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SEO Positive becomes Absolute Digital Media – PR Web (press release)
May 24th
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SEO Positive becomes Absolute Digital Media
PR Web (press release) The online marketing specialists behind Essex-based agency, SEO Positive, have announced that from the end of the year, they will no longer be operating under their present name. The team are currently making preparations for new site, … |
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LinkedIn Finally Becomes ‘More Social’
May 1st
A month ago LinkedIn improved the search, have you enjoyed the changes? Today they just rolled out all kinds of new features that I think you’re going to enjoy. They really want you to hang out longer on their social network. In order to reach this goal, they’d decided to become ‘more social’, if you [...]
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SEO Software by Link-Assistant.Com Becomes More Flexible in Terms of Rank … – PR Web (press release)
Feb 6th
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SEO Software by Link-Assistant.Com Becomes More Flexible in Terms of Rank …
PR Web (press release) Rank Tracker SEO tool gets enhanced with two powerful features to let users (1) run their rank checks faster, with less traffic and bandwidth usage, and (2) provide their clients with the most precise ranking data regardless of search settings and … |
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SEO Becomes More Powerful in The Modern World of Marketing – PR Web (press release)
Jan 31st
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SEO Becomes More Powerful in The Modern World of Marketing
PR Web (press release) The most popular way of getting known online is through Search Engine Optimization, otherwise known as SEO. Marie Furman, CEO/President of MDesign Media, talks about the need for Tampa SEO services in line with the strong facts the current market … SEO.co.in Helps its Customers Climb up the Revenue Ladder by Revealing its … New SEO Service Helps Attorneys Boost Business Doctors And Physicians Take Note – How Medical Marketing Will Change in 2013 |
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Get Me To The Gulag: Google’s Map Maker Becomes A Political Weapon
Jan 30th
On Monday Google announced that “citizen cartographers came together in Google Map Maker” to help create a “new map of North Korea” for Google Maps. BuzzFeed was the first to point out that the new maps contained references to “gulag” and “concentration…
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Research In Motion No More – RIM Becomes BlackBerry
Jan 30th
At the keynote for BlackBerry 10 today in New York City, Research In Motion CEO Thorsten Heins said that RIM is no more.
“From today on, we are BlackBerry everywhere in the world,” Heins said.
Heins said that Research In Motion is BlackBerry. All employees are working on BlackBerry and the brand is indentifiable only with BlackBerry. Hence, RIM, a company that has been in existence since the early 1980s, is no more.
The company will now trade publicly as BBRY.
Stay tuned for more information from the BlackBerry 10 launch event in New York City.
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App.net Becomes iCloud Of The Web, Could Make Twitter-Like Service Free
Jan 28th
Paid social network App.net is about to become the iCloud of the Web. And with the freemium economics of a cloud storage service, it could end up making the Twitter-like part of App.net free for anyone.
App.net Monday released its application programming interface (API) for Files, so apps built on the service can now read and write files like photos, videos, documents or whatever else to every user account. App.net users now have 10GB of all-purpose storage attached to their account. This opens up the service to virtually any kind of application, all backed by the cloud.
“I think it’s a big deal for the future of the platform,” says App.net founder Dalton Caldwell. It makes possible new applications that are much less Twitter-like. For example, App.net could now host full-fledged blogs with hosting for images, audio, video, and everything. Caldwell says it’s “about as powerful as the Facebook API in terms of the kinds of stuff you can build.”
App.net’s browser-based demo clients — Alpha for the public timeline and Omega for private messaging — will now get photo sharing using the Files API, storing the photos in user accounts.
Free Accounts Coming Soon?
Though this hasn’t happened yet, the announcement of the Files API makes possible a future App.net story that would be the most interesting so far. By providing the 10GB of cloud storage to paid accounts, App.net makes a new tier of pricing possible that could allow social-only accounts to be free. In that scenario, App.net would be just like Twitter, only with a thriving ecosystem of client apps, the possibility of upgrading to a powerful, cloud-backed service, and no ads whatsoever.
You can already try the service for free by invitation. Cloud-backed file storage might make it economical to use App.net for free indefinitely.
Is App.net A Good Deal?
App.net’s 10GB per account is more space than Microsoft’s SkyDrive, Apple’s iCloud, Google Drive, and Dropbox provide with their lowest tiers of service, and App.net costs $36 per year for users (or $5 per month on a monthly basis).
The fairest comparison is to Dropbox’s Pro tier, since Dropbox, like App.net, has a powerful API for applications on all major platforms. For $9.99 per month, Dropbox users get 100GB of storage, which they can access through applications or as a file system on their devices. For half the price, App.net users get only 10GB, but the use case is very different. App.net users get a name on a real-time social network as nimble as Twitter but with an ever-changing growing of applications providing new ways to interact with it. And those apps can now handle big files as well as 256-character messages.
From the user’s perspective, the most apt comparison is actually iCloud. Rather than browsing through folders in the desktop metaphor like one does on Dropbox, App.net’s file storage will just be a handy but invisible back end that syncs the files and data from various applications. But instead of the closed Apple ecosystem, App.net’s cloud back-end is open to the entire Web. In fact, it’s actually more flexible than iCloud, since you can easily move your files between applications.
“It’s a different metaphor,” explains Caldwell. “It’s your bucket of content, and you can give access to different applications for it.” If you try a photo-sharing app for a while and decide to switch to a new one, you just switch apps. Your photos are attached to your App.net account, and they’re portable. If you’ve recently tried to switch from Instagram to Flickr, for example, you know it’s not as easy as a similar move will be within App.net.
A New Web With The Right Incentives
When App.net first appeared, it was seen as a paid Twitter clone. That was an enticing concept only to hyper-geeks. But the Files API makes clear just how different — perhaps better — the Web could be if it spread.
App.net has a login button for Web applications just like Google, Facebook and Twitter do. Any website or application could let users log in with their App.net accounts, even if they were just free, social-only accounts. But App.net doesn’t use those logins for ad tracking. It doesn’t have ads. It just gives connected applications access to the user’s data, which the user can revoke at any time.
That means App.net users can bring a huge amount of their files and data with them to try out new Web services. And it’s not hard to imagine that App.net could make its authenticated payment services available to applications as well, just like Apple’s iTunes accounts.
Imagine everything that works about Apple’s closed ecosystem, but made available on any platform, including the open Web. Imagine the basic level of participation being free forever. That’s why I’m excited about App.net.
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Big Brother Becomes Back Seat Driver
Dec 28th
It’s the one place you’re free to sing, swear and swerve. For some it’s a mobile office, others a sanctuary from the rest of their lives. But this private place is now becoming more public thanks to the latest head-scratching regulation from the U.S. government. Come 2014, the Department of Transportation‘s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is mandating all new cars have black box data recorders that will track a vehicle’s speed, location and even how many people are in the car.
With about 33,000 Americans killed in traffic accidents in 2010 – about one death every 13 minutes – the government’s justification for the move is to increase safety. But that same reasoning may also scare people, leading them to believe this automative technology could be circumvented and leveraged to work against them.
“Dead bodies drive policy, and vehicular accidents happen to be one of the major causes of death worldwide,” says Dan Kaminsky, chief scientist at security firm DKH. “What makes people nervous is that, increasingly, their personal technology serves multiple masters. Your cell phone, your social network and even now your automobile acts in your interest, until it, perhaps, doesn’t. We can’t live a modern life without these accouterments, but do we want evidence of every possible action stored and possibly used against us in a court of law?”
One high profile case of vehicle black box data includes Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor Timothy Murray. His vehicle’s black box revealed that Murray, who may have fallen asleep behind the wheel, was driving 100 miles per hour in November of 2011 when he crashed and totaling the state-owned car he was driving. He initially denied the box’s data, then accepted it and was ticketed $555.
Data Devices
The recorders would be activated by car behavior that suggests possible accidents. That includes vehicles quickly stopping, accelerating or weaving and swerving through traffic. When this happens, the black boxes record activity for about 30 seconds in order to determine a post-crash assessment. That data would then be available either via download remotely or by a connection with the car itself. The data does not prevent an accident for the person involved, but instead serves as a means of understanding a crash and hopefully preventing similar incidents in the future, much the way airplane black boxes work.
Still, a slew of questions remain about the recorders themselves and the content on them, including data ownership. Also in question is whether drivers can disable the devices and just what is law enforcement’s jurisdiction over obtaining that information. In addition, it is not known how much this is going to cost consumers in added market prices for cars and whether the implementation will have a tax angle for U.S. car owners. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has yet to respond to requests from ReadWrite to answer these questions, but it’s probably safe to say that these updates will be factored into increased sticker prices for vehicles.
In order to keep transparency, the ACLU is asking that the data on these black boxes be owned by drivers, and that the machines be open source. Perhaps most importantly, they are requesting drivers have the option of turning off the devices. The civil liberties union isn’t the only group weighing in: The Electronics Privacy Information Center has many of the same privacy concerns, with the most notable being lack of consumer knowledge about the tech, driver access, security and driver ownership of their data, and third-party access to that data. The EPIC also posits this may set a precedent on future technology integration with non-vehicle operation related features.
How We Got Here And What’s Next
Six years ago the government established requirements for data recorders for light vehicles. On September 1, 2014, installation of these recorders will become mandatory. But many cars on the road already have these electronic data recorders, or EDRs. In 2005, the NHTSA reported that 64% of all vehicles had some sort of EDR onboard vehicles, and by 2010, that figure was estimated to be about 85%. There were about 254 million registered passenger cars in the U.S. in 2007, according to a Department of Transportation study. That translates to about 660 vehicles per 1,000 people.
Although privacy issues abound, this seems to be another unavoidable necessity for drivers, part of a new era of transportation.
Security expert Kaminsky characterizes it as a personal liberty balancing act for both drivers and the government. He says that as people become more accustomed to the devices, the fear factor may be diffused.
“A rather wide swath of the perception of freedom comes from the existence of a semi-private space in which one can be relaxed with friends,” Kaminsky noted. “The more technology is watching, the less – it is feared, somewhat legitimately – that semi-private space can be enjoyed.”
If you are worried about the precedent this move sets, or just want to offer the Feds a piece of your mind, the NHTSA is accepting comments online up until February 11, 2013. The comment site may just be a PR move on behalf of the communications department to display transparency and vet problems, but here’s hoping that important comments will be heard by the powers that be.
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Another Apple Patent Gets Smacked Down, And Its ‘Thermonuclear War’ Becomes Even More Of A Farce
Dec 20th
This time it’s the so-called “pinch and zoom” patent getting rejected by the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), and this is a big deal since that patent was one that Apple used to achieve that huge $1 bilion verdict against Samsung in a California kangaroo court last summer.
Now what happens? Does the court in California go back and subtract all the damages that the jury awarded to Apple based on this patent that Apple should never have been granted?
Apple took a big victory lap after that ruling but it’s looking like maybe it popped the champagne too early.
The ruling by the USPTO is not final, and no doubt Apple will appeal the decision, but suddenly Apple isn’t looking so powerful. In fact, it is looking a bit, well, ridiculous. (And that’s the kind word for it.)
The patent was struck down because the USPTO found prior art. Meaning Apple didn’t actually invent the stuff it claimed to have invented. It copied it from others, then went and got a patent on it anyway, and then used that bogus patent to sue rivals.
Worse yet for Apple, this new ruling from the USPTO comes just two weeks after the USPTO smacked down another of Apple’s patents, one that related to multitouch and was known as the “Steve Jobs” patent.
I wrote at the time that Apple’s “thermonuclear patent war” was a farce. Now that farce seems even sillier.
These Ideas Were Around Long Before Apple ‘Invented’ Them
Thing is, did anyone really ever believe that Apple invented things like multi-touch and pinch-to-zoom? Those innovations were all floating around the industry for years before Apple suddenly claimed to have invented them.
For just one example, here’s a video of Jeff Han, a scientist at New York University, showing off a multi-touch screen at a TED conference in February 2006 – a year and a half before the iPhone came out. (Han founded a company called Perceptive Pixel, and sold it to Microsoft in 2012.)
Groklaw’s Analysis
Best analysis of today’s debacle comes (again) from Groklaw, which is covering the hell out of this story and ripping the jury in the California case as a bunch of “goofballs” who ruled against Samsung “after a nonchalant few hours of deliberations, which apparently did not include spending effort on whether or not this was a valid patent.” Groklaw calls the California ruling “a gross miscarriage of justice.”
One of the stunning things about the California verdict was that this was a really incredibly complicated case involving lots of gorpy technology and legalese, and yet the jury deliberated for only three days. One law blogger commented at the time that it would have taken him more than three days just to understand all the terms in the verdict – and he’s a lawyer! “Did you guys just flip a coin?” he wrote. The jury instructions alone were more than 100 pages long. A law professor told me at the time that it would take a day just to go through the instructions, though “they skipped that.”
The jury foreman in the California case was a guy named Velvin Hogan, who went around giving lots of interviews after the verdit and who told reporters that he and his fellow jurors didn’t think it was their job to determine whether the patents at issue were valid or not – though in fact the judge had told them to do exactly that.
Money quote from Groklaw:
“So here’s a question. Does Samsung get any of its money back? I mean the money it spent and is spending to invalidate this stupid patent? The money it spent on trial over this stupid patent? The money it spent finding the prior art that Apple should have found before filing for this stupid patent? No. Nothing in US patent system is that fair.”
Why This Is Scary
Think for a moment about the implications of what just happened here.
What this tells us is that patents are granted so readily and with so little review that a company like Apple can waltz into the USPTO with inventions that other people invented first and still get patents granted on those inventions. Then Apple can use those bogus patents to sue rivals, cost them hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars in court judgments, legal costs and lost market opportunities, and then – wham – even if it all goes up in smoke the damage has been done.
Basically the USPTO is so swamped that it cannot properly review patent applications, so it’s just tossing that work to the courts and letting people work it out in lawsuits.
Apple has more than $100 billion in the bank. It can just keep doing this for years.
And the real victim, ultimately, is all of us.
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‘My Daughter Seo Young’ Lee Jung Shin Becomes a Salesman – KpopStarz
Nov 18th
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'My Daughter Seo Young' Lee Jung Shin Becomes a Salesman
KpopStarz … Seo Young' Lee Jung Shin Becomes a Salesman. CNBLUE's Lee Jung Shin ended up selling female products in the middle of Hongdae. On the KBS weekend drama "My Daughter Seo Young" Lee Jung Shin and AOA's Seolhyun appear at Hongdae. |
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