Facebook quietly tests Photo Syncing on Android, report says

Facebook's Photo Syncing. (Credit: Facebook) Facebook's Photo Syncing is being tested on Android-based devices, according to a new report. The feature, which automatically uploads images Android users snap from their devices to their Facebook profiles, is being tested on a small number of users, The Verge is reporting, citing comments from Facebook. Upon snapping a photo with an Android-based...

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Facebook Offers no longer free

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg earlier this month at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco (Credit: Daniel Terdiman/CNET) Facebook Offers won't be free much longer, with the company finding a new way to grow revenue by charging merchants to run deals on its site. The social networking giant launched Facebook Offers a year ago as a free service that allows business to send promotions directly to...

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Apple may see $5B in App Store sales helped by Maps, Passbook

Apple could bring in a cool $4.9 billion in App Store sales this year, estimates iHS iSuppli. Boosted by the new Maps and Passbook apps, this year's sales could jump 70 percent over last year's $2.9 billion. The forecast means 2012 would generate almost half of all App Store sales over the past five years. It would also give Apple a 65 percent share of the worldwide appstore market. Maps and Passbook...

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Venture capitalists offer up $2.1 billion in funding in Q2

A look at corporate venture capital funding over the last five quarters. (Credit: CB Insights) Corporate venture capital funding was on the rise during the second quarter of 2012. Research firm CB Insights, which provides quarterly data on venture capital investments, revealed today that a total of $2.1 billion was offered up to startups during the second quarter in just 118 deals. The total...

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How 'Do Not Track' is poised to kill online growth

Editors' note: This is a guest column. See Eric Wheeler's bio below. Let's start with the good news: Congress won't pass any laws this year to halt the collection of anonymous online user data for ad targeting purposes. But as a consensus on "Do Not Track" continues to elude industry leaders and consumer groups -- to date, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has yet to settle on a definition of...

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California joins other states in allowing online voter registration

The number of states that now allow online voter registration is growing. And it only makes sense that Silicon Valley's home would be on that list. As of today, California is the newest state that lets its residents register to vote on the Web. California Secretary of State Debra Bowen announced the news today. "Today, the Internet replaces the mailbox for thousands of Californians wishing to...

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Emoticon celebrates 30 years :-)

This screensaver by 3D Smilie Guys has stylized modern animations of all types of "emoticons." (Credit: 3D Smilie Guys) Simple typography that  started out as a colon, dash, and parenthesis has now grown up and blossomed into a massive array of features, moods, and gestures. Who would have thought that a happy face :-) could ever lead to rock horns \m/, or tongue-tied :-&, or just a simple...

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Google set to beat out Facebook as display ad chief

Google is to be king in the display ad market. According to a new report by research firm eMarketer, the Web giant is expected to surpass previous winners, Facebook and Yahoo, and will soon reign over all digital advertising markets -- including search, mobile, and display. Though Google has dominated search and mobile in the past, it has never ruled over all three markets. According to The New...

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YouTube slapped with lawsuit by 'Innocence of Muslims' actress

A protest in Egypt is one of many that have erupted in the wake of the anti-Islam film posted to YouTube. (Credit: CBS News) As violence and outrage continues throughout the Middle East over a video trailer posted on YouTube that mocks Islam's prophet, one of the film's actresses filed a lawsuit today requesting that the video site remove the clip. Cindy Lee Garcia, who has a role in "Innocence...

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Behind the curtain at Google's Cirque du Soleil show

Thanks to HTML5, Movi.Kanti.Revo will respond to your body motion. Open-source Kinect in your browser, anybody? (Credit: Google) Google Chrome and Cirque du Soleil have partnered to show off the potential of the modern Web with an all-HTML5, Cirque performance that's unique to the Web, called Movi.Kanti.Revo. The name comes from the Esperanto terms for moving, singing, and dreaming, and the...

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Adobe meets Q3 estimates, cuts outlook based on cloud transition

Adobe's fiscal third quarter results were roughly in line with expectations, but the company cut its outlook based on a transition to a cloud computing model. The company reported third-quarter earnings of $201.4 million, or 40 cents a share, on revenue $1.08 billion, which met the low end of Adobe's expectations. Non-GAAP earnings in the third quarter were 58 cents a share, in line with estimates. ...

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FTC near decision on Google antitrust inquiry, report says

Google will know by year's end whether it will face legal action over antitrust issues, according to a report. The New York Times reports that Jon Leibowitz, chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, told reporters after a luncheon at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., that he hoped to resolve the inquiry into Google's search results and advertising practices within the next few months....

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Twitter CEO touts 'true platform,' ignores developer anger

Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, appearing Tuesday night on "Charlie Rose." (Credit: Screenshot by CNET) With the Twitter developer community up in arms over recent moves limiting access to the service, CEO Dick Costolo said Tuesday that the company's decisions were motivated by wanting to build a deeper platform serving a wider variety of users than it does today. During an appearance last night on...

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Amid weak reviews of Apple Maps, Google offers alternative

Apple's new Maps app has been praised for its look but criticized for its lack of native transit directions. (Credit: Screenshot by Casey Newton/CNET) Reviews for Apple's new maps application are in, and they aren't great. Everyone praises the app's look and feel, but critics have said it is inferior to the app it replaced in important ways. CNET's Jason Parker praised said users would likely...

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More than half of users polled would vote via mobile devices

Would you use your mobile device to vote in an election? A majority of people recently polled said they would, at least under the right conditions. Among smartphone and tablet owners asked, 60 percent said they'd cast their vote for the next president through a mobile app or text message -- if they could do so without any fear of fraud. Conducted by Harris Interactive on behalf of Internet radio...

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Google Nexus 7 $25 store credit ends September 30

Consumers eyeing Google's Nexus 7 tablet have until the end of the month to grab a special $25 credit good for anything in the Google Play store. To lure in new Nexus 7 buyers, Google launched the offer at the same time the tablet debuted in June. But the company tweeted yesterday that the deal will end on September 30. The announcement isn't a big surprise, as Google has long said the offer had...

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AT&T fires up LTE in Seattle and Portland in time for iPhone 5

AT&T mobile subscribers in Seattle and Portland can now grab their own slice of LTE. The carrier announced today that it has turned the switch on its high-speed network for customers in both cities. That brings AT&T's total number of LTE-enabled markets to 72. Earlier this month, the company activated 4G LTE access in Anchorage, Alaska, Bakersfield, Calif., Jacksonville, Fla., Modesto,...

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Google, Facebook, Amazon lead new tech lobby group

The Internet Association, a lobbying group made up of some of the Web's most powerful companies, has officially launched. The organization today announced that it's now operating in Washington, D.C. under the leadership of president and CEO Michael Beckerman. First announced earlier this year, The Internet Association is backed by 14 Web companies, including Amazon, AOL, Google, Facebook, Yahoo,...

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AirPlay challenger Miracast launches with Galaxy S3 support

Apple's AirPlay, which wirelessly streams movies and music between devices, has a new competitor. The Wi-Fi Alliance today announced that it has launched Miracast, an industry-standard technology that will let users wirelessly transmit video and images from one device to another. As with Apple's AirPlay, users will be able to send the multimedia from, say, a mobile device to a big-screen television....

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EU to market test e-book settlement proposed by publishers, Apple

The European Union's European Commission (EC) confirmed today that Apple, along with four e-book publishers, have offered up a settlement deal on e-book price-fixing that could be approved in the coming months. According to the EC, Apple, Harper Collins, Hachette Livre, Macmillan, and Simon & Schuster (which is owned by CBS, the same company that publishes CNET) have agreed to terminate e-book...

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As iOS 6 debuts minus YouTube, video apps fight for attention

Squrl's app searches for videos across a wider range of sites than YouTube's does. (Credit: Squrl) When Apple users start upgrading to iOS 6 this morning, it'll be missing an app that's been baked into the operating system since the release of the first iPhone: YouTube. For the first time, consumers will have to search for a video app on their own -- and that has developers eager to get their...

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Media moguls partner to form new e-book publisher

Two media powerful entertainment figures have joined forces on a new entrant in the e-book publishing sector. IAC Chairman Barry Diller and movie producer Scott Rudin have partnered on a new venture called Brightline, according to The New York Times. The pair, which have been rumored to be discussing a partnership since July, will publish e-books in conjunction with Atavist, a publisher specializing...

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Google brings new 'e-mail via text message' service to Africa

While a huge percentage of Africa's more than 1 billion residents have cell phones, far fewer have access to e-mail. Google is trying to change that. According to the Associated Press, the Web giant is embarking on an ambitious endeavor that will let people receive e-mails via text messages. In effect, Google will be giving people access to the Internet with feature handsets. Nigeria, Ghana, and...

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Amazon shutters popular shoe site endless.com

Endless.com (Credit: Screenshot by Dara Kerr/CNET) Never fear, Amazon says, it's not really closing down its trendy shoe and accessory Web site endless.com -- it's migrating it to Amazon.com/Fashion. The company posted a note on its Web site today saying that it has "exciting news." Apparently, as of September 27, endless.com will be no more. The goal for the company is to integrate this mainly...

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For avian watcher, tweets truly are for the birds

Bill Oddie tweets for the birds at ZSL London Zoo's Blackburn Pavilion today. (Credit: ZSL London Zoo) Birds were tweeting long before you started sending out 140-character messages about your daily commute. And British birdwatcher Bill Oddie doesn't want you to forget it. So, today at least, Oddie did his part to turn Twitter over to the original tweeters of the world. He and the ZSL London...

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Gogo quietly hikes up its in-flight Wi-Fi prices

Virgin America passengers hold up their wireless devices inside an Airbus A320 about 35,000 feet above San Francisco at the launch of the carrier's in-flight Gogo Wi-Fi Internet service in 2008. (Credit: Virgin America) It's kind of strange timing for Gogo to quietly raise its in-flight Internet prices -- with airplane Wi-Fi usually being frustrating rather than helpful and JetBlue just announcing...

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Technology's impact on similar crises, two decades apart

A screen grab of Libyan Alhurra TV, as collected on Buzzfeed, shows Libyans using the media to show that not all of them are involved in the anti-American attacks. Technology and everyday tools that millions use are being blamed, in part, for the recent spate of attacks against U.S. embassies in the Middle East. Social media and a YouTube video of an obscure, crudely-made trailer of an anti-Islam...

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Zynga says farewell to another departing exec

The list continues to grow -- another Zynga executive announced today that he is joining the group of those who recently jumped ship. According to VentureBeat, Wilson Kriegel, who worked in business development, marketing, and advertising for the game maker, is leaving the company. Kriegel was fairly new to Zynga, having only started there when it acquired Omgpop in March for around $180 million....

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How to see inside businesses using Google Maps

Placing the Pegman on an orange dot will give you a panoramic look at a business. (Credit: Google) A new feature inside Google Maps lets users peek inside businesses before visiting them, thanks to panoramic photos shared by the businesses with Google. "These interior business photos on Google Maps give you the feeling of being there, and the comfort of knowing what to expect when you arrive,"...

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Facebook tries out its ads on other mobile apps

Facebook has been inserting advertising into the news feed more aggressively. Now, Facebook doing a test run of ads that will show up on other mobile apps, not just Facebook's. Facebook has started testing a new mobile ad network that can place advertisements outside of Facebook based on user data. That means some users may start seeing ads -- ones that may link to the Facebook app store or...

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Twitter redesign aims: More control, bigger bottom line

A look at Twitter's new iPhone, Android, and iPad apps. (Credit: Twitter) With the "mobile first" strategy it unveiled today, Twitter achieved two key goals: creating a look and feel that more than ever resembles Facebook's, and asserting new dominance over users' Twitter experience. On the surface, the announcements of new Twitter profiles, common across all devices and operating systems and...

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