1. Apple's iOS market share tops Android, RIM  permalink

Apple's iOS market share tops Android, RIM
News.cnet.com

Google's Android mobile operating system may be surging, but it hasn't overtaken Apple's iOS in the U.S., according to a Nielsen report released today.

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Apple's iOS market share tops Android, RIM App-y Holidays: iOS Gorged, Android Stuffed, RIM Got Leftovers, Windows Phone Went Hungry   —  There has already been plenty of data out there suggesting that Apple had a monster holiday season. We'll know for sure in a few weeks when they announced their earnings. For now though, we have to go by what third-party developers are seeing when it comes to app download numbers. And one company, Flixster , has given us some key details of how ...

Ryan Kim / GigaOMTech
Apple's iOS market share tops Android, RIM Apple Holds Smartphone Lead, But Android Is Gaining   —  While Android surges among new smartphone buyers, Apple iOS continues to hold on to the overall marketshare lead, though still within spitting distance of a fading BlackBerry OS and a hard-charging Android OS, according to the latest figures from the Nielsen Company.

2. Intel, GE unveil 'Care Innovations' joint venture  permalink

Intel, GE unveil 'Care Innovations' joint venture
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Intel and GE joined forces to develop a health care alliance back in April of 2009. Today, they unveiled the name of this venture, Care Innovations, which they say has received final regulatory clearances and is now fully operational.

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Intel, GE unveil 'Care Innovations' joint venture GE and Intel team-up on home health tech   —  GE and Intel Corporation are joining together to market and develop home-based health technologies designed for seniors and patients with chronic conditions. GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt and Intel President and CEO Paul Otellini announced the alliance today, along with an investment of more than $250 million over the next five years for ...

3. Product Manager - Consumer Goods  permalink

Product Manager - Consumer Goods
SEEK Job Search

Date & time listed: 4/01/2011 7:19:18 AM Job ad summary: Fast track your career within this people focussed business. Broad, hands on exposure to the entire marketing mix. Salary: Create a new feed with different search criteria Send us feedback about these feeds.

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Product Manager - Consumer Goods DYNAMIC CAFE MANAGER NEEDED - HIGHPOINT AND CBD LOCATIONS!!!   —  Date & time listed: 4/01/2011 6:38:26 AM Job ad summary: DYNAMIC CULTURE with loads of career advancement opportunities. Two Great Melbourne Locations. $42K - $45K + Super + Great Bonus Structure!!!!! Salary: Create a new feed with different search criteria Send us feedback about these feeds.

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Receptionists & Office Administrators   —  Date & time listed: 4/01/2011 6:32:37 AM Job ad summary: Bridge Consulting is looking for candidates wanting to register for long or short term temporary assignments in the New Year! Salary: Create a new feed with different search criteria Send us feedback about these feeds.

4. Missing e-mail, folder bug in Hotmail fixed  permalink

Missing e-mail, folder bug in Hotmail fixed
News.cnet.com

A bug that made e-mails and folders go missing for some Windows Live Hotmail users has been fixed according to Microsoft. "We have identified the source of the issue (and) have restored e=mail access to those who were affected," the company said on the Windows Live Solution Center help site yesterday afternoon. "We recognize that even though we ...

5. Facebook placenta pose gets student expelled  permalink

Facebook placenta pose gets student expelled
News.cnet.com

Take Doyle Byrnes, a nursing student at Johnson County Community College in Kansas. Or, should I say, former nursing student. According to the Kansas City Star, Byrnes was due to graduate in May and, perhaps because she was feeling sentimental, she was part of a group that allegedly asked their nursing instructor, Amber Delphia, whether they ...

6. Celtic answers critics  permalink

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SCOTLAND: Neil Lennon has insisted that he and his players had answered their critics as Celtic defeated Rangers 2-0 to extend its lead at the top of the Scottish Premier League to four points. Doubts remained about Lennon's ability to handle the big occasions after his side lost 3-1 at Parkhead in the first Old Firm fixture in October and failed ...

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7. Facebook Now Worth More Than Yahoo And eBay  permalink

Facebook Now Worth More Than Yahoo And eBay
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch

Facebook's latest round of financing from Goldman Sachs at a $50 billion valuation , which is about the same valuation its shares are trading on SecondMarket , clearly puts it in the pantheon of the most valuable Internet companies. At $50 billion, Facebook is now worth more than Yahoo (which has a $22 billion market cap) and eBay ($37 billion), ...

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Facebook Now Worth More Than Yahoo And eBay What does Goldman's investment in Facebook mean?   —  Facebook has raised $500 million in new "venture capital" at a $50 billion valuation, according to a report late last night from DealBook. Not sure if the $50 billion is a pre-money or post-money mark, but I'm also not sure if such niggling details matter at such a nose-bleedingly high stratosphere.

8. Uxmal  permalink

Uxmal
Will Wilkinson / Will Wilkinson

My favorite of the sketches I did yesterday at Uxmal.

9. DTS Signs Lenovo  permalink

DTS Signs Lenovo
SocalTECH.com

Calabasas-based DTS, the developer of surround sound audio and other related technology, said today that it has inked a deal with Lenovo, which will include its technology in Lenovo's new digital home products. DTS did not announce any financial details of the deal. DTS said the new products are launching in China in 2011. DTS develops audio ...

10. Xcellent Names for Drugz  permalink

Freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com

Ever wondered why so many prescription drug names are loaded with x’s and z’s (Celebrex, Flomax, Zocor etc.)? “[U]se of these letters relates to the imperative to make a brand name highly visible in a crowd,” explains Rob Stepney in the British Medical Journal. “Reflecting their infrequent occurrence in English words,

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Xcellent Names for Drugz A dose by any other name would not sell as sweet   —  Inventors of drug names suddenly stood the alphabet on its head. Why did z and x become so attractive in the attempt to influence prescribers? asks Rob Stepney

11. Insights and Opinions: The Ten Commandments of Fundraising  permalink

Insights and Opinions: The Ten Commandments of Fundraising
SocalTECH.com

For today's Insights and Opinions section, where we share the thoughts of the local technology industry, we have a piece from Gray DeFevere, of the DeFevere Advisory Group. DeFevere is active in serving the local technology community, is an angel investor, and also helps run one of the longest running private technology networking groups in the ...

12. BitTorrent Hits 100M Active Monthly Users, 400K Client Downloads Per Day  permalink

BitTorrent Hits 100M Active Monthly Users, 400K Client Downloads Per Day
Leena Rao / TechCrunch

BitTorrent seems to be growing like a weed - the company just announced that it's hit 100 million monthly users of its software, the BitTorrent Mainline client and µTorrent . That's up from 80 million monthly users most recently. The company also revealed that it has over 20 million daily active users, over 400,000 daily client downloads, and ...

13. Many happy returns  permalink

Many happy returns
The Age News Headlines

The epiphany came when, while languishing outside the top 50, the former No. 1 realised that what she had been searching for in so many places had to come from within. And with one shot, in one desperate moment, something crucial was found.

14. Six Ways Organic Search Can Make You Smarter About Your Business  permalink

Six Ways Organic Search Can Make You Smarter About Your Business
MarketingProfs How-To Articles

In an Internet business environment that expects immediate results, online marketers have overlooked the power of SEO, or organic search, as a top revenue-generating channel. It can also teach you how to run your business in a smarter way.

15. Interview with Jamie Siminoff, Unsubscribe.com  permalink

Interview with Jamie Siminoff, Unsubscribe.com
SocalTECH.com

To start off the year, we are publishing our first interview for the season with Jamie Siminoff, the CEO of Los Angeles-based Unsubscribe.com, an online service which helps you unsubscribe from unwanted newsletters and email lists. Jamie tells us the interesting story behind how the company started plus how the company managed to quickly land ...

16. Teleflex Sells Simi-based Actuation Businesss  permalink

SocalTECH.com

The Simi Valley-based Actuation business unit of Telair International Inc, which is owned by Teleflex Incorporated, has been acquired by TransDigm Group Incorporated. According to TransDigm, the business, which supplies highly engineered electro-mechanical actuators for major aircraft, was acquired for approximately $94M in cash. TransDigm said ...

17. YouTube Keyword Tool and Video Optimization Techniques  permalink

YouTube Keyword Tool and Video Optimization Techniques
Search Engine Watch

More than 35 hours of video content is uploaded to YouTube every minute. This means 2,100 hours of video is uploaded every hour, or 50,400 hours of content is uploaded to YouTube every day.

18. New Year's Resolutions for Small Businesses  permalink

New Year's Resolutions for Small Businesses
Search Engine Watch

Small business owners: if you're going to have a web site, make it an absolutely core component of your business. If you're not willing to do that, drop having a web site altogether. Don't follow the herd out of instinct. ...

19. The Seven Deadly Sins of Measurement  permalink

The Seven Deadly Sins of Measurement
Finn_bridget / Strategy+business

Jim Champy, coauthor, with Harry Greenspun, of Reengineering Health Care: A Manifesto for Radically Rethinking Health Care Delivery , introduces a lesson on the pitfalls of measurement from Faster, Cheaper, Better: The 9 Levers for Transforming How Work Gets Done , by Michael Hammer and Lisa W. Hershman.

20. Spoilt for choice  permalink

Spoilt for choice
The Age News Headlines

Melbourne's cafes keep finding — and filling — surprising niches, in ever-increasing numbers.