Monthly Archives: March 2010
Lady Gaga Gets Mashed Up With Sesame Street [VIDEO]
Lady Gaga is the first musician to hit one billion views on YouTube and she has a deep connection with her fans. There are many parodies of Lady Gaga music videos and almost all of them are entertaining. One of the best mash-ups I’ve seen today is the song “Telephone” mashed up with Sesame Street. Check out the video above. The video currently has over 25,000 views on YouTube.
Categories Lady Gaga, Sesame Street
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A Twitter Program For The iPad, There’s An App For That [TWITEPAD]
Just in case you were wondering whether there would be a clean-cut Twitter app for the iPad, that question has now been answered. InfoXenter has released screenshots of the Twitepad application. Twitepad allows you to filter content into columns such as hashtags, search results, lists, direct messages, and replies. There is also a built in web browser so you can view the links that are sent by the people you follow on Twitter. [Twitepad via Mashable]
Categories Apple App Store, Apple iPad, Twitepad
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Apple Acquires iPad Trademark From Fujitsu
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) has acquired the iPad trademark from Fujitsu. The trademark (serial number 76947338) was assigned to Fujitsu in March 2003 for their iPad wireless handheld computing device that was sold at retailers. The trademark was assigned to Apple on March 17. [USPTO via PatentAuthority]
Categories Apple Inc., Fujitsu
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Ericsson Makes $1.8 Billion Deal With China Mobile and China Unicom
Ericsson has announced a deal with China Mobile and China Unicom that is worth $1.8 billion. Ericsson will provide China Unicom with a faster 3G network. Ericsson will also provide China Mobile equipment to boost their capacity for mobile networks. “The signing of the significant frame agreements is a manifestation of our continued strong co-operation with our Chinese customers,” stated Ericsson head of China Mats Olsson. [BBC]
Categories China Mobile, China Unicom, Ericsson Inc., Mats Olsson
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New iPhone Coming This Summer, Perhaps On Verizon This Fall [WSJ]
When The Wall Street Journal publishes an article about Apple, everybody listens. The WSJ just sent out a news alert that says that Apple is working on a new iPhone model that will be released this summer. Apple has consistently released a new iPhone on June or July since the past three models. The new iPhone is rumored to work on the CDMA wireless network, which Verizon uses. Pegatron Technology Corporation is rumored to be mass producing the device.
The iPhone was rumored to be available on the Verizon sometime in the future for years now. Apple had an exclusive relationship with AT&T within the U.S. since they launched the iPhone in 2007.
The Wall Street Journal article was written by Yukari Iwatani Kane. Kane is known for writing articles in the past that were very accurate about future Apple products. This means Kane can be trusted about having a reliable source within the company. [WSJ]
Facebook Changing “Become A Fan” To “Like”
Facebook is changing the “Become A Fan” to a button that involves the button “Like.” Facebook users will soon start liking brands rather than becoming a fan. This may be because people click “Like” about two times more than they click “Become a Fan.” On Facebook’s current system, when you click “Become A Fan,” the brand’s feed appears on the homepage of the Facebook user. Below is a Facebook PDF Language Change sent to a Mashable commenter. [Mashable]
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Kayak.com Sells Off Hotel Reviews Website TravelPost.com
Travel search engine Kayak.com has sold off hotel information website TravelPost.com. TravelPost.com was sold to an online travel startup company that was founded by former Expedia employees. The new startup is called by NewTravelco. NewTravelco. raised about $9.8 million earlier this month. [paidContent]
Categories Kayak.com, NewTravelco, TravelPost.com
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Symantec Calls Shaoxing, China The Malware Capital of the World
Symantec has named Shaoxing, China the malware capital. That city accounts for more targeted attacks than any other city. About 30% of all targeted malware attacks and not all malicious email come from China. Targeted attacks account for only 0.02% of all malicious email traffic. Of that 30%, 21.3% is from Shaoxing itself.
The report was created by Symantec’s MessageLabs division. Below is official information from the MLI report on this topic:
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Quora Raises Funding From Benchmark and Receives $86M Valuation
Quora is a startup founded by former Facebook employees. Quora has raised a new round of funding, led by Benchmark Capital. Former Facebook exec Matt Cohler has joined the board of directors at Quora too. Benchmark’s investment gives Quora an $86 million valuation. Quora went in private beta on January 4, 2010. Quora was founded by Adam D’Angelo and Charlie Cheever. [TechCrunch]
Categories Adam D'Angelo, Benchmark Capital, Charlie Cheever, Quora
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Microsoft Almost Chose The Name Bang Instead of Bing
Microsoft chief marketing strategist David Webster conducted an interview with CNET’s Ina Fried recently. One of the goals he had when coming up with the word Bing is by making key products more “word-of-mouthable.” Microsoft wanted a name that was one syllable, couldn’t be misspelled, and was as short as possible. Webster was in charge of the new search engine name.
Webster told Fried that he initially came up with the word “Bang.” ”It’s there, it’s an exclamation point,” said Webster. “It’s the opposite of a question mark.” But when using the word “Bang” as a verb, it did not sound very pleasing. ”Oh, I banged it’ is very different than ‘I binged it’,” added Webster. [CNET]
Categories David Webster, Microsoft Bing, Microsoft Corporation
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