Sunday, October 30, 2011

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Facebook Mobile Usage Set to Explode
There are now 800 million monthly active users on Facebook, according to Facebook's own statistics. More than 350 million of those people access Facebook through their mobile devices, nearly 44% of its total active user base. In terms of traffic, 33% of Facebook traffic comes from mobile devices - according to data revealed by Mary Meeker in her Web 2.0 Summit presentation this month. Make no mistake, Faceboo..



Google Denies Requests To Remove Videos of Police Brutality
In a show of good faith today, Google touted the fact that it has refused to cooperate with local law enforcement agencies in the U.S. who requested the removal of YouTube videos of police brutality a..

Will Your Next Server Be Designed by Facebook?
In April, Facebook announced the Open Compute Project (OCP). It sounded pretty crazy at the time: Facebook was proposing an open, commodity infrastructure for Web-scale infrastructure. But the idea ha..


Dear Apple, Please Make My iPhone 4S Battery Life Suck Less
I think I figured out what the 'S' stands for in the iPhone 4S. Now, to be clear, I love my new iPhone 4S. I talk to it even when there isn't a human on the other end of the line. Sometimes it talk..

Twitter is Easier to Eat When It's StrawberryJ.am
Startup StrawberryJ.am takes any Twitter feed, List, search, hashtag or other incarnation and filters it for just the most retweeted Tweets that include links in a stream. It's like a highlight tape ..

HP not to shut PC unit
Hewlett-Packard Co ditched a plan to spin off its personal computers unit, a month after the ouster of CEO Leo Apothekerwhose idea would have cost billions of dollars in expenses and l..

 Samsung surges past Apple in smartphones, upbeat on Q4
Samsung Electronics Co overtook Apple Inc as the world's top smartphone maker in the July-September period with a 44 percent jump in shipments, and forecast strong sales in the current quarter in a cl..

Yahoo deal talks hit brick wall
Despite all the rumored interest inYahoo Inc, progress on a deal has hit a brick wall mainly due to the company's lack of strategy and restrictive confidentiality agreement, people familiar with the s..

Android beats Apple iOS to become app leader
Google Inc's Android operating system passed Apple Inc's iOS as the most popular software platform for application downloads as consumers bought more Androidsmartphones.

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BlackBerry sets up facility in Mumbai to help Indian Govt carry out surveillance of its services
Research In Motion (RIM), the makers of BlackBerry smart phones, has set up a facility in Mumbai to help the Indian Government carry out lawful surveillance of its BlackBerry services, the W..

Thought Cisco Was Out of Home Networking? Think Again
Cisco seems to be in a very different place now than it was about six months ago. The networking and telecommunications giant recently hired a new general manager of its Home Networking Business Unit...

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