Mashable - The social media and networking phenomenon is growing extremely fast in the UK. 85 percent of the population is online; they spend over 6 hours on social media sites every day, nearly 60 percent of them read blogs and 64% have their own profile on a social network.
WikiLeaks is currently in the news because its Afghan War logs comprise one of the largest and most controversial intelligence leaks to date. But while WikiLeaks is relatively new to the public, it is actually a product of a long-established culture. That culture has already had a banner-bearer; a quintessential exemplification of its values -- The Pirate Bay. WikiLeaks is ...
Amy Webb wasn't planning on starting another business. But two years ago, as revenue-strapped newspapers began closing down or laying off staff, the former reporter and editor turned digital media consultant decided to step in and help her former colleagues.
Webb, who was already running a successful company geared toward bringing traditional media organizations up to ...
AFP - With Apple's new iPhone beset by complaints about dodgy reception, the South Korean distributor is struggling to stop customers defecting to rival smartphones after a delay in its local release.
Facebook and Amazon partnered today in what could be one of the social network’s most important integrations yet. Amazon.com now offers a personalized page, where consumers can see product recommendations influenced by friends and their own tastes. They get notifications on when friend’s birthdays are coming up and suggestions on what to buy for them.
It’s a big deal for a ...
Imagine a hospital that could respond to medical emergencies armed with real-time information about exactly where all its doctors were located. Inside the hospital, which cardio specialist is closest to the 4th floor? Outside the hospital - if an on-call physician is racing to get to a patient's side, how far away are they and when can they ...
Facebook may be in the middle of negotiating a deal to acquire the check-in service Hot Potato, but that didn’t stop most employees from stopping by the cafeteria at the headquarters in Palo Alto today to see hip hop artist Kanye West freestyle.
West, dressed in a suit, appears to be standing on a table as his lets loose. First, he ...
Yahoo Japan July 27 said it will pick Google over Yahoo and Bing to power it search results in the future. The deal gives Google command of most of the search engine market in Japan, offsetting the loss of share in China to Baidu. - Yahoo Japan has chosen Google to power search and search
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Google's Android team said it has created a security tool to prevent the illegal use of paid Android applications in the Android Market. The move joins carrier billing in the latest in a series of efforts to make the Market a more serious application store. - In a move geared to please Android developers, Google
July 27 said ...
Newspaper circulation could soon jump wildly, thanks to new standards the industry recommended for itself.
The Audit Bureau of Circulations announced major changes to the way it counts digital readership today that will likely affect media that still rely on print very favorably. The new rules will allow newspapers to count a single subscriber multiple times if he or she ...
CloudMade, a startup hoping to provide the data fueling the current explosion of location-based application, has raised $12.3 million in a second round of funding.
Menlo Park, Calif.-based CloudMade has ties with the OpenStreetMap community mapping project. Company cofounder Steve Coast founded that initiative in 2004, and CloudMade’s data comes from OpenStreetMap. Through application programming interfaces and other tools, CloudMade helps ...
When we think of Kmart, odds are we’re not thinking about their latest tech offerings. In most cases, we think of the working man’s friend and access to low cost housewares, an alternative to Wal-Mart and so on. Today, I learned that Kmart may actually become a player in the Android OS arena.
Engadget is reporting that the Augen Android tablet ...
My best daydreams come on summer afternoons when the sky is full of big fluffy clouds in a deep blue sky, and there is a refreshing summer breeze to keep me cool. Next week, I plan to enjoy plenty of that when we take our family vacation at Twin Lake Villa, an idyllic, and [...]
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Chatr Wireless, Rogers venture into pre-paid all you can eat cell and text service, is set to go live tomorrow — July 28th — according to a report filed by Android Headlines. The blog writes that a SIM card will set you back between $5 and $10 (that’s Canadian of course), and the two plans available will be unlimited talk for $35 ...
AFP - Philippine police on Wednesday said they used Facebook to track down a Filipino computer technician blamed for the gruesome murders of nine people, three of them foreigners.
PC World - Panasonic unveiled a slew of new Lumix cameras just last week, but the company wasn't quite done with its fall camera and camcorder announcements.
Reuters - Google Inc has held talks with gaming companies as it looks to develop a new service to compete with social networking website Facebook, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter.
We’re hearing from sources close to the deal that Facebook is in late stage negotiations to buy Hot Potato, the social activity service. The deal is not yet finalized from what we’re hearing, but could be at any moment.
Terms of the deal are likely still be negotiated, but it’s believed that this would largely be a talen acquisition for Facebook. Yes, another ...
Created by Jason Baptiste, PadPressed is a WordPress plugin that makes any WordPress blog look like a native iPad app when accessed from iPad. Bestowing upon your humble blog the iPad features we’ve come to know and love such as “swipe to advance” articles, touch navigation, accelerometer positioning and home screen icon support when you’re really jonseing for that authentic ...
Here at the epicenter of the entertainment sector, two news reports about Google's digital music plans has the music sector is buzzing.