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- iOS 6 Adoption At Just Over One Week: 60% For iPhone And 41% For iPad
- Business Dashboards Get Instant Widgets, And Geckoboard Gets $1.5M From Top Investors
- BlackBerry 10 Touch, Qwerty Devices Leak In Video; RIM Wants Lady Gaga To Help Sell BB10
- Neil Young Begins His Long Quest Towards True Audio Fidelity With Pono, A New Music Service And Device
- Socialize's New Ad Platform Turns Passbook Passes Into Mobile Ads
- Pay-By-Keyword Startup Seconds Refocuses As A Way To Make Anyone A Merchant
- Google Maps, Now With More High-Res Satellite And 45° Aerial Imagery
- Tim Cook Apologizes For Apple Maps, Points To Competitive Alternatives
- Apple's iPhone 5 Availability Expands: What It Means To Regional Carriers
- Survey: Younger Shoppers Increasingly Using Mobiles To Buy And Compare
- MyVR Raises $1.4M From YC, SV Angel, Chris Dixon To Attack The $85B Vacation Rental Industry
- New Pricing For Amazon RDS Running Oracle Database To Build, Test and Run Low-Traffic Apps
- Which Founders Use FoundersCard? Craig Newmark, Kevin Rose, Leah Busque & 8K Others
- If You Had Remote Access To Your Neighbor's Printer, What Would You Print?
- Pluralis Takes A Crowdsourced Approach To Improving Your Landing Pages
- An Afternoon With Bad Piggies, Rovio's Next Hit
- Most Docks Should Work With The Lightning Adapter And iPhone 5
- Employers Banned From Asking For Social Media Passwords In California
- Brit + Co. Gets Into E-Commerce With 'Brit Kits', Monthly Deliveries Of All Things Crafty
- App.net Will Start Paying Developers $20K A Month To Be Part Of Its Ecosystem, Beginning October 1
| iOS 6 Adoption At Just Over One Week: 60% For iPhone And 41% For iPad | Top |
 Adoption of Apple's iOS 6 continues to trend upwards, with touch-friendly website conversion provider Onswipe seeing more users flocking to the newly-released platform, despite its apparent shortcomings. Based on a sample of 100,000 users coming through Onswipe's partner sites Friday morning, the company is seeing 59.43% of iPhone traffic from iOS 6 devices, and 41.3% of iPad traffic coming from those who've upgraded to the latest version. | |
| Business Dashboards Get Instant Widgets, And Geckoboard Gets $1.5M From Top Investors | Top |
 Geckoboard, the London-based developer of an online dashboard product that lets businesses monitor company-related information in real time through the use of widgets, has today announced two key pieces of news to fuel its growth: it has picked up its first round of funding, of $1.5 million, and it is launching a new feature that lets users create their own widgets for all the services that they would want to run on that dashboard. The funding comes from a top list of investors led by Index Ventures that also includes 500 Startups, DN Capital, HootSuite CEO Ryan Holmes, Path CEO Dave Morin, Alexander Bruehl, Christoph Janz and John Hunt, and it is through that investment that Geckoboard has been able to launch the new product. | |
| BlackBerry 10 Touch, Qwerty Devices Leak In Video; RIM Wants Lady Gaga To Help Sell BB10 | Top |
 RIM is still bathing in the afterglow of yesterday's Q2 2013 fiscal results not being as awful as some had feared. The company remains in the invidious position of having to flog an out-of-date OS (BB7) while it tries to get its next-gen OS, BB10, ready for lift-off at the start of next year. The wait for BB10 devices goes on -- but two of RIM's forthcoming BB10 phones have surfaced online in what appears to be an internal marketing video posted to Vimeo (but since taken down). | |
| Neil Young Begins His Long Quest Towards True Audio Fidelity With Pono, A New Music Service And Device | Top |
| Singer-songwriter-rocker Neil Young has been talking about problems with modern audio codecs for decades. He was angry at CDs back in the 1990s and most recently he lashed out against MP3s and digital audio compression at a popular tech conference, saying "My goal is to try to rescue the art form that I've been practicing for the past 50 years. We live in the digital age and, unfortunately, it's degrading our music, not improving it … It's not that digital is bad or inferior, it's that the way it's being used isn't doing justice to the art. The MP3 only has 5 percent of the data present in the original recording. … The convenience of the digital age has forced people to choose between quality and convenience, but they shouldn't have to make that choice." | |
| Socialize's New Ad Platform Turns Passbook Passes Into Mobile Ads | Top |
 Let our Passbook obsession continue! Since the debut of Apple's pseudo-mobile wallet in iOS 6 earlier this month, the extended developer community has rushed to deliver value-add solutions built on top of the platform. There have been Passbook loyalty card and coupon creation apps, tools to send Passbook mobile coupons via SMS, and now this - a solution that turns a Passbook pass into a 320x50 mobile ad unit that can be shown anywhere. | |
| Pay-By-Keyword Startup Seconds Refocuses As A Way To Make Anyone A Merchant | Top |
 Seattle-based mobile payments startup Seconds today unveiled a new direction for its product, looking to fill some of the space left behind by the acquisition of competitor Venmo and Square's growing focus on expanding beyond independent, small business merchants. Seconds now wants to make it possible for anyone with a mobile device to make or receive a payment, as Seconds CEO and founder puts it, addressing the "increasingly thin line between merchant and consumer." | |
| Google Maps, Now With More High-Res Satellite And 45° Aerial Imagery | Top |
 Google Maps gets more awesome by the day. Earlier this week, the service started rolling out stunning underwater imagery- if you will, a seaview mode. Now Google took to the Google Maps blog to announces the inclusion of more high resolution images including a major build-out of 45-degree images. This update brings a lot of new data to the mapping service. Google Maps and Earth now features 17 cities and 112 countries and regions with high-resolution aerial and satellite imagery. In addition, 51 cities can now be viewed in a 45-degree mode including 37 cities in the US and 14 abroad (full list below). It's never been easier to burn a little time and escape from your cubical to a far away land. | |
| Tim Cook Apologizes For Apple Maps, Points To Competitive Alternatives | Top |
 Apple has finally made a real statement to its customers apologizing about the Maps drama that's been unfolding over the past few weeks with the introduction of iOS 6. According to CEO Tim Cook, the company "fell short" on its commitment to bring world-class products to its customers. Last week, the only comment we got out of Apple was that this is "just the start." Within the letter, Cook makes mention of Google Maps being the first version of Maps on iOS, but that "as time progressed, [they] wanted to provide customers with even better Maps including features such as turn-by-turn directions, voice integration, Flyover and vector-based maps." | |
| Apple's iPhone 5 Availability Expands: What It Means To Regional Carriers | Top |
 Apple isn't delaying bringing its latest iPhone to regional carriers this time around, with launches across the U.S. going out today, at a list of carriers that includes C Spire, Bluegrass Cellular, Appalachian Wireless, Alaska GCI, Cricket Wireless, Cellcom and nTelos Wireless. It's a change from the way things used to work that's significant for both the carriers and their customers, in a market when access to hardware is a key competitive metric. | |
| Survey: Younger Shoppers Increasingly Using Mobiles To Buy And Compare | Top |
 The rising star of mulitchannel retail is mobile, according to a survey of U.S. and U.K. consumers conducted by a digital marketing group Econsultancy. It's not a particularly surprising finding -- given the capabilities and pervasiveness of today's smartphones -- but the findings underline the expanding role mobiles are playing in shoppers' lives. | |
| MyVR Raises $1.4M From YC, SV Angel, Chris Dixon To Attack The $85B Vacation Rental Industry | Top |
 Thanks to the HomeAways and Airbnbs of the world, more and more people are looking to rent their apartments and homes. There are currently some six million active vacation rentals in the U.S. and Europe, and this number is growing. However, the problem is that the vast majority of vacation rental owners aren't taking advantage of the available technology to market, manage or share their properties. MyVR, a San Francisco-based startup that graduated from Y Combinator in March, sees a big opportunity to help owners and operators alleviate the offline pain of managing their vacation rentals and help bring them new (or at least more regular) business. | |
| New Pricing For Amazon RDS Running Oracle Database To Build, Test and Run Low-Traffic Apps | Top |
 Amazon Web Services (AWS) has added a new pricing option for its Relational Database Service (RDS) running on Oracle with a micro instance. The addition follows announcements over the past few months about Oracle on AWS. | |
| Which Founders Use FoundersCard? Craig Newmark, Kevin Rose, Leah Busque & 8K Others | Top |
 In 2009, Eric Kuhn created FoundersCard as a way to give entrepreneurs the same kind of elite programs, perks and networking opportunities traditionally reserved for execs of Fortune 500 companies. By offering discounts on hotels, airfare and business services entrepreneurs and founders use every day -- and by throwing good parties -- its community of entrepreneurs and founders has grown to over 8,000 members. Of course, until now it's been unclear who one might expect to find at a FoundersCard party or using its card when checking into a hotel. | |
| If You Had Remote Access To Your Neighbor's Printer, What Would You Print? | Top |
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| Pluralis Takes A Crowdsourced Approach To Improving Your Landing Pages | Top |
 A startup called Pluralis is taking a 99 Designs-style approach to solving a fairly specific problem — improving the conversion rate on landing pages. Normally, if a business has a landing page that it thinks could be driving more user registrations (or purchases, or whatever they're aiming for), then it has to devote time and resources on a redesign that may or may not actually improve things. With Pluralis, businesses can crowdsource the problem, challenging "creative optimizers" (a category that includes copywriters, designers, and marketers) to compete to create the best page. | |
| An Afternoon With Bad Piggies, Rovio's Next Hit | Top |
 You've probably already heard, but just in case you forgot to wear your Angry Birds merchandise, Bad Piggies has just hit the scene. It's Rovio's latest and greatest, and it brings something slightly different to the mix. Instead of flinging birds through the sky, or space, you're actually much more concerned with the Pigs. The goal is to reach the finish line of a map by constructing vehicles (both terrain and aircraft) and loading pigs inside. | |
| Most Docks Should Work With The Lightning Adapter And iPhone 5 | Top |
 A bit of good news amidst the seeming rubble that is the iPhone 5 launch: the $30 adapter you have to buy to connect your Lightning iPhone 5 to your old and busted iPod dock should stream audio without problem. The folks at audio company Line 6 did some "preliminary tests" and found that: Line 6 is still testing their accessories with iPhone 5, but founder Marcus Ryle tells CDM, "Based on what's been announced, for audio products that operate using USB Host mode and follow Apple approved methods such as CoreAudio and CoreMIDI, I would not expect there to be any technical issue." I asked if they had anything to say about future Lightning support, but Ryle responded, "We continue to be excited about providing music-making devices for iOS devices, but we can't comment on what additional products might be upcoming." | |
| Employers Banned From Asking For Social Media Passwords In California | Top |
 A newly signed California law forbids employers and universities from asking employees and applicants for their social media passwords. The law was hastily developed in response to a string of reports last spring of employers coercing applicants to "voluntarily" allow businesses to snoop through their Facebook accounts as part of the interviewing process. The United States House of Representatives failed in an attempt to ratify a Federal ban, paving the way for states to take up the responsibility. | |
| Brit + Co. Gets Into E-Commerce With 'Brit Kits', Monthly Deliveries Of All Things Crafty | Top |
 For the past year, Silicon Valley's geek-chic answer to Martha Stewart, Brit Morin, has been full speed ahead on Brit + Co., her tech-meets-fashion-media-and-lifestyle startup -- raising $1.25 million, hiring 10 full-time staff (half of whom are engineers), cranking out two mobile apps, snagging big-name partnerships. And the launches just keep coming. | |
| App.net Will Start Paying Developers $20K A Month To Be Part Of Its Ecosystem, Beginning October 1 | Top |
 After raising $500,000 to create an ad-free social platform for developers six weeks ago, Dalton Caldwell's App.net has silently been courting developers to build apps that rely on its APIs. Now it's giving them another reason to build on its platform by offering a financial incentive. In a blog post today, Caldwell announced that the company will begin rewarding developers with at least $20,000 a month, distributing funds based on user feedback about which apps are providing the most value to its users. | |
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