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wants sales ban and money, Apple sues Samsung in Japan
Posted by thumpad.com in Data, New Media, Services on September 8, 2011
Apple has filed yet another lawsuit against Samsung Electronics – this time with the Tokyo District Court in Japan. The Cupertino-based company wants the suspension of Galaxy S, S II and Galaxy Tab 7.7 sales in Japan as well as 100M Yen – or approximately $1.3M.
According to Reuters, the first hearing was held on Wednesday and concerned patents that the above-mentioned Galaxy devices are supposedly infringing.
As some of you might remember, Samsung was the first to sue Apple in Japan, way back i……
on board Nokia N9 has FM radio and FM Transmitter
Posted by thumpad.com in Data, Multimedia, New Media, Portable device. on August 15, 2011
The Nokia N9 is the first MeeGo handset to launch out of the Finish giant and the world seems to just can't get enough of it. And today we have some great news for you – despite Nokia's claims the N9 has FM radio receiver and an FM Transmitter in its premium-quality plastic body.
So while the Nokia N9 specs sheet claims that the smartphone has no FM radio, let alone FM transmitter the hardware is actually there. That was confirmed by no other than Nokia itself on one of its developer websites……
Plugging water leaks with data
Posted by thumpad.com in General, New Media, Services on May 3, 2011
Water companies need data analysis tools to find and repair costly leaks. Enter Israeli startup TaKaDu, which offers water infrastructure monitoring as a se……
in Canada — Netflix nabs exclusive subscription pay TV rights to Paramount movies
Posted by thumpad.com in Multimedia, New Media on March 29, 2011
So far Canadian Netflix users have had to deal with a far more limited streaming library than their US cousins, exacerbated by the lack of a DVD / Blu-ray library to fall back on, but that's about to change. Netflix has struck a deal in Canada with Paramount for premium pay TV window access covering “exclusive subscription television rights to all first-run films.” Currently in the US Netflix's deal with Epix gives it access to many of the same movies (Iron Man 2 — already available s……
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to meet social and business needs Dashboards evolve
Posted by thumpad.com in New Media, Services, Software on March 24, 2011
A new class of dashboards is making data analysis more flexible. Some companies are even replacing stagnant cor……
not typing, In the future we'll be talking
Posted by thumpad.com in Latest, Multimedia, New Media, Services on March 24, 2011
Stephan Spencer, co-author of “The Art of SEO,” says searching the Internet of the future will be like talking to a human b……
What has Twitter become?
Posted by thumpad.com in New Media, Services, Social Networking on March 20, 2011
Twitter is missing a fundamental law of innovation: you can't tell people where (or how) to innovate, and where not to. Innovation just doesn'……
Starts Early ‘”Useractive Learning”
Posted by thumpad.com in Multimedia, New Media, Services on March 20, 2011
One of my first “useractive” learning experiences happened when I was in elementary school, when my class participated in the National Geographic Kids Net acid rain project. Read more.
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in the age of social media Knowledge management
Posted by thumpad.com in Multimedia, New Media, Services on March 20, 2011
The shift to the adoption of social computing, somewhat driven by consumerization, points to one emergent observat……
Paid links don’t pay off:
Posted by thumpad.com in General, New Media, Services on February 25, 2011
In the first installment of our weekly Search Notes: Paid links don't yield good results for J.C. Penney and Forbes, Bing makes slight gains in mar……
Data is a currency
Posted by thumpad.com in General, New Media, Services on February 25, 2011
If I talk about data marketplaces, you probably think of large resellers like Bloomberg or Thomson Reuters. Or startups like InfoChimps. What you probably don't think of is that you yourself trade in data. Read more.
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Big data thwarts fraud
Posted by thumpad.com in General, New Media, Services, Software on February 9, 2011
Web-native payment platforms have a tremendous challenge combating fraud, but the solutions they have devised to deal with it have created enormous new opportunities. This is an excerpt from the “ePayments: Emerging Platforms, Embracing Mobile and Confronting Identity” report. Read more.
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survive the advent of big data. Will data warehousing?
Posted by thumpad.com in New Media, Services, Software on February 2, 2011
Data warehousing — and information management as a whole — must evolve in a radically new dir……
In Honeycomb what’s New
Posted by thumpad.com in Multimedia, New Media, Services on February 2, 2011
Google just released a preview of the Honeycomb SDK. It includes an emulator that will run the Honeycomb operating system, so you can get a taste of what it will……
Alleged Bullies Sued Over Racist and Obscene Fake Facebook Profile
Posted by thumpad.com in General, Multimedia, New Media, Social Networking on September 30, 2009
We’re pretty sure that many victims of bullies would gladly go back to the good ol’ days, when mocking and persecution didn’t have the speed and reach the Internet affords. But bullies are quickly finding out that the Web doesn’t provide as much protective anonymity as they may have thought.O……
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