Verizon adding suite of Amazon apps to all new Android devices

Most US carriers have been pulling back on the sheer number of pre-installed apps thrown onto the latest Android devices, but Verizon appears to be heading in the opposite direction. An announcement found within the safe confines of Big Red’s internal system indicates that the Samsung Galaxy Stellar

Disrupting Yesterday’s Disruptors: How Millennial Entrepreneurs Are Killing It

The title of this Disrupt SF panel is terrible (two ‘Disrupts,’ seriously?), but its premise is pretty amazing: How do Millennials deal with shaking up an industry to the point where they define it, and are at risk of being overthrown by hungry upstarts? Seriously, that’s cooler than being cool? Having

Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G announced, arriving at T-Mobile in the coming weeks

The rumors didn’t lead us astray this time around: T-Mobile’s latest QWERTY device, the Samsung Galaxy S Blaze Q Relay 4G has been officially announced. While we’re still waiting to hear pricing and availability (aside from the usual "coming weeks," that is), we have confirmation that the 4-inch Super

With Social ROI Tool, Adobe Takes on Salesforce

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Tired Of Being Twitter For Voice, Bubbly 2.0 for iPhone Becomes “The Instagram Of Voice”

Singapore-based Bubble Motion, the company behind sound-based social network Bubbly, unveiled a new version of its app today. The version 2.0 of Bubbly introduces filters users can apply to their voice, much like those Instagram offers for photos. Bubbly has a lot of traction already, including 19 million

Adobe Social Launches To Create And Monitor Social Ads

After several months in beta testing, Adobe is launching Adobe Social, which it’s pitching as a way to connect social marketing campaigns with real business results.

That was the big emphasis when the company first announced the product back in April, and when I got a demo of the current version a couple

Post-Acquisition, Brightcove’s Zencoder Adds Live Streaming And Instant Playback

Video distribution company Brightcove announced its acquisition of Zencoder to coincide with its second-quarter earnings announcement in July, paying $30 million for the cloud encoding startup. And it’s already working to add more features and functionality to the encoding side of the business, with

Did Amazon just tease football fans with new Kindle devices?

Watching tonight’s Cowboys / Giants game? We hope you stuck around for the commercials, because Amazon may have given NFL fans a glimpse of what’s to come during tomorrow’s event. According to folks watching the game, the firm ran a brief commercial featuring what appears to be a pair of Kindle devices,

Ethernet gets new IEEE standard, still requires your thumbnail

If you’ve been taking your trusty ethernet cable for granted since 1985, then we don’t blame you — that’s when the IEEE 802.3 standard was first published and it hasn’t had a full revision since 2008. Behind the scenes, however, the IEEE Ethernet Working Group has continued to add extras like 100Gbps

Twitter Tells You How to Follow the NFL This Season

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