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Taiwan’s HTC: iPhone’s `quiet’ challenger (AP)

YackYack — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 08:55:23 +0000

AP - East Asia is the world's electronics factory, yet unless they are Japanese, producers are largely anonymous. Now HTC Corp., a Taiwanese maker of smart phones, is moving out of the shadows and trying to establish its own brand name as it competes w...

The changing face of news

YackYack — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 05:52:33 +0000

Journalism is in a revolution. Ten years from now, maybe sooner, the professional news business as we know it may be replaced by something entirely new and still unknown.

iPhone 4 sales in S.Korea start this week (AFP)

YackYack — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 05:42:33 +0000

AFP - South Korean telecom operator KT Corp said on Sunday it planned to begin selling Apple's iPhone 4 this week amid growing competition to expand in the potentially lucrative smartphone market.

Apple’s iOS 4.1 actually usable on the iPhone 3G (video)

YackYack — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 04:49:43 +0000

We reported a few weeks ago that Steve Jobs said an upcoming update would resolve slowdown issues in iOS 4 for iPhone 3G users. We assumed he was referring to Apple’s upcoming iOS 4.1 update, and indeed it looks to speed up iPhone 3G performance,...

Stealth Mode Watch: Another Nail In The Coffin Of ‘Stealth’

YackYack — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 03:51:27 +0000

Stealth Mode Match, a searchable data spider of often very revealing SEC form D filings, is the brain child of Denis Papathanasiou, who came up with the idea while researching funding options (a.k.a spying) for his ebooks startup Fifobooks, "I was just using it to keep tabs on specific investors and other competitors in the ebook space, but I mentioned it to a few people, and they were interested enough to want to use it themselves." Papathanasiou then added a public API and launched it in beta under its own domain. Right now the site allows a simple search mode which shows results for the past four weeks and then an extended API mode which allows results past that date as well as filtering parameters like "people,""companies" and "places" (Humans beware: The data is delivered in XML files).

Craigslist strikes adult services under pressure (AP)

YackYack — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 03:50:04 +0000

AP - Craigslist appears to have surrendered in a legal fight over erotic ads posted on its website, shutting down its adult services section Saturday and replacing it with a black bar that simply says "censored."

Wikipedia Founder Says Apps, Not Paywalls, Could Save the News

YackYack — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 03:11:49 +0000

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said in an interview with the Associated Press yesterday that paid apps like those found on the iPhone, Android and iPad could help financially troubled news organizations, but he didn’t have anything positive…

Google may aid global climate project

YackYack — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 01:43:10 +0000

Climate scientists meeting in Britain this week hope to build a database to predict natural disasters precisely.

The Real Social Network: Your Mobile Contacts

YackYack — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 01:26:21 +0000

The term "social network" is of course synonymous with online networks like Facebook. But think about what you're actual social life is like for a second. Are you really closest to the people whose items you "like" the most on Facebook? What about the people you @reply or retweet on Twitter? The people you reblog the most on Tumblr? If you're anything like me, probably not. Instead, the best indicator of who I actually interact with socially the most in real life are the calls I make and the texts I send -- it's all mobile interaction. I've written before that I think location is the bridge between social networks and actual social life. But why do we even need that bridge? Why are so many startups content to build on top of the Facebook or Twitter social graph, when a lot of them can access your actual social graph in your mobile contact book? We're seeing more and more apps go "mobile first, web second" these days, and that's likely to increase going forward. This means that they start as services on mobile devices. So again I ask, why not just get to your actual social graph through your contacts there?

StarCraft For Startups

YackYack — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 00:30:22 +0000

I recently had an urge to pick up an MMORPG again, but after checking on the profile for my favorite Everquest 2 character - clocking in at over 138 days played - it's probably best I not devote myself to the life of hardcore raiding at particular junc...

GoGear Connect Plays Music and Movies, Runs Android (PC World)

YackYack — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 23:20:09 +0000

PC World - Philips introduced the GoGear Connect, an Android-powered device that can play music and movies, take pictures and surf the web, during the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin.

The iWatch Is Real: It’s the New iPod Nano [PIC] (Mashable)

YackYack — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 22:21:09 +0000

Mashable - Apple makes computers, tablets, phones, portable media players, TV set-top-boxes, displays and a dozen other things, but to date, it hasn't made a wristwatch. Oh, wait, actually, it has! It's called "the new iPod nano."

Google Helps Users Learn What it Knows About Them

YackYack — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 21:28:24 +0000

Close September 3, 2010, 3:07 PM ET By Amir Efrati Ever wondered what Google knows about you? The Internet giant on Friday made it easier to understand and control the information it collects.

12 iPhone Apps For Exploring The Great Outdoors

YackYack — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 21:19:09 +0000

For much of the world, the beginning of fall means that warm, comfortable hiking weather is coming to an end. In other words, it’s time to start saving up fresh air for a winter of avoiding the outdoors.

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ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, 4 Sept. 2010

admin — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 20:50:00 +0000

We're always on the lookout for upcoming Web tech events from around world. Know of something taking place that should appear here? Let us know in the comments below or email us. You can import individual events in the Events Guide into Google Calenda...

IFA 2010: Hands on: Toshiba Satellite A665 3D laptop review

YackYack — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 20:22:00 +0000

If 3D is going to take off in the UK, then it will the games industry which pioneers the technology in the home.There's simple logic to it: if you are happy to play a fake guitar, sing into a fake microphone and wield a controller like it's a tennis ba...

Craigslist.com blocks access to adult services ads (Reuters)

YackYack — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 20:17:30 +0000

Reuters - Craigslist.com has dropped its "adult services" listings, which have become the target of U.S. state attorneys general who say the much-visited online classified ad site is not doing enough to quash prostitution.

Craigslist’s Adult Services Replaced With “Censored” Bar

YackYack — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 20:11:58 +0000

Craigslist’s “Adult Services” section — a digital red light district that has been the subject of many controversies — has been removed in all U.S. markets. The front page link to Adult Services has been replaced with a black bar…

DROID 2 has the lowest smartphone return rate on Verizon

YackYack — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 20:05:00 +0000

Motorola's DROID was a pretty big hit when it launched on Verizon last year, and now the DROID 2 seems to be even popular with customers. After its launch almost a month ago, the DROID 2 now has the lowest return rate of any smartphone on Verizo...

BlackBerry Curve 3G hitting Verizon in two colors

YackYack — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 19:35:00 +0000

After the BlackBerry Curve 3G 9300 was announced for T-Mobile, we all kind of expected it to hit Sprint and Verizon in a CDMA form, as well. RIM outed the Sprint 9330 in a knowledge base article, and now the Verizon 9330 has been leaked, too, th...