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- Tesco To Launch iPhone Grocery App
- Tourism embracing Foursquare as Yorkshire grabs a European first
- Nokia N8 Gets Confirmed Release Date and Pricing
- YouTube launches UK Ad of the Year competition
- US Cyber Command head: “The threats are real.”
- Hootsuite needs your lingua franca: Help with crowd-sourced translation of Hootsuite
- The allure of SocialNet’s features will catch, and please, anyone with an iPhone.
- Safari 5.0.2 released with security patches
- Journalist tricked captors to gain Twitter access and eventually, freedom.
- Tab Candy organization for Chrome? It’s called Tab Sugar.
- Mosaic photos, done easy? Easy Moza.
- How Facebook’s Friend Feature Needs To Evolve
- US Cyber Command head: “The threats are real.”
- Watch Internet Explorer 9 Show Off In Live Demonstration
- WebOS 2.0 Beta Screenshots Emerge
- HP Sues Former CEO Mark Hurd
- Digg Just Fired Their Engineering VP Over Relaunch Woes
- Digg Just Fired Their Engineering VP Over Relaunch Woes
- HTC: The Next Apple?
- Miss a Google Voice call? You’ll now see it in Gmail
| Tesco To Launch iPhone Grocery App Posted: 08 Sep 2010 03:15 AM PDT
The announcement comes after Tesco received one million requests for the app, according to a blog update by Nick Lansley, head of research and development for Tesco. Android and BlackBerry users are set to benefit also as Tesco is also in the process of bolstering its mobile development team, whilst rolling out new features for its other apps already on the App Store. The new app will provide competition to existing supermarkets that already have apps on the App Store. Ocado, is currently one of the only apps that allows customers to order via an app, the rest have basic functionality and just offer services like a store locator and opening times. Original title and link for this post: Tesco To Launch iPhone Grocery App |
| Tourism embracing Foursquare as Yorkshire grabs a European first Posted: 08 Sep 2010 03:10 AM PDT
Now the UK’s Welcome to Yorkshire has put a stake in the ground by becoming the first tourist authority in Europe, and only the 8th in the world, to get a branded presence on Foursquare. Many other tourist authorities around the UK and beyond have already set up standard Foursquare profiles to varied levels of success, but the branded option allows businesses to enhance their presence with a banner graphic and welcome text. While it doesn’t sound like much, this can be useful as brands don’t necessarily want to use Foursquare in the same way as individual users. Checkins and mayorships aren’t important, with emphasis shifting to tips, friends and (in some cases) badges in order to promote locations or complement other online marketing. Kristal Ireland, digital media manager for Welcome to Yorkshire, said: "A number of our team have been using Foursquare for a while and we felt now was the right time to embrace Foursquare and help users find out more about our great county in a fun, interactive way.” At present, getting a branded presence on Foursquare isn’t easy. As About Foursquare recently reported, the New York-based startup is working on a self-service tool for brands to customise their profiles. Until now Foursquare has been accepting applications from brands on an individual basis, something that simply won’t scale as the company grows.
Original title and link for this post: Tourism embracing Foursquare as Yorkshire grabs a European first |
| Nokia N8 Gets Confirmed Release Date and Pricing Posted: 08 Sep 2010 02:45 AM PDT
Today Nokia has put an end to all of that and finally told us when the Nokia N8 will become available, citing an “end of September” release date with UK retailers, stores and carriers selling the device as of the 1st October. The dates tie in perfectly with the date mooted in one of our articles, quoting a leaked Google Adword unit, slipping an early release date on the Nokia Online website. It will sell for £429 unlocked, with different carriers offering subsidised contracts. Apparently the N8 is in huge demand and that’s the reason that Nokia decided to finally clue us in, I’m thinking it wanted to get in before the retailers did. Original title and link for this post: Nokia N8 Gets Confirmed Release Date and Pricing |
| YouTube launches UK Ad of the Year competition Posted: 08 Sep 2010 01:35 AM PDT
Winners will receive a home page takeover worth £75,000 and 11 million monthly page views, and of course a nice bit of PR for the brand and/or agency too! Importantly, the general public will be voting the winner and not Campaign, although a panel of leading industry figures will produce the shortlist of options for YouTube users to choose from. The panel includes Richard Huntington, Director of Strategy at Saatchi & Saatchi, Steve Park, MD of MediaVest London and Mark Simpson, Marketing Director of Ford GB. Entries must be in by 23rd September via YouTube.com/iloveads and must have been served on the site between 1st January 2009 to 31 August 2010.
A short-list of ‘28 entries will be chosen’ for voting before the winner is announced on the 17th November, Ian Darby explains in a video on the competitions micro site. Bruce Daisley, head of YouTube’s UK Display offering spoke to Brand Republic regarding the competition, “The creative standard and range of advertising on YouTube has risen hugely in the past 18 months. From page takeovers, to brand channels, virals, games, in-stream and promoted videos – the full spectrum of YouTube formats is being harnessed to great effect by brands large and small.” So if you’ve been doing some exciting YouTube advertising over the last 18 months, head over to the micro site before 23rd September to submit your entry. Original title and link for this post: YouTube launches UK Ad of the Year competition |
| US Cyber Command head: “The threats are real.” Posted: 07 Sep 2010 07:02 PM PDT
Cyber Command is located at Ft. Meade outside of the US capital, and according to its mission statement:
According to The Hill, Alexander also said today that, “We made the Internet, and it seems to me that we ought to be the first folks to get out there and protect it. The challenge before us is large and daunting. But we have an obligation to meet it head-on.” He was also quoted as saying, “Malicious actors a continent away can exploit our networks. They’re becoming better organized and sophisticated at exploiting weaknesses in our technologies.” Regarding privacy, the head of the NSA said that, “Our citizens take a lot of interest in the government’s activities in this area, and I have an obligation to the law and the American people to ensure everything we do preserves and protects their rights while protecting our interests. That’s an obligation that’s never compromised.” Original title and link for this post: US Cyber Command head: “The threats are real.” |
| Hootsuite needs your lingua franca: Help with crowd-sourced translation of Hootsuite Posted: 07 Sep 2010 06:59 PM PDT
Hootsuite is turning to its users, just like open-source projects like WordPress do when they need translation help, for their help in translating all the parts of Hootsuite so people around the world can feel the warmth of the owl’s feathery hug. The folks at Hootsuite are even going a set further by letting the community decide which languages get priority for development and launch. Sure here in Canada, English and French are common, but maybe Chinese or German or Dutch or Russian might be better and more popular choices from the community. You just don’t know until you ask and since Hootsuite is all about community (I’ve been a user since the early beta days and know the folks there well), they are asking. If you’re interested in helping out, you start at the special Hootsuite Translation site and register. If you have more time on your hands, and are fluent in several languages, you can even apply to be a translation coordinator to give the thumbs up or down to how parts are translated. You might be wondering if crowd-sourcing translation is a good idea. Well, it works pretty well in the WordPress community (I’ve lost count of all the localizations). Also, small startups can’t afford to have apps translated beyond a core of their user base (if at all). Frankly, I think the fact that Hootsuite is available in English and Japanese is pretty amazing. Translation is a tricky and expensive proposition, so my hat is off to my friends at Hootsuite for taking a big, bold step towards making Twitter a little more inclusive for everyone. Hmm, I think we have more than a few languages represented here at The Next Web… Original title and link for this post: Hootsuite needs your lingua franca: Help with crowd-sourced translation of Hootsuite |
| The allure of SocialNet’s features will catch, and please, anyone with an iPhone. Posted: 07 Sep 2010 06:55 PM PDT
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| Safari 5.0.2 released with security patches Posted: 07 Sep 2010 05:11 PM PDT
On the surface it doesn’t appear to be an interesting or important update, but reading the security notes it looks like this update fixes a few security holes that could allow for malicious code execution. Just check for updates from the Apple menu (or wait, you’ll get it eventually), but the Safari 5.0.2 update requires you to restart so make sure you’re ready to do than before you fire it off (like I almost did before writing this article!). Original title and link for this post: Safari 5.0.2 released with security patches |
| Journalist tricked captors to gain Twitter access and eventually, freedom. Posted: 07 Sep 2010 04:15 PM PDT
Kosuke Tsuneoka, a Japanese journalist freed by Afghan captors this weekend, tricked those holding him into giving him Twitter access. Tsuneoka, prior to his release, managed to send two Twitter messages while teaching one of his captors how to access the internet on a cell phone. According to PCWorld, the messages read: “i am still allive [sic], but in jail,” read a message sent at 1:15 p.m. GMT on Friday. It was followed a few minutes later with a second message, also in English, that read, “here is archi in kunduz. in the jail of commander lativ.” The message referred to the Dasht-e-Archi district of Kunduz where he was being held." Since disappearing on April 1, Tsuneoka hadn’t been heard from prior to the Tweets. Speaking on Tuesday, Tsuneoka explained the entire ordeal. According to Tsuneoka, 3 days prior to the tweets, one of his captors, a low-ranking soldier, showed him a Nokia N70 that he did not know how to use. “He asked me if I knew how to use it, so I had a look and explained it to him,” said Tsuneoka. “I called the customer care number and activated the phone,” he said. Soon after he had the captor’s phone configured for Internet access. “Once I told them I was able to access, they said ‘how do you use it?’, ‘can we see Al Jazeera?’.” Tsuneoka said he explained they just needed to type “Al Jazeera” into Google search to access the Qatar-based TV news network’s website. “But if you are going to do anything, you should use Twitter,” he said he told them. “They asked what that was. And I told them that if you write something on it, then you can reach many Japanese journalists. So they said, ‘try it’.” “I don’t think they realize they were tricked,” he said. Once he had gained access to the phone, he sent the aforementioned tweets, eventually gaining his release on Saturday. Tsuneoka's knowledge of technology in part led to the man's release and left his Afghan captors with a hard lesson learned in the power of Twitter. Original title and link for this post: Journalist tricked captors to gain Twitter access and eventually, freedom. |
| Tab Candy organization for Chrome? It’s called Tab Sugar. Posted: 07 Sep 2010 01:52 PM PDT
In the ever-going serve and volley match between browsers, there are occasionally features that really stand out. Tab Candy (or Panorama) for Firefox, developed by Aza Raskin, has taken a number of users by storm, allowing them to have numerous tabs open while still keeping them organized. Until now, we haven’t had that option for Google’s Chrome. In view of that, I’d like to introduce you to Tab Sugar. Apparently, even Aza is impressed. There really isn’t a lot else to say about Tab Sugar that isn’t covered in the video. It is, simply put, the best way to keep track of your content when you have multiple tabs open on regular occasion. Here are the details, from the Tab Candy page:
Now, instead of having a browser window open for work and another for play, you can keep it in one session, but divide the content between grouped tabs. For me, this is a life saver. Original title and link for this post: Tab Candy organization for Chrome? It’s called Tab Sugar. |
| Mosaic photos, done easy? Easy Moza. Posted: 07 Sep 2010 01:14 PM PDT
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| How Facebook’s Friend Feature Needs To Evolve Posted: 07 Sep 2010 01:05 PM PDT
What Would This Look Like?To a large extent you can already play around with your privacy settings and target updates at specific people anyway in order to keep a handle on your privacy but not many people are aware of these features let along put them to use. I’m talking about 2 clear parts of the site. My public stream where I share stuff and see what others are up to and my private network which would be a place for 50-100 people at most (friends, family, colleagues etc), people I actually know and who could view all of my photos and private information like checkins on Facebook places and personal status updates. This Would Fix Privacy Once And For All
What Would The Public Stream Look Like?Mostly rich content. The videos that I find and want to share. Information about the games that I play and the apps that I engage with on a daily basis. The brands I love and want to get info from. The celebrities that I follow. Information from my favorite sports team. The events that I am attending. Basically all the information that I interact with through Facebook but that I don’t need to have associated with my close network of personal friends. Google Thinks It Should Be Like This
Can It Be Done Without Upsetting Advertisers?This is only my opinion on Facebook and probably highly unlikely that Mark Zuckerberg is reading this but lets just say Facebook was to go down this route, could it actually happen? Well the biggest impediment to this would be the advertisers and the 2 billion a year that Facebook is already generating through that particular cash cow. Does Facebook really want to rock the apple cart when things are going so well? I doubt it. What I would say is from anecdotal evidence is that people are not using Facebook in the way they once did. Facebook grew off the back of being a great network for your personal friends and family and the way that they are heading is making it harder and harder for my network to stay private. I think this is one way that they could solve that problem. What do you think? Should Facebook split the stream or is it just fine as it is now? Original title and link for this post: How Facebook’s Friend Feature Needs To Evolve |
| US Cyber Command head: “The threats are real.” Posted: 07 Sep 2010 12:53 PM PDT
Cyber Command is located at Ft. Meade outside of the US capital, and according to its mission statement:
According to The Hill, Alexander also said today that, “We made the Internet, and it seems to me that we ought to be the first folks to get out there and protect it. The challenge before us is large and daunting. But we have an obligation to meet it head-on.” He was also quoted as saying, “Malicious actors a continent away can exploit our networks. They’re becoming better organized and sophisticated at exploiting weaknesses in our technologies.” Regarding privacy, the head of the NSA said that, “Our citizens take a lot of interest in the government’s activities in this area, and I have an obligation to the law and the American people to ensure everything we do preserves and protects their rights while protecting our interests. That’s an obligation that’s never compromised.” Original title and link for this post: US Cyber Command head: “The threats are real.” |
| Watch Internet Explorer 9 Show Off In Live Demonstration Posted: 07 Sep 2010 12:53 PM PDT
What to watch for in the video? A claimed 95/100 on the Acid3 test and fast rendering of complex graphical tasks. The current version of Chrome that I am working on racks up a 98/100 on the same test, but the 95 points is far and away better than anything Microsoft has put up on the board before. It should be noted that the browser in the video has a similar UI as the leaked screenshot that we brought to you earlier. This looks like the real deal. Take a look and decide for yourself if this will be enough to put Microsoft back in the browser game:
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| WebOS 2.0 Beta Screenshots Emerge Posted: 07 Sep 2010 12:10 PM PDT
There is Dropbox support, MobileMe integration, the ability to set default apps for certain filetypes and a number of other new additions. For full details, take a look at the embdedded gallery below: Original title and link for this post: WebOS 2.0 Beta Screenshots Emerge |
| Posted: 07 Sep 2010 11:59 AM PDT
Mr. Hurd signed a 24 month policy when he left HP, and in return he got a not-too-shabby $40 million severance package. Part of the terms of this deal were that Mr. Hurd not reveal any trade secrets for a period of 24 months. It will be very hard for Mr. Hurd to claim that he is abiding by these terms given that he’s now working at an HP competitor. As this suit is being filed in California where typical non-compete agreements are not enforceable, HP has filed this lawsuit as “breach of contract and threatened misappropriation of trade secrets.” That said, Mr. Hurd and Oracle are probably going to argue that Mr. Hurd’s new job does not violate the non-compete. Most likely they’ll argue that Mr. Hurd was hired for his skills at cutting costs and increasing profits, which is a large part of why he was such a good CEO while at HP. If Mr. Hurd can sufficiently prove this in court, then maybe he won’t have to give back the yacht or mansion or whatever he spent that $40 million on. Original title and link for this post: HP Sues Former CEO Mark Hurd |
| Digg Just Fired Their Engineering VP Over Relaunch Woes Posted: 07 Sep 2010 11:49 AM PDT
According to reporting on the story, Quinn was the proponent of a technology shift from the LAMP stack to Cassandra, a lesser known database solution that was to replace MySQL and help Digg manage its massive traffic. Whether the decision has long term merits remains to be seen, but thus far it has been a cause of headaches that have proven difficult to extricate from Digg’s large and important website. That combined with the very difficult response to the engineering team’s handiwork, whether deserved or not, forced Digg to make a move. The team needs a new leader to help fix its current problems and to move them and the company forward. Quinn had been at Digg for three years. There is no announced or expected replacement for him at this time. We will monitor the situation and will bring you more if it comes. Digg might have a bright future ahead of it. Time will tell. Original title and link for this post: Digg Just Fired Their Engineering VP Over Relaunch Woes |
| Digg Just Fired Their Engineering VP Over Relaunch Woes Posted: 07 Sep 2010 11:48 AM PDT
According to reporting on the story, Quinn was the proponent of a technology shift from the LAMP stack to Cassandra, a lesser known database solution that was to replace MySQL and help Digg manage its massive traffic. Whether the decision has long term merits remains to be seen, but thus far it has been a cause of headaches that have proven difficult to extricate from Digg’s large and important website. That combined with the very difficult response to the engineering team’s handiwork, whether deserved or not, forced Digg to make a move. The team needs a new leader to help fix its current problems and to move them and the company forward. Quinn had been at Digg for three years. There is no announced or expected replacement for him at this time. We will monitor the situation and will bring you more if it comes. Digg might have a bright future ahead of it. Time will tell. Original title and link for this post: Digg Just Fired Their Engineering VP Over Relaunch Woes |
| Posted: 07 Sep 2010 10:59 AM PDT
No other smartphone manufacturer has quite the pull that Apple does but I feel that is starting to change. With Google’s open-source Android mobile operating system, suddenly manufacturers such as HTC have been able to concentrate on delivering high-powered smartphones, extending the capabilities of its handsets without having to independently develop an operating system to rival the likes of iOS. In just over a week, HTC will be holding a launch event in London, at the moment, what they are launching remains a mystery. We have speculated that HTC will be using the event to launch its upgrade to the HTC Desire, the uniquely named HTC Desire HD, mainly due to its cryptic event invite in which they cleverly masked the device with a bit of Photoshop trickery.
When the invite dropped in our inbox, we immediately published our thoughts on what could be launched at the event, as did every other tech outlet, signalling that HTC devices are starting to gain the recognition they deserve. As the launch event has drawn nearer, the number of handsets theoretically being unveiled has grown to encompass as many as three handsets, some Android, some running the soon to be released Windows Phone 7. Also on the bill could be a new tablet, HTC’s answer to the iPad. Looking at the huge increase HTC coverage, its range of high-powered, desirable and ultimately reliable smartphones, the company looks to have an Apple swagger about them. In my experience, besides the Apple iPhone and RIM’s BlackBerry range, HTC are the only smartphone manufacturer that consumers know by name (does Nokia count?), where they are not using the catch-all “Android” term or the DROID brand name which is used by both HTC and Motorola. HTC are starting to open regional bricks-and-mortar retail stores, granted these are only in selected countries at the moment but it’s something that not many other manufacturers have looked to do.
Coming back to the tablet market, the market leader is the iPad, there is no doubt about that. Samsung was first to bring its Galaxy Tab to market, Motorola is said to be working with Google to release an Android 3.0 powered tablet but analysts, bloggers and tech readers have waited to see what HTC can bring to the game. Its easy to argue that HTC is now seen as the main competitor to Apple, especially after the Cupertino-based company filed a lawsuit against HTC over a number of patent infringements surrounding its touch technology. Other manufacturers have their flagship handsets but the only phone up until now that has been able to go toe-to-toe with the iPhone 4 is the HTC Evo 4G, a behemoth of a phone that is America’s first 4G phone and was met with stock shortages, delayed activations and something that most other manufacturers would dream about – queues out the door. HTC backed Android early and reaped the rewards, it will continue to feature the operating system on its tablets as well as developing desirable handsets that will run the Windows Phone 7 operating system. The previous three months saw record revenues and huge increases in year-on-year growth, if there is one company that can possibly take the game to Apple and come out alive, it’s got to be HTC. Original title and link for this post: HTC: The Next Apple? |
| Miss a Google Voice call? You’ll now see it in Gmail Posted: 07 Sep 2010 10:44 AM PDT
As we said earlier today, Google continues to innovate with Gmail, today not only adding OpenID signup for Yahoo! users, but also adding over the weekend the ability to find out about missed calls to your Google Voice number as a notification directly in you Gmail inbox.
Now when you miss a call to your Google Voice number (if you don’t have one yet, you should – its completely free) you have have the option to either see a notification in your Google Voice inbox or have an email notification sent to your Gmail. One thing that isn’t yet clear is whether Gmail users will see a notification directly integrated into the “Call” interface of Gmail. We’ve emailed Google for clarification on this.
Can Google keep up this pace of rapid innovation in Gmail? If so, Gmail/Google Voice could quickly become something that very few people can live without. Expect Google to certainly play that up when, as we suspect, they make a giant media push around Google Voice. Original title and link for this post: Miss a Google Voice call? You’ll now see it in Gmail |
We’ve followed the progress of the Nokia N8 ever since it appeared in a number of leaked photos, publishing hardware specifications, possible release dates and pricing.
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Facebook is constantly bugged by questions over privacy and to a large extent this is something that they have brought upon themselves. You don’t need to be a genius to figure out that ideally Facebook would have it’s entire platform as public but that is against most user’s wishes. By locking down a specific group of friends and family where you knew what you shared would always be private (baby photos, getting drunk videos etc) Facebook could appease privacy concerns once and for all and go back to being the trusted network that got it to where it is today.
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