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Facebook's Chat Heads Come to iPhones, iPad With App Update — You can't get Facebook Home on iPhone. But very soon you'll be able to get one of the most buzzed-about features from Facebook's new mobile software set: “Chat Heads” are coming to iOS devices, via a Facebook app update.| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Facebook 6.0 for iPad and iPhone: hands-on with Chat Heads, stickers, and more — Perhaps you hadn't noticed, but we're in the midst of a fairly remarkable blitz of Facebook releases on mobile. The company announced Facebook Home and the HTC First and then (in a pattern that's all-too-rare) released both about a week later.
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| Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat: |
Google chairman Eric Schmidt on Facebook Home: ‘I love it’ — July 9-10, 2013 — NEW YORK CITY — Facebook Home takes away part of the Android experience in favor of social networking. But outspoken Google chairman Eric Schmidt said today at the Dive into Mobile conference …
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| Sascha Segan / PC Magazine: |
Motorola Plans Stock Android Phones, Sized ‘Just Right’ — Motorola might be building my dream phone. Jim Wicks, Motorola's design chief, said the company's first round of products designed after Google's purchase of the company will follow a philosophy of “better is better” rather than …
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| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Google's Next Group of Gadgets Will Blow You Away, Says Eric Schmidt — Google chairman Eric Schmidt is spending a lot of time on the road right now — he's got a new book to promote — but he has popped into Google's Motorola unit to see what the phone company is working up. — It's amazing stuff, he promises.
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft's Windows 8 Plan B(lue): Bring back the Start button, boot to desktop — Summary: Microsoft may be moving toward bringing back the Start Button and allowing users to boot straight to the desktop with its coming Windows 8.1 release later this year.
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| Cotton Delo / AdAge: |
Facebook Seeks 7-Figure Price Tag for Summer Debut of Video Ads — TV-Like Ads Can Be Bought for Four Broad Demographic Swaths — Facebook is hoping that its hotly anticipated video-ad units can be a more-than-$4-million daily business out of the gate — if its asking price is met.
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| Steve Kovach / Business Insider: |
Leaked Document Shows AppGratis Used Lure Of App Store Rankings To Attract Cash From Developers — AppGratis, the app-discovery app that Apple removed last week for closely mimicking the official App Store, started an online petition yesterday that encourages users to ask Apple to let it return.| Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: |
Yahoo's Q1 2013 revenue of $1.14 billion doesn't excite, but its $0.35 in EPS beats expectations — Today Yahoo reported its first quarter financial performance, including revenue of $1.14 billion, and earnings per share of $0.35 on a GAAP basis, and $0.38 on a non-GAAP basis.| Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters: |
| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Windows Phone Head Myerson: Android “Still Kind of a Mess” — In an interview at the D: Dive Into Mobile conference today, the leader of Microsoft's Windows Phone division, Terry Myerson, said that the software giant's mobile effort continued to cast it as a “challenger,” but that Google's Android market was “still kind of a mess.”
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| Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
Snapchat Now Boasts More Than 150 Million Photos Taken Daily — Snapchat, the wildly popular messaging service that lets users send self-deleting photos to one another, has exploded in volume over the past few months, now moving upward of 150 million photos through the service on a daily basis.
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| Seth Weintraub / 9to5Google: |
Google Glass tech specs: 5MP/720P camera, 802.11b/g Wifi 16GB storage (12GB usable), full day battery — Along with today's Glass API release, Google now officially announced specs for the Glass Explorer editions. Notable is the camera which will take 5 Megapixel images or 720P video.
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| Jeff Blagdon / The Verge: |
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| Horace Dediu / asymco: |
Escaping PCs — The Windows PC market is contracting. The market data has been showing unit shipment declining for some time with the latest quarter having perhaps the steepest decline for two decades. — What remains undocumented however is how the market looks when considering economic value.
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Intel's Q1 2013 Meets Revenue Expectations At $12.6B, Misses On EPS At $0.40 As PC Market Slows — Intel's fiscal Q1 earnings are out today, and the company reported profit and earnings at expectations on revenue with $12.6 billion for the quarter, and below on earnings per share at $0.40, according to Bloomberg's analyst consensus.| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
WhatsApp “Bigger Than Twitter” With Over 200M Monthly Active Users, 8B Inbound And 12B Outbound Messages Daily — WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum was on stage today at the AllThingsD Dive Into Mobile conference in New York City, where he said that the app is now larger than Twitter by monthly active users.
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| Alex Sherman / Bloomberg: |
Time Warner Cable to Offer Live Mobile TV for Apple Devices — Time Warner Cable Inc., the second- largest U.S. cable operator, is adding live out-of-home programming for the first time to its TWC TV application, letting customers watch shows on Apple Inc. (AAPL) mobile devices.
| Jay Alabaster / PC World: |
Android founder: We aimed to make a camera OS — The creators of Android originally dreamed it would be used to create a world of “smart cameras” that connected to PCs, a founder said, but it was reworked for mobile handsets as the smartphone market began to explode.
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| Josh Ong / The Next Web: |
White House issues veto threat against CISPA, citing privacy and civil liberties concerns — The White House has issued a veto threat (PDF) against the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Privacy Act (CISPA) that is currently going through the House of Representatives … | Alistair Barr / Reuters: |
Amazon gains against Apple's iTunes in music downloads — (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc has grabbed more than a fifth of the market for digital music downloads, helped by the launch of its own tablet computers and aggressive pricing, according to an industry study released on Tuesday.| Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
AT&T's Galaxy S 4 page lists April 30th ship date, $199 / $639 price for 16GB — We saw AT&T open up a registration page for the Galaxy S 4 almost as soon as Samsung's presentation was over, but now that link is exposing a bit more information. Several tipsters let us know that for customers … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Mailbox Drops Its Reservation System As It Revamps To Handle 100M Messages/Day — Mailbox, the email-reading and organizing app that was scooped up by Dropbox for reportedly $100 million in March after a barnstorming entry to the market, is dropping its reservation system …
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Twitter Said to Seek Deals With Viacom, NBC to Feature TV Online — Twitter Inc. is close to reaching partnerships with television networks that would bring more high-quality video content and advertising to the social site, according to people familiar with the matter.| Ken Yeung / The Next Web: |
Facebook partners with Rovi to bring more in-depth movie and TV content info to user profiles — Facebook has announced it will be integrating digital entertainment service Rovi Corporation into its platform. The two companies have agreed to form a partnership whereby Rovi's information database of movies … | Erica Ogg / GigaOM: |
Android on track for 1B total activations later this year, Google chairman says — As of today, there are now 1.5 million Android devices being activated every day, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt said Tuesday. That's led to more than 750 million Android phones currently in use.Sponsor Posts
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