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What, No Fist Bump?
Call me a sucker for cool networking tools, but I love Bump and wrote about the Mountain View, Calif.-based back in August 2010. The company’s audacious goal – to bridge the physical and digital world – made a lot of sense to me. Investors, too, liked the company and have pumped in over dollarsignr20 million into the company.
CBS And Turner Flip The Pay Switch For March Madness Mobile Streaming
Streaming March Madness tournament games next month won’t be as free and easy as it was last year, with broadcast partners CBS (NYSE: CBS) and Turner announcing a tiered plan featuring an authenticated pay wall for personal-computer viewing and a $3.99 premium charge for all mobile access.
Google Deems Mobile Web Ads Ready For Prime AdSense Real Estate
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) thinks that mobile Web advertising has gotten to the point where it should be part of AdSense, the company’s lucrative engine for third-party Web sites to make some money from Google ads. Starting Thursday Web publishers will be able to choose mobile ad formats through their regular AdSense account.
With iMessage And Notifications, OS X Mountain Lion Looks More Like iOS
Another version of Mac OS X? Yes, just seven months after Mac OS X Lion was introduced, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is releasing its first developer preview of what comes next for its big cat-themed desktop operating system, to be called “Mountain Lion.” And just like Lion before it, Apple’s desktop OS is starting to bear more than a passing resemblance to iOS, especially with the new incorporation of iOS features like iMessage, Game Center, Reminders and Notifications into the software.
Goliath vs. Goliath: Patent Beast Intellectual Ventures Sues AT&T
A controversial investment fund run by a former Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) executive just added more fuel to the tech industry’s runaway patent wars by filing a new suit against AT&T (NYSE: T), Sprint (NYSE: S) and T-Mobile.
Book Discovery: How Many 'Touchpoints' To Purchase?
Social reading site Goodreads says the primary way its users discover new books to read is through search.
More Stores In China Being Told To Remove iPads In Apple Trademark Dispute
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is no stranger to legal disputes around the globe over its mobile products, but it’s running into a problem that has nothing to do with patents. Chinese retail stores are being told to take iPads off their shelves in response to a trademark dispute between Apple and Proview Technologies, potentially hurting sales in what Apple CEO Tim Cook considers one of Apple’s most important markets.
Google: Android Won't Share Personal Info With Apps Unless You Let It
In response to the uproar over how mobile iOS applications have had access to address-book data without having to inform the user, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) was all too happy to confirm Wednesday that its development model for Android applications makes it impossible to share personal data with an app developer unless you agree to do so before installing the app.
Updated: Time For Apple To Fix How iOS Handles Contact Data
A week after mobile social network Path found itself in the tech industry spotlight for uploading iOS contacts without explicit permission, it’s becoming clear that the problem is more widespread. And while companies who sneak things past their users deserve scorn when caught, it’s also clear that Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has failed to treat address book data with the same safeguards it employs for other personal data.
MTV's Music Meter App Out Of Beta For Both iOS And Android
Believe it or not, MTV actually does still care about music: its Music Meter mobile application has shed the beta tag with its 2.0 release, allowing users to see which artists are generating the most buzz across social-media networks and streaming sites. The new version is available for download Wednesday.
Apple Said To Cut iAd Pricing Once Again
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has once again cut prices on its iAd system for rich in-app advertising on iOS applications, according to a report, as ad buyers continue to balk at the up-front cost of participating in Apple’s vision of how mobile advertising should work.
Apple CEO Cook: The iPhone Now Casts The Halo Over The iPad
It’s kind of amazing to consider how passé the iPod, the gadget that defined a decade of music, has become at Apple: the iPhone is the now the halo maker, according to Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) CEO Tim Cook. In comments before the financial community at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference, Cook spoke about a number of mobile-related topics, including the debate over whether the iPad is a PC, and his views on the company’s $98 billion cash pile.
Sketchy Bloomberg Report On Amazon Prime Contains Little Real Data
Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Prime has three to five million members, according to “people familiar with the matter” cited Bloomberg. The main thrust of the piece is that that is about half as many as analysts believed, but since Amazon has never released numbers about the program, it’s not clear what the takeaway is. It’s not as if Amazon publicly stated that it has attracted half as many Prime subscribers as it wanted to; in fact it’s made clear that it’s moving ahead forcefully with the program.
Early March Seen As Launching Point For iPad 3, Likely With LTE
Two years after Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) established the market for modern tablet computers, it’s working on a flurry of new ideas for the iPad, according to several reports. We’re probably just a few weeks away from the debut of the so-called iPad 3, but Apple is also reportedly kicking around the idea of a smaller version of the device.
Free Interactive E-Book Publishing Platform—From Inkling, Not Apple
Startup iPad publisher Inkling is launching a free, cloud-based, interactive e-book publishing platform, Inkling Habitat. That may sounds a bit like iBooks Author, but a preview of the program suggests that it is indeed as Inkling describes it—a program for professional publishers producing e-books at scale, and a way to make a very expensive process more affordable.
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