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<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 07:10:19 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Apple releases iOS 4.3.1, but iOS 5 is a question]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Apple has released the latest update to iOS 4, and TechCrunch reports that iOS 5 will be pushed back to the fall.(Credit:Apple)Launched on Friday, iOS 4.3.1 mostly fixes a few bugs here and there in the operating system for theiPhone,iPad,iPod Touch, and Apple TV, according to Apple. The update resolves connectivity issues when joining certain cellular networks and authenticating with some enterprise Web services. It also takes care of a couple of graphics-related glitches--one affecting the 4G iPod Touch and another between Apple's Digital AV adapter and certain TVs. iOS 4.3.1 is compatible with both generations of the iPad, the 3G and 4G iPod Touch, and the iPhone 3GS and 4. But Verizon iPhone customers are out of luck as the latest update is available only for the GSM model iPhone. Though Apple has been busy updating iOS 4 since its release early last summer, a couple of &quot;solid&quot; sources tell TechCrunch that iOS 5 won't launch this spring as would be expected. Instead, Apple is reportedly looking at a fall release date to revamp its mobile OS with a greater focus on cloud-based services and other enhancements. According to TechCrunch's sources, Apple could launch several cloud-based services to work with the new OS, including some type of &quot;music locker&quot; service and a location service aimed at tracking down family and friends. The idea of a music locker follows recent reports that Apple is looking to expand its MobileMe service into a music storage and streaming service. If the report is true, then Apple is likely to use its 2011 Worldwide Developers Conference, now scheduled for June 6 to 10, as a opportunity to preview iOS 5 and the new cloud-based features. There have also been rumors suggesting that Apple may release an iPad 3 this fall. Speculation seemed to take off after Daring Fireball blogger John Gruber snuck a comment about an iPad 3 into a post last month. Since then, the chatter has focused on whether such a new product would be more of an iPad 2.5 or mini iPad rather than an iPad 3 as Apple gears up for the holiday season. And what of the iPhone 5 Though Apple traditionally tries to pair a new iPhone and a new OS together, there's nothing to suggest the iPhone 5 won't launch this summer as expected. If TechCrunch's sources are right about the timing of iOS 5, the new iPhone would simply be equipped with the latest revision of iOS 4. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Data crunchers offer the word on Facebook]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 26 Dec 2010 08:10:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[editor's notebook If you took the countless number of Facebook &quot;status updates,&quot; or out-loud thoughts, that are plastered on the site every day and put them under a microscope, what patterns would emerge from these many billions of words What glimpse might we get into the hearts and minds of the social network's millions of usersFacebook's data-crunching team decided to take a look this week, and it gleaned some insight into the different ways in which older and younger, many-friended and more-intimate members express themselves.The team collected about 1 million status updates generated by U.S. English speakers, anonymized them, and picked them apart word-by-word with the help of a text-analysis application called Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count. LIWC was originally developed, with the help of the National Institutes of Health, to aid the study of how written and verbal language reflects mental and physical well-being.The Facebook team used the LIWC dictionary and its many word groupings to dissect the status posts. The dictionary, for example, has a &quot;psychological processes&quot; category, with an &quot;affective processes&quot; subcategory and a &quot;positive emotion&quot; subsub--which includes words such as love, nice, and sweet. There's also a &quot;swear words&quot; subcategory--under the larger &quot;linguistic processes&quot; heading--that includes words I won't repeat here.The resulting data-dumps provide ample opportunity for musing about the Facebook phenomenon. The data group looked, for instance, at status updates that had triggered comments from readers or inspired them to hit the &quot;Like&quot; button, and it noted the word types most often used in such updates. People seem to &quot;like&quot; updates that include sexual words. Words related to death--not so much. No real surprise there. The team, however, also found that members with a lot of friends tend to use different types of words than members with fewer friends. My cohorts in the media have made much of this, with headlines like &quot;Facebook Unveils Secrets to Being Popular Via One's Updates.&quot; No real harm in that' still, I couldn't help but look at it the other way. For example, according to the data team's results, the Facebookers with many friends tend to use fewer &quot;emotional words&quot; than do members with less friends. I'm not sure this means that people flock to those who are unemotional' it could just as easily mean that people who tend to form deeper, more-emotional relationships use Facebook in a different way (or not at all)--i.e., that &quot;popular&quot; Facebookers, with more &quot;friends,&quot; form shallow connections, or indeed, that the Facebook platform itself, as Zadie Smith recently suggested in The New York Review of Books, encourages shallowness.At any rate, whether Smith is right or wrong--or whether my own little musing makes any sense--the Facebook Data Team's results are fun to look at and use as fuel for your own ideas about Zuckerberg's monster (and people in general). I'm appending them here, and inviting you to offer up your own heady theories--serious or not--in the comments section.(A list of LIWC word groupings can be found here. The Facebook Data Team noted other interesting tidbits as well--negative emotional updates receive more comments than do positive emotional updates, for instance. The team's full post can be found here.)Older: Blue | Younger: Red || More Friends: Blue | Fewer: Red(Credit:Facebook Data Team)More Likes/Comments: Blue | Fewer: Red(Credit:Facebook Data Team)<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Zynga launches its flagship mobile game Words With Friends on Android]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>shwindamss</dc:creator>
<category>Latest News</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Zynga dominates Facebook games with more than 275 million users for its social games. But mobile gaming is another story.If Zynga can take a big stake in the fast-growing mobile games segment, then it will diversify beyond Facebook and give investors another reason to get excited. Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal reported that Zynga was raising a $250 million round of funding that valued the company at $7 billion to $9 billion.To be more than an also-ran in mobile, Zynga is starting to invest heavily. Today, it launched the Android mobile device version of its Words With Friends game, the popular iPhone title Zynga recently acquired with the purchase of Newtoy.The game is innovative in that it allows friends on different phone platforms to play against each other, so an Android player could challenge an iPhone player.The Scrabble-like word game launched on the Android Market this morning. The game lets users play with up to 20 of their friends simultaneously, engage in in-game chat, and receive push notifications about when to take a turn.The Android version is available as a free download and it has an ad-free premium version coming out later this year. Zynga says that Words with Friends is the most popular multiplayer word game on the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch.Words With Friends can be played across more than 50 Android devices today. David Ko, senior vice president for mobile at Zynga, said the company&amp;'s goal is to make its games available anytime on any device.Zynga launched its first Android game, Zynga Poker, in December. Rivals include DeNA, Glu Mobile, and a variety of other mobile game companies.Next Story: Nokia and Microsoft: Can two weaklings make a muscleman Previous Story: Big media, not popular bloggers, dominate the conversation on TwitterPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Android, iPhone, Words With FriendsCompanies: ZyngaPeople: David Ko          Tags: Android, iPhone, Words With FriendsCompanies: ZyngaPeople: David KoDean is lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. He covers video games, security, chips and a variety of other subjects. Dean previously worked at the San Jose Mercury News, the Wall Street Journal, the Red Herring, the Los Angeles Times, the Orange County Register and the Dallas Times Herald. He is the author of two books, Opening the Xbox and the Xbox 360 Uncloaked. Follow him on Twitter at @deantak, and follow VentureBeat on Twitter at @venturebeat. Have news to share Launching a startup Email: tips@venturebeat.comVentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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