Scores UpNext $ 560,000 from Chris Sacca and others for 3D mobile mapping

The mapping is a big kid playing with Google Maps, Bing Maps and MapQuest maps dominant in both Web and mobile. But sometimes you need a start to take things forward. 3D Mobile Mapping UpNext start is the hope of getting on the map, so to speak, with detailed 3D maps of cities and places like the Super Bowl stadium. The implementation of the City of New York, which has been around since 2007, has just raised a $ 557,000 series A round of preferred stock, according to a filing with the SEC. Investors are sensitive capital Chris Sacca, David Cohen of TechStars (who invested individually), Tisch David and Oleg Tscheltzoff

Co-founder Danny Moon said that the company will use the funds to expand its platform of mobile applications and IPAD to become a technology to cover "travel guides, resorts, event organizers, amusement parks, for name a few, which can incorporate UpNext 3D maps of their own applications. UpNext allows a level of detail not seen in the technologies of most maps, including directories of businesses within specific buildings or the ability to zoom to the level of safety within a stage, which showcased with its application Super Bowl.

UoNext also to press on with its own application for the iPhone. "We are creating exciting new technology to allow customers to explore cities, visually. Think of an interactive model, social city that changes in real time," Luna advice. In real time, 3D, more, what someone might ask?

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Charlie Sheen Tweets generated more than 1M Uniques To Internships.com

The dust has finally settled in the hurricane Sheen media the past two weeks and quite advanced bloggers are waiting for the next Fustercluck content easily. Internships.com however, that paid at least 100K Ad.ly campaign (under the guise of social media, workplace practices), is reaping the benefits of both tweets Sheen, and have made demonstrated its related traffic totals in TechCrunch Following the bombing.

According to its internal data Omniture, Internships.com was 1,035,021 unique visitors (nearly two only for each click on the link) as a result of the tweets and the subsequent actions and the attention of the media (Representative Todd tells me Leeloy remaining out normal traffic and the affiliate to get these numbers).

To run the campaign 1:03 pm PST on Monday 07 March and midnight on Friday 11 March, the original link bit.ly received more than 475,375 clicks and more than 82,148 people applied for the internship, which Internships.com CEO Robin Richards tells me that it was reduced to 50 highly qualified candidates (the removal of all journalists to apply as an experiment, for example).

While internships.com says Sheen is "absolutely" his spokesman, in my opinion jury is still out on what you call someone who is paid to tweet (hint: "spokesperson" would be a good word for it). But what you can call and who can never think of the lifestyle of Sheen, these numbers are another bit of evidence that shows that Twitter as a marketing tool and can not be ignored.

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AT & T allows free calls to Japan in late March

One can imagine many of you, like us, have made ​​desperate calls to relatives and friends in Japan in recent days, no matter the cost. Now, faced with otherwise devastating news, we have some good news to share courtesy of AT & T. Ma Bell offers backup wired and wireless billing for calls made on AT & T between March 11 and March 31. Under the plan, AT & T Wireless postpaid not be charged for text messages and international long distance Japan from the United States and Puerto Rico. Similarly, the fixed line residential customers can borrow up to 60 minutes of direct dialing to Japan. Of course, this is a blatant theft of advertising, but it seems really useful.

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Google VP stats Fixed Mobile has 150 million users Maps

Care for a cup of Google data, the whole world? At SXSW, vice president of discovery services, Marissa Mayer, said some interesting facts about the state of all things mobile Goog. Specifically, the company offers its services to allocate 150 million users. Just to give an idea of how many peeps it is - is almost half the number of people in the U.S.. Crazy, we know. Moreover, Mayer argues that users of Google Maps tour 12000000000000 miles per year and the latest version of the application saves people an average of two days of travel time each year. Another important fact to note is the way society feels about Google Maps for the iPhone. "We like to be the default provider, but we would like some of these changes to a wider audience. There is a debate / question we expected." Updates? A real Google Maps application that works as a GPS in the iPhone? We woke up when iOS 5 is a preview, or you can just keep dreaming.

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IOS iPhone 5-expected 4.3 in hardware

The IOS operating system update 4.3 have discovered some interesting clues about the hardware of the future iPhone model, known now as the iPhone in May and officially unveiled at the WWDC event in June 2011.

Some programmers have carefully examined the updated file system, and have found conclusive evidence of the presence of Apple dual-core processor in the future iPhone A5 5 (O 4GS iPhone).

In particular, dedicated to firmware 'iPad 2Not refers to the A5 processor with S5L8940 abbreviation. Also in the kernelcache.release archive dedicated to the 'iPhone 5 (codenamed "N94AP"), is the symbol S5L8940.

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IPAD 2 Processor is slower than IPAD 1

iOSnoops took the point of reference for the first time in the new Apple A5 processor, dual-core processor mounted on IPAD 2 and future Apple devices, pointing out that the only core of the new Apple A5 processor is slower than the previous A4 Apple iPad 1, 's 4 of the new iPhone and iPod touch.

In benchmarks performed by iOSnoops has shown that while Apple's new A5 is generally faster than the old Apple processor, A4, single-core processor, the new findings in a 10% slower than the previous recorded maximum of 890 MHz to 1 GHz processor A4.

Of course, Apple is the A5 dual-core processor, the processor makes the total value of 65% faster than the old Apple and A-4 iOSnoops second with the Apple option to reduce the speed of individual cores should be the need to minimize the battery consumption that allows the new IPAD 2 have the same autonomy as the previous IPAD, or about 10 hours in use.

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BioShock 2-Test Protector for PC Released

Finally comes the official launch date for the expansion Protector Testing Bioshock 2 in the PC version, long awaited and delayed by 2K.

The DLC will be available for Windows platforms March 14, or tomorrow, with a series of challenges that we are playing a Big Daddy Alpha series deal with various threats in defense of a Little Sister.

The package is free and comes with a patch that fixes several bugs in the game. There is no information regarding the expansion in place (more substantial in terms of history) "Den Minerva ", for there are still things that come in the coming days.

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Angry Birds on Symbian S60 Now !!

At first we thought it was a fake or forcing some not legal, but after the game we realized that Zed has been able to achieve a remake of The Birds angry for Symbian S60 5th edition. The demo of a game is developed in Java and is made ​​from the same soundtrack of the original title, but in terms of gameplay are not (yet) for comparison.

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Download Winamp 1.0 for Android

For lovers of music player software Winamp on your PC, then this will be good news, after yesterday, Winamp 1.0 for the Android operating system has been officially released. With this release, which are more custom sounds, and most can listen and download music from free online services Spinner.

The main interface of Winamp music player also will be refined to more user-friendly. In particular, a new key called "Info"has been added to the feature that artist biographies, album list, album pictures and links to articles written about that artist. To change the tune, a window will appear providing brief information about the music, a useful feature. Many other enhancements in version 1.0 is waiting to be discovered, there is an update to Android Market.

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Twitter Drops The Hammer ecosystem: Do not try to compete with us on customers, focus on data and vertical...

For much of last year, the Twitter ecosystem has been in a state of flux. Since TweetDeck Twitter bought and turned it into their own native iPhone application, third-party developers have been asking when he would leave. Twitter moves to Android, IPAD, Mac, Windows Phone, BlackBerry and other places only have aggravated some of these fears. So Twitter has taken some time today at its Developer Forum to talk a little about the state of the ecosystem and provide some guidance. Is compelling, but necessarily so.

Specifically, the main platform is contoured Ryan Sarver fairly long line of Twitter to think about with regard to third-party clients and services. And although a little dance around the issue at first, it soon becomes clear: third parties should not be creating Twitter clients straight-up further.

Sarver notes that Twitter is a "consistent user experience" as very important to them. And it is something we will celebrate the third-party developers a high level of support. I do not want to mimic the experience of Twitter with native applications in order to do this. Updated the API Terms of Service to reflect this.

"Developers have told us they would like more guidance from us about the best opportunities to build on Twitter. More specifically, we asked whether developers should create client applications that mimic or reproduce the average consumer Twitter customer experience. The answer is not, "Sarver writes very matter of factly.

"If you're a developer of existing client applications can continue to serve its user base, but you stop at a high level to make sure not to violate the privacy of users, providing consistency to the user experience, and who adhere strictly to all areas of the Terms of Service. We have spoken with key customer applications in the Twitter ecosystem about these needs on an ongoing basis, and will continue to ensure a high bar remains, "he continues.

Sarver notes that, according to Twitter's own data, 90 percent of active users of Twitter applications now official use Twitter on a monthly basis to access the service.

"We have to move to a less fragmented world, where every Twitter user may experience a consistent manner. This is already occurring organic - the market share and number of consumer client applications that are not owned or operated by Twitter has been reducing "he writes.

The third largest customer in space TweetDeck, which was in the process of being acquired by Twitter suspended UberMedia when their applications a few weeks ago for TOS violations. I have come to Twitter to see where UberMedia TweetDeck and are now with the new rules, but my hunch is that TweetDeck is currently constituted will be fine - it has too many users to be removed. But if I were a third-party developer, you probably do not spend time creating a new application-like TweetDeck.

So where should look to third-party developers in terms of development for the ecosystem? Sarver highlights the following areas:

* Authoring Tool. Companies such as publishers SocialFlow help optimize how they use Twitter, which lead to greater participation of users and the production of the tweet right at the right time.
* Healing. Mass Sulia Relevance and services for major media brands to select, display, and current tweets interesting and relevant to a recent news story, theme or event.
* The data signals in real time. Hundreds of companies use Twitter data in real time as an entry in the ranking, ad targeting, or other aspects of improving their own commodities. Klout is an example of a company that has taken this to the next level by using data on Twitter to build reputation scores of people. Similarly, unions GNIP Twitter licensing data by third parties who wish to use our body in real time for multiple applications (from the hedge fund classification scores).
* Social CRM, business customers, and views of the mark. Companies like TweetDeck, CoTweet, Radian6, Seesmic, and Crimson Hexagon help brands, companies and media companies take advantage of the zeitgeist of their brands on Twitter, and manage relationships with their customers using Twitter as a medium for interaction.
* Experience of vertical content and added value. emerging services such as Formspring, Foursquare, Instagram and Quran have been incorporated into Twitter, allowing users to share unique and valuable content for their followers, while in contrast, the services get more powerful, user acquisition and traffic.

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Vacation Home HomeAway Service files $ 230 million IPO

House rental facilities HomeAway Vacation has just introduced its S-1 with the SEC, indicating that it will present a public offer in the coming months. The proposed maximum offering price total is $ 230 million, but this could just be a placeholder amount.

HomeAway has raised nearly half a billion dollars in hedge funds, and its most recent round of investment was valued at $ 1.4 billion. HomeAway, which has been sensed an initial public offering, which currently offers rental apartments across 31 websites in 11 languages ??and lists provided by vacation rental located in over 145 countries. In 2010, their Web sites averaged more than 9.5 million unique monthly visitors.

According to the presentation, HomeAway was 167.9 million U.S. dollars in 2010 revenue, which is up 39.6% from 2009. In 2010, 37.9% of the company's revenue came from outside the United States, including Europe, 36.6% and 1.3% in Latin America. In 2010, the rental listings contributed 91.1% of the proceeds from HomeAway. Net income for 2010 was $ 16.9 million, up from $ 7.6 million in 2009. And the company says there is plenty of room for growth in the rental market rent is worth $ 85 billion in 2010 in the United States and Europe.

With the new capital, HomeAway says it will further expand through organic growth and acquisitions in selected markets. Already, the company has had an aggressive acquisition strategy, the most recent purchase of rental management software company, Instant Software.

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