The frenzied folks over at iFixit have torn down the iPod touch 4 and the big news — or rather small news — is that it only has 256MB of RAM, the same as the iPad and iPhone 3GS , but half what the iPhone 4 has. Along with the tiny .7mp camera, lack of IPS display , and lack of a 128GB option, this feels like a cost-savings measure by Apple.
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iPod touch 4 torn down, 256MB of RAM confirmed
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Ms. Pac Man from Namco is first out the gate with iOS 4.1 Game Center support, but there are plenty more to come. We’ll update this post — and we’ll keep updating our new Game Center games tracker in the iPhone Forums — as new ones arrive, but here’s a first look at Leaderboards and Achievements… after the break! For more new features, see our iOS 4.1 walkthrough
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Game Center games begin to arrive [Gallery]
Seedcamp Week, the week when the startup programme brings its European travels to a head and lands in London, starts next week and they’ve released the startups they will be running through their intense mentoring wringer during the 13th until the 17th of September.
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Seedcamp kicks off its biggest week yet
Jesper Buch who co-founded Just-Eat , the European company that took fast food online, has launched his latest venture: Mentaline , a platform for therapists, life coaches and psychologists to deliver services to clients. Ambitiously, it’s not a marketplace in which sessions eventually take place offline but instead the whole thing operates on the Web.
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Mentaline – Just-Eat founder launches platform for virtual therapists and life coaches
India’s Mobile subscriber growth does not stop for anything or anyone – It is kind of become mundane to report such impressive numbers month after month. I have been reporting TRAI number for nearly 2 years now, and except for probably couple of months, the growth numbers have never been less than 10 million a month
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16.92 Million new Mobile Subscribers added in July – Tele-density reaches 58.17 percent
According to Middle East tech blog ArabCrunch (no relation) Apple’s new Ping music social network (or perhaps we should call it a customer network since it’s not very social) is censoring the name Osama. Update: please see updates below
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iTunes Ping censors the name ‘Osama’ in some countries. Also, ‘Bill Gates’.
It is a known fact that Nokia is in troubled waters and trying hard to come out of the ditch it has dug for itself. Few years ago, Nokia was way at the top, but things changed after the introduction of the smartphone. Not to be bogged down, Nokia introduced a variety of smartphones, but lost out to the bigwigs like iPhone and Android. It didn’t predict the trend of the market and has been lagging ever since.
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Nokia Looking For A ‘Smart’ Revival
Mister Spex , the German online eyewear retailer, has raised over seven million Euros in a second round led by DN Capital . Existing investors Grazia Equity , High-Tech Gründerfonds , Team Europe Ventures and Astutia Ventures have also taken part, while Xange joins DN Capital as a new investor.
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German eyewear retailer Mister Spex raises €7m in second round
Bike Doctor , as the name somewhat implies, is a simple iPhone app to help cyclists carry out common bike repairs and maintenance, such as fixing a puncture or adjusting brakes. It’s been developed by Andreas Kambanis who writes the London Cyclist Blog and Ron Forrester, also the developer of Cychosis app , a mobile journal tool for cyclists.
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Bike Doctor for iPhone helps cyclists carry out repairs
Slash ‘n’ Grab has launched as a simple way to search some of the most popular sites on the web from a single interface. Simply type the name of the site you want to search, followed by a slash and the term that you’re searching for. So, for example, if you want to search TechCrunch for, say iPhone 4, you would type “TechCrunch/iPhone 4″.
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Slash ‘n’ Grab launches as a poor man’s Blekko
Is Facebook testing its location based service Places for imminent rollout in the UK? Notes on Twitter started to surface over the weekend indicating that might be the case.
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Facebook denies testing Places in the UK – but it’s clearly on its way
“He’s a classic Aussie in the sense that he’s a bit of a male chauvinist.” That quote comes at the end of a piece on the recent escapades of Julian Assange, founder and chief spokesman for Wikileaks . It seems apt, because it’s becoming increasingly clear that an organisation which aspiries to transparency and the high ideals of open information is going to have problems going forward if it continues to entertain an individual who lacks transparency and whose private life is alleged by his female accusers to be be riddled with low ideals.
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Can Wikileaks afford to back the undiplomatic Julian Assange?
A trusted source has confirmed that French-blogging platform, Overblog , will soon be part of the Wikio family. Rumor has it that the growing Luxembourg-based news portal is apparently trying to develop European Google News for blogs. For anyone who isn’t familiar with Wikio, all you really have to know is that it’s a news portal founded by Pierre Chappaz in 2005 after his previous company, Kelkoo , was acquired by Yahoo in 2004 for some 475 million euros.
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Overblog marries Wikio to breed a European Google News for blogs
Vodafone have updated their Coming Soon section of the website to include information on the Samsung Galaxy Tab which will be available on their network soon here in the UK. The Tab is an Android based tablet running 2.2 FroYo so you get the latest version of the OS right out of the box, it also offers a 7 inch touch screen and features like a front facing camera for video calling.
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Register At Vodafone For Galaxy Tab
Look out Plancast and Upcoming, here comes Lanyrd . Ok, maybe that’s a slight exaggeration, but if it’s possible to have a SXSW “tipping point” at an event then Lanyrd just had it at dConstruct , a popular design and developer conference in the UK. So what is it?
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Lanyrd – Plan your conferences and suck out all the content
Open Angel Forum, an event bringing together entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and industry professionals, was started by puckish entrepreneur Jason Calacanis to make it easier for entrepreneurs and investors to meet. With Open Angel Forum, service providers get charged to attend the event but it’s free for angel investors and very expensive for service providers, in the region of $1,500 each. Companies are not required to be in stealth or launch mode at the event.
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Open Angel Forum coming to London
Former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, ousted in this year’s election, is forming the Gordon and Sarah Brown Foundation, and has accepted three pro-bono appointments all with some connection to the Web. He’s joining Queen Rania of Jordan’s Global Campaign for Education. Queen Rania has 1,337,872 followers on Twitter and last year spoke at Le Web
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Gordon Brown joins Berners-Lee’s Web Foundation – but he really should join Twitter
Belgium’s Gimv – the investment firm that is behind companies like Inside Contactless , Openbravo and Telenet – has just put some 15 million euros into Onedirect , which specializes in e-commerce for B2B telephone devices and solutions.
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Belgium’s Gimv puts 15 million euros into Onedirect
Music identification app Shazam has announced big feature updates to its iPhone and iPod touch music discovery apps. There are now customised settings for ‘tagging on start-up’ make the process of identifying a music track faster, a new UI, the ability to search for ringtones and videos on iTunes and better video.
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Shazam launches major updates to iPhone app, now 20m users
Headline: Slightly insane Finn decides to drive all over the Nordic countries looking for startups. “The Travelling Salesman” aka Kristoffer Lawson, Co-Founder of Scred.com, is setting out on expedition through every single Nordic city with a computer science department and a startup scene. So that’ll be over 30 cities, over 10000 km of continuous driving, through 5 countries in temperatures as low as -30C and in almost total darkness much of the time
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Startups in a cold climate: Finn plans Nordic startup tour. In Winter. In a car.
Apple’s latest wave of new iPods and a re-iteration of Apple TV are ‘cool’ from a consumer’s perspective (ok, maybe not the new Apple TV which is once again a half-hearted product), but its movement into the social media space with Ping, a music focused social networking service, has the potential to impact the media market in a vastly different way. Analyst firm Frost and Sullivan makes that point in a research note today. It says Ping probably won’t affect Facebook but may affect MySpace, which has a heavy music focus and is already on the ropes
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How Ping could morph into a new wave of social services from Apple
Yahoo and Vestel Group, the largest TV manufacturer in Europe you’ve never heard of (because much of their business is white-label), have struck a deal to ship Yahoo! Connected TV to consumers in more than 40 countries across Europe starting in Q1 2011. The service covers movies, TV shows, social networks, videos, and other kinds of Internet content.
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Yahoo! Connected TV to come pre-baked into Euro TVs
When Danish entrepreneur Tommy Ahlers sold his ‘social phonebook’ ZYB to Vodafone in 2008 for €31 million and joined the company, it didn’t seem like he would stay forever at such a slow-moving corporate entity.
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Look out Yammer – Podio emerges with full business social network
The iTunes-for-apps , Allmyapps , has just announced its first round of funding with French VC fund, Elaia Partners – the same firm that has backed French all-stars like Goom Radio , Goojet and Criteo . With 1 million in the bank, the Paris-based company founded in June 2009 plans to focus on product development and emerge as the leading Microsoft-dedicated app store. Just so happens that Allmyapps, founded by Thibauld Favre and Arnaud Coulondre , is also the company that won the startup pitch competition at TechCrunch Paris in March.
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Allmyapps grabs 1 million euros for iTunes-for-apps
The European music streaming service Spotify has partnered with Sonos , the Californian maker of Wireless Multi-Room Music Systems. This will mean that by the end of this month, Spotify Premium subscribers – the same tariff that enables mobile access – will be able to stream Spotify’s music catalog around the home to a networked Sonos box (or multiple boxes), which is a nice additional option for users of the cloud-based music service.
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Spotify lands on Sonos home audio systems
Cellbharat.com, India’s leading portal for mobile phones has launched its dedicated portal, http://rechargebharat.com to the Indian customers. Rechargebharat.com offers online Mobile Recharge and Topup services for all mobile phone users in India
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Rechargebharat.com: Recharge your prepaid mobile online anytime anywhere
calling cards are applicable for all kind of phones whether it is a SIM free phone or it is PAY G phone or its a Contract phone. For making international call s, calling cards are the major source in order to reduce your hefty phone bills. These cards are used in any of the phone whether mobile phone or the land line phones
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Calling cards Just go with it
International calling cards are surely the best way to make cheap international calls without emptying your pocket. The PIN number provided with these calling cards are to be dialled before the desired destination number. The idea of communicating to a long distance was never so easy due to high calling charges and the tiring process which consumed lot of time for making international calls
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Calling Cards making conversation cheaper
The UK land grab continues. Real estate startup Zoopla has acquired property technology company Byteplay Ltd , whose assets include OnOneMap.com, DotHomes.com and Extate.com, all three of which are now pointing to Zoopla.co.uk.
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Zoopla continues land grab, acquires UK property technology company Byteplay