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This Isn’t The Next iPhone, But It Easily Could Be
In the space between one iPhone launch and the next, a number of things happen: rumors abound, analysts throw out predictions on sales figures, specs trickle out slowly, and most entertainingly, designers build out concepts for us to drool over. This is one such concept design, from Sam Beckett, which is actually quite realistic. Meet the promising, yet entirely imagined, iPhone Air. Read More
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BBC Releases 30th Anniversary Edition Of The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy Text Adventure Game. You Have Died (And Gone To Gaming Heaven)
You are on a blog. The latest news is at the top and scrolls down infinitely. The first story is about the 30th Anniversary Edition of Infocom's Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy text adventure game. There is also a story about Kantar here. > READ STORY Read More
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Free-To-Play Games Company Kabam Buys Phoenix Age As It Pushes For $650M In 2014 Sales
Kabam, the free-to-play gaming company that has raised some $125 million in venture funding and looks to be among those weighing up an IPO, has acquired Phoenix Age, a games studio based in San Francisco. The deal was done for diversification: it will give Kabam some strong franchises, and games developing talent, specifically in the area of role-playing games. Read More
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Comcast Subscribers Can Now Watch “House Of Cards” Without Netflix
With a click of a button in the Xfinity Store, Comcast subscribers will soon be able to purchase access to House of Cards — Netflix is not required. The option should hit the service soon. Only the first season of the show is currently available. Variety is reporting today that the Emmy-winning series is available through a deal Comcast struck with Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. The news… Read More
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Mophie Space Pack Review: Have Some Extra Storage With Your iPhone Backup Battery
Apple offers the iPhone in a number of different storage capacities, ranging from 16GB to 64GB, but it doesn’t offer expansion storage options to let users add their own via micro SD or any other format. Mophie has spent years building backup battery packs for iPhone devices, and now it’s adding additional space to store your files, too, with the appropriately named Mophie Space Pack. Read More
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Months After Appointing A New CEO, Bitly Gets A New CTO And VP Of Marketing, Too
Link shortening and analytics company Bitly is announcing the hire of two new executives — Chief Technology Officer Rob Platzer and Vice President of Marketing Melissa Wallace. The company's current CEO, Mark Josephson, only joined last summer, at the same time as Chief Revenue Officer Andrew Beranbom. He told me that Platzer (who previously worked with Josephson at local news startup… Read More
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Unwired Planet Files Mobile Patent Suits Against Google, Samsung, Huawei, HTC In The UK, Germany
While existing Android patent suits between the likes of Samsung and Apple continue to drag on in Europe, Unwired Planet, the patent enforcement entity that acquired 2,400 wireless patents from Ericsson last year, looks like it is putting its IP to work. Today it announced that it has filed parallel infringement actions in the Patents Court of the High Court of Justice, London, United Kingdom and… Read More
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Samsung Working With Startup Partners To Add Gesture-Based Smart Home Control To TVs
Samsung is reportedly (via WSJ) preparing for a smart home control interface that uses your smart TV to recognize basic hand gestures, directed at the objects you actually want to control. So, for example, it would allow you to point at a lamp to turn it off or on, or to other nearby objects to affect them in different ways. The shift is a bit of an extension of what Samsung already offers, which… Read More
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McAfee: Cybercrime-As-A-Service Led To Credit Card Breach, While Mobile “Malware Zoo” Grew 197% In Q4
It looks like the rise of the "as a service" model, where people can buy software, platform access, security and more from a cloud-based provider for a fixed term, may have spawned its Damien: cybercrime as a service. The latest report from McAfee notes that the rush of point-of-sale credit card breaches that hit consumers in Q4 of last year -- most notably at Target but other retailers as well … Read More
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TechCrunch Disrupt Europe Comes To London, 18-21 October
For the last few years TechCrunch Disrupt, our headline conference, has become a staple of the industry calendar in both San Francisco and New York. Last year we brought this incredible event to Europe, where Berlin was our first destination. Read More
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Lowdown Is An iOS App To Help Busy People Prepare For Meetings
Apparently, preparing properly for meetings -- the who, what and where -- is a pain-point for some. This is especially true for sales people who have to hold a lot of meetings and where preparation can make the difference when trying to push a prospect over the line. That's the problem Lowdown is setting out to solve. The UK startup has created an iOS app that automatically pulls together… Read More
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ROIKOI Launches Leaderboards For Professionals
ROIKOI is a very simple concept. At its core, it is a leaderboard that anonymously rates people you know based on one single criterion — “Would I hire this person at a job and work with them.” Read More
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What Games Are: Patreonomics And “Supposed To Be”
When considering the economics of games, I'm more and more fascinated by the potential of a scalable patronage model and seen on Patreon. But also by the games industry's continuing resistance to new economics in the face of innovation. Read More
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Tencent Takes 15% Stake In JD To Strengthen Position Against Alibaba
Tencent, one of China's largest Internet services companies and the maker of WeChat, and JD.com have formed a strategic partnership. The deal can potentially boost Tencent's competitive position against rival Alibaba Group, which dominates China's fast-growing e-commerce market. Though it's much smaller than Alibaba Group, JD.com is China's second-largest e-commerce company, and made a total of… Read More
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Ahead Of Build, Tastes Of Microsoft’s Coming Platform Changes
Microsoft’s Build developer conference kicks off in a month, making it not surprising that we’re seeing increasing leaks and noise regarding platform changes the company is working on that may be unveiled at the shindig. Over the past few days, the Windows Phone app emulator has caused chatter due to an uncovered reference to Windows Phone 8.5. Well, of course Microsoft is working on… Read More
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Bill Nye Sees An Intimate Connection Between Startups And Science
While at South by Southwest Interactive, I had a chance to (briefly) interview one of my childhood heroes, Bill Nye the Science Guy. Nye was about to evaluate inventions at an event for Quirky, a startup that helps turn inventions into commercial products, but I also asked him what he thought of the current startup craze — did he see a connection between excitement about startups and public… Read More
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VEVO Is Launching New Mobile Apps And An SDK To Offer Its Music Videos To Third-Party Developers
Music video streaming startup VEVO is building an updated version of its mobile apps, which are coming soon. It also took the step to making its videos available on partner applications with plans to release software development kit for third-party developers. Read More
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