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According to our sibling site, Android Central, in the wake of Apple’s iPhone 3.1.3 update and new iPad hardware, Google issued a Nexus One software update of their own — one that enables multitouch pinch-to-zoom in the built in apps like the web browser, maps, and gallery. Oh, and there’s also a coincidentally timed Chrome OS tablet “concept” making the rounds. We’re being more than a little facetious in linking Google’s Android updates and Chrome OS concepts to any iPhone and iPad news.

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Nexus One Update Brings Pinch-to-Zoom, Chrome OS Tablet Gets Conceptual — The Competition!

Enagdget tipsters, digging deep into the iPad ’s iPhone 3.2 SDK and iPhone 3.1.3 firmware , have found more evidence of the 4th generation iPhone (likely to ship this June/July) namely it’s code name — N89. Buried way inside the platform simulator lies a set of folders dedicated to specific models of iPhone OS-ready devices, including the iPhone 3GS, second generation iPod touch, something called the “K48″ (yep, the codename we were told was the internal name for the iPad), and… the “N89.” Sure, it sounds like a Nokia phone just waiting to happen, but this is — according to our extremely knowledgeable and trusted sources — likely the codename of the next iPhone (previous versions were called the M68, N82, and N88). There’s also news on the 4th generation iPod touch as well (likely to ship this September): Apple’s just released firmware (3.1.3) also includes another new model, the “N80,” which we’re told will most likely be the next version of the iPod touch

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4th Generation iPhone Code Named N89; iPod touch G4, N80

[Israel] Israeli genealogy site MyHeritage has completed its third acquisition, buying Germany’s OSN. OSN operates seven genealogy sites including Verwandt.de in Germany, Moikrewni.pl in Poland and Dynastree.com in the US.

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MyHeritage buys Germany’s OSN, now 540 million profiles strong

Operator claims it has won over ’significant numbers’ of iPhone users. Vodafone claims ‘significant numbers’ of Apple iPhone users are defecting to its network in search of better network coverage. Speaking to Mobile Terry O’Brien, Vodafone’s retail director, said: ‘A significant number of iPhone users have migrated to Vodafone since we launched the iPhone.’ He added: ‘It is quite astounding..

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iPhone users ‘migrate’ to Vodafone

Apple has just released iPhone 3.1.3 (7E18), a minor OS update for iPhone 3GS, iPhone 3G, iPhone 2G, iPod touch G1, iPod touch G2, and iPod touch 3G. The update includes: Fix for iPhone 3GS battery level reporting Fix for app crashes on launch Fix for app crashes while using Japanese Kana Keyboard iPhone 3.1.3 security-related update details can be found in Apple’s knowledge-base article

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Apple Releases iPhone 3.1.3 for All iPhone, iPod touch Devices

UPDATE: PatternMusic reveals that the issue is (mis)use of the DCIM folder (digital camera image folder — where your camera roll pictures are stored) to transfer non-image related files. Apple, however, precludes apps from reading or writing data files to any other place except the app’s “sandbox” document folder through their developer agreement.

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UPDATE: Apple has Stanza App Remove DCIM Work-around for USB Sharing

The night before Steve Jobs introduced the world to the iPad, Engadget scored pictures of the device — but did they score a picture of the 4th generation iPhone as well? That’s what AppleInsider claims: People with an impeccable track record in matters such as these say the iPhone in below photo, published by gadget blog Engadget in the hours leading up to Apple’s iPad announcement last Wednesday, is a prototype of one of the handsets due to hit the market in roughly five months. Let the speculation about bezels and cameras/smudges begin! After all, it’s just under 5 months until WWDC 2010 , the likely venue for the next iPhone unveiling! This is a story by the iPhone Blog

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4th Gen iPhone Peeked in Engadget iPad Leak?

Yes we are back with yet another give away for all of the TiPb readers out there. This time the folks over at eBuddy have given us 10 FREE copies of their instant messenger client, eBuddy Pro! [ iTunes Link - $4.99] A few weeks back we had the chance to check this app out and came away pretty impressed and just the other day it was updated to include 11 high quality, colorful themes! A good IM client has just gotten better and for your chance to win a copy all you have to do is visit this thread right here in our forums and post a single comment regarding a feature you’d like to see added to eBuddy Pro. That’s all there is to it

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TiPb Give Away: 10 FREE Copies of eBuddy Pro for iPhone!

[France] Spotify is no longer invitiation-only in France. The streaming music startup now lets anyone register, but for some reason – probably to make sure you actually live in France – they’ll allow you to register only by verifying your phone number first. The company says it’s now because they are sure they can “maintain the quality of service for many users.” Despite scepticism from TechCrunch that Spotify is going to have a tough time launching in the US, it seems to be on its way to rolling out across Europe, at least

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Spotify removes the invitation-only lock in France

[Ukraine] The 10th Startup Crash Test event took place on 29 January in Kiev, Ukraine. Startup Crash Test (SCT) is a monthly event aimed at “stress testing” Ukrainian web-related startups’ market strategy, business model, distribution, roadmap, etc.

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Ukrainians crash-test their startups every month. Do you?

France’s Resto’in just scored €2 million investment from NextStage Capital to develop their online platform for high-quality food delivery. Founded in 2006, the young founders, Clément Benoît and Pilar Granell, claim to have stumbled upon the idea for the company after a visit to Boston, where they noticed Americans ordering food online

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E-cuisine site Resto’in wins €2 million to expand

[Russia] Yandex , the leading search engine and contextual advertising company in Russia, has reported a decline in USD revenue for the first time in the company’s history. Although it’s not quite as it seems

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Russia’s leading search engine Yandex sees decline in USD revenue

[Spain] Teambox , a collaborative project management platform, is another Spanish home-grown initiative that aims to compete on an international scale, with the likes of Basecamp , incorporating a social, Yammer-like model. The startup has recently secured €140,000 in a small round through SeedRocket Investors Day and  Keiretsu Forum Barcelona, a large international business angels network. Funding mainly comes from Albert Feliu, ex-CTO from Infojobs, previously Grupo Intercom, Diego Mariño, Abiquo’s CEO, both SeedRocket mentors and private investor, Jordi Priu. Teambox is taking a Wordpress-like deployment approach.

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Teambox for project management secures €140,000 funding

This one is bound to send web publishers’ heads spinning. While ad-blockers are nothing new, those who install such browser pug-ins tend to be geeks and/or those who believe that the web should remain commerce-free. But what if users could replace ads on any site they visit with ones for a variety of good causes and generate money for those causes at the same time.

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Another headache for web publishers, DoGooder blocks ads for a good cause

[France] Music site Mxp4 is pushing out a new feature called “Max it”, which creates dynamic remixes of tracks in real-time. Founded in 2007 in Paris, France, MXP4 has done two rounds of funding with Sofinnova Partners and Ventech, reaching €7 million in backing. MXP4 develops interactive music solutions that are changing the music experience for consumers by allowing them to play with the music.

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MXP4 attempts to push out it’s play with music features

Nokia and education company Pearson have formed a joint venture in China dubbed Beijing Mobiledu Technologies to grow MobilEdu , the wireless education service that the Finnish mobile giant launched in China back in 2007. Mobiledu is a mobile service that essentially provides English-language learning materials and other educational content, from a variety of content providers, directly to mobile phones

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Nokia, Pearson form wireless education joint venture in China

TechCrunch Paris – Paris – 24th March 2010 TechCrunch Europe will return to Paris for its 2nd annual afternoon seminar on March 24 featuring yet another interactive and live-streamed session featuring some of the most innovative and interesting web / mobile startups and investors in France. We are releasing a limited number of early bird tickets now and you can get yours here . To submit your idea for a speech/presentation, apply to be a panelist, or apply to pitch your startup please contact editorial via email with a short A4 length pitch

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TechCrunch Paris, 24th March 2010

The BBC’s new documentary, The Virtual Revolution , is ploughing a few new paths. Not only is it broadcasting an official hashtag every time it appears on a Saturday night (#bbcrevolution is way longer than my suggested #vrev… so much for crowdsourcing, but hey).

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The Virtual Revolution mashed-up by those darn users

During the 2010 GSM World Mobile Congress, TechCrunch Europe will be returning to Barcelona for yet another interactive and live-video-streamed session featuring some of the most innovative and interesting mobile startups and investors in Europe.

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TechCrunch Mobile 2010 – Barcelona 17 Feb, at MWC

The BBC is soon to launch a major new documentary, The Virtual Revolution , on the emergence of the Web and technology into society over the last 20 or so years, featuring Dr. Aleks Krotoski . Here’s an exclusive peek at Tim Berners Lee, founder of the web, on the day it was switched on:

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Tim Berners Lee on the launch of the first Web site

This is a guest post by Daniel Tenner, CTO and co-founder of Woobius , a web-based document sharing tool for architects, engineers and designers. Woobius is his second start-up. Daniel spent four years consulting at Accenture with large investment banks.

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Get real, geeks – The iPad is the Apple for Mum, not you

[UK] A quick reality check. Despite the rise of social media, mobile messaging is still very much owned by the carriers in the form of the humble text message.

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Brits send 11 million text messages an hour – carriers still own mobile messaging

Yes, you’ve never probably never heard of the Markit Group . But today it announced a $250m investment by General Atlantic valuing the 6/7 year old company headquartered in London at $3.3 billion

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The ‘unsexy’ Markit.com secures $250m backing – Financial startups take note

[UK] Developers start your engines. Hot on the heels of Apple’s iPad announcement, a new fund has been launched by the UK’s Northern Film and Media to help startups in the region to be amongst the first to enter this new market. NFM are putting aside £40k to invest in iPad app ideas, with submissions open until February 24th.

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UK’s Northern Film and Media launches Apple iPad fund

Mårten Gustaf Mickos , former CEO of MySQL , has joined Index Ventures as Entrepreneur In Residence ( EIR ). The news comes four months after the man joined another VC firm , Silicon Valley-based Benchmark Capital , also as EIR

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Former MySQL CEO Marten Mickos joins Index Ventures as EIR

Join us for a very special Round Robin and CES 2010 episode of iPhone Live guest staring PreCentral.net and Smartphone Expert Editor-in-Chief Dieter Bohn! We’ll look at Palm’s big webOS, Palm Pre Plus, and Palm Pixi Plus announcements, and oh, yeah — Dieter’s got a Nexus One to talk about. Plus everything we saw on the showroom floor.

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iPhone Live! with PreCentral.net’s Dieter Bohn Tonight at 8pm ET/5pm PT (1am GMT)

ZAGG, the makers of Invisible Shield, have diversified in a big way with their ZAGGbox video recorder, ZAGGsparq battery charger, and AppSpace service. ZAGGbox pulls in all your analog video (including HD via component), gives you fast switching via a unified remote, and renders iPhone-compatible video you can send right to your device. ZAGGsparq is a massive battery charger that re-charge an iPhone 4 times before it runs out of juice, and since it has 2 USB ports, it can charge your Bluetooth or any other compatible gadget at the same time

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ZAGGbox, ZAGGsparq, App Space — TiPb @ CES 2010

As we know, Google is planning to sell smartphones Nexus One, not only in the United States, but also in Europe. However, the price of this unit in the Old World may rise because of customs duties until no one has repealed

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She is best known price Google Nexus One in Europe?

Many of the latest rumors about the Apple iTablet /iSlate involve it being a large iPhone, or as Daring Fireball points out, the iPhone being a smaller version of an older Apple tablet project. Way back in June of 2007, the New York Times mentioned just that, and the tablet project was Safari Pad: Mr.

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From Safari Pad to iPhone and Back Again

Here in the great state of Illinois we kicked off the new year with a law that prohibits anyone talking on their cell phones (including the iPhone) while driving a vehicle — unless they use a Bluetooth device. Now I am not not sure about your state laws but if you are in the same boat as I am, why not take a look at the Motorola Bluetooth Car Speakerphone T305

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Motorola Portable Bluetooth Car Speakerphone T305 for Hands-free iPhone 3G/3GS Talking