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Last Chance for Tickets to the Summer Party at August Capital

admin — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:46:06 +0000

We’re releasing our final batch of 100 tickets now to our July 30 summer party at August Capital. Before that party we’re also hosting an all day event – the Social Currency CrunchUp. You can see the full agenda here

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Lokast Brings Proximity Based Mobile Social Network To Android Phones

vertical8 — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 12:58:19 +0000

Startup NearVerse, the developers of proximity based mobile social network LoKast is rolling out an Android app today. Originally launched on the iPhone at SXSW in March, LoKast, which is actually short for “local-casting,” allows you to set up a profile that will list all of your photos, selected contacts, videos, web links and music on your mobile phone. You can select which content you’d like to include to the public and which content you’d like to keep private.

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Autodesk Buys Illuminate Labs, Maker Of Lighting Technology For Games

A D M I N — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 12:34:53 +0000

Design, engineering and entertainment software juggernaut Autodesk has agreed to acquire Illuminate Labs , a privately held maker of lighting technology for game development headquartered in Gothenburg, Sweden. The company’s Beast middleware solution and Turtle plug-in for Autodesk Maya software enable faster iteration on a game’s creative intent, and more realistic in-game lighting

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Bubble Motion’s Voice Blogging Service Reaches 1.2 Million Paid Subscribers In India

admin — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:00:41 +0000

Sequoia-backed Bubble Motion r ecently launched a Twitter-like voice blogging service and has seen considerable traction in India, where politicians, brands and actor are using Bubbly to connect with fans. Rolled out just months ago, Bubble Motion’s voice-blogging phone service, called Bubbly, has accumulated more than 2 million overall users and currently has over 1.2 million paid subscribers across multiple telecom operators in India

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Allure Energy Announces a Thermostat That Knows When You’re Coming Home

blogger — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 01:12:36 +0000

Two days ago I wrote about a thermostat you can adjust from your phone , and today Allure Energy announced another twist on the idea. The company connects your thermostat to a BlackBerry or iPhone app that tracks how far you are from home and adjusts your thermostat accordingly. Think of it as a location-based service for interacting with your thermostat

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Allure Energy Announces a Thermostat That Knows When You’re Coming Home

YC-Funded PagerDuty Makes Sure Your Team Knows When A Server Goes Down

A D M I N — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 01:06:15 +0000

Server downtime is a fact of life for most web administrators, and there’s no shortage of products and software that make it easy to monitor when something has gone awry. Of course, an inbox full of urgent emails telling you your server is frying isn’t too helpful when you’re sound asleep.That’s where PagerDuty , a startup that launched a year ago, is looking to help.

Google: Android Cost “Isn’t Material” For the Company — Android Search Up 300% In 2010

admin2 — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 21:31:19 +0000

During Google’s Q2 2010 earnings call today, one of the things Google’s executives were clearly very excited about was the Android platform. They noted that there are now 70,000 apps in the Android Market — up from 30,000 in April.

Google Spent $100 Million Defending Against Viacom’s $1 Billion Lawsuit

vertical8 — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 20:59:47 +0000

How much did Google spend to fend off Viacom’s $1 billion copyright lawsuit?

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Apple Calls A Special Press Conference For Friday, Antenna Issue Likely The Subject

ACMAir — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 00:15:38 +0000

Word is breaking that Apple is calling a special press conference on this coming Friday to talk about the iPhone 4. Yes, you can probably guess what this is about. Apple blog The Loop has the (basically non-existent) details right now — that it will be in California on Friday morning and about iPhone 4.

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As Long As Reviewing Is A Race, Death Grips Will Always Go Unnoticed

blogger — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 00:04:25 +0000

The question that is on many people’s minds as the iPhone 4 antenna drama plays itself out is “why didn’t any of the reviewers notice this?” After all, we had reviews of the iPhone from the heavy hitters quite a bit ahead of time — seasoned tech journalists who were ostensibly on the lookout for issues like this. Yet I don’t recall reading a single word about sudden signal drops, proximity sensor issues, screen discoloration, or any of the other launch issues

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As Long As Reviewing Is A Race, Death Grips Will Always Go Unnoticed