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Personalized Music Video Service Cull TV Acquired By Twitvid, CEO Departs
Social video network Twitvid has closed another acquisition today, following its March deal which involved bringing the team from daily deals aggregator Frugalo on board. Today, the company is announcing it has acquired Cull TV , an independent music video sharing site, which CTO John Hurliman describes as a little bit like Pandora mixed with MTV. Cull TV, founded in ...
Personalized Music Video Service Cull TV Acquired By Twitvid, CEO Departs
Social video network Twitvid has closed another acquisition today, following its March deal which involved bringing the team from daily deals aggregator Frugalo on board. Today, the company is announcing it has acquired Cull TV , an independent music video sharing site, which CTO John Hurliman describes as a little bit like Pandora mixed with MTV. Cull TV, founded in ...
Baidu’s New Forked Android Phone: China’s Search Giant Wants To Make Windows Phone, iOS Versions Too
Big mobile plans afoot for Baidu, the Google of China that leads in search and has launched a host of other services in the wake of that business. The company today unveiled the first smartphone to be built on its own platform , the Changhong H5018. And while that device is designed on a “forked” version of Android — ...
Intel launches new Ivy Bridge Xeons, targets microservers
Intel is pushing out that delicious Ivy Bridge update to server chips and, interestingly, it's not focusing purely on the high end to start. In total, 28 new Xeon CPUs were introduced today, including the E5-4600 and 2400 families targeted at four and two socket systems, respectively. Those tweaked mainstream processors aren't the interesting part, though. We're more intigued ...
Intel launches new Ivy Bridge Xeons, targets microservers
Intel is pushing out that delicious Ivy Bridge update to server chips and, interestingly, it's not focusing purely on the high end to start. In total, 28 new Xeon CPUs were introduced today, including the E5-4600 and 2400 families targeted at four and two socket systems, respectively. Those tweaked mainstream processors aren't the interesting part, though. We're more intigued ...
HyQ is the latest all-terrain quadruped bot, tells Big Dog to bring it on (video)
You might not know this, but you can literally never have enough all-terrain quadrupedal robots... at least according to us (John Connor might disagree). So, while HyQ from the Italian Institute of Technology might bear more than a passing resemblance to Boston Dynamic's Big Dog , we won't hold it against the creators. The Hydraulic Quadruped robot (HyQ for ...
Tizen gets play time on Samsung Galaxy S II HD LTE, shows off new features
Slowly but surely, Tizen's picking up momentum. In just the last two weeks we've witnessed version 1.0 of the OS get released, a prototype device made by Samsung, an official pledge of support by Sprint and even a full-out developer's conference. One thing we haven't yet seen, however, is the Linux-based firmware running on an existing Android phone. At ...
Velti: In Mobile Ads, iOS Widens Its Lead Over Android
Last month, mobile marketing company Velti reported that iOS had pulled slightly of Android in mobile ad impressions , after being tied at the end of last year. Now, apparently, iOS has taken widened that lead, if not by much — it accounted for 55 percent of mobile ad impressions in April, compared to 45 percent for Android. The ...
Velti: In Mobile Ads, iOS Widens Its Lead Over Android
Last month, mobile marketing company Velti reported that iOS had pulled slightly of Android in mobile ad impressions , after being tied at the end of last year. Now, apparently, iOS has taken widened that lead, if not by much — it accounted for 55 percent of mobile ad impressions in April, compared to 45 percent for Android. The ...
Facebook redesigns mobile site and apps, takes a tip (or two) from Instagram
Maybe it was inspired by the other app's most recent update, or perhaps by Zuck's newly-minted commitment to mobile applications. Regardless, Facebook's redesigned its iPhone / iPod and Android apps along with its pocket-sized site, clearly taking some design tips from none other than its fresh acquisition , Instagram. As you can see in the image above, the news ...
