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Application Story

The App Is Not Enough: Why We Might See More Companies Try Mobile Land Grabs After Facebook Home

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As reported on TechCrunch. by DARRELL ETHERINGTON An app on a smartphone is a limited vessel, one that can provide content and information for your audience, but within bounds set out by the operating system. People still have to navigate to your app, and therefore there’s a time when they’re “in” your product or service, and a time when they’re “out” of said product or service. Facebook clearly demonstrated last week that it wants to own that…

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The Power And Weakness That Come With Being The Default

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As reported on TechCrunch. by DREW OLANOFF Facebook had its big coming-out party for mobile on Wednesday, and its Home launcher will soon start shipping exclusively on an HTC device. This is the social network’s first crack at being the default experience on any device. Until now, using Facebook has been a completely optional and background experience, meaning you’d have to visit its website or download one of its apps. After nine years, that approach worked rather well, to…

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The Other Silicon Valley That The Tech Industry Is Leaving Behind [Video]

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As reported on TechCrunch. by COLLEEN TAYLOR On Friday, veteran journalist Bill Moyers did a segment on Silicon Valley that gives a very different perspective than we get from most mainstream media coverage of the world-renowned tech industry hub, and it’s been fueling some good conversations this weekend. Called “Homeless in High Tech’s Shadow,” it’s a very interesting look at the growing homeless problem in the South Bay of San Francisco that’s happening in stark contrast to the growing wealth in…

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3D printed speakers give you a custom light show to go with your tunes (video) Hands-on

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As reported on Engadget. By Michael Gorman 3D printing is still in its relative infancy, but more and more folks are using machines like the MakerBot Replicator and Formlab’s Form 1 to turn digital plans into physical reality. An Autodesk engineer named Evan Atherton has access to a much more capable (and expensive) 3D printer, an Objet Connex 500, and as a design exercise decided to use that printer to create a finished product. You see, a lot of…

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Phantom Flex4K camera unveiled, blasts through 1000 4K frames per second (video)

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As reported on Engadget. By Steve Dent Vision Systems just upped the 4k speed barrier by a near order of magnitude with the launch of its Phantom Flex4K cinema camera at NAB. Starting at $110k, it builds on its Phantom Flex predecessor with up to 1,000 fps in 5 second bursts at 4k, 2,000 fps in 2k and 3,000 fps at 720p resolution — speeds that’ll net you almost three minutes of 4k video when played back at 24…

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‘Russian Banksy’ Pasha P183 Dies Aged 29

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As reported on Businessinsider.com by The Telegraph AP A graffiti with a sign reading “Give to get a ticket home” made by Russian street artist Pasha P183 in a street in Moscow, Russia A prominent Russian graffiti artist who hid his identity behind the tag Pasha P183 and has been compared to Britain’s Banksy has died aged just 29.  The Teatralnoye Delo theatrical production company, which recently commissioned him to create scenery for the musical Todd,…

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Bill Gates, 18-year-old Harvard freshman, is looking for a job

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As reported on The Verge. By Sam Byford The event that saw Microsoft co-founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen pose for a classic photo reenactment has turned up another gem from the pair’s early history. Seattle’s Living Computer Museum held a gathering last night for many of founder Paul Allen’s friends and fellow technological luminaries, and it also managed to dig up Gates’ and Allen’s pre-Microsoft resumes. At the time Gates was a freshman at Harvard; he said he’d be…

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The Idiocy Of The Social Animal

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As reported on TechCrunch. by JOHN BIGGS As we move closer to the launch of the (probably awful) Facebook phone, let’s examine just what the social network and its ilk have created. Millions of us use these new tools to joke, flirt and share memories, but just as many of us use these tools much to our disadvantage. In some ways, however, that is making things better for all of us. This morning Gawker posted surveillance video…

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Application Health

Fancy Some Three-Dimensional Wellness? Recipe Kit Service HelloFresh Partners With Weight Loss App Noom

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As reported on TechCrunch. by STEVE O’HEAR Arguably, eating healthily takes both motivation and time. And in what’s being billed as “a world first, three-dimensional wellness experience” (presumably with a straight face), the recipe kit subscription service HelloFresh is partnering with weight loss coaching app Noom to tackle the problem from both ends. Available first in the U.S. but eventually rolling out in other parts of the world, users of Noom will be able to subscribe to weight loss meal plans designed…

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Samsung partners with Best Buy to bring Experience Shops to 1,400 stores Mobile

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As reported on Engadget. By Brad Molen Not content with a gazillion Galaxy phone sales, Samsung is hoping to continue winning the smartphone war in one of the biggest battlegrounds any manufacturer can face: retail. The Korean OEM has partnered with Best Buy to bring its Experience Shops to the big box retailer nationwide — 1,400 of them by early summer (with 900 launching this month), to be precise. So what does Sammy hope to achieve? In addition to the…

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