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Saturday, August 20, 2011
Free To See In The U.s.
Across the U.S., hundreds of free events and activities mean you can celebrate the crowning of Louisiana’s Crawfish Queen, get an insider’s look at NASA’s famed Jet Propulsion Lab, take your basset hound to the beach, and participate in a mad shopping cart race through New York—all without spending a dime.
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Monday, May 30, 2011
Don’t Buy a Dual-Core Tablet Until You See This Video
The first dual-core Android tablets only arrived in February, but Nvidia is already showing off an improved quad-core chip that’s expected to power tablets by August. The system-on-a-chip, codenamed “Kal-El,” has four computer cores and a dozen graphics processors that will offer a huge performance boost in mobile devices. Nvidia announced the chip in February, with support for 1440p video playback, which is higher than most HDTV sets.
Don’t Buy a Dual-Core Tablet Until You See This Video
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Thursday, May 26, 2011
With Mobile Payments, Now We're Going To See Who Really Has The Power In The Mobile Industry (GOOG, AAPL)
Google formally announced its entry into mobile payments today, a "Wallet" service backed by Citi, MasterCard, Sprint, VeriFone, and other players in the tech and finance industries.
Basically, you'll be able to use your phone to pay for stuff by touching it to a credit card terminal. Cool.
Before you know it, however, Google Wallet will probably have a bunch of competition, from the likes of:
- Apple and other cellphone makers
- AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile, which have teamed up for a payments service called Isis
- Banks or credit card companies
- Companies like Square or PayPal that want to get involved in mobile payments
The early winners and losers should tell us a lot about who currently holds the most power in the mobile industry: Consumers, handset companies, OS companies, carriers, software makers, integrators, or a combination.
For example, will a Verizon Droid phone by Motorola support Verizon's payments system by default, Google's, Motorola's, a different service, a combination, all, or none?
More important: Which service, if any, will people actually use?
Over the next couple of years, we'll start to see 1) if consumers actually care about mobile payments, 2) which payments services and models they end up choosing, and 3) if that's because they're the best or because they're the ones with the strongest backers.
A lot of money and a lot of data are at stake, and everybody wants it. So it's going to be a very interesting battle to watch.
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- Nokia's App Store For Microsoft Already Sounds Way Too Complicated
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- Microsoft To Show Tablet Software Next Week
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
See How Foursquare's Recommendation Engine Works
Foursquare launched an update to its iPhone and Android apps last night that includes a new recommendation engine and easier way for venues to promote specials at their location.
The recommendation feature mines the check in history of you and your friends to find similar venues you may enjoy.
You'll also be able to see tips your friends left at that venue to help make your decision easier. It's very similar to the way Facebook has started making recommendations for websites: it finds places your friends enjoy instead of relying solely on an algorithm.
We tested out Foursquare's new features today. You can get the update for free on iPhone and Android.
Here's the Foursquare icon. Tap to open the app.
Tap "Sign Up" if you don't have a Foursquare account. Tap "Log In" if you do.
Enter your email address and Foursquare password and tap "Log In"
View more at Business Insider
See How Foursquare's Recommendation Engine Works
Saturday, January 22, 2011
What I'd Like to See From Location Based Marketing Services
Location based (or geo-located) marketing is getting a huge amount of buzz at the minute, as Twitter apps connect location tweets to its service, Foursquare is credited with Domino's Pizza's UK success and smartphone users get ready for augmented rea
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What I'd Like to See From Location Based Marketing Services
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Wednesday, December 1, 2010
See The Other Startups Founded By Groupon's Soon-To-Be Billionaires
If reports are to be believed, Google is about to buy Groupon for $6 billion.
When that happens, Chicago-based angel investors Brad Keywell and Eric Lefkofsky will clear close to $3 billion between them.
(Lefkofksky owns about 30% of the company. Keywell, 10%.)
For their next trick, the pair have formed a new angel-investing firm called Lightbank.
With Lightbank, Keywell and Lefkofsky are betting millions of dollars on a series of startups in Chicago, the midwestern home of successful startups FeedBurner, Groupon, Threadless and 37Signals.
Eric tells us Chicago is part of a larger story about a "migration" of Internet startups "away from the Valley."
"When we built our first shopping cart in 1999, it took 4 developers. Today my 11 year old son can download an open source shopping cart in 10 minutes. Because the reliance on technology has gone down, the other attributes of business become more important: hard work, sales. Those attributes tend to be population specific. Chicago, New York – These places wil have a great run. This is their moment in the sun"
Eric and his partner Brad have already invested in 8 companies and plan to invest in several more.
"They are studs," says New York angel investor Chris Dixon.
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See The Other Startups Founded By Groupon's Soon-To-Be Billionaires
Comment on Topix Gets Local With Twitter and Social With Facebook by See
Registration and the policing of its forums would be a nice new feature.
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Tuesday, November 2, 2010
As LimeWire Shuts Its Doors, Other P2P Clients See a Surge in Usage
A New York district judge last Tuesday issued a cease-and-desist order, demanding that LimeWire immediately close its doors. And while LimeWire has said it has plans to institute a redesigned service, based on legal and licensed music subscriptions, it seems like many of the site's users may have gone elsewhere for their torrents, rather than waiting for a revised version of what was once the most popular file-sharing app.
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TorrentFreak reports that it has spoken with a number of developers from P2P services, all of whom have seen a "huge boost in download numbers following Tuesday's verdict." No developers were willing to go on the record and give TorrentFreak the raw data - for fear, no doubt, of incurring the same wrath of the courts that LimeWire has received.
The exception is BearShare. Much like LimeWire, BearShare was once a Gnutella-based application. But in May 2006, BearShare was ordered to pay $30 million in settlement with the RIAA. Following that decision, BearShare altered its offerings via the Gnutella framework, limiting file-sharing. And its current iteration is, as the site proclaims "100% legal."
Despite these restrictions, BearShare has seen a 780% increase in US downloads since Tuesday. And it reports its daily US downloads went up from 8000 to 62,400. The company does not say, however, whether or not these new sers are actually paying for their downloads. (That is, I believe, what the RIAA believes will save all those poor suffering record labels.)
Even though the LimeWire alternatives have seen an influx of traffic over the past week, the fallout from last week's decision - and the still-to-come decision regarding the dollar figure attached to the judgement - remains to be seen as to how it will impact file-sharing services and users.
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