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LG Launches New Smart TV Apps Platform
LG Electronics today introduced its new Smart TV platform at the CES which carries apps, games and movies for the manufacturer’s latest TVs. Available through LG’s app store, TV apps from Hulu, Netflix and Vudu among others can be downloaded to the platform which also comes with LG’s “Magic Motion” motion detecting remote control. “The ...
mSpot Comes to Google TV
Cloud entertainment provider mSpot today announced its music and video streaming services are coming to Google TV. The cross-platform cloud-based mSpot is available via just about every device, which is one of the main reasons behind its advance to date. “mSpot Inc., the leading cloud entertainment provider, today launches its music and movie services on ...
Millennial Media Raises $27.5M, Sees Mobile Future Beyond Phones
The last major independent mobile ad network Millennial Media (which was considered to be acquired by RIM at some point) has raised $27.5 million in funding. This latest funding round, which involved Bessemer Venture Partners, Columbia Capital, Charles River Ventures and New Enterprise Associates raises Millennial’s total funding to $65 million. “Millennial tripled revenue in ...
The O’Reilly Strata Conference: Inaugurating Tomorrow
According to Jason Hoffman, CTO/Founder at Joyent, this year’s annual Strata conference may be one of the most important ones to date, and he may just have a point. The 2011 Strata conference, which will take place in February 1-3 at the Santa Clara Convention Center, will focus on the implications of data in everything ...
Facebook Breaking Holiday Records with 750M Photo Uploads
In an official tweet by Facebook, the largest social network and image sharing service on the globe shared news of breaking its own photo-uploading record. Facebook reports that the New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day weekend surpassed Facebook’s average of 100 million uploads per day and encompassed no less than 750 million photo uploads, ...
IE No Longer No. 1 in Europe, Losing Ground to Chrome
Internet Explorer has been steadily losing ground to its competitors for quite some time now, and today Microsoft’s default Windows browser was overtaken by Firefox in the European front. According to analytics company StatCounter, Firefox share of the European market this December was 38.11%, compared to IE’s 37.52%. “It’s the first time that IE has ...
Social Location Gaming Get Real: SCVNGR Raises $15M
Social location-based game SCVNGR announced in a blog post it has raised $15M in its third round of funding. Barry Maloney from Balderton Capital led the round which also involved Google Ventures and Highland Capital Partners. SCVNGR had raised a total of $20 million to date, and the Cambridge, Massachusetts- based company’s apps attracted 1 ...
Samsung Reaches the 10 Million Galaxy S Units Sold Mark
According to an e-mail statement by Samsung, the company sold a record number of 10 million units of its Android-running Galaxy S since its debut in June. A staggering 61 million units of the company’s official best seller and NFC technology-equipped smartphones are expected to be shipped in 2011. Introducing the Galaxy, which uses Google Inc.’s Android software, ...
Angry Birds: Spreading Wings Over PlayStation
According to USA Today, the ever popular physics-based social mobile game Angry Birds is spreading its wings beyond the iPhone and Android, expanding to Playstation 3 and PlayStation Portable this week. This move indicates just how serious this entire operation is about its growth; for a mobile social game, it manages to accomplish something not many ...
Commtouch: 30% Spam Decrease in December
According to cloud security solutions provider Commtouch, inboxes everywhere have seen a 30% drop in spam this December. An earlier 18% drop in October is associated with the closure of spam organization Spamit in September – spam level for Q4 overall was 83%, down from 88% in Q3 2010. Spam has always been a fairly ...