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- YC, Rock Health-Backed Agile Diagnosis Launches To Help Doctors Better Treat Their Patients
- RIM Releases Mobile Fusion Device Management Service, Plays Nice With iOS And Android
- With Over 30 Million Users On iOS, Instagram Finally Comes To Android
- Ustream Integrates With Facebook Timeline For Sharing Live Videos With Friends
- State of the Linux Kernel 2011
- The Tap Lab Raises $550K To Seed Some Hits in Location-Based Mobile Gaming
- AmazonWireless Exits Beta, Now Offers Price-Matching Guarantee, $25 Worth Of Free Mobile Apps
- Shazam Can Now Identify Your Content In As Little As A Second
- 1000Memories Introduces "Shoeboxes" For More Private Photo Sharing
- Please Don't Let This Be What The EVO One Looks Like
- Facebook 'Missed Irish Data Protection Deadline', Says Consumer Group. Facebook Objects
- Help Recreate Leisure Suit Larry For The 21st Century
- Gamification Platform BigDoor Raises $5 Million From Foundry Group
- YouTube Marketing Gets Serious: Buddy Media Lets Brands Customize Channels With Apps
- Goodsie Lets Small Retailers Set Up Sleek E-Commerce Storefronts
- RR Donnelly Invests $2.5M In CoffeeTable To Bring Retail Catalogs Into The Tablet Age
- Join Wil Wheaton And Friends In A Rousing Tabletop Gaming Session
- Phonedeck Lets You Control Your Cellphone Via The Cloud
- Foxconn Recruiter: We're 'Hiring' For A June iPhone 5 Launch
- Self-Hosted File Sync Solution ownCloud Goes Commercial
| YC, Rock Health-Backed Agile Diagnosis Launches To Help Doctors Better Treat Their Patients | Top |
 Though the health industry has, in many respects, been slow to adopt new web and mobile technologies, it seems we may finally have reached a tipping point. This is perhaps best demonstrated by Manhattan Research's report, which found that 72 percent of physicians owned a smartphone in 2011, with adoption potentially reaching 85 percent by the end of this year. With doctors increasingly carrying smartphones and tablets at the point of care, Borna Safabakhsh says that he is confident that the timing is right for medicine to finally take advantage of the breakthroughs in web and mobile technologies. Safabakhsh is the co-founder and CEO of Agile Diagnosis, a Y Combinator and Rock Health-incubated startup, which is today launching a beta web and mobile platform that aims to help doctors better diagnose their patients. | |
| RIM Releases Mobile Fusion Device Management Service, Plays Nice With iOS And Android | Top |
 The folks at RIM can see the writing on the wall — they've historically enjoyed plenty of enterprise love, but the recent "bring your own device" trend means headaches not only for RIM, but for the companies that have to manage all of them. In a move to hang on to relevance in the business market, the Waterloo company has officially released their Mobile Fusion device management platform, which aims to simplify how businesses manage a fleet of iOS, Android, and BlackBerry devices. | |
| With Over 30 Million Users On iOS, Instagram Finally Comes To Android | Top |
 Morning guys! It's going to be a bright, bright, bright sunshine-y day for Android users, namely because photo-sharing darling Instagram is now available in the Android Market. If you want to hurry up and try it out without having to read the rest of this (it's that intuitive), you can download the app here. And go ahead and skip to Paragraph 7 if you already use Instagram on iOS, and don't want to have to sit through a n00b explainer. | |
| Ustream Integrates With Facebook Timeline For Sharing Live Videos With Friends | Top |
 Live video streaming website Ustream today is launching an integration with Facebook's new Timeline user interface. This means that users will be able to share the live videos they're watching on Ustream with their Facebook friends in real-time. The Ustream launch is one of the first video app integrations with Timeline. Of course, just like the articles you read and the songs you listen to, your tastes in video viewing are very personal -- and not always something you're willing to share with your entire social network of friends and acquaintances. Ustream says it has been very careful to implement strong privacy controls with the Timeline integration to make it completely clear to users what they're sharing and when. | |
| State of the Linux Kernel 2011 | Top |
 The Linux Foundation provides a vendor neutral home for long-term collaboration on the Linux kernel. They provide Linux creator Linus Torvalds and Greg Kroah-Hartman, Linus' right-hand man, the opportunity to work full-time on Linux. And they prepare a semi-annual report on the state of the Linux kernel, which is a fascinating examination of the most successful collaborative software development project in history. The full report is quite interesting, and has a number of interesting observations about Linux development. A couple of highlights are worth closer examination. Almost 8,000 individual developers have contributed to the Linux kernel, and 1,000 of those have been new contributors within the last year. Interestingly, the report states that "In any given development cycle, approximately 1/3 of the developers involved contribute exactly one patch." The top ten contributors for the last five years account for 9% of the total work on the kernel; and 20% of the work is directly attributable to the top 20 kernel developers. Ironically, Linus Torvalds doesn't appear as a top contributor in the current report. "Linus remains an active and crucial part of the development process; his contribution cannot be measured just by the number of changes made," the report states. Because Linus, Greg KH and other kernel maintainers "put more time into the review and management of patches from others, they write fewer patches of their own." | |
| The Tap Lab Raises $550K To Seed Some Hits in Location-Based Mobile Gaming | Top |
 While there have been a few sizable funding rounds for location-based mobile games, the field is still wide open. Today it gets a new contender with The Tap Lab, a Cambridge-based startup and alum of the TechStars incubator, that lets players compete to take over real-world venues. The company is raising $550,000 funding from Harmonix co-founders Alex Rigopulos and Eran Egozy, Google's Don Dodge, Mike Dornbrook of Common Angels and other angel investors. They're using it to fund a sequel called Tap City 2. | |
| AmazonWireless Exits Beta, Now Offers Price-Matching Guarantee, $25 Worth Of Free Mobile Apps | Top |
 AmazonWireless.com, Amazon's dedicated shopping site for cell phone and tablet buyers, is finally exiting beta today, following its launch in July of 2009. The change in status may mean nothing to regular mobile shoppers, who have long known of and used the service to compare devices, or who were attracted there when Amazon ran crazy sales - like when it listed all its Verizon phones for just a penny, for example. It has also be known to offer some impressive discounts on flagship phones, such as the $199 Galaxy Nexus and the $111.11 Droid RAZR. But Amazon hopes to get on the radar of all mainstream users as it goes public, which has led it to launch two new benefits for customers: a price-matching guarantee and $25 worth of free mobile apps with purchase. | |
| Shazam Can Now Identify Your Content In As Little As A Second | Top |
 Shazam has long been described as magic. You hear a song — perhaps a brand new one or maybe one that you've heard a million times but never knew the name of — and all you do is simply tap one button and information on that song is delivered directly to you. Magic. But even magicians improve their act, which is why Shazam has today released an update that makes its content recognition even faster than it already is, with some tags appearing in as little as a second. The update will make all of Shazam's iOS apps, including its Encore and (RED) apps, speedier in terms of content recognition, but there are a few other tweaks coming with the update. | |
| 1000Memories Introduces "Shoeboxes" For More Private Photo Sharing | Top |
 1000Memories, the startup behind the ShoeBox iPhone application, which lets you "scan" old photographs and post them online using your mobile phone's camera, is now introducing a new feature to help you better organize your digital collections. The feature is called, not surprisingly, "Shoeboxes," and it's meant to become the digital equivalent of the actual shoeboxes you have stuffed with photos sitting in your closets. But scanning in a shoebox's worth of photographs using an iPhone's camera would be highly inefficient, of course. To help speed things up, 1000Memories is also announcing a partnership with ScanCafe, allowing you to ship off your photos for offsite digitization. | |
| Please Don't Let This Be What The EVO One Looks Like | Top |
 Well, I suppose it was bound to happen. Just one day before HTC and Sprint kick off their so-called collaboration event in New York City, the team at PocketNow has gotten their hands on what they claim is the first press shot of the device to be unveiled: the EVO One. The device's supposed internals sure seem to be a treat, at least according to a tip that Android Central received a few days ago. The ICS-powered EVO One is expected to sport a 1.5GHz dual-core Snapdragon S4 processor, a 4.7-inch 720p AMOLED display (which The Verge rightly notes is a slight letdown compared to the One X's Super LCD 2 panel), an LTE radio, 16GB of onboard storage, and Beats Audio support. | |
| Facebook 'Missed Irish Data Protection Deadline', Says Consumer Group. Facebook Objects | Top |
 As Facebook has continued its rapid rise, one thing it has not been able to shake off are questions over how it deals with user data and privacy. That issue is getting revisited again today in Europe, where a consumer rights group says that Facebook has missed a deadline, set by Ireland's Data Protection Commissioner, to make a number of changes to comply with European data protection laws. That group is now encouraging consumers to take the fight to the next level and make formal complaints to the European Commission over the issue. But TechCrunch understands that Facebook, whose international headquarters are located in Ireland, is working on changes that will be implemented in time for a later deadline of July 2012. | |
| Help Recreate Leisure Suit Larry For The 21st Century | Top |
 Back in the olden days of gaming, it was either feast or famine. You had simple, kiddie stuff like Super Mario Brothers or you had Flight Simulator, a game that included a manual thicker than the Chicago phone book. But what about the casual, adult gamer who wanted a fun adventure involving a little risque ribaldry? Bupkus. Until Leisure Suit Larry from Sierra came along. And Leisure Suit Larry is coming along again. | |
| Gamification Platform BigDoor Raises $5 Million From Foundry Group | Top |
 White label gamification platform BigDoor has raised $5 million in new funding led by existing investor Foundry Group, bringing BigDoor's total funding to $13 million. BigDoor's gamification platform essentially allows online publishers to add game mechanics to web interactions and engagements. BigDoor helps companies build game-like mechanics and loyalty programs into their sites or apps by enabling points, badges, levels, leaderboards, virtual currency and virtual goods. | |
| YouTube Marketing Gets Serious: Buddy Media Lets Brands Customize Channels With Apps | Top |
 One-hundred million views, 100 thousand subscribers, and brands still don't have special tools for still customizing their YouTube channels. That changes today as social marketing platform Buddy Media begins letting its big brand clients deck out their YouTube channels with stylized video players and interactive apps. Twitter feeds, e-commerce storefronts, quizzes, linked banners, photo galleries and more can all be hosted on a channel. The same way brands doubled down on Facebook Page marketing once they could host apps, I think we're about to see a major uptick in the time and money they spend manicuring their YouTube channels. Too many captive eyeballs are going to waste. | |
| Goodsie Lets Small Retailers Set Up Sleek E-Commerce Storefronts | Top |
 Goodsie, a startup founded by the parent company of Flavors.me, wants to provide a simple, and relatively inexpensive way for any merchant to set up an e-commerce storefront. The platform, which launched last year, is getting an upgrade today with the release of a number of new tools that help retailers increase customer engagement and cross-platform engagement. A new email marketing system allows retailers to send targeted campaigns to customers based on order history, purchase amount and geography. The feature gives retailers the ability to add personalization to the mix, but without having to spend massive amounts of money on data analysis. Via a drag-and-drop interface, merchants can create these email campaigns that integrate with Goodsie's backend. Goodsie also provides a simple form for customers to sign-up for emails. | |
| RR Donnelly Invests $2.5M In CoffeeTable To Bring Retail Catalogs Into The Tablet Age | Top |
 RR Donnelly isn't a name you see very often in TechCrunch, but companies don't survive for nearly 150 years without having one eye trained on the future. With 2011 revenues at an estimated $10.6 billion, the company is one of the world's largest commercial printers. The printing giant has been stepping up its digital investments of late, and today announced that it has invested $2.5 million in Real Value Corporation, the makers of iPad shopping app, CoffeeTable. | |
| Join Wil Wheaton And Friends In A Rousing Tabletop Gaming Session | Top |
| If you're a fan of Grant Imahara, Will Wheaton, Jenna Busch, or Sean Plott, this may be just the trick. Wheaton and Felicia Day have created a new series called Tabletop which consists of a series of gamers playing tabletop games. Is it boring, you ask? Absolutely not. | |
| Phonedeck Lets You Control Your Cellphone Via The Cloud | Top |
 An interesting new startup bubbling since it exhibited at TechCrunch 50 in the startup battlefield last year is Phonedeck. Effectively, it's created the cloud-based desktop for the mobile phone. That means it can track your outgoing SMS content, but also log calls (though not content). The result? A sudden realisation of you who call, how long for and a lot of other data that was previously invisible. I recall MG Seigler writing that the phone book remained the last mile into social networking. Well Phonedeck might be the bridge across that last mille and it launches into public beta today from Google Play for Android handsets. | |
| Foxconn Recruiter: We're 'Hiring' For A June iPhone 5 Launch | Top |
 Come one, come all! Come build the iPhone 5! In a conversation with TV Tokyo, a Foxconn recruiter mentions that the company is hiring more workers right now to prep for the iPhone 5 launch. "It seems like it will go on sale around June," he said. The manufacturing giant is apparently looking to add 18,000 souls to its assembly lines to build something. | |
| Self-Hosted File Sync Solution ownCloud Goes Commercial | Top |
 People love Dropbox and similar services, but companies -- especially large enterprises in regulated industries -- have an understandable aversion to file sync services: they allow company data on servers "out there" in the cloud, no longer under company control. ownCloud, essentially an open source, self-hosted Dropbox, has a unique advantage here as it's strictly a software solution, not a storage provider. I mentioned ownCloud in passing when I wrote about OpenSUSE 12.1, but I've been keeping an eye on the project since. To make ownCloud even more attractive to businesses, a commercially supported version is being launched today at owncloud.com. The ownCloud server does a bit more than just file storage and synchronization. It offers CalDAV and CardDAV services to synchronize calendars and address books with your mobile device. Work is also underway to make it aware of the file types being stored within it, and to provide meaningful actions based on those types: photo galleries, music playlists, and more. There's a growing ownCloud app store to extend what the server can do. This is the power of open source: rather than relying on something like ifttt, you can have intelligent actions built right into the server you're running. | |
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