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Feb 9 2012
12:06am		The BBC is experimenting with Perceptive Media, and it could transform TV forever
Remember when Intel turned your life into a museum exhibition using your Facebook data? Or when Google put your place of birth into Arcade Fire’s The Wilderness Downtown video? How...... more
Feb 8 2012
11:54pm		Airbind syncs your iTunes media library to your Android smartphone
Whilst Apple likes to create an enclosed, controlled ecosystem for its myriad of products and services to flourish, that doesn’t stop third-parties coming along to ruffle the feathers. Airbind is...... more
Feb 8 2012
11:39pm		TomTom wants to lower your car insurance premiums by tracking your driving
TomTom today announced a new partnership with UK insurance broker Motaquote which will drive down the cost of car insurance premiums by tracking car drivers with an amended satellite navigation device....... more
Feb 8 2012
11:21pm		The UK airport ‘bomb joke’ tweeter appeals conviction today. Will common sense prevail?
Two years ago, we reported on the story about a UK man who was arrested on terrorism charges after posting a joke tweet on Twitter. Travel chaos caused by heavy...... more
Feb 8 2012
10:32pm		O2 leaves 3,000 employees to their own devices, launches a major remote-working pilot
O2 is today launching what’s it’s calling “the biggest flexible working initiative of its kind,” as it lets a quarter of its 12,000-strong workforce work remotely for the day. Employees...... more
Feb 8 2012
9:58pm		From February, HTC won’t tell you how many smartphones it sells
Taiwanese mobile giant HTC is set to adopt a similar strategy to its smartphone-making rival Samsung and amend its quarterly financial statements to no longer reflect the number of smartphones...... more
Feb 8 2012
9:50pm		Google is giving away Amazon vouchers for learning more about your Web browsing habits
A new Google project named Screenwise looks set to offer Amazon vouchers in return for information about your browsing habits. While it doesn’t appear to have launched officially yet, a...... more
Feb 8 2012
9:23pm		Facebook, Google and Twitter: Three distinctly different approaches to China
As the social media space in Western markets edges closer to the point of saturation, the Internet’s top firms are tightening their focus on emerging markets where they can continue...... more
Feb 8 2012
9:14pm		Carry on regardless: Sky News reporters shun new in-house tweeting guidelines
Sky News may be trying to keep its reporters on a shorter leash by issuing stricter tweeting/retweeting guidelines, but it seems some of its journalists aren’t taking as much notice...... more
Feb 8 2012
8:24pm		Facebook partners with Bango, looks to mobile payments and operator billing
Following Facebook’s S-1 filing for its upcoming IPO, it soon become clear that whilst the company saw its mobile presence booming, it knew it hadn’t done enough to monetize its...... more
Feb 8 2012
8:04pm		Japan is bringing social media influencers to the country to stimulate tourism
The Japanese government has turned to social media to boost tourists visiting the country after spending $280,000 (Y21.5 million) to invite ten influential thought leaders from across the world to...... more
Feb 8 2012
7:43pm		Microsoft employees raised $100.5m for charity in 2011, totalling $946m since 1983
Microsoft has announced that its employee giving campaign helped to raise $100.5 million last year, donating money to more than 18,000 community organisations in the US and around the world....... more
Feb 8 2012
7:12pm		Nokia to cut 4,000 smartphone production jobs in Hungary, Mexico and Finland
Nokia has said up to 4,000 jobs could be cut from its smartphone production plants in Mexico, Hungary and Finland, shifting them to Asia as it continues to adapt its market...... more
Feb 8 2012
6:39pm		HP releases Android TouchPad kernel, CyanogenMod to see improved features
Despite never officially releasing an Android-powered TouchPad, HP has gifted the Android kernel on which it based prototype versions of its tablet to CyanogenMod, the team behind the Ice Cream...... more
Feb 8 2012
5:45pm		Reality check: Apple makes more in a day than Twitter earns over a year
We recently highlighted research from eMarketer that suggested that Twitter’s revenue from advertising could pass half a billion dollars by 2014. That would see it triple the $139.5 million that...... more
Feb 8 2012
4:30pm		Apple seeks industry-wide principles for patent licensing in Europe
Apple has asked the telecom standards body responsible for patent licensing across Europe to lay down a set of basic principles to define how companies license patents, according to a...... more
Feb 8 2012
1:37pm		Formspring beat Pinterest to 10 million active users by months
Earlier today TechCrunch, and a number of other blogs, carried findings from comScore that heralded Pinterest as the fastest site of any (standalone) kind to hit 10 million monthly unique users in...... more
Feb 8 2012
12:20pm		Path’s mistake shows a problem with Apple, Facebook…and us
There’s a lot of press attention being paid today (by TNW as well) to Path. The life-journaling app has found itself in a tough position after it was found that...... more
Feb 8 2012
12:14pm		Gannett’s reason for embracing Apple products was Android’s fragmentation
Towards the end of last year, an internal memo was sent to Gannett journalists letting them know that they would be outfitted with new iPhones and iPads to assist them...... more
Feb 8 2012
11:15am		Flickr wasn’t a fan of Snapjoy’s Flickraft importing service, cuts off its API access
Earlier, we told you about a new feature from photo hosting site Snapjoy called “Flickraft“. The premise is simple: get all of your photos off of Flickr and onto Snapjoy’s...... more

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