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Former Apple employee questions author Adam Lashinsky

by Steven Sande (Jan 30th, 2012)

Author and Fortune Magazine editor Adam Lashinsky's new book -- Inside Apple: How America's Most Admired - and Secretive - Company Really Works -- is in bookstores now and the author has embarked on a publicity tour to drum up sales. At the first stop on the tour at the LinkedIn headquarters in ...

CardMunch app adds LinkedIn profiles

by Kelly Hodgkins (Nov 15th, 2011)

Some of you may remember CardMunch before LinkedIn acquired it earlier this year. The app lets you scan business cards and add them to a contact list. It uses Amazon's Mechanical Turk service and an actual human to do the optical character recognition needed to translate the image into text. ...

Four websites that need iPad apps

by Michael Grothaus (Sep 3rd, 2011)

The iPad is an amazing device for surfing the web. Its large screen and multitouch gestures make it feel like you're actually holding a web page in your hands. Web browsing on the iPad is going to get even better with the release of iOS 5. That's when Safari on iPad gains Reading List and ...

LinkedIn overhauls its iPhone app

by Michael Grothaus (Aug 16th, 2011)

LinkedIn has updated its iPhone app today to version 4.0. It's actually more than an update -- it's a complete overhaul of the app. Version 4.0 features a totally new UI with quick and easy access to four areas of LinkedIn: your profile, account updates, your inbox, and groups. Tap on any one ...

iOS 5 contacts app has fields for Facebook, Flickr, LinkedIn and Myspace info

by Steven Sande (Jun 10th, 2011)

One of the more interesting iOS 5 features revealed this week during the Monday keynote was seamless integration with Twitter. Now a report published by All Things D shows that fields for other social networking sites also appear in the iOS 5 contacts app, including Facebook, Flickr, LinkedIn, ...

Flock comes to the end of the road as support ceases

by Samuel Gibbs (Apr 13th, 2011)

Flock, the original social web browser, has been marked for termination. Originally released back in 2005 and powered by a Firefox core, Flock brought social to the browser by integrating with Flickr, del.icio.us (as it was at the time) and a whole host of blogging services. Later, with the ...

LinkedIn lets you follow social news with updated iPhone app

by Michael Grothaus (Mar 11th, 2011)

For those of you not familiar with it, LinkedIn is a social network for your professional contacts. Think of it as Facebook without the keg stand photos. I've been a big fan of LinkedIn for a while now and was excited when it launched its LinkedIn Today social news feature. LinkedIn Today is a ...

First Look: A totally Unsocial app

by Steven Sande (Oct 18th, 2010)

Sometimes it seems like the last thing we need is another social networking app, but how about being Unsocial? Unsocial (free) is a new iPhone app described as the unholy spawn of LinkedIn and Foursquare. In other words, it's oriented towards business networking, like LinkedIn, and ...

LinkedIn app releases version 3.0 for the iPhone

by Mike Schramm (Dec 30th, 2009)

LinkedIn has always seemed like the "me too" of social networks, in my mind. They started out as a site more about careers and job networking, but with the big growth of Facebook the last two years, it seems like they're working as hard as they can just to keep up with what's going on over there. ...

PA Semi team creating new ARM-based iPhone CPU

by Robert Palmer (Sep 15th, 2008)

Apple Senior Manager Wei-han Lien let slip that teams acquired with the purchase of PA Semi are working on an ARM-based processor for the iPhone, and possibly other devices, according to The New York Times. While not a huge surprise, as Steve himself said that's what the former PA Semi staff was ...

iPhone-optimized versions of LinkedIn, TalkShoe now up

by Michael Rose (Feb 25th, 2008)

We don't post about every website that comes up with an iPhone/iPod touch-optimized version -- if we did, we wouldn't have time for eating or sleeping -- but every now and then a couple of sites newly built for Mobile Safari rise above the pack. Today's launches for everyone's favorite "internet in ...

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