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- A DIY Raspberry Pi Hack Lets You Build The Smallest Gaming Cabinet In The World
- #StuffMicrosoftSays: "Don't Get Scroogled", Launches Holiday Bing Campaign
- Cyber Monday E-Commerce Spend Was $1.465B, Biggest Day Ever In U.S.; Home Clickers Bought The Most: ComScore
- Ahead Of Kindle Fire And Fire HD Shipments, Amazon's Appstore Opens In Japan
- LinkedIn Launches Ads API, Enabling Custom Tools For Large-Scale Campaigns
- All In The Family: MyHeritage Buys Former Yammer Stablemate Geni.com In An 8-Figure Deal, Raises $25M
- Spotify Playlist App Soundrop Spreads Its Wings With An SDK: Now Anyone Can Have A DJ App
- Take An Animated GIF Tour Of An Angry Birds Playground
- Gorgeous Photos, In Your Pocket: 500px Arrives On iPhone
- A Few Math Questions That US College Students Can't Answer
- Skype Updates iOS App To Allow Easy Merging Of Windows Live Messenger, Skype Accounts
- Kids Grow Up So Fast, But Spruceling Makes Dressing Them Much Easier
- Some Samsung Galaxy Products Banned From Sale In The Netherlands As Court Sides With Apple
- The Broadcastr Team Launches Its 'Next Evolution': Spun, A Local News App That Connects Content To Real-World Locations
- View Presentations On The iPhone And Edit On The iPad With New Prezi Apps
- Vimeo Updates Its iPhone App To Simplify Uploads And Improve Sharing
- Morse Launches To Automatically Add Phone Numbers To Contacts From Your Gmail Inbox
- Everything.me, The Search App That Bridges The Native And HTML5 Divide, Gets $25M From Telefonica, Mozilla And Singtel
- Google Street View Visits An Arctic Town And Now Provides A Look At 90 Ski Resorts Worldwide
- iPad And Android Tablet Market Share Margin Narrows Much Faster Than Originally Predicted
| A DIY Raspberry Pi Hack Lets You Build The Smallest Gaming Cabinet In The World | Top |
| A hacker called [Sprite_tm] AKA Jeroen Domburg built his own teeny, tiny Raspberry Pi-based MAME cabinet using some laser cut plexiglass, some custom controls, and a eeny, weenie 2.4-inch TFT display. The best part? The cabinet even has a small OLED marquee at the top that shows the current game in play. | |
| #StuffMicrosoftSays: "Don't Get Scroogled", Launches Holiday Bing Campaign | Top |
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| Cyber Monday E-Commerce Spend Was $1.465B, Biggest Day Ever In U.S.; Home Clickers Bought The Most: ComScore | Top |
 Shopaholics of the world, unite and take over. This past weekend, the first of the holiday shopping season, has already been breaking records for consumer online spend. Today comScore announced one more: Cyber Monday raked in $1.465 billion in online sales, making it the heaviest-spending day in U.S. e-commerce history. It was second only to this year's Black Friday sales, which topped $1 billion. | |
| Ahead Of Kindle Fire And Fire HD Shipments, Amazon's Appstore Opens In Japan | Top |
 Following last month's announcement which saw Amazon opening up its Mobile App Distribution Portal to developers in Japan, the company is today announcing its Amazon Appstore is now officially open for business in that country. At the time of the original announcement, software companies including Yahoo Japan, TinyCo, Square Enix, Halfbrick, G5 Entertainment, The Weather Channel Companies and ZeptoLab, had already signaled their intentions to release on Amazon's platform. | |
| LinkedIn Launches Ads API, Enabling Custom Tools For Large-Scale Campaigns | Top |
 LinkedIn is announcing a new Ads API, which could bring more large-scale social marketing campaigns to the professional networking site. In a blog post that the company plans to publish on its marketing website later today, Marketing Solutions Lead Jen Weedn writes that API access has been one of the most-requested features from LinkedIn's "tens of thousands" advertisers. Until now, those advertisers were limited to the company's self-serve interface, but with the API outside developers can build customized tools for running LinkedIn campaigns. | |
| All In The Family: MyHeritage Buys Former Yammer Stablemate Geni.com In An 8-Figure Deal, Raises $25M | Top |
 A big day for online geneaology sites: MyHeritage, an Israel-based site that lets people research and share their family histories, has raised $25 million in new funding, and it has bought out one of its longest-standing rivals, Geni.com -- the company that originally begat Yammer, which now owned by Microsoft. The purchase is not an acqui-hire but a data-cquisition: it gives MyHeritage "billions more global records and connecting millions more of our users," the company says. | |
| Spotify Playlist App Soundrop Spreads Its Wings With An SDK: Now Anyone Can Have A DJ App | Top |
 Soundrop, the popular Spotify app that lets users create "rooms" to share streamed-music playlists with others, is turning up the volume on its service. Today, the company is announcing a new SDK so that others can create their own Soundrop-Spotify powered music apps. The service is kicking off with a bang: David Guetta, the French DJ, now has his own Soundrop-powered app, PlayGuetta, on Spotify. | |
| Take An Animated GIF Tour Of An Angry Birds Playground | Top |
 I was up in the Arctic Circle this past weekend, attempting to eat reindeer burgers, swim in non-existent ice holes and see the Northern Lights when we checked out a real, working Angry Birds activity park up in Rovaniemi, Finland. There are just a handful of parks out around in Finland and China, but as we see below, that hasn't stopped the CMO of Rovio, Peter Vesterbacka, from going all Mighty Eagle on some playground gear. Let's take a closer look at some of Rovio's real-life game mechanics and compare them with Angry Birds on mobile. | |
| Gorgeous Photos, In Your Pocket: 500px Arrives On iPhone | Top |
 Hot on the heels of acquiring the makers of a popular iPhone app for browsing the photos on its service, the Toronto-based photo-sharing startup 500px is debuting an iPhone application of its own today. The move comes just over a year after the company launched its first iOS application, 500px for iPad, which is also seeing a minor update today, as the two apps are now launching as a universal binary for iPhone and iPad. | |
| A Few Math Questions That US College Students Can't Answer | Top |
 If you can do basic subtraction, you might just be more math-savvy than a lot U.S. college students. A new research paper looks at the mathematical prowess of the roughly 50 percent of community college students in remedial math and finds our national math IQ lacking [DOC]. Below are a few questions that a disturbing number of students could not answer. | |
| Skype Updates iOS App To Allow Easy Merging Of Windows Live Messenger, Skype Accounts | Top |
 Skype has just updated its iOS app, making it much easier to merge Skype accounts with your Microsoft account. Microsoft recently decided to phase out Windows Live Messenger in favor of Skype, finally putting the $8.5 billion acquisition to good use, which allows users to Skype with Messenger, Hotmail, and Outlook.com contacts. | |
| Kids Grow Up So Fast, But Spruceling Makes Dressing Them Much Easier | Top |
 If you have kids, you know this situation all too well. You buy your toddler an adorable sweater khaki combo that they grow out of almost immediately, and it's back to the drawing board. But Spruceling, a Dreamit Ventures-backed company, is launching publicly today to disrupt the way parents shop for their children's clothing. Spruceling is an open marketplace that lets parents trade in their kids' clothes once they don't fit any more, naming their own price for the gently-used goods. Parents can also shop on the site, which is focused on the ages of 1 to 10 years old. | |
| Some Samsung Galaxy Products Banned From Sale In The Netherlands As Court Sides With Apple | Top |
 A Dutch court ruled today (via IDG) that Samsung Galaxy products running Android 2.2.1 and higher, which don't use Samsung's own proprietary image gallery software are banned from sale, for infringing on an Apple patent related to scrolling through images on a touchscreen. The ruling also states Samsung must report its profits from Galaxy device sales since June 27, 2011 to determine a penalty. | |
| The Broadcastr Team Launches Its 'Next Evolution': Spun, A Local News App That Connects Content To Real-World Locations | Top |
 Here's an app with a more local take on personalized news — Spun, which aggregates a mix of content relevant to your city. Spun was created by the same startup behind Broadcastr, an app allowing users to create audio content and pin it to real-world locations. Broadcastr is still available, but co-founder and President Scott Lindenbaum said the new app represents the "next evolution of the company," particularly because it was built with many of the lessons that the team learned from Broadcastr in mind. | |
| View Presentations On The iPhone And Edit On The iPad With New Prezi Apps | Top |
 Prezi has a new iPhone app and has enhanced its iPad app for editing on the go. The company has also released some data from a recent survey of its users that shows how deep mobile is reaching into companies that just a few years ago would not equate the presentations they make with any kind of mobile device. The new iPhone app is read-only, designed primarily to consume presentations. It plugs into Apple TV or a projector for viewing. The iPad app has previously provided the capability to do minor updates. With the enhanced version, a user can create a new presentation, work offline and then update it. It’s the concept of the idea economy that has driven much of Prezi’s vision for what it wants to become. Mobile devices have a liberating aspect that correlates with the Prezi presentation technology. People work from home. They can go on the road, traveling light, without a laptop. If need be, they can show a presentation. Mobile is a catalyst for the new workplace. Apps like Prezi fit with this lifestyle. The service is cloud-based and has enough richness in its feature sets for people to use no matter where they are. It’s this new concept of the way we work that makes Prezi viable. But more so, Prezi is functional in a mobile context. The editor has a Zoom User Interface developed by Co-Founder Peter Halacsy, an architect and visual artist. It fits naturally with the editing capability of iPad and the easy portability of iPhone. The latency of cloud applications will always dog a service like Prezi. But that seems to be of little concern for the 1.3 million users who have downloaded the iPad app since its launch. Prezi’s architecture is the greater concern. It’s flash-based, making it vulnerable to services that use HTML5. As a native app, the service is viable as it is independent of flash in that context. But in a web environment, it is reliant on flash, making it a potential dinosaur in the fast competing world of productivity apps. Prezi competes with Apple Keynote and other presentation tools such as Powerpoint, Google Docs and Zoho. The company has $14 million in funding from Accel Partners and Sunstone Capital with additional investment from Magyar Telekom. | |
| Vimeo Updates Its iPhone App To Simplify Uploads And Improve Sharing | Top |
 Video-sharing site Vimeo has updated its iPhone app, working to improve its upload process and simplify navigation for watching other people's videos. Changes revolve around things that Vimeo has taken out, rather than what it's put in. The app has streamlined the process of getting their videos onto Vimeo, first by removing the editor and by making uploads a lot faster. | |
| Morse Launches To Automatically Add Phone Numbers To Contacts From Your Gmail Inbox | Top |
 When 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 |
 Native 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 |
 Google 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 |
 Apple 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. | |
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