Monthly Archives: January 2011
Google Announces Speak-To-Tweet Service For People In Egypt
Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) has announced a new service that allows people in Egypt to stay-in-touch while the Internet has been blacked out there. Now anyone can send a tweet in Egypt by simply leaving a voicemail on one of these international phone numbers: +16504194196, +390662207294, or +97316199855. The service will tweet the message using the #egypt hashtag. [Speak2Tweet Twitter Account via Google Blog]
Categories Google, SayNow, Twitter
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Facebook Wants To Run The Comments On Blogs
Facebook has conquered the world of social networking, photo sharing, instant messaging, video sharing, and even Hollywood through The Social Network movie. What’s next? They want to take over comments on blogs and other online publications. Facebook would be the comment management system and the engine that drives blog comments.
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Categories Disqus, Echo, Facebook, Intense Debate
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60+ Instant Messenger Programs and Software Available For Download
Instant messaging is the most sophisticated way to communicate over the Internet. Almost every social network has their own chatting programs built in and millions of people still stay in touch through AOL Instant Messenger since it came out in the 1990s. There are many different programs out there with instant messaging capabilities and sometimes it is difficult to choose one. Below is a list of 60+ instant messenger programs and software available for download.
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T-Mobile To Sell Dell Streak 7 For $200 With Contract On February 2
T-Mobile will start selling the Dell Streak 7 for $199.99 with a 2-year contract and $50 mail-in rebate on February 2nd. The 7-inch Android 2.2 tablet is powered by the NVIDIA Tegra 2. Without a contract, the tablet goes for $450. [Engadget]
Categories Dell Inc., Dell Streak 7, T-Mobile
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KickApps, Kewego, and Kyte Get Acquired For $77.2 Million By KIT digital
KIT digital is a cloud-based video asset management company that has acquired three social networking companies for $77.2 million – KickApps (social networking), Kewego (web video project management), and Kyte (mobile video platform). KickApps CEO Alex Blum will be the Global COO of KIT digital and KickApps CFO David Lapter will be the SVP of Finance and Administration at KIT. KIT digital chairman and CEO Kaleil Isaza Tuzman wrote:
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Categories Alex Blum, David Lapter, Kaleil Isaza Tuzman, Kewego, KickApps, KIT Digital, Kyte
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President Obama Announces Startup America Partnership, Chaired By Steve Case
President Barack Obama said in the State of the Union address last week that the U.S. needs to out-educate and out-innovate our competition to win the future. One of the biggest ways by doing so is by encouraging entrepreneurship. Today the President announced Startup America, a campaign to accelerate entrepreneurship and it will be headed by Steve Case. Carl Schramm, the President and CEO of the Kauffman Foundation, will be a founding board member of Startup America.
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Categories Barack Obama, Brad Feld, Carl Schramm, Facebook, Steve Case, TechStars
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Less Than 15% Of Wikipedia Contributors Are Women
As Wikipedia’s celebrates its 10 years of existence, they have hit 3.5 million English articles in over 250 languages. Thousands of people are contributing the Wikipedia’s articles, but less than 15% of that number are women. A majority of the contributors are in their mid-20s.
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Error In Intel Sandy Bridge 6-Series Processors May Cost $1 Billion
The Sandy Bridge processors manufactured by Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) has some flaws. Intel has halted their chipset shipments until a bug free version starts shipping out next month. “In some cases, the Serial-ATA (SATA) ports within the chipsets may degrade over time, potentially impacting the performance or functionality of SATA-linked devices such as hard disk drives and DVD-drives,” said Intel in a statement.
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Apple Makes Half Of Mobile Phone Profits, Despite Only 4% Market Share
According to a report by Horace Dediu of Symbo, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) has a 4.2% global mobile phone market share but they account for 51% of the industry’s total profits. Apple continues to dominate profits in the mobile phone market from the top 8 mobile phone vendors in the December quarter. Apple sold 16.24 million iPhones in the first quarter of fiscal 2011, which resulted in $10.5 billion of company revenues. Not bad considering that Apple’s profit was 32% in August 2009.
Categories Apple Inc., Horace Dediu
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Online Dating Website PlentyOfFish Gets Hacked, CEO E-Mails Hacker’s Mother
Online dating website PlentyOfFish.com has been hacked. The PlentyOfFish.com CEO Markus Frind and his wife was harassed. The hack attack was planned by Argentinean Chris Russo, the same hacker that hit The Pirate Bay. Below are some noteworthy excerpts from Frind’s blog:
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Categories Chris Russo, Markus Frind, PlentyOfFish
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