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- Mozilla: The Key To The Browser Is Individuality [TNW Europe]
- Zynga to launch Mafia Wars on Android this month [TNW Europe]
- Google Zeitgeist 2010: Chatroulette, Formspring and iPad among fastest rising searches [TNW Google]
- UK Non-profits Get Google Checkout Donate Buttons [TNW Google]
- Confirmed: Operation Payback Facebook Page Pulled by Facebook [TNW Facebook]
- 90 Second iTunes Previews Rolling Out Tonight [TNW Apple]
- Zuckerberg pledges to give majority of wealth to charity [TNW Facebook]
- Pew Research: 8% of US adult Internet users are on Twitter, 2% use it daily [TNW Twitter]
- 300,000 Android Phones Activated a Day [TNW Mobile]
- YouTube Android app gets major overhaul, available for Froyo and Gingerbread [TNW Google]
- Japanese e-commerce giant, Rakuten, opens preliminary site in Indonesia. [TNW Asia]
- No Early Mac App Store Still On Target for January 2011 Launch [TNW Apple]
- iPhone 3GS goes free at Best Buy on December 10th [TNW Mobile]
- YouTube’s “Life in a Day” premier set for live Sundance broadcast [TNW Media]
- Caving to pressure from supporters, PayPal releases WikiLeaks’ funds [Update: PayPal down] [TNW Media]
- Anonymous makes peace with Twitter after a short attack on the service. [TNW Twitter]
- Twitter makes it official: It is not blocking #wikileaks [TNW Twitter]
- Will Windows 8 completely revolutionize the Microsoft user interface? [TNW Microsoft]
- Santa Gets A Google Voice Number [TNW Google]
- Microsoft is “feeling pretty good” about Windows Phone 7 sales [TNW Microsoft]
| Mozilla: The Key To The Browser Is Individuality [TNW Europe] Posted: 09 Dec 2010 03:31 AM PST
Baker, speaking on stage at LeWeb 2010, is concerned by the current trend where companies are “duplicating the Apple model”, building products and sometimes services that do not fully integrate back to the web. Speaking of Mozilla, the company wants to establish a new model where apps can integrate back to the web, with HTML5 currently able to help developers do just that. Mozilla is already developing platforms that allow coders and designers to pull in live content from around the web, without using proprietary tools like Flash; Baker demonstrated a video showing that developers can bring in tweets, web videos and external content via a WebGL interface (embedded below). When asked what Mozilla felt about the rise of Google’s Chrome browser and the sudden rise of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 browser, Baker noted that she believed the differences in browser speeds are now minimal, speeds are barely noticeable between Firefox, Chrome and other browsers. Baker also welcomed innovations from Google and Microsoft, acknowledging what the two companies were doing to further browser technology. She explained that Mozilla’s main aim is for a better web, not to destroy its competition, and that by innovating the browser, users are the ones set to benefit. In the future, Mozilla hopes to create a platform that puts the user in control of their browser, not adding services like RockMelt and Flock are currently focusing on. Baker believes the user should be able to customise their own browser, whether it means removing toolbars and back/forward buttons or being able to search from a browser address bar, the browser should let a user choose which functions are most important so they don’t need to choose a specific software over another just because it has one “killer” feature. To do this, Mozilla wants to make its platform ubiquitous, offering the same experience across different platforms but also over different browsers. Where Google offers applications via its Chrome Web Store, Mozilla wants apps built that can work on any browser, on a mobile handset or even on the web all at the same time. The Mozilla Foundation holds a unique position, it fights for a better web, not to push its own services or operate within its own confines. By welcoming competition, it plays a key role in pushing forward the moden-day browser.Image Source [Notice: this is the RSS feed for ALL stories from across The Next Web - that means a lot of stories every day - for just our top stories, subscribe to our Top Stories RSS feed here.] |
| Zynga to launch Mafia Wars on Android this month [TNW Europe] Posted: 09 Dec 2010 03:25 AM PST
Following the company’s recent acquisition of Newtoy, the We Rule, Words With Friends and Chess With Friends developers (now renamed Zynga With Friends), the company is starting to look beyond iOS (where Farmville is already a success) to other mobile platforms. Kicking this off, Ko said that Mafia Wars will be coming to Android this month. Ko, who has only been in the job one month, says he knew Zynga needed to make a move on Android quickly when he started the job and that there will be more to come from Zynga on Google’s platform. Zynga is expanding into Japan and going straight to the mobile market there. ‘Farm Village’ (as Farmville is called in Japan) is currently available for smartphones, although it will be moving onto other lower-spec feature phones as it looks to provide the best fit for the market. In terms of mobile monetization, Zynga is leaving that to the future. For the time being, the company is growing market share and honing its mobile user experience. [Notice: this is the RSS feed for ALL stories from across The Next Web - that means a lot of stories every day - for just our top stories, subscribe to our Top Stories RSS feed here.] |
| Google Zeitgeist 2010: Chatroulette, Formspring and iPad among fastest rising searches [TNW Google] Posted: 09 Dec 2010 02:00 AM PST
We have been able to take a look at the most popular search phrases in the UK, and as you might expect, it is dominated by political issues. Surprisingly, a number of internet startups including Chatroulette and Formspring and tech devices like the iPad have also managed to muscle-in amongst mentions of the General Election and rail strikes, holding positions in the fastest rising searches in 2010. UK searchers took to Google to quench their thirst for news and events, particularly when the country was in process of electing its next leader. Top news search terms included the names of each political party, mentions of David Cameron and the term “Register to vote”, demonstrating the desire for people in the UK to influence the results of the Election. Facebook, BBC, YouTube, Hotmail, eBay and Google itself were present the top ten overall most searched phrases for 2010, showing that although many people know the website addresses for the websites they are searching for, a Google search is more convenient for them. It might also show that UK searchers are setting Google as their homepage or utilising built-in browser search tools to perform these searches, after-all it wouldn’t make sense to manually type in google.co.uk and then perform the search thereafter, would it?! With the recession still fresh in everyones minds, cheap flights, holidays, train tickets and car insurance ranked top in the money-saving search terms, whilst cakes, wine and curry were the most desired of the food and drink category. UK searchers loved coco, bass, hoodies, football and dance, but they hated mountains, snow, football, mum and love. Justin Bieber didn’t feature in either category but of course found himself amongst the fastest rising searches and the fastest rising people.Telegraph, Image Source [Notice: this is the RSS feed for ALL stories from across The Next Web - that means a lot of stories every day - for just our top stories, subscribe to our Top Stories RSS feed here.] |
| UK Non-profits Get Google Checkout Donate Buttons [TNW Google] Posted: 08 Dec 2010 11:57 PM PST
Before today’s announcement, Google Checkout allowed US companies to solicit donations using the service. Now that the tool is available in the UK, users will be able to sign in with their Google account to make a donation, using Google’s streamlined service. If an organisation belongs to Google Grants, the search giant will process any donations for free until 2011. If a company isn’t signed up to the service, it will still be able to take advantage of the low processing fees offered. To start using the feature, UK organisations must make sure their accounts are set to “Non-profit”. From there, they will be able to navigate into their Google Settings, select the Checkout option and find a section devoted to embedding Donate buttons onto a website. Google has also enabled donors to select whether they wish to give using Gift Aid whilst making a purchase, increasing their donations to UK non-profits at the same time.Image Credit [Notice: this is the RSS feed for ALL stories from across The Next Web - that means a lot of stories every day - for just our top stories, subscribe to our Top Stories RSS feed here.] |
| Confirmed: Operation Payback Facebook Page Pulled by Facebook [TNW Facebook] Posted: 08 Dec 2010 10:30 PM PST
And I think that’s probably the correct thing to do. This has nothing to do with freedom of speech (do remember, by the way, that freedom of speech is about the goverment limiting your right to speech, not a private company), it has to do with Facebook following the rules that they set down. And it’s well within Facebook’s right to do this. Now, this does bring up the larger question of … well why is it that we let a single point source control information like this? Twitter and Facebook both terminated accounts for Operation Payback, because Twitter and Facebook are companies that have rules they want everyone to follow. So while Operation Payback’s methods might be controversial, I think the reaction to what they are doing underscores the need for tools like Diaspora and Status.net to be able to build social networks with only and Internet connection and a server. Agree with the tactics or not, we do still need the tools to be able to raise awareness about important issues.Huffington Post [Notice: this is the RSS feed for ALL stories from across The Next Web - that means a lot of stories every day - for just our top stories, subscribe to our Top Stories RSS feed here.] |
| 90 Second iTunes Previews Rolling Out Tonight [TNW Apple] Posted: 08 Dec 2010 09:50 PM PST From 9to5Mac, the promised 90 second iTunes song previews are starting to roll out through iTunes tonight. They are appearing in the U.S. right now, but not Canada or the U.K.
9to5Mac chose Sgt. Pepper as their test album (which was one of the first two CDs I bought with my first CD player), so check out iTunes tonight and see what you can hear … Let us know when you see them in an iTunes store near you … or you know.9to5Mac, photo credit [Notice: this is the RSS feed for ALL stories from across The Next Web - that means a lot of stories every day - for just our top stories, subscribe to our Top Stories RSS feed here.] |
| Zuckerberg pledges to give majority of wealth to charity [TNW Facebook] Posted: 08 Dec 2010 09:42 PM PST
Zuckerberg right now has an estimated worth of $6.9 billion with the current valuation of Facebook, though of course that number is just really a guess at this point as to what his fortune would be if Facebook were to sell today, and could go way up and quickly (or of course, go way down theoretically). Other billionaires that signed the pledge with Zuckerberg according to the Wall Street Journal included AOL co-founder Steve Case, investor Carl Icahn and Moskovitz. Earlier this year, Zuckerberg agreed on the Oprah Winfrey Show to give $100 million to Newark’s public schools, but that could pale in comparison to what the majority of his eventual fortune could end up being. Great to see Zuckerberg and Moskovitz doing this, especially as both are under thirty years old.Wall Street Journal [Notice: this is the RSS feed for ALL stories from across The Next Web - that means a lot of stories every day - for just our top stories, subscribe to our Top Stories RSS feed here.] |
| Pew Research: 8% of US adult Internet users are on Twitter, 2% use it daily [TNW Twitter] Posted: 08 Dec 2010 09:20 PM PST In “the first-ever survey reading from the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project that exclusively examines Twitter users,” the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project has found that 8% of US adults that use the Internet use Twitter. The survey found that Twitter users are more likely to be young (18-29), African-American or Latino (“twice as likely to use Twitter as are white internet users”) and are twice as likely to be urbanites. Women and college-educated are also slightly more likely than average to be using Twitter. The new survey took a different approach from earlier surveys Pew had conducted about Twitter. Whereas before the survey had asked about whether Internet users do status updates in general (which garnered a 24% “yes” response in September 2010) this survey focused directly on Twitter with the simple question, “Do you use Twitter?” 8% answered yes to this question with 2% saying they use Twitter basically everyday.
Here is the link to the full report as a web page and as a PDF.Pew, Digiphile [Notice: this is the RSS feed for ALL stories from across The Next Web - that means a lot of stories every day - for just our top stories, subscribe to our Top Stories RSS feed here.] |
| 300,000 Android Phones Activated a Day [TNW Mobile] Posted: 08 Dec 2010 08:54 PM PST
To put some of this into perspective, analysts predict that Android will eventually control 50% of the market and in the UK Android devices were looking at 350% growth this year. But just two days ago Electronista talked about 214k Android activations a day and in September iOS activations where at 230k a day and Apple was scoffing at Google’s claim of 160k activations that the data was wrong. Okay, so has a holiday bug given Android devices a jump? Is it possible that in a couple months Android devices could increase in velocity? It’s also interesting that today Mobile Magazine posted that Android devices are huge bandwidth hogs so maybe all these new devices hitting the networks isn’t a good thing. At least, unlike iOS devices in the States, Android devices are spread out over several carriers.Twitter, CNN, photo credit [Notice: this is the RSS feed for ALL stories from across The Next Web - that means a lot of stories every day - for just our top stories, subscribe to our Top Stories RSS feed here.] |
| YouTube Android app gets major overhaul, available for Froyo and Gingerbread [TNW Google] Posted: 08 Dec 2010 08:53 PM PST
The app will only work on Android 2.2 and above and is available now in the Android Market, and will come pre-installed on the Nexus S (the first Android 2.3 phone). The new app is completely redone “from the ground up” as Google puts it, and has quite a bit of new features including in-page playback that allows you to watch videos on you mobile while browsing related videos, rating videos, and even post comments. YouTube has also simplified how video/channel subscriptions are updated, and subscriptions can now be viewed on the app’s homepage. Also, the new app now offers one other great feature: the ability to make a video full-screen on your phone just by rotating your handset, as well as new on-video controls while in portrait/full-screen mode. [Notice: this is the RSS feed for ALL stories from across The Next Web - that means a lot of stories every day - for just our top stories, subscribe to our Top Stories RSS feed here.] |
| Japanese e-commerce giant, Rakuten, opens preliminary site in Indonesia. [TNW Asia] Posted: 08 Dec 2010 06:15 PM PST
The companies intend to launch their online shopping mall in Indonesia 2011. This first stage is just a preliminary website inviting merchants to contact Rakuten Belanja Online (literally, Rakuten Shopping Online) to learn about setting up a shop within the mall. Indonesia boasts the fourth largest population (240 million) in the world and the region’s largest number of internet users (33 million) with tremendous growth potential in the e-commerce business. Rakuten and Global Mediacom aim to make Rakuten Belanja Online Indonesia's largest internet shopping mall. Rakuten Belanja Online will initially operate the internet shopping mall by offering domestically produced products to Indonesian consumers by local merchants. In the mid-to-long term, Rakuten Belanja Online will build a global e-commerce transaction platform by working in close cooperation with "Rakuten Ichiba Japan", "Rakuten Ichiba Taiwan", and "TARAD.com" of Thailand. The joint venture company will also be linked with, "Lekutian", an Internet shopping mall in China, which Baidu, Inc. and Rakuten launched jointly, as well as with Buy.com, Inc. in the U.S. and PriceMinister S.A. in France, which were acquired by Rakuten in July. "Rakuten Ichiba" is Japan's largest Internet shopping mall and offers approximately 70 million products by about 35,000 merchants. Global Mediacom is the largest integrated media group in Indonesia with operations encompassing content and advertising based media, subscriber based media and media support and infrastructure.Press Release, image [Notice: this is the RSS feed for ALL stories from across The Next Web - that means a lot of stories every day - for just our top stories, subscribe to our Top Stories RSS feed here.] |
| No Early Mac App Store Still On Target for January 2011 Launch [TNW Apple] Posted: 08 Dec 2010 05:59 PM PST
Does this make sense to folks? MacRumors points out that a January launch would allow time for 10.6.6 to finish testing and be released, which I think is a logical reason. I’d also point out that we already know that the iOS App Store won’t be reviewing apps over the holidays (shutting down in a week or so), so it wouldn’t really make sense to launch the Mac App store just before people go on holidays. We know that as soon as the App Store launches not only will there be a raft of new submissions, but also a raft of problems. People will want to “return” things and have issues…it’s just the nature of things. Best to leave it until the New Year. In the mean time you can always just buy apps for people the “old fashioned way” over the Internet.The Loop, MacRumors [Notice: this is the RSS feed for ALL stories from across The Next Web - that means a lot of stories every day - for just our top stories, subscribe to our Top Stories RSS feed here.] |
| iPhone 3GS goes free at Best Buy on December 10th [TNW Mobile] Posted: 08 Dec 2010 05:20 PM PST According to a report from the guys over at BGR, Best Buy Mobile is going to be offering up Apple’s iPhone 3GS for the paltry sum of nothing on December 10th. It will apparently be free that day only and it will be available to those that are signing up for a new line, adding another line or qualify for an upgrade. The offer will apparently work like an instant rebate.
The report claims that the inventory current held at Best Buy stores will be sufficient to cover the promotion, although, we wouldn’t be surprised to hear about shortages or inventories becoming depleted come Friday. No official word yet from Best Buy but from the looks of things, this is all but certain. [Notice: this is the RSS feed for ALL stories from across The Next Web - that means a lot of stories every day - for just our top stories, subscribe to our Top Stories RSS feed here.] |
| YouTube’s “Life in a Day” premier set for live Sundance broadcast [TNW Media] Posted: 08 Dec 2010 04:31 PM PST YouTube’s worldwide documentary “Life in a Day“, produced by Ridley Scott and directed by Kevin MacDonald will premier at the Sundance Film Festival on January 27, 2011 at 8:15PM EST. The 94 minute movie will be shown during a live broadcast from Sundance, followed by a live Q&A from MacDonald. YouTube will then replay the movie shortly afterwards, and will release it as a YouTube video later in the year. According to a post on the YouTube Blog, the hour and a half film – which documents one specific day in July earlier this year, was culled from 5,000 hours of video from 80,000 users in 192 countries – all from that one day. Here’s a video message from MacDonald, who seems like one tired guy (you probably would be too if you just turned 5,000 hours of video into 1.5 hours): [Notice: this is the RSS feed for ALL stories from across The Next Web - that means a lot of stories every day - for just our top stories, subscribe to our Top Stories RSS feed here.] |
| Posted: 08 Dec 2010 04:23 PM PST UPDATE: As of 12:10am PST on December 9, Paypal.com is widely unreachable according to our own checks and numerous reports on Twitter. We are unsure of the cause for this downtime, but it is very likely that it is under a DDoS attack from WikiLeaks supporters.
In a reversal of course, PayPal has released funds remaining in an account associated with WikiLeaks according to a post on PayPal’s blog. Last week, a statement from PayPal indicated, the company had suspended the account following claims by the U.S. that the activities of WikiLeaks violated the law. According to the report, PayPal acted of their own volition, without being contacted by any government agency. Further, the spokesman for PayPal indicated that the company had “permanently restricted the account used by WikiLeaks due to a violation of the PayPal Acceptable Use Policy, which states that our payment service cannot be used for any activities that encourage, promote, facilitate or instruct others to engage in illegal activity.” Now it appears attacks from the supporters of WikiLeaks have caused PayPal to re-think their position. From the PayPal blog post:
Release of the funds come after a slew of denial-of-service (DOS) attacks earlier this week aimed at WikiLeaks’ providers. The providers have refused to conduct any business with WikiLeaks after the U.S. government stepped up its pressure on the site, claiming the site’s actions are in violation of U.S. law. What are your thoughts? Is PayPal right to reverse course and release WikiLeaks’ funds? Do you think WikiLeaks has violated any U.S. laws, and if so, which ones?All Things Digital [Notice: this is the RSS feed for ALL stories from across The Next Web - that means a lot of stories every day - for just our top stories, subscribe to our Top Stories RSS feed here.] |
| Anonymous makes peace with Twitter after a short attack on the service. [TNW Twitter] Posted: 08 Dec 2010 04:14 PM PST Update at the foot of the post If the rumors that we’re hearing are true, members of the 4chan-started group Anonymous have begun an attack on Twitter. Why? It appears that Twitter has blocked the accounts associated with the group, according to a post over at Forbes and a thread on the /b/ forum of 4chan.
Looking at the downrightnow link for Twitter, it does appear that at least some of parts of Twitter have been under heavy attack in the past couple of hours:
While there is no section showing a 100 percent outage of the site, drops to even 50 percent usability are significant enough to report. We’ve reached out to Twitter for a response, but as of yet have not gotten a reply. Twitter, however, seems to be confident that it can withstand the attacks when speaking to Forbes.com earlier:
It is worth noting that Twitter has closed at least one account belonging to the OperationPayback group, but others have since spawned. As is typical for attacks from Anonymous, the group will tend to spread its members across various different platforms for ease of operation. It has been a day full of attacks across the Internet. Early in the US hours, MasterCard came under fire, quickly followed by Visa. Both attacks seem to stem from the individual companies pulling the ability to support Wikileaks via donations through MasterCard and Visa. Most recently, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s personal information has been released onto the Internet, arguably because of her verbal support for the downing of Wikileaks. There is also some muttering going on about attacking PayPal, and the newest account for Anonymous on Twitter appears to be leading the charge:
Update: It appears that things have settled for the Twitter camp. The original @Anon_Operations account has been restored, and according to a tweet from the account, it was closed by accident. Judging from what we’re seeing on the graphs, the last attack on the service was over two hours ago and things appear to be running smoothly now: [Notice: this is the RSS feed for ALL stories from across The Next Web - that means a lot of stories every day - for just our top stories, subscribe to our Top Stories RSS feed here.] |
| Twitter makes it official: It is not blocking #wikileaks [TNW Twitter] Posted: 08 Dec 2010 04:11 PM PST
Most recently, with the debacle of Wikileaks, Twitter has come under fire as suspicions have risen that the company is censoring the #wikileaks hash tag. Though Twitter employees have vehemently denied it, the public has still been curious. To set the record straight, we now have an entry from the Twitter blog:
The post goes on to then explain that a trend is measured more about what’s hot right now than what’s hot over a period of time. The idea is to discover the “most breaking” of breaking news. With more than 95 million tweets per day, it is often times easy to forget that only a small segment of people might be following a certain topic. Add to that the fact that you’re likely to follow people on Twitter who have similar interests and the facade that something is amiss can easily come into play. [Notice: this is the RSS feed for ALL stories from across The Next Web - that means a lot of stories every day - for just our top stories, subscribe to our Top Stories RSS feed here.] |
| Will Windows 8 completely revolutionize the Microsoft user interface? [TNW Microsoft] Posted: 08 Dec 2010 04:07 PM PST
We want to be blunt: we are not sure how reliable this source is. Please do recall that Microsoft has called the next version of Windows their “riskiest product bet.” What is in this new version of Windows that is so different? Called ‘Wind,’ the user experience sounds like nothing that we have ever seen or heard of from Microsoft. This is how the Italian blog described it, translated to English:
Heady stuff we must admit. That the next version of Windows will require a dedicated GPU is not overly surprising. The cost of those units has dropped as their power has grown, putting them in the price reach of most consumers. It is not that that grabs us, but the idea that the interface is fully dynamic and reactive. There is no operating system that we use or are familiar with that is pursuing those goals directly. How radical these adaptions will be, or if they are mostly ‘under the hood,’ is anyone’s guess (assuming that this rumor is true). We have reached out to Microsoft for comment and will update this post if we hear anything new. Update: Microsoft got back to us reaffirming their position of not commenting on speculation and rumor. Windows8Italia, Via WinRumors, Image Credit [Notice: this is the RSS feed for ALL stories from across The Next Web - that means a lot of stories every day - for just our top stories, subscribe to our Top Stories RSS feed here.] |
| Santa Gets A Google Voice Number [TNW Google] Posted: 08 Dec 2010 03:21 PM PST So apparently Google has solved the age old problem of not only getting in touch with Santa Claus, but also of how to make sure your kids, nieces and nephews get a call from Santa. The answer? Google Voice of course. Google has set up a Google Voice number for Santa (855-34-SANTA) where you can leave the big fella a voicemail (obviously he’s too busy to pick up his Nexus S). That’s only half of the fun, however – Google has set up a website (sendacallfromsanta.com) where you can set up a message that will ring any number in the United States with a personalized message from Santa.
It’s a cute little site that is pretty Googlized (there’s a Google Voice logo and some of the presents include “an Android phone” and a “Google TV”). That said, it’s a pretty slick site that takes only a minute or two to set up your personalized greeting, which is played back to you before you send it out. The voice is of course, Santa’s and we have to say, if we were 5 years old, we’d certainly be fooled, as it can be very personal and certainly sounds like Santa. The questions asked on the site include your relationship to the person you’re sending the voice greeting to, information about them – do they live in the city or country, are they in elementary school, what they want for the holidays, favorite food, nickname and what holiday they celebrate. You can then share the voice message via any number in the US, text message or Facebook / Twitter. We tried the phone call and it worked instantly and was perfectly clear. However, at the end of both the process and the phone call, the message gets pretty Google Voice promotional – for the process, that’s fine, but is a 5 year old really going to want to hear about why Google Voice is great? Otherwise, it’s a nice little free service that you can certainly have some fun with, but we prefer it if Google would take a little of the Google out of the final message.Google Talk Blog [Notice: this is the RSS feed for ALL stories from across The Next Web - that means a lot of stories every day - for just our top stories, subscribe to our Top Stories RSS feed here.] |
| Microsoft is “feeling pretty good” about Windows Phone 7 sales [TNW Microsoft] Posted: 08 Dec 2010 03:19 PM PST
In response to a question of “whether Steve Ballmer smiles or winces when he sees the [sales] numbers,” Belfiroe responded: “I think we're all feeling pretty good.” While it is not hard data, it is at least someone from Microsoft taking a real position on platform’s sales other than ‘it is too soon to comment.’ As you well know, hardware manufacturers engaged in Windows Phone 7 handset production are also holding back on commenting on sales numbers. What do we think? Everyone seems to have the same mindset that we have spoken too: the holiday season is going to be the years’ deciding factor for the phones, but Microsoft will happily lose money on the platform for the next few years to carve out real market share. And yet, perhaps Microsoft really is happy so far, and can’t wait to wow us with numbers when the time comes. It could just be. Be sure and watch Ina’s whole interview.Top Image Credit, Via WMPowerUser, AllThingsD [Notice: this is the RSS feed for ALL stories from across The Next Web - that means a lot of stories every day - for just our top stories, subscribe to our Top Stories RSS feed here.] |
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Mark Zuckerberg joined fifteen other billionaires, including Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz in signing ‘The Giving Pledge”, which basically means that Zuckerberg and the others have committed publicly to giving away the majority of their fortunes at some point in their lives.
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Google unbundled the YouTube app from Android, releasing the newest version of the app today, version 2.1. With the app now unbundled, it should mean more frequent updates as it will no long require you to wait to update your Android OS to get the latest version.
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Since the dawn of the Trends feature in 2008, there have been a lot of discussions about what makes a trending topic and what doesn’t. From the days of Justin Bieber fans filling the topics list to the promoted Trends, the question has come up often.
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