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The path to the executive apologies is paved with good intentions — like the one issued today by Dave Morin. The Path CEO / co-founder posted a note apologizing for the contact sharing functionality that got his iPhone app in hot water.
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Path apologizes, deletes user contact data and updates app
The world’s teenage population can pontificate from a new digital platform, now that Google+ has decided to open its doors to high schoolers.
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With new privacy controls onboard, Google+ opens up to teens
Google’s so desperate for the boys to come to its yard that it won’t be long before it buys a milkshake factory. Until then, it’s relaxing its ban on nicknames for Google+ users: now amusingly nicknamed composer W.G
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Google + Nicknames = Hilarity
Facebook, along with its launch partners, has finally let loose its Timeline Apps platform, setting Open Graph apps free to roam the web.
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Facebook launches Timeline Apps platform, socialites rejoice
Forget chairlifts. The backcountry is now the preferred playground for ski junkies seeking adventure and deep white turns. This week we wrote a piece for Outside magazine, “The Gear Junkie’s Top 10 AT Skiing Essentials,” that covers a stock of primo alpine-touring gear.
Jumping to Earth from the edge of space is no mean feat. Not only are you dropping like a stone, there’s also the minor issue of your blood boiling as you do so. These are challenges daredevil Felix Baumgartner and the Red Bull Stratos team will be taking head-on — literally — with their record-breaking 120,000 foot “spacedive.” To ensure Baumgartner lives to claim his honors, the Stratos team is using a custom spacesuit
The Vita now shoots video. (Credit: SCEJ) A rather noteworthy firmware update arrived yesterday for the PlayStation Vita in Japan, just weeks before the device is set to debut in the U.S
That sound you can hear is the studios dashing around as they look for a new scapegoat. Disney’s got Redbox and Netflix in its sights as it declares plans to impose a 28-day window before it’ll make its titles available for rental. Despite conceding that the studio hadn’t seen any impact on overall DVD sales, CEO Bob Iger pointed to a 16 percent drop in quarterly revenue compared to 2010 as the motivation
