Archive for May 1st, 2012

Facebook sent 160M visitors to mobile apps in April

Social network’s traffic to mobile apps and games has nearly tripled in two months. [Read more]

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Facebook sent 160M visitors to mobile apps in April

At long last, Boeing delivers the first next-gen 747

More than six years in the making, the new 747-8 Intercontinental will soon be flying passengers. Today, Boeing handed over the first of the planes to Lufthansa. [Read more]

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Samsung SyncMaster S27B970 First Take: Beautiful and thoughtless

The Samsung SyncMaster S27B970 is Samsung’s answer to Apple’s Thunderbolt Display, but can it match that display’s high design quality?

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RepairPal now rates and reviews thousands of auto shops

Not a Yelp for auto shops, but rather an audited listing of repair shops that measure up.

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Barnes & Noble to add NFC chips to Nooks

Technology expected to bring more Nook owners into stores, where they can tap their devices on physical books for information, reviews, and to make purchases. [Read more]

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Apple updates GarageBand, iMovie, iPhoto, and Cards apps for iOS

Apple released updates to several of its iOS apps on Tuesday, including GarageBand, iMovie, iPhoto, and Cards.

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Bethesda teases Skyrim expansion

Bethesda Softworks today revealed information about the first major expansion pack for its hit role-playing game. [Read more]

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Microsoft, take my Nook, please!

A deal between Microsoft and Barnes & Noble to essentially spin off the Nook business has me dreaming in the Metro UI. [Read more]

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Microsoft, take my Nook, please!

House calls go mobile via Online Care 6.0

American Well’s newest platform enables mobile-device video chats with care providers and includes the ability to plug in and transmit data from medical devices. [Read more]

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Google makes BigQuery available to all

BigQuery, a cloud-based service from Google for analyzing very large sets of data, is now publicly available after a period of limited-availability testing, Google said on Tuesday.

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