VaynerMedia Is Bringing Sports Chants To Twitter

by MG Siegler on August 28, 2009 J-E-T-S JETS JETS JETS! Even if you’re not into sports, there’s a pretty good chance you’ve heard that chant before. And there’s a pretty good chance you’ll be seeing a lot more of it if Gary and AJ Vaynerchuk get their way. That’s because they want to start [...]

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Storm 2, Touch Pro2, Omnia II and possibly the Pre – all in Verizon’s inventory database

This article contains unofficial information. One of our most loyal tipsters has just shared some quite spicy info with us. Hi-end handset lovers will be delighted to know that the RIM BlackBerry Storm 2, the HTC Touch Pro2 (XV6875), as well as the Samsung Omnia II and Convoy U640 (okay, this one might not be [...]

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Churchill Breakfast Club: Design Strategy for Business Success

Co-hosted by Fenwick & West Speakers: Hartmut Esslinger, Founder, frog design, inc.; Author, “A Fine Line –How Design Strategies Are Shaping the Future of Business” Moderator: Guy Kawasaki, Founding Partner and Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Garage Technology Ventures; co-founder, Alltop.com Co-hosted by: Leading global designer Hartmut Esslinger founded frog design, inc. in his native Germany around the guiding principle “form [...]

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Apple and China Unicom Reach 3-Year Deal to Bring iPhone to China

Posted on Friday, Aug 28, 2009 by Rene Ritchie As anticipated — and anticipated again and again — China Unicom has finally announced that the iPhone is coming to China: On 28 August, the Company and Apple reached a three-year agreement for the Company to sell iPhone in China. The initial launch is expected to [...]

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Apple Telling Developers to Remove “Free Memory” Function from App Store iPhone Apps?

Posted on Friday, August 28, 2009 by Rene Ritchie According to developers Bjango, Apple is now telling developers to remove the “Free Memory” function — the ability to clear data from RAM without force quitting or rebooting — from their iPhone (and iPod touch) applications or those applications will be removed from the App Store. [...]

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Microsoft Releases Bing SDK for iPhone

Posted on Friday, Aug 28, 2009 by Rene Ritchie Bing Community Blog has announced that Microsoft is “sprinkling some Cocoa” on their Bing. (No laughing!): The Bing iPhone and Mac SDK is available for download on CodePlex, open source under the Microsoft Public License (MS-PL). The SDK provides: The ability to easily query Bing from [...]

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Convertbot 1.4 for iPhone Rejected by App Store Because Same “Time” Icon Now Confusable for “Recents”

Convertbot [$0.99 - iTunes link] has seen their latest update, version 1.4 for iPhone (and iPod touch), rejected by at least 2 of Apple’s 40+ App Store reviewers because the icon they’re using for “Time” (the same icon they’ve been using since 1.0, mind you) is nigh-identical to Apple’s built in “Recent” icon, and that [...]

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Debunking The “Twitter Is 40% Pointless Babble” Survey

by jeffbullas I have seen this headline circulating over the last week on Twitter and the blogs and so I decided that  I would have a closer look at it. “Twitter Study Reveals Interesting results about Usage..40% are Pointless Babble” by Pear Analytics Well this is my take on this “Headline” and its eye catching  emotive perspective. [...]

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The Kennedy Family Takes to Twitter

We’ve seen Twitter used for everything from marriage proposals to tweeting the diaries of dead presidents. However, the new endeavor by the famous Kennedy family is definitely breaking new ground. Yesterday, the Kennedy family launched a Twitter account: @KennedyNews. It is “the official account of the Kennedy family and staff.” Instead of discussing politics though, [...]

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Yelp Update Brings Augmented Reality As an Easter Egg

Written on August 27, 2009 by Darrell Etherington Yesterday, we looked at Paris Metro, supposedly the first augmented reality app officially available for the iPhone. Today, Robert Scoble uncovered an Easter egg that looks like it may grant that title to Yelp, which got a version update earlier this week that carried a nice surprise: [...]

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