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Morse Launches To Automatically Add Phone Numbers To Contacts From Your Gmail Inbox Top
morse-gmailWhen I want to find a number to actually call someone on the phone and I know it's in an email signature somewhere, I generally search for that person's email address in Gmail and find the number that way. Morse, a Toronto-based startup launching its product today, automates that process to comb your inbox for phone numbers and automatically syncs them with your existing contact information.
 
Everything.me, The Search App That Bridges The Native And HTML5 Divide, Gets $25M From Telefonica, Mozilla And Singtel Top
Everything.me screenshotNative apps are stealing the show when it comes to usage and functionality on mobile devices these days, but a lot of companies continue to hold out hope that more open HTML5-based mobile web services will ultimately win the day. In the meantime, those who can straddle the two worlds beautifully and effectively may end up the winners.
 
Google Street View Visits An Arctic Town And Now Provides A Look At 90 Ski Resorts Worldwide Top
blahGoogle Maps can transport a person stuck in Flint, Mich. to nearly any street in America. Go diving at the Great Barrier Reef. Explore art galleries. And now, thanks to some men in heavy jackets, a lowly cubical drone can now explore a tiny Canadian town in the Arctic circle and more than 90 ski resorts around the world. The Street View team spent a bit of time in the Great White North. As the blog post explains, last August, Google visited the tiny Canadian town of Cambridge Bay, Nunavut. Located in the Kitikmeot Region, this small town with a population of only 1,400, received the full Google Street View treatment. The team mapped all the streets and several of the buildings using the Street View trike and tripods. This place is so far North that if you look closely enough, you’ll probably see Santa or inebriated elves. Google started mapping ski resorts in 2010 in preparation for the Winter Olympics in Vancouver. The imagery was captured using a snowmobile and provided an unparalleled look at the sloops. California-area ski resorts were added in 2011. And just today, Google announced that there are more than 90 ski resorts mapped around the world. With this latest data, Google Maps now has imagery from runs in Switzerland, Sweden, Italy, Canada and even more in the U.S.
 
iPad And Android Tablet Market Share Margin Narrows Much Faster Than Originally Predicted Top
Image (2) apple-samsung-620x253.jpg for post 206796Apple continued to win out in terms of tablet market share this past quarter, according to the latest figures from ABI Research, with a 55 percent share of all shipments during the period. That's a lead it has had since 2010 when the iPad was introduced, but it's also the slimmest lead it's ever had, and represents a dip of 14 percent versus the previous quarter.
 
U.K.'s First 4G Network, EE, Increases Data Limits By ~60% On Some Mobile Broadband Price-Plans; Still No Unlimited Data Tariffs Top
Screen Shot 2012-11-28 at 12.15.56The U.K.'s first -- and currently only -- 4G network, run by carrier EE, has announced it is increasing the size of the data caps on some of its mobile broadband tariffs by around 60 percent, while keeping its pricing structure the same. The network has faced criticism for offering relatively small monthly data caps for a high-speed network.
 
Mindwork Labs Raises $1.6M From Mark Pearson For Its Publisher Monetization Platform; Acquires Premier Content Links Top
Screen Shot 2012-11-28 at 11.51.58Mindwork Labs, the startup behind discount website, MyDeals, has raised a new £1 million (~$1.6m) round of funding from serial entrepreneur, Mark Pearson, of MyVoucherCodes/Markco Media fame. Pearson is a previous backer of Mindwork Labs, having already invested £500k, and interestingly, the majority of the additional capital will be used to launch a completely new (slightly stealthy) platform that aims to help publishers grow and monetize their audience.
 
Pakistan's PKNIC Says Hackers Exposed A Hole During Security Upgrade To Redirect Google.pk, Apple.pk And Hundreds More; Now Resorting To Whitelisting Top
microsoft pakistan hacked pagePakistan's domain registry provider PKNIC has posted an explanation of what it says happened when visits to a number of high-profile websites last weekend redirected to another page -- in many cases to one with a photo of penguins and a message from someone called Eboz claiming responsibility. It says that during a security upgrade, a vulnerability opened up, which let someone breach four user accounts, which in turn impacted nine DNS records, leading to "several website addresses" being impacted. It doesn't categorically rule it out, but it believes that there was no phishing attack carried out through the redirection. It says that the issue causing the problem was reverted a few hours after it was discovered and PKNIC itself was not hacked.
 
Windows Phone 8 Random Reboot Fix Coming Over-The-Air Next Month, Says Microsoft Top
htc8x1Microsoft will issue an update for Windows Phone 8 next month, to fix a random rebooting problem that can affect the OS, flagged up on user forums. "We're continuing to investigate some reports of phones rebooting and have identified a cause with our partners. We are working to get an over-the-air update out in December," it said.
 
Log Data Management And Analytics Company Sumo Logic Raises $30M From Accel, Greylock Top
sumoSumo Logic, a startup focused on enterprise log management and analytics, has raised $30 million in Series C funding round led by Accel Partners, with participation from existing investors Greylock Partners and Sutter Hill Ventures. The latest round brings the company's total venture capital funding to $50.5 million.
 
Nokia Wins Tribunal Ruling Against RIM In WLAN Patent Licensing Dispute Top
nokia-logoMore bad news for RIM: Nokia has won a tribunal ruling against the BlackBerry-maker regarding its WLAN-related patents. The ruling means RIM will have to pay royalties for handsets now considered to be in breach of a prior licensing agreement between the two. To enforce the tribunal's ruling, Nokia said it has now filed actions in the US, UK and Canada.
 
Deezer Takes Aim At Spotify With New App Studio, APIs, Echonest And Songkick Deals And App Updates Top
new deezer logoDeezer, which earlier this year announced a $130 million round of funding to ramp up its music streaming business internationally. But to make sure that its service can compete against Spotify and others on the product level, today Deezer is also adding a bunch of new bells and whistles: it is launching a new app store called the App Studio and a set of APIs for others to embed the Deezer experience elsewhere; it's partnering with (Spotify's partner) Echonest for music discovery and Songkick for event listings; and it's upgrading its iOS and Android apps.
 
Smartphone Maker HTC Appoints New Chief Marketing Officer: Benjamin Ho To Join In January To Lead "Next Phase" Top
htc-logoThere's no denying times are tough for smartphone maker HTC, with sliding revenues and shrinking margins -- and no let up expected for Q4. But the company is aiming to put a new public face on its situation next year: it's announced the appointment of a new chief marketing officer, Benjamin Ho, who will join in January -- replacing current CMO, John Wang, who HTC confirmed will be stepping down.
 
U.K. Mobile Shopping Startup, Tapestry, Trials Barcode/NFC Scanning App To Link Shoppers With The Physical Things They Fancy Top
Screen Shot 2012-11-27 at 23.50.36Tapestry, the latest contender in the fashion-tech startup space, wants to connect a shopper's digital identity with the physical products in the store they're in by using barcode/NFC-scanning smartphone apps which shoppers use to build up a virtual collection/wish-list of items they might like to buy in future that are linked to the retailer's ecommerce database.
 
Google's Romanian Domain Gets Defaced By Algerian Hacker MCA-CRB. Google Says: "We Were Not Hacked" Top
Google.ro hacked and centeredLooks like Pakistan is not the only place where major internet companies' domain names can get hacked hijacked. This morning, google.ro, was taken over, with the credit being taken by "Algerian Hacker" MCA-CRB, a serial website defacer. The site looked like the picture above for at least an hour, according to our tipster.
 
From The Lab To The Shelf: NYC TechConnect Event Helps Give An Entrepreneurial Boost To The Sciences Top
NYC TechConnectAs funding dwindles across the life sciences industry, researchers at major universities are increasingly adopting the entrepreneurial models forged by the tech world. With help from groups like NYC TechConnect, scientists are taking their inventions and discoveries out of the lab and into the free market.
 
Marc Andreessen Champions Innovation Through Trial and Error, And Error, And Pets.com Top
photo 16This evening at Andreessen Horowitz's offices in Menlo Park, founding partner Marc Andreessen sat down with William Janeway, recent author, to discuss "Capitalism in the Innovation Economy." Janeway is a well-known investor, and theorist in the investment and software world. It's a very small event, but the conversation is lively. It's Q&A style, and Andreessen is firing off questions, clearly the two are pals and have a deep connection. The room will be able to ask questions at some point as well.
 
Economic Impact Of Startup Accelerators: $1.6B+ Raised, 4,800+ Jobs Created, 2,000 Startups Funded Top
startup-seed-funding-300x200Today, there seem to be more business accelerators than there are startups to fill their classes and cohorts. It seems that not a week goes by without the launch of another accelerator or seed starter fund. In fact, as Peter Relan said in a recent post (riffing on Chris Dixon), accelerators have become an industry segment in their own right. He also goes so far as to surmise that -- just as it is for startups -- 90 percent of accelerators are likely to fail.
 
Churn: The Problem Of The New Tech Journalism Top
coffeegrinderEnterpriseA decade ago, the news cycle for a CE product worked like this: a PR person contacted a major title - Laptop, say, or PC Magazine - and offered an exclusive for a cover story. "Hey," they'd say. "Hot new laptop coming out! It's got that new Wi-Fi!" An early version of the laptop would arrive at the title's office and someone would write a detailed review of it because, let's face it, there was little else to do at the office before the Internet was pervasive. Then, two months later the story would go to press and then maybe end up on some nascent Internet CMS hacked together by a designer after hours. The circle of life, then, for a tech product was about half a year. Plenty of time for back and forth, hand-holding, and handsome product shots.
 
Google's 'Defend Your Net' Campaign Implies That All Of The Internet Is 'Fair Use' Top
vanilla-ice-pictures-eba969edb86e9971aa5cb3e397a0cc16Does the Internet exist to inspire and inform society and therefore limits copyright holders ability to block information? Hidden between the lines of Google's otherwise predictable "Defend Your Net" campaign in Germany, where the legislature may allow publishers to charge for snippets of content on Google search results, is a very intriguing argument: information on the Internet is a public good.
 
Mozilla Launches Custom Firefox With MSN Edition Top
Firefox with MSNMozilla just launched a special customized edition of Firefox for fans of Microsoft's MSN portal. Firefox with MSN comes with MSN as the default home page and automatically opens msnNOW, the memetracker-like version of MSN as a Firefox app tab. And of course, this edition offers an MSN theme and uses Bing as the default search engine instead of Google, which is the standard for regular Firefox releases.
 

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