[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
From the now we’ve heard everything department, an analyst is “predicting” that the 4th generation iPhone ’s plastic casing will be multitouch enabled, just like Apple’s new Magic Mouse . Not “predicted” of course is how it would work, and how it would filter out things like holding the iPhone for normal use vs
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Do You Want the 4th Gen iPhone Case to be Multitouch like Magic Mouse?
The Loop points out that the Winter 2010 semester of Stanford University’s popular iPhone Application Development Course is now being posted to iTunes U . “We’re getting the videos closed captioned this time, so they’ll be even more accessible,” said Julie Zelenski, a Stanford computer science lecturer who helps coordinate the class
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Winter 2010 Stanford iPhone Application Development Course Now on iTunes U
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
Well, well, look who’s coming to demo — CrackBerry.com’s Kevin Michaluk, and we gave him the full-on look at Apple’s latest iPhone 3GS , so be sure to check that out. Kevin being Kevin, he’s also hopped onto TiPb’s iPhone Forums to ask “where’s the keyboard on this thing?” Every day you help him on that thread, you’re entered for a chance to WIN AN iPHONE 3GS! ( smartphoneroundrobin.com has all your details!) As for me, I’m over at the WMExperts Forums trying to figure out if the HTC HD2 is the obelisk from 2001… or something bigger. Give me a hand over there, and you could win one of them ginormous bad boys as well! This is a story by the iPhone Blog
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iPhone Hands-on from a BlackBerry Abuser’s Perspective — Smartphone Round Robin
The Boy Genius claims, based on info from a source who’s proven reliable before, that we haven’t gotten an iPhone OS update recently (oh, hai still missing iPhone 3.2 !) because: there’s too much tablet-related code/references in the OS and Apple obviously didn’t want that to leak. He’s also heard that multitouch gestures for the iTablet /iSlate are “out of control”, it’s got a super-fast ARM processor that runs the iPhone OS kernel, is model K48AP, and is pretty much an “iPhone on steroids”. If this pans out, being so closely linked to the iPhone will no doubt disappoint Mac OS X tablet enthusiasts, but benefit the iPhone in terms of leveraged development and shared features.
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BGR: No iPhone OS Updates Recently Because it Would Reveal Tablet Info?
[UK] We knew it was sitting pretty at the top of the paid news chart in the UK but now The Guardian newspaper has revealed that its iPhone app has seen 70,000 downloads in its first month. Initially launched on the 14th of December 2009 and available in the UK, Ireland and US, the app has since extended its distribution to also include most European countries, as well as Australia and Canada.
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The Guardian iPhone app sees 70k downloads but how will it pay its way in the future?
[UK] HulloMail , the visual voicemail provider, recently released its dedicated app for the iPhone, available in the UK and US-only. The app brings the complete HulloMail visual voicemail feature set to the device, most of which is fairly redundant for iPhone owners whose networks already support Apple’s own visual voicemail implementation. (Orange UK, which recently began selling the iPhone, currently doesn’t, something that HulloMail is obviously keen to point out.) Where things get a little more interesting, however, is that the app also offers the ability to record and send audio messages to other HulloMail users or to any email address via a the phone’s data plan, therefore bypassing the operators own voice carriage.
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HulloMail’s iPhone app adds ‘free’ audio messaging to its visual voicemail service
Today sees the public launch of GetApp.com , which aims to position itself as the leading vertical portal for software, SaaS and cloud-based business applications. The premise of GetApp is fairly simple: offer (potential) professional IT services and software buyers a chance to browse and research business tools, give providers a low-cost way to be found in the directory, and guide both parties in getting the most out of the experience.
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GetApp.com launches app store for business applications
[Germany] Tolingo , the online translation platform, has secured a Series A round of investment. The investment comes from Neuhaus Partners in Hamburg which is using a local start-up fund run by a public programme in conjunction with the local KfW bank (hey, this is Europe remember)
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Tolingo secures Series A funding for fast, cheap translation service
Spartoo.com, the European version of Zappos.com, has closed a €12 million Series B round of funding round led by Highland Capital Partners and Endeavour Vision with A Plus Finance and CM-CIC Capital Privé participating. This brings the online shoe retailer’s total funding to €17.5 million
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Europe’s Zappos.com Spartoo Raises €12 Million
[Italy] Rome-based iWikiPhone , a social network for iPhone users where they can discover, share and discuss the best apps, has closed a €250k round of funding. The money comes from a number of private investors and also from Egolab, a Rome based company specializing in online media. Egolab has provided 100k of funding by way of services and a cash investment in return for 20% equity in the company
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iWikiPhone closes €250k round to take over the iPhone App Store
This is a wonderful season for Keralites to enjoy the bundle of offers from Vodafone. Yesterday only it cheered its subscribers with the launch of M-shopping services in the state and today it unleashed “All India @ 50p” prepaid plan.
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Vodafone(Kerala) launches “All India @ 50p” plan with Rs 96 Bonus Card
[Spain/Germany] In what looks like a classic example of old media trying to stay relevant in the social web era, PONS Publishing Group , the second biggest publisher in Germany as part of the Klett Group , has teamed up with Madrid-based startup busuu.com . The free-to-join language learning community now comes with a ‘powered by PONS’ badge in reference to the site’s inclusion of content from the traditional publisher. PONS has a 30 year legacy of producing and selling a range of language learning courses and dictionaries in 35 different languages – from Chinese to Hungarian – and says it want to reach new audiences.
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Old school meets new school – PONS teams with language learning startup busuu.com
Well, despite the fact that Vodafone here in the UK cancelled the contract , the X2 is still due to arrive in the USA . The “a” is pointing to the US model but there’s still a little while to wait until you can get one. Link – SonyStyle.com Read on and add your comments .
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Xperia X2 appears on Sony site, with added "a" action
Private equite firm TA Associates announced this morning that it has signed a definitive agreement for a majority investment of over €60 million in eCircle , a decade-old email marketing service provider headquartered in Munich, Germany. Founded in 1999, eCircle specializes in a range of digital marketing solutions, but it’s mostly known for its high-end email marketing software and related services. The company says more than 550 enterprise clients, including Argos, Nintendo and Samsung, are currently using its eC-messenger Web-based email marketing software, and the company has a transmission volume of over 5 billion emails per quarter.
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TA Associates buys €60 million stake in European email marketing leader eCircle