This morning I went on YouTube.com and saw a huge banner at the top that features LivingSocial.com’s Daily Deal in the city of Detroit. If you go to LivingSocial.com right now, it will show you how their daily deals work — for me the website says “We’re coming soon to Ann Arbor.” I actually had no idea that LivingSocial was planning to compete with Groupon.com. And they have raised $14 million in Series C to do so.
Last night The Daily Show with Jon Stewart decided to give his take on the Gizmodo/iPhone 4G story. “I’m sorry but this whole thing is out of control,” said Jon Stewart as an image that said Appholes hovered over his head. Cut to the video of the 1984 Apple commercial, “LOOK IN THE MIRROR MAN!” said Stewart in response to the way Apple and the police handled the situation.
The iPhone and iPad seem to be playing along nicely. In this video you will see a person using their iPhone as a controller for the game Chopper 2 on the iPad using Bluetooth. Chopper 2 will be available this summer.
AT&T plans to delay Internet tethering on the iPhone because high traffic uses on mobile devices could hamper network performance. Tethering is the ability for a mobile device to act as an Internet service provider for a laptop or desktop computer. Below is a statement that Engadget received from AT&T: iPhone tethering has the potential to exponentially increase traffic, and we need to ensure that we’re able to deliver excellent performance for the feature ? over and above the increases in data traffic we’re already seeing before we will offer the feature. [Engadget]
I feel like slapping myself for not buying stock in Palm because HP just announced that they are acquiring them for $1.2 billion. After the Palm Pre and the Palm Pixi struggled to compete in the smartphone market, the fate of webOS was unclear.
San Francisco mobile entrepreneur Dale Larson has proposed to his girlfriend C Compiler developer Laura La Gassa. As part of the wedding invitation planning, the two of them hired Yiyung Lu to make a design. The wedding invitation features two penguins kissing each other and forming a heart with their beaks and chest. The wedding invitation is dubbed “Win Penguins,” a play off of Yiyung’s other famous drawing that appears on Twitter.com when they are server capacity called “Fail Whale.”
About 40 past and current Infinity Ward developers are suing the company because of breach of contract and unpaid royalties for the game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. The class action lawsuit seeks $500 million from Activision’s Infinity Ward over unpaid bonuses, profit sharing, punitive damages and future profits from future games including Modern Warfare 3. The payments were withheld to prevent employees from leaving Activision.
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) and HTC Corporation has signed a patent agreement that will provide broad coverage of Microsoft’s existing patent portfolio and HTC’s mobile phones that run on Android. Microsoft will receive royalties from HTC Corporation through the partnership. The agreement also expands upon HTC’s business relationship with Microsoft.
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