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Apr 27, 2012

INTERNET News, Apr 27, 2012

overstockArt.com Releases Innovative Application for iPad
PR Web (press release)
“With iPad traffic accounting for 88 percent of our mobile traffic and 68 percent of all mobile revenue coming to the site, we were driven to ramp up our mobile strategy and create an app that makes it easier for this audience to browse, decorate and ...
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PR Web (press release)
LinkedIn makes iPad app for mobile professionals
Economic Times
NEW YORK: LinkedIn users can now access the professional social network on their iPad with an application launched on Thursday. The free app is available through Apple Inc.'s iTunes store. LinkedIn says the app helps today's increasingly mobile ...
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Empire Life Launches New Mobile App-SimpleQuote(TM)
MarketWatch (press release)
... has launched a new iPad application that will provide simple, fast quotes on up to four term insurance products at once. SimpleQuote(TM) provides instant quotes and fully compliant illustrations on one page without needing an internet connection.
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Onion Browser: A Mobile Browser For The Truly Paranoid
TechCrunch
Thanks to Orbot, Android users, too, have the option to use the Tor network to anonymize their web browsing sessions and avoid being monitored. Now, thanks to Onion Browser ($0.99), iPhone and iPad users also finally get an easy option to tunnel their ...
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TechCrunch
Which iPad should you buy?
NDTV
So you've decided to buy a new iPad. Are you confused between the various options? How much storage do you need? 4G or Wi-Fi only? Here's a ready reckoner to help you through the various options. With Apple dropping the price of the iPad 2,...
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NDTV
Too quiet in the walled garden
Brisbane Times
In the same way, Apple's iTunes store is available on the web, and Google can index it, ''but all the value creation in the mobileiPhone and iPad app world is behind the walls of Fortress Apple. Google cannot see that information, cannot crawl it, ...
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Brisbane Times
Mobile Website - A Must Have In Today's World
iTWire (press release)
The mobile website should be responsive in nature and adjust to the user's browsing device automatically. Smartphones and tablets have revolutionized the way people browse the Internet. In fact mobile internet is a serious affair and is expected to ...
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iTWire (press release)
The Week in iOS Apps: Clear, or coy?
Macworld
Onion Browser: If you really don't want people knowing what you're looking at on the Internet—and we mean, really, really don't want people to know—then Michael Tigas's $1 Onion Browser app for iPhone and iPad might be what you are very secretively ...
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Empire Life introduces SimpleQuote
Insurance Business Review
The Empire Life Insurance Company (Empire Life) has introduced a newiPad application,called SimpleQuote that will offer simple, fast quotes on up to four term insurance products instantaneously. The newly launched application will provide immediate ...
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Communication via Mobile Devices – Advice for
MarineLink
Global Marine Networks Inc. explain to blue-water boat owners how to stay in touch using the latest mobile communication devices How to stay in touch with family, friends and information through radio, satellite voice, email andInternet services while ...
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Retailers urge FTC to move cautiously on mobile payments
NFCNews
The National Retail Federation, the world's largest retail trade association, is urging the Federal Trade Commission to move cautiously in establishing regulations for mobile payments. “Mobile technology and processes are just beginning to emerge and ...
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TotalESoft.com Add 20 New Games, Mobile Betting and Multiplayer Poker to Their...
Virtual-Strategy Magazine
Not only that, but mobile sports betting including for iPhone, iPod and iPad; and now multiplayer poker with Texas Holdem, Omaha and Stud card games. Paul Edwards of www.TotalESoft.com said, "This is another step forward in providing a total gaming ...
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Tablet Competition Heats Up: Kindle Fire Captures more than Half of Android ...
Sacramento Bee
T-Mobile USA captured its highest market share in Texas, where the carrier accounted for 11.9 percent of smartphone devices. *comScore Device Essentials measures unique devices accessing the web during the time period noted, including home, ...
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NRF Urges FTC To Move Cautiously on Mobile Payments
Convenience Store Decisions
The National Retail Federation is urging the Federal Trade Commission to move cautiously in establishing regulations for mobile payments, and said any rules that are adopted should parallel those for the underlying form of payment and not be specific ...
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eBay Inc. - Shareholder/Analyst Call
Seeking Alpha
So the iPad has had significant change in how we, as consumers, consume media and had significant impact in the media industry. Well, we believe the same thing is about to happen to shopping and paying. And that in this case, again, as a mobile device, ...
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Review: The new iPad
Computerworld New Zealand
By Sim Ahmed | Auckland | Friday, 27 April, 2012 Every year like clockwork Apple releases the next generation of its mobile devices, and every year the world's most valuable tech company receives fanfare from consumers and press alike.
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New Onion Browser Offers Private Browsing for iPhone, iPad
TechNewsDaily
by Leslie Meredith, Senior Writer, TechNewsDaily It's tough to go completely anonymous on an Apple mobile device, despite the private browsing capabilities of the Safari browser. But today, The Onion Browser became available for iPhone, iPad and iPod ...
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Apple CEO slams laptop/tablet hybrids
Good Gear Guide
When Apple CEO Tim Cook dissed the whole idea of hybrid mobilecomputers, he may have been showing his hand. Cook said during a financial earnings conference call this week that consumers simply won't be interested in buying or using a machine that is ...
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Amazon's tablet is on Fire
InternetRetailer.com
Its Kindle Fire tablet computer in February owned 54.4% of the market for Android tablets, well beyond its nearest competitor and up from 29.4% in December 2011, web and mobile measurement firm comScore says. The Samsung Galaxy Tab came in second in ...
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AT&T: Why You Should Be Bullish On This Telecom Titan
Seeking Alpha
Smartphone upgrading costs were lower than expected, and there was an increase in data sales relating to Apple's (AAPL) iPad. Compared to the same quarter of the previous year, operating expenses were $25.7 billion compared to $25.4 billion in the ...
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MyNetDiary Integrates with Withings Devices
Virtual-Strategy Magazine
MyNetDiary, a comprehensive food diary and calorie counter with online andmobile app services, announced its integration with two popular Withings products, the Wi-Fi Body Scale and Blood Pressure Monitor, allowing members to automatically send data ...
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SpaceX to Launch Spacecraft on May 7: Hot Trends
TheStreet.com
LinkedIn(LNKD) is trending as the networking Web site released its long-awaited first Apple(AAPL) iPad app. The app, which is LinkedIn's first available for tablets, arrives two years after it first hit the iPhone. The iPadapp is a remodeled version ...
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Empire Life launches SimpleQuote app for iPad
Advisor.ca
SimpleQuote provides instant quotes and fully compliant illustrations on one page without needing an internetconnection. It includes the initial policy premium, renewal rates, cash values, and the initial underwriting requirements.
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Advisor.ca
E-books, the way to go?
BusinessDay
Uzor later finds a lasting solution for his desire in his laptop andiPad, when a friend introduced him to a website where he can purchase e-books by simply downloading them on his laptop. Ever since, Uzor has become a high-flying executive that needs...
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BusinessDay
How Do You Wireless?
Channel Partners (blog)
Earlier this week the astounding numbers regarding Apple's iPhone and iPadsales created a surge in their market cap, moving the stock from $560 per share to $610 in 24 hours. Also benefiting from the sales of these products were Verizon and AT&T, ...
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Hillsdale looks to get $100 more per student
The Hillsdale Daily News
... but is also a WiFi Hotspot, offering users connectivity to the Internet. Fourmobile laptop carts will be purchased with the money, as well as a mobile iPad cart. Hillsdale Community Schools is anticipating an extra $100 per pupil as they apply for ...
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Lunchtime Poll: Should Facebook have Credit spending limits for kids?
Games.com News (blog)
by Joe Osborne, Posted Apr 27th 2012 12:40PM For parents in the age of social and mobile gaming, it's not enough for them to worry about little Johnny stealing from their wallets for change to blow at the local arcade. Kids these days have the Internet ...
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Reflections on the 2012 NAB Show, Part II
TV Technology
In the Mobile DTV area, Escort introduced ESCORT MobileTV, a "connected Mobile Digital TV (MDTV) receiver that quickly and easily allows consumers to receive digital TV on their Wi-Fi-enabled smartphone, iPad or similar video-capable device while in ...
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Opera 12 Beta Launches With Themes, In-Browser Photos & Performance ...
MakeUseOf
According to Opera Software, 250 million people already use Opera webbrowsers for computers, mobile phones, TVs and other connected devices and with this new iteration they are hoping to increase that number even more. Among the most notable new ...
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10 interesting digital stats we've seen this week
Econsultancy (blog)
Stats covered include connected TV, social media engagement, mobilecommerce and e-commerce sales... During 2011 alone, the internetpopulation grew by 16%, with IAB Brazil estimating a total Brazilian onlineaudience at more than 81m people (aged 16+) ...
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Not too far from the Apple tree
Haaretz
Bar-Nahum is the "mobile and services user experience" vice president at Samsung America, which makes the Galaxy smartphone, which is neck and neck with Apple's iPhone in the race to lead the international market. There are more than 20 court cases ...
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New dictator iPhone apps raising eyebrows
WJXT Jacksonville
People with an iPhone, iPod or iPad know they can get an app for just about anything. But some might be surprised to find their iPhone taking them back in time, to say, 1941, to hear Joseph Stalin expounding against barbarian German invaders.
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Del Mar Heights continues to take a proactive approach to technology learning
Del Mar Times
Fourth grader Kennedy Quay works on her iPad at Del Mar Heights. Photo/Karen Billing Del Mar Heights School continues to lead the way for the Del Mar Union School District in technology learning. For the third year students are using iPods in the ...
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Netgear R6300 to be First Router with 802.11ac Support
TechnoBuffalo
AirPrint TM Support: The NETGEAR Genie app enables users to print on any USB or networked printer directly from an iPad or iPhone. Guest network access: The NETGEAR Genie app makes setting up a guest network simple. Guests and visitors can go online ...
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Weswit Named "Cool Vendor" by Leading Analyst Firm for its Lightstreamer Product
Technology Digital (press release)
Quoting Gartner's report, "Web streaming is an emerging form of MOM aimed at enabling back-end applications to send real-time messages over the public Internet, typically to large numbers (up to millions) of mobile or stationary endpoints, according to ...
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Netgear announces 5G 802.11ac Wi-Fi router, speeds to 1.3Gbps!
9 to 5 Mac
Apple currently uses Broadcom Wi-Fi Chips in its Mac line and in its iOS devices, including iPad and iPods. The latest MacBook Airs have the Broadcom BCM4322 Intensi-fi® Single-Chip 802.11n Wi-Fi Transceiver. Maybe we will see something a little faster ...
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9 to 5 Mac
Why Apple Will Never Equal Sony
InformationWeek
The closest analogy for Apple would be the transition from the PC era to themobile era, and Apple has handled that transition rather well. It is Microsoft, coasting on legacy desktop profits but facing dwindling mobile relevance, that appears to be ...
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Kindle Fire Boosts Amazon Digital Sales
MediaPost Communications
“Broadly speaking, we continue to see the mobile theme benefiting e-commerce,” noted Macquarie Capital analyst Ben Schachter on Amazon's first-quarter performance. “The fact that the Internet is simply available more often and on better form factors is ...
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MIT Media Lab Hosts The Future
Fast Company
While the Huggable tells children stories, plays with them, and snuggles with them, over 1500 sensors hidden below the robot's fur monitor behavior and shoot video--which can then be viewed via a web app. Microsoft has been a generous financial donor ...
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Fast Company
Google Launches 'Drive' Cloud Storage Service
RisMedia.com (press release)
By Mike Swift Print Article (MCT)—Google is taking the wraps off a long-anticipated product that it views as one of its most important launches of the year, as the Internet giant continues its push to upload users to a future where their photos, ...
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Amazon's Kindle Fire Has More Than Half The U.S. Android Tablet Market - And ...
Seeking Alpha
And these figures also emphasize just how much work Sony (SNE) has ahead of it in its battle to try to get more traction in tablets and mobile in general. On the other hand, the small shares for so many manufacturers also, inadvertently, ...
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Mobile gaming increasingly popular in Europe: comScore report
Yahoo! Philippines News
Hesham Al-Jehani, comScore Europe Product Manager for Mobile, attributed the 55 percent year on year increase of gaming among smartphone users in the EU5 to an increased quality in games and the ability to play without being connected to the internet.
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Industry veterans adopt IDX solution to transform and upgrade professional ...
RealEstateRama (press release)
In addition to the primary web-based software, IDX also provides an integrated WordPress widget for use in WordPress based blogs and websites ( IDX Broker WordPress Plugin ) as well as a dedicated mobileapplication available for the iPhone and iPad ...
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Online Marketing News: Mobile Shows Muscle, Google Panda to ...
By Ashley Zeckman
The not so good news: “Google Drive Sparks Privacy Concerns Among Businesses” CIO Journal. “Google Drive Doesn't Work with iPad, iPhone” GottaBe Mobile. “Google Drive says it may 'publicly perform' your files. What's that mean?
Online Marketing Blog
LinkedIn iPad app wants to have coffee with you | Internet & Media ...
New mobile app gives you info about the people you'll be meeting with ...Read this blog post by Rafe Needleman on Internet & Media. ... You are here: News ...
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