The New-Born iPad App, Flipboard, Doubles Its Number of Users and Triples Its Traffic in Just Two Months

Traffic of the users on Flipboard App has enlarged dramatically with a 300% boost since this early March only, which consequently lead to record breaking 8 and 9 million flips, announced the C.E.O., Mike McCue. Flipboard is a very new-born iPad application which converts your social and media feeds and presents a digital form of a magazine, where a flip is a touch on the screen which could be imagined as a single page view. Moreover, the social news app has also literally doubled its number of users in these two months.

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The app automatically collects data from all major social media and other websites; including Facebook, Twitter, Google Reader, Flickr. All the user has to do, is to only integrate these services into the app only once and the app repeatedly shows a magazine-like layout of all the feed coming from every source. The user saves itself the trouble of having to sign in to each service separately, and keep a track of every website one by one, also crowding up the poor browser of iPad. The app allows the user to get rod pf opening multiple tabs in the browser, or browser at all, along with bypassing the trouble to check on the desktop for the RSS feeds, mailbox and all other stuff. The user is easily updated with all information that also carefully set in order and priority, typically with a picture of one of your friends on vacation on the cover.

DirecTV Increases Its Revenue Up To 21% by the Help of New Subscribers

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The California based DirecTV Group Inc., which also the nation's largest satellite TV operator, announced on this Thursday that its profit has raised even more by 21% in their initial quarter of this year. With its continued success, the company has far passed its rivals, like Dish Network, and now almost leads the market. DirecTV also boasted in their announcement that it also added an extreme amount of 611,000 subscribers in this quarters’ period of January to March. This is its second-best record, as we go even back till the decade old history, best record being the previous fourth quarter of last year, with a total of 667,000 new subscriptions.

Green Organizations Use Internet and Maps to Help Them Clean the World

The internet savvy environmentalists, ranging from Cambodia to Brazil are now making use of the services of Google Earth for a very good cause. They are taking advantage of its illustrative software in order to identify and take action against the trash which has collected on the countryside. All these preparations are taking place on a higher pace, than normal, as they all put all their feet in to make World Cleanup 2012 a successful event, reported the organizers on Friday.

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The spokesperson for the event, Tiina Urm, told the AFP that the "Preparations for World Cleanup 2012 that were launched in February are being lead at the moment by a 50-member international team in 30 countries." Urm reported that the clean-up day for Estonians, is scheduled on Saturday as the organization "aims to expand the project to at least 70 more countries."

Kobo Wireless eReaders Jumps In the U.S. Market, With the Mothers’ Day Promotional Price of Only $99

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The rivalry within the eReader’s market is growing as every company boasts about the about their eReader gadget to be more of an entire functional tablet computers. Some companies even go a step ahead and related their eReader’s with the Apple’s iPad. While other companies compete on that ground, Kobo has found itself a complete new strategy to conquer the eReader’s market and win the hearts of all consumers: price. Kobo very recently announced that its new version of Onyx, newest Kobo Wireless eReader will be made available at all Best Buy stores within the United States. Moreover it declared that this release is specially timed on the Mothers’ Day, giving an exceptional promotional price of $99. He mentioned that customers will also be able to avail this promotional pricing from their homes, through Best Buy’s Web site too.

Cisco Keeps Striving Hard Towards Its Own Restructuring for Better Business

Cisco keeps struggling in the market as it aims for several more structural changes to bring it out of past numerable difficult quarters. The networking giants keeps striving as it works on itself to one day become more competent for bringing products and service to the market.

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Just last month Cisco Systems Inc., has killed dumped its product titled ‘Flip Video’ camcorder business; this was a very desperate attempt to narrow down its concentration towards greater goals since the competition intensifies no matter what. It was also announced by the company directly Thursday that it will be no more handling too many things, it made it clear that it will now focus more on its counted priorities; namely core routing, switching and services, collaboration, data center virtualization, architectures and video.