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Apple Seeks Patent For Headphones That Can Go From Wired To Wireless In An Instant Top
12.10.04-Headphone-3A new patent application uncovered by AppleInsider today shows that Apple's is working on ways to make hybrid headphones that work via both Bluetooth and a wired connection, and can switch seamlessly between the two. It's a system that's designed to come in handy during physical activity, complete with the ability to recharge directly from the attached device.
 
Big Data Company RainStor Raises $12 Million Series C From Credit Suisse And Rogers Venture Partners Top
rainstor-logoRainStor, makers of a "NewSQL" database, announced that has received a $12 million series C round led by Credit Suisse And Rogers Venture Partners with participation by previous investors Doughty Hanson Technology Ventures, Storm Ventures and The Dow Chemical Company. The company has now raised at least $23.5 million.
 
AAP Publishers Get More Control Over Google As They Settle 7-Year Copyright Infringement Suit Over Google Library Project Top
books_logoGoogle has finally made some headway on the litigation over copyright infringement for the Google Library Project; and the deal puts in place another key piece of the puzzle for Google Books. Google has reached a settlement with the Association of American Publishers, ending a seven-year legal dispute over the use of books and journals by Google in its Library Project. The suit was first filed in 2005 by McGraw-Hill, Penguin USA, Simon & Schuster, Pearson Education and John Wiley. It was one of a number of legal actions taken by publishers against the search giant as it moved further into books. Among those, Google is still in dispute with the Authors Guild, although it appears to now be working through another high-profile dispute, with French publishers.
 
This Robotic Museum Docent Will Lead You To Your Doom (Or The Next Exhibit) Top
BIB street smartBIB is a line-following robot that just took a job at the Technical Museum in Malmo, Sweden. She leads guests around the exhibits, talking about each one, and she stares at them malevolently with her single LCD eye. Voiced by Swedish comedienne Anna Blomberg, BIB can keep herself from hitting other patrons and will ask for help if she falls over or falls off her line.
 
Moveline's New Mobile App Makes Moving Even Simpler Top
Screen shot 2012-10-04 at 10.45.51 AMTechStars NYC graduate Moveline is having a big day. The company's mission to alleviate the struggle of moving your home just got that much sweeter, with the introduction of an iPhone app.
 
Flipboard Begins Sourcing Content From Kickstarter, Picks Projects Focused On Future Of Publishing Top
kickstarter_blogFlipboard, the popular social news magazine for iOS and Android, is now turning its editorial eye to the land of KickStarter. Starting today, the company will begin sourcing projects from the crowdsourced funding platform which it will then include in various sections of its Content Guide. Because Flipboard is most interested in the future of publishing and content distribution, the initial group of projects selected focus specifically on that subject matter. Going forward, Flipboard says it expects to add a couple more projects per month to its curated content collections.
 
Nokia Lumia 920, Lumia 820 To Hit AT&T Shelves In November Top
lumia920AT&T has just announced plans to carry Nokia's new flagship Windows Phone 8 devices, the Lumia 920 and the Lumia 820. Nokia fans have been excited about these for a while, considering that Windows Phone 8 brings a bit more capacity for impressive specs, and Nokia has added its Pureview imaging to the flagship 920.
 
Jolla Confirms It Will Unveil Sailfish MeeGo-Based OS Next Month Top
jolla_colorFinnish mobile startup Jolla has announced it will be unveiling its forthcoming MeeGo-based mobile OS -- codenamed Sailfish -- at an event in Finland next month. It says it plans to demonstrate Sailfish at the Slush startup conference in Helsinki, Finland, on November 21-22.
 
Amazon Lowers Cloud Drive Prices, Announces Availability In Italy, Spain In Addition To UK, Germany, France Top
Amazon Cloud DriveAmazon introduces Cloud Drive in Italy and Spain following September's launch in the UK, Germany and France. Cloud Drive is Amazon's digital locker offering to complete its media offering. As the Kindle Fire is expected to launch in Europe in the coming days, Cloud Drive will allow users to store their photos, music and documents in the cloud and stream this data to a Kindle Fire or a computer.
 
Flayvr, A Mobile App That Automatically Creates Photo Albums, Raises $450K Seed Round Top
flayvr playerThe proliferation of smartphones has made it incredibly easy for us to take numerous photos and record videos, but it has also left us to deal with massive media archives stored on our devices. When you need to locate one specific photo, or find those you shot at a given event, it can be difficult. A new mobile application called Flayvr, aims to help with this by automatically organizing photos and videos into collections, titling them appropriately, and offering tools for quick, one-click sharing to social networks. The company, based in Tel Aviv, has also just closed on a seed round of $450,000 from Israeli angel investors.
 
ZocDoc Debuts 'Check-In' To Let You Fill Out Those Pesky Medical Forms Before Your Doctor Visit Top
Screen Shot 2012-10-03 at 10.33.04 PMZocDoc, the startup that makes a web-centric booking platform for medical appointments, today is launching its first new product since its inception: ‘Check-In,’ a service that lets patients fill out those pesky medical forms online prior to their doctor’s appointment. ZocDoc says that Check-In will be free for patients and come at no additional cost to medical providers who are existing users of ZocDoc. The Check-In feature also saves patient information so that forms can be pre-filled before appointments. According to ZocDoc, this has been the top requested feature from current ZocDoc users. The roll-out of Check-In will be gradual — starting today, 10 percent of ZocDoc patients will be able to use the feature, and it will be rolled out to all users over the coming weeks. On the whole, ZocDoc’s growth has been going strong since it launched way back in 2007. The company currently works with healthcare providers in 31 metro areas in the United States, and is available in a total of 1400 cities, purportedly covering more than 1/3 of the US population. ZocDoc has raised some serious venture capital funding from big-name backers — a total of $95 million to date from the likes of Goldman Sachs, Khosla Ventures and DST Global, to name just a few. Healthcare is an increasingly attractive space for tech founders, but it’s also a very difficult one to get a real foothold in; so it’s good to see ZocDoc iterating on products that could have broad consumer usefulness and appeal such as Check-In. Here are a few screenshots of ZocDoc Check-In (click to enlarge):
 
With Over 7M Users On The iPhone, Camera Awesome Goes Big Screen With An iPad App Top
camera-aweesome-ipadSmugMug's Camera Awesome is an App Store success story, with more than 7 million users on board since its debut on Apple's mobile software marketplace earlier this year in February. Now, SmugMug is hoping that success can extend to the iPad, with a new, universal version of its app that brings a lot of photographer-focused feature to Apple's big-screen iOS device.
 
TomTom Outs A $50 Android Navigation App, Forgets To Make It Compatible With Popular Phones Top
tomtomFirst, the good news: There is now a full-featured TomTom navigation Android app. It features live traffic data, multi-stop routing, and a gorgeous interface. But there is a bit of bad news, too. In fact it's rather funny in a sad way: The app is not compatible with recent flagship devices including the Galaxy Nexus, Galaxy S III, HTC One X, and Galaxy Note.
 
Facebook Launches Brand Advertising Campaign Aimed At Users In 13 Countries Top
Screen Shot 2012-10-04 at 8.45.00 AMFacebook also announced today that it will be kicking off an advertising campaign to promote its brand, specifically targeting 13 countries including Brazil, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Philippines, Russia, Spain, U.K., and the U.S. The campaign will appear in 12 different languages and will be housed on Facebook itself.
 
Pressing Play's The Thing: Publisher Uses Apple's iBooks Author Tool To Build iPad Editions Of Shakespeare Top
Discover the ShakesperienceSourcebooks, a U.S. book publisher, has used Apple's iBooks Author tool to launch iPad editions of three Shakespeare plays on Apple's iBooks 2 store. The iBooks include extra content focused on the history of each play's performance -- including photos, videos and audio clips of readings from various actors, along with study-friendly staples such as glossary resources, note-taking and highlighting features.
 
From The Smoke And Fire Dept: Huawei Denies (Again) It's Launching Its Own Mobile OS Top
Image (1) huawei-logo-300x219.jpg for post 47109Last week saw a little skirmish in the mobile platform wars, when news broke that Huawei, which makes smartphones based on Google's Android OS, was working on an operating system of its own -- first reported by Reuters and then picked up by others. Curious to hear from the horse's mouth, we got in touch. And it turns out that Huawei, in fact, has "no plans" to launch an OS any time soon.
 
Acer Details Iconia W700 Windows 8 11.6-inch Tablet PC, Available October 26 Starting At $799 Top
Acer Iconia W700 with keyboard angledToday Acer officially unveiled the U.S. and Canadian availability, pricing and full spec list of its Iconia W700 Windows 8 tablet. The tablets will ship on October 26, the same day Windows 8 is scheduled for its public release, which should provide us with an early look at how third-party offerings will perform in a market that's yet to really be proven.
 
Anything Qype Can Do, We Can Do Four Years Later: Yelp Enters Poland Top
yelp logoLocal reviews site Yelp -- which is up against big competition in Europe in competitor Qype -- has launched Yelp Poland, giving it a stronger base in Central Europe. The U.S.-based publicly listed company already has a Central European presence in Germany (launched in July 2010), Austria (launched in October 2012), and Switzerland (launched in September 2011) --- though Qype itself is also present in those countries and launched in Poland as far back as December 2008.
 
Accel Partners Big Data Fund Invests $4.3 Million In Trifacta Top
trifacta-logoToday Trifacta, a company building a cross-platform interface for dealing with big data, announced that it received a $4.3 million investment from the Accel Partners Big Data Fund. The company also raised money from X/Seed Capital, Data Collective LLC, Dave Goldberg, Venky Harinarayan and Anand Rajaraman. Trifacta is a team of computer scientists with deep experience in data visualization trying to pull off one of the holy grails of data tech: making big data accessible to the non-Phd level analyst.
 
White Bull Summit In Barcelona Puts A Filter On The Exit Market In Europe Top
Barcelona_1009_102For the past three years the White Bull Summit in Barcelona has been doing something that too few tech conferences in Europe really do: talk about exits for startups. In recent times it's become so common to have a conference about early stage startups that almost no-one has really concentrated on this crucial life-cycle for companies, and perhaps the only other contender for this discussion has be NOAH in London which tends to attract late stage VC and Private Equity. So it's refreshing to see founder Farley Duvall continue to plough this furrow. Duvall piloted Red Herring's brand in Europe for many years, but with the decline of that brand he has struck out with his own, so he's as much an entrepreneur as the tech companies he puts on stage.
 

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