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The sFund Calls in Social Kings, Flush with $250M to Start
There’s news pouring in from all corners about the announcement at Facebook Headquarters. While the announcement/event hasn’t started yet, there is a series of chairs set up and a backdrop that reads: sFund. Also prominent are the logos for a multitude of well-known industry favorites like Facebook, Amazon.com, Zynga, and Comcast. Details on the fund ...
Joe Hewitt, Facebook’s Mobile Guru, on Google Android’s “Openness”
Yesterday, Joe Hewitt—a developer of much renown, he worked on Firefox and developed the plug-in Firebug, and currently works with the Facebook team—had an opinion about the industry response to Steve Jobs’s rant Monday. The CEO of Apple had made a point of criticizing Google Android for being too “open” and explained to the community ...
Logitech Harmony Remote for Google TV now on Android
This app, originally released only to testers last month, has finally been pushed up to the Android market. The app will only work with the Logitech Revue set-top box—but it allows control via your WiFi home network and knocks you down one remote control. (Although, the Revue does come with one already, in the guise ...
Cable Television Disagreement Catches Internet Viewers as Collateral Damage
It looks like television programmers and distributors are going to war–and as they pulled on their helmets and manned the artillery, it’s Internet TV watchers who are getting shelled in the crossfire. The worst part of this action seems to be that the Internet TV sources that got hit didn’t have anything to do with ...
Yes, We’re Addicted to Conan O’Brien and Team Coco as they Take Over the Web
It looks like Conan O’Brien’s first guest on his new Team Coco show will be chosen by his fans—he’s crowd sourcing his decision by offering it up to the public in a poll. Ever since joining the social media sphere, he’s been dominating the scene with his bright presence. They have plans of a series ...
EA Acquires Publisher Chillingo of Angry Birds Fame
It looks like Electronic Arts just slingshot an angry red bird across the landscape and toppled the obstacles between them and Chillingo. I refer, of course, to the extremely famous mobile phone game Angry Birds, a casual puzzle game that involves the flinging of enraged ballistic avians at all manner of fortification and fauna. It ...
Steve Jobs Continues to Take Fire: Jim Balsillie of RIM Joins In
While Steve Jobs was making critical comments about Android yesterday, he also took a swing at plans for 7-inch tablet PCs. Announcing with broad strokes that they both wouldn’t make it to market, but that they were bad for the app ecology, mentioning that 7-inches was too small to create effective tablet apps. Saying of ...
Xbox.com Gets a Facelift: Additional Features, Enhanced Experience
People who might have attempted to access Xbox.com extremely early this morning would have been greeted with a downtime message. The web page had been taken offline for a short time at 5am EST for its facelift—the Xbox Live service remained unaffected and gamers continued gaming through the wee hours. Now that it’s back, we ...
Mozilla Labs Details Open Web Applications for Chrome Have-Nots
Mozilla intends to bring to the web what apps brought to the mobile sphere with Open Web Apps—but they also seem to be doing it in response to Google’s announcement that they would open their own Chrome Web Store. They intend to generate a vast architecture for the development, storage, distribution, and social interaction of ...
All a Twitter: Android Chief Jabs at Steve Jobs, TweetDeck Joins the Fray
Andy Rubin’s long-dormant Twitter account just came to life today, and with it came one of the most geeky snipes I have ever read. His first tweet, the definition of open: “mkdir android ; cd android ; repo init –u git://android.git.kernel.org/platform/manifest.git ; repo sync ; make” Reported by CNET, Steve Jobs, the CEO of Apple ...