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- RIM’s BlackBerry Playbook scheduled for Q1 2011 North America launch, Q2 worldwide [TNW Mobile]
- HTC Merge mistakenly published in 360-degree Verizon gallery [TNW Mobile]
- European carriers close ranks against Apple’s embedded SIM plan [TNW Mobile]
- More Social, Freemium Chatter Coming from Salesforce.com [TNW Apps]
- Apple: Please, please submit your apps to to the Mac App Store. [TNW Apple]
- Paychecks: Google’s Great but Facebook’s Fantastic [TNW Google]
- iPad 2 Ready for Production Q1 2011? [TNW Apple]
- Call It People or Directory: Twitter is Recommending People in a Whole New Way [TNW Social Media]
- Open Social Reaches 1.1 [TNW Google]
- Chinese now the second most important language for e-commerce sites [TNW Asia]
- Google Chrome Beta (Mac and Linux) and Dev (All) channels get updated [TNW Google]
- Keep your MacBook from waking up in your bag with a simple command [TNW Lifehacks]
- My Phone is off for You [TNW Shareables]
- Video: MIT student combines Kinect and iRobot…Terminators could be next step [TNW Microsoft]
- Build Apps for HootSuite with App Exchange [TNW Canada]
- Google’s new Street View privacy policy apparently extends to their offices too [TNW Google]
- Bing: We still love and use Silverlight! [TNW Microsoft]
- Apple Versus Microsoft: The Christmas Showdown Infographic [TNW Apple]
- New traffic light concept design – genius or unsafe? [TNW Shareables]
- The DOs & DON’Ts of Facebook Commerce [TNW Social Media]
| RIM’s BlackBerry Playbook scheduled for Q1 2011 North America launch, Q2 worldwide [TNW Mobile] Posted: 19 Nov 2010 03:03 AM PST
The Playbook was announced back in September with launch dates being supposedly been confirmed by Gregory Wade, regional VP for Asia Pacific of RIM, who also noted that the Playbook would be specifically aimed at corporate users with pricing set at around $500. Wade refused to comment on whether the Playbook would feature WiMAX or TD-LTE as its 4G technolog but did state that negotiations are in place with many operators to offer the device in different regions. We have previously mentioned that RIM’s pricing strategy was a direct shot across the bow of Apple, matching the price of the iPad. By bundling additional features that the iPad lacks including Java, Adobe and Flash, RIM hopes the Playbook will also make waves in the consumer market. The Playbook has already been matched up against the iPad in a face-off video, you can take a look here.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.]     | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| HTC Merge mistakenly published in 360-degree Verizon gallery [TNW Mobile] Posted: 19 Nov 2010 01:52 AM PST
The HTC Merge is no secret, the Android-powered handset that has been handled and previewed before its had the chance to be officially announced by the Taiwan-based smartphone giant. Android Central got their hands on a production unit in October, breaking down its specifications, suggesting the Merge sported a 3.7-inch screen, 800 MHz processor, 368MB of RAM, a 5MP camera (with 720p video recording) and the ability to support a global SIM card. The outlet received a reader tip, alerting them to the existence of the HTC Merge gallery, they were able to save a local copy and show the rest of the world what HTC will likely announce very soon: [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.]    | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| European carriers close ranks against Apple’s embedded SIM plan [TNW Mobile] Posted: 18 Nov 2010 11:07 PM PST
The providers, thought to include Vodaphone UK, France Telecom and Telefónica in Spain, are privately saying that they could refuse to subsidise an iPhone that contained an embedded SIM. Reports, last month, suggested that Apple were investigating the possibility of embedding SIM cards within their mobile devices. The advantages for Apple are twofold, in addition to making the design and manufacturing process simpler by eliminating the need for users to have access to the cards, it would give control over the activation process to Apple, enabling their customers to choose carrier and activate their phones within the Apple store, or even online. The mobile carriers are concerned that this will give Apple, and consumers, more power to negotiate shorter contracts and to use their ability to easily switch contracts to other carriers as leverage against them. Analysts are saying that, if the mobile carriers were to withdraw their subsidies on iPhones, it could cost Apple up to 12% of their current market share.image, AppleInsider [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.]    | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| More Social, Freemium Chatter Coming from Salesforce.com [TNW Apps] Posted: 18 Nov 2010 10:59 PM PST
Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff made this announcement to analysts today (leaked by CRN, as Benioff said on Twitter) saying that the Chatter product becoming free was a good way to get other Salesforce products into organizations. Benioff talked about organizations using Chatter to replace aging tools like Lotus Notes; products that just haven’t kept up with how information flows or is shared today. But the freemium model? Is it a good idea for something like Chatter and Salesforce.com? My gut says it is. From my own experience in organizations (large and small and informal) bringing in a free tool, especially one that doesn’t require additional software to install, is a great way to test and get hooked on the tool. Sometimes the tool isn’t the right fit. That’s cool, because nothing was invested. If it is the right tool and the costs make sense … then you have a new customer. Though not on the scale of Salesforce.com, I started using Dropbox with the free version. I recommended people to it and got more space, but when I got to the point that was filling up my 4 or 6 gigs…I sprung for the 50 GB package. Simple as that. Now I have hundreds of files synced (and backed up) there as well as shared folders with my publisher and the rest of the TNW team. Nice up sell I think. So Chatter…if it goes free in the near future (could be as soon as next month), I’ll certainly give it a shot. Why not, it’s free.RWW, CRN, 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.]    | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Apple: Please, please submit your apps to to the Mac App Store. [TNW Apple] Posted: 18 Nov 2010 10:54 PM PST
Steve Jobs announced the Mac App store at Apple’s Back to Mac event held in October saying that it would launch within 90 days. In contrast to the iOS App store which is, to all intents, a walled garden, it isn’t clear what benefits developers will gain by submitting their applications and having them go through an Apple approval process, other than the free publicity of being ‘in the store’. The Mac isn’t locked down in the same way as mobile devices so anyone can develop and distribute their wares through whatever channel they desire. We wonder if this reminder to developers is a sign that submissions to the store haven’t been as high as expected.9 to 5 Mac, 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.]    | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Paychecks: Google’s Great but Facebook’s Fantastic [TNW Google] Posted: 18 Nov 2010 10:12 PM PST
Glassdoor.com allows employees of any company to anonymously submit their salary details, from which their analysts can build comparison data about employers. In a recent update, brought to our attention by CNBC, Facebook now tops the list in tech salaries with Google coming a poor (?) fifth behind Cisco, Yahoo! and Apple. When average bonuses are added to the salary values, Google’s $120,178 still manages a close second to Facebook’s $122,400. The following table shows the results for Software Engineers.
Glassdoor also asks its respondents to rate their employer. Once again, Facebook is a clear winner with 4.6 out of 5 compared to Google’s second place of 3.9. I wonder if the recent rises mentioned at the top of the article will change that assessment in any way… What do you think? Do you work for Google, Facebook or any of the other companies mentioned in the table above? Let us know in the comments section below.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.]    | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| iPad 2 Ready for Production Q1 2011? [TNW Apple] Posted: 18 Nov 2010 09:44 PM PST
From 9to5Mac:
Could we see the iPad 2 before April 2011? Maybe if there is enough supply on hand. I remember the lines, calling and waiting to get my iPad. Okay, fine my wife does because she picked one up for me in the States before it was available in Canada. While having some kind of shortage is good for building buzz, I think if Apple wants to stay on top of the tablet game, they can’t lose ground to competitors who have similar offerings that can be picked up off the shelves right away. As for features? Retina display, cameras (front and rear?), usb ports, a new “smart bezel” … how about an HDMI out? That would be sweet..9to5Mac, Digitimes, 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.]    | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Call It People or Directory: Twitter is Recommending People in a Whole New Way [TNW Social Media] Posted: 18 Nov 2010 09:35 PM PST Word is filtering around Twitter tonight that Twitter has added a new tab. Some people see “directory”, some people see “people” but what everyone sees in the end is a new way to get suggestions of who you might like to follow on Twitter. To the best of our knowledge, this is a brand new thing and it appeared so suddenly I was even asking myself, “wait wasn’t this always here?”. No, it hasn’t and this is what it looks like (for me): In the end, what this really is Twitter giving us a whole new way to find people to follow. This is taking the “similar to” or the suggestions you see on the sidebar to a new level. You can find people to follow based on who you already follow (first tab), your interests (second tab) or check for friends on GMail, LinkedIn, Yahoo, or Hotmail/Messenger. Yes, no Facebook. Facebook hasn’t granted Twitter access to their address book system, not that Twitter hasn’t been trying. We’ve reached out to Twitter for comment, but in the meantime, go to Twitter and see if you have “Directory” or “People” next to “Messages”. If you do, give it a try and let us know what you think. Contrary to some reports, it appears that everyone has access to this feature now, so let’s see how good the suggestions are over all for folks. We’ll update the post when we have more information or feedback from other Twitter users.Techcrunch [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.]    | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Open Social Reaches 1.1 [TNW Google] Posted: 18 Nov 2010 08:12 PM PST The Open Social Foundation has announced that the Open Social API has hit version 1.1. Here are the release notes for the new update:
Open Social is, without a doubt, a rather geeky and seemingly esoteric thing, but it’s actually a rather important thing for our new social network-connected world. Open Social provides a toolset for securing connecting and exchanging information and logins among different networks, services, and websites. Geeky, yes. Esoteric, maybe. Important, certainly. Open Social Blog, OpenSocial.org, 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.]    | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chinese now the second most important language for e-commerce sites [TNW Asia] Posted: 18 Nov 2010 07:53 PM PST
The study, called the T-index 2010 attempts to quantify the gross domestic product and the online populations of regions and countries to enable e-commerce operators to make educated decisions about which languages they should be choosing to localise their sites. According to Translated:
E-commerce sites based in Singapore and China account for 11% of their index, second only to English with 34.5%. Japanese is in fourth place with 7% and Korean creeps in at number ten with just under 2.5%. While Translated are obviously using this study to market their own translation services, it still gives a clear indication of the growing power of the asian online consumer with the region accounting for almost 25% of the localised e-commerce market. A number that must be significantly higher if you include English language sites in the equation. You can see the full index in English here and in Chinese here.China Tech News, 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.]    | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Google Chrome Beta (Mac and Linux) and Dev (All) channels get updated [TNW Google] Posted: 18 Nov 2010 07:24 PM PST  Google Chrome has rolled out updates to both its Beta and Dev channels this evening. The Beta Channel update (8.0.552.208) is for Mac and Linux and “contains a number of stability and UI improvements”. The Dev Channel build is for Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame and includes GPU, crash and instant fixes. As we’ve mentioned before, Google is rapidly iterating on Chrome, adding the super-beta Canary Build in August, pushing Chrome 9 to the Dev channel a couple of weeks ago, and replacing Chrome 6 with Chrome 7 as the stable release version in record time. The only question on our minds now is when will we be seeing Chrome 10? Please let us know if you notice and speed and/or other improvements from either of these new releases.Beta channel announcement, Dev channel announcement [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.]    | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Keep your MacBook from waking up in your bag with a simple command [TNW Lifehacks] Posted: 18 Nov 2010 07:00 PM PST If you’ve had a MacBook for any length of time, you’ve probably had a time when you’ve reached into your bag and your MacBook’s fan is screaming, it’s burning hot, and…awake. Yeah as great as closing the lid to go to sleep is and it’s really cool to open your MacBook to have it wake up almost instantly, sometimes your machine gets jostled in your bag and wakes up. This isn’t good. The overheating can damage your processor, the hard drive, even the screen. So like Andy Ihnatko, one of the first things I do on a MacBook now (I learned this trick from Andy actually) is to turn off the wake on lid open setting. The best part is that it take just a moment in Terminal with one command and you’re done. Oh and if you decide to switch back … just as simple. Here’s how to do it:
That’s it! Now when you open the lid of your machine just hit Return and your machine will wake up. No Return, no wake! Think this will happen in your bag? Not very likely. I’ve had this set for more than a year and my machine doesn’t wake up in my bag anymore! Now if this get annoying for you, to switch back to the default just to the same process as above except the command is sudo pmset -a lidwake 1 How’s that for handy? You can use this trick to wake up your Mac in “clamshell mode” (lid closed, but attached to another monitor) but hooking up an external keyboard (wired is easiest, but Bluetooth works if you have your Mac to wake via Bluetooth requests) and hitting Return. Caveat to this: Your Mac is designed to run lid open to help keep things cool. Keeping the lid closed blocks the air vents to some extent and could cause damage to your screen from over heating. So, if you do run in clamshell mode, just make sure you’re only doing “light” stuff that doesn’t stress the machine much.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.]    | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| My Phone is off for You [TNW Shareables] Posted: 18 Nov 2010 06:27 PM PST A cell phone signal blocking handkerchief for those intimate dinners for two. Of course, you could just switch the thing off. (via Boing Boing)PhoneKerChief, 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.]    | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Video: MIT student combines Kinect and iRobot…Terminators could be next step [TNW Microsoft] Posted: 18 Nov 2010 06:18 PM PST It seems like everyday we have a new reason to get ourselves over to our local Best Buy to pick up a Kinect. Gaming (and injuring ourselves in the process) aside, the seemingly endless things that you can hack a Kinect into doing are certainly making it one of the most exciting pieces of new technology this year. We’ve previously reported on a contest to hack the Kinect, which has already possibly sold 1.3 million units (and is selling 100,000 per day) and we’ve also seem a lot of hoopla over the launch of the Kinect, including a massive dance party in Germany. Just now, however, we saw the video below, and all we have to say is NASA needs to get a hold of like a 1,000 Kinects and Roomba’s right now and start sending these bad boys out into space as soon as possible. We know the Mars Rovers are great, but without a Kinect up on top, don’t they seem just a tad bit dated to you? To be a little serious for a minute, the tech involved here is obviously pretty cool, and potentially even lifesaving. According to Singularity Hub:
Great stuff. Ok, now not so serious again… Excuse us for a minute… we need to wave our Roomba away to clean the living room (pesky critters)… [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.]    | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Build Apps for HootSuite with App Exchange [TNW Canada] Posted: 18 Nov 2010 06:08 PM PST
On the launch page HootSuite lists some of the services that have apps in the works. From the page HootSuite has the example of a chat app built into HootSuite: Developers can start applying for access now to get working on their apps (I want the chat app!). Apps can tap into the following areas of HootSuite and the user experience: So what’s the big deal here? So what, right? Wrong. One of the strengths that Seesmic Desktop has been touting is the connection and expansion into more than Twitter. Making Seesmic a social media app, not a Twitter app. HootSuite, while still focused on Twitter, is also trying to become a tool that hooks people in with the Twitter features, but reels them in with the add ons. Real time chat integrated into my Twitter client? Maybe connected to GoogleTalk? That would be cool and it would eliminate an app I need to run. Connect to FriendFeed? Another. Really good alerts and Growl integration? The more tools that HootSuite can replace with add-ons and still not bog down the app or clutter the interface up. The more people who will use it. And keep using it.HootSuite App Exchange, 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.]    | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Google’s new Street View privacy policy apparently extends to their offices too [TNW Google] Posted: 18 Nov 2010 03:57 PM PST
Well, according to CNET, Google itself has apparently been caught up in the policy because their German office in Munich has been blurred out under the shroud of secrecy in Street View. Their office, which is located at Dienerstrasse 12, has been blurred out because another tenant that shares space in the building has opted to keep the building private from the eyes of Street View viewers. No word yet as to why. CNET seems to think that there is mischief at work here, but maybe there is something far more sinister taking place at Dienerstrasse 12. This is what it looks like if you head to the offices on Google Maps: [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.]    | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bing: We still love and use Silverlight! [TNW Microsoft] Posted: 18 Nov 2010 03:48 PM PST
Just today we weighed in with some news from Bing that the search engine’s maps product was rolling out new AJAX capabilities that were aimed at mobile (Silverlight’s supposed niche holdout) without even mentioning Silverlight at all. Well, Microsoft just dropped another blog post outlining more Bing changes that better describes their positions on Silverlight in Bing. We’ll get to what they announced after you read this:
Take that Silverlight-haters, Microsoft is committed to the platform. Or at least they claim to be, we’ll have to wait and see if Microsoft will in fact keep those features Silverlight exclusive. As we have seen, that is not always the case. Oh, and if you wanted to know, Bing has improved their navigation with the ‘left rail.’ Weigh in everyone, do you think that Bing will drop Silverlight in the next six months, or stay the course and eat their own dogfood?Microsoft, 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 Versus Microsoft: The Christmas Showdown Infographic [TNW Apple] Posted: 18 Nov 2010 03:26 PM PST We already know that this year’s holiday season is about to be a huge one. With Apple and Microsoft leading the pack, the Kinect and the iPad are hot on everyone’s lists. Whether you pay attention to our recommendations or not, it will be an exciting Black Friday and Cyber Monday this year. Want to know the history, plus a look at how it’s all going down? Our friends over at Promotional Codes sent us a nifty infographic that we think you’ll dig: [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.]    | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| New traffic light concept design – genius or unsafe? [TNW Shareables] Posted: 18 Nov 2010 02:49 PM PST We just stumbled upon the concept designs below of a new kind of traffic light by Thanva Tivawong called “The Sand Glass”. On the post about it by Yanko Design, a number of commenters pointed out a number of ways why this design could be unsafe, but we’d certainly like to hear your thoughts in the comments – what do you think? Genius or unsafe concept that will never be a reality? [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 DOs & DON’Ts of Facebook Commerce [TNW Social Media] Posted: 18 Nov 2010 02:07 PM PST
What highs and lows have you witnessed on Facebook commerce?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.]    |
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