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Facebook Might Be Working On A Job Board, But Don't Get Too Excited
Jul 07, 2:15AM
Stop the presses! Facebook and LinkedIn are going to become archrivals in the recruiting market! At least, that's the subtext of a new article in the Wall Street Journal which reports that Facebook plans to launch a job posting board later this summer. It's a nice scoop if true (the Journal cites "people familiar with the matter"), but reading the story is a strange experience. Basically, it starts out by explaining why the job board isn't a big deal. Then, having established that it isn't a big deal, the story talks about what a big deal it is.Yahoo Implies It Can Still Shake Down Facebook For Patent Money. Bloody Unlikely
Jul 07, 1:50AM
Yahoo and Facebook signed a contract today that says they cannot sue each other over patents. Yet Yahoo may be trying to convince investors that Facebook would still pay to buy or license some Yahoo intellectual property. But according to a source familiar with the exact wording of the Yahoo-Facebook contract, the two companies have rights to each other's entire patent portfolios, so Yahoo would have no leverage to extort money or value from Facebook. I smell something fishy. Let's investigate.How to Get One Of Dell's Linux-Based Developer Laptops And Become A Sputnik Beta Cosmonaut
Jul 07, 12:00AM
Dell has a skunks works project underway to offer a Linux-based laptop made for developers. Now it is offering a beta program that will allow a small group of developers to get one of the laptops and join what it calls the Sputnik Beta Cosmonaut program. Project Sputnik signals Dell's changing focus to offer open-source technology that it can integrate into its servers, storage and networking offerings and solutions.Addvocate: Salesforce's Former Head Of Social Marcus Nelson Preps A New Social Enterprise Startup
Jul 06, 10:32PM
Marcus Nelson, co-founder of customer service startup UserVoice, left his role as head of social media at Salesforce.com back in April to start a company called Addvocate — and now he's starting to talk about what he's up to. When I met with Nelson yesterday, he gave me a quick demo of the initial product (currently in private alpha testing) and talked about his broader vision. He says the idea came from his work at Salesforce, where convincing his coworkers to share content on Facebook, Twitter, and other social sites was always a bit of a struggle — a complaint he's heard from other companies. The problem is that "share this blog post!"-type requests usually come at the wrong time, like when someone is just trying to read through all of their email or catch up on all of their updates on an internal social network like Chatter. Sometimes, they're even passed along via Excel spreadsheets (ouch).Sony's $380 Million Gaikai Acquisition Shows LA's Technical Talent
Jul 06, 10:26PM
Sony's announcement this week to buy Gaikai for $380 million shines a light on the startup ecosystem in Los Angeles and the explosive growth that's taking place. Though the majority of the conversation to date has been about LA's historical strengths in digital media and commerce, Gaikai represents a new class of companies built around engineering talent solving hard problems. LA has once again become a hotbed for technical leadership, as indicated by the flurry of investment activity. Entrepreneurs in the LA region attracted $567 million in venture capital in the first quarter of this year, 50% greater than the NY Metro area in the first quarter of the year, according to PriceWaterhouseCooper's Money Tree report. Between the outstanding technical talent and the passion and vision of great founders, those dollars are being invested into technology-driven companies that break the stereotype of startups in LA.Blogception
Jul 06, 10:10PM
The tech news cycle is a desperate bitch, as we've brought up before; A brief rundown of yesterday's bitchmeme sparked by a mere tweet from my colleague MG Siegler once again proves how absurd it is. "I used to love to plant one really weird bit of random information (sometimes even false) into stories to catch the rewrites," MG wrote in response to developer Marco Arment's concise analysis of the insatiable tech news beast.So, That's It For Thunderbird
Jul 06, 9:16PM
Mozilla is not "stopping" Thunderbird development, it has just decided that: "continued innovation on Thunderbird is not the best use of our resources given our ambitious organizational goals." And it's pulling people off the project. But it's not stopping? Right. This, according to a letter shared with "Mozillians" ahead of the official announcement to be revealed on Monday. Recipients were asked not to share the letter, blog or tweet about the news until then, but obviously someone out there didn't agree with that plan.Don't Put Down That iPad — 8,000 Mobile Devices Left At Top U.S. Airports
Jul 06, 9:08PM
The flight is boarding and you are in a rush. You get on the plane. At 10,000 feet, you reach into your bag. Your laptop is not there. It happens all the time. In fact, according to a new survey, more than 8,000 devices at seven of the largest airports in the country, including: Chicago O'Hare, Denver International, San Francisco International, Charlotte Douglas, Miami International, Orlando International and Minneapolis/St. Paul.Twitter Search Adds "Search Within People You Follow", Autocomplete, Related Results
Jul 06, 7:27PM
Twitter has just implemented a massive set of improvements to search, allowing you to search just within tweets of people you follow, autocomplete, and related results including similar hashtags and usernames. These will all help you find what you're looking for even if you're unsure of the exact hashtag or someone's handle. Today's updates are already live on Twitter.com, and related search suggestions, autocomplete, and spelling corrections are also now available in Twitter for iPhone and Android. You can try them out now with a search for "Jeremy Lin" which returns his username and the real names of teammates as suggestions, plus a filter for tweets from People You Follow.PSA: Check Your Computer For DNSChanger Or Risk Getting Booted Off The Web On Monday
Jul 06, 7:06PM
It's something of a 21st Century nightmare -- headlines are declaring that come Monday morning, thousands of people could wake up to a startling lack of Internet access all because of a crafty bit of malware. How chilling! Well, it would be more chilling if people haven't had plenty of advance warning. What's more, the steps to detect and eliminate that malware -- unimaginatively called "DNSChanger" -- are relatively simple, so less-than-tech-savvy folk out there can take care of business with too much outside assistance. But first, a little background.Remember: See Us In Savannah, Georgia Tonight At 6pm
Jul 06, 7:00PM
Here we go: tomorrow we're heading to the offices of Creative Coast, 15 West York Street for our first ever Savannah meet-up. We're excited to see what Savannah has to offer. You can RSVP here. Special thanks to The Creative Coast for hosting the event. The Creative Coast is a non-profit organization supported by The City of Savannah and SEDA. We exist to nurture the members of our community engaged in creative or innovative endeavors and to cultivate an environment in which they can thrive.
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Over iPhone App Launches To Make Adding Beautiful Typography To Pictures Fun And Easy
Jul 06, 7:00PM
Photo editing apps are pretty popular, which becomes obvious when you see things like Facebook's $1 billion acquisition of Instagram. And there's a ton of them, so sorting through the various capabilities can be taxing. That's why it's great to see apps like Over, which just launched to enable users to quickly and easily add beautiful typography to photos. Because you know, it's all about doing one thing and doing it really well. Unlike other photo-editing apps, which let users add filters to make their photos look old-fashioned or fancy or whatever, Over is focused pretty much entirely on adding whatever text they want to photos. The Over app lets you take a photo or pull one from your camera roll, add whatever text you want, then choose from various different fonts and sizes, add tint, and adjust the alignment of the text. When all that is done, you can save the edited photo to your camera roll or share it out to various other social networks, including Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and (surprise!) even Instagram.Ron Paul's Anti-Net Neutrality 'Internet Freedom' Campaign Distorts Liberty
Jul 06, 6:45PM
The libertarian super-duo, Congressman Ron Paul and his son, U.S. Senator Rand Paul, launched an "Internet Freedom" campaign this week that has come out swinging against net neutrality, branding it as a clever attempt at more government intervention. "The Technology Revolution" manifesto decries any attempt to regulate private Internet service providers as an affront to liberty, yet seems to ignore that powerful telecommunications monopolies can wield as much coercion over the future of the internet as the government. A world without a level playing field of Internet bandwidth allows powerful companies to favor their well-endowed corporate friends over the scrappy startups that power the most vibrant innovation on the web. The father/son manifesto praises the Internet as an unqualified libertarian success story, "companies, like Apple," it explains, are " responsible for creating almost half a million jobs in the United States since the iPhone was introduced...All in less than 5 years, and all without government permission, partnerships, subsidies, or regulations!"Yahoo and Facebook Confirm Deal To Cross-License Their Patent Portfolios, Sell Ads Together
Jul 06, 5:53PM
Facebook and Yahoo are calling off their heated patent lawsuit battle, and in fact have just agreed to cross-license their entire patent portfolios to each other without money changing hands, sources directly familiar with the deal tell me. Sources also confirmed that the two web giants are entering into an ad sales partnership that will let Yahoo show Like buttons in its ads, as first reported by Kara Swisher of AllThingsD this morning. Update 1:15pm PST 7/6: Facebook has just confirmed the patent portfolio cross-license agreement as well as the ad sales and distribution partnership in a press release. However, Swisher noted the companies would only cross-license "some key patents", and Facebook might have to pay to license others from Yahoo. The patent deal is actually much larger. It encompasses their entire intellectual property stockpile such that they won't have to pay be able to use each other's patents, and won't be able to sue each other over them either.Vevo Brings 'Call Me Maybe' (And 50,000 Other Music Videos) To The Mobile Web
Jul 06, 5:34PM
If you get a sudden hankering to watch Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe" (who hasn't?), and the only device handy is your iPhone, starting today there's even less standing between you and instant gratification. Vevo (the joint venture music video site from Sony Music, Universal Music, and Abu Dhabi Media) already has a strong mobile presence, with apps for iOS, Android, Windows Phone 7 and BlackBerry Playbook. Previously, however if you visited the site on your mobile device, you wouldn't have been able to watch videos — instead, it directed you to download one of the apps. Now, thanks to the launch of Vevo's new mobile Web experience, you can watch directly form your mobile browser, no downloads required. (You can also watch a bunch of music videos, including "Call Me Maybe", via YouTube's mobile apps and mobile website, but with Vevo you get a music-focused experience and access to a library of 50,000 videos.)Teenage Sexting Is Becoming The Norm
Jul 06, 4:39PM
"Under most existing laws, if our findings were extrapolated nationally, several million teens could be prosecuted for child pornography," explains a new study on teen sexting, which finds that a whopping 28% of teenagers text fully-nude pictures of themselves. We took a deep dive into the much reported Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine article, and found some weird insights into a 21st century trend that is quickly becoming the norm among teenagers. 1. White kids love sexting. More than any other demographic (Hispanic, African American, and Asian), white students reported sexting in the highest percentage (35%), nearly double that of Asians (19). African Americans were a somewhat distant second at 27%, followed by Hispanics (21%), and Asians.How Big Is Too Big? Samsung's New Galaxy Note Said To Sport 5.5-Inch Screen
Jul 06, 4:01PM
I don't know too many people who would look at the Galaxy Note and its 5.3 inch display and say "y'know, it would be great if this thing was just a little bigger," and I now I know why. As it turns out, those people live in Korea, work for Samsung, and may have decided just that. According to their usual unnamed sources, Korea's MK Business News reports that Samsung's Galaxy Note 2 will sport an even larger 5.5-inch display when its unveiled at Germany's IFA 2012 trade show in August.Hooray! Google Now Gets Ported From Jelly Bean To Ice Cream Sandwich
Jul 06, 3:39PM
Good news, Android fans. A developer over on the forever awesome XDA Developers forums has figured out how to extract Google Now from Android Jelly Bean and port it over to devices running Ice Cream Sandwich. The process for doing so requires a slightly geeky skill set, of course. You have to have a rooted device and you'll need to be comfortable navigating through the Android file system, for starters. But assuming that's you, then you can be among the first to try Google Now in (nearly) all its glory.Report: Apple Developing A Thinner And Cooler 9.7-inch Retina-Equipped iPad For A Q4 Release
Jul 06, 2:50PM
There might be a new new iPad soon. Apple is reportedly retooling the new iPad to feature a different battery and LCD backlighting scheme, resulting in a device that's less hot and with the thickness and weight similar to the iPad 2. This new model will hit sometime before the holiday season and, since we're already aboard the rumor express, let's assume it will launch alongside the iPad mini also rumored for the same time.Amazon Is Reportedly Working On A Smartphone, But Cracking The Market Won't Be Easy
Jul 06, 2:18PM
Amazon's Kindle Fire has done a remarkable job carving out its own niche in the tablet space, and it seems a sequel is already barreling down the pipeline for a release in the coming months. That new tablet may not be alone though, as rumblings of yet another Amazon hardware project have started up once again. After conferring with their sources, Bloomberg reported late yesterday evening that Amazon is working on a new smartphone that they hope will go toe-to-toe with the iPhone and Android smartphones.If at any time you'd like to stop receiving these messages, just send an email to feeds_feedburner_com_techcrunch+unsubscribe-hmdtechnology=gmail.com@mail.feed2email.net.
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