Techmeme: SPDY Performance on Mobile Networks (Google Developers)

May 2, 2012, 7:05 AM

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Paul Sloan / CNET:

Frustrated advertisers to Facebook: Take our money — please! — Mark Zuckerberg at F8 in 2010. — (Credit: James Martin/CNET) With a reach approaching 15 percent of the world's population, Facebook is a thriving media business. In the last quarter alone, it raked in more $1 billion in revenue, almost entirely from advertising.

More: Guardian and NBC Bay Area. Tweets: @joshconstine

Wall Street Journal:

The Big Doubt Over Facebook's IPO

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Wall Street Journal:

Facebook's Roadshow to Start Monday; IPO Set for May 18

More: Reuters, The Next Web, The Verge, PC Magazine, Electronista, Mashable!, Los Angeles Times, ZDNet, Bloomberg, Neowin, Gizmodo, Social Markets, Business Insider, CNET, VentureBeat and AllThingsD. Tweets: @katekellycnbc

Drew Olanoff / The Next Web:

Apps using Dropbox are being rejected because Apple is playing hardball — If you've ever developed an iOS app, you know that the submission process can be a scary one. Apple provides developers with a HIG (Human Interface Guidelines) that must be followed, but sometimes something obscure trips you up during the process.

More: PandoDaily, MacStories, The Verge, Daring Fireball, App Advice, Dustin Curtis, PhoneArena, The Next Web, IntoMobile and iFans

Tweets: @ginatrapani and @viticci

Josh Ong / AppleInsider:

Dropbox working with Apple to resolve app rejection issue — After a number of developers using the Dropbox SDK reported that Apple was rejecting their iOS apps from the App Store because of links to an external purchase option, the cloud storage provider has confirmed that is working with Apple to address the issue.

More: CNET and TUAW

JP Mangalindan / Fortune:

Barnes & Noble CEO: NFC coming to the Nook — The battle for e-book dollars became a lot more interesting earlier this week when Barnes & Noble (BKS) announced a strategic partnership with Microsoft (MSFT). Over the next five years, the Redmond, Washington-based software giant will invest …

More: The Register, CNET, Gizmodo, eWeek, TeleRead, The Verge, Good E-Reader, Ubergizmo, Digital Trends, PC Magazine, Betabeat, WebProNews, GigaOM, Liliputing, ZDNet, PC World, Engadget and NFC World. Thanks:@jpmanga

Dieter Bohn / The Verge:

BlackBerry 10: a closer look (video) — We've taken a closer look at the UI elements revealed during RIM's BlackBerry World keynote and put together a video detailing the major new elements we've seen. Firstly and foremost, RIM is focusing heavily on gestures to move between and within apps.

More: ZDNet, News on ZDNet Australia, NEWS.com.au, LAPTOP Magazine, NBC Bay Area, eWeek, Dustin Curtis, 9to5Mac, Engadget and Engadget

Dieter Bohn / The Verge:

BlackBerry 10 devices with physical keyboards to get word-prediction technology

More: Phone Scoop, Gotta Be Mobile, Pocket-lint, iPhone, Engadget, BuzzFeed, PhoneArena and MobileSyrup.com

Chris Ziegler / The Verge:

RIM guarantees developers will make $10,000 on their ‘certified’ BlackBerry 10 apps in first year

More: Techland, News on ZDNet Australia, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, BerryReview.com, CNET, Liliputing, PhoneArena and CNET

Alex Colon / PC Magazine:

RIM Distributes BlackBerry 10 Developer Toolkit

More: BlackBerry Developer Blog, Research in Motion, TechCrunch, Computerworld, Ubergizmo, The Register, Mobile Industry Review, Tom's Guide, Engadget, Engadget and Mashable!

Satya Patel / Twitter Blog:

Discover better stories — The Discover tab makes it easy to discover information that matters to you without having to follow additional accounts. Starting today, the Discover tab will begin to surface content that is even more personalized and meaningful to you.

More: Engadget, memeburn, PC Magazine, AdExchanger.com, AllTwitter, Twitter Engineering, Mashable!, The Verge, AllThingsD, GigaOM, The Next Web, VentureBeat, WebProNews, Simply Zesty, TechCrunch, CNET and Pulse2 Technology …

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Twitter's big problem: It still needs better filters

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Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:

FRAND abuse: German court hands Motorola an injunction against Windows 7 and Xbox 360 — This morning, Judge Dr. Holger Kircher of the Landgericht Mannheim (Mannheim Regional Court) handed down his postponed ruling on a set of four closely-related Motorola lawsuits against Microsoft.

More: Reuters, Telegraph, ZDNet, Softpedia News, Engadget and The Verge

Andy Greenberg / The Firewall:

Mozilla Slams CISPA, Breaking Silicon Valley's Silence On Cybersecurity Bill — While the Internet has been bristling with anger over the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, the Internet industry has been either silent or quietly supportive of the controversial bill. With one exception.

More: CNET, The Verge and BetaNews. Thanks:@forbestech

Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:

New Firefox design will offer uniform look across desktop and mobile — Mozilla recently combined its desktop and mobile design teams with the aim of unifying the Firefox user experience across form factors. A presentation slide deck published by Mozilla's Madhava Enros offers some insight …

More: The Verge, Softpedia News, Madhava Enros and Neowin

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Revealed: Facebook Messenger for iPad, iPhone app with video chat in the works — While Facebook has focused on smartphones for its standalone Facebook Messenger app, the company is currently developing a version for the Apple iPad. A reliable source has provided an in-depth look …

More: ZDNet, App Advice, parislemon, IntoMobile, iDownloadBlog.com, Redmond Pie, MacNN and iClarified

Miguel de Icaza / Xamarin:

Android Ported to C# — Oracle and Google are currently in a $1 billion wrestling match over Google's use of Java in Android. — But Java is not the only way to build native apps on Android. In fact, it's not even the best way: we have been offering C# to Android developers as a high-performance …

More: Ars Technica, TechEye, 9to5Google and Slashdot. Thanks:@ckindel

Kathleen De Vere / Inside Mobile Apps:

Google Play doesn't monetize? It does for free-to-play games that use carrier billing — Google Play has an undeserved reputation as platform that doesn't monetize — at least according to several developers with free-to-play games. Companies as diverse as TinyCo, Spry Fox and Robot Invader …

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Spotify (Finally) Shows Up on the iPad — You wanted a Spotify iPad app? You've got a Spotify iPad app. — It's pretty, and it takes advantage of the tablet's bigger screen to showcase artist artwork and other cool stuff. Just like you'd expect from an iPad app. — Demo video is at the bottom of this post.

More: The Verge, TechCrunch and The Next Web

Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch:

OMGWHAT? GREE Acquires Mobile-Social Game Developer Funzio For $210M — Japanese gaming giant GREE just acquired mid-core, mobile game developer Funzio for $210 million in an all-cash deal that should boost its ability to build games for Western audiences.

More: PC World, The Tech Trade, CNET, Inside Mobile Apps, The Next Web, VentureBeat and AllThingsD. Thanks:@elinblesener

Foursquare Blog:

A faster way for businesses to start connecting with customers on foursquare — Over 20,000,000 people use foursquare to discover and share new experiences. It's also an incredibly powerful tool for businesses who want to connect with their customers, and over 750,000 of them have already signed …

More: TechCrunch, Simply Zesty, VentureBeat, The Next Web, ClickZ and AllThingsD

Google Developers:

SPDY Performance on Mobile Networks — Authors: Matt Welsh, Ben Greenstein, and Michael Piatek, Mobile Web Performance team — SPDY is a replacement for HTTP, designed to speed up transfers of web pages, by eliminating much of the overhead associated with HTTP.

More: News on ZDNet Australia, Google Developers Blog, Softpedia News, WebProNews and Network World

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Bing Strips Down Results Page To Make Google Look Like “Search Overload” — While Google keeps cramming its search results pages full of tools and social content, today Bing confirmed with me the full roll out a redesigned search results page that completely clears the left sidebar …

More: LiveSide.net, The Verge and parislemon

Don Reisinger / CNET:

Unwired Planet sets sail on patent offensive — With patent litigation becoming an increasingly common part of the technology space, the last thing many folks want to see is another company have the sole goal of defending patents. If you're one of those folks, close your eyes.

More: The Tech Trade and Business Wire

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

Yuri Milner, Dave Morin, SV Angel, CrunchFund And More Hook Up Pair With $4.2M — For a social network that's, for lack of a better term, monogamous, social network for couples Pair has just raised funding from so many high-profile investors I'm having trouble picking who to include in this headline …

Tweets: @mathewi

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:

Skype replaces P2P supernodes with Linux boxes hosted by Microsoft (updated) — Microsoft has drastically overhauled the network running its Skype voice-over-IP service, replacing peer-to-peer client machines with thousands of Linux boxes that have been hardened against the most common types of hack attacks, a security researcher said.

More: Expert, The Verge, ZDNet, Techie Buzz and Liliputing

Mark Milian / Bloomberg:

Twitter Said to Have Considered Buying Mobile Photo App Camera+ — Soon after Facebook agreed to pay $1 billion for Instagram, social networking rival Twitter considered acquiring a mobile photo-sharing application called Camera+, two people with knowledge of the negotiations said.

More: CNET

Chris Taylor / Mashable!:

Instagram Passes 50 Million Users, Adds 5 Million a Week — So maybe that $1 billion it cost Facebook to buy Instagram was a bargain after all. — The photo-sharing app is on fire. It now has more than 50 million users — and is adding new ones at the rate of roughly 5 million per week, according to its API.

More: Fast Company, GadgeTell, Neowin, PhoneArena, Gotta Be Mobile, Appolicious Advisor, WebProNews, App Advice, Business Insider and The Verge

Terrence O'Brien / Engadget:

HP reclaims top spot in PC sales, market as a whole climbs 21 percent — Well, Apple's reign atop the list of the world's top PC makers was short lived. After clawing its way into the lead, if you counted the iPad as a PC, HP is back atop the heap — even with Cupertino's tablet-inflated numbers.

More: Canalys Newsroom, Techi.com, ZDNet, AccMan Pro, AppleInsider, CNET and Business Insider

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How ImgPage Uploads 25 MB Photos to Cloud Files Using the Mailgun API — The team over at Mailgun just posted a Python tutorial written by Mailgun customer Paul Finn about how to use Python and the Mailgun API to upload large images to Cloud Files.

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