INTERNET News, May 11, 2012

Flipboard CEO: Apple's iPad 'created a revolution' for beautiful Internet content Apple Insider McCue pointed to Apple as having created an opportunity for publishers to bring design and aesthetics to the mobile Web, as the multi-touch capabilities of the iPad allow for the removal of much of the navigation controls. "When Apple introduced the ... See all stories on this topic »

Imogo Launches Comprehensive Cloud-Based Services Solution For Small Businesses MarketWatch (press release) The Imogo cloud-based solution can be accessed from any internetconnection on a laptop, desktop PC, smartphone, tablet or iPad or any other mobile device. Applications and data are stored on secure Imogo-hosted servers and accessed remotely through a ... See all stories on this topic »

Vablet® and MokiMobility Partner to Create Content Management Solution for the... San Francisco Chronicle (press release) Irvine, CA (PRWEB) May 10, 2012 AppSolutely, Inc., developer of vablet®, an iPhone/ iPad file management solution targeting enterprise users, has signed a formal agreement with MokiMobility, a mobile device management platform. The alliance is intended ... See all stories on this topic »

Mobile devices account for nearly 10 percent of internet traffic, according to ... The Verge By Sean Hollister on May 11, 2012 02:50 am 0Comments On April 7th,web analytics firm StatCounter recorded a milestone event: for the very first time, mobile devices reportedly accounted for over 10 percent of traffic on the global internet. See all stories on this topic »

DISH Steps Up TV Everywhere Technology With Enhanced App for iPad MarketWatch (press release) Customers can watch live and recorded TV anytime, anywhere using the app in concert with an Internet-connected DISH receiver and a Sling(R) Adapter. On the iPad, DISH offers the added ability to stream thousands of titles from an expansive on-demand ... See all stories on this topic »

Mobile phones account for 10% of web traffic: StatCounter Global Stats Mobiletor.com After the iPad was cited to be eating up a substantial bit of tablet web traffic, a StatCounter Global Stats report has revealed that internet access via smartphones has almost doubled since last year. As observed by the investigators,web usage via ... See all stories on this topic » Mobiletor.com

Mobile usage now accounts for 10 percent of all Internet traffic Afterdawn.com Tablet sales remain strong, as well, mainly thanks to theiPad. Breaking the growth by region shows significant across the globe for the period. Asia saw 192 percent growth since 2010 for mobile Internet, while Europe saw 183 percent. See all stories on this topic » Afterdawn.com

The New Battleground For Search And Discovery: Mobile Apps Seeking Alpha This presented a problem, the same problem that exists today related to finding and discovering mobile apps, as the universe of websites grew, it became increasingly difficult for consumers to find web ites relevant to their daily needs. See all stories on this topic »

How to Run Your (Not Small) Company Off of a Laptop New York Times (blog) By QUENTIN HARDY | May 11, 2012, 3:01 am Comment It won't be long before you'll be able to run a global corporation from an iPad. Amazon announced an agreement Friday with SAP that enables companies to store their data in the Amazon Web Services cloud, ... See all stories on this topic »

FBI warns travelers of pop-up window cyber-attacks CNN By Robert McMillan In a vague warning, the FBI says overseas travelers could be at risk of a Web attacks on hotel Wi-Fi. (CNN) -- If you're traveling abroad, your laptop could be attacked. That much, is certain, according to the US Federal Bureau of ... See all stories on this topic »

Kleiner's Schlein Says Today's Trends Worth 10 Times Web Bloomberg Ted Schlein, a managing partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, said the value created by companies in cloud services, data virtualization and mobile computing will be 10 times larger than that of the Internet. “We have never seen anything like ... See all stories on this topic »

So who picks the browser on a mobile device: You or “them”? GigaOM Each has long supported an open web and have built some or all of their business with such products. Along the transition from traditional desktop to mobile computing, however, the rules have changed. Smartphones and tablets are at times are obviously ... See all stories on this topic » GigaOM

Stop the Mom Myth: My Mother Isn't A Tech Nitwit (And Neither Is Yours) Huffington Post (blog) I'll have you know my mom is a Skype master, inseparable from heriPad, and a digital-photo editing savante.) Another regular: "This tablet is nothing special, but, like, my mom would use it." In short, "mom" has become a synonym for "technologically ... See all stories on this topic »

Commentary: Apple policy has advertisers scrambling Houston Chronicle By James Temple A customer tries a new Apple iPad in March at Apple's flagship store on Fifth Avenue in New York. Apple's apparent privacy move has upset advertisers. Photo: EMMANUEL DUNAND / AFP ImageForum Many advertisers are working around the ... See all stories on this topic »

Care2Learn Adds Beneficial “Smart Notes” Feature to All New Courses Virtual-Strategy Magazine The feature will appear on all new Care2Learn courses and offers students a quick reference guide comprised of important “take-away” points from the learning material, which may be accessed online at any time—even from mobile devices such as ... See all stories on this topic »

AT&T U-verse Expands To Ottawa, Kansas Sacramento Bee By AT&T Inc. OTTAWA, Kan., May 10, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- AT&T* today announced that AT&T U-verse® services, including AT&T U-verse TV, AT&T U-verse High Speed Internet and AT&T U-verse Voice, are now available in Ottawa, Kansas. See all stories on this topic »

Friday Grab Bag: Are Replacement Refs in the NFL's Future? Mobile Sports Report I was interested to see how relatively slowly the Internetcaught on compared to mobile phones, but I guess that is partly due to a number of issues from slow connections early on, lack of a substantial amount of meaningful content ( I mean at one time ... See all stories on this topic » Mobile Sports Report

SoundCloud Gets A Redesign: We Take the Beta Version for a Test-Drive Billboard.biz SoundCloud has already updated their mobile apps for iPhone, iPad and Android to HTML5. According to Lenberg, the web app has joined themobile apps, fully taking advantage of HTML5. The web app's cosmetic changes more closely align the web app to the ... See all stories on this topic »

HOT ROD Relaunch High Performance Pontiac Magazine (blog) This re-launch is just the first part of creating HOT ROD's new identity and emphasizes its focus on multimedia content delivery with brand extensions that include HOTROD.com, a mobile version of HOTROD.com, the "HOT ROD Then & Now" App for iPad, ... See all stories on this topic »

FBI Warns Travelers Of Unexplained Pop-Up Window Horror Wired News That much is certain, according to the FBI, which warned this week that hackers are “targeting travelers abroad through pop-up windows while establishing an internetconnection in their hotel rooms.” The warning comes from the FBI's Internet Crime ... See all stories on this topic » Wired News

AT&T U-verse Expands To Ottawa, Kansas MarketWatch (press release) OTTAWA, Kan., May 10, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- AT&T* today announced that AT&T U-verse® services, including AT&T U-verse TV, AT&T U-verse High Speed Internet and AT&T U-verse Voice, are now available in Ottawa, Kansas. See all stories on this topic »

Many shoppers prefer the web for buying Mother's Day gifts InternetRetailer.com 52% of consumers surveyed said they planned to buy their Mother's Day gifts online this year, 5% of those who planned to buy online said they would do so from a mobile device. 43% of shoppers said they planned to buy flowers for mom, making that the ... See all stories on this topic »

Kleiner's Schlein Says New Tech Growth to Beat Internet Boom CFOworld The value created by companies in cloud services, data virtualization and mobile computing will be 10 times larger than that of the Internet. By Sarah Frier Ted Schlein, a managing partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, said the value created by ... See all stories on this topic »

Tapping into the future China Daily But on any given day, one can find many like Zhang Hui, a 25-year-old freelance columnist from Shanghai, tapping away furiously on their smartphones in subways, buses or cabs and giving a new impetus to the mobile Internetgaming market as well as ... See all stories on this topic » China Daily

Critic's Notebook: With Spotify and its ilk, there's no 'my' in music anymore. Los Angeles Times With mobile access to iTunes, Google Music through Android or Spotify, everyone "has" a copy of everything available more easily via Web than digging in a crate or on a hard drive. It's in the cloud. (Paul Gonzales / May 10, 2012) By Randall Roberts, ... See all stories on this topic »

Mozilla and Google Cry Foul Over Browsers in Windows 8 Mashable ... iPad and iPod Touch. Although other browser apps such as Opera and Atomic exist, they are all essentially skins for mobile Safari, or are simple clients that use cloud computing to do all the “heavy lifting” ofweb browsing (see update below). See all stories on this topic »

Top 8 Apps & Services For Tracing A Mobile Phone Location [iOS, Android, WP7 ... MakeUseOf This one is naturally limited to iPhone users only (though the general principle is identical for iPad and iPod Touch owners) and is Apple's proprietary method of locating a lost mobile. In order to use the service you will need to have updated your ... See all stories on this topic »

BlackBerry 10's open secret: It's aimed at the walled garden CTV.ca When I got my hands this week on one of Research in Motion's new prototype phones – courtesy of a skittish source who wished to remain anonymous – my expectations were low. Not because I expect RIM's new line of phones to be a disappointment, ... See all stories on this topic »

Intel CEO plays down concerns about tech spending Chicago Tribune Shares of Cisco, which relies on government and corporate spending onInternet gear, dropped more than 10 percent on Thursday, a day after the company released its financial results. "I think John's comments were focused on Europe in particular. See all stories on this topic »

How Teachers Make Cell Phones Work in the Classroom MindShift (blog) The idea of mobile learning touches on just about every subject that any technology addresses: social media, digital citizenship, content-knowledge versus skill-building, Internet filtering and safety laws, teaching techniques, bring-your-own-device ... See all stories on this topic »

HydroPoint Data Systems Launches New WeatherTRAK Smart Water Management Solutions ElectroIQ WeatherTRAK Mobile Applications: Remote access to controllers or sites via Smartphone, tablet or internet-enabled mobile device. "Extending our proven weather-based smart irrigation technologies, HydroPoint's new WeatherTRAK products immediately ... See all stories on this topic »

Social Shopping Apps: New Way to Shop Online TopTenWholesale News Social shopping apps could be changing the way people shop online. The Glimpse app mimics Pinterest in certain aspects − it's about social discovery and very visual. Images and videos are instantly descriptive; it's no wonder ecommerce has discovered ... See all stories on this topic » TopTenWholesale News

New high-end AV receivers with CLASS D amplification from Pioneer about-electronics.eu ... set-up options including Apple's AirPlay, DLNA 1.5 , Windows 7,Internet Radio, PC Setup control, Advanced MCACC auto-calibration, multiple HDMI inputs and Pioneer's trendsetting iPad, iPhone, and iPod apps including iControlAV2012 and Air Jam. See all stories on this topic »

Microsoft Bing Friends Facebook InformationWeek Internet Explorer looks like it will be the first to get a publicity mode. Nonetheless, Microsoft insists it has made an effort to maximize privacy protections. The company says that while you're using Bing and signed into Facebook, Bing will only ... See all stories on this topic »

Why Microsoft's Browser Barricade Will Backfire Internet Evolution Apple bans most third-party browsers (notable exception: Opera Mini) from its iPad and iPhone. And it bans most third-party email and messaging clients. Google had to move mountains to convince Apple to allow Google Voice inside its mobile walls. See all stories on this topic »

Late News: Facebook File Sharing for Groups, Mobile Roaming Gets Cheaper in EU ... ITProPortal Starting this summer, Europeans who are vacationing on the Continent will enjoy lower charges for mobile roaming. European lawmakers have voted on the first EU control over consumer charging on mobile Internet use. They have decided to restrict the ... See all stories on this topic » ITProPortal

Mozilla and Google accuse Microsoft of unfair browser competition Daily Times Nigeria In the 1990s, Microsoft was accused of having a chokehold on theInternet with its Windows monopoly. In 2012, with the proliferation ofInternet-connected mobile devices, Apple's strength in Mac sales, andiPad's stranglehold on the tablet market, ... See all stories on this topic »

New Study Reveals Physicians' Device and Digital Media Adoption Rapidly Evolving EON: Enhanced Online News (press release) NEW YORK--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--According to the new Taking the Pulse ® US 2012 study from healthcare market research and advisory firm Manhattan Research, physicians' device and digital media adoption are evolving much faster than anticipated, ... See all stories on this topic »

Mozilla: Microsoft is Not Playing Fair, Again Everything PR This week Mozilla has been rather vocal in its disgust with Microsoft's plans to restrict the usage of third-party browsers on the mobile version of Windows 8. While Microsoft has been promoting the fancy new Metro user interface, it has also been busy ... See all stories on this topic »

Connect with care when travelling Sydney Morning Herald You really, really have to connect to the internet to do something important. This is risky on an unknown network, so what can you do to keep the baddies out? Adam Boileau of security consultancy Insomnia Security says the idea is to make it as ... See all stories on this topic » Sydney Morning Herald

Pimsleur Unlimited Now Available on NOOK Tablet™ by Barnes & Noble EON: Enhanced Online News (press release) “We're very excited to have Pimsleur Unlimited on the NOOK platform, making all of the functionality of this exciting language software fullymobile for users,” says Robert Riger, Director of Pimsleur Language Programs. Available in the NOOK App Store ... See all stories on this topic »

Making the BYOD Trend Secure for Your Organization CTR Standard MDM establishes basic app/data provisioning. They control which mobile devices are granted access to internal resources. After a device is lost or stolen, MDM can erase a device remotely whenever it next connects to theInternet. See all stories on this topic » CTR

Rogue Wave - IT technology that will have sailors surfing Sail World Finally, think about one transceiver providing internet to all your on-board devices - from notebook PC's to iPads, smartphones and internet TV's. That's the promise, and (mostly) the reality delivered by the Rogue Wave. Some people ask why we need ... See all stories on this topic » Sail World

Nevada listings displayed with ease on the IDX-enabled website of Realtor ... 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 ... See all stories on this topic »

SingTel Admits Wireless Broadband is Slow, Promises Improvements Tech Wire Asia Even amid the increasing preference for mobile Internet access, Singapore-based SingTel admits that its wireless service is slow, compared with other carriers. The biggest telecommunications firm in Southeast Asia has promised to improve its services, ... See all stories on this topic »

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