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15 Million Downloads Later: TweetDeck Turns 2

Jul 12, 2010 Comments Off by Frederic Lardinois

TweetDeck, the popular Twitter client, just celebrated its 2nd birthday. According to the company’s founder Iain Dodsworth, the TweetDeck desktop client has been downloaded 15 million times and the iPhone app has been downloaded 2.5 million times. Overall, TweetDeck now sends out 4 million tweets, Facebook status updates and Buzz messages every day. That, of [...]

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YouTube Now Supports 4K Video – But Why?

Jul 09, 2010 Comments Off by Frederic Lardinois

YouTube just announced that it will soon support 4k video – the next-generation HD format with a resolution of 4096×3072 pixels. At almost four times the size of 1080p, the highest resolution HD format currently available in the mainstream market, YouTube’s resolution for 4K videos goes far beyond what most people will be able to watch on their TVs and computers for quite a while to come.

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Bing Market Share Increases 7% in June

Jul 08, 2010 Comments Off by Frederic Lardinois

According to the latest data from Experian Hitwise, Microsoft Bing was the big winner in the online search market last month. While the number of searches on Google went down slightly, Bing grew by about 7% and is now inching close to capturing 10% of the search market. Currently, Bing is at 9.85%. It’s hard [...]

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Slacker Radio Brings Offline Music Caching to the iPhone

Jun 02, 2010 Comments Off by Frederic Lardinois

Slacker Radio, the Pandora-like personalized radio service for the iPhone (and many other platforms), just launched an updated version of its iPhone app. Besides the typical bug fixes and performance updates, this new version also offers a first: offline caching for the iPhone and iPod touch. Given that AT&T just announced its data caps for the [...]

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Steve Jobs’ Thoughts on Flash

Apr 29, 2010 Comments Off by Frederic Lardinois

Steve Jobs talks about Flash.

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Intel Reports Record Quarter

Apr 13, 2010 Comments Off by Frederic Lardinois

Intel Corporation today reported first-quarter revenue of $10.3 billion. The company reported operating income of $3.4 billion, net income of $2.4 billion and EPS of 43 cents. From the press release: “The investments we’re making in leading edge technology are delivering the most compelling product line-up in our history,” said Paul Otellini, Intel president and [...]

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Opera Mini on the iPhone

Apr 12, 2010 Comments Off by Frederic Lardinois

So Apple finally allowed Opera’s browser into the store. That’s the good news. The bad news, however, is that it’s not a full replacement for Safari. Sure, it’s fast – very fast. But it also has quite a few small issues that – once compounded – make Opera let less useful than it could’ve been. [...]

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AT&T Wants to Rebrand Itself

Apr 09, 2010 Comments Off by Frederic Lardinois

All it takes these days is a fancy new logo and – boom – you already have a new company with a new image… Or at least that’s what AT&T is thinking.

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Delicious Launches Chrome Plugin

Mar 08, 2010 Comments Off by Frederic Lardinois
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Google's Oscar Data

Mar 08, 2010 Comments Off by Frederic Lardinois

Google just released search data from Oscar night.

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