The hottest tech trends of IFA 2010
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3 Sep 2010 Comments:
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Every September, Berlin plays host to Europe’s biggest gadget show, the Internationale Funkausstellung (aka IFA).
Six Apart and Vox—How Promise Gets Squandered
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3 Sep 2010 Comments:
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Six Apart is shutting down its free blogging service, Vox, and as Mike points out this announcement is really about cleaning up for an upcoming merger with VideoEgg. With 250 million uniques worldwide spread across thousands of blogs and a growing ad business, Six Apart isn’t a failure. But, like Slide and like Digg, it hasn’t lived up to its promise either. And products like Vox are a big reason why: As blogging was getting more open and commenters more mean spirited, Vox was intended as a clean, well-lit place in the blogosphere. It had a great UI and some nice features like a “Question of the Day” to get reluctant new bloggers up-and-writing. But then it just sort of withered.
IFA 2010: Hands on: Viewsonic ViewPad7 review
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2 Sep 2010 Comments:
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Twitter Now Over 145 Million Users, Almost 300,000 Apps
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2 Sep 2010 Comments:
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When I read Twitter CEO Evan Williams post tonight about the state of Twitter from a mobile perspective, the first thing that jumped out at me what that Twitter for Android, an app Twitter worked hard on, isn’t even in the top 10 most-used apps for the service. But Williams also used the post to whip out some impressive numbers. Chief among them: Twitter now has over 145 million registered users (though presumably less than 150 million, or he would have said that). And there are now nearly 300,000 registered apps in the Twitter ecosystem.
Report: Facebook Blocked Link to Apple Ping Social Network
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2 Sep 2010 Comments:
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Los Angeles - Having failed
to reach an agreement with Apple over access, Facebook blocked a link to
Apple’s (NASD:AAPL) new Ping music-focused social network that would let users
automatically add Facebook friends to their Ping contacts, sources told All Things D. As TechCrunch and
others reported, Facebook Connect was indeed connected with Ping for a brief
while before and even after the service was officially launched yesterday. Read the rest of this entry »
Official Twitter iPad app released
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2 Sep 2010 Comments:
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The official Twitter app for iPad has been released today, with a host of new features to keep Twitter fiends happily poking away at their Apple tablet’s screen for the foreseeable future.
After Dell Matches $2B Offer For 3PAR, HP Ups Its Bid To $2.4B
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2 Sep 2010 Comments:
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It looks like we’re back to square one again. Dell has matched HP’s $2 billion offer to buy 3PAR, and HP upped the ante today with an offer worth $33 per share or $2.4 billion. 3PAR has accepted HP’s bid.
Apple Debuts New Apple TV, iPods, iTunes TV Rentals
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2 Sep 2010 Comments:
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Cupertino, Calif. - At a media event on Wednesday, Apple (NASD:AAPL) CEO
Steve Jobs unveiled new designs for all of its iPods, a new version of iTunes
with a music social network called Ping, the second generation of its Apple TV
streaming video device, and a new iTunes Store movie and TV show rentals
service. The new $99 Apple TV is one-fourth the size of the first model, and
now exclusively supports a new rental model for movies and TV shows. Read the rest of this entry »
Apple Debuts New Apple TV, iPods, iTunes TV Rentals
Date:
2 Sep 2010 Comments:
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Cupertino, Calif. - At a media event on Wednesday, Apple (NASD:AAPL) CEO
Steve Jobs unveiled new designs for all of its iPods, a new version of iTunes
with a music social network called Ping, the second generation of its Apple TV
streaming video device, and a new iTunes Store movie and TV show rentals
service. The new $99 Apple TV is one-fourth the size of the first model, and
now exclusively supports a new rental model for movies and TV shows. Read the rest of this entry »
Apple Debuts New Apple TV, iPods, iTunes TV Rentals
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1 Sep 2010 Comments:
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Cupertino, Calif. - At a media event on Wednesday, Apple (NASD:AAPL) CEO
Steve Jobs unveiled new designs for all of its iPods, a new version of iTunes
with a music social network called Ping, the second generation of its Apple TV
streaming video device, and a new iTunes Store movie and TV show rentals
service. The new $99 Apple TV is one-fourth the size of the first model, and
now exclusively supports a new rental model for movies and TV shows. Read the rest of this entry »