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Apple Mac App Store Due to Open Jan. 6th
Apple’s much anticipated Mac App Store as downloadable software will be available in a few short weeks, launching Jan. 6. The App Store helped to seriously drive sales for the iPhone and iPod, meaning that while the Mac App Store may take some time to match the 300K mobile apps Apple carries out, it has ...
Yahoo Shutting Down Old Investments Amidst Holiday Season Layoffs
Yahoo is planning to shut down 8 products and merge others. EVP of Americas Ross Levinsohn and Chief Product Officer Blake Irving officially announced this news and the products due to shut down include MyBlogLog, Yahoo Picks, AltaVista, Yahoo Bookmarks, Yahoo Buzz and Delicious as well as Yahoo’s traffic APIs. As reported on AllThingsD, “The ...
Browser Releases: iPad Skyfire Version, Updated Opera 11
Today we’ve seen two notable browser releases. The first one highlighted is a release of Skyfire for the iPad. The Flash-capable mobile browser converts Flash to HTML5 which is supported by the iPhone and iPad, as this is the primary reason the browser gained so much success early on. “To users, this means a slight ...
Bing Rolls Out Fall Updates
Microsoft’s senior VP of online services Satya Nadella today announced in a blog post today that the company will be rolling out some updates for Bing throughout the next few weeks. The post highlights 4 main bulletins, as these provide the latest of updates the search engine and its users had seen lately. “Our focus ...
Rackspace Acquires Cloud Management, Monitoring Company Cloudkick
Rackspace has acquired the San Francisco-based Cloudkick, a cloud management and monitoring company. The sum of the acquisition was not disclosed, but the acquisition of the 1500-client and 1 million supported servers worth company is an attempt by Rackspace to delve further into cloud management. “Today, Rackspace is a hosting company that offers cloud services. ...
Clicker Adds FB Integrated Recommendation Feature
Online video portal Clicker just launched a new, Facebook-integrated recommendation service for Google TV, accompanied by a new addition to its homepage. In addition to listing videos, the site now automatically retrieves data from logged-in Facebook users, processes it and recommends videos the system determined to be relevant to the user. “This makes Clicker more ...
Facebook, Evernote and OoVoo Release Updates for Android
Three of the most popular names in the Android Market recently released some notable updates for their mobile apps. Facebook, rolled out an update , as Android users will now be able to utilize the newly added mobile chat function. “…you can’t see your complete Wall activity, it’s not easy to change your profile information, ...
Visa Launching the Visa Mobile App, Offers Deals
Visa is now following the road Groupon has taken a long time ago with the launch of its new discounts app, dubbed Visa Mobile. The app primarily aimed for the iPhone holders but also available for Android offers users discounts from big-name retailers including JC Penney and Hertz, to name a few. “Users enter their ...
Apple Adding Playlists Sharing Feature to iTunes Ping
Apple has again updated its music-centric social network, Ping, as the company released yet another feature over the weekend. The new ‘Publish Playlist’ button in the iTunes sidebar enables users to share their playlists with their Ping friends, along with some other options. “You can give your published playlist a unique name and description, then ...
Anti-Google-ITA Acquisition: Microsoft Joins the Travel Coalition
As reported here, Microsoft has now officially joined the online travel-related coalition against Google’s $700 million acquisition of ITA Software, a travel data company vital for, among others, the Bing flight search tool. We discuss the coalition here, as its participants include Expedia Inc., Kayak.com, Sabre Holdings and Farelogix Inc. “FairSearch.org made the announcement today, ...