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GigaOm  2 hours ago:

The growing epidemic of page bloat -

The average web page is now more than 1 megabyte . This isn't a case where bigger is better, it's bad for site owners and for mobile users.
GigaOm  5 hours ago:

Meet the startup that wants to speed up U.S. broadband -

Gigabit Squared broke onto the scene Wednesday announcing it would spend $200 million to bring gigabit broadband to six college towns in conjunction with the Gig.
GigaOm  6 hours ago:

Should your startup be thinking about the federal government? -

Startups shouldn't only think about the federal government when thorny legislation like SOPA and PIPA arises.
GigaOm  6 hours ago:

Iron Sky distributor threatens file sharers with lawsuits -

Crowdsourcing, crowd-financing and... file sharing lawsuits? The science fiction comedy Iron Sky has gotten lots of help from its fans, and its filmmakers have in the past relied on BitTorrent to distribute their works.
GigaOm  7 hours ago:

Apple defends its e-book pricing as “perfectly proper” -

In the latest court filing in the ongoing Justice Department e-books price-fixing suit, Apple says it did not conspire to fix the prices of digital books to hurt competitors and its business strategy around pricing was "perfectly proper," according to a Reuters report.
GigaOm  7 hours ago:

Why the world has suddenly come round to 4G -

A new survey from Informa finds that 60 percent of all global carriers plan to deploy LTE by the end of 2013.
GigaOm  7 hours ago:

Autonomy founder Lynch to leave HP -

The big news out of Hewlett-Packard's second quarter earnings call is that the company will lose 9,000 employees in FY 2012, with former Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch among the departed.
GigaOm  7 hours ago:

ZocDoc CEO on why there aren’t more health tech startups -

About five years after its launch, ZocDoc is not only used by more than 1.2 million people every month, it’s paving the way for an emerging wave of health startups.
GigaOm  8 hours ago:

Khosla joins Bill Gates & Total to back Liquid Metal Battery -

Liquid Metal Battery, a startup developing a battery for the power grid that already counted Bill Gates and oil giant Total as an investor, has now brought on another high profile backer: Khosla Ventures.
GigaOm  9 hours ago:

Straight Talk: It could let you dump AT&T or T-Mobile -

I'm now using Straight Talk, a Tracfone-owned cellular provider that resells service on both AT&T and T-Mobile in the U.
GigaOm  10 hours ago:

AT&T starts replacing 2G with HSPA in NYC -

It looks like we were right about AT&T sunsetting its 2G networks to make way for more mobile broadband capacity.
GigaOm  10 hours ago:

Sonar offers on-the-go messaging to friend groups nearby -

One year after its launch, New York-based Sonar said it wants to be less of a mechanism for uncovering connections with strangers around you and more of a tool for actually connecting with friends and, eventually other contacts, you already have nearby.
GigaOm  10 hours ago:

Infogram wants to help you make beautiful infographics -

Latvian startup Infogr.am has launched its suite of online tools for building beautiful -- and shareable -- infographics on the web.
GigaOm  10 hours ago:

Don’t think of it as content, think of it as information -

In order to benefit from digital media and the disruption created by the social web, content companies and publishers have to think differently about what they do: it's not content, it's information, John Borthwick of Betaworks told attendees at paidContent 2012.
GigaOm  11 hours ago:

HTML5 is a newspaper’s best friend – even if it has a mobile app -

Apparently The Boston Globe didn’t get the memo that it’s an app-only world when it comes to mobile.
GigaOm  11 hours ago:

Rubicon Project expands into mobile with Mobsmith acquisition -

Los Angeles-based Rubicon Project today announced that it had acquired the San Fracisco-based mobile ad tech platform Mobsmith.
GigaOm  12 hours ago:

Top 4 IT takeaways from Tata’s tech guy -

Dr. Gautam Shroff, VP of Tata Consultancy Services and the head of the TCS Innovation Lab in Delhi, recently shared his thoughts on the hottest trends in IT.
GigaOm  12 hours ago:

Roku and Dish partner on new foreign TV streaming service -

Dish and Roku have partnered to launch a new streaming service focused on international programming. The service, dubbed DISHWorld, will offer foreign-language TV stations targeting Indian, Arabic and other expat communities.
GigaOm  12 hours ago:

The VC boys club is now an advantage . . . for competitors -

The venture capital old boys club is just that: old school. And like many things that aren't working for the traditional VC's, a failure to evolve is just a competitive disadvantage.
GigaOm  14 hours ago:

Samsung Galaxy S III smashes pre-order records in UK -

Any remaining doubts of high demand for Samsung's Galaxy S III can be laid to rest: Vodafone says that pre-orders for the coming soon phone have set records, making the Galaxy S III the operator's most pre-ordered Android device yet.



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