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Adobe Launches Improved Flash Player But Still Faces Insecurities
Adobe announced the new Flash Player 10.2 today, envisaging an innovative Stage Video capability, a full hardware accelerated video pipeline, playing higher quality video and reducing the processing power, saving battery power on your end. Adobe certifies the new Flash Player as being 34 times more efficient. Additional features are custom native mouse cursors for ...
Android’s Tablet Competition Heats Up from Apple, Dell and HP
The Wall Street Journal tipped off the commencement of iPad 2 production, a device expected to be slimmer and lighter than its current counterpart, incorporating a camera for videoconferencing with FaceTime, a feature lost on Apple’s initial iPad version. The market’s pretty active right now, at least concerning product launches: during the Super Bowl Motorola ...
Spotify the Latest to Take Up Mobile Music Subscriptions
Rumors saying Spotify will charge premium rates in the US are being picked up in the music industry. Spotify has already informed its US clients that the accounts they created and used for free, limiting the hours users can listen to music, will begin being charged at a premium rate in the following months. In ...
Everyone Do the Android Twist: Dell, AT&T Join the Craze
Dell has big plans for 2011, having announced a new 10-inch Android tablet. This rounds out the largest product line-up the company has ever launched, under the name of The Dell Means Business. The Dell Means Business Product launch is comprised of 39 products including laptops, tablets, desktops, and workstations. There’s also rumour of Dell ...
The Real Meaning of Privacy in a Public, Digital World
The privacy issues in social media have always been a public matter, but the latest complaint adds more fuel to the fire. In November 2010, two British newspapers quoted tweets of a government worker that previously posted on Twitter the fact that she supported the opponent party and that she was hungover during work hours. ...
Virtual Goods Turn In High and Real Revenues
On the occasion of the International Toy Fair, Stardoll, the online fashion game for teenagers, announced a multi-year licensing agreement with Mattel that will materialize into the first product line coming out in the autumn of 2011. Mattias Miksche, CEO of Stardoll Network says that Stardoll “knew that our users love the immersive online experience on ...
Kindle Updates Keep this eReader Ahead of the Curve
Amazon is aware of its tough competitors such as the Nook, the iPad, Google’s eBooks and eBookstore, thus making continuous efforts to keep a fresh look for its customers. Amazon announced today its latest updates for the Kindle which include public notes, real page numbers, a new newspaper and magazine layout and the possibility to ...
Meebo Evolution Turns to Social Ad Targeting, Acquires Mindset Media
Last November Meebo, a noteworthy conversational tool, managed to raise the last $25 million as an investment, mounting up to $60 million received in 2010. Meebo is now using these finances to buy Mindset Media, the online ad measurement and targeting firm. The aim of the acquisition is to enhance Meebo’s existing products work even ...
Social Media Scores Big at the Super Bowl
Social media has made its way into a lot of things, including the Super Bowl experience. It is even more obvious this year that the Super bowl event is barely connected with the football game itself anymore, but with revenues from advertising. Various brands entered the social media whiz with the 2011 Super Bowl, among ...
Google’s Eric Schmidt Re-addresses EU Inquiry Issues
Eric Schmidt’s interview for The Sunday Telegraph revealed the company’s intentions of carefully tackling the EU search inquiry. Schmidt hopes for the European Commission to “come up with a set of remedies” that Google would thoroughly consider as long as it “protects its interests.” Google might agree to change some of its algorithm methods in ...