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Friday, 25th November 2011

Social Commerce Will Never Catch On

Even though Facebook suffered social commerce fails with the Delta ticket window and the now-shuttered Facebook Deals, Facebook social shopping applications for Facebook still keep popping up. A new study from Sociable Labs shows that 50% of shoppers are logged into Facebook while shopping on an e-commerce site. While that's interesting data in…

Social Alicia Eler comments

The Fundamental Nature of Android on Kindle Fire

It has been a little more than a week since the Kindle Fire has been available to the general public and fundamental approach that Amazon has taken to the device is beginning to take shape. This is not exactly a question of iPad vs. Kindle Fire nor the notion that the Fire is "a service, and not a product." Amazon's approach to the Android code…

Mobile Dan Rowinski comments

Microsoft Launches Kinect Hack Accelerator

Some large technology companies frown upon developers hacking and reworking their products. On the far opposite side of the spectrum, lies an unexpected organization called Microsoft. After some initial hesitation, the tech giant is now actively encouraging developers to tinker with its Kinect hands-free user interface accessory for the XBox…

John Paul Titlow comments

Turkey Institutes "Voluntary" Internet Filtering

In August, we mentioned that Turkey had backed away from mandatory Internet filtering. The initial plan had required each Internet user to choose from one of four filtering plans. This was wildly unpopular with Turkey's influential and very secular nerds and cosmopolitan types, especially in the capitol of Istanbul. Instead, a voluntary program…

Curt Hopkins comments

Iranian Med Student Blogger Arrested

Eurasia Review reports that Rojin Mohammadi has been arrested. Mohammadi is a medical student, currently studying at the University of Manila in the Philippines. The Human Rights Reporters Committee reported that she was arrested initially on November 14 when she returned to the country to visit her family, but was released 24 hours later. She…

Curt Hopkins comments

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