News
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Study: Pinterest Now Drives More Referral Traffic Than Twitter
It looks like 2012 will be Pinterest's year to shine. Even if it's not your cup of tea, you can't ignore that fact that it is one [...]
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Ask.com Launches Mobile Polling App on the Eve of SXSW
Ask.com, the search engine and Q&A community that has been around in some form since 1996, is launching a new mobile polling app for iOS called PollRoll [...]
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Those Pretty Maps in Apple’s New iPhoto for iOS? That’s OpenStreetMap
After Apple launched its new photo for iOS yesterday, a number of eagle-eyed users quickly noticed that the company stopped using Google Maps in the application and [...]
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Google Gives Its +1 Buttons a New Design
Few people, I’m sure, have complained about the design of the company’s ubiquitous +1 buttons. Today, however, Google is launching a new design for the +1 button. [...]
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Apple Announces New iPad with Retina Display, Quad-Core Graphics and 4G LTE Support, Available March 16th
Apple’s CEO Tim Cook took the stage in San Francisco this morning to announce the next version of the iPad, as well as iOS 5.1 and a [...]
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Opinion
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Germany vs. Facebook: Like Button Declared Illegal, Sites Threatened With Fine
German websites have until the end of September to remove Facebook’s ‘like’ button or face a fine of up to 50,000 Euro.
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Google’s Expanded Sitelinks: When Bigger Isn’t Better
Google’s expanded and enlarged sitelinks don’t add much to the search experience and just waste valuable screen estate.
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Ubuntu Founder: “The Stranglehold of Windows on the Platform Itself Seems to be Coming Unstuck”
If you have watched the Linux community long enough, you know that every year is inevitably proclaimed to be the year where the Linux desktop finally breaks through. Sadly, though, that has never happened. Mark Shittleworth, the founder of Ubuntu developer Canonical, thinks that a major seachange is currently happening in the corporate world that could give Linux a chance. Ironically, what’s giving Linux on the desktop another chance is the fact that the desktop itself is slowly becoming less relevant thanks to virtualization and the move towards productivy computing in the cloud.
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Browser Version Numbers Are Now Irrelevant – And That’s a Good Thing
Mozilla is getting ready to officially launch Firefox 6 tomorrow. That’s less than two months after the release of Firefox 5 and not even half a year since the launch of Firefox 4. Indeed, there is now some talk in the Firefox community to get rid of version numbersin the user interface altogether. That’s not a bad idea. Users really shouldn’t have to worry about which version of a given browser they are running and those version numbers have now become mostly irrelevant anyway.
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