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Friday, May 25, 2012

Facebook Camera vs. Instagram: Ultimate Mobile Photo Sharing Smackdown

A new challenger appears! Facebook is now beginning to eat up its children, releasing a Camera app that competes directly with its recently purchased Instagram. Is it any good? Should you use both? Which one is better? Let's dig in

Read More: http://gizmodo.com/5913081/facebook-camera-vs-instagram-ultimate-mobile-photo-sharing-smackdown

What Yahoo Founder Jerry Yang Should've Learned From Firefox In 2005

Former Mozilla CEO John Lilly watched Yang blow his top when presented with a browser that put Yahoo competitors front and center. Seven years later, Yahoo finally got around to launching a browser of its own.

Read More: http://www.fastcompany.com/1838500/what-yahoo-founder-jerry-yang-shouldve-learned-from-firefox-in-2005

Office Perks Startup BetterWorks Will Shut Down On May 31

BetterWorks, the employee perks startup led by Los Angeles entrepreneur and investor Paige Craig, has told its customers that it will be shutting down May 31.

The company offered tools to help businesses manage discounts and rewards programs for employees. In the past few months, BetterWorks still seemed to be rolling out a steady stream of new features like catering and groups and permissions. In fact, Director of Product Varun Krishna told me that BetterWorks was seeing growing interest from larger enterprises (though in retrospect that may have been a polite way of saying that it wasn’t making enough money from small- and medium-sized businesses).

Thursday, May 24, 2012

Diverse Lynx, LLC selected for “New Jersey’s Top Technology Consultants” – March 2012

Diverse Lynx, LLC selected for “New Jersey’s Top Technology Consultants” – March 2012

Diverse Lynx, LLC, a nationally recognized and award-winning IT staffing and Solutions Company has been named in the Top Technology Consultants list for New Jersey by NJBIZ Newspaper for second consecutive year.

The list, published by NJBIZ on a yearly basis, ranks Technology Consulting firms by total employees and consultants based in New Jersey. Diverse Lynx has been ranked 18th in the top 25 list and has effectively expanded its public and private sector client list throughout the United States.

“We had a steady growth in the past few years and will continue to have the same growth by delivering vital services and providing an unsurpassed value to our clients” said Shubhendra Varma, President of Diverse Lynx, LLC.

NJBIZ’s Top Technology Consultants List is out in the March 2012 edition of NJBIZ Newspaper. For more information and to obtain copies of the list, please visit www.njbiz.com/lists

For more information Diverse Lynx, LLC, please visit www.diverselynx.com

About Diverse Lynx, LLC

Diverse Lynx LLC is a Minority & Woman Owned Business, established in 2002 with headquarters in Princeton and off shore offices in India. The Company provides Staffing and Solution Services in Information Technology and Life Science domains. The company was founded on the precepts of providing reliable and optimal staffing IT resources to Clients. These principles coupled with the shared vision of being a premier IT consulting firm drives the ability to form meaningful partnerships with its clients. It is a single point support for all software needs of its clients. Whether it involves developing customized software solutions- on-site or offshore, or providing onsite-consulting support, it continuously transforms its expertise into productivity gains for its clients.

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Reveal Makes iOS Notifications Scrollable and Easier to Read

iOS (Jailbroken): Have you ever gotten a notification on your iPhone and wished you could just see the last few words of the message instead of having to open up the app? Reveal will make your lock screen and banner notifications scrollable and expandable, so you you can read the whole thing at a glance.

This is an especially fantastic tweak for apps like Sparrow, Google Voice, and other non-Apple apps that have to reload the inbox entirely when you open them up. With Reveal, you can read the entire notification right from your lock screen, or on the banner that appears along the top of the menu bar. Check out the video to see it in action, or head to Cydia and search for it to try it yourself.

Reveal is a $1.99 download for jailbroken iOS devices.

How to destroy internet ?

Remember when Anonymous threatened to destroy the entire internet? We laughed, and ultimately their words were just hacker hubris. But it got us thinking—couldsomeone actually destroy the Internet?

We did some digging, and guess what: With enough effort, the entire thing can be shattered. Physically. Completely. Here's how to kill the net.

Before we destroy mankind's greatest, vastest machine, let's get something polite out of the way: don't. Destroying the Internet's core infrastructure would constitute the greatest act of global terrorism in history and/or a declaration of war against every sovereign nation in existence—to say nothing of the danger it would put both you and others in. This is a thought exercise.

Make It Social: VEVO Sees 600% Increase In Facebook Traffic After Redesign

In March, VEVO launched a bold new redesignthat provided TV-like viewing, with instantaneous and continuous playback. But the biggest addition to the platform, other than a beautiful new full-screen player, was a new social sharing feature that takes advantage of Facebook Open Graph. Not surprisingly, VEVO seen a dramatic increase in the number of videos that are watched and shared on the social network since then.

VEVO has seen a 600 percent increase in Facebook-published or -watched videos when compared to February, to 4.5 million. It’s also signed up half a million new users via Facebook, which represents a 142 percent increase over the previous month. And the total number of impressions on Facebook grew to 171 million, which is a 181 percent change from February.