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Google Images Gets New Look, Ads
Google has updated its Images search page, adding navigation tweaks and a new advertising tool for marketers. As far as the layout goes, you’ll notice the space is more efficiently used to fit more images on a single page. Page-scrolling and hover-over thumbnail previews have been added, and clicking through an image result brings you ...
Flipboard and Kindle Springboard from iPad Influence and Success
Flipboard has unveiled its iPad app this week, creating a beautiful and well-designed tool for consuming our social information. Turning all that Facebook and Twitter chatter into a digital magazine, Flipboard has made an enviable skin for our personal "readers," tapping into the fact that social networks are heavily used as means for spreading around ...
Steve Jobs Gets Even with Rising Apple Shares, iPad Demand
Steve Jobs is probably feeling a little vindicated right now, after telling everyone off last week, particularly those investors that were whining about $5 share price drops instead of looking at the long-term value of Apple. The companies shares rose again this week with the Apple iPad’s sales exceeding initial projections, also calling for new ...
Facebook Scores Low with Users Too. Who’s Left in Its Corner?
Just as Facebook readies to announce its 500 millionth user, the American Customer Satisfaction Index releases its findings on the social network’s user satisfaction. Things aren’t looking very good according to the study, which was done in conjunction with ForeSee. On a scale of 0-100, Facebook scored a 64. That doesn’t sound as terrible as ...
Google Buzz Launches Firehose API, Growing the Real-Time Economy
As Google Buzz begins to reach a good stride, it’s opened its firehose API . This will make all public Buzz posts available to third party developers. The release comes alongside other new APIs Google’s made available for Buzz, including Buzz Mood. Powered by PubSubHubBub, the open code offering will encourage more apps to be ...
Redbox Streaming, Netflix Abroad and Hulu Ads Beat YouTube
Another strike against cable, and Netflix too. Redbox, the company with those conveniently-located red kiosks all about town, is gearing up to launch a streaming video rental service. It would be around $3.95 per month for a subscription, including 4 kiosk rentals (normally $1 per rental) and unlimited streaming for online flicks. Redbox has been ...
Quicken Online Disappears After Outages, Failed Mint.com Port
Just because it’s in the cloud doesn’t mean it will always be there for you, despite the best of intentions. Intuit’s Quicken Online has been shut down today, as expected. What’s missing, however, is a replacement tool. Originally slotted for Mint.com, the personal finance management tool Intuit acquired last year, Quicken Online users are now ...
Windows Phone 7 Testing: Lessons Learned from Apple, Android
Windows Phone 7 is getting closer to its market release, with Microsoft sending out its mobile operating system to carrier labs for beta testing. App developers are also getting an early look at the OS, which is slotted for a fall release, in time for the holiday shopping season. But as the mobile space continues ...
Facebook Nears 500 Million Users, Growing Mobile Front
Facebook is expected to announce its 500 million user milestone this week, making it a massively populated online network. As The Washington Post notes, that’s more than the population of the United States, Japan and Germany combined. Maintaining its growth and popularity, the fact that Facebook has gotten this far, making leaps and bounds over ...
Nokia Siemens Buys Motorola Gear and Equipment Branch for $1.2 Billion
Nokia Siemens Networks has confirmed that it has purchased Motorola’s infrastructure business for $1.2 billion, a cash deal emerging as Motorola preps for its corporate break-down, protecting its assets in phone manufacturing. For Nokia, the mobile company gains a stronger foothold in both the U.S. and Japan. The deal will also provide NSN access to ...