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iPhone 4 International Launch Day
Congratulations to the 17 countries who, today, can purchase their very own Apple iPhone 4. The countries added to the fold today are Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, New Zealand, Singapore, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland. The handset will be available for purchase through Apple’s retail and online [...]
HP says prefab data center cuts costs in half
Hewlett-Packard thinks it can build data centers faster and more cheaply by using standard, pre-built components that are assembled on site in a “Lego-like” fashion.
Using Social Media To Get A Job
The IT-centric website Toolbox.com recently completed their 2010 Employment Survey and there was some interesting data that was uncovered about how job seekers are using social media to find employment. The survey primarily focuses on salaries, locations where the “best paying jobs are”, and how long a typical job search lasts. But check out the [...]
Blogging For Your Business
Jim Turner, Beth Hayden, and Bethany Siegler discuss common questions related to business blogging. Is blogging really a necessity for my company? How do I get the most out of blogging? How can WordPress help to market our products or services? How can we make sure it actually reaches our target clients? What should we [...]
Now Hiring: New Jersey Nets
You don’t have to have killer skills on the basketball court for this job (actually these jobs). The Nets basketball organization currently has two openings; one for a Creative Manager and another for an Interactive Marketing Coordinator. Here are the specifics: Job Title: Creative Manager Reports To: Creative Director Summary: Support all marketing efforts through [...]
Finally Seesmic Replaces TweetDeck For Me
I’m not a big fan of downloadable, desktop apps to manage my online, social life. I’m more in alignment with web-based tools like Google Docs, Threadsy, Tungle, and now Seesmic Web. True, Seesmic Web has been out for a while now with some great functionality; Twitter streams, Twitter Lists, and even Foursquare location-based integration. But [...]
Wal-Mart Moonwalk – Latest Viral Video
It’s about a year old, but it’s gained in popularity as of recent. YouTube popdog04 posted this gentlemen on a stroll through the aisles of Wal-Mart. dtsv.dtse_post_14411_permalink = ‘http://www.thetechscoop.net/2010/07/27/wal-mart-moonwalk-latest-viral-video/’; dtsv.dtse_post_14411_title = ‘Wal-Mart Moonwalk – Latest Viral Video’;
iPhone 4 Diamond Edition
For the tech enthusiast with cash to burn (a lot of cash…), luxury goods designer Stuart Hughes has unveiled the world’s first diamond iPhone 4G. This most expensive phone from the Stuart Hughes collection features a surrounding frame encrusted with 6.5cts of top quality VVS, colour ‘F’ diamonds. The rear section houses beautiful solid platinum [...]
iPhone Jailbreak To Be Legal?
WASHINGTON – Owners of the iPhone will be able to break electronic locks on their devices in order to download applications that have not been approved by Apple. The government is making that legal under new rules announced Monday. The decision to allow the practice commonly known as “jailbreaking” is one of a handful of [...]
Best Buy Trying To Lower The Hammer Over Video
Image by Getty Images via @daylife Best Buy corporate – lighten up !! From a report, originally posted on TechCrunch this afternoon, it appears that the corporate brass at Best Buy is all up in arms about the viral video depicting the iPhone vs. the HTC EVO (I wrote about it earlier this week here). [...]
Apple Tablet Details Leaked on CNBC
In an interview with CNBC, McGraw-Hill’s CEO confirms that their textbooks will be on the Apple Tablet and it will be an iPhone OS based machine.
Get The Xbox Live iPhone App For Free
After initially being released for $1.99 and then getting a stern “talking to” by Microsoft for noncompliance with their policy, creator Xavier Larrea has released a free version of his Xbox 360 Live iPhone app and it is available now in the iTunes App Store. [via] Go get the app here. Per the description, Xavier’s [...]
In Other Tech News
All Things i (iPhone, iPod, iPad,…)
Apple and AT&T Renew Their Vows
That’s right folks – Apple and AT&T Wireless are exclusive to each other until 2012. FYI, this is not a new deal, but the original deal that was inked back in 2007. Thus, ending the speculation of whether that was a 5 year exclusive contract. The term of Apple and AT&T’s iPhone exclusivity deal has [...]
Tapulous Now Part of Disney
If you play games on your iPhone, then you know who Tapulous is. There rule the top grossing and top sales charts in the Apple App Store with their Tap Tap Revenge suite of games, the recently released Riddim Ribbon music racing game, and the visually pleasing Twitter client, Twinkle. Riddim Ribbon demo With all [...]
iPad Turned Into a Skateboard
As if blending and microwaving a brand new iPad weren’t heart-breaking enough, the folks over at Fuel TV decided they just HAD to turn a perfectly good iPad into a skateboard. Yes, it hurts my heart to even say this, but watching the video hurts even more. In case you’re just a glutton for punishment, [...]
Wait A Minute – Is That The White iPhone 4 ??
SkyNews ran a video report on iPhone 4 Launch Day at the flagship Apple Store in the UK. Interestingly enough, there appears to be something there that shouldn’t be…the white iPhone 4 Starting at around 1:20 in the video report you’ll see a couple of extremely prominent displays of the white iPhone that isn’t even [...]
Blog Stuff
A perfect website design: How to attract visitors?
Unfortunately, your website is not going to be visited because it is a beautiful work of art, but rather because it is accurately returned in searches by one or more search engines. Attracting visitors to your site relies not only on design, but also search engine optimization(SEO services). Design and SEO go hand in hand [...]
Activating Multisite in WordPress 3.0
The merge of MU and the standard WordPress code has brought with it, among other things, the ability to build your very own blog network and have a multisite environment. Check out this video from Devin Price (@devinsays) of WPTheming.com as he details the procedure necessary to switch a standard WordPress installation over to the [...]
70,000 Blogs Shut Down by U.S. Law Enforcement
Blogetery , a Wordpress platform, has seen its entire community shut down by its host, BurstNET . Subsequent statements by BurstNET indicated that the service was suspended at the request of an unidentified law enforcement agency
Video Games
Google Honors Pac-Man on Anniversary
It’s official – I’m old! How can we be celebrating 30 years of Pac-Man? Seems like only yesterday we were playing the game, chasing ghosts and eating fruit. Well it’s true, and to celebrate the anniversary, Google, in the midst of a week of major announcements from their Google I/O conference, is honoring us lovers [...]
Get The Xbox Live iPhone App For Free
After initially being released for $1.99 and then getting a stern “talking to” by Microsoft for noncompliance with their policy, creator Xavier Larrea has released a free version of his Xbox 360 Live iPhone app and it is available now in the iTunes App Store. [via] Go get the app here. Per the description, Xavier’s [...]
PlayStation 3 Development Process
It has been long since the first gaming console was introduced and through the years, several gaming consoles had been designed to cater the gamer’s interests. Some of them are Super Famicon, Sega Console, Gameboy, PS1 which have perked up the interests of many people. And now, the introduction of one of the latest gadgets in the gaming industry just made quite a great impact in the whole planet.
Social Media
Guy Kawasaki Shares His Secret
Image via CrunchBase Holy Kaw folks – Guy Kawasaki lays it out in plain English how he posts, tweets, and makes ad revenue on his Posterous blog. Here’s a sample of what the great evangelist says: General Question: How can you follow so many people? Answer: I don’t read the timelines of all the people [...]
Is Social Media Worth It? Chris Brogan Answers
Recently on the Forbes CMO Network, Chris Brogan (@chrisbrogan), best selling author and President of New Marketing Labs was interviewed by Bruce Upbin, Managing Editor at Forbes. Upbin asks Chris various questions as to the value and need of social media and content sharing really is valuable to both personal and business relationships – check [...]
Foursquare Update Coming Soon
Mashable has reported and seen some screenshots of the forthcoming new release of Foursquare for the iPhone. Version 1.6 is slated to hit the App Store next week with some significant UI updates. Colors, icons, and menu layouts have been completely redone and, from what we can tell from the screenshots, now they actually are [...]
Laura Fitton Talks “Why Twitter?”
Let it be known publicly that I love Laura Fitton ! Her attitude and enthusiasm is infectious. When she stands in front of a crowd and talks about something she is involved in you can see and her the passion in her voice and body language. That being said, I found this presentation Laura did [...]
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