According to reports, Apple has acquire mapping company Poly9, which might lead to some speculation over what Apple will use the new tech for — it’ll definitely lead to some speculating whether Apple will replace the default Google Maps on the iPhone with its own software.
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According to Mashable, a hacker by the name of Ch Russo has hacked The Pirate Bay by using SQL injection vulnerabilities in The Pirate Bay’s database, whereby he got access to usernames, passwords and emails of all registered users. The site is currently down due to “database upgrades”.
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Posted by Paul in Entertainment, Tools, business on June 30, 2010
Amazon has taken some heat for not offering Authors enough of a chunk of the profits from its Kindle digital book store, and now they’ve announced a new deal which sees authors get 70% of the profits, after Amazon recoups its “distribution” costs, which it claims is $0.15 per MB.
Furthermore, in order to qualify for the new deal, book must be priced between $3 and $10, and the 70% royalty only counts for books sold in the United States.
The new deal does not replace existing deals authors have.
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Foursquare is growing like a very popular startup should grow: 100,000 new users per week. The startup announced that they’ve now got 1.7 million users, and they plan on hitting the magic 2 million next month.
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Two weeks ago, Adobe released Flash player 10.1 for browsers, and now it has released 10.1 for mobile phones and mobile browsers as well. The new release adds a bunch of speed and reliability improvements, and should help on battery life as well — something Flash is known to use a lot of on phones.
The company says it plans on bringing Flash 10.1 to over half the smartphones before the year 2012. Of course, don’t expect those smartphones to include the iPhone.
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Analytics seems to be the buzz word of 2010, and several prominent analytics firms have been acquired this year, and now IBM has joined the club by acquiring Coremetrics, an analytics software firm from San Francisco. Coremetrics is not one of the new players thought, the company has been active since 1999. Coremetrics offers analytics software and tracking for more than 2,100 global brands and companies. The acquisition price hasn’t been disclosed.
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Adobe has released Flash 10.1, which brings a major new feature in form of hardware accelerated video playback, power improvements and much more.
An OS X version is under way, and it’ll certainly be welcome — we’d like to watch a few YouTube videos without our MacBook fans spinning up like crazy.
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