Daily Archives: December 30, 2012

Forget 4G – 2013 Could Be Wi-Fi’s Year

December 30, 2012
Forget 4G – 2013 Could Be Wi-Fi’s Year

Flickr/sam_churchill Hillary Clinton admitted to hospital with blood clot Hugo Chavez suffers ‘new complications’ after surgery Al Qaeda offers gold bounty for the life of US ambassador in Yemen See Also Acer President: All Those People Who Hate Windows 8 Need To Spend More Time With It New Photos Of The Next BlackBerry With...

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Even Die-Hard BlackBerry Fans Don’t Like The New Keyboard Phone (RIMM)

December 30, 2012
Even Die-Hard BlackBerry Fans Don’t Like The New Keyboard Phone (RIMM)

CnBeta One of the recent BB10 keyboard phone leaks. See Also New Photos Of The Next BlackBerry With Keyboard Have Leaked LEAKED: Photos And Video Of The Next BlackBerry Phone (And It Looks Really Nice) RIM’s New BlackBerry Looks Great, But The Odds Are Against It A few more photos of RIM’s next keyboard-equipped...

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INTEL’S BUSINESS PLAN FROM 1968: In Case You Needed Proof That Execution Is More Important Than Ideas

December 30, 2012

Intel is a global mega-corporation with $50+ billion in revenue, 100,000 employees, and a $100 billion market cap. It has been a fixture of the tech industry for so long that it seems as though it has been here forever. But in 1968, it was just an idea. In 1968, Intel’s two co-founders, Robert...

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Google blocks TwitPic over alleged malware, causing Chrome to deny access to some Twitter pages [Update: Fixed]

December 30, 2012
Google blocks TwitPic over alleged malware, causing Chrome to deny access to some Twitter pages [Update: Fixed]

Google’s malware checker on Sunday has for some reason detected TwitPic.com as a threat. As a result, if you try to access the site from Google.com using any browser (link), you’ll get a malware warning. Furthermore, if you use Google Chrome, TwitPic.com pages as well as Twitter pages that rely on the service will...

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Yahoo completes its planned exit from South Korea

December 30, 2012

True to its word, Yahoo has pulled out of the South Korean market by the end of 2012, as noted by the Yonhap News Agency. A notice on the company’s site provides detailed instructions to users on when exactly all of its services will go dark, with most of them shutting off today (Dec....

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With A Flick Of The Wrist, Facebook Could Destroy Current Advertising Models

December 30, 2012
With A Flick Of The Wrist, Facebook Could Destroy Current Advertising Models

Advertising is something that we’ve all grown accustomed to in today’s society. For companies that provide free services, it’s an important part of keeping those services free for everyone to use. But are ads even working on us anymore? That’s up for debate and discussion, and those are decisions everyone can make for themselves....

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Chinese Telecom Giant Huawei Accused Of Offering Embargoed HP Equipment To Iranian Companies

December 30, 2012

Chinese telecommunications manufacturing giant Huawei is once again in hot water over allegedly playing loose with trade sanctions. One of Huawei Technologies key Iranian partners reportedly offered to sell embargoed HP computer equipment to Iran’s largest mobile-phone operator in late 2010, according to documents unearthed by Reuters. Huawei, which overtook Ericsson in August to...

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Pakistan’s YouTube Ban Is Lifted And Then Reinstated As Observers Worry About Internet Freedom

December 30, 2012

YouTube provides a platform for you to create, connect and discover the world’s videos. The company recently redesigned the site around its hundreds of millions of channels. Partners from major movie studios, record labels, web original creators, viral stars, and millions more all have channels on YouTube. YouTube is predominantly an ad-supported platform, but...

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The 5 worst examples of game-related advertising, marketing, and public relations

December 30, 2012
The 5 worst examples of game-related advertising, marketing, and public relations

There’s no such thing as bad press. It’s a cliché, and — even worse than that — it’s not even true. If you want evidence that the public spotlight is a bad thing on occasion, you should acquaint yourself with the story of Ocean Marketing. As our article points out, an angry customer asked someone mildly...

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How AdBlock Plus will change the mobile marketing game

December 30, 2012
How AdBlock Plus will change the mobile marketing game

This is a guest post by Oxygen8 Group’s James Harrison As I type this article, another 100,000 mobile users are in the process of downloading Adblock Plus in the hope of saving themselves from an unwanted mobile advertising attack. A recent survey of AdBlock’s users found that only 25 percent want to block ads altogether. This has...

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