Monthly Archives: January 2010

Twitter grows abroad

During last few months Twitter’s growth has slowed down, however the website has found plenty of new users who are located outside the United States. According to date from Sysomos (a social media analytics and monitoring firm) right now, 50% of all Twitter users are people from USA. This is down from 62% in June

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Apple App Store Has Lost Millions To Piracy

According to an analysis by 24/7 Wall St., within last 6 months Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and the companies that sell applications for the iPod touch and iPhone at the App Store have lost more than $450 million to piracy. Apple takes 30% of the revenue generated by the App Store, that means the company has

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More secure Gmail

Few Gmail accounts had been accessed via 3rd parties as a result of a cyber attack from China. Just after the attack Google decided to set up default https access for all Gmail users. For more information go to Gmail Blog.

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More space for your Google DOCs

Within the next few weeks we will be able to upload up to 250 MB in size of any kind of file to Google Docs. There will be available 1 GB in storage, however enterprise customers will be able to add additional storage space at a cost of $3.50 per 1 GB per year. To

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google is the word of the decade

American Dialect Society (americandialect.org) has announced in its 20th annual words of the year vote that tweet is the word of the year and google is the word of the decade. According to definitions: tweet – noun, a short message sent via the Twitter.com service, and verb, the act of sending such a message Google

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Blippy

Philip Kaplan, now 34, an American entrepreneur and programmer who has founded several Internet companies such as Fucked Company is back with a new project. It calls Blippy, and it is a new social networking website to share with everybody details of our credit card purchases. The ideas is – see what people spend money

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Google Voice on iPhone

Some time ago Apple didn’t approve Google Voice application for the app store. However, it doesn’t stop Google to deliver the application to iPhone users. Google’s vice president of engineering Vic Gundotra said that Google Voice will come to the iPhone “one way or the other.” So, if the software will not exist as an

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Employment Situation

According to information provided by U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, last month (in December) nonfarm payroll employment edged down -85,000. The unemployment rate was unchanged at 10.0 percent. The report from BLS with information about lost 85,000 jobs in December disappointed economists, most of then had been expecting a decline of 10,000 jobs. *The Bureau

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The Burj Khalifa – The World’s Tallest Building

Dubai has the world’s tallest building, a rocket-shaped structure that soars 2,717 feet and it has views that reach 60 miles. The name of the building is The Burj Khalifa in honor of the president of the United Arab Emirates, Sheik Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahyan. The construction has the world?s first Armani hotel, the world’s

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Nexus One, on Google

About 5 million unique visitors per day see the homepage of google.com. It is even difficult to imagine how much money you would have to spend in order to put an advert of your company somewhere on this page. Considering that Google does everything to keep his great prestige, it is hard to visualize situation

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