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- Shocking. Chinese woman sentenced to one year in labour camp for one retweet [TNW Asia]
- Apple’s iAd network coming to Europe in December [TNW Mobile]
- First Look: Star Wars Arcade Falcon Gunner [TNW Apple]
- China Telecom denies allegations that they hijacked US internet traffic [TNW Asia]
- Facebook-MySpace Announcement Thursday? [TNW Social Media]
- Tablet-only Publication Coming from News Corp [TNW Apple]
- Dell’s Head of Mobile Communications Solutions resigns [TNW Mobile]
- China Unicom to launch own smartphone by year end [TNW Asia]
- Walmart. Black Friday. $198 15″ laptop. Get there early… [TNW Gadgets]
- Movie Database surprise winner at Asia Mobile Awards [TNW Asia]
- Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 getting pinch-to-zoom, due in Q1 2011 [TNW Gadgets]
- Twitter’s Evan Williams: We want to be a platform company [TNW Social Media]
- Twitter’s Evan Williams: “There’s a million ways to make money with Twitter” [TNW Social Media]
- Air Force issues warning to troops concerning Facebook Places [TNW Social Media]
- Netflix CEO: “Hulu Plus could become a competitor over time” [TNW United States]
- Will tiered speed and consumption spell success for Verizon LTE? [TNW Mobile]
- HootSuite for iPad is here! [TNW Canada]
- Guy becomes Foursquare mayor, gets free sandwiches for a year [TNW Location]
- What’s Better Than Facebook, MySpace, iTunes and YouTube? [TNW Shareables]
- The Samsung Focus is on massive sale at Amazon, where it was previously sold out [TNW Microsoft]
| Shocking. Chinese woman sentenced to one year in labour camp for one retweet [TNW Asia] Posted: 18 Nov 2010 03:46 AM PST
The lady in question is Cheng Jianping, a Chinese online activist who retweeted the message on October 17. Her sentence of one year’s ‘Re-education Through Labour’ was passed on Monday, a punishment for “disturbing social order”. Cheng had actually gone missing days previous, missing her wedding day in the process, her location undisclosed until it was found she had been arrested and detained by local police. As you have read above, Cheng didn’t actually create the initial tweet, choosing instead to retweet a message posted by her fiance. The tweet mocked demonstrators that had smashed Japanese products as a result of skirmishes between Chinese and Japanese fishing boats regarding the Diaoyu/Senkaku islands. The tweet read:
Cheng, seemingly agreeing with the message, retweeted the passage, adding "Angry youth, charge!" to the end. Three other people had retweeted the initial tweet and it is not know whether Cheng’s fiance was detained as a result of posting the original message. It is thought that because Cheng had been involved in low-level online activism, her tweet was the straw that broke the [Chinese governments] camels back. Cheng’s sentence, although indicated to be one year, can strip an individual of their liberty for as much as 4 years, needing only a police decision and not a trial by an independent court. Cheng’s sentence is a stark contrast to the Robin Hood airport fiasco, a situation where a gentleman named Paul Chambers was arrested for a tweet that jokingly suggested he would blow up the airport if it was not reopened. At his trial he was found guilty of "Sending by a public communications network a message that was grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character" and fined £1000. He also lost his job twice as a result of the case. Thousands of Twitter users supported his cause, taking to Twitter to retweet the offending message, adding #iamspartacus hashtag at the end. Quite staggering, the difference between the two punishments. We will keep you updated as this develops.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.]     |
| Apple’s iAd network coming to Europe in December [TNW Mobile] Posted: 18 Nov 2010 02:57 AM PST
Apple’s new mobile advertising platform launched in the US in July and has since signed on over half of the top 25 US advertisers, accounting for a projected 21% share of US mobile display advertising revenue for 2010, research from IDC suggests. iAd’s are baked into Apple’s iOS4 firmware, allowing app developers to allow for advertising within their apps. Advertisers can target specific apps to run their new marketing campaigns, ensuring users don’t become dis-interested with a certain advert due to its relevancy. Apple will hope a European launch will help the continued growth of its advertising platform, a platform that in just four months has doubled the number of advertisers and given app developers an additional source of revenue. Apple notes that user engagement time is averaging 60 seconds per visit, an impressive statistic for a an industry where viewers’ interest is becoming more difficult to retain. Adverts will of course be tightly controlled by Apple, launching with L'Oréal, Renault, Louis Vuitton, Nespresso, Perrier, Unilever, Citi, Evian, LG Display, AB InBev, Turkish Airlines and Absolute RadioImage 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.]    |
| First Look: Star Wars Arcade Falcon Gunner [TNW Apple] Posted: 18 Nov 2010 12:05 AM PST
Yep the augmented reality game for the iPhone, Falcon Gunner is available in the App Store. I bought the app straight away…yeah fine $5… not so bad…and… It’s hard! And very, very cool.
I haven’t had long to play with the game and while the promo video on YouTube makes it look really awesome and easy: I’ve only been able to nail one TIE fighter thus far. Okay, well that’s also because I was trying to film me playing playing it … which you can laugh at here: Review and rating? Let me nail some more fighters first. Right now…certainly worth the $5 for the fun of my wife and I shooting lasers at each other in AR mode.Techcrunch, iTunes app store, 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.]    |
| China Telecom denies allegations that they hijacked US internet traffic [TNW Asia] Posted: 17 Nov 2010 10:18 PM PST
The allegations, which first surfaced in October claimed that China Telecom, China’s state-run telecoms company, had routed 15% of the world’s internet traffic through its own servers for 18 minutes in April this year. Since the story broke, speculation has been rife as to what they may have done with the data and what secret government and military data may have been compromised. In their report to Congress on Wednesday, the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission said that internet traffic of the US Senate, the Department of Defense, NASA and many others was routed through the Chinese servers. The problem is initially thought to have started in a smaller Chinese Telecoms company, IDC China Telecommunication, but soon propagated to China Telecom’s servers. It is not known whether this redirection of traffic was intentional or the result of a technical error, however, that it was possible at all is enough to cause concern for governments and corporations alike.
In today’s statement, emailed to AFP, China Telecom “denied any hijack of Internet traffic” but did not elaborate any further on what really happened at IDC China Telecommunication in April.Yahoo!, image, 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.]    |
| Facebook-MySpace Announcement Thursday? [TNW Social Media] Posted: 17 Nov 2010 09:57 PM PST Updates at the bottom of the post… SAI just posted that Facebook and MySpace are holding a special announcement Thursday at noon PST: SAI is stumped as what this could be about, but … we can certainly speculate too.
We’ll update this post as more info comes in … but speculate and discuss in the comments! Update: From All Things D and Inside Facebook it looks like the announcement will be MySpace using Facebook Connect to power logins. Man, thinking about MyFaceMusic was much more interesting…SAI, 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.]    |
| Tablet-only Publication Coming from News Corp [TNW Apple] Posted: 17 Nov 2010 09:48 PM PST
Time frame: soon. Beyond that Mr. Murdoch wouldn’t give any other details. Think this is going to pay off for them? You bet. Wired’s iPad edition is accounting for 39% of total sales right now and other publications, like MacLife, have come out with not just mobile editions, but tablet-focused editions. But here’s the thing that has to be asked:
Wired is finding that putting out the iPad version is requiring 20% additional resources to make it happen (because of the additional digital content). Would News Corp just come out with a table-optimized publication maybe just focusing on using HTML5 resources or launch three tablet apps (iPad, Android, BlackBerry)? I really doubt the later and the former as well. I think News Corp is more likely to launch an iPad app, followed by other platforms. Fan-boyism aside, the iPad is a proven, popular platform, the others…don’t have the user base yet. I think if News Corp is betting on tablets, the tablet platform is considered a solid publishing outlet now. It’s also worth noting that The Economist is launching an iPad/iPhone version on Friday. Tablets and publishing are becoming like peanut butter and jelly. They just go together.Reuters, Apple Insider, 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.]    |
| Dell’s Head of Mobile Communications Solutions resigns [TNW Mobile] Posted: 17 Nov 2010 07:55 PM PST
Garriques, who joined Dell in 2007 from Motorola, was responsible for Dell’s entry into the competitive smartphone and tablet sector, presiding over the releases of the low end Android based Aero in Brazil and China last year and the US this year and the Streak, a 5″ Android based tablet/mobile hybrid. Under his tenure, Dell Inc. were also one of the first companies first to sell a Windows 7 based smartphone, the Venue Pro, although the product was troubled with complaints about WiFi performance. Garriques will leave his current position on January 28th 2011 , but, will continue working for Dell as a consultant. It is believed that he decided to resign after a reorganisation at Dell Inc. that moved marketing for mobile products to their main business groups, essentially eliminating his group. The ongoing development of smartphone and tablet products at Dell will be overseen by John Thode. According to Dell’s filing with the SEC, Mr. Garriques will receive severance pay and incentive bonuses of US$1.8 million.PCWorld, Yahoo!, image, 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.]    |
| China Unicom to launch own smartphone by year end [TNW Asia] Posted: 17 Nov 2010 07:10 PM PST
Little more detail was forthcoming about the technical details, although, China Unicom’s recently opened online Application Store, the WoStore, was built entirely by ZTE Corporation, one of China’s largest telecoms manufacturers. ZTE have recently launched Android based smartphones in the European market as well so it would be reasonable to speculate that China Unicom’s offering may be a similar device manufactured for them by ZTE sporting the Android operating system. Maybe. Update: Sources have confirmed that the new phone, called the UPhone, will be manufactured by ZTE Corp and Huawei Technologies. Price details have not been announced but it is assumed that it will be lower than China Unicom’s flagship smartphone, the Apple iPhone.BusinessWeek, 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.]    |
| Walmart. Black Friday. $198 15″ laptop. Get there early… [TNW Gadgets] Posted: 17 Nov 2010 06:34 PM PST On Black Friday (November 26) Walmart will be opening it’s doors at 5am, and on the list of many low-priced things early birds can pick up that day (while supplies last of course) is a 15″ eMachines laptop for $198. Yep, a more or less fully functional laptop for under $200. The somewhat mystery machine on the front page of the Walmart Black Friday ad below, only says that it features a 2.2Ghz Intel Celeron processor, 2GB of RAM, a 15.6″ “HD” screen, 250GB hard drive, a read/write CD/DVD drive, Windows 7 Home Premium and is “wireless enabled”. Frankly, this think is probably a brick, but for under $200 you can’t really even buy a netbook usually, never mind a full laptop. This could be the perfect gift for someone that would like a laptop for around the house or for the kids. What do you think, would you throw down $200 (plus tax of course) for this laptop? Will you be standing in line at 4:59am next Friday? Please let us know in the comments.PC World [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.]    |
| Movie Database surprise winner at Asia Mobile Awards [TNW Asia] Posted: 17 Nov 2010 06:07 PM PST
The awards, this year, focused on the mobile applications market. The GSMA worked with mobile analytics firm Distimo to compile app store data for leading platforms such as Apple iOS, Android, Nokia, BlackBerry and Microsoft Windows Mobile across 27 countries in Asia to select the winners for the five app-related categories. The Best Device award was selected from nominations of the top-selling handset manufacturers across Asia Pacific and, along with the Best App award, was judged by a panel of key industry analysts and journalists.
The Asia Mobile Awards 2010 winners are:
I guess Angry Birds isn’t a surprising winner in the games category, but, who would have thought that Asian users were such movie fans? It would be interesting to see how this data compares that from mobile users in other parts of the world.PR Newswire, image, 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.]    |
| Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 getting pinch-to-zoom, due in Q1 2011 [TNW Gadgets] Posted: 17 Nov 2010 05:59 PM PST
In a post on their blog today, Sony Ericsson has confirmed that they will finally be bringing pinch-to-zoom to the Xperia X10 sometime during Q1 of 2011. For X10 owners on AT&T and in Europe, this news should be welcomed. Why? First, SE went public and stated that the X10 would never receive multitouch and did so just to clear the air with people who had be championing for it. They said the hardware just couldn’t handle it. Here’s how it apparently went down:
So, a little wizardry. They are already making it clear that the support is not going to be perfect and it will likely be a little awkward to use however, it will be functional when browsing the internet in the web browser as well as in Google Maps. It will also be usable in third-party applications but again they caution there might be some problems. Not that any of you care. You just want to be able to use it right? For your enjoyment, they also posted a video demoing what’s in store and you can have a peek at pinch-to-zoom in action if you head here. [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’s Evan Williams: We want to be a platform company [TNW Social Media] Posted: 17 Nov 2010 05:42 PM PST
However, even as much as Williams loves the idea of Twitter being a platform, there have been some moves from Twitter that have been seen as killing that innovation from outside sources. When Twitter bought Tweetie, for instance, many said that the acquisition was hurtful to the market for many. Williams, however, sees the acquisition simply as a necessity for an Internet business. So who, then, is safe? Williams couldn’t confirm that photo services are safe from the Twitter consumption. With Plixi, Yfrog and others making their way in the world primarily via Twitter’s success it raises a lot of questions about what sorts of businesses are safe from Twitter’s grasp. However, Williams does offer some insight on that, as well. In talking about the user streams, Williams states that they’re about the distribution of information, rather than about money. While Twitter certainly can (and does) make money off of those streams, Williams was clear to state that Twitter was not in the market to be the analytics application, rather only the source. This is interesting, as well, as we reported earlier today that Twitter has begun alpha testing its own analytics. It is worth mentioning, though, that Twitter’s own Sean Garret is downplaying the significance of Twitter’s branded analytics on the whole:
In a statement that Williams likely didn’t see as important as it was, he remarked that Twitter has a relevance scale for every tweet. That scale, as it’s used presently, helps to measure the reach of promoted tweets. However, that could change at any moment. Though Williams states that Twitter has no intention to take those numbers public, sites such as Klout could be wiped cleanly off of the map if Twitter were to flex its reputation muscle. An interesting ecosystem, surrounding Twitter, to be 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.]    |
| Twitter’s Evan Williams: “There’s a million ways to make money with Twitter” [TNW Social Media] Posted: 17 Nov 2010 05:11 PM PST
The ‘Promoted’ suite includes Tweets, Trends, and Accounts. Williams said that Twitter’s largest problem right now with the Promoted suite is that basically too many advertisers want to use Twitter’s ad option and Twitter doesn’t have the people necessary – especially sales people – to process all of the requests that it is getting. Williams also coyly said later in the interview that “we have a lot of money in bank” when asked if Twitter plans on getting money from Russian mega-investor Yuri Milner of DST. You can read about the rest William’s interview – including his thoughts on Twitter as platform and the microblogging site’s internal ‘resonance score’ – in our further coverage of his talk. [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.]    |
| Air Force issues warning to troops concerning Facebook Places [TNW Social Media] Posted: 17 Nov 2010 05:05 PM PST
The U.S. military and those of other nations previously issued warnings on social media, telling servicemen and women that they could expose sensitive military information. The Department of Defense considered banning the use of social media, the Marines did ban their use and then retreated from the stance, with those in the military now required to obtain consent from military authorities prior to using Facebook and Twitter for personal reasons. Today the U.S. Air Force has warned troops to closely watch what they post when using Facebook or other location-sharing sites as it could show the enemy exactly where U.S. forces are located in war zones. According to the story from The Associated Press:
The concern by the U.S. Air Force is a sign that those in the military see real danger in the proliferation of social networks, location-sharing, and the ability of those serving to refrain from providing the enemy with any other information which could be used to their advantage. What are your thoughts? Is the U.S. Air Force or any military outfit acting within their rights in warning or even restricting the use of social networks for those serving?Telegraph, Wired [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.]    |
| Netflix CEO: “Hulu Plus could become a competitor over time” [TNW United States] Posted: 17 Nov 2010 04:42 PM PST
He went on to say that, “the world is a pretty big place, with lots of Internet connected people” and seemed to imply that there would be enough room for both Netflix and Hulu Plus in a worldwide streaming video world. Hastings also said that US users can expect a streaming only service similar in price to the one that Netflix recently launched in Canada, and that the US can “expect it soon”. How soon that will be, he didn’t say, however (and wasn’t pressed on it either). In a panel with ex-News Corp exec Peter Cherin, Hastings also predicted that in 10 years, all televisions will be Internet-enabled and that both download and upload speeds will be extremely fast. He also said that he feels that in the near future, broadcast television will move more towards live events such as sports, live reality TV, etc, while the Web will be the place for long-term content such as television episodes that don’t have any time relation to the real world. Earlier today, Hulu finally opened its iPhone and iPad apps for Hulu Plus to everyone, as well as announcing a lower monthly subscription price of $7.99 per month in the US. We’re still pretty unconvinced that Hulu Plus can compete with Netflix, for no other reasons than Netflix has way more content (especially movies) and works on tons of devices, though of course, if Hulu plays its cards right, it could also do all of that, but right now, in our opinion, Netflix is king of the hill, regardless of Hasting’s modesty. [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 tiered speed and consumption spell success for Verizon LTE? [TNW Mobile] Posted: 17 Nov 2010 04:29 PM PST
In a twist that we typically don’t see from wireless carriers, Verizon’s CFO Fran Shammo tells the Wall Street Journal that a tiered answer, in both speed and consumption caps, might be the solution:
LTE, which Verizon is planning on having active in nearly 100 locations by the end of 2010, would enable the company to limit speed, consumption or both. Interestingly, the same feature should be available to carriers on a 3G network which makes us question why Verizon would need the LTE network to be in place in order to make this happen. The likely answer comes down to necessity. With the higher speeds, the available bandwidth will go away faster. Verizon, understanding the limited resource available to it, will likely find it necessary to offer lower speed plans to those people who wish to consume more over the billing period. As noted by The Journal, LTE can theoretically deliver speeds between 1 and 12 megabits per second. In real-world testing, Schulz tells me that LTE is providing a top-end speed of closer to 8 megabit per second, which rivals speeds of most home-based DSL. The temptation, obviously, will be for people to drop their home DSL package if the price for unlimited data is “right”. That unlimited data package, however, is exactly the issue at hand. While the carriers have continually stated that it’s only a small percentage of users who would blow past the typical 5 gigabyte per month limit, that small percentage is TNW’s audience. This is why we’re especially interested to see what will happen with LTE. Verizon is, far and away, the carrier with the most power in the US and whatever standard that it sets is likely to be followed by the rest. [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.]    |
| HootSuite for iPad is here! [TNW Canada] Posted: 17 Nov 2010 04:20 PM PST
What HootSuite did, which is also awesome, is that there isn’t “HootSuite for iPad” and “HootSuite for iPhone”, nope Richerd Chan the whiz kid iOS developer at HootSuite made a universal app for it. Simple updating … and stylish too! Some of the quotes in the TNW backchannel: Chad: “Holy owl god that’s SWEET!” Fraser: “Like: It imports from my existing account. Don’t like: I forgot to start the VPN (Damn GFW!)”
You’ll notice that HootSuite for iPad looks a lot like HootSuite for iPhone … it should it was made that way. I’ve had the chance to chat with Richerd on how he made the app and it was all about making good use of the larger screen size. And speed. Richerd noted that other apps for Twitter on the iPad were a little slow, so he made speed a priority in the app. Fast? Skimming across columns is essentially instant. My opinion was when I first saw that app in beta and affirmed when I received the final version on Saturday (yeah you thought I was just going to the Hack-a-thon), is that this is the best Twitter app for the iPad. I know Dave Olson (Dir of Community) is modest and such, but I think Richerd took the best from the Twitter app and the existing HootSuite for iOS and made something that a lot of users will really like.
The HootSuite blog post on the launch notes the features (most of which HootSuite for iPhone users have been loving for a while):
As an extra bonus that you won’t see anywhere else…here is my chat with HootSuite iOS dev Richerd Chan (this was during the beta stage of HootSuite for iPad): [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.]    |
| Guy becomes Foursquare mayor, gets free sandwiches for a year [TNW Location] Posted: 17 Nov 2010 03:28 PM PST Sandwich shop franchise Silver Mine Subs just finished a contest last Friday that awarded the mayor of each of its locations what it correctly calls “the motherload” – a free medium sub every week for a year. We heard about this through a Foursquare retweet of this guy who was the mayor of a Silver Mine Subs store at 11:59pm on November 12, meaning that he now gets his 52 free sandwiches. He was so happy, he took a Twitpic of his mayorship certificate: We talked over the phone to John Wilder, the store manager at the Champaign, IL, Silver Mine Subs that our lucky winner above will be getting his free sandwiches at, and he said the number of people coming in because of Foursquare “wasn’t a lot”, and that the promotion really originated in from the corporate arm of the franchise and ran for about three months. Sure enough, Silver Mine Subs has the promotion on its Facebook Page as well as its website, as you can see below (visitors also could win subs for a year through a scratch ticket). Of course, with only 727 Facebook fans, this promotion kind of went under the radar (think of the reaction if Subway did this), and even though 52 sandwiches sounds like a lot, in reality that’s like $300, right? So while perhaps not the largest promotion ever on Foursquare, it certainly must be a treat for the winning mayors – especially as they really don’t have to worry about defending their mayorships, as only the mayors at midnight last Friday night could win. Interesting promotion and just another way that local and national businesses can use geolocation to get people through their doors. [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.]    |
| What’s Better Than Facebook, MySpace, iTunes and YouTube? [TNW Shareables] Posted: 17 Nov 2010 02:28 PM PST Real Life. And these posters are an awesome reminder. Created by ad agency Marcus Thomas for this weekend’s Kent State Folk Festival. via @PSFK [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.]    |
| The Samsung Focus is on massive sale at Amazon, where it was previously sold out [TNW Microsoft] Posted: 17 Nov 2010 02:12 PM PST
We were so encouraged by the hubbub around the Samsung Focus that we wrote a piece called “Is it a hit?” That colors our surprise today when we learned that the Samsung Focus is currently on sale at Amazon. And not just the regular, $50 off sale that we often see, no, currently the Focus is on sale for a mere $49 with a two year contract. According the AT&T the phone should retail for four times that much, $199.99 with a two year contract. What is going on? Amazon did recently have a ridiculous weekend sale when it moved handsets from various providers each for a penny with contract, but this does not appear to be connected. Perhaps Amazon wants to move more units of a popular phone, or perhaps demand has slackened to the point of fear, and the company wants to get the devices into the market now as to avoid being stuck with them. Whatever the case, if you were looking to pick up a much-loved WP7 handset, now is a cheap time to do so.Source: WMPoweruser [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.]    |
Speaking on stage at the 
So analytics appear to be safe. Games, it seems, are another area that Twitter won’t be touching. “How would you play that, anyway?” was the question from Williams on the subject of games. However, if you’re in the reputation game, you might want to watch your back.
A couple of weeks ago when I 
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