Monthly Archives: February 2011
Verizon iPhone 4 Passes 1 Million Sales
Verizon Wireless has sold over 1 million Apple iPhone 4 devices. About 60% of the sales were preorders, which is why the retail lines were a bit small on launch day. Not bad considering that 1.7 million iPhone 4s were debuted last year. Another reason why there wasn’t a larger number of sales is because some people are holding out for the iPhone 5 due this summer. [The Street]
Categories Apple iPhone 4, Verizon Wireless
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Apple Does Not Want Their Products To Be “Just For The Rich”
According to a research note taken from Bernstein Research analyst’s Toni Sacconaghi meeting with Tim Cook, Apple is confident in expanding the market for the iPhone. The iPhone expanded Apple’s sales of other products, especially in emerging markets.
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Categories Apple iPhone, Bernstein Research, Tim Cook, Toni Sacconaghi
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Groupon Launches In China Under The Name Gaopeng.com
Groupon has launched in China under the name Gaopeng.com. The website will initially cover Beijing and Shanghai. Tencent Holdings and Yunfeng Capital are investors in Gaopeng. Yunfeng Capital is a private equity fund started by Alibaba.com Chairman Jack Ma. Some of Gaopeng.com’s competitors include Lashou.com and Meituan.com. [Bloomberg]
Categories AliBaba, Alibaba Group, Alibaba.com, Gaopeng.com, Groupon, Groupon.com, Jack Ma, Tencent, Tencent Holdings, Yunfeng Capital
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About 120,000 Gmail Users Hit With Temporary Downtime
Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) has acknowledged that 120,000 Gmail users were hit with downtime. These users reported missing e-mails, labels, and contacts. When users reported the error, Google updated their App Status Dashboard.
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Categories GMail, Google
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BlackBerry PlayBook To Support Android Apps Says RIM Rep [VIDEO]
Research In Motion (RIM) is adding support for Android applications on the BlackBerry PlayBook. This is interesting considering that BlackBerry has their own competing mobile application store called BlackBerry App World. A RIM representative was caught in the video below saying “we will also support Android apps when we release the Dalvik engine on top of QNX.” This video was filmed at Mobile World Congress.
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Categories Android, BlackBerry App World, Google Android, Research In Motion, RIM
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Apple Employee iPhones Have Android-Like Gesture-Based Lock Screens
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) is testing out a gesture-based lock screen feature where a user sets up a pattern. The iPhone user would be required to connect the pattern dots with their fingers to unlock the phone. The test name for this Apple project is AppleConnect. This would replace the four number code and Apple has already deployed this lock screen for internal employee use. However we may not see this feature come to consumer iPhones if Google has a patent on the feature. [9to5Mac]
Categories Android, Apple iPhone, Google Android
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Facebook Like Button On News Websites Publishes News Feed Story
In another effort to phase out the common Facebook Share button, the social networking company has made it so that the Like/Recommend button on third party websites shows up as a full news feed post. This gives third party websites more of an incentive to embed the button because they will see higher social media referral traffic this way as well. [InsideFacebook]
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J.P. Morgan Acquires 10% of Twitter Through Stock Purchases From Existing Shareholders
There is a lot of speculation about how J.P. Morgan and angel investor Chris Sacca acquired about 10% of equity in Twitter for $450 million. The most interesting part here is how the funding round was conducted. It was not done as a venture capital series of funding.
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Categories Chris Sacca, JPMorgan Chase and Co., Twitter
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Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Has Multi-User Remote Computing Feature
9to5Mac.com has discovered a new Mac OS X Lion feature. It appears to be some sort of multi-user remote computing feature that lets you remotely login to any account on another Mac. For example: if you are on your MacBook laptop and need to access files from your Mac Mini at home, then you can grab the files or display the whole screen from your home computer. Even if someone is using the Mac Mini at home with a different account login, their session will not be interrupted. [9to5Mac]
Categories Apple Inc., Apple Mac OS X Lion
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Why Save PBS? [INFOGRAPHIC]
Public broadcasting services like PBS and NPR are in danger of going offline. That means no more Sesame Street or All Things Considered. On Saturday February 19th, the House of Representatives voted 235-189 for a continuing resolution that would eliminate funding for public broadcasting. Below is an infographic on why PBS is worth saving.
Categories Infographics, NPR, Sesame Street
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