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Google Mail Gets Smart: Releases Priority Inbox
Having trouble sorting through your ever-filling e-mail box every day, trying to sort out what to read now or what can wait until later? Well, Google Mail has a solution for you: Priority Inbox. Already being rolled out in beta format—most users will be able to access it through their “experimental features” tab—it will use ...
Twitter Switches to OAuth This Morning
The Twitter API will make a final change for third-party app developers this morning (8am Pacific time) that will drop Basic Auth for OAuth. Users of applications that haven’t kept up with Twitter news will find themselves suddenly out in the cold when Twitter starts rejecting their status updates. Fortunately, most popular Twitter apps–such as ...
HyTrust Giving IT Departments Control of their Cloud
Another interesting revelation from the VMworld 2010 Conference: HyTrust Cloud Control. With cloud computing adoption on the rise and numerous services cropping up across the landscape, different mechanisms for taking control and keeping control will become extremely important. HyTrust expects to enhance this with HyTrust Cloud Control as an integration solution with VMware vCloud Director. ...
Google Buying Into Mobile Social Gaming With SocialDeck
Another buy for Google, with the acquisition of SocialDeck, as announced on its homepage. Just last week, we posted an info-graphic about Google’s acquisition history. One of the revelations from this graphic happens to be Google’s recent foray into gaming—and while this buy is no exception, it also thrusts them further into the social media ...
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Showcase by Force 3 at VMworld 2010
Force 3, a provider of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) technology, will be giving a showcase at this year’s VMworld 2010 conference about their product family. They are a VMware Premiere Partner, so we expect them to know a thing or two about VDI. Within their presentation, they will outline some of the myths surrounding the ...
Looks like MetroPCS May Beat Verizon to Finishing First 3GPP Long Term Evolution Network in the US
While the LTE technology is still in its infancy, it is still poised to replace standard 3G with wireless speeds rivaling 100 Mbps. Mobile wireless carriers such as MetroPCS and Verizon will benefit greatly to being the first kids at the finish line on these US projects. It looks like MetroPCS is the stronger runner ...
Pay-As-You-Go Plans Coming to Clearwire
Majority owned by Sprint-Nextel, the Clearwire service currently offers flat priced services for laptop wireless connectivity, but recently stated plans to develop a pay-as-you-go plan. From a brief Reuters article, Clearwire is the first U.S. service provider to offer fourth-generation wireless services but its biggest rival, Verizon Wireless, is expected to follow suit with a ...
The State of Localization, InfoGraphic
Another visual-information graphic from Social Media Graphics shows us the current State of Location Based Services. This graphic is just a little bit harder to read than most, as it avoids naming names and instead relies on logos (fortunately there is a prominent legend.) It looks like, in population numbers, Loopt dominates with FourSquare and ...
Facebook in Hot Water Over Teens Usage of the “Like” Button as Advertising
A recent lawsuit out of California names Facebook a defendant in a class action lawsuit alleging that their advertising model misappropriates the likeness and names of teens who use the system. The lawsuit hinges on the fact that advertisements, while shown to everyone, can also be “Liked.” A function of Facebook where if a user ...
Google’s SCVNGR Joins Facebook Places
This connection will put two extremely powerful technologies together: the social networking maelstrom of Facebook and the participatory culture insights of SCVNGR. Google’s offering connects location based social gaming in a way that generates a sort of casual ARG (Alternate Reality Game) for users. Enabling them to earn points, generate reputation, and involve friends, and ...