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Expanded Stats Greet Android Developers on the Dashboard
It looks like Google is at it again: attempting to deliver deeper and better visualization of statistics and data for developers. They’ve moved in this direction before with Google Analytics for the web, but now Android developers are getting more benefits from the sheer amount of data that Google is capable of gathering about the ...
How Will You Spend St. Patrick’s Day? Ask a Social Network
Éirinn go Brách! It’s about that time of year: time for everyone in the US to guzzle green beer, pin shamrocks to their lapels, wear green (or get pinched), and quite possibly get very drunk. Lab42, an online market research and survey company, took it into its own hands to determine what social networkers were ...
AudioDraft: Bringing Crowdsourcing to Audio Production
What do music, contests, and crowds have to do with one another? They’re all integral components of the business model that AudioDraft uses to connect the work of audio professionals with interested consumers. The concept is simple: you have a project that needs some audio design (music, score, or effects) and but you don’t have ...
Google Circle’s Rumors and Eventual Dismissal Stirs Thoughts about Privacy
Over the weekend a rumor cropped up that Google would be releasing a new social-networking tool, Google Circles, at SXSW—but with the dawn today we quickly discovered that there is no Google Circles and probably will not be ever. The idea seems sweet enough, a network to manage our networks designed and published by the ...
Stephen Elop of Nokia Receives $6 million Signing Bonus
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Nokia Corp. has filed paperwork Friday stating that they’re going to pay Stephen Elop a more than $6 million signing bonus, Mr. Elop, recruited from Microsoft Corp. to revive the ailing handset maker’s fortunes, received a payment of €2.3 million ($3.17 million) in October and is entitled to ...
Sony Sets Kazuo Hirai as Possible CEO Successor to Howard Stringer
Currently bearing the distinction of being the President of Sony Computer Entertainment—Sony’s videogame hardware arm that brought us the PlayStation—Kazuo “Kaz” Hirai (平井 一夫) may be looking forward to stranger pastures as he’s been tapped as the likely successor of Sony’s Chief Executive Howard Stinger. Sony said Thursday that they would conjoin their videogame and ...
Clash of the Titans: The Cloud Climbing Mount Olympus
The cloud has been changing the very face of computer technology and it’s largely been innovated by the newcomers with the old, faithful behemoths of the industry moving slowly but inexorably in their wake. In an article published at Bloomberg Buisnessweek, “The Cloud: Battle of the Tech Titans”, Ashlee Vance has taken a principled view ...
Kinect Lands Spot in the Pages of the Guinness Book of World Records
Microsoft’s peripheral for the Xbox 360 has been dubbed the Fastest-Selling Consumer Electronics Device by the Guinness Book of World Records. After their explosively popular debut that left pretty much every other similar peripheral in the dust, this could be considered the jewel in the crown of excellent timing and good product work. I’ve been ...
Fusion-io Preps for IPO; Though Not Quite Ripe, Facebook Already a Data-Center Customer
As big-time innovators in solid-state storage as it combines with distributed storage models, Fusion-io has been pushing the cloud-envelope on multiple fronts. Since their emergence into the scene as a start-up in 2006, they’ve inducted the Woz as their chief scientist and brought Michael Dell from Dell, Inc. on board as an investor in the ...
Stack Overflow Injects $12 Million, Mutates Into Stack Exchange
The extremely popular questions-and-answers site, Stack Overflow, has just announced that they’ve finished a Series B funding round netting $6 million. This comes after an initial round of $6 million during May of last year. Commentary on this round of funding comes from GigaOM, along with an explanation of what users can expect from the ...