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Jailbreak and unlock, iPhone 4 battery life, Wallpaper, iPhone competition – From the Forums
Hoping to cash in further on Ning’s shuttering of its free version, competitor Grou.ps is upping the ante with the launch of “WinWin”, a referral program directly targeting so-called Ning exiles. The service claims to have already migrated more than 50,000 Ning networks, making it the largest “do-it-yourself social networking platform”, and hopes to continue this trend by rewarding new converts and those who encourage others to follow suit. Specifically, Grou.ps will be dishing out credits which can be converted into a host of premium features such as extra bandwidth.
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It’s a WinWin, Grou.ps launches referral program for Ning exiles
The iPhone 4 (and iOS 4.x) Jailbreak hit last night and by the looks of our Jailbreak Forum , many of you have gotten busy and quickly. Since iOS 4 allows wallpaper and multitasking, and iPhone 4 is available officially unlocked in many countries, we’re curious why you’re Jailbreaking this time around?
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Why did you Jailbreak iPhone 4? (If you did)
WikiLeaks , the Sweden-based organisation that publishes anonymous leaks of secret material (most recently 90,000 documents about the War in Afghanistan) has until now, relied on donations to fund its activities. That’s lead to outages when funds became scarce, for whatever reason.
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WikiLeaks will fund itself via Flattr, Pirate Bay founder’s startup
Runa Capital , a new Russian VC firm, has launched today with a $30m seed fund for early-stage Russian technology startups . It’s founded by Serguei Beloussov, chairman of Parallels and Acronis and will be advised by Alexander Galitsky of Almaz Capital Partners . In particular the new fund will target the “rapid growth tech sectors” of cloud computing, machine learning, virtualisation and mobile/Internet applications, with the aim of helping local startups focused on these areas to “grow and compete at a global level”.
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Runa Capital’s $30m fund for Russian startups aims to build bridges with Europe and U.S.
Update: The server issues we mentioned now seem to have been corrected and you can now access the link freely. Update 2: If you decide to run this jailbreak tool please note that Engadget has managed to brick their iPhone
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Updated: Jailbreak tool for iPhone 4, 3GS, 3G on iOS 4/4.0.1 and iPad on iOS 3.2.1 released
News Corp. head Rupert Murdoch has repeatedly said he sees a bright future for iPad and iPad-like devices when it comes to media consumption, and now there’s a rumor he might launch a unit specifically to target the new, digital, mobile age. Could existing News Corp properties like Wall Street Journal and New York Times soon be joined by a new generation of publications?
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News Corp to start digital publishing unit?
PeerIndex , which was previously known as Viewsflow while it was in alpha, has now re-launched and gone into Beta. As it was billed as a sort of high-brow filtering mechanism for Twitter users. It’s now moving in the direction of a platform for “ranking authority on the social web.” It plain English it looks at your social and “reputation capital” to work out if you really do know what you are talking about.
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PeerIndex arrives to work out if you’re full of it – or not
Silentale publicly launched its “ Dropbox for communications ” service only a few months ago. The Paris-based start-up is now announcing the release of its iPhone application , so users can have access to the personal CRM service on the go
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Silentale, the Dropbox-for-communications, launches on the iPhone
Lovefilm , the Netflix-of-Europe, looks set to beef up its multi-platform play via a newly signed agreement with DRM and adaptive streaming technology provider Widevine .
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Lovefilm, the Netflix-of-Europe, signs deal with Widevine to beef up multi-platform play
In what is potentially a big win for Software-as-a-Service accounting startup KashFlow , Barclaycard is inviting its business customers to join an e-invoicing pilot powered by the London-based company’s wares.
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Barclaycard partners with KashFlow to pilot e-invoicing service
Vodafone has launched Mobile Clicks 2010 , a competition to identify and reward innovative mobile Internet startups. Now in its third year, the competition will be open to any fledgling mobile Web startup – provided your market is The Netherlands, Portugal or the UK. Vodafone has set aside a prize fund of €150,000 (2/3 of which will go to the overall winner, the remaining €50,000 to the runner-up), based on these five criteria : originality, creativity and innovation; technical and operational feasibility; economic and financial viability; value to end-users; and the quality of the management team
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Vodafone has €150,000 to spare for a pair of innovative mobile Internet startups
Back in April, we announced that Los Angeles-based DIY mobile apps creation platform, Mobile Roadie , announced it was setting-up shop in Europe. But the company hasn’t just been focused on developing its European business and presence
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Mobile Roadie Pro makes fancy mobile app creation a cinch
eDreams , the Spanish online travel giant, has changed private equity hands once again. In a deal reportedly worth €250-300 million, the UK’s Permira has acquired a majority share in the site from its previous owner US private equity firm TA Associates .
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Private equity firm Permira acquires online travel agency eDreams from TA
GoodData is rapidly becoming a key example of the technology innovation emerging from Central Europe – and laying a bet on Europe seems to be paying off for Fidelity Growth Partners Europe , the venture and growth equity investor, which backs European entrepreneurs exclusively. It’s invested $2 million in the startup, the second investment for the £100 million fund, leading an overall $6.5 million investment round. GoodData provides an on-demand business intelligence services
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GoodData secures another $6.5 million
European VC funding has bounced back. That’s according to Q2 figures produced by Dow Jones VentureSource which reports that investment is up by 50 percent compared to the record low of this time last year. €1.1 billion into 289 deals against 252 deals, which raised just €735 million
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Report: European VC funding bounces back, IT is the “star performer”
When we first profiled Map My Tracks , a web service which provides real-time GPS tracking for cyclists, runners and other sporting types, we liked the concept and user experience but were critical of the subscription model employed. That was back in February 2008 and since then the service, developed by UK-based digital agency Tinderhouse , has ditched premium for a combination of free for unlimited live tracking and a one-off fee for its iPhone app.
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Map My Tracks partners with Team Sky to deliver iPhone app for cyclists and fans
Buy now, pay later. We’re all too familiar with the way “cheap” or sometimes 0% finance is offered by bricks ‘n’ mortar stores at the point of purchase, and some of us are no doubt paying for the privilege right now
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Post-credit crunch, Pay4later lets UK online retailers offer customers finance
Listiki (a portmanteau of the words “list” and “wiki”) lets you crowdsource lists of, well, anything. This could be something as trivial as a list of the ‘top ten horror movies’ or something more self-serving like, I don’t know, ’5 must-read tech bloggers’
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Listiki offers a smart way of gathering public opinion through crowdsourced lists
It’s a trend that is highly unlikely to happen in the US due to its ubiquitous privatization of, well, everything. However in good old Europe, where control of the media is often under the hood of governmental institutions such as the BBC in the UK, or ARD in Germany, on the one hand, and in the hands of private media companies on the other, problems can arise. More recently this has happened to a highly respected and, in German speaking countries, well known property called “ Futurezone “, which is operated by the Austrian Broadcasting cooperation (ORF) – an institution comparable to the BBC.
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How publishers are trying to kill off publicly-owned tech media outlets
AudioBox.fm , the cloud-based music service that lets users upload their music collection and access it anywhere, has added the iPhone/iPod touch to its list of supported devices through a native application . Previously, iPhone users could only access AudioBox via Mobile Safari, a bit of a kludge since the QuickTime Player plugin effectively takes over the phone’s browser.
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AudioBox.fm hits iPhone, lets you stream your music collection from the cloud
MadBid , a fast growing “pay-to-bid” auction site has secured £4 million in a Series A funding from Atomico Ventures. Launched in 2008, MadBid is one of a number of pay-to-bid auction sites which have appeared in the last couple of years, with Swoopo among them.
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Penny auction site MadBid secures £4m funding from Atomico Ventures
Get out of the way, old man! You’re being Disrupted! Screw you, newspapers: blogs are stealing your readers and Craigslist is pillaging your revenue! Take that publishers: Andrew Wiley doesn’t need you and your stupid dead trees! And as for you, hotels – ha! hotels! – if ever there was an industry ripe for disruption, it’s you clowns. Charging $300 a night for a bed and a shower and a tiny plastic enema of shampoo when AirBnB will let you get the same, and more, for $50, so long as you don’t mind the creepy thrill of living in a stranger’s apartment.
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NSFW: Sorry AirBnB Hipsters, I’ll Take Health and Safety Over the Cult of Disruption
Apple’s iOS 4 is scheduled to go live tomorrow, June 21, and here’s everything you need to know to update your iPhone or iPod touch. The final release version of iOS 4 for iPhone or iPod touch hits tomorrow (iPad isn’t coming until later this fall) and we’ll post it up right on the front page the minute it’s ready. Before you race to download, however, there are a few steps you want to go through to get ready — to make sure you have the smoothest upgrade possible
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Getting ready for iOS 4 – what you need to know
The operators of mobile connection MTS and Vodafone announced on the Petersburg international economic forum the platform of mobile applications “MTS 360”, which integrates social networks, post services and mobile [kontent] into the united intuitively intelligible and friendly user medium. Services “MTS 360” are created on the basis of the product Of vodafone 360 and are adapted for the Russian..
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MTS presented the collection of services on the basis of the mobile Internet “MTS 360”
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Apple iPhone 4 shipment notifications are now being sent out to those who managed to get their pre-orders in last Tuesday. (Those that were previously prepared for shipment and not randomly canceled we gather…) They say for delivery June 23, though from past experience we’re betting Apple puts a hold on them until launch day, June 24. Did you get your shipping notice
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iPhone 4 pre-orders now shipping
Good news and bad news time — readers are letting us know they’re starting to get their “prepared for shipment” notifications from Apple, but others are getting order cancelations. You can see the prepared for shipment notice up top. The cancelation is after the break and appears linked to a failure to authorize.
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Some iPhone 4 orders prepared to ship, others getting cancelled?
Rogers has released a free iPad app called Rogers Live 2010 FIFA World Cup, allowing users on their network to watch: All 64 games available in English (including consecutive “Round of 16” broadcasts) and 56 games broadcast in French. Works over Rogers 3G (7.2 HSDPA) or Wi-Fi, and incredibly: Data consumed by the application over 3G will NOT be deducted from your data bucket. You need to be in Canada, and a Rogers subscriber (you need to be on the Rogers 3G network to authenticate) but if you are, try it out and let us know what you think.
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Rogers Live 2010 FIFA World Cup now in Canadian App Store (Rogers subscribers only)
A year ago today many of us were standing in line outside our local Apple Store waiting to get our geeky little hands on the iPhone 3GS , then king of the mobile space. Twice the speed, video recording, and VoiceControl were the killer features, even if the form factor was unchanged. Over the last twelve months, iPhone 3GS has served us well, and at its soon-to-be $99 price point, rocking iOS 4 , no doubt it will serve many budget smartphone shoppers well for another year to come.
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Happy birthday iPhone 3GS