ComScore U.S. Internet Report: YoY, Pinterest Up 4000+%, Amazon Up 30%, Android Top Smartphone & More | Could looming chip supply issues derail the mobile market? | Western Digital Gets Into the Home Networking Game | Kevin Rose On His New Gig At Google Ventures, What He Looks For In A Startup Founder, And More [TCTV] | Frequent travelers are starting to see in-flight WiFi as a necessity

ComScore U.S. Internet Report: YoY, Pinterest Up 4000+%, Amazon Up 30%, Android Top Smartphone & More

Posted by TechCrunch
In a report being released today, measurement firm comScore says that unique visits to social networking sites have increased by 6% year-over-year. The company also re-confirmed that Pinterest remains the fastest-growing social network as of Q1 2012, and its users rival only that of LinkedIn in terms of buying power.These figures were a part of comScore’s latest “State of the U.S. Internet” presentation, which was first revealed via private webinar this afternoon, with a full report expected to be made public on comScore’s website next week. In addition to measuring social networking growth, comScore also detailed trends in mobile, online advertising and e-commerce[...]
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Could looming chip supply issues derail the mobile market?

Posted by VentureBeat
Over the past several years, the semiconductor market has changed from a primarily vertically integrated model (e.g., ownership of design through manufacturing), to one of chip design efforts separated from production fabs (the foundry model). This has allowed many new entrants into the market that no longer needed to raise incredible sums to build and operate their own fabs.
With state of the art fabs now costing $5 billion to $10 billion each, this model has provided an advantage to many smallish firms with great ideas for chips, but no means to build advanced production facilities. It also created mega-fab companies (e.g., TSMC, Samsung, Global Foundries) which were able to invest in faci[...]
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Western Digital Gets Into the Home Networking Game

Posted by PCWorld
Western Digital's My Net N900 features an intergrated cooling fan, which renders it particularly suitable for placement in a poorly ventilated entertainment center.Western Digital is getting into the highly competitive home networking market with a line of Wi-Fi routers that promise to improve streaming media performance, including a couple that come with integrated, remotely accessible storage.
All of WD's My Net routers support concurrent dual band (2.4- and 5GHz) 802.11n networks, although top speeds vary based on the number of antennas in the product. All use WD's proprietary FasTrack Plus technology, which the company says can identify and prioritize video, music, gaming and other perfo[...]
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Kevin Rose On His New Gig At Google Ventures, What He Looks For In A Startup Founder, And More [TCTV]

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Kevin Rose has been a familiar face in the tech scene for more than a decade now, in a variety of roles. All his gigs have been pretty unique from each other, but there has been a common thread: They’ve all been relatively “indie” in terms of size and scope, with a startup vibe rather than a corporate one. So in many ways, the acqui-hire of Milk by Google in March was perhaps the biggest shift in Rose’s career — a move that represented his most significant and complete step out of the entrepreneurial side of the tech industry, and into a role at a major corporation[...]
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Frequent travelers are starting to see in-flight WiFi as a necessity

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It’s been a little bit more than three years since in-flight WiFi started to really take to the skies, but it’s already becoming an indispensable tool for many travelers.
I was at San Francisco airport last Friday waiting for a six-hour flight to New York when the gate agent announced that the aircraft we were scheduled to board was having trouble with WiFi. People around the gate were incredulous. As it turned out, our aircraft had other problems, so they swapped airplanes. When we were boarding, another passenger inquired about the status of WiFi on our new plane. (It worked.)
A lack of in-flight internet access may have played a part in prolonging the mixups during Facebook[...]
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