Archive for March, 2011

OMG Someone Just Found An Embeddable Google +1 Button – And It Works!

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A day after Google unveiled its “+1″ product, someone has already taken a close enough look at the code to track down an embeddable +1 Button. Said button wasn’t supposed to be public yet – they essentially let people recommend any online content on Google search. Indeed, for now the button appears only next to search results once you’ve switched +1 on, but Yvo Schaap, [...]
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Boxcar Pushes Its Way Onto The Mac

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My love of Boxcar should be pretty clear at this point. Because I’m an information junkie, it’s probably the app I use the most on my iPhone/iPad besides Safari. And earlier this year, they brought the notification goodness to the web as well. Now they’re taking the next step: native Mac support. Yes, Boxcar is here for the Mac. The app resides in your toolbar and when clicked shows [...]
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Why Salesforce Overpaid For Radian6

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As you may have heard, yesterday Salesforce announced the $326 million purchase of social media monitoring company Radian6, the CRM company’s largest acquisition to date. While we know that Salesforce has been actively pushing its social strategy with the debut of a Twitter and Facebook-like Chatter and the Service Cloud 3, $300-million plus is a lot of money for the CRM giant to shell out for [...]
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Twitter Kills The #Dickbar

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Yes, it’s happened. Three days after Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey comes back in to head product, the dreaded #Dickbar, or the Quickbar that inserted trending topics and promoted ads into your tweet-stream on the iPhone, is dead. Business Insider reported that the Dickbar was a mistake in the first place, having been developed by a junior product manager with no senior oversight. And this would [...]
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In Mobile Apps, Quality Trumps Quantity, Microsoft Says

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Microsoft is making a case for its Windows Phone 7 app store — partly by taking a swing at Apple and Google. The overarching message: Quality is better than quantity. “We have always been focused on quality over quantity,” Brandon Watson, a senior director at Windows phones, wrote in the company’s blog. “We recognize the importance of getting great apps on our platform [...]
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Nokia Holds Key To Windows Phone 7′s Success

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IDC analysts are forecasting that Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 will have 20.9 percent of the global smartphone market by 2015 — identical with IDC’s 2011 market-share estimate for Nokia’s Symbian platform. But much depends on whether Nokia can successfully transition to Phone 7 without losing a significant number of Symbian users. Gartner Research predicted last November that [...]
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Microsoft Fuels EU Probe of Google Search Dominance

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After getting slapped by the Federal Trade Commission, Google is turning to its next battle: European antitrust issues. And Microsoft is doing its part to make sure the EU sticks to Google on the search front. Microsoft filed a formal complaint with the European Commission (EC) as part of the regulatory body’s ongoing investigation into whether Google has violated European competition law. Microsoft [...]
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+1 Button Lets Users Approve Google Search Links

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If you like something, tell your friends. That’s the reasoning behind Google’s newest feature enhancement for its popular search engine — a +1 button to indicate you’ve given your approval to something that will show up in search results. A user needs to have, and sign on to, a Google account with a public Google profile. The +1 button is currently in Google Labs, so interested [...]
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Why is Acer being ‘cautious’ about mobile?

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In ousting CEO Gianfranco Lanci, Acer’s board reveals it plans to stick with the PC business and proceed “cautiously” with mobile. But it’s far too late for any major PC player to not have a solid smartphone and tablet strategy in place.
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Baseball season welcomes new mobile apps

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The 2011 Major League Baseball season starts this weekend. CNET.com’s Kara Tsuboi shares some popular mobile apps so you never have to miss a strikeout or home run.
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