Facebook's Mobile Chief on Lessons Learned from its Android "Home" - Ina Fried - Mobile - AllThingsD

Facebook's Mobile Chief on Lessons Learned from its Android "Home" - Ina Fried - Mobile - AllThingsD - Facebook’s mobile image took a bit of a beating in the weeks that followed the April launch of its Home software for Android.

Facebook what?

Thanks to iPhone, Japan becomes Apple's hottest market

Thanks to iPhone, Japan becomes Apple's hottest market - With an estimated 37 percent of the smartphone market and 50 percent of the tablet market, Apple has seen explosive growth in Japan.

The Japanese love American design and Jazz.

Los Angeles wants to bring free fiber Internet to every resident, without paying for it | VentureBeat

Los Angeles wants to bring free fiber Internet to every resident, without paying for it | VentureBeat To require fiber in "every residence, every business, and every government entity within the city limits of Los Angeles"

This fiber is good for digestion.

Amazon Studios Upload - 10.8.5 - Safari - Firefox - Mac

After several hours of hair-pulling-out activity, I was able to successfully upload a video to Amazon Studios using Firefox 25.0 (how's that for a version number) and Java 7 Release 45.

Here are some combinations THAT DO NOT WORK:

• Safari and 10.8.5
• Safari and 10.6.8
• Firefox and 10.6.8

In theory, the Safari upload should work, but the Java plug-in is unable to enumerate the list of movie files in my home folder (where it has read permissions).


Hopefully this will save many directors hours of angst!

In "Hatching Twitter," a Billion-Dollar Company That Almost Wasn't - Mike Isaac - Social - AllThingsD

In "Hatching Twitter," a Billion-Dollar Company That Almost Wasn't - Mike Isaac - Social - AllThingsD - Twitter’s founders may indeed have tapped into one of the most pervasive new forms of communication in the past century

Simplicity and utility are sometimes more compelling than a service which bloats itself into uselessness. The Google home page is a prime example.

Review: Apple's late-2013 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display

Review: Apple's late-2013 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display - Users who want more power from their portable machine in the form of a discrete GPU will be forced to upgrade to Apple's 15-inch model, and even then it's not a standard inclusion.

The sad news is that now the iPad has a better GPU than the MacBook Pro. Pro? I mean in relative terms.

Apple-backed patent consortium sues Google, major Android manufacturers

Apple-backed patent consortium sues Google, major Android manufacturers - It is widely believed that thanks to the agreements, Microsoft makes more money each year from Android than Google does.

And if they wanted to, they could join the Android consortium, which is an open standard. If the telephone switching system wasn't an open standard, you would need an iPhone to make a call to another iPhone.

Facebook earnings show that desktop ads — and Google — may soon become irrelevant | VentureBeat

Facebook earnings show that desktop ads — and Google — may soon become irrelevant | VentureBeat - With the social network’s monthly active userbase up 45 percent year over year, ad money from mobile added up to around 49 percent of all ad revenue ($1.8 billion) from this quarter.

It's wonderful wishful thinking. But I deleted the Facebook app from my phone and am enjoying greater productivity as a result. Google is the center of it.

UnitedHealth Unit Tapped to Repair Health-Law Website - Jennifer Corbett Dooren - News - AllThingsD

UnitedHealth Unit Tapped to Repair Health-Law Website - Jennifer Corbett Dooren - News - AllThingsD - The Obama administration said Friday it has named a unit of UnitedHealth Group Inc. to oversee repairs to its troubled health-insurance website and for the first time gave a specific estimate — the end of November — for when the site would be fixed.

They should've hired Big Nerd Ranch to code it in WebObjects. On time, fully functional, delivered early.