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Sunday, July 8, 2012
Daily Crunch: Fiend Edition
Hot Cool Box: Thanko?s USB Mini Fridge Doubles As Heater Starbucks Merges Their Two iOS Apps, Lets You Gift Your Friends Coffee From Your Phone IBM Takes Another Step Towards Reliable Phase-Change Memory Samsung?s Galaxy Tab 8.9 Hits The FCC How Making Can Help Our Economy, Improve Education, And Make Us Happy
Source: http://www.crunchgear.com/2011/07/01/daily-crunch-fiend-edition/
8 Ways Mobile Developers Can Make The Most Money On Their Apps
Have a mobile app? Wondering if advertising can help you make money from that app? Here are eight must-know tips to help you turn mobile app inventory into dollars. 1. It takes customers to make money While this is a piece about monetizing apps, the amount of money you can generate from an app is highly dependent upon the number of users you have. Once apps achieve popularity, their success spirals. In order to reach critical user adoption levels, engage in user acquisition best practices, from cross-promotion to viral distribution, and from PR to paid in-app advertising. Try multiple channels to see what works for you, and stick to vendors who allow you to pay based on the performance metrics that are relevant for your unique business needs. For example, don?t pay for clicks if what you really care about is installs.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/QkAS38ggc3g/
Facebook Might Be Working On A Job Board, But Don?t Get Too Excited
Stop the presses! Facebook and LinkedIn are going to become archrivals in the recruiting market! At least, that's the subtext of a new article in the Wall Street Journal which reports that Facebook plans to launch a job posting board later this summer. It's a nice scoop if true (the Journal cites "people familiar with the matter"), but reading the story is a strange experience. Basically, it starts out by explaining why the job board isn't a big deal. Then, having established that it isn't a big deal, the story talks about what a big deal it is.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/GLr00MojYo4/
March 31 is World Backup Day 2011
On March 31, as part of the global data-saving initiative, you are encouraged to back up all of your cherished photos and videos, and important documents. If you've ever had a hard disk fail, and not had a backup to fall back on, you'll know that it's a bit like losing a sizable fragment of your soul. If you've never backed up your important files -- or if you only back up sporadically -- do it on World Backup Day!
It's not hard to back up your data, either. A 2TB drive costs only a fistful of dollars, and it takes just a few minutes to set SyncToy for Windows, or Time Machine for Mac, to mirror your data every night. If you prefer a cloud-based solution, there's always SugarSync and Dropbox. Finally, don't forget that Bundlelytic has a charity giveaway for three excellent data-backup-and-recovery tools -- $160 of software for only $25, and 100% of the proceeds to go the Japanese Red Cross.
For even more backup options, for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux, check our list of 13 great backup programs.
March 31 is World Backup Day 2011 originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 28 Mar 2011 07:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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iOS 5.1 Upgrade Details
The latest Apple operating system, iOS 5.1, to hit devices is pre-supplied with the new iPad. the new Os has been designed to fix a few bugs that were previously identified with iPads and iPhones, and also beings better battery life and WiFi connectivity. There are also a host of brand new features which are available on the new iPad 3. The Camera App The new camera is a massive upgrade on the iPad 2 and is something that many [...]
Source: http://tabletbuzzblog.com/ios-5-1-upgrade-details/
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Color vulnerable to simple GPS hack, lets you spy on anyone, anywhere
Color, the $41-million-in-funding location-oriented photo sharing startup, is susceptible to simple GPS spoofing. With nothing more than a jailbroken iPad or iPhone, you can use FakeLocation to trick Color into thinking you're somewhere else. Within seconds you can be browsing photos that were snapped thousands of miles away. With a little digging, you can pore through photos not intended for your eyes.Of course, such a hack isn't illegal as such -- every photo you take with Color is public. With FakeLocation you are simply circumventing Color's very limited location-oriented security mechanism. It does undermine Color's usefulness (and uniqueness), though -- if nefarious types can sit in their bedroom or basement and eavesdrop on classy dinner parties and wild night club soirees, people might be less inclined to share personal photos with those around them.
Fortunately, both for Color and its users, this is an easy security hole to plug -- at least in the short term. The app (or server-side) code simply checks to see if the user has 'teleported' an impossibly large distance, without any intermediate steps in between. In the long term, though, Color's users must be aware that its social graph is completely public. Color's users must realize that every photo they upload is visible by anyone, from any place.
After the break, just to elucidate a little on Color's actual business model and ultimate intention, we have two amazing quotes from Bill Nguyen, Color's founder.
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Color vulnerable to simple GPS hack, lets you spy on anyone, anywhere originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 29 Mar 2011 05:36:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Saturday, July 7, 2012
Toyota pulls Cydia theme and ads to appease Apple
It's not like we should be surprised, considering Apple has claimed in the past that jailbreaking is illegal -- but at the same time, did the Cupertino cronies hear about the ruling that made circumventing DRM, and thus jailbreaking, legal? Anyway, whether Toyota was supporting illegal, legal, or deliciously gray and ambiguous, activity, it doesn't matter: Apple asked Toyota to remove the theme, and Toyota graciously bent over and capitulated.
This story raises a much more interesting topic, though: this is the first time a multinational company has publicly acknowledged and embraced the jailbreak community. Considering jailbreaking is technically legal, and Cydia's creator, Jay Freeman, estimates that up to 9% of OS devices are jailbroken, it simply makes good, commercial sense to target jailbreakers with ads. Toyota was simply trying to make some money, for shame!
As long as Apple continues to throw around its increasingly-expansive mass, the legality of jailbreaking will continue to be inconsequential. It will be interesting to see if another big company dares embrace the jailbreak community after this, too.
Toyota pulls Cydia theme and ads to appease Apple originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 06 Apr 2011 05:25:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Buying a Galaxy Nexus now, SGS III updates already [From the Forums]
Just in case you missed out on some of the Android news today, now is the time to go ahead and get yourself fully caught up. Here on the blogs and in the Android Central Forums there is plenty to talk about. Have some questions? Need some help or just looking to chat Android? You know where to go, check out some of the threads below to get started.
- Rumored Device Forums - Will the Razr HD resemble the Atrix HD?
- HTC EVO 4G LTE - Issues with getting Dropbox storage
- HTC One X Forums - HTC One X vs. The Girlfriend
- Samsung Galaxy S III Forums - Samsung Rolling Out Substantial Update to S III
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Galaxy Nexus Forums - Cheapest place to buy a Galaxy Nexus?
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Speedtest.net overhauled with new look, new features
- New UI: The map widget is much improved; it actually looks like a map now, and it's easy to see where you are.
- Smart server selection: If there are several test servers nearby, Speedtest will now ping each to see which has the least latency and use that for the test. You can still specify servers manually, too.
- User accounts: You can sign up for a free account and aggregate results from several computers/connections.
- Speed Wave: This new feature lets you add your test results to the results of many other users, and get a nice composite view.
Speedtest.net overhauled with new look, new features originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 07 Mar 2011 18:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Android Central international round-up - July 7, 2012
With Google I/O out of the way, and two new Nexus devices and a new version of Android to look forward to, let's take a moment to check back over the past couple week's worth of international Android news.
Google's first Jelly Bean tablet, the Nexus 7, is the new hotness in the Android world, and the big international news was that Google will sell the device outside of the U.S. In the UK and a handful of other European countries, the Nexus 7 will be offered through the Google Play Store. And it gets better -- the UK price is set at just £159, offering staggering value, even if some Google Play services aren't yet available outside of the U.S.
As the North American Galaxy S III launch continued, we learned that lucky consumers in South Korea will get the mother of all Galaxy S III variants, featuring a quad-core CPU, LTE connectivity and a whopping 2GB of RAM. The device will launch on KT, SK Telecom and LG U+ from July 9th, and has every chance of emulating the Korean success of its predecessor.
Review-wise, we took the Orange San Diego for a spin, and found the first Intel phone for Western markets to be technically sound, if a little lacking in terms of design and overall polish. (Granted, shipping with Gingerbread doesn't do the device any favors) In any case, it seems Intel has a strong platform upon with to build when it enters the market in full force later this year. You'll also want to check out Jerry's full review of the Nexus 7, if you're thinking of picking one up.
Check out some highlights from the past fortnight of international Android developments below. If you've got news, be sure to tip us at the usual address.
?Special features:
- Nexus 7 review
- Nexus 7: The internationally challenged tablet
- Orange San Diego review
- Google I/O
- Android 4.1 Jelly Bean
News:
- TELUS HTC One X listed as 'coming soon'
- Quad-core, 2GB, LTE Galaxy S III coming to Korea
- Xperia Miro goes up for pre-order in the UK, priced at £126
- Sony releases tiny robots in the UK, catch one to win a phone
- Galaxy Tab 7.7 ICS update hitting parts of Europe
- Sky Go for Android updated with new on-demand content
- Google confirms no Play Music, TV or Magazines for the UK for Nexus 7 launch
- Samsung unveils Galaxy Chat QWERTY device
- LG Prada 3.0 ICS update starts rolling out
- Samsung launches bizarre UK Top 40 app
- HTC Raider and EVO 3D get ICS on Rogers in Canada
- Huawei Emotion UI goes live in China
- Google Play device store launches in the UK, Nexus 7 priced at £159
- Carphone Warehouse to sell 16GB Nexus 7 for £200 in the UK
- Huawei Ascend D Quad possibly delayed
- International HTC EVO 3D gets Ice Cream Sandwich
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Deal of the Day ? ZAGGsparq 2.0 Portable Battery Backup and Charger [iPad compatible]
Thursday’s LogicBUY� Deal is the Zagg� ZAGGsparq 2.0 Portable Battery Backup & Charger [iPad compatible] for $49.98.� Features:� 6,000 mAh lithium polymer backup battery, power level indicator lights, maximum power output is 2000mA at 5V, uses 100-240VAC at 50/60 Hz power source, measures 3.5″ X 3.5″ X 1″, compatible with any USB-charged device including cell [...]
Microsoft Pitches Lowball Windows 8 Upgrade Price
An upgrade to the Pro edition of Microsoft's next operating system, Windows 8, will sell for $40, a significantly lower price than what the company has charged for upgrade packages in the past. The offer applies to purchases made through Windows.com for PCs running Windows XP or a later version.
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