News
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OpenXC: Ford Launches an Open-Source Platform for In-Car Connectivity and Apps
Cars and the Internet are slowly getting closer, but it's still hard for developers to get their apps into cars without being invited by the automobile industry. [...]
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Dartium: Google’s New Dart Programming Language Comes to Chromium
It's only been a few months since Google announced its new Dart programming language. While the language is still going through some major revisions, though, Chromium, the [...]
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Hulu Plus Comes to the Wii Today, Nintendo 3DS Later this Year
Remember the Nintendo Wii? That game console you really wanted to have a few years ago but that is now gathering dust somewhere in your attic? Neither [...]
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100 Words or Less: Microsoft Launches msnNOW Social News Portal for Info Snackers
When was the last time you used an old-school Internet portal like Yahoo's homepage or MSN? Chances are, it's been a while. Now that more and more [...]
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Operation Global Blackout: Now Anonymous Wants to Take Down the Whole Internet
On March 31st, Anonymous plans to take down the DNS system and effectively render the Web unusable. The group will probably fail. Once upon a time, Anonymous [...]
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Opinion
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Is Apple Getting Too Greedy? Demands 30% Cut of In-App Subscriptions
After a lot of confusion earlier this year, Apple today finally clarified its rules for in-app subscriptions for magazines, newspapers, video and music. The rules are very straightforward: Publishers can continue to sell digital subscriptions on their own websites and give free access to existing subscribers. Apple will not take a cut from these transactions. Publishers who offer out-of-app subscriptions, though, also have to offer in-app subscriptions and the price has to be the same or lower than for subscriptions processed outside of the app. Apple will take a 30% cut from these in-app transactions.
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Why You Shouldn't Trust the uSamp Verizon iPhone Survey
Saturday’s are usually slow days in the tech news world, but thanks to a new survey (PDF) from online research firm uSamp that argues that 44% of Verizon Android users and 26% of AT&T iPhone users will wait in line to get a Verizon iPhone on the first day it goes on sale, we have something fun to chat about.
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Hacker Shows It Doesn’t Take $8 Million to Clone Qwiki – Just 321 Lines of HTML Will do the Trick
Qwiki is an app that creates pretty slideshows based on Wikipedia entries. The service won the top award at the last Techcrunch Disrupt conference and just received [...]
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Google Plays Catch-Up with Upcoming Groupon Clone
Groupon is the hottest thing on the Internet today. It doesn’t come as a surprise that Google is preparing to launch a Groupon clone of its own now after an unsuccessful attempt to buy the company outright. But maybe it should come as a surprise. After all, the daily deal market is already full of competitors in every possible niche and Google is only a few months late to the party. There was a time where Google was launching innovative products – now it’s just launching clones – and some of them, like Buzz, aren’t even able to make much of a dent in their market.
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