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Google paid $25 million for the .app domain

Feb27
by on February 27, 2015 at 1:10 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Google, Insider

When you’re sitting on a giant pile of ad dollars you can pretty much buy whatever you want. Today Google is buying the .app top domain. Business Insider reports that the search giant won an ICANN (the organization that controls internet domains) auction for the top level domain. Google currently owns .soy, .minna, .foo and .how. The company has no immediate plans for the .app domain, but it’s pretty easy to figure where it fits into their business. ➤ Google just paid $25 million to buy the entire ‘.app’ web domain [Business Insider]

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How Apple Watch changes Apple Retail

Feb27
by on February 27, 2015 at 12:02 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Steve Streza is a software developer with over ten years of experience building for Apple platforms, at Ambrosia Software, ngmoco, Pocket, Shots, and currently as a consultant for mobile start-ups. This post originally appeared on Steve’s Medium blog and has been reposted with permission.  The Apple Watch is a unique product for Apple Retail. The retail operation is designed today to showcase a few demo models of a product, sitting on a table, chained to a desk. Guests can get a very good feel of how a laptop or a phone works by touching it while tethered. You can play…

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Pebble Time SDK preview now available for developers

Feb26
by on February 26, 2015 at 10:53 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

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Following its massively popular Kickstarter debut, Pebble has released an early version of its software development kit for the Pebble Time watch. The Pebble Time watch will bring new capabilities for developers thanks to its color screen, so the new 3.0 SDK opens up these options. Apps built with the 2.0 SDK will only require minor changes to upgrade and once done, developers can add color support for the new watches. Two notable features of the new SDK are the ability to animate in the interface, along with support for building apps that connect into the new “timeline” interface. The 3.0 SDK…

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How to create GIFs of live events in seconds

Feb26
by on February 26, 2015 at 10:12 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, How-To's, Insider

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Creating high quality GIFs in seconds is a great way to make live video shareable on Twitter, but many people don’t know how to do it. A perfect example of when this might be useful is for when events are unfolding live; be it a police chase, the State of the Union or a gadget unveiling. By being able to stream a video and quickly create GIFs from that video, it means there’s a shareable moment that others can join in with. I am watching a police llama chase live on the inter net. What a time to be alive. http://t.co/0YAOWvEIho pic.twitter.com/Z5TieszhqS…

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