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- App.net Now Has 20,000 Users, Drops Its Price From $50 To $36 Per Year, Introduces A $5 Per Month Plan
- Apple Support: Purple Flaring Is "Normal Behavior" For iPhone 5 Camera
- Braintree Streamlines Sign-Ups, Cuts Fees For Developers To Bring Payments To Their Apps
- MindTouch Social Help System Aligns With Salesforce Ecosystem, Exemplifies What Oracle Lacks
- App Map For iOS Lets You See What Apps Are Popular In Your Area
- Rumor: Google Wants To Acquire Facial Recognition Startup Viewdle For $30M
- Remember Ultrabooks? Yeah, That Was A Good Time
- Facebook Acqhires Founders Of Carsabi Who Will Sell Off Their Car Price Comparison Site
- Google 1, Theocracy 0: Iranians Successfully Demand Gmail Be Unblocked
- Tablet Owners Read More News, Longer Articles: Report
- Why Do Colleges Need A Law For Free Digital Textbooks When We Have The Internet?
- Now A German VC Wants To Use TV To Launch Tech Companies
- Facebook's Brad Smallwood Offers More Data On Ad Effectiveness, Says Datalogix Partnership Isn't A Privacy Risk
- So Long To Apple's Music Social Network: Ping, We Hardly Knew Ye
- The Lunatik Taktik Case Arms Your iPhone For Danger With Rugged Style
- YouTube Partners With ABC News To Offer Its First-Ever Live Stream Of The U.S. Presidential Debates
- Amazon Has Nothing To Worry About. Oracle Will Never Win The Cloud Without Developers
- Google Catalogs Comes To The Web, Now Integrated With Google Shopping
- Kleiner Perkins Now Accepting Applications For Its Second Annual Engineering Fellows Program
- NYT Election Oracle, Nate Silver, On Why Blogging Is Great For Science
| App.net Now Has 20,000 Users, Drops Its Price From $50 To $36 Per Year, Introduces A $5 Per Month Plan | Top |
 App.net just announced some price changes to its Twitter-like service focused on unlimited API usage. The major change is a much needed 40 percent price drop for its yearly subscription. It now costs $36 per year. In addition to adjusting existing plans, the company is announcing another plan to try out the service. You can subscribe for $5 a month while you are uncertain about using the service or not. | |
| Apple Support: Purple Flaring Is "Normal Behavior" For iPhone 5 Camera | Top |
 Earlier, we reported that Apple's iPhone 5 seemed to have some issues with purple flaring when taking photos with a light source just in or off frame, as reported by a number of users and duplicated in tests. Today, Gizmodo reader Matt Van Gastel received a response from Apple's engineering team routed through a support representative which essentially says that behavior isn't cause for concern. | |
| Braintree Streamlines Sign-Ups, Cuts Fees For Developers To Bring Payments To Their Apps | Top |
 Braintree already counts Uber, Fab and Airbnb among its clientele for processing payments and it's seeing $1 billion a year in mobile transactions. Now it's trying to give rival Paypal even more of a run by cutting fees and easing the sign-up process for developers. They're offering instant approval for new merchant accounts, which means a developer can add payments to their apps in about 30 minutes. This is instead of either having to wait several days for approval or partnering with a payment aggregator. | |
| MindTouch Social Help System Aligns With Salesforce Ecosystem, Exemplifies What Oracle Lacks | Top |
 MindTouch is a services company that has done what innovative companies do: taken the concept of the user manual and turned it on its head. Its technology exemplifies what Oracle lacks and the advantage that Salesforce.com has in the market by developing an app ecosystem. | |
| App Map For iOS Lets You See What Apps Are Popular In Your Area | Top |
 One of the things that I usually end up doing at a bar, either after a few drinks or massive boredom, is discuss my latest favorite iOS apps. You know what I'm talking about, a bunch of nerds sitting around a few adult beverages with bright screens flickering. I'll usually say something stupid like "What do you think about the new Facebook update?" Lame, maybe. Fun, yes. | |
| Rumor: Google Wants To Acquire Facial Recognition Startup Viewdle For $30M | Top |
 Google, according to a report by Forbes, has acquired Viewdle, an augmented reality and facial recognition startup. Forbes says the price was likely around $30 million, but we are still trying to confirm both the acquisition and the price. | |
| Remember Ultrabooks? Yeah, That Was A Good Time | Top |
 An IHS report has estimated that 10.3 million Ultrabooks shipped (not sold) worldwide in 2012, a considerably change from their original forecast of 22 million sold this year. 2013 should be OK, though, right? Wrong. IHS is expecting sales of 44 million in 2013, down from a forecast of 61 million. Now those numbers are arguably nothing to sneeze at. There are dozens of OEMs and resellers flogging their wares and with Windows 8 around the corner it's hard to convince the average consumer to pick up an ultralight let alone a PC. | |
| Facebook Acqhires Founders Of Carsabi Who Will Sell Off Their Car Price Comparison Site | Top |
 Facebook's has just closed a deal to hire Dwight Crow and Christopher Berner, the two founders and only teammates of Y Combinator used car price comparison site Carsabi. The founders are now looking to sell the site so it can live on even though Facebook won't be needing it. Facebook tells me there wasn't something specific that attracted it to the co-founders other than that "they're awesome entrepreneurs". It won't say what team the founders will be joining. However, we see fitting in behind the wheel of Facebook Gifts or Events. Here's why. | |
| Google 1, Theocracy 0: Iranians Successfully Demand Gmail Be Unblocked | Top |
 Iranians once again enjoy the crushing freedom to spend their days writing emails, deleting spam, and responding to queries to "keep in touch." After Iran cut off access to the country's favorite Google services, citizens and officials were united in protest for their love for Gmail, which is now accessible again. The initial block was in response to an anti-Islamic film on Youtube that caused global unrest, "We wanted to block YouTube, and Gmail was also blocked, which was involuntary," said Iran's telecommunications ministry committee, "We do not yet have enough technical know-how to differentiate between these two services." | |
| Tablet Owners Read More News, Longer Articles: Report | Top |
 A new study from Pew Research claims that the more devices we use, the more news we consume. In fact, rather than splitting the time spent consuming news between, say, a smartphone and a tablet, most users who own both devices tend to double the amount of time spent reading the news. According to the report, which was based on a survey of 9,513 U.S. adults conducted from June-August 2012, tablet owners in particular tend to read more in-depth news pieces, using their slate most in the hours before and after work. | |
| Why Do Colleges Need A Law For Free Digital Textbooks When We Have The Internet? | Top |
 A new California law funding the replacement of expensive college textbooks with free digital versions is being hailed as a "big step forward" in the press. California, whose massive university system was influential enough to change the SAT for the entire country, will now fund an inter-university council to produce 50 freely available digital textbooks for common lower division courses--perhaps spelling the end of college textbooks. | |
| Now A German VC Wants To Use TV To Launch Tech Companies | Top |
 Yesterday it was revealed that TV guru Simon Cowell planned to create a new TV show to find the next tech superstar, in the same way X-Factor launches the careers of new musicians. The Sun, newspaper said the former American Idol and current X Factor judge was teaming up with Black Eyed Peas rapper Will.i.am to develop the show, probably in the UK. And it now seems other companies are jumping on the TV bandwagon. A German company now plans to use TV to launch new tech companies - but there's a twist. | |
| Facebook's Brad Smallwood Offers More Data On Ad Effectiveness, Says Datalogix Partnership Isn't A Privacy Risk | Top |
 Facebook has been doing a lot of talking in the last day or so about its recently announced partnership with Datalogix — the company published blog posts explaining both the privacy implications and summarizing the results that advertisers have already seen. And Facebook's head of measurement and insights Brad Smallwood is at the IAB MIXX conference today, where he gave a talk about the partnership. The goal of the partnership is to track whether Facebook ad campaigns are driving in-store sales, and to find the common themes among the campaigns that work. Facebook and Datalogix have tracked about 50 ad campaigns, from which they have already drawn three general lessons. | |
| So Long To Apple's Music Social Network: Ping, We Hardly Knew Ye | Top |
 Ping was scheduled for unceremonious termination at the end of September, and now it's definitely gone dark. Clicking on the Ping link in the iTunes sidebar now returns an error, if it even still appears there. Our own Josh Constine foretold its demise back in September, and now it's gone, both on mobile and the desktop. | |
| The Lunatik Taktik Case Arms Your iPhone For Danger With Rugged Style | Top |
 If there's one person who's nailed the art of Kickstarter-driven hardware production, it's Scott Wilson. The designer's MNML studio had considerable success with the crowdfunding site, which helped launch his Lunatik iPod nano watch bands, a stylus called the Touch Pen, and now the Taktik heavy-duty protective iPhone case. The last is just making its way out to market (for iPhone 4/4S – iPhone 5 coming soon), and I've been provided with a review unit to take for a test drive. | |
| YouTube Partners With ABC News To Offer Its First-Ever Live Stream Of The U.S. Presidential Debates | Top |
 For the first time ever, YouTube will offer a live video stream of the U.S. presidential and vice presidential debates this year. To do this, YouTube has partnered with ABC News and the debates will stream on ABC News' YouTube channel and YouTube's Election Hub. The four debates, which will start on October 3 at 9pm ET, will be available for YouTube viewers around the world. YouTube's election page will also feature commentary and analysis from seven other partners: Al Jazeera English, BuzzFeed, Larry King, New York Times, Phil DeFranco, Univision and the Wall Street Journal. | |
| Amazon Has Nothing To Worry About. Oracle Will Never Win The Cloud Without Developers | Top |
 Amazon has nothing to worry about. Oracle will never win the cloud without developers. No matter what Larry Ellison says on stage at Oracle Open World, Oracle will never match Amazon Web Services' (AWS) first-class treatment of the developer community. Nor will Oracle even try: it's a vertical iron machine that Ellison believes has the power to be the new "cloud" for IT. It is not a horizontal distributed, self-service environment that you get when you use AWS. | |
| Google Catalogs Comes To The Web, Now Integrated With Google Shopping | Top |
 Google Catalogs launched as an iPad and Android app in August 2011. Just ahead of the holiday shopping season, Google is now also making this service available on the web. Google Catalogs on the web will feature brochures from about 300 brands, including the likes of Williams-Sonoma, J.Crew, Eddie Bauer, and Bose. From within the catalogs, shoppers can click on featured items to get more information and, of course, buy them from the retailers' own sites. | |
| Kleiner Perkins Now Accepting Applications For Its Second Annual Engineering Fellows Program | Top |
 Last year, venture firm Kleiner Perkins debuted its plans for a summer internship program to place top engineering talent from colleges at the firm's portfolio companies. The benefit is two-fold: students get to work at the startup level and are mentored (and have the prestige of Kleiner Perkins on their resume), and startups get access to young engineering talent. After a successful inaugural program this summer, the venture firm is now accepting applications for the 2013 class. | |
| NYT Election Oracle, Nate Silver, On Why Blogging Is Great For Science | Top |
 "I think a lot of journal articles should really be blogs," says The New York Times' election prediction expert, Nate Silver. "You kind of throw different information at people that way and entrust the reader to come to their own conclusions." Now that Silver has managed to puncture the once pundit-dominated news cycle with statistical prudence, he's on a mission to rekindle our collective faith in statistics by making nuance and uncertainty sexy with his new book, The Signal and the Noise. Silver tells TechCrunch that intelligent prediction is messy, biased, and iterative -- all the characteristics that don't lend themselves to grand pronouncements in 30-second soundbites. Blogs, instead, lend themselves to an honest back-and-forth about the sausage of statistical conclusions, which can, hopefully, create a more respected class of experts and a more informed public. | |
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