Saturday, November 24, 2012

Top Stories of the Day // November 23, 2012

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Today's Top Stories // Nov 23, 2012

God Complex: Peter Molyneux Kicks Off First Kickstarter With Project GODUS -- A Grand Plan To "Recreate The Entire God Game Genre"

Legendary game designer Peter Molyneux has kicked off his first Kickstarter campaign -- with project GODUS, "an innovative reinvention of Populous". For GODUS... read more

Report: LTE Lives In Google and LG's Nexus 4! (At Least In Canada)

Google's Nexus 4 smartphones have been selling like hotcakes, despite one big criticism being that the device does not support super-fast wireless broadband on... read more

Apple Reportedly Changes Battery Suppliers As Samsung Walks

Apple has reportedly changed its battery suppliers for the iPad and MacBook lines to Amperex Technology Limited and Tianjin Lishen Battery, both Chinese firms,... read more

How To Enable 4G LTE On The Google Nexus 4

Reports surfaced this morning that the Nexus 4, Google's latest flagship Android smartphone, supports LTE via a relatively easy software hack. After testing, it... read more

Hack Job On A UK Government Site? Someone Inserts Ad For 'Secret Intelligence' Seeking 'Elimination Specialist'

Government sites get shut down all the time by hackers either worming their way through firewalls or via DDoS jobs. Today, it looks like someone decided to mess... read more

Everlane Goes Black In Protest Of Black Friday; Buy Your Disruptive Cashmere On Saturday

Everlane, one of the wave of vertically-integrated sites that is changing the way that fashion is made and sold, is today disrupting something else. In protest... read more

Google's Nexus 4 Coming To Three In The UK December 13 On Contract And Pre-Paid Plans

Google is bringing the Nexus 4 to another carrier in the UK, expanding availability to Three after debuting the device with O2 as its initial partner in that... read more

Cloud Hosting Consolidation In Europe: Star Sold To Claranet For $88M

Some consolidation is afoot in the world of enterprise cloud services in Europe: Claranet, a managed service provider, is paying $88 million (£55 million) to... read more

ABI: Cumulative Mobile App Revenues To Exceed $30B By End Of 2012, Nearly Double 2011 Figure; Now "Major Digital Industry"

How much money have mobile apps made? By the end of the year the cumulative revenues of the global mobile app market will have exceeded $30 billion, says... read more

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Friday, November 23, 2012

Top Stories of the Day // November 22, 2012

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Today's Top Stories // Nov 22, 2012

Microsoft Patent Shows It's Working On A Google Glass Type Device Of Its Own

Microsoft had a new patent application published with the USPTO today which shows a glasses-based heads-up display system that could overlay information on the... read more

Hours After Google Begins Referring Nexus 4 Shoppers To T-Mobile, T-Mobile Is Sold Out

Google began directing customers looking for the Nexus 4 in the U.S. to T-Mobile, since Google itself hasn't had stock for quite a while now. T-Mobile charges... read more

42 Things Entrepreneurs Should Be Grateful For

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Oatmeal Studios Responds To The Oatmeal Lawsuit: "We Are Simply Trying To Protect Our Name"

After we asked for clarification this morning, Oatmeal Studios has released a brief statement regarding their lawsuit against The Oatmeal and a chain of card... read more

Apple Vs Samsung: U.S. Court Orders Apple To Disclose Details Of HTC Licensing Agreement To Samsung

A U.S. court has ordered Apple to provide Samsung with details of a licensing deal it reached with HTC earlier this month, as part of ongoing patent battles... read more

Finnish Police Seize 9-Year Old's Winnie The Pooh Laptop For Using The Pirate Bay

How young will the casualties become in the ongoing war against online piracy? You have to wonder, when you learn that a 9-year old girl's laptop was seized by... read more

Samsung Adds iPad Mini, 4th Generation iPad And 5th Generation iPod Touch To Patent Lawsuit

Last time we checked in with Apple's ongoing court battle with Samsung in the upcoming Galaxy Nexus case, which will be tried by the same court that awarded... read more

Surprise: Facebook Stock Up 28% In Past Month, Highest Since July

Today, Facebook shares (NASDAQ:FB) have jumped 5.28 percent, closing at 24.32. In fact, it represents a four-month high for Facebook, as shares have not traded... read more

Google Maps Is Now Giving Out Profile Badges To The Most Helpful Community Members

One of the really interesting things about Google Maps is that there's a huge, thriving community of people who love to help make the product better. Basically,... read more

Gift Guide: The QOOQ Tablet

Tablets and kitchens don't mix, but the QOOQ tablet blends these two differing flavors together into a delicious treat for whomever's lucky enough to own one.... read more

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Thursday, November 22, 2012

Top Stories of the Day // November 21, 2012

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Today's Top Stories // Nov 21, 2012

The Facebook Mobile Plot Thickens: Orange To Offer 'Party Call', A Social Calling Service Starting Summer 2013

Facebook Phone it may not be, but today we have one more example of how users will be able to use Facebook on their phones -- and in place of traditional phone... read more

The Gestures Required To Beat Every Level Of Angry Birds, Visualized In Paper And Ink

When you play Angry Birds, at this point it's likely a completely unconscious, natural gesture; draw back, aim and release. But what if each time you did that,... read more

Jolla's Sailfish Rises From MeeGo's Ashes As Company Signs First Carrier Deal With DNA

Jolla -- the startup built by the team behind the smartphone OS that Nokia abandoned in favor of Windows Phone -- revealed its first big smartphone customer... read more

More American Kids Than Ever Clamor For iPhones And iPads This Holiday Season

Chance are, if you ask a kid in the U.S. what they want to find under the tree (or holiday symbol of your choosing) this year, they'll ask for an iPhone, iPod... read more

The Oatmeal Is Sued Again, This Time By An Obscure Greeting Card Manufacturer

Can Matthew Inman catch a break? This time the cartoonist also known as The Oatmeal is being sued by Oatmeal Studios, a card manufacturer famous for their... read more

Why Culture Matters: Supercell's Calculated Path To The Top Of The App Store

"There was this moment in the industry when people thought that games were a science, not a form of art," said Ilkka Paananen, the CEO of red-hot Finnish gaming... read more

Apple's Spaceship Campus Faces Delay, Won't Take Off Until 2016

Apple's ambitious new second campus, which looks like a spaceship design straight out of Hollywood, is being delayed according to new info from Bloomberg. The... read more

Goatse Security's Auernheimer Convicted In iPad Website Hacking Case

Tuesday afternoon in federal court in Newark, NJ, a jury convicted Andrew "Weev" Auernheimer for his role in a 2010 exploit that caused an AT&T account... read more

Nokia Completes Acquisition Of 3D Street-Level Imaging Specialist Earthmine

Nokia has just announced it's completed the acquisition of earthmine, a 3D street-level imaging specialist. Nokia has previously said it plans to use... read more

LinkedIn Experiencing Extended Outage

LinkedIn has confirmed it's experiencing an outage this morning, first spotted via reports on Twitter, sites like DownRightNow.com and... read more

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Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Top Stories of the Day // November 20, 2012

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Today's Top Stories // Nov 20, 2012

Amazon Offers 'Amazon Pages' For Brands To Customize With Their Own URLs, And 'Amazon Posts' For Social Media Marketing

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Nokia Here iOS 6 Maps App Alternative Released For iPhone And iPad

Nokia has released Here, its newly rebranded mapping application, for iOS devices. The app is universal, so it works on both iPhone and iPad, and it's free.... read more

Hands On With Nokia's Here Maps For iOS: Good Stop-Gap Until Native Google Maps [Video]

We told you about Nokia Here's iOS launch this morning, something Nokia CEO Stephen Elop promised us last week, but now we've had the chance to actually put it... read more

Review: Amazon Is Gunning For Every Other Tablet Out There With The New Kindle Fire 8.9-Inch

Amazon and Barnes & Noble have always been good at building portable reading devices. But what happens when video and apps try to elbow their way into the... read more

Guys, You Can Use "Trademark Concerns" As A Way To Get A Twitter Parody Account Suspended, And The Times Is On It

The NYT is on it, if by "on it" you mean the newspaper has successfully managed to get a Twitter account that parodied its news coverage suspended from... read more

Startup Genome Ranks The World's Top Startup Ecosystems: Silicon Valley, Tel Aviv & L.A. Lead The Way

Today, the Startup Genome released the first half of its massive 160-page report on the world's top startup ecosystems. Of the many moving parts of the report,... read more

Sean Parker, Ari Emanuel And Oliver Luckett's theAudience Raises $20M To Help Celebs Navigate Social Media

Back in July, we caught wind of a stealthy startup called theAudience, which purported to be on a mission to help busy celebrities navigate the world of social... read more

The Unlocked Galaxy S III Mini Quietly Goes On Sale At Amazon

The Galaxy S Mini didn't make a splash hitting U.S. shelves, but the teacup version of Samsung's flagship Galaxy S III has in fact arrived stateside.... read more

HP Stock Price Drops 12.4 Percent After Unexpected $8.8 Billion Loss

At market opening today, HP took a big hit, with shares (NYSE:HPQ) trading at $11.65, 12.41 percent below yesterday's level. The company announced disappointing... read more

Apple Patents A System-Wide Event-Tracking And Geotagging System For iOS Devices

We've seen a few apps try to manage the ambitious feat of becoming the journal for your entire mobile life, but a new Apple patent suggests the company may be... read more

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