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Screenshot People post all sorts of status update messages to friends on Facebook, many of which they never intend to make public. But Storify, a social media curation tool, occasionally brings them to light. According to AGBeat, it can surface all updates, no matter a person’s Facebook privacy settings.* It also pulls in the...
Samsung just aired a very strange commercial for its smartphones during tonight’s NFC championship game. The goal is to play up the enterprise features of Samsung’s Galaxy Note II and Galaxy S III phones while bashing the current king of enterprise, BlackBerry. (Samsung phones use a security standard called SAFE.) But the commercial is...
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has added Beijing-based Beihang University, one of China’s top universities, as its fourth host campus and the first new host institution in over 15 years. While hosts are not directly involved in standards development, they do help with administration of the consortium and housing regional staff. Beihang joins Japan’s...
Sony on Monday announced its new flagship tablet, the 10.1-inch Xperia Tablet Z, which features an impressive thickness of 6.9mm and is set to arrive in Japan this spring. The Xperia Tablet Z is powered by a quad-core 1.5GHz processor and Android 4.1, and it comes with an 8.1mp camera. It features LTE connectivity, presumably for...
LG’s flagship Optimus G passed one million sales last week, hitting the landmark somewhat slowly since its global launch in October, but things appear to be looking up for the Korean firm in the US. According to Counterpoint Research, the firm pipped Apple to second place in the US handset market following December sales. The research...
When rumors pinged around about the possibility that German web conglomerate Rocket Internet could be going public earlier this month, it generated a brief storm online. No surprise: Rocket’s founders, the three Samwer brothers, have a special way of dividing opinion. Their approach to internet startups — taking an idea that’s already been proven...
In today’s world of fierce co-opetition, your cloud provider may be both your partner and competitor – and building your business on top of your competitor’s cloud is a very dangerous way to live. When the ancient Chinese wanted to keep their population safe from dangerous invaders, they built a wall. So, does your...
Fandalism, a social network for musicians, is adding a new feature that should undercut the market for “aggregators” like CD Baby and Tunecore (which allow independent artists to sell their music on iTunes and other digital stores). To do that, founder Philip Kaplan (who also founded the FuckedCompany blog and ad network AdBrite, as well as...
Japanese newspaper Sankei Biz (link via Google Translate) is reporting that Apple has halved LCD panel orders from Sharp due to lower-than-expected sales of the iPhone 5. This is the latest indication apparently pointing to the device’s sluggish performance since its launch in September, and comes just three days after Reuters reported that Sharp...