Revisiting Facebook

I recall when I first heard about Facebook. I was still in college, and back then, the most popular social platform  was Hi5 or something similar. Soon though the question "Are you on Hi5?" was replaced with "Are you on Facebook?". One of my friends wrote an article in the student newspaper about this new, addictive social site.The piece proved popular, just like the network.  Facebook was taking over Europe and over our social lives.

Some years down the road, we saw Facebook going through privacy issues, then through the public offering and all the problems that came with that. If you ask me whether I spend 100$ on products advertised on the platform, the answer is "no".  If you ask my close Facebook friends the same question, the answer remains "no". All in all, I begun to spend  less and less time on the platform, simply because I stopped having so much free time as I was out of college and in the professional world. 

But then sometimes life reshuffles your playlist and after a good song comes a bad one and you turn to your support network: family, friends, good acquaintances. And it also turns out that they are now mostly all on Facebook. I found myself looking at my 300+ friend list, remembering good times, picking out some names, getting their latest updates,  and writing a couple of messages. 

All I want to say is that I`ll have to think twice about deleting my Facebook account but from reasons other than some monetary value. 

In The War To Build The Biggest Mobile Gaming Platform, Japan’s GREE Courts Indies | TechCrunch

In The War To Build The Biggest Mobile Gaming Platform, Japan’s GREE Courts Indies | TechCrunch:

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Jolla: A New Smartphone Startup In A Crowded Market - Forbes or I would say Reincarnating Nokia

As Tomi T Ahonen says on his blog: " In that nightmare of bad news that has been the Nokia saga this past 15 months or so, one profit warning after another, mass layoffs and market share collapse, something beautiful is arising from the ashes.{...} here is another very strong early stage startup in mobile, someone whose pedigree is platinum and whose management team is titanium." 
Read more below:
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SPAM!

Check out this piece on all about the annoying  SPAM:http://txt180.com/blog/industry/permission-based-mobile-marketing-the-what-the-how-and-the-benefits/

Comcast Begins National Launch of X1: Next-Generation Cloud Enabled Television Platform and Introduces the X1 Remote Control App - MarketWatch

Comcast Begins National Launch of X1: Next-Generation Cloud Enabled Television Platform and Introduces the X1 Remote Control App - MarketWatch:
From the Press Release:

Comcast, one of the nation's leading providers of entertainment, information, and communications products and services, announced today it will launch its next-generation television experience, Xfinity TV on the X1 Platform, and a new X1 remote control app in the coming weeks. This cloud-enabled platform, unlike any other video service existing today, delivers the world's largest collection of video and transforms the TV into an entirely new integrated entertainment experience. These new products will launch in Boston with several major markets planned to follow this year, and will be available to new Xfinity Triple Play with HD/DVR service customers at no additional cost.

"The X1 platform makes the TV smarter, richer and more personalized -- and that's only the beginning. Our goal is to leverage this platform to redefine the entertainment experience for our customers," said Marcien Jenckes, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Video Services for Comcast Cable.

"X1 is a giant leap forward, essentially transforming our video product from a hardware experience to a software experience, allowing us to innovate faster and more aggressively."

The X1 platform incorporates IP technology, using cloud servers on Comcast's network that allow Comcast to integrate interactive, customized apps and social media features with its traditional video services to create an entirely new television experience. This is part of Comcast's ongoing and evolving effort to take advantage of IP technology to constantly bring new innovation and features to market.

Showcased this week at NCTA's The Cable Show 2012 in Boston, highlights of X1 include:

-- A main screen with a sleek new user interface that integrates a customer's video experiences and enables one-click access to a highly visual display of entertainment options

-- Unified search and instant play, along with recommendations, with the ability to find entertainment content in seconds from TV listings, DVR recordings and Xfinity On Demand using a new smart remote

-- Specially tailored-for-TV features such as customized social networking and music, radio, sports, traffic and weather apps

-- Equipped with a new hybrid DVR set-top box with tru2way and IP capabilities that delivers an advanced personalized TV viewing experience as well as an enhanced remote control that offers greater responsiveness and does not require a line-of-sight connection to the set-top-box

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BBC News - MirageTable: Microsoft presents augmented reality device

A long way to go: BBC News - MirageTable: Microsoft presents augmented reality device:

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Google warns over mobile payments - FT.com

One of the most promising areas  revenue wise in the mobile sector - the mobile wallet - might just hit big with project "Oscar" but has to run by the EU Commission. Read it all here: Google warns over mobile payments - FT.com:

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