Google Nexus 7 Tablet Shows Up on Benchmark Site | Google Looks To One-Up Facebook With Google+ Local: A More Social Google Places, With A Twist Of Zagat | Play Safe For Android Locks Down Your Phone So Kids Can (Safely) Play | Hello new #NewTwitter: Blazing speed and death to those #!#! hashbangs | PlanGrid grabs seed round to make blueprints mobile

Google Nexus 7 Tablet Shows Up on Benchmark Site

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The name disclosed on the Righware site, “Google Asus Nexus 7,” suggests this will be a 7-inch tablet manufactured by Asus for Google[...]
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Google Looks To One-Up Facebook With Google+ Local: A More Social Google Places, With A Twist Of Zagat

Posted by TechCrunch
Google+, with 100 million active users, still has a long way to go before being anywhere near social network rival Facebook’s nearly one-billion subscribers. But it has been working hard to leverage its substantial audiences in other areas to do just that. And today saw the latest advance in that area, with the double news that it is launching Google+ Local, and sunsetting Google Places, its older, less social version of local listings and local search.
Now, if you go to the web page for Google Places, you get two options: a link through to Google+ Local, or if you are a business, an option to claim your spot in Google’s directory — soon to be converted into its own Google[...]
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Play Safe For Android Locks Down Your Phone So Kids Can (Safely) Play

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Sometimes you just gotta do your own thing. Such was the case with Boris Vaisman, who dropped out of Y Combinator’s winter batch (where he was on kid-safe phone lockdown tool, Kyte). Says Vaisman, it was just a matter of “having a different vision in terms of how to move forward.” So what has Vaisman, along with co-founder Ankush Agarwal, now launched instead? Play Safe, an app for Android that lets kids safely play games on your own smartphone.
To be honest, Kyte has the arguably bigger vision. It wants to provide a kid-friendly user interface for kids’ own Android smartphones. A Net Nanny for the modern age, if you will, but one infused with family-friendly features[...]
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Hello new #NewTwitter: Blazing speed and death to those #!#! hashbangs

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Twitter and performance issues have been synonymous for almost as long as Twitter has existed, turning the familiar fail whale into a common Internet meme. However, with a new update rolling out starting today, Twitter engineers are hoping for complete fail whale extinction and a better user experience.
#NewTwitter, released near the end of 2010, moved processing loads from the then-overburdened Twitter servers to users’ browsers, but it wasn’t blazing fast. Browsers struggled when trying to render all the user interface and page logic locally in Javascript. By contrast, the latest update has Twitter’s now well-architected-and-resourced servers re-shoulder some of the load,[...]
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PlanGrid grabs seed round to make blueprints mobile

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Construction-focused startup PlanGrid, fresh from the Y Combinator incubator, has raised $1.1 million in seed funding.
Plangrid brings blueprints to iPads, eliminating the need for large paper blueprints. The company graduated from Y Combinator in April of this year and debuted at YC’s Demo Day.
Noted investors from Google, Box, and Loopt participated in the seed round. The full press release is below.
Sunnyvale, CA – May 29, 2012 – PlanGrid, a construction-focused startup and alumnus of Y Combinator, announced today that it has raised $1.1 million in seed funding. The company plans to expand its team, build new features and accelerate its overall growth in delivering advanced solution[...]
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