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EU lawmakers are proposing 20 cents per MB data roaming... Jan 31 2012 16:56:48	The Next Web
EU lawmakers are proposing 20 cents per MB data roaming, 15 cents for a 1-minute call If you haven’t yet felt the pain of traveling across the European Union and then getting your mobile phone bill, there’s a good chance that you might be spared from... Read the full article on The Next Web »
No new Xbox in 2012? What it means, and what may have h... Jan 31 2012 16:49:20	The Next Web
No new Xbox in 2012? What it means, and what may have happened If you were to scroll back just a few weeks, Microsoft’s next Xbox was all but set for a demo at E3, and a release in time for this year’s... Read the full article on The Next Web »
Bear CSS creates the perfect stylesheet template based ... Jan 31 2012 16:34:16	The Next Web
Bear CSS creates the perfect stylesheet template based on your HTML It’s not easy to find the perfect workflow for Web development, but after a certain amount of time, many devs start working off of their own templates as a starting... Read the full article on The Next Web »
5 things not to do at a networking dinner Jan 31 2012 16:15:50	The Next Web
5 things not to do at a networking dinner If you’ve recently joined the Bay Area tech and startup community, the rites and rituals of this unique population may be more bewildering than the first time your boss made... Read the full article on The Next Web »
Microsoft takes to Facebook to promote its agenda for W... Jan 31 2012 16:06:16	The Next Web
Microsoft takes to Facebook to promote its agenda for Washington state Here at TNW we often refer to Microsoft as the ‘Redmond giant,’ and several similar names, as the location of the firm’s headquarters has become synonymous with the company itself.... Read the full article on The Next Web »
Twitter users can get their usernames on a NASCAR race ... Jan 31 2012 16:00:24	The Next Web
Twitter users can get their usernames on a NASCAR race car with this social media campaign We’ve increasingly seen users get more creative with their Twitter marketing campaigns, and the latest is the Twitter NASCAR campaign launched by Brad Keselowski. Yahoo Sports spotted the campaign that... Read the full article on The Next Web »
Microsoft and Adobe named in takedown of ex.ua, Ukraine... Jan 31 2012 15:55:14	The Next Web
Microsoft and Adobe named in takedown of ex.ua, Ukraine’s version of Megaupload Those wanting access to illegal downloads in the Ukraine today are being met with a harsh reality. The largest file sharing site in the country, ex.ua, has been closed after what is being reported as a six-month investigation into piracy allegations. According to The BBC (via Google Translate), ex.ua accounted for as much as 25% [...] Read the full article on The Next Web »
10 marketing hacks that help entrepreneurs get the job ... Jan 31 2012 15:49:50	The Next Web
10 marketing hacks that help entrepreneurs get the job done Finding cost effective and efficient advertising tactics is an age old challenge for entrepreneurs. In today’s new information age, there’s no shortage of tech-based options but the key is choosing your strategy wisely and leveraging technology to receive a maximum return on your marketing dollar. Should you advertise on Facebook? How much time should you [...] Read the full article on The Next Web »
Meet the 100-year-old grandmother who can’t get enough ... Jan 31 2012 15:36:25	The Next Web
Meet the 100-year-old grandmother who can’t get enough of the Nintendo DS Kathleen “Kit” Connell turned the grand old age of one hundred last week, and the spritely grandmother of one cites the Nintendo DS as the main reason she remains mentally... Read the full article on The Next Web »
Tumblr Tuesday: Olympic Non-Events 2012 kicks off in Lo... Jan 31 2012 15:18:08	The Next Web
Tumblr Tuesday: Olympic Non-Events 2012 kicks off in London Welcome to our twenty-third Tumblr Tuesday, where every Tuesday we celebrate our love of Tumblr by interviewing the mastermind behind a new blog. Tumblr, a New York City based startup, is... Read the full article on The Next Web »
Microsoft celebrates 7 million Microsoft Certifications... Jan 31 2012 14:47:45	The Next Web
Microsoft celebrates 7 million Microsoft Certifications in 20 years As part of the 20th anniversary of its technology certifications, Microsoft has announced that during that time 7 million people have been certified via Microsoft’s technology training programs. Microsoft introduced... Read the full article on The Next Web »
Channel 4′s 4oD service notched up 427m video views in ... Jan 31 2012 14:23:20	The Next Web
Channel 4′s 4oD service notched up 427m video views in the UK last year, up 16% UK broadcaster Channel 4 has announced that its online video-on-demand (VoD) 4oD service reached 427m ‘long-form’ video views in 2011 across all platforms, representing a 16% increase on 2010. Launched... Read the full article on The Next Web »
Google sends a letter to Congress explaining the reason... Jan 31 2012 14:10:03	The Next Web
Google sends a letter to Congress explaining the reasons for its new privacy policy Last week, Google announced its plans to consolidate its many privacy policies, reducing them to one document, effective March 1. Many headlines were quick to go after the search giant,... Read the full article on The Next Web »
Apple’s “significant” Final Cut Pro X update adds new e... Jan 31 2012 13:50:55	The Next Web
Apple’s “significant” Final Cut Pro X update adds new editing tools, Thunderbolt support Apple has released a “significant update” for its Final Cut Pro X Mac video editing software, delivering a number of new editing features and beta support for broadcasting monitoring for... Read the full article on The Next Web »
T-Mobile USA becomes the first operator to offer Square... Jan 31 2012 13:39:44	The Next Web
T-Mobile USA becomes the first operator to offer Square credit card readers T-Mobile USA has become the first mobile operator to offer Square payment readers to its customers, allowing smartphone owners on its networks to buy the payment accessory direct from its stores from today. Square’s attachments are already on sale in Apple Stores and other retailers including Best Buy and Target, allowing iPhone, iPad and Android [...] Read the full article on The Next Web »
BSkyB’s online TV service is coming to some Android han... Jan 31 2012 13:28:02	The Next Web
BSkyB’s online TV service is coming to some Android handsets in February UK satellite broadcaster BSkyB (‘Sky’) has announced that its Sky Go online service will be rolled out for Android devices next month, but it will be restricted to a small number of devices initially. Sky Go was launched in July 2011, after it merged its Sky Player and Sky Mobile TV services. It allows subscribers [...] Read the full article on The Next Web »
Report: Mobile video on the increase as digital camera ... Jan 31 2012 13:00:19	The Next Web
Report: Mobile video on the increase as digital camera usage continues to wane Video uploads via mobile devices are now much more common than they used to be, the photo and video sharing service Photobucket found out in a survey it conducted after Christmas. Besides... Read the full article on The Next Web »
Apple appeals against iPad trademark decision in China Jan 31 2012 12:48:59	The Next Web
Apple appeals against iPad trademark decision in China Having lost its entitlement to the iPad trademark in China, Apple has appealed a court ruling that asserts a local monitor company owns the right to the iPad name, limiting... Read the full article on The Next Web »
UK supermarket Sainsbury’s rebrands its ‘tiger bread’ a... Jan 31 2012 11:26:29	The Next Web
UK supermarket Sainsbury’s rebrands its ‘tiger bread’ after girl’s letter goes viral Back in May 2011, three-and-a-half-year-old Lily Robinson wrote a letter to UK supermarket chain Sainsbury’s, asking why its Tiger Bread was called that when it actually looks much more like... Read the full article on The Next Web »
EU antitrust watchdog to probe Samsung over fair access... Jan 31 2012 11:13:04	The Next Web
EU antitrust watchdog to probe Samsung over fair access to mobile patents Samsung’s legal woes appear to be worsening after the European Union’s antitrust watchdog announced that it suspects the company of denying fair access to patents it holds on standardised technology for mobile phones.... Read the full article on The Next Web »
California police investigate claims that an officer th... Jan 31 2012 10:16:21	The Next Web
California police investigate claims that an officer threatened Anonymous over Twitter An investigation is under way in Richmond, California, after a member of the local police department was alleged to have sent a Twitter message threatening violence against members of the... Read the full article on The Next Web »
Samsung loses bid to overturn ban on original Galaxy Ta... Jan 31 2012 09:23:11	The Next Web
Samsung loses bid to overturn ban on original Galaxy Tab 10.1 model in Germany Samsung has failed to overturn a ban on an the original Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet in Germany, meaning that the company is still only able to sell an updated version... Read the full article on The Next Web »
Sky to expand its reach in the UK with new Web TV service Jan 31 2012 08:39:25	The Next Web
Sky to expand its reach in the UK with new Web TV service Satellite broadcaster Sky has revealed plans to introduce a new Internet TV service that will make its content available to non-Sky users through the Web on a series of flexible... Read the full article on The Next Web »
Amazon S3 now stores 762 billion objects, a 500 billion... Jan 31 2012 07:57:58	The Next Web
Amazon S3 now stores 762 billion objects, a 500 billion increase in one year Amazon S3, the retail giant’s online storage web service, how holds more than 762 billion objects on its servers, growing from 262 billion objects a year earlier. Posting to its... Read the full article on The Next Web »
Apple names Dixons CEO John Browett as senior vice pres... Jan 31 2012 07:17:57	The Next Web
Apple names Dixons CEO John Browett as senior vice president of Retail Apple announced this morning that former Dixons Retail CEO John Browett will join the company as senior vice president of Retail, reporting directly to Apple CEO Tim Cook. Browett has... Read the full article on The Next Web »
This 5 year-old interprets famous logo designs and it’s... Jan 31 2012 06:31:11	The Next Web
This 5 year-old interprets famous logo designs and it’s absolutely adorable This video features the founder of Ladd Design‘s 5 year-old son, as he explains to us what many of the most famous and pervasive logo designs mean. Just so you know, it’s past... Read the full article on The Next Web »
Twitter’s advertising revenue is predicted to triple by... Jan 31 2012 06:22:44	The Next Web
Twitter’s advertising revenue is predicted to triple by 2014 to reach $540 million Marketing analysis firm eMarketer is predicting that Twitter’s advertising revenue will triple over the next three years to hit $540 million by the end of 2014. The research, which is... Read the full article on The Next Web »
China Telecom confirms Apple deal, will sell iPhone 4S ... Jan 31 2012 04:50:32	The Next Web
China Telecom confirms Apple deal, will sell iPhone 4S as early as February China Telecom has confirmed that it will begin selling the Apple iPhone 4S in just over a month as its partnership with Apple is set to break rival China Unicom’s... Read the full article on The Next Web »
Watch President Obama’s Google+ hangout in its entirety... Jan 31 2012 03:59:23	The Next Web
Watch President Obama’s Google+ hangout in its entirety here US President Barack Obama made history yesterday when he took part in a Google+ hangout with five lucky participants who quizzed the President on a number of topics and questions.... Read the full article on The Next Web »
Twitter CEO on censorship: We have no choice but to fol... Jan 31 2012 03:13:49	The Next Web
Twitter CEO on censorship: We have no choice but to follow laws Twitter CEO Dick Costolo has spoken out to clarify details around the company’s new censorship policy, claiming that the microblogging service has no choice but to introduce the measures if... Read the full article on The Next Web »
10 iconic films that every entrepreneur should see Jan 31 2012 03:04:28	The Next Web
10 iconic films that every entrepreneur should see For better or for worse, art often imitates life and vice versa. Films like Jerry McGuire, Bad Company and Swimming With Sharks have become iconic depictions of what it’s like... Read the full article on The Next Web »
9 startups will compete for $26k at Superconf. It could... Jan 31 2012 02:24:25	The Next Web
9 startups will compete for $26k at Superconf. It could be you but act NOW If you’re a startup and you’ve been considering submitting yourself to the Startup Blast Off at Superconf 2012 in Miami, you’re just about out of time. The hard deadline is... Read the full article on The Next Web »
Megaupload lawyer: User data is safe for “at least two ... Jan 31 2012 02:13:10	The Next Web
Megaupload lawyer: User data is safe for “at least two weeks” Reports that the FBI would move in to seize the entire collection of Megaupload user data by Thursday have been nullified after the file-sharing site’s third party hosts, Carpathia Hosting and... Read the full article on The Next Web »
The Henge Dock holds your MacBook Air beautifully vertical Jan 31 2012 01:03:29	The Next Web
The Henge Dock holds your MacBook Air beautifully vertical If you’re a laptop user that hooks it up to an external display when at home then you understand how convenient a dock can be. Popping your computer into a holster for a near-instant connection is much more efficient than connecting all of those cables up manually. But there is generally an issue with how [...] Read the full article on The Next Web »
See what “Life at Google” is like on Google+ Jan 31 2012 00:55:51	The Next Web
See what “Life at Google” is like on Google+ Google has created an official “Life at Google” account on Google+, joining existing profiles on Twitter, YouTube and Facebook. Life at Google accounts share about what it’s like working at... Read the full article on The Next Web »
Here’s why Pinterest is growing so fast Jan 31 2012 00:45:50	The Next Web
Here’s why Pinterest is growing so fast It’s been difficult to go onto any social site over the past few months without hearing about Pinterest. The upstart, which focuses on letting users “pin” things that interest them,... Read the full article on The Next Web »
Get your bitmap on with these 11 surprisingly good pixe... Jan 31 2012 00:30:51	The Next Web
Get your bitmap on with these 11 surprisingly good pixel typefaces Pixel fonts represent an interesting era of type design. They were born out of necessity when low-res displays were the only ones around, and have now become a highly niche... Read the full article on The Next Web »
Android team 1-ups Apple by giving social support to de... Jan 31 2012 00:11:18	The Next Web
Android team 1-ups Apple by giving social support to developers using Google+ Earlier this month, the Android team launched a style guide to help developers build prettier apps on its platform. Today, the team is taking another step to attract more quality... Read the full article on The Next Web »
Twitter refreshes its GitHub presence in hopes of expan... Jan 30 2012 23:10:16	The Next Web
Twitter refreshes its GitHub presence in hopes of expanding its open-source flock When you think about GitHub, you probably think about code and nothing else. Twitter, which is built on open source software, launched a new GitHub page today that is pretty... Read the full article on The Next Web »
Subscription service startup ‘Swag of the Month’ goes s... Jan 30 2012 22:43:59	The Next Web
Subscription service startup ‘Swag of the Month’ goes social with free shirts With heavy funding, built-in profits and endless variety, subscription service startups are the hot new thing. Subscriptions tend to range from USD $9-25/month and we’re seeing everything from healthy snacks and... Read the full article on The Next Web »
Apple releases AirPort Utility 6.0 on Lion and 7.6.1 fi... Jan 30 2012 22:34:36	The Next Web
Apple releases AirPort Utility 6.0 on Lion and 7.6.1 firmware update Apple has released version 6.0 of its AirPort Utility software for OS X Lion and it looks pretty fantastic. The newly polished edition of the tool for tweaking AirPort router... Read the full article on The Next Web »
Symantec says that pcAnywhere is safe to use again, giv... Jan 30 2012 22:13:25	The Next Web
Symantec says that pcAnywhere is safe to use again, gives out free upgrades Software company Symantec has had quite an interesting last few weeks. The company admitted that hacker group LulzSec had gotten its hands on the software’s source code and threatened to use the software to control machines for attacks on the web. Apparently the source code was stolen six years ago, but that fact wasn’t known [...] Read the full article on The Next Web »
Samsung to launch next device with longest ad of Super ... Jan 30 2012 21:33:22	The Next Web
Samsung to launch next device with longest ad of Super Bowl XLVI Samsung has announced via its US Twitter account that it will introduce its next device to the world with an advertisement during the upcoming Super Bowl XLVI. The ad will... Read the full article on The Next Web »
Turn your Facebook Timeline into an amazing cinematic-s... Jan 30 2012 21:24:16	The Next Web
Turn your Facebook Timeline into an amazing cinematic-style movie Now that most of us have Facebook’s new Timeline feature, we’re able to add a bunch of things from our past to the social network. The question I’ve been asking... Read the full article on The Next Web »
Study says web economy to nearly double by 2016, driven... Jan 30 2012 21:18:26	The Next Web
Study says web economy to nearly double by 2016, driven by mobile growth A new study predicts that the value of the “web economy” in G20 countries will nearly double by 2016, the BBC reports. Boston Consulting Group’s study says the web economy... Read the full article on The Next Web »
In Chicago? If you aren’t heading to Technori’s Pitch e... Jan 30 2012 21:11:40	The Next Web
In Chicago? If you aren’t heading to Technori’s Pitch event tomorrow you are missing out Astute TNW readers in Chicago: If you haven’t yet attended one of Technori’s Pitch events, you have missed out. Happily, the next edition of Pitch is tomorrow night, and there... Read the full article on The Next Web »
The iPad created a 16% gain for PCs in Q4 and made Appl... Jan 30 2012 21:01:31	The Next Web
The iPad created a 16% gain for PCs in Q4 and made Apple world’s #1 vendor Apple has managed to garner 17% of the overall PC market due to its record sales of iPads and Macs in Q4 2011, reports Canalys. The 15 million iPads and... Read the full article on The Next Web »
Twitter’s new ‘censorship’ feature could lead to legal ... Jan 30 2012 20:19:46	The Next Web
Twitter’s new ‘censorship’ feature could lead to legal restrictions for UK tweeters The reaction to Twitter’s announcement that it could censor tweets by location has been received mainly in one context – how it will be used by authoritative regimes. In fact, Thailand has been the first government to openly welcome the new feature, while Reporters without Borders has written an open-letter to Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, [...] Read the full article on The Next Web »
The Brown Institute will bring NYC and Silicon Valley t... Jan 30 2012 20:04:40	The Next Web
The Brown Institute will bring NYC and Silicon Valley together to build the future of media Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and Stanford University’s School of Engineering are to receive a $30 million gift, Poynter reports. Made by former Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown, the high-impact donation is slated to fund the creation of an Institute for Media Innovation. Called ‘the David and Helen Gurley Brown Institute for Media Innovation’ in memory of Brown’s [...] Read the full article on The Next Web »
Create a killer presentation and SlideRocket will give ... Jan 30 2012 19:25:06	The Next Web
Create a killer presentation and SlideRocket will give $5k to your favorite charity Social presentation service SlideRocket is all about thinking outside of the box. We told you about Hanna Phan last November, who wanted to work for the company so badly that she created a presentation using the service to explain why. She got the job because SlideRocket recognized that using the product to get a job [...] Read the full article on The Next Web »
Finally: an easy way to copy/paste between your iPhone ... Jan 30 2012 19:11:56	The Next Web
Finally: an easy way to copy/paste between your iPhone and desktop, no app required Hopper, a killer Web app that makes it easy to paste images, text and files online, has just released a handsome mobile companion. Only weeks after its initial launch, this... Read the full article on The Next Web »
TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tech news in 5 minutes [... Jan 30 2012 18:56:23	The Next Web
TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tech news in 5 minutes [Audio] Apple names a new SVP of Retail. A study shows that only 27% of Twitter users tweeted over 3 months. EU antitrust is probing Samsung, rubber gloves not included. You... Read the full article on The Next Web »
We bet you don’t know who owns Duck.com and what it red... Jan 30 2012 18:49:28	The Next Web
We bet you don’t know who owns Duck.com and what it redirects to Over the weekend I saw a few tweets referring to Duck.com, a domain name that I had never really thought about. Clearly it’s quite valuable, since four letter domain names... Read the full article on The Next Web »
This is how children’s books should look on the iPad Jan 30 2012 18:42:05	The Next Web
This is how children’s books should look on the iPad The iPad makes a great support for educational, interactive books, Apple has recently acknowledged with the launch of Textbooks.  Yet, the creators of ‘Bats! Furry Fliers of the Night‘, which was launched today, didn’t wait for Apple to launch what they describe as a book-app, or ‘bapp.’ As you can guess from its title, the [...] Read the full article on The Next Web »
Chrome: It’s the new Firefox Jan 30 2012 18:00:58	The Next Web
Chrome: It’s the new Firefox Chrome. You use it. I use it. For the past several years it has been the fastest and most stable of browsers, setting new benchmarks for performance and ease of use. In the last few months, however, Chrome has fallen away from its initial vision, and from its prior levels of usability. Check and see [...] Read the full article on The Next Web »
Amadeus computer glitch could delay flights of over 150... Jan 30 2012 17:54:05	The Next Web
Amadeus computer glitch could delay flights of over 150 airlines Complaints began to emerge on Twitter earlier today, followed by reports that Amadeus, a computer system used by over 150 airlines, is down. Amadeus confirmed the news in a brief announcement from the company’s Group Communication Director, Stuart Brocklehurst, which reads: Amadeus can confirm that some airlines are experiencing difficulties with our systems. We regret any delay [...] Read the full article on The Next Web »
Upcoming Tech and Media Events You Should Be Attending ... Jan 30 2012 17:43:26	The Next Web
Upcoming Tech and Media Events You Should Be Attending [Discounts] February 2012 is already on our doorstep, so it’s time for another events update. If you haven’t already decided which tech and media events to attend this year, here’s another... Read the full article on The Next Web »
NASA launches multi-player Facebook game ‘Space Race Bl... Jan 30 2012 17:36:34	The Next Web
NASA launches multi-player Facebook game ‘Space Race Blastoff’ NASA might not be the first thing you think of when it comes to playing games on Facebook, but the space agency has dipped its toe into uncharted territory yet... Read the full article on The Next Web »
Office 15 hits its technical preview, Microsoft promise... Jan 30 2012 17:21:42	The Next Web
Office 15 hits its technical preview, Microsoft promises open beta by late summer Today Microsoft announced that the next edition of Office, its productivity suite, had reached its technical preview and is undergoing early testing. The version, dubbed Office 15 for the moment, is... Read the full article on The Next Web »
See Reddit, Cheezburger and Tumblr founders speak at NY... Jan 30 2012 17:11:02	The Next Web
See Reddit, Cheezburger and Tumblr founders speak at NYC’s largest photo hackathon Attention hackers and designers! Less than a month from now, Aviary and General Assembly (one of the 5 coolest coworking spaces in New York City), will be hosting Photo Hack Day #2 , the world’s largest photo hackathon, right here in NYC. Along with many of the wonderful details present in PHD’s first event back in August, you can expect some huge [...] Read the full article on The Next Web »
Microsoft France tosses ice water on the idea of a new ... Jan 30 2012 17:05:53	The Next Web
Microsoft France tosses ice water on the idea of a new Xbox in 2012 Well, consider our mind twisted. Despite the larger technology press being all but set in agreement that 2012 would be the year that the next Xbox showed its face, today we have new indication that that position could be flat wrong. Coming straight and hot from the lips of Microsoft France’s Cedrick Delmas, a marketing director [...] Read the full article on The Next Web »
Microsoft to give TechStars’ startups up to $60,000 eac... Jan 30 2012 16:58:36	The Next Web
Microsoft to give TechStars’ startups up to $60,000 each in Azure credits Microsoft announced today that its BizSpark Plus program will offer TechStars accelerator startups up to $60,000 in credits for use of its Azure cloud computing platform. Azure competes with Amazon’s Amazon Web... Read the full article on The Next Web »
Windows XP: 798 days until Microsoft turns off the light Jan 30 2012 16:18:46	The Next Web
Windows XP: 798 days until Microsoft turns off the light Windows XP has been largely absent from the news in the last year, sitting back while Windows 7 sold hundreds of millions of copies, and Windows 8 became a publicly known quantity. Given the age of Windows XP, you might think that it is very much a closed chapter; you would be wrong to do [...] Read the full article on The Next Web »
More than half of all UK MPs are now on Twitter Jan 30 2012 16:13:17	The Next Web
More than half of all UK MPs are now on Twitter More than half of all UK members of parliament (MPs) are now active on Twitter, according to a study by Tweetminster. Tweetminster is a media platform that  analyses trends and links around Twitter in relation to UK politics and current affairs, and it says that 331 of the 650 MPs have Twitter accounts set up [...] Read the full article on The Next Web »
Facebook: Over 5 billion songs have been shared since S... Jan 30 2012 16:07:17	The Next Web
Facebook: Over 5 billion songs have been shared since September’s f8 Whether you like the idea of “frictionless sharing” or not, Facebook has made a strong case for the service on stage at the Midem conference. Dan Rose, the VP of... Read the full article on The Next Web »
Apple introduces new ticketing system to stop iPhone sc... Jan 30 2012 16:00:35	The Next Web
Apple introduces new ticketing system to stop iPhone scalpers in Hong Kong With chaos descending on its retail stores at the launch of the iPhone 4S in China, Apple has introduced a new reservation ticketing system on its Hong Kong website to... Read the full article on The Next Web »
MPme, Crowdsurfing, Wild Chords and Webdoc win the musi... Jan 30 2012 15:48:59	The Next Web
MPme, Crowdsurfing, Wild Chords and Webdoc win the music-focused Midemlab competition Midemlab is music industry conference Midem‘s startup competition, a part of the event that has grown significantly since its introduction in 2008, when a then little-known service called SoundCloud emerged... Read the full article on The Next Web »
5 years ago today, Microsoft unleashed the biggest trol... Jan 30 2012 15:40:17	The Next Web
5 years ago today, Microsoft unleashed the biggest troll of all time According to Pingdom, Microsoft brought Windows Vista into existence on January 30, 2007, which means it is celebrating its 5th birthday as we speak. I’ve never been a fan of Vista,... Read the full article on The Next Web »
Don’t be evil: Google fires its Country Lead for Kenya ... Jan 30 2012 15:34:44	The Next Web
Don’t be evil: Google fires its Country Lead for Kenya over Mocality scandal Google has fired its Country Lead for Kenya Olga Arara-Kimani and “a technical guy in Zurich”, the Kenyan tech blog Nairobi Tech reports. While the information hasn’t been officially announced,... Read the full article on The Next Web »
LyricFind gets the global rights for song lyrics from a... Jan 30 2012 14:33:46	The Next Web
LyricFind gets the global rights for song lyrics from all four major publishers Song lyrics are among the most searched for content on the Web, but as with audio files, the publication of lyrics online is protected by copyright. LyricFind is one company... Read the full article on The Next Web »
Another iPhone tethering app slips through Apple’s net ... Jan 30 2012 14:26:23	The Next Web
Another iPhone tethering app slips through Apple’s net and onto the App Store Another tethering app, QuasiDisk, has managed to evade Apple’s App Store approval checks, surfacing on the marketplace to allow iPhone owners to share their handset’s 3G connection with other devices.... Read the full article on The Next Web »
Google announces 50 startup finalists for its $200,000 ... Jan 30 2012 14:18:36	The Next Web
Google announces 50 startup finalists for its $200,000 seed capital prize Early last month, Google announced its 200 finalists for the Start with Google (Ebda2) initiative in which it will be giving one lucky Egyptian entrepreneur up to $200,000 in seed capital.... Read the full article on The Next Web »
Samsung partners with headphones maker Jays, looks to r... Jan 30 2012 13:39:03	The Next Web
Samsung partners with headphones maker Jays, looks to rival HTC’s Beats? South Korean smartphone giant Samsung today announced that it has signed a partnership with Swedish headphone maker Jays to market the audio specialist’s award-winning v-JAYS equipment alongside Samsung’s smartphone devices... Read the full article on The Next Web »
RentMama.com plans to transform the local UK car-rental... Jan 30 2012 13:05:53	The Next Web
RentMama.com plans to transform the local UK car-rental industry A new car rental website that helps consumers find deals from local, independent companies has launched in the UK today. RentMama.com promises to simplify the car-rental process with a platform... Read the full article on The Next Web »
Apple accused of witholding $6.3 million ‘copy tax’ fro... Jan 30 2012 12:44:03	The Next Web
Apple accused of witholding $6.3 million ‘copy tax’ from French iPad sales Whilst Apple has been collecting France’s “private copy tax” on sales of specific iPad models, the Cupertino-based company has been accused of witholding payments to French copyright association Copie France,... Read the full article on The Next Web »
Why Rovio embraces Angry Birds piracy, as it plans a ne... Jan 30 2012 12:31:48	The Next Web
Why Rovio embraces Angry Birds piracy, as it plans a new music-based game Where does Rovio go after Angry Birds? A music-based game, it seems. Speaking at Midem‘s Visionary Monday in Cannes today, Rovio CEO, Mikael Hed revealed that the company is currently... Read the full article on The Next Web »
New partnerships could see Apple sell 40m iPhones in Ch... Jan 30 2012 11:47:36	The Next Web
New partnerships could see Apple sell 40m iPhones in China this year, says report. Analysts at Morgan Stanley have predicted that Apple could sell more than 40 million iPhones in China this year, but only if the company partners with new operators in the country,... Read the full article on The Next Web »
This is what happens when you joke about “destroying Am... Jan 30 2012 11:30:39	The Next Web
This is what happens when you joke about “destroying America” on Twitter It is widely known that law enforcement agencies are turning to social networks to monitor citizens but one UK Twitter user saw a joke tweet land him in hot water, as... Read the full article on The Next Web »
Sky reels in BBC iPlayer and ITV Player as it extends i... Jan 30 2012 11:12:32	The Next Web
Sky reels in BBC iPlayer and ITV Player as it extends its VOD service to 5 million homes Sky has announced that its video-on-demand (VOD) service Sky Anytime+ will soon include both BBC iPlayer and ITV Player, in a landmark move that will bring a plethora of new... Read the full article on The Next Web »
T-Mobile UK launches ‘The Full Monty’, a truly unlimite... Jan 30 2012 10:15:24	The Next Web
T-Mobile UK launches ‘The Full Monty’, a truly unlimited call, text and data tariff Mobile phone operator T-Mobile is launching a new ‘all inclusive’ pricing plan that its calling a “landmark” for the mobile industry in the UK. Wednesday February 1 will see the... Read the full article on The Next Web »
Samsung tablets to get even bigger with expected Galaxy... Jan 30 2012 10:00:10	The Next Web
Samsung tablets to get even bigger with expected Galaxy Tab 11.6 announcement Samsung is expected to debut what could be the biggest tablet device on record with the addition of an 11.6-inch portable to its Galaxy Tab range, AndroidAndMe reports. In a... Read the full article on The Next Web »
Livestream: Watch the future of the music industry expl... Jan 30 2012 09:13:35	The Next Web
Livestream: Watch the future of the music industry explored at Midem’s Visionary Monday Today is Visionary Monday at Midem; a full day of talks featuring everyone from Facebook’s Vice President of Partnerships and Platform Marketing, Dan Rose on the future of content discovery, to... Read the full article on The Next Web »
Google, Microsoft, Facebook and more team up to tackle ... Jan 30 2012 08:56:35	The Next Web
Google, Microsoft, Facebook and more team up to tackle email spam and phishing Tech giants including Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Yahoo! have combined forces to form a new alliance that aims to eliminate huge amounts of email spam and reduce the impact of... Read the full article on The Next Web »
Shazam’s Will Mills on the company’s evolution into a m... Jan 30 2012 08:46:23	The Next Web
Shazam’s Will Mills on the company’s evolution into a media companion service UK company Shazam has come a long way from its early days as a telephone-based service for identifying that great song that keeps popping up on the radio. It has... Read the full article on The Next Web »
The FBI will look to seize Megaupload’s user data in it... Jan 30 2012 07:24:59	The Next Web
The FBI will look to seize Megaupload’s user data in its entirety this week The FBI gain access to all of Megaupload’s user data as soon as this coming Thursday, February 2, according to a report from the New Zealand Herald, which cites a... Read the full article on The Next Web »
Wow, watch this girl say any word backwards within seconds Jan 30 2012 05:16:29	The Next Web
Wow, watch this girl say any word backwards within seconds When we were kids, most of us went through phases of talking funny or backwards at one time or another, but I’ll bet that no-one came even close to doing... Read the full article on The Next Web »
Skype CEO defends censoring in China: We “need to compl... Jan 30 2012 04:28:43	The Next Web
Skype CEO defends censoring in China: We “need to comply” with laws Internet Censorship has been in the news over the last few weeks, with SOPA, PIPA and Twitter’s new feature, and sticking to that theme, it seems that Web calling firm... Read the full article on The Next Web »
Scoutzie is a community for the most gorgeous mobile de... Jan 30 2012 04:18:55	The Next Web
Scoutzie is a community for the most gorgeous mobile designs ever made Scoutzie is a brand new community that is already beginning to feature some of the best mobile design work I’ve ever seen. The site’s goal is to make it easy to find and... Read the full article on The Next Web »
Receive voice messages on your site with this easy-to-u... Jan 30 2012 04:06:25	The Next Web
Receive voice messages on your site with this easy-to-use tool If you’re looking for an easy way to receive voice messages from your blog visitors, look no further than SpeakPipe. The nifty little web app makes it easy to install... Read the full article on The Next Web »
Thailand is the world’s first government to endorse Twi... Jan 30 2012 02:39:27	The Next Web
Thailand is the world’s first government to endorse Twitter’s censorship feature Twitter’s controversial move towards enabling the censorsing of tweets has gained the backing of its first international government, after authorities in Thailand publicly endorsed the introduction. ICT permanent secretary Jeerawan... Read the full article on The Next Web »
Here’s how Apple can clear its PR nightmare AND revital... Jan 30 2012 01:35:11	The Next Web
Here’s how Apple can clear its PR nightmare AND revitalize an entire US city Over the past few months there have been lots of stories of what many of us would consider to be atrocities when it comes to the people in Apple’s supply... Read the full article on The Next Web »
How journalists can make the most of LinkedIn Jan 30 2012 00:40:47	The Next Web
How journalists can make the most of LinkedIn Many people think the main task of a journalist is to write. That’s part of the job, of course, but sourcing and checking stories is probably as important. It has... Read the full article on The Next Web »
What I learned at Macworld: Yoda was right Jan 30 2012 00:12:33	The Next Web
What I learned at Macworld: Yoda was right Over the past week, as I was attending Macworld, I had the pleasure of talking to a dizzying array of incredibly talented people. Designers, engineers, hackers, writers and those who... Read the full article on The Next Web »
Why Facebook Subscribe can’t compete with Twitter (yet) Jan 29 2012 23:27:44	The Next Web
Why Facebook Subscribe can’t compete with Twitter (yet) Last week, Facebook announced that journalists using its new “Subscribe” tool have seen a 320% uptick in subscriptions since the tool’s launch last fall. Facebook has made it clear that... Read the full article on The Next Web »
Runmeter’s 7.0 will be a delight for workout data nerds Jan 29 2012 20:53:22	The Next Web
Runmeter’s 7.0 will be a delight for workout data nerds If you’re a running or cycling junkie and you’ve been looking to break down every aspect of your outings to help you analyze and improve them, right on the iPhone,... Read the full article on The Next Web »
Social shopping site Multiply to relocate its global he... Jan 29 2012 19:35:11	The Next Web
Social shopping site Multiply to relocate its global headquarters to Indonesia Social shopping site Multiply has announced plans to relocate its global headquarters from Boca Raton, Florida, to Jakarta, Indonesia, according to a report from Daily Social. The move is a... Read the full article on The Next Web »
Tech tabloids you are lucky don’t exist Jan 29 2012 18:42:16	The Next Web
Tech tabloids you are lucky don’t exist The world of tech media is varied, interesting, and always changing. Several publications are on their way down. Others are marching to the top of the heap. Some just shout... Read the full article on The Next Web »
Getty Images now offers music by high-profile artists t... Jan 29 2012 17:37:50	The Next Web
Getty Images now offers music by high-profile artists to high-end content producers Getty Images, best known as a picture agency, has announced that it is to offer music by high-profile and emerging artists for the first time, for use in the advertising,... Read the full article on The Next Web »
How Apple remembers Steve Jobs at its Cupertino campus ... Jan 29 2012 17:19:12	The Next Web
How Apple remembers Steve Jobs at its Cupertino campus [Images] Apple continues to celebrate the unique personality and leadership qualities of co-founder Steve Jobs following his death, placing inspirational quotes and pictures of the late leader around its 1 Infinite... Read the full article on The Next Web »
Meet the first three startups from the Middle East incu... Jan 29 2012 16:32:07	The Next Web
Meet the first three startups from the Middle East incubator ‘SeedStartup’s’ pilot program Last May, we told you about SeedStartup, a Dubai-based incubator that has since gone on to become a member of the TechStars network, and has mentored 3 startups, after receiving over 70... Read the full article on The Next Web »

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