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Hybrid cars Toyota Prius 2011

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Zwapp Puts A Social Layer Over Your iPhone Apps

admin — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 11:31:54 +0000

Sharing what mobile apps you have in a social network has been tried various ways. Appsfire hit on the idea of socialising apps. Zwapp is coming at it from a slightly different angle. Its iPhone app (iTunes link) auto-discovers what apps you have on your iPhone and connects up your contacts, Facebook and Twitter friends. You then follow people who's opinion's you respect when it comes to apps. It even has a live feed where you can see what apps your friends are using and downloading (privacy is now most definitely over it would seem).

Onavo’s Guy Rosen Plans To Disrupt Data Roaming (TCTV)

admin — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 10:07:52 +0000

Onavo, as we just reported, is a magical iPhone app which literally shrinks the data your phone uses and thus your roaming data bill when you are travelling. It launches today and I caught up with CEO and co-founder Guy Rosen at The Next Web conference in Amsterdam.

Onavo Is A Money-Saving, Must-Have App For EVERY iPhone Data User

admin — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 09:00:44 +0000

There's really no better way to describe Onavo other than a must-have app for any and every iPhone user on a data plan. I'll go a step further: I think it's the very first app one should install. Why? Because Onavo shrinks your data usage (and thus, your bills). All you need to do is install the free app and you're done. The app will then run in the background and do its thing and all you have to do is continue consuming data as you do today… Surfing the web, emailing, tweeting, using maps, etc.

Behind The Scenes: Record Label Demands From Amazon

admin — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 08:28:35 +0000

Amazon defied the record labels by launching an unlicensed personal cloud music service. (Disclosure: I'm CEO of competitor MP3tunes.) Music companies immediately expressed their dissatisfaction and Amazon public stated they would discuss licenses with labels. Since then considerable speculation has swirled about regarding licensing discussions Amazon, Google and Apple are having with the 4 major record labels. Dominating the discussions is the labels concern that personal cloud services will exacerbate piracy and erode their business even further. Consequently they want to impose substantial restrictions on any such service, but each labels has different concerns and demands. Below are examples of the startling limitations major labels wish to impose on such services. Universal Music Group is concerned that users will load pirated songs into lockers. Average MP3 players house more than a thousand songs and UMG believes that many were unpaid for. They do not want to see the billions of songs that came from P2P system laundered (think drug money) in a cloud service and become legitimate.

Worldwide Mobile Phone Market Grew 20% In Q1 2011, Fueled By Smartphone Boom

admin — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 06:04:16 +0000

According to research firm IDC, the global mobile phone market ballooned in the first quarter of this year, growing 19.8 percent year-over-year, mostly due to the meteoric rise of smartphone shipments, especially in emerging markets. According to the firm's Worldwide Mobile Phone Tracker, vendors shipped 371.8 million units in Q1 2011 compared to 310.5 million units in the first quarter of 2010. IDC posits that smartphone growth worldwide, particularly in Asia/Pacific, Middle East, Africa and Latin America, helped lift the overall market to a record first-quarter high.

Square To Beef Up Card Reader Security This Summer (And VeriFone Wasn’t So Wrong, After All)

admin — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 03:40:20 +0000

Yesterday was a big day for hot mobile payments startup Square. The company announced that it received a strategic investment from Visa, giving the company a big stamp approval. And it also announced something that got far less attention: Square will be releasing a new card reader (the thing you plug into your phone) this summer, and it will use encryption at the read head. The news was announced with little fanfare by Square Security Lead Sam Quigley during a panel at the Visa Security Summit. But it's important for a couple of reasons. First is the fact that just last month, rival (and much larger) payments company VeriFone lobbed a heated accusation at the startup: it said that Square should recall all of its readers because they didn't encrypt credit card data, making it easy for thieves to skim the information. Square CEO Jack Dorsey battled back, stating that VeriFone's accusation that their reader was insecure was "not a fair or accurate claim and [that] it overlooks all of the protections already built into your credit card." Dorsey also outlined all the ways that credit card fraud could still be committed, regardless of encryption, and explained that users aren't responsible for fraudulent charges regardless. But now we have Square doing almost exactly what VeriFone was crying foul on. So what gives?

South Park Scares You Into Reading Apple’s Terms And Conditions

admin — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 01:21:28 +0000

You know the drill ... You open iTunes and there's a popup that asks you to download a new version. You download the newest version and there's another popup asking you to agree to an Apple Terms of Service. But it's over 55-pages long! You scroll to the bottom and hastily click "Agree," because what's the worst that can happen right? Right? Well in South Park's out-of-control genius premiere last night (which you've probably already seen but I'll repost clips here for the three of you who haven't) creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone took iPhone Location-gate to the next level in a plot line that was a mashup of a Stevenote and the horror film "The Human Centipede."

Daily Roundup: April 28, 2011

admin — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 01:06:14 +0000

Whirlwind of Disaster: Tornados tore through six Southern states; Obama declared a state of emergency in Alabama. Los Angeles Times

Nuclear Power Down: The Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant, the second largest in the U.S., has shut down due to the thunderstorms and tornadoes in Alabama. Reuters

None Too Sweet: Sugar farmers in Oregon are filing a lawsuit against several corn processors for their attempt to market high-fructose corn syrup as an equivalent to sugar. San Francisco Chronicle

Shark GPS: Scientists may be able to use shark-fin DNA to determine which coastline the fins came from, making bans easier to enforce. TreeHugger

Furry and Flammable: Dogs have manmade flame retardants in their blood at levels 5 to 10 times greater than those found in humans, new findings report. Yahoo! Green

--Shirley Mak