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Adele is the first artist to go double platinum on iTunes, with 2 million downloads
- Wed, 22 Feb 2012
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Columbia records announced today that Adele has become the first artist to rack up double platinum sales on iTunes reports Jim Dalrymple at The Loop. The company’s press release lays out some impressive stats regarding the artists’ sales, especially since her six Grammy Awards.
Adele passed up the 2 million download mark on the US iTunes store of songs including her hit record ’21′. The album simultaneously becomes the l...
Google just made its presentations tool collaborative with discussions
- Wed, 22 Feb 2012
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Google just made its presentations tool much more collaborative thanks to a brand new discussions feature. This new version of Google Presentations was designed to make it easier to share ideas with others, and is now enabled for all new presentations.
According to the announcement, with discussions in presentations, you’ll be able to:
Comment on a shape or an entire slide to give context to your discussion.
Send an email notification by adding...
Google updates Docs for Android with realtime collaboration and a refined interface
- Wed, 22 Feb 2012
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Google has today announced an update to the Google Docs app for Android, bringing realtime collaboration tools, rich text editing and a refined interface.
With the new realtime tools, you can see editing from multiple invited participants happen live, just as it does in the regular version of Google Docs. This allows you to see people typing as they edit a document and follow along with their edits. You can also join in and begin editing right...
Conduit brings ‘code-free’ app development to Windows Phone
- Wed, 22 Feb 2012
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Conduit is a company that we have written about once before, when an NFL player put out his own Android app. It was powered by Conduit, a firm that specializes in helping people build mobile apps sans the need to actually write down code. Given that I can’t C++ or Ruby myself out of a paper bag, I like the idea.
We’re bringing this to you as Conduit has today announced an extension to its platform, providing better support of the ...
The watchful eye of a camera could soon protect our kids’ schoolbuses
- Wed, 22 Feb 2012
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Have you ever cringed at the sight of a car dangerously passing a stopped school bus? If so, we have good news; to protect schoolchildren, a new system called Student Guardian will capture images and videos of potential offenders.
Developed by the road safety company Redflex Traffic Systems, Student Guardian mostly consists of a safety camera. Installed on the front and rear driver’s side of a school bus, it monitors traffic and car plates...
Seedcamp kicks off its USA tour, first stop: New York City
- Wed, 22 Feb 2012
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Startup incubators are all the rage these days, but few can hold a candle to Europe’s Seedcamp, an early-stage micro seed investment program that we’ve written about quite a few times at The Next Web.
Seedcamp first popped up on my radar last July, when it announced 4 winning teams from its Mini Seedcamp New York trip. This year, 20 entrepreneurs from Seedcamp, led by Reshma Sohoni, Carlos Eduardo Espinal, Kirsten Campbell and Philipp...
Microsoft plans to pack social power into Dynamics CRM with coming ‘R9′ update
- Wed, 22 Feb 2012
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Microsoft’s Dynamics CRM product, one of its top line highlights, has a second update planned for 2012 entitled ‘R9.’ Dynamics as a product has been posting double-digit revenue gains, something that Microsoft likes to report in its earnings.
We reported some weeks past that Dynamics was prepping some rather large mobile moves, taking itself to nearly every platform that matters. We put it like this:
The company will release...
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- Wed, 22 Feb 2012
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Linkedin officially acquires Rapportive, but will continue supporting Gmail contact plugin
- Wed, 22 Feb 2012
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In an post on its blog, Rapportive has announced that it has been acquired by LinkedIn. The plugin, which is in heavy use around the TNW offices, offers users context related to their contacts inside Gmail. It comes in the form of a plugin which replaces your sidebar inside Gmail.
Under the terms of the deal, Rapportive will become a part of LinkIn, a company that it has partnered with for some time. The acquisition was previously rumored by All...
RIM confirms it bowed to India’s monitoring request but enterprise services are exempt
- Wed, 22 Feb 2012
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Research In Motion (RIM) has confirmed reports that it has set up a dedicated server in India to allow the government to monitor its network.
The update, which was sent out to customers in the country, follows local media reports which carried comment from government officials indicating that the Canadian firm had introduced a server in Mumbai. The move sees RIM finally cede to the government, which has been pushing it over the issue since 2010 on...
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