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Facebook Obtains Patent on Ad Targeting Technology
Recently Facebook went down to the US Patent Office and got themselves a patent on a social marketing concept that allows advertisement delivery to guess at relevance by comparing social connections. Jackie Cohen over at All Facebook brings us up to speed on the patent by quoting Fenwick & West LLC, Facebook’s intellectual property attorneys ...
Storage Networking Predictions 2011: Ethernet vs Fibre Channel
The analysis is on, looking back at 2009 and 2010 for what protocols and physical layer networking may be trending into next year. The folks over at Wikibon have set their gears turning on where storage networking will go and came out with a few predictions for us to chew on. It looks like the ...
Rocket Ninja Plans 3D Gaming on Facebook
The social game developer, Rocket Ninja, has been working furiously on raking in the investments for their newest venture: bringing 3D games to the highly social market of Facebook. Already they have pulled in $3.5 million in their first round. The new engine, which is described as “streaming 3D” will use a lightweight Flash component ...
Google’s Laboratory Cooks Up Nitro for the Web, New Tools for Apache
Google has brought themselves to the forefront of web technology through sheer weight of contribution by being part of the search revolution, but also through their continual development for the open source community. This month they’re working not only on the browser market to get web pages to flow faster to viewers, but on the ...
Android Market Still AWOL for Motorola Droid X Users
In the misty distance of recent history—September to be exact—some owners of Motorola Droid X awoke to discover that the recent upgrade to their phone had also dropped the Android Market from their handsets. This bug left those affected unable to access anything related to the market—putting them in a predicament because it’s the only ...
Logitech Rescues Unused DVD Players with Universal Remotes
This should probably come as a surprise to no one, but Logitech recently commissioned a study that shows many people are becoming increasingly frustrated with remote controls. The survey and press release are a bid to help advertise their new line of Harmony remote controls, marketed to these irritated masses. In fact, one element of ...
Flash Hits the iPhone: Skyfire Browser Approved
This development comes on the heels of the Skyfire application release for Android phones. As Apple prohibits Flash-based applications and applets on the iPhone, Skyfire has developed a browser that circumvents this problem by translating Flash into HTML5 on the fly (in the cloud) and then passing it back to the in-phone browser. Apple Insider ...
HP’s New Product Launch Edges out IBM, Cisco
In a dryly worded press release today, HP has announced a new business strategy that will tap into cloud-storage and -computing for high end projects with big business and government. The offering, packaged as “Instant-On Enterprise” will provide a whole series of solutions that will leverage cloud-computing alongside giant infrastructures along four pillars: applications, infrastructure, ...
Xbox 360 Dashboard Update Prepares the Way for Kinect, ESPN
A giant graphical shift is happening down in Xbox 360 dashboard land as users see that a new update is available for download. Microsoft is paving the way for their new motion tracking sensor system, implementing support for ESPN, and has even modified the way that people experience their own avatars. Just the facts? We’ve ...
Holiday Cheer from T-Mobile with Cheap Androids and Data Plans
Filled with holiday merriment, T-Mobile has decided to pass their own excitement on to their customers by putting together a bunch of cheap Android phones and affordable data plans to go with them. Four smartphones, each under $100, and two new data plans set for the average family (if they’re heavy data using families, that ...