Today Facebook launched the much anticipated Timeline and Timeline mobile for Android and its HTML5 mobile site m.facebook.com. But Timeline mobile for the Facebook iOS app is nowhere to be found. Timeline on the iPhone will be available in a future update of the Facebook iOS app, a Facebook spokesperson...
David Strom posted an infographic that showed us just how mainstream Gamification is becoming. This and more in today's Daily Wrap.Sometimes it's difficult to catch every story that hits tech media in a day, so we wrap up some of the most talked about stories. We give you a daily...
When it comes to mobile payments, how much do you really trust a credit card attached to your smartphone? Is it secure? Are merchants going to sell your personal information or start sending you piles of junk mail? These are some of the concerns that a new report from Javelin...
When you really boil it down, which apps that you've downloaded from the Android Market do you actually use? According to new numbers from Nielsen, outside of the Market itself, Facebook is the next used app across age groups on Android. Four out of every five people use Facebook for...
Today Twitter rolled out a new user interface that radically changes the @ messages, hashtags, profiles and the homescreen. In addition to these user-focused updates, Twitter also launched its own form of brand pages. Google+ introduced brand pages in November, positioning itself as a competitor to the more established Facebook...
These days, with the traditional structures of the music industry blown wide open by the Internet, artists are constantly looking for new ways to market themselves and, if at all possible, earn money in the process. From streaming services to DIY online marketing tools, there's seemingly no limit to the...
Ever since peer-to-peer file-sharing technology became popularized, it has been a thorn in the side of the companies who have traditionally profited from the distribution of entertainment-related content. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) succeeded in killing off Napster, but has waged war against BitTorrent and others ever since....
Ten weeks ago Facebook said it would launch Timeline in the next few weeks. Today Facebook began rolling out the Timeline user interface to users in New Zealand. Facebook's Product Manager Samuel W. Lessin made the announcement today on the Facebook blog. We reached out to Facebook about why Timeline...
We love new apps. It is one of the joys of our life to sift through the flood of apps that are published or updated every month and deliver the best or most interesting to our readers. November had some great apps for Android, the iPhone and the iPad. In...
Gingerbread is now running on the majority of Android devices. This and more in today's Daily Wrap.Sometimes it's difficult to catch every story that hits tech media in a day, so we wrap up some of the most talked about stories. We give you a daily recap of what you...
I'll never forget when I first discovered Napster. I was in high school and had heard about it from a friend. As an avid music fan, I was delighted to suddenly find myself with access to a seemingly limitless trove of songs, some of which were previously available only on...
Jon says the version 2 do-over of the life-streaming app, Path, is like a slicker, more elegant Facebook Timeline. Is that a good or bad thing? Either way, Path is live and ready to play with, and Timeline's launch continues to slip. This and more in today's Daily Wrap.Sometimes it's...
The European Commission is cracking down on the way Facebook gathers information about European users. A new EC Directive will ban targeted advertising unless users specifically say they want it. This is great news for European Facebook users, especially after the case of 24-year-old Austrian law student Max Schrems who,...
Starting on the 29th November #AppsWorld kicks off in London with a great speaker line up incl. Angry Birds, Samsung, Paypal and BSkyB (Full List here). It is free to attend for developers with free workshops and a free exhibition register here. Also there are free workshops with...
The music streaming site Grooveshark is no stranger to the ire of the music industry. The service's approach to hosting and streaming songs has resulted in a barrage of criticism from industry players, as well as a handful of lawsuits. The latest lawsuit is actually the second one to be...
Jon Mitchell points out that the Kindle Fire is really more of a service offering than a product offering. This and more in today's Daily Wrap.Sometimes it's difficult to catch every story that hits tech media in a day, so we wrap up some of the most talked about stories....
Despite all of the great innovation happening in online music, there are 3 frustrating things for consumers that need to be addressed by Apple, Google, Facebook and others.It's been an eventful week for online music, with the launch of Apple's iTunes Match and the public unveiling of Google Music (along...
The world's biggest search engine company turned its music initiative up a notch today. Google Music now includes an MP3 store, in addition to the cloud-based music storage that launched into beta in May. At the company's event in Los Angeles today, they removed the "beta" label from Google Music...
Google Music went live for U.S. users today, leaving the invite-only beta announced this summer. It's free, and it lets you host up to 20,000 of your songs and stream them to your devices. You can also "pin" songs from the player, which will cache them on your device for...
Yesterday we looked at the three leading "cloud locker" services for music: iTunes Match, Amazon Cloud Drive and Google Music. As a preface to that post, I mentioned that there are two main battles going on in the online music market. One is between the three cloud lockers, which are...
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