Ifbyphone helped Batteries Plus polish its customer services with its Store Locator app. The solution would provide customers with routes to the nearest retail store as they are given the direct addresses, locations on product experts and franchises. The integration works pretty efficiently as whenever a customer calls Battery Plus, Ifbyphone’s solution simply inquires customers on what they are looking for and provides assistance accordingly. In a press release, Ifbyphone’s CEO, Irv Shapiro stated:
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Modu has closed in another round of funding as it raised $7 million from Qualcomm. The startup has been pretty successful ever since it launched last year, bringing in enough cash to help it further boost its growth in the mobile arena. There isn’t much regarding what is to be done with the cash, but Modu doesn’t really appear to be the in the ground to have it last long enough.
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In its bid to expand further into the social media scene, The Knot has acquired WedSnap, making it its second acquisition in less than two weeks. WedSnap is the developer of Facebook’s popular wedding application, Weddingbook, which pretty much reveals Knot’s willingness to buy its developer. David Liu, CEO of Knot spoke on the acquisition stating:
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RCN, the cable internet provider will be closing its site on February 24. Visitors from there on will be directed to the information site, surprisingly enough RCN hasn’t facilitated its users with an alternate start page, something they should have instead of just bowing out from providing world news. The email to their customers was just a note to let them know that they must wave the service goodbye:
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Whoever said domains are way far from creativity might just think why he never really thought of doing this? The $30, Country Codes of the World neatly represents each of the countries with their respective codes, the size of which is according to their population. That’s one reason why I am not surprised seeing the size of both China and India.
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The Internet Explorer 8 has made it out of beta testing and is available for now as the Release Candidate 1. Though not the full release, it’s ready enough to be loaded and tested by users/reviewers (not as yet). Reports are it’s got enough cream to help Microsoft stay in the lead in the browser market that has seen the likes of Firefox climb higher on percentage share lately. The IE8 has tweaked up Web Slices that enables monitoring of web services, updating you even if you aren’t on that page. It includes various other features that protect your system from attacks (phishing, etc). But the most important feature is the Compatibility View that would show older website designed for previous versions to be seen without any flaws.
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While developers may be lost wondering what app is a hit on the variety of devices it’s been created for, Flurry has managed to answer that. The firm launched its own app analytic tool that works on all major devices (iPhone, Android) and lets developers learn how the app they have created scores with users. The tool has been pretty successful for as many as 300 developers have already signed up for it since October. It’s very effective, primarily because it offers real time stats on the apps usage and that it will help developers constantly improve their apps, based on each ones success or failure.
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IBM is partnering with three universities to create a platform for the cloud computing. The partnership would include Carnegie Mellon University, Texas A&M University in Qatar and Qatar University and will be utilizing the country’s Cloud Computing Center to accelerate research on scientific simulation, data processing, search, etc. In a statement, Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar, Majd F.Sakr stated:
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If you had been worried for long waiting when does YouTube let you delete your video comments, worry no more as YouTube released its Abuse and Safety tool. In case you have made a comment that you think shouldn’t be there, just go to the Text Comments section and hit remove. How about YouTube letting users do some editing on comments that are spam?
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