June 2012
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Google Southeast Asia Developer Relations Erwan...
Last day today… sad to leave some great people. Happy to move on. (at Google Asia Pacific) [pic] — path.com/p/2tWQCu
— Erwan Macé (@erwanmace) June 29, 2012
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RIM operating margins for the last 6 years:twitpic.com/a1lpsu
— Jan Dawson (@janovum) June 28, 2012
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Apple's Senior VP of Hardware Engineering is... →
Bob Mansfield, whose face may be familiar to many from Apple’s product videos, will retire from the company after serving for 13 years. Mansfield joined Apple in 1999 and has been instrumental in delivering the company’s devices. He and his team have produced Apple’s biggest hits to date including the entire iPad line, iPhones, iPods, and Macs since before Apple went with Intel.
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Instead of BlackBerry 10, RIM brings Porsche BlackBerry this year.If they keep delaying the OS, we will see Daihatsu BlackBerry soon.
— Pinot (@pinot) June 28, 2012
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“Indonesia may be a better bet on consumption in Asia and global supply chains.”
– Simon Montlake - Forbes
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Path now speaks 7 more languages! →
thepersonalnetwork:
We are excited to announce seven new languages available on Path: Dutch, Norwegian, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Bahasa Indonesia, Malay, and UK English. That’s in addition to the nine that were already available: Spanish, Italian, German, Portuguese, French, Swedish, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. By our math, that’s 16 languages in all!
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YouTube overhauls Android app, adds caching,... →
Demoed on stage last night at Google I/O, YouTube has launched a brand new version of its app for Android. The app, which can be downloaded from Google Play for devices running Android 4.0, features an overhauled interface which brings channels to attention. This follows the recent redesign of YouTube’s website which focuses more on the channels available across the network and those you...
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WatchBack in May we posted a video from Leap Motion, a peek into what may be the next stage in human-computer interaction. The video certainly stunned a lot of people and had people thinking that the interaction we see in the movie Minority Report may not be too far away.
Today, The Verge had a visit from Leap Motion CTO David Holz who showed them a demo of how it works. Holz said that the final...
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Apple opens iTunes Store across Asia today. Guess...
As we reported back in March, Apple was preparing to launch iTunes Store across Asia with support for Asian countries showing in iTunes 10.6. At that time, an Apple Insider tipster reported that there were at least six countries listed, South Korea, Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, Taiwan, and Malaysia.
Today, Apple is bringing the iTunes Store to music fans in Brunei, Cambodia, Laos, Macau,...
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Fortune: Zinio puts itself up for sale →
Zinio, one of the earliest, perhaps even the earliest digital magazine platform, has put itself up for sale according to Fortune’s Dan Primack. The company made it easy and practical to subscribe to periodicals digitally and to have them available to read on computers and mobile devices. While Zinio has declined to comment on the auction, apparently it is seeking valuation up to $100...
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Want to change your email on Facebook back to your...
It’s actually pretty simple.
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Lumia 710 and 800 to get updates in the next two... →
If you’re a Lumia 710 or 800 owner, you might be pleased to know that you will finally be able to use your phone as a WiFi hotspot like most other modern phones in the market. This long awaited feature was inexplicably missing from the early Lumia phones despite Microsoft having already built in this ability to Windows Phone since before the phones were released. The upcoming update will...
Dynamics of management and programmer
Dinamika antara Manajemen dengan Programmer *ketok2 meja* twitter.com/andry/status/2…
— Andry Huzain (@andry) June 26, 2012
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Microsoft plans to acquire Yammer for $1.2... →
Microsoft Corp. and Yammer Inc. today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Microsoft will acquire Yammer, a leading provider of enterprise social networks, for $1.2 billion in cash. Yammer will join the Microsoft Office Division, led by division President Kurt DelBene, and the team will continue to report to current CEO David Sacks.
Microsoft has also...
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Apple wants to protect your identity by cloning... →
Apple has a patent that will allow it to create digital clones of its customers as decoys to prevent individuals having their online identities tracked or stolen by data mining software. By making multiple clones of an individual and infusing each clone with additional characteristics, Apple hopes to be able to ensure its customers’ real identities remain safe. As with any Apple patent...
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RIM dismisses rumor that it will split in two →
Well that was quick. One day after further reports came out that Research In Motion is considering a sale of its hardware division as one of the options to help salvage the company, RIM spokesman Nick Fanning came out to say that the news was “a silly fantasy,” and “one of the most ridiculous ideas I have heard in a while,” according to The Globe and Mail.
RIM’s...
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BlackBerry 10 Jam Asia Pacific – More Spots... →
RIM may be a company in crisis but its developer network is still making a strong attempt at winning back attention from software engineers. The Bangalore, Delhi, and Jakarta sessions of Blackberry 10 Jam were sold out within hours of opening but RIM has now made additional, yet limited, space available. If you’re still interested in attending the Jam sessions in any of those cities, click...
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RIM reportedly hanging up on BlackBerry phone... →
If you were CEO of RIM, what would you consider to save the company from being dissolved? Apparently Thorsten Heins may be considering to sell the company’s hardware business to focus on selling software and services. This possibility is reminiscent to what happened with Palm when it split into PalmOne and PalmSource. Eventually Palm came back together as one company before it was sold to HP...
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Winamp’s woes: how the greatest MP3 player undid... →
Ars Technica got curious and went deep inside the story of WinAMP, once the most popular digital music player, until it was purchased by AOL along with Spinner, another music oriented startup, presumably to build AOL’s music business. In the early years of the AOL acquisition WinAMP thrived but eventually changes within AOL meant WinAMP was no longer a high priority product despite still...
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Meet Generation C: the connected customer →
If your business is in the digital space, deals with a lot of people online, paying attention to social media trends, or simply cater to those in their teens twenties, and thirties, you should not miss this piece by Brian Solis. It is perhaps the most comprehensive and informative post ever written about the state of the consumers today. Statistics, trends, behaviors, tendencies, they’re all...
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Those "hands-on reviews" of Microsoft Surface?... →
When you look at an article claiming to be a hands on review of a product, naturally you’d expect the reviewer to actually have had their hands on them and use it as you would expect to use the product. With the Surface, it’s been clear from the very beginning that there was no hands on. Not only was there no solid information on price nor release date, there was no hands-on. Similar...
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What do you do when you want to make the best phone possible? You hire people from the best phone makers. Game’s on Facebook.
— Aulia Masna (@amasna) June 23, 2012
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Apple's iDevices cost less than $1.50 to charge in... →
According to the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), charging a current-generation iPad every other day from completely drained costs the user $1.36 per year. The study’s intention is to evaluate the United States’ year-over-year power use, but EPRI extended the test to understand whether the rapid growth of tablets in the “post-PC era” is adding to power...
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Facebook rolling out ability to edit your own... →
Surely this has happened to most of you. You’ve left a comment on someone’s Facebook status and after posting you realized you’ve made a spelling mistake or left out something that made the comment inappropriate or it was simply incoherent. Your only choice was to delete it and repost as a new comment with all the fixes in place, but when it’s already in the middle of a...
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How many .com sites are there?
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The number of generic top-level domains (gTLDs) — the “.com” or “.net” part of website addresses — is about to expand.
Here are the 21 existing gTLDs (this doesn’t include “country code” TLDs), and how many sites are registered on each. -Julianne (with many thanks to the CNNMoney Graphics team!)
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Startups are for people that wanted to run marathons, cage fight, and hunt alligators, but were born with asthma.
— Aaron Levie (@levie) June 16, 2012
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Surface is already a more interesting iPad competitor than any Android-based tablet. Google really blew an opportunity to stake out ground.
— Jason Snell (@jsnell) June 18, 2012
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Display of the Surface mapped onto the new iPad
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Just for fun, I mapped the pixel dimensions of a MS Surface onto the screen of an a new iPad.
For the nerds out there: That’s the surfaces 1366x768 display size bordered in red, inside the iPad’s 2048x1536 display. And I’ve scaled the whole thing down so it more or less fits in a web browser.
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After 37 years, Microsoft agrees with Alan Kay: “People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.”
— Harry McCracken (@harrymccracken) June 19, 2012
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@gruber PC laptops still ship with VGA connectors; meanwhile, Apple laptops include video ports that double as expansion slots.
— Peter Hosey (@boredzo) June 21, 2012
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OMG TWITTER IS DOWN EEK
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Everyone is hitting downforeveryoneorjustme.com to confirm the crash. Fun backstory: That site was built by former Twitter engineer Alex Payne, who is now with banking startup Simple.com. (I was about to tweet that tidbit, then realized, oops. Duh.) The best way to confirm Twitter outages is with the site’s Pingdom page. This outage started just before noon ET and has lasted a...
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Nokia to roll out enhancements to Lumia phones →
Hot on the heels of the Windows Phone 8 announcement overnight, Nokia has provided details on the upcoming updates to its own Lumia phones. Realizing that the phones lack several crucial features, Nokia will be rolling out several new apps to its phones through the Marketplace.
Camera Extras will provide enhancements to the photography functions, adding group shots, burst mode, and a timer....
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Facebok credits will do fine. No they won't. →
Facebook is moving away from the implementation of Facebook Credits to local currencies as apparently the adoption rate hasn’t been worth the effort to maintain the scheme. Facebook Credits had been a way for members to purchase items or transfer funds within Facebook’s ecosystem without having to think about exchange rates. It was set up to make things easier within the network and to...
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“We believe that any intersection between human and machine can be made better...”
– Steve Ballmer
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Beneath Microsoft's Surface is a company in... →
PandoDaily’s Nathan Mott looks under the covers to see what is going on at Microsoft. The company that used to do mostly software has now decided to dive into the hardware industry and mingle with its partners. In doing this, there’s a lot that the company must be considering.
Microsoft is taking notes from Apple’s playbook and decided to take matters into its own hands with...
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WWDC 2012 videos now available for registered... →
Less than a week after Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference ended, the company has made over 100 videos of the conference sessions available for registered developers to watch and download. Unlike in years past when developers had to wait for weeks, Apple took little time this year to post them to the advantage of those who missed out on paying $1599 plus airfare and accommodation to...
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Barely Scratching the (Microsoft) Surface
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Microsoft announced its own brand of tablets on Monday in Los Angeles. Called the Microsoft Surface, it comes in two variants, one running Windows RT, powered by an ARM processor, another running the full Windows 8 Pro environment with an Intel processor on board. If the name sounds familiar, it’s because Microsoft Surface was a touchscreen table (yes, table) which was released in...
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Le Web is happening in London right now and you... →
The live broadcast is available here, while archived videos can be loaded individually over at this page
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