Yesterday, seemingly out of the blue, Apple issued a statement saying it will ease up restrictions for development tools used to create iOS party apps. Now, Adobe has reacted with a statement of its own, calling Apple’s decision “great news for developers”. Go here for a detailed explanation of what Apple’s new rules and guidelines mean for developers. Here’s a short history: back in April Apple had banned developers from using Flash to build iOS applications, afte..   show all text

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Всем привет! Я решил поучаствовать в конкурсе “Девушка блогера 2010“, который устроил Ленар совместно с WebEffector тем более, что завтра он уже заканчивается, как говорится буду вырывать победу на финише! Конечно, для каждого его девушка самая лучшая, но конкурс есть конкурс,  судьи будут объективны, так что не расстраивайтесь, если Вы проиграете… Мою принцессу зовут Диана, ей [...]

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It’s really hard to imagine what life is like right now for my friend and coworker, Colin Bower. His children were illegally abducted over a year ago, and transported to Egypt against Colin’s will and against the law. It’s been a year of working to get them back, and that’s far too long. I’ve been acting as a solo dad for the last few days while my wife and son are away in Canada, and it’s been time really well spent. I’ve learned that trying to comb ve..   show all text

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As Google’s Chrome browser celebrates its second anniversary, we thought it appropriate to commemorate the occasion with some handy tips and tricks. Here are 10 tried and tested hints that will help you to get the most out of Chrome by taking advantage of some of its more functional tools and time-saving setups. Read through the suggestions below and let us know which ones you’ll be trying out, or any tricks we haven’t included, in the comments box. 1. Open Multiple Pages on ..   show all text

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Kevin Bachus, best known as one of the co-creators of Microsoft’s Xbox, has joined Bebo as its new Chief Product Officer. The move comes just three months after AOL sold Bebo to Criterion Capital Partners at a fraction of its original value. Bachus has a long history in the entertainment and gaming space. He was with Windows software and game developer Mindscape before joining Microsoft in 1997 as a product manager for DirectX. However, he made his name as one of the four men that came up..   show all text

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According to a recent post from Twitter infrastructure employee John Kalucki, the highly anticipated User Streams API product will be moved from a closed beta to an open beta testing period quite soon. Twitter first announced User Streams at Chirp, where Twitter Director of Platform Ryan Sarver told a crowd of eager developers about a new feature and API that would get data in real time and without rate limits. Onstage at the conference, Sarver pinged content from Twitter.com onto TweetDeck in ..   show all text

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One of the new features that Apple announced at its music event last week was AirPlay, a feature that lets users wirelessly stream their music to different stereo systems all over their house. An evolution of AirTunes, a feature that first premiered with the AirPort Express in 2004, AirPlay lets users stream their iTunes library from and to multiple locations, including the forthcoming Apple TV. It also offers the ability to control playback and manage playlists from an iPhone or iPod touch. Th..   show all text

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At a recent conference, The New York Times‘ publisher and chairman Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., stated that he eventually expects the “Gray Lady” will no longer be a physical newspaper. “We will stop printing the New York Times sometime in the future, date TBD,” he said to attendees of the International Newsroom Summit. This type of statement is sure to cause alarmist reactions in some and will strike others as a completely obvious conclusion to the ongoing struggles of..   show all text

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Contrary to popular belief, Pete Cashmore doesn’t have an obsessive love for potatoes. Rather he dubbed his blog “Mashable” because the original site covered tech “mashups” — web projects created by combining two services, like Flickr and Google Maps. Other companies have different strategies for naming or branding themselves or their products. And in the tech world, most of these reasons aren’t apparent. Sure, everyone knows by this point that Google c..   show all text

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Kobo, the platform that powers Borders’s suite of e-reading devices and mobile apps, among others, has released its first desktop application for PC and Mac owners. Like its preexisting e-reading software and apps for iOS, BlackBerry and Android, the desktop application allows consumers to browse, purchase and organize e-books directly on their computers or laptops. It also connects users of third-party e-readers, such as Sony’s, to Kobo to purchase and download content. The desktop..   show all text

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Google just launched Google Instant, a speedy new search offering that lets users search as they type. With Google Instant, the search engine technology is capable of predicting a user’s search query — in gray text — before he finishes typing it. Those predictions tell an interesting story, especially when you look at single letter predictions. During today’s press event, Google demonstrated that by typing the letter “W,” Google Instant predicts the query to ..   show all text

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This series is supported by Rackspace, the better way to do hosting. Learn more about Rackspace’s hosting solutions here. Good designers and developers rule the web — they’re the ones who build it, after all. And some of the most interesting and useful players in creating the modern Internet are hybrids between those two disciplines — people who can translate between the disparate languages of the visual and the technical. Developers who can design and designers who can..   show all text

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As news consumption shifts to the personalized social news stream, the platforms we use to consume the news are also changing. With its media-friendly design, the iPad is the first mobile device to create an environment perfect for real-time news consumption that maintains the sophistication and style of traditional print magazines and newspapers. Pulse News, Flipboard and FLUD are three apps paving the way for rich, personalized news experiences on the iPad. Each reinvents what it means to rea..   show all text

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Morning Brief: Amazon Acquires Music Service, Google to Unveil Search Products, Samsung Fascinate Now Available This series is brought to you by HTC EVO 4G, America’s first 4G phone. Only from Sprint. The “First to Know” series keeps you in the know on what’s happening now in the world of social media and technology. Welcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,” a series in which we keep you in the know on what’s happening in the..   show all text

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This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark.. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. Name: SeeVolution Quick Pitch: A real-time analytics, heatmap and alert system that overlays all the data on the user’s website – so they never have to log in to another site. Genius Idea: SeeVolution makes it easy to visualize how..   show all text

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Apple has jumped into the social media game with Ping, its social network for music. Does it spell trouble for MySpace’s established grip in the music space? Last week, Apple launched Ping as the core new feature of iTunes 10. While simple, the music-centric social network features the ability to follow friends and top artists, as well as custom song and album charts and a plethora of music information. Despite several bumps in the road, Apple now claims over 1 million users of its newly ..   show all text

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The Google homepage is sporting a new logo that changes color as you type, and it’s likely a big hint as to what the company will announce at its “can’t miss” search event on Wednesday. When you arrive on the search giant homepage today, you’ll be greeted with a gray Google doodle. When you start typing a search query though, the color magically returns to Google’s iconic logo. This follows yesterday’s logo, a collection of animated particles that react..   show all text

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The battle to power the Internet connection on your next flight is kicking into high gear with a $37 million round of funding for Row 44, the company that powers in-flight Wi-Fi for Southwest Airlines. Today’s funding comes eight months after rival Aircell, the company responsible for GoGo Inflight Internet, closed a massive $176 million round of funding. Row 44 intends to use its newly replenished bank account to lease more satellite transponders, according to the L.A. Times. Row 44 leas..   show all text

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Google is taking aim at Yahoo users with a new OpenID feature that makes signing up for a Google account a simple one-click process for anyone with a Yahoo account. This one-click feature gives Google access to the user’s Yahoo email address and authenticates the user’s identity, allowing him access to the wonderful world of Google’s web-based applications and services, including Reader, Docs, AdWords and more. While signing up for a Google account wasn’t the most brain-..   show all text

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In honor of Mashable’s five-year anniversary, this series is supported by IDG. Matt York, President of IDG’s Strategic Marketing Services explains why now is the time for marketers to conduct social experiments. Read more here. Over the last five years, social media has evolved from a handful of communities that existed solely in a web browser to a multi-billion dollar industry that’s quickly expanding to mobile devices, driving major changes in content consumption habits and..   show all text

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A Japanese journalist held against his will in Afghanistan used a captor’s cellphone to tweet his status and location to his followers — right under said captor’s nose. PC World reports that Kosuke Tsuneoka had been held in captivity for five months when a low-ranking soldier showed him his new cellphone, a Nokia N70. The soldier didn’t know how to use the phone or the Internet, so he asked Tsuneoka to show him. Tsuneoka activated the Internet service on the phone by ca..   show all text

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This series is supported by Gist. Gist provides a full view of the contacts in your professional network by creating a rich business profile for each one that includes the most news, status updates, and work details. See how it works here. To keep up with ever-changing advertising and marketing options, ad agencies are rapidly adopting new strategies and outlooks on how consumers interact with brands. While many ad agencies have been slow to adopt social media, others have been keeping up with..   show all text

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