiday gift suggestions.  Those can be quite useful, of course, but what about the people in our lives for whom we are obligated to buy a gift, but may...

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Test Driving Poke, Facebook’s New "Safer Sexting" App For Tweens

December 21, 2012
Test Driving Poke, Facebook’s New "Safer Sexting" App For Tweens

Not content to have one of everything, Facebook now has two standalone mobile messaging apps. Meet Poke, a strange little app that lets users send self-destructing messages. As rumored, Poke appears to be Facebook’s spin on Snapchat, an app with a conspicuously identical purpose and a hit among message-crazed tweens. It’s perfect for sexting without leaving an...

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How Food Genius built the ultimate test kitchen out of menu data

December 21, 2012
How Food Genius built the ultimate test kitchen out of menu data

Chicago startup Food Genius knows what America is eating when it dines or orders out. It knows, for instance, whether more pizzerias are starting to put basil on their cheese and tomato pies or whether restaurants are still piling their burgers high with bacon or have switched over to avocado. What’s more, Food Genius...

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