Wednesday, December 28, 2011

NYTimes offers discounts in mistaken email gaffe (AP)

NYTimes offers discounts in mistaken email gaffe (AP)

NYTimes offers discounts in mistaken email gaffe (AP)

Posted: 28 Dec 2011 02:52 PM PST

AP - In today's digital age, it's easy to send out an email by mistake — even for a company that's in the business of communication.

Review: Scrutinizing your presence on Facebook (AP)

Posted: 28 Dec 2011 12:42 PM PST

FILE - In this July 6, 2011 file photo, Facebook workers Mike Barnes, left, Video Chats with Jonathan Rosenberg, right, on Facebook during an announcement at Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif. It's good to take stock of Facebook from time to time, given how quickly Facebook changes its features and settings and how easily many of us add people to our lists of friends. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)AP - Here's one way to sum up 2011: I added 71 people as Facebook friends, shared 26 links and commented on 98 of my friends' status updates. I was tagged in 33 photos and added 18 of my own to the site.

Running a country? There's an app for that, almost (AP)

Posted: 28 Dec 2011 05:26 AM PST

AP - Britain's government says experts are considering developing a bespoke iPad app that would deliver key data straight to Prime Minister David Cameron's tablet computer.

Twitter 2012: Bigger and More Ads (Mashable)

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 01:58 PM PST

Mashable - People predicted rioting when Twitter decided to post ads within its feeds. However, those protests never materialized. Instead, Twitter was used to mobilize protests in the streets in Egypt, Yemen and Tunesia. The two instances are related. As Twitter became a globally recognized entity, it also began efforts to monetize itself earnestly in 2011. As previously mentioned, Twitter's successful introduction of advertising was one of the big social media marketing trends of the year. Despite warnings from some Twitter purists, users didn't seem to mind more ads on Twitter, perhaps concluding that Twitter was, after all, a for-profit business.

Alibaba hires U.S. lobbying firm as it eyes Yahoo (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Dec 2011 07:14 PM PST

Reuters - Alibaba Group has hired a Washington lobbying firm in a sign that the Chinese e-commerce company would be willing to make a bid for all of Yahoo Inc in the event that talks to unwind their Asian partnership fail.

Netflix, Gap lag in customer satisfaction online (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Dec 2011 02:27 PM PST

Reuters - Netflix Inc and Gap Inc were among the worst performers in customer satisfaction among the largest online retailers this holiday season, according to a survey released on Wednesday.

Verizon users hit with third data outage in December (Digital Trends)

Posted: 28 Dec 2011 08:58 PM PST

Digital Trends - According to a report out of Reuters, Verizon is investigating yet another outage of the data network. Noted as the third network outage during the month of December, some customers have reported an inability to connect to the 4G LTE network in a smattering of major U.S. cities including Los Angeles, New York City, Chicago and San Francisco.  Marquett Smith, vice president of corporate communications for Verizon Wireless, released a statement that the company is currently working to resolve the new issue with the 4G LTE network. He stated “The network continues to operate and all customers continue to be able to make calls, send text messages and utilize data services. 3G devices are operating normally.“

Verizon looking into reports of 4G network problem (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Dec 2011 06:41 PM PST

Reuters - Verizon Wireless is investigating reports that some customers were experiencing trouble accessing its fourth generation (4G) network, a spokesman told Reuters, as the company yet again had to face service problems with its faster wireless service.

Top 10: The dumbest celeb tweets of 2011 (Daily Caller)

Posted: 28 Dec 2011 12:19 PM PST

Daily Caller - Twitter provides us with a treasure trove of stupid statements from celebrities, and for that we are thankful.

Did Cheetah from 1930s Tarzan flicks die? (AP)

Posted: 28 Dec 2011 02:38 PM PST

FILE - A file photo shows Johnny Weissmuller, right, as Tarzan, Maureen O'Sullivan as Jane, and Cheetah the chimpanzee, in a scene from the 1932 movie Tarzan the Ape Man. A Florida animal sanctuary says Cheetah the chimpanzee from the Tarzan movies of the 1930s died Cheetah died on Dec. 24 of kidney failure at age 80. (AP Photo/ho, File)AP - A Florida animal sanctuary says Cheetah, the chimpanzee sidekick in the Tarzan movies of the early 1930s, has died at 80. But other accounts call that claim into question.

Android sees holiday spike in device activations, breaks record for downloads (Appolicious)

Posted: 28 Dec 2011 11:39 AM PST

Appolicious - We'd already heard that it was a pretty good holiday for Google's Android platform, with market research firm Localytics reporting that some 12 times as many Android devices were in use during the Christmas weekend than the previous weekend across the globe.

Japanese drinks company launches vending machine with free Wi-Fi (as well as drinks) (Digital Trends)

Posted: 28 Dec 2011 06:10 PM PST

Digital Trends - In a country where vending machines can be found not only on every street corner, but in between every street corner, across from every street corner and beside every street corner (in other words, there are a lot of vending machines), the idea of turning them into Wi-Fi hotspots is a stroke of genius.

Fast Five, Hangover II make the top ten list of most pirated movies in 2011 (Digital Trends)

Posted: 28 Dec 2011 08:01 PM PST

Digital Trends - According to BitTorrent news site TorrentFreak, the fifth entry in the Fast and the Furious franchise took the top spot on the most pirated films of 2011. Fast Five, starring Vin Diesel and Paul Walker, had over nine million downloads over the course of the year. Close behind in second and third place, The Hangover Part II and Marvel’s Thor each had over 8 million downloads each. Other films on the top ten list included Source Code, I Am Number Four, Sucker Punch, 127 Hours, Rango, The King’s Speech and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2.

Report: iOS app downloads up 83 percent (Digital Trends)

Posted: 28 Dec 2011 11:40 AM PST

Digital Trends - Market analysis firm Fiksu has released its analysis of of the aggregate download volumes of the top 200 free iOS applications and finds Apple has a lot to smile about: during November 2011, app downloads were up 83 percent compared to the same time a year ago. Fisku attributes the increase to the influx of new iPhone 4S customers, as well as apps updating to support iOS 5 and its new features.

IBM Releases Tool for New Kinds of Patent Searches (NewsFactor)

Posted: 28 Dec 2011 03:33 PM PST

NewsFactor - A new analytical tool from IBM is helping scientists scan patents and other intellectual property for information about molecular data. The cloud-based strategic IP insight platform, or SIIP, uses image analysis and enhanced optical recognition of chemical images and symbols to quickly obtain the information, a process that otherwise could take months to do manually.
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