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The HTC Rhyme
The HTC Rhyme is something of a delicate matter, as it is HTC's firstphone that is said to have been designed with a female audience in mind. Yet it comes in dull colours and looks quite a lot like every other HTC handset we’ve seen so far.
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Mark Zuckerberg Is The Most Followed User On Google
In what has to be somewhat embarrassing for Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is the most followed user on Google+, according to the Google+ Statistics counter. The Facebook CEO has 21,213 followers, compared to the Google CEO at 14,798, Google social czar Vic Gundotra at 13,783, Google co-founder Sergey Brin at 11,629, blogger Robert Scoble at 11,389, Google spam avenger Matt Cutts at 9,153, TWIT founder Leo Laporte at 7,566, Google’s Bradley Horowitz at 7,187,...
Joining Google! « Peter Beverloo
Thank you everyone, I truly appreciate all the responses! It’s definitely a very exciting change for me and I look forward very much to starting my job in London. Jon, Dinu, LeRoy, I do intend to continue with the updates, they just have to change. While nothing is definite yet, there are a lot of people who like them and who have offered to help me finding a new way of making them. Peter Gasston, I’d really like to meet you as well! Your post asking why there were no updates like this for...
Google slides Prizes into beta, helps you get real paid -- Engadget
Boss of the Year Entry Form Now that we've thrown 'em off the trail, use the form below to get in touch with the people at Engadget. Please fill in all of the required fields because they're required. via engadget.com...
HOW TO: Measure the ROI of a Content Marketing Strategy
Shane Snow is co-founder of Contently.com, an “agile publishing” platform for brands-turned-publishers and freelance journalists.Most people quit blogging — and most companies do too, for that matter.Like healthy diet, frequent exercise, proper posture or any other New Year’s resolution, blogging results take time. A 2008 Technorati survey put the abandonment rate of blogs at about 95%.Part of the reason for low blog success rate is that most of us have a hard time predicting what kind of return...
The Social Customer Manifesto: How the Enterprise Can Use Google
« Steve Jobs Sales Pitch to the City of Cupertino - brilliant [video] | Main How the Enterprise Can Use Google+ For the past few days, I've been neck-deep in Google+. There's a lot of potential here for business. Some thoughts, by enterprise function.Marketing There's going to be plenty of punditry by the social media echo chamber over the coming days and weeks that will mirror the things we saw regarding Facebook ca. 2007-2009 or so. The summary: the same folks who...
Why I disagree with Yishan Wong [ htt... by Arik Beremzon - Quora
It makes me consider their roll-out strategy. They roll out to a tech crowd, we understand that there are issues, we understand that the product is unfinished but at the same time journalists will jump at it for having issues. Every advantage has its disadvantage I guess. The advantage is that you have known brand and you get traction pretty fast. The disadvantage is that you have a known brand and people have expectations.As far as circles go, I simply think it's going to be too complex for the casual user. FB is black and white, either you...
Why I disagree with Yishan Wong [ htt... by Arik Beremzon - Quora
It makes me consider their roll-out strategy. They roll out to a tech crowd, we understand that there are issues, we understand that the product is unfinished but at the same time journalists will jump at it for having issues. Every advantage has its disadvantage I guess. The advantage is that you have known brand and you get traction pretty fast. The disadvantage is that you have a known brand and people have expectations.As far as circles go, I simply think it's going to be too complex for the casual user. FB is black and white, either you...
Blessing of Kings: Zaroua on Holy Paladin Mastery
Zaroua of Premonition made a really interesting post on the official forums discussing Holy Paladin Mastery today:I'm creating this thread hoping to greatly reduce the influx of PMs and tells I get regarding our mastery. Keep in mind that is pretty much only for 25 man raids; I see some potential uses for this in 10 man, but for the most part it probably won't be as useful in a 10 man scenario.The Firelands fights come in two categories: sustained AoE damage stages and no AoE damage/AoE damage that Holy Radiance isn't suited to heal. Beth'tilac,...
Monday, July 4, 2011
Telco Moves Into Cloud Services -- InformationWeek
? Permalink Telco Moves Into Cloud Services Dimension Data, a unit of Japan's NTT, picks up operational expertise and a software stack by acquiring infrastructure as a service and managed hosting services provider OpSource. By Charles Babcock InformationWeek June 30, 2011 03:04 PM Dimension Data,...
4 Tips: Make Your SMB Website More Secure -- InformationWeek
? Permalink 4 Tips: Make Your SMB Website More Secure Consider this expert advice on how small and midsize businesses can build websites that are well-protected from attacks--and keep them safe. By Kevin Casey InformationWeek July 01, 2011 11:19...
Are You Ready For An FBI Server Takedown? -- InformationWeek
? Permalink Are You Ready For An FBI Server Takedown? The FBI's recent scareware-busting raids and server seizures knocked 120 unrelated companies' websites offline--a scenario that most hosting customers don't anticipate. By Mathew J. Schwartz InformationWeek July 01, 2011 01:48 PM ...
Google+ Face Off: Android App Vs. iOS Browser -- InformationWeek
? Permalink Google+ Face Off: Android App Vs. iOS Browser When Google+ launched this week, Google also released an application for Android devices. iOS devices have to make do with the browser version for now. Is it any good? By Eric Zeman InformationWeek July 01, 2011 04:24 PM ...
Energy Sipping Technology: Solar Electronics
I’ve been traveling a lot lately and trying to work most efficiently with limited power sources. It has meant I’ve needed to be creative about maximizing my power supply across various devices in order to get things done. Soon, it may get even easier to go green with innovations in solar electronics. T-shirt charges your phone by absorbing ambient sound, by Bryan Nelson at Mother Nature Network — T-shirts made of high-tech fabric enables music festival attendees to test capability...
Nokia Windows Phone 7 apps to work on rivals' handsets - Pocket-lint
1 July 2011 14:02 GMT / By Stuart Miles Tweet Nokia will do all it can to enhance the Windows Phone 7 experience when it comes to software as well as hardware, Marco Argenti, senior vice president of Developer and Marketplace at Nokia told Pocket-lint in a one-to-one briefing in London: “Windows Phone 7 doesn’t need us to add more layers," he said. "But we will work hard to enhance areas like mapping, commerce and discovery.” The move will see...
