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- Sprint Plans To Kill The BlackBerry PlayBook… Again
- Popular Barcode Scanning App ShopSavvy Launches Mobile Marketplace
- Now You Can Control Your Galaxy Nexus By Groping A Wall
- Accel And SV Angel Back Endorse With $4.25 Million To Close The Loop Between Shoppers And Brands
- JNSQ, An Independent Style Mag For iPad, Makes Its Public Debut
- Samsung Employee Leaks New Info On Future Galaxy Tabs
- Fab Hits 2 Million Members, Plots International Expansion, Opens For All
- Social Brand Marketing Booms In 2011, Buddy Media Ups Revenue 2.5X
- Mark Shuttleworth Unveils New Head-Up Display for Ubuntu 12.04
- TIBCO Updates Social Enterprise App Tibbr With Geo-Location Features
- YC-Funded Embark Is Now Plotting Two Million Transit Trips A Month
- Amazon Web Services Debuts Storage Gateway To Securely Upload Enterprise Data To The Cloud
- Big VCs Invest In Big Data Startup Continuuity
- Android May Have Consumer Market Share, But iOS Is Tops In Enterprise
- Video: Dunder Mifflin's Office Remade As A Counter Strike Source Map
- Jammit Lets Budding Rock Stars Play Along With, Isolate, And Record Over The "Masters"
- 33Across Acquires Tynt To Become Social Data Powerhouse
- Japan's NICT Creates Quantum Dots To Boost Optic Fiber Bandwidth By 7-10 Times, Shoot High-Res Pictures Of Molecules (Video)
- GuideHop and iStopOver Team Up To Fuse Local Activity And Rental Discovery (P2P Style)
- Daily Crunch: Apples & Eggs
| Sprint Plans To Kill The BlackBerry PlayBook… Again | Top |
 For the second time over the course of a year, it would seem as though Sprint's ready to kill the BlackBerry PlayBook. A new version of the PlayBook OS is set to debut in February, but according to an EOL (End of Life) report out of SprintFeed, Sprint isn't prepared for the wait. Not even for a week. Of course, the WiFi-only PlayBook will still be available at various office stores like Best Buy and from RIM directly, but Sprint's execution of the PlayBook marks the end of the product's life on a carrier shelf. | |
| Popular Barcode Scanning App ShopSavvy Launches Mobile Marketplace | Top |
 ShopSavvy, which you probably know as the barcode-scanning, price comparison app, is launching a major new feature today: SavvyListings, a mobile marketplace. With the addition, the company is hoping to turn its user base of some 20 million into customers who buy and sell items directly with each other. | |
| Now You Can Control Your Galaxy Nexus By Groping A Wall | Top |
 The Galaxy Nexus's 4.65-inch display may make it a handful for some, but a nifty new project from a developer known as DDRBoxman allows users to interact with their Galaxy Nexus on an even grander scale. With the help of a projector, a Kinect camera, and a specially tweaked Ice Cream Sandwich ROM, he was able to interact with his Nexus by touching a wall. | |
| Accel And SV Angel Back Endorse With $4.25 Million To Close The Loop Between Shoppers And Brands | Top |
 Brands and businesses can track their reputations online and connect with consumers through social media. But what about in the real world? One of the biggest prizes in Startupland will go to whoever can figure out how to connect real-world shopping to brands and businesses. Steve Carpenter is going after that prize with his latest startup, Endorse. Carpenter has been incubating the company for a year as an entrepreneur-in-residence at Accel. (He sold his last company, Cake Financial, to Etrade in 2010). Endorse just raised $4.25 million in a Series A led by Accel, with SV Angel also investing. His co-founders and team include early employees from YouTube and Paypal (Erik Klein, Mayrose Dunton, and Franck Chastagnol). | |
| JNSQ, An Independent Style Mag For iPad, Makes Its Public Debut | Top |
 JNSQ, the first independent style magazine for the iPad, is making its public debut today. The app, created by former Beauty.com marketing manager Melissa Middleton and angel investor and stealth startup founder Fritz Lanman, features similar content as to what's found on the online version of the company, at www.jenesequa.com, but is published monthly - like a real magazine. | |
| Samsung Employee Leaks New Info On Future Galaxy Tabs | Top |
 I just love it when leaks come straight from the horse's mouth. A leaky horse mouth, if you will. Electronista is reporting that a Samsung product marketing manager by the name of Ryan Bidan has let slip a few details on the next Galaxy Tab or, potentially, the next iteration of the Galaxy Note. According to the report, Mr. Bidan hinted at the inclusion of an S pen (the same stylus used with the Note), 3D gestures courtesy of the front-facing camera, and perhaps even some voice controls "in certain circumstances." | |
| Fab Hits 2 Million Members, Plots International Expansion, Opens For All | Top |
 Fab.com founder and CEO Jason Goldberg just made a significant announcement on his blog about some new and upcoming changes at the ridiculously fast-growing startup. The design shopping site now boasts 2 million members, having added more than 400,000 new members in the past month and doubling membership since November. Expect that number to grow fast, because the site is now open for everyone immediately upon sign-up, and will soon become available in Canada and Europe to boot. | |
| Social Brand Marketing Booms In 2011, Buddy Media Ups Revenue 2.5X | Top |
 With 300 new big brand customers and 2.5X revenue, 2011 was a landmark year for social media marketing software developer Buddy Media. As CEO Michael Lazerow told us that Buddy Media was on track to hit $20 million in revenue in 2010, it could have pulled in $50 million during 2011. It attracted premier clients such as Citibank, IBM, and the NFL with its reputation for helping brands promote through Facebook. The company grew from 100 to 225 employees, and opened new offices in London, SF, and Singapore. In short, brands are getting serious about social marketing, and Buddy Media is a tool they trust. | |
| Mark Shuttleworth Unveils New Head-Up Display for Ubuntu 12.04 | Top |
 Every time I write about Ubuntu and its (not-so) new Unity interface, I see lots and lots of comments decrying it as useless, an abomination, the worst thing to ever happen to computers, etc. Personally, I'm not so flummoxed by it, but there's no denying that Unity has been a divisive addition to Canonical's flagship Linux distribution. The choice to move application menus up to the global bar at the top of the screen has been frustrating to many, and a lot of power users find Unity too mouse-intensive. Mark Shuttleworth, Ubuntu's Self-Appointed Benevloent Dictator For Life, yesterday unveiled the next step in the Unity evolution: the Head-Up Display. According to Shuttleworth, their testing revealed that "users spent a lot of time, relatively speaking, navigating the menus of their applications, either to learn about the capabilities of the app, or to take a specific action." The goal of the new Head-Up display is to -- eventually -- replace menus altogether. Instead of clicking through menus, users type the command they require in a search box. | |
| TIBCO Updates Social Enterprise App Tibbr With Geo-Location Features | Top |
 Enterprise software company TIBCO is debuting a new version of its Yammer-clone Tibbr today. The newest version of the company's social communications app includes geo-location capabilities called Tibbr GEO, which integrates the 'check-in' model in the enterprise. By incorporating location into Tibbr, the service wants to physical places into data hubs that can immediately stream important insights relevant to that specific place. Tibbr GEO gives companies the ability to tag important places, whether in the enterprise or as part of the extended enterprise. As Tibbr users approach these places, they're automatically presented relevant in-stream information. | |
| YC-Funded Embark Is Now Plotting Two Million Transit Trips A Month | Top |
 As a former resident of Los Angeles, New York's public transportation system feels magical at times. Trains — underground trains — that go places you actually want to go. It's a wonderful system. And I thank my stars that I live in an age when my smartphone can tell me how to use it. Because for all its convenience, NYC's subway system can feel a bit labyrinthine at times — particularly when there's a planned service disruption (there's always a planned service disruption). Thankfully I'm equipped with a well-crafted Android app called Embark NYC, which makes it easy to plot my subway route and get notified about any potential delays. Embark NYC (which was formerly called Ride NYC) was built by a company called Pandav, which is also responsible for the popular, and similarly polished app iBART. And today, the company has some big news: it's changing its name to Embark, and it's releasing some data that gives an idea as to just how popular it's gotten. Namely, that it's now plotted a total of 20 million trips since its first app launched ten months ago, and that users are plotting an additional two million trips per month. | |
| Amazon Web Services Debuts Storage Gateway To Securely Upload Enterprise Data To The Cloud | Top |
 After launching distributed database DynamoDB last week, Amazon Web Services is debuting another product—AWS Storage Gateway, which is a service that provides enterprises with a new option to securely upload and backup data to the AWS cloud from on-premises software appliances. Basically, the Gateway connect san on-premises software appliance with Amazon's cloud-based storage for a more secure integration between on-premises IT environments and AWS storage infrastructure. Via the Gateway, data is uploaded to AWS, where it is encrypted and stored in the Amazon's Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). The Gateway provides a solution fir enterprises looking for effective backup and rapid disaster recovery between on-premise applications and the cloud. | |
| Big VCs Invest In Big Data Startup Continuuity | Top |
 Venture capital firm Battery Ventures this morning announced that it has made an investment in Continuuity, a stealth 'big data' startup founded by Battery entrepreneur-in-residence Todd Papaioannou (formerly VP and Chief Cloud Architect for Yahoo). | |
| Android May Have Consumer Market Share, But iOS Is Tops In Enterprise | Top |
 According to a new report from managed enterprise mobility provider Good Technology, iOS devices (iPhones and iPads) hold the top three spots in the list of the top 10 enterprise activations by device type. The report includes data gathered by Good for Q4 2011 and includes half of the Fortune 100, providing insight into enterprise activation trends among some of the world's biggest businesses. The company found that despite Android's overall market share growth and steady absolute growth among Good's customers, only 35% of all smartphone activations were on Android, compared with iPhone's 65%. | |
| Video: Dunder Mifflin's Office Remade As A Counter Strike Source Map | Top |
 Long before the advent of such games as Minecraft, virtual worlds were coded primarily as first person shooter maps. You could play Half-Life deathmatch in a super-sized kitchen, Counter Strike on a World War II battlefield and so on. Map making was an artform. But it's clearly not dead. | |
| Jammit Lets Budding Rock Stars Play Along With, Isolate, And Record Over The "Masters" | Top |
 While magical mobile devices are able to simulate instruments in wild and mind-blowing ways, thankfully most people stick to the actual instruments themselves when learning to play. Arguably, a better -- or at least more popular -- use for mobile devices is to act not as the instrument itself, but as an educational aid -- a tool that helps us to learn how to play our favorite instruments. | |
| 33Across Acquires Tynt To Become Social Data Powerhouse | Top |
 Social ad targeting company 33Across just announced that it has acquired Tynt. What's Tynt? Well, if you've ever tried to copy-and-paste a quote from an article and discovered that there was suddenly some extra text and a link attached ("Read more: http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/16/borthwick-twitter-thanks-bit-ly/#ixzz0lIiy3q6f"), you have Tynt to thank for that. Not only does it add attribution to copied text, it also uses copy-and-paste data to make larger recommendations about a publisher's search engine optimization and social networking lift. | |
| Japan's NICT Creates Quantum Dots To Boost Optic Fiber Bandwidth By 7-10 Times, Shoot High-Res Pictures Of Molecules (Video) | Top |
 A team of researchers at the Photonic Network Research Institute of Japan's National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) has developed a new light source technology that might pave the way to some pretty spectacular applications in the future. The core piece of the technology are "high-quality" quantum dots, tiny nano particles, that boast higher stability and optical frequency than those created the conventional way. | |
| GuideHop and iStopOver Team Up To Fuse Local Activity And Rental Discovery (P2P Style) | Top |
 SXSW 2012 is sneaking up on us; believe it or not, it's just around the corner. As you may know, Austin's music/film/tech conference attracts big names, tons of press, and notable companies each year -- geeks flock to the event just as they do for CES. On the tech or "Interactive" side, there's a lot of hoopla and way too much media coverage, but some interesting startups do still manage to emerge (or at least solidify their reputations) at the festi-conference each year. Foursquare and Twitter, to name two, both owe tips of the cap to SXSW. | |
| Daily Crunch: Apples & Eggs | Top |
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