Amazon to Sell Nokia's 41-Megapixel Camera Phone in the U.S. | Google Launches Custom Themes For Gmail, Lets You Choose Your Own Background Photos | 250K beta testers later, MightyText launches possibly the best texting app for Android, ever | If AWS is the Walmart of cloud, is OpenStack the Soviet Union? | Google+ Enterprise Version and Flipboard Integration on the Way, Says Exec

Amazon to Sell Nokia's 41-Megapixel Camera Phone in the U.S.

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The unlocked ad unsubsidized Nokia 808 PureView with Carl Zeiss optics will cost $699[...]
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Google Launches Custom Themes For Gmail, Lets You Choose Your Own Background Photos

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For a while now, Gmail users have been able to choose between various themes to personalize their inboxes. Starting today, you will be able to add even more of a personal touch to Gmail, as Google now allows you to set your own background images in Gmail. Google actually offered a similar option for Gmail before it launched its redesign last year, but this time around, Google – of course – also offers a deeper Google+ integration and allows you to upload your own photos directly or select your backgrounds from your Google+ photos[...]
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250K beta testers later, MightyText launches possibly the best texting app for Android, ever

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iMessage is coming for Mac users in July. But Android smartphone owners can get something better, for free, right now. It’s called MightyText, and it’s launching from public beta today.
MightyText is a very simple product with a killer value prop: text anyone, anywhere, from whatever device you happen to be using. And yes, that very specifically means both your computer and tablet.
To use it, Android users install one app onto their phone, and one extension into their browser. Once done, they’re able to SMS anyone in the world from their computer. And the text will come from their mobile number. Your messages are stored in the cloud for as long as you want, and all texts ar[...]
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If AWS is the Walmart of cloud, is OpenStack the Soviet Union?

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The stage was set for a lively debate between public cloud rivals at GigaOM Structure in San Francisco Thursday ? representatives from Citrix, Eucalyptus and the OpenStack project certainly delivered. Nebula CEO and OpenStack co-founder Chris Kemp didn?t even get past the introductions before he challenged his fellow panelists on their ?closed? cloud implementations and embrace of Amazon Web Services? API, which he compared to the Walmart of infrastructure.
?It?s reasonably fast, reasonably priced and reasonably secure,? Kemp said, which is why it has the lion?s share of the cloud business today. But AWS will never be incredibly fast or incredibly secure, Kemp said, and while AWS may be emer[...]
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Google+ Enterprise Version and Flipboard Integration on the Way, Says Exec

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Google has high hopes for its Google+ social network in the enterprise, with a more corporate-friendly version on the way as the company also continues to slowly[...]
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