August 2012
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Amazon links up with Nokia for maps on new Kindle... →
Having created a version of Android that kicked its principal backer to the kerb, Amazon is probably not keen on doing a deal with Google to provide some essential apps, which is why it will be working with Nokia to use its mapping solution for the next version of Kindle Fire according to Reuters.
Now Nokia’s map data isn’t one to scoff at. The company is one of the world’s...
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About that 22% tablet share Amazon claims to have →
Was skeptical of the claim earlier but didn’t actually say it outright. Jim Dalrymple’s absolutely correct. 22% of what? Amazon never shared any actual sales numbers of the Fire, so for it to claim a market share percentage is meaningless and the company never disclosed where it got the figure from.
Also, the phrase sold out is laughable since products like these aren’t...
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Samsung says it will sue Apple if it uses LTE on... →
Samsung confirmed that it will immediately sue Apple if the latter releases products using advanced long-term evolution (LTE) mobile technology
Somebody wanna tell Samsung that the current cellular version of the iPad uses LTE?
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Will you discard your wallet for your smartphone? →
Mobile phones are increasingly becoming even more personal than many people would have ever thought. Bill Gates once dreamed of a digital wallet that stores all your personal as well as financial information that can be used to make transactions which would make your wallet obsolete. Today, people in many places of the world are already making purchases using their mobile phones. Starbucks and...
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Kindle Fire sold out, new version to come out next... →
Holding 22% of the tablet market, Amazon’s Kindle Fire is the most popular Android tablet in the US market but as far as Google is concerned, it doesn’t count because the Android version used in the tablet has been stripped of all references and links to Google.
Amazon has an event on September 6 which many had speculated that it will be about Kindle, but now that the Fire has been...
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Social media is getting more visual →
Instagram, Burpple, Pinterest, Path. Social media is going visual. Even Twitter is getting in on the act, by rolling out integrated images and videos into its tweets. The latest online publishing platform, Medium, also encourages beautiful, striking imagery.
A 2012 study by ROI Research found that when users engage with friends on social media sites, it’s the pictures they took that are...
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Flurry releases data on world smartphone usage and... →
Flurry tracks app usage across smartphones currently in use across the globe and based on that data manages to determine the prevalence of smartphones in different countries. Its latest data found that Singapore has the highest smartphone (iOS and Android) usage among 15 year olds and older at 92% whereas the US is at 78%. In terms of numbers though, the US leads the market with 165 million iOS...
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WatchYou can now upload videos to Vimeo from Dropbox. Here’s how.
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Fewer than 50% of online ads are seen for 1 second... →
The online ad industry’s Making Measurement Make Sense (3MS) initiative calls for a new viewability metric that would only measure when 50 percent of an ad is in view for at least one second. The problem is, fewer than half of online ads meet that standard
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Between HTML5 and native apps →
MG Siegler and several others discuss the readiness of HTML5 with regards to mobile applications. With Facebook’s mobile apps now built almost entirely using native resources, is it an admission that HTML5 simply isn’t ready to be a robust platform to create mobile applications even after five years? Perhaps it depends on the mobile device or the requirements of the apps, but on higher...
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Ars Technica reviews Facebook's new iOS app →
Facebook last week overhauled its iOS app, making it native which means that it’s no longer a website pretending to be an app. As a result, the app is now faster and much more responsive. Ars Technica reviewed the app a few days ago and found that the improvements have really made the app better and worth using. Admittedly it’s not entirely native. Some parts of the app still use HTML...
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Enabling two-step verification on Dropbox →
Earlier this week Dropbox decided to turn the switch on for two-step verification. This means Dropbox users will have a more secure access to their data. Generally the steps are pretty easy to follow but if you’re accessing Dropbox from multiple devices it can get pretty tedious, but at least there’s an option not to use SMS, unlike with Facebook’s method.
Oh and Dropbox’s...
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Tweetbot Alpha for Mac gets pulled →
We’re pretty big fans of Tweetbot here on DailySocial and this whole situation with Twitter just doesn’t sit right with us. The recent changes to Twitter’s terms for third party developers is pretty damning so when Tapbots decided to go ahead with Tweetbot for Mac, we figured we might as well enjoy it while it lasts because it’s not gonna be for long. Sure, the Tapbots team...
A paradise designed to host 2800 engineers →
For Facebook, Frank Gehry Designs A Paradise For 2,800 Engineers. Facebook’s new west campus will feature sprawling gardens, and probably more than a few ping-pong tables.
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Speaking of Google's home page →
It’s not shown here in Indonesia but in the US, (and perhaps other countries?) Google’s home page today shows an ad for Nexus 7. Has Google ever shown ads on its sacred home page before? The answer is unquestionably yes. It has had ads for a some of its own products over the years dating back to the T-Mobile G1, the first commercially available Android phone. Ever since, it has had ads...
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Google's home page 1997-2012 →
Ever wondered how Google’s home page have looked like since its inception? Blogoscoped’s 2006 post has been updated annually to show the progression of Google.com since 1997. While the essence hasn’t changed, the page sure has changed a lot.
Did you ever think that Google.com has always been clean? Think again. Aside from a period between 2009 and 2011, the Google home page has...
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Apple now has two senior VPs of hardware...
Apple today announced that it has promoted Craig Federighi and Dan Riccio from vice presidents to senior vice presidents. Federighi fills the role vacated by Bertrand Serlet as senior VP of Mac software engineering while Riccio takes over from Bob Mansfield as senior VP of hardware engineering who announced his resignation in June. Riccio’s appointment follows the June announcement in which...
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Mobile ad is why iOS 6 will not have a YouTube app... →
Earlier this month Apple released a statement that it will no longer be including a YouTube app beginning with iOS 6 due to expiration of licensing agreement it had with YouTube that had allowed it to create its own custom app. The Google company has decided to create its own iOS app in order to deliver advertising on mobile devices, something it would not have been able to do with Apple’s...
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Path: Counting Sheep with Path Data Science →
thepersonalnetwork:
The average person spends roughly a third of their life asleep. Path, the journal of your life, would be incomplete without a way to track those quiet hours. So we’ve taken a closer look. According to Hyun Hor and Mehdi Tafti at Université de Lausanne in Switzerland (2009), the amount of sleep…
Path reveals the sleeping patterns of its members. Sometimes though,...
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FTC greenlights Facebook's Instagram purchase →
The United States Federal Trade Commission has concluded its investigation of Facebook’s planned acquisition of Instagram and found that the rising competitive landscape in the mobile photo sharing space as well as the relatively low adoption of Facebook’s own Camera app, and Instagram’s lack of revenue, should be enough reasons to give the deal a green light.
Since a...
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Facebook rolls out newly redesigned Messages
Facebook announced today that it is rolling out a newly revamped Facebook Messages with a two-pane layout that resembles an email application. The new design features a list of messages on the left hand side of the screen while the selected message appear to its right.
Messages will also allow members to include multiple photos, videos, and documents, as well as emoticons in their...
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“To our dismay, Twitter has restricted our users’ ability to “Find Twitter...”
– Tumblr’s response to Twitter’s decision today
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Samsung pushes Bada and Tizen even further →
Sammobile reports that Samsung will not be releasing any Bada or Tizen phones this year. With production being focused on Android and Windows Phone 8, the company’s home grown operating systems have been given a push back. Considering that the latest Bada phone was released in Q4 last year, it doesn’t look like Samsung will release any more at all. A Tizen phone was shown to developers...
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Next meme should be WWDCD - What Would Dick Costolo Do
— Rama Mamuaya (@rampok) August 23, 2012
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Twitter engineer hates Twitter's decision on...
@nickbilton I wholeheartedly agree, but this @tumblr business just stinks.
— alex choi (@xc) August 23, 2012
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Game Engine Unity Finally Supported by Windows... →
If there’s one thing that should boost apps on Windows Phone, it’s gaming. Unfortunately for Windows Phone 7, that won’t happen because they have no game engine compatible with their platform.
Fortunately for its successor, Windows Phone 8, is supported by popular game engine Unity. This should make it easier for game developer to make a Windows Phone 8-compatible games. And...
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Nokia continues dominance in Windows Phone global... →
A research by Localytics showed that Nokia’s share in global Windows Phone distribution reaches 58%. In other words, nearly two out of three Windows Phone devices out there are by Nokia, whereas in the US it is rising steadily to reach 32%. HTC remains the top Windows Phone maker in the US but it and Samsung’s shares are being taken up by Nokia. With Windows Phone 8 looming, the...
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Facebook now actually deletes photos when you tell... →
Facebook didn’t use to delete photos when you hit that delete button. For years, when you think you’ve deleted a photo on Facebook, it will remain in Facebook’s servers for an indeterminable period of time. Somehow Facebook couldn’t figure out how to remove photos properly. That has apparently changed and deleted photos should now be removed from the servers within a short...
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Google Play Store now supports delta updates →
If you’ve been grumbling about how you have to redownload entire apps whenever you’re updating apps on your Android phone, grumbl no more for Google has now activated smart updates on Google Play. Starting today, updating apps will only make you download the necessary components instead of the entire app. In other words, if a 5 MB app only needs 500 kb of updates,...
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Confirmed: Fonts have personalities →
Apparently an article set in Baskerville is more believable that the same article delivered in Georgia, Helvetica, Comic Sans, Trebuchet, or Computer Modern.
A frequent contributor to the New York Times’s Opinionator blog, Morris encouraged readers to peruse a passage from The Beginning of Infinity, by physicist David Deutsch, on the unlikelihood that Earth will be destroyed by an asteroid....
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Marco Arment's take on Twitter's changes →
Marco Arment goes through the changes in Twitter’s API, explaining some of them in human-understandable language. The restrictions are essentially forcing third party apps that compete with Twitter’s own apps to act and look more like them. In other words, eliminating the differences to a point that it would make little to no sense for anyone to create competing apps.
There is also no...
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Thoughts on Jack Dorsey, by Steve Jobs →
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I have no problem with your success. You’ve earned your success; for the most part. The problem is, you wholesale ripped off my identity. Grand theft. I don’t mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way. You are not just trying to be the next me, you are trying to be me. I’m already up to my ass with these Android bozos, but willing to go thermonuclear to right...
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Twitter probably won't survive by charging a fee →
Dan Frommer has a different take to the common sentiment shared across the tech web today to Twitter’s decision to push away third party apps and developers and get as many people as possible to using its own apps. If Twitter charges a subscription or any kind of fee, it will not have as many users. Twitter’s move to advertising model led the company to believe that everyone has to use...
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Dunkin' Donuts gets in on mobile payment →
Starbucks won’t be the only coffee chain in the US to use mobile payments now that Dunkin’ Donuts has picked up on the game. Dunkin’s customers can now load up an app on their iOS or Android devices when they’re paying for their donuts and coffee at most of Dunkin’s 7000 locations across the US.
Dunkin’ app users can store and purchase Dunkin’ Donuts...
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iCloud is Apple's key to staying ahead of the... →
Apple has always been about delivering a comprehensive consumer experience. It’s unwilling to cede any opportunity to be able to create an unparalleled service or collection of products to keep consumers within its own garden. Lately, companies like Google, Microsoft, and Amazon have picked up on the idea and are trying to do exactly the same thing by offering similar propositions. Fast...
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Facebook-backed undersea cable system sparks... →
Wilson Chua over at SGEntrepreneurs wondered about the Asia Submarine-cable Express, formerly named Asia Pacific Gateway, undersea cable project which is backed by twelve telecom companies as well as Facebook. He questions the reasons and viability of the projects due to several unclear issues such as lack of direct link to the US unlike the Google backed Unity cable system, participation of three...
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Google placed an ad on newspapers about not...
An ad for Google ads in today’s Globe demonstrates the value of print ads, yes? twitter.com/syladurantaye/…
— Steve Ladurantaye (@syladurantaye) August 14, 2012
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“We’re opening what little we’ve built so far because we believe in shipping...”
– Biz Stone on the launch of Medium, a brand new publishing platform 