 | Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology
HTML5 and iTunes will form the centerpieces of Apple’s new content strategy, Wired reports in an article that claims an insider source.
“The new iTunes content will not be packaged as apps sold through the App Store,” Wired claims, “though Apple will likely provide a tablet app for displaying new content created with this new platform, and developers will still be free to create apps.”
Instead, HTML content will be presented similar to the way iTunes currently presents enhanced music and video content, according to a source Wired calls “a technologist with close ties to Apple. [...]
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Source: GigaOM | Category: Media
Today at 10 a.m. PST Apple is holding its "Latest Creation" media event in San Francisco, where it is widely expected to announce a new tablet device. TheAppleBlog is offering live updates and photos, along with live tweets, on all the news.
Read more | Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Source: Mashable | Category: Social
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href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://mashable.com/2010/01/27/apple-hits-misses/service=bit.ly"/aLike many of you, we can#8217;t wait for the official unveiling of the a
href="http://mashable.com/2010/01/27/mashable-readers-pick-islate/"iSlate/a (or whatever name Apple chooses for its next product). Apple is an interesting company to watch because not only are their products innovative, but the best Apple products create entirely new markets. Sure, there were mobile applications for sale before the App Store, for example, but the App Store transformed how mobile apps are advertised, sold and distributed, just like iTunes transformed the way music was distributed. [...]
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Source: paidContent | Category: Media
pAs a former executive at public companies NBC Universal (a href="http://finance.paidcontent.org/paidcontent?Page=QUOTETicker=GE" class="ticker" title="GE"NYSE: GE/a) and Sony BMG, Bloomberg#8217;s strongAndy Lack/strong appreciates the virtues of being at a private company. Speaking at the a href="http://www.siia.net/IIS/2010/overview.asp" title="SIIA Industry Summit"SIIA Industry Summit/a, Lack, the CEO of Bloomberg’s multimedia group, argued that the benefits of being private will have distinct benefits for emBusinessWeek/em, which was sold by the public McGraw-Hill (a href="http://finance. [...]
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Source: paidContent | Category: Media
pFollowing in the steps of a href="http://paidcontent.org/article/419-google-beefs-up-maps-with-place-pages-new-ad-trial-to-follow/" title="Google"Google/a, a href="http://paidcontent.org/article/419-online-dining-guide-restaurantica-sold-to-yellow-pages-group/" title="rint directory publishers"print directory publishers/a, and a a href="http://paidcontent.org/article/419-alikelist-raises-5-million-for-local-business-reviews-site/" title="host of startups"host of startups/a, ATamp;T (a href="http://finance. [...]
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Source: Mashable | Category: Social
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href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://mashable.com/2010/01/27/facebook-war-protest/service=bit.ly"/aa
href="http://cdn.mashable.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/facebookprotest.jpg"/aAn organization called a
href="http://rethinkafghanistan.com/petitions/state-of-the-union/" target="_blank"Rethink Afghanistan/a has executed a widespread war protest on a
href="http://www.facebook.com/posted.php?id=63811549237" target="_blank"the White House#8217;s Facebook page/a./ppIt began with a drive for 20,000 signatures at Rethink Afghanistan#8217;s website, but folks who added their signatures were also given instructions for participating in the a
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Source: Mashable | Category: Social
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href="http://jobs.mashable.com/a/jbb/find-jobs"/a/ppIf you#8217;re seeking a job in social media, we#8217;d like to help out. For starters, Mashable#8217;s a
href="http://mashable.com/category/jobs-lists/"Job Lists section/a gathers together all our resource lists, how-tos and expert guides to help you get hired. In particular, you might want to see our articles on a
href="http://mashable. [...]
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Source: Mashable | Category: Social
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href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://mashable.com/2010/01/27/twitter-apple-tablet/service=bit.ly"/aWe’re still a couple of hours away from Steve Jobs taking the stage to unveil a
href="http://mashable.com/apple-tablet/"Apple’s tablet/a, but a
href="http://mashable.com/social-media/twitter"Twitter/a appears to already be feeling the weight, with timeline delays hitting the service this morning./ppAs of 11:00am ET, a
href="http://search.twitter.com/search?lang=en#038;q=timeline" target="_blank"timeline delays/a for many users have swelled to 4-5 minutes. [...]
Read more | Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology
Apple has scored 13 fresh patents on the eve of the anticipated tablet launch, which Patently Apple dug up overnight.
They include:
Proximity detection: Detecting when an object such as a finger or stylus is in proximity to the computing device, not when it comes in contact. This is different from touch sensing and opens up a lot of interesting user interface possibilities.
Automatic detection of channel bandwidth: This could help with video conferencing. It’s a technique that allows the device to automatically determine the bandwidth of a communication channel and includes dividing the channel’s potential bandwidth into a number of ranges. [...]
Read more | Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Source: GigaOM | Category: Media
A survey done by Microsoft in conjunction with Data Privacy Day on Thursday found that 70 percent of HR professionals have rejected a job candidate because of information they found about that person by doing an online search.
Read more | Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology
Network management software provider, SolarWinds today announced that it has acquired storage and virtualization management assets from Tek-Tools, a storage resource management provider, for the sum of $42 million in cash and stock.
The newly aquired assest is Tek-Tools Profiler series of products, which gives visibility into the performance of storage and virtualized server infrastructures. SolarWinds will be incorporating Tek-Tools Profiler to its current Orion network and applications management solutions. [...]
Read more | Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology
Network management software provider, SolarWinds today announced that it has acquired storage and virtualization management assets from Tek-Tools, a storage resource management provider, for the sum of $42 million in cash and stock.
The newly aquired assest is Tek-Tools Profiler series of products, which gives visibility into the performance of storage and virtualized server infrastructures. SolarWinds will be incorporating Tek-Tools Profiler to its current Orion network and applications management solutions. [...]
Read more | Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Source: Mashable | Category: Social
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href="http://google.com" target="_blank"Google/a knows that local search is the next big thing, and a
href="http://yelp.com" target="_blank"Yelp/a knows it, too. Is there space for more competition? AT#038;T thinks so, as it prepares to launch a
href="http://buzz.com/" target="_blank"buzz.com/a (currently in closed beta phase), a place that taps into your social graph to make local search easier and more meaningful for you. [...]
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Source: Mashable | Category: Social
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href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://mashable.com/2010/01/27/apple-tablet-contest/service=bit.ly"/aLater today, we should learn all about the a
href="http://mashable.com/apple-tablet"Apple Tablet/a, the hotly anticipated device that supposedly a
href="http://mashable.com/2010/01/18/harpercollins-apple-tablet/"sells ebooks/a, a
href="http://mashable.com/2009/12/24/apple-tablet-dynamic-keyboard/"offers a dynamic keyboard/a, and sports dozens of other a
href="http://mashable.com/2010/01/26/apple-tablet-all-the-rumors-in-one-place/"rumored features/a. [...]
Read more | Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Source: paidContent | Category: Media
pAfter an anemic Q3 for The McClatchy (a href="http://finance.paidcontent.org/paidcontent?Page=QUOTETicker=MNI" class="ticker" title="MNI"NYSE: MNI/a) Company#8217;s online advertising revenues, the segment showed a lot more strength than it has during the previous year#8217;s quarters. However, while the company was able to swing to a profit, its overall revenues remained in the doldrums, indicating that publisher of emThe Sacramento Bee/em will still have to struggle to maintain profitability, especially as it continues to wrestle with staggering debt resulting from its 2006 purchase of the Knight Ridder chain. [...]
Read more | Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology
(Editor’s note: Brant Cooper is an independent consultant specializing in marketing and product management. He submitted this story to VentureBeat.)
Have you ever viewed a world map where South is up? It’s a useful frame of reference, since our Eurocentric view of North as “up” and South as “down” is really just an arbitrary one (a sphere has no top or bottom – nor left or right for that matter).
Perspective affects our perceptions – and I’ve found that looking at familiar objects in a new light can be an enlightening and useful exercise. [...]
Read more | Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology
SoundHound, a music discovery app for iPhone, is announcing the release of version 3.1 today. The release includes updates that make the app respond more quickly on launch, as well as integration with Pandora and the addition of tour information.
SoundHound, like the better-known Shazam, is built around the core functionality of tune identification — holding up your iPhone to a radio and being told the name of the song and artist. You can also sing or hum into the phone and get back song matches, or just say the name of a song or artist to pull up info on each. [...]
Read more | Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology
Electronic signature company DocuSign has a new chief executive — Steve King, who previously served as an executive at E-Trade and also led a number of online software startups.
Seattle-based DocuSign said it now holds 73 percent of the “eSign” market — namely, allowing businesses to replace hand-written signatures with electronic ones, so deals can be made and contracts can be sent online. The company has more than 20,000 customers, including American Airlines, Comcast, LinkedIn, and the National Association of Realtors, and says it has delivered more than 54 million signatures. [...]
Read more | Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Source: paidContent | Category: Media
pAt DLD yesterday in Munich, I interviewed Dennis Crowley, CEO and co-founder of the currently hot location-based service Foursquare. We touched on a lot of topics in the short 20-minute allotted time, including genesis of Foursquare, adoption of the still-nascent service, and revenue models. The text coverage of the interview, a href="http://www.dld-conference.com/2010/01/location-with-dennis-crowley.php" title="here"here/a. The full video, embedded below:
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Read more | Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology
Here’s the latest action:
LinkedIn revamps its interface — The professional networking site has changed its look and feel to make it easier to find your connections, organize them with tags, and determine how they have updated their profiles at a glance.
Google Docs debuts thumbnails, spelling suggestions — Now when you search for files in Google Docs, the site will check to make sure you are using the correct spelling. On top of that, it now allows you to view thumbnails of your files to find them more easily. [...]
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