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Pete Cashmore: Opera Makes Fun of Google Chrome Speed Test [VIDEO]
A couple of weeks ago, Google released a video demonstrating the speed of its Chrome web browser. The video proved that rendering a web page in Chrome is faster than some random (though admittedly...
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Tech Crunch: leena
Cloud storage and document sharing startup Box.net is the latest startup to adopt HTML5. The startup is announcing today that it is incorporating a broad implementation of HTML5 drag and drop...
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Tech Crunch: erick
Have you ever tried to check into a place on Foursquare or some other geo service only to find that there are 10 names for the same location? For instance, Foursquare has tons of different “places”...
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Tech Crunch: appgoo
The idea of putting iPhone apps on the Apple TV has been something some of us have been thinking about since at least 2008, when the original App Store launched. When rumors were swirling about Google...
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Pete Cashmore: Is a New iPhone-based Apple TV in the Works? [RUMOR]
Is Apple hard at work on a new version of Apple TV?That’s what Engadget is reporting after receiving a tip and subsequent confirmation from sources “very close to Apple.” The new iteration of Apple...
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Richard MacManus: NBC Says "No" to iPad, Wants People to Pay
NBC isn't hopping on the iPad bandwagon, according to recent reports. The media giant known for popular shows like "The Office" and "30 Rock" reportedly told Apple it won't be making any of its online...
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Tech Crunch: john
The Sony Vaio Z-Series is a thin and light with a mission: to prove that a tiny - but expensive - laptop can run Windows 7 and almost anything you throw at it like a champ. When I opened the Sony...
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Tech Crunch: erick
In two weeks on June 11, TechCrunch will celebrate its fifth birthday. We want to celebrate it with as many people as we can all around the world. So we are using the new Meetup Everywhere platform...
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Emily Chang: banksimple
Aims to be the simplest form of banking for people who are tired of hidden fees, overdrafts, and confusing products. Deposits will be FDIC-insured. Revenue streams will come from interchange and...
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Pete Cashmore: SNEAK PEEK: The Popular Mechanics iPad App [SCREENSHOTS]
Mashable was given a sneak peek of Popular Mechanics’s iPad app this week — which is still in development — and an interesting look at the thought process that goes into translating page to...
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Programmable Web: Twitter to Remove “Unofficial” Search Endpoint Next Week
If you’re using Twitter’s Search API via the api.twitter.com sub-domain, you have a week to switch to search.twitter.com, according to a post from Twitter’s Taylor Singletary. The endpoint being...
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37signals: This week in Twitter
Highlights from this week’s 37signals staff posts at Twitter. @jasonfried: There’s a two-week-or-less version of just about everything. @mattlinderman: Love the photog of Olivo Barbieri. Shots of his...
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Pete Cashmore: HOW TO: Pick the Perfect Name for Your Startup
Frances McInnis is a journalist and crossword enthusiast based in New York City. She has written about culture for Momentum Magazine, business for Resource World Magazine, and a mess of assorted...
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Richard MacManus: Millions of Incorrect Listings Plague Location-Based Services
As the market for location-based services continues to grow, it's becoming increasingly important for these companies to have access to correct location data. Placecast helps developers ensure that...
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Pete Cashmore: Foursquare Nearing 1 Million Checkins Per Day
A tweet from Foursquare yesterday revealed that the company is doing “10+ checkins per second.” We did the math and at 10 checkins per second, Foursquare is processing about 36,000 checkins per hour —...
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Tech Crunch: matt-burns
Either you lead or follow and Chinese manufacturing houses have been chasing Apple's designs for years. The iPad is just their latest victim. You can't blame them, really. It's the hottest device since...
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Richard MacManus: Now Available: Anti-Virus for Your Facebook News Feed
Earlier this week we asked if Facebook had grown to the point that it needed its own anti-malware service and - would you look at this! - now it has one. Well, sort of. The well-known security company...
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Pete Cashmore: Facebook Testing Related Photos Feature
Facebook is testing an upgrade to its popular Facebook Photos application called “Related Photos” with select users.Related photos appear in a right-hand sidebar adjacent to the photo the user is...
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Pete Cashmore: Our Favorite YouTube Videos This Week: Brits, Biebs, Babies &...
You there, lazily rolling about in your office chair, dreaming feverishly about how you plan to while away those three glorious days stretching before you like a verdant meadow — you know what would...
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Tech Crunch: gregkumparak
Safari on the iPhone is by no means a bad mobile browser — in fact, it’s arguably the best one out there. Just because people have something good doesn’t mean they don’t want to peek at what else is...
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Richard MacManus: Rumored $99 Apple TV to Feature Cloud Storage, iPhone OS
After Google's announcement last week of their upcoming Google TV service, many speculated whether Apple would respond by refreshing its neglected Apple TV. Though Steve Jobs called the product a...
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Pete Cashmore: UK Postman Admits to Using Facebook and Bebo to Abuse Hundreds...
A UK postman admitted to using Facebook and Bebo to abuse “hundreds” of children in a case that included 27 sexual abuse charges.Michael Williams, a 28-year-old from Cornwall, used the sites to pursue...
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Pete Cashmore: The Muppets Celebrate Memorial Day with “American Woman” Cover...
It ain’t a holiday without a little musical accompaniment courtesy of the Muppets — or at least that seems to be the trend of late. The Muppets Studio has released a new video on its YouTube channel...
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Tech Crunch: evelynrusli
Facebook is not evil, despite the disproportionately loud grumblings of its critics — which (as Mark Zuckerberg recently pointed out) is a small fraction of its 400-million-plus user base. But Facebook...
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Pete Cashmore: Mark Zuckerberg Donated to Facebook Alternative, Diaspora
During a follow-up interview to Wednesday’s privacy controls announcement, Wired asked Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg what he thought of Diaspora, the anti-Facebook project that four NYU students will...
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Pete Cashmore: 5 Steps to Taking Customer Service Social
Lauren Vargas is a Community Manager at Radian6, the social media monitoring and engagement platform. She blogs at Communicators Anonymous and is @VargasL on Twitter.The debate over who owns the...
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Tech Crunch: ar
Augmented Reality may not be super practical yet. But it sure is cool, and a lot of fun. And a new Android game looks to make it even more fun. Space InvadAR is a new Android game by Zenitum. It’s the...
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Pete Cashmore: Opera Mini a Hit on the iPhone
Since its release last month, Opera Mini for the iPhone has been used by more than 2.6 million users and is now the third most popular Opera Mini device worldwide.This data was presented in Opera’s...
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Richard MacManus: Skype Video Coming to Android, Is 2010 the Year of Mobile...
The fast-growing population of Android users will soon be able to chat face-to-face thanks to a Skype mobile application that will hit the marketplace with video functionality "later this year." As...
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Tech Crunch: img_0080
The ability to multitask got a lot of press when iPhone 4.0 OS was first announced. But less attention was given to some of the more subtle things this will allow, such as always-on location for...
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Pete Cashmore: SIRIUS XM Android App Brings Satellite Radio to Your Phone
SIRIUS XM satellite radio subscribers can now access the service on yet another mobile platform with today’s launch of the SIRIUS XM Android client.Already available for the iPhone and BlackBerry...
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Richard MacManus: Does the Mobile Web Need a Yahoo-Style Directory?
Do you remember the days when Yahoo was a yellow pages-like directory of websites? Back in the early days of the Internet, a number of companies created vast, human-edited databases that aimed to...
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Pete Cashmore: Create a Socially Integrated Online Shop in 60 Seconds
This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The...
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Richard MacManus: Chris Saad: "Facebook's Claims About Data Portability Are...
Earlier this week, Mark Zuckerberg claimed that Facebook's recent privacy changes were not nefarious, but rather an unselfish pursuit of "a concept called data portability." As the one of the people...
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Tech Crunch: leena
PostRank is a nifty tool that measures different ways that readers engage with online content. The ranking is based on how many times a particular post has been linked to, voted up on Digg, shared on...
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Tech Crunch: not
Google Chrome has been my primary browser for a few months now. And since it became fully stable, it’s the only browser I use. It’s fast, lightweight, and awesome. And it keeps getting more awesome....
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Tech Crunch: jason
Last week at the Founder Showcase, a quarterly event put on by Adeo Ressi’s TheFunded, Evernote CEO Phil Libin gave a presentation discussing some of the startup’s key revenue numbers and strategy....
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Pete Cashmore: Meet the Cast of “If I Can Dream” [VIDEO]
What’s it like to live on camera 24 hours a day? The cast of If I Can Dream, Simon Fuller’s direct-to-Hulu reality television series, is uniquely qualified to answer that question.We had a chance to...
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Richard MacManus: Chrome Extensions Get Desktop Notifications
Extensions for Google Chrome can now send out desktop notifications. Google just announced the availability of a notifications API for Chrome extension developers. Until now, only websites were able to...
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Pete Cashmore: How Open Data Applications are Improving Government
Geoff Livingston co-founded Zoetica to focus on cause-related work, and released an award-winning book on new media Now is Gone in 2007.Open data is the big trend these days when people talk about...
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Tech Crunch: michael-arrington
The video above, which we believe will be shown to publishers to promote the new Digg, gives a never before seen look at the new version of Digg, version 4, that the company has been working on for...
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Pete Cashmore: Mashable’s Ben Parr Discusses Privacy on Russian Debate Show...
Mashable Co-Editor Ben Parr appeared on Russian TV network RT’s debate show, CrossTalk, yesterday to discuss internet privacy and the user backlash leading up to Facebook’s revised privacy controls.In...
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Richard MacManus: Hotels Test Smartphones as Room Keys
Starting in June, the Intercontinental Hotel Group is testing out the use of smartphones as room keys. Using an app from OpenWays, patrons at the Holiday Inn Chicago O' Hare Rosemont or the Holiday Inn...
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Tech Crunch: michael-arrington
[See Update below] Microsoft Bing will replace Google in the next version of the iPhone operating system to be released in June, we’ve heard from mulitple sources, including a high level source who...
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Pete Cashmore: HTC EVO 4G to Get Video Calling… For a Price
There’s good news and bad news for future HTC EVO 4G owners: Skype should come to the smartphone before the end of the year, as will mobile video app Qik — but you’re going to have to shell out $5 per...
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Pete Cashmore: PostRank Brings Real-Time Social Monitoring to Your Blog
PostRank Analytics, a service that captures social engagement and traditional metrics in one dashboard, in launching a new beta feature called PostRank Activity Streams. PostRank describes Activity...
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Richard MacManus: iPhone Dropped in Toilet? There's an App for That
Starting June 6th, iPhone purchasers will be able to insure their precious devices through AT&T for just $13.99 a month, according to documents leaked to Boy Genius Report today. The insurance,...
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Tech Crunch: leena
The first TechCrunch Disrupt conference kicked off with a bang this week in New York, with Charlie Rose interviewing renown venture capitalists John Doerr, and Yuri Milner. Highlights of the conference...
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Richard MacManus: Digg's New Social Following and Publishing Tools [VIDEO]
In an interesting nugget of Friday afternoon news, Michael Arrington of TechCrunch has posted an article featuring a preview of the upcoming fourth version of the social news site Digg. Founder Kevin...
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Pete Cashmore: Travelocity Gnome Now Roaming on Foursquare
Already moonlighting on Chatroulette, the beloved Travelocity Roaming Gnome has decided to participate in the location-sharing movement as well, and will be updating followers about his exotic...
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