Newsle: A mixture of Facebook and Google Alerts (Beta Invites)

Newslebrings you news on the people you care about by providing a newsfeed full of information pertaining to only your friends and the people you follow. The service enables users to import their friends from both Facebook and LinkedIn, and it will keep you updated when something is overheard about them on the web. But, it’s not just for keeping tabs on people you know, Newsle will also let you follow the public figures you like within its large database....

6 min · 1133 words · Carol Allen

NewsWhip mines Twitter and Facebook to find hottest news right now

There are plenty of inventive ways to find news these days. FromFlipboard‘s beautiful presentation of what your friends’ are sharing through to recentinnovationsfrom Google News.NewsWhipis a new site from an Irish team that takes a dash of Flipboard’s approach and adds a pinch ofTweetmemeto surface important news stories based on current sharing trends on Twitter and Facebook. It works by categorising hundreds of thousands of news stories from across the Web, and monitoring Twitter and Facebook to see which have been shared the most in the past few minutes or hours....

4 min · 752 words · Tanner Vaughan

Next iPhone likely to have an 8 megapixel camera

According to Taiwanese supply chain companies, the nextiPhone— one they’re calling the iPhone 4S, not the iPhone 5 — will feature an 8 megapixel camera,Digitimes Telecomreports. Nothing about the front camera is stated, but the rear camera is slated to receive the bump, up from the current 4 megapixels. It’s unknown at this time whether the camera will receive any additional improvements, though one can assume that if Apple is doubling the camera’s megapixel capacity they’ll take other steps as well....

2 min · 233 words · Juan Hogan

Next Windows Phone update reportedly codenamed “Apollo”

As with any product cycle, even before something is released, work begins on the next version of a product, service or software. This is especially true of Microsoft. Just a week after the Redmond-based software giant announced a bevy of updates that would be included in its next update for the Windows Phone platform, codenamed Mango, reports have started circulating as to what its next update is to be referenced as....

2 min · 292 words · Amy Floyd

Next WP7 browser puts iOS/Android offerings to shame

Wrapping up our coverage of the MIX11 keynote today is a video showing off the raw HTML5 capabilities that IE9 Mobile will bring to the Windows Phone platform. IE9 Mobile is built with much the same guts as the desktop version of IE9, meaning that the HTML5 prowess that the full build of Internet Explorer 9 contains will eventually go mobile. Hardware acceleration as a component of IE9 is a favorite Microsoft talking point, and is often something that Softies use to tout the browser....

2 min · 317 words · Larry Newman
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