Nook Passes Fire in Web Traffic in June | Zynga And CBS Are Working To Bring Draw Something To Primetime TV | What your Internet behavior says about your mental state | Files in the cloud: Feature, product or company? | Dropbox for iOS Adds Handy Automatic Camera Uploads

Nook Passes Fire in Web Traffic in June

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The Barnes &Noble Nook tablet's Web traffic overtook that of the Kindle Fire for the first time in early June[...]
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Zynga And CBS Are Working To Bring Draw Something To Primetime TV

Posted by TechCrunch
So you wondered how Zynga was gonna make money off its $210 million acquisition of OMGPOP? How about this: Hit game title Draw Something will soon be at the center of a new primetime game show, according to a report by Variety. The show’s pilot, which was picked up by CBS after an apparent bidding war, will be produced by Sony Pictures Television, Ryan Seacrest Productions, and Embassy Row.According to Variety, the pilot concept will pit multiple celebrities and users against each other in front of a studio audience, translating a title most people play in their spare time while commuting or before bed into a hilarious new game show. Viewers at home will reportedly also be able to play[...]
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What your Internet behavior says about your mental state

Posted by VentureBeat
I’m a multi-tasking, tab-switching,�compulsive email-checker and apparently this behavior could indicate that I’m depressed, according to�researchers from the Missouri University of Science and Technology.
Assistant professor of computer science�Sriram Chellappan and�software engineer Raghavendra Kotikalapudi gave an overview on their research in the New York Times. The duo’s research suggests that your Internet behavior ties in with your mental state. Specifically if you share a lot of files online, switch between Internet applications, watch a lot of videos, or check email�obsessively, you could be depressed.
To reach these findings, Chellappan and Kotikalapudi rounded up[...]
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Files in the cloud: Feature, product or company?

Posted by Gigaom
Box CEO Aaron Levie
The bigger players have arrived. Microsoft recently gave SkyDrive a major overhaul, and Google brought out its long-awaited Drive. Apple had already launched the iCloud product. It?s no accident that three of the world?s most powerful technology companies have entered this market in tandem. It speaks to the importance of cloud storage, and means that the theoretical discussion about what might happen will quickly give way to the reality of what does happen.
ScaleVP is an early investor in Box, the leader in cloud-based enterprise file sharing. No surprise then that I agree with Bill Gurley, but I would frame the discussion more broadly. File synchronization and file shar[...]
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Dropbox for iOS Adds Handy Automatic Camera Uploads

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Cloud storage utility Dropbox updated its iPhone app with automatic uploads of photos and videos from the iPhone's camera roll[...]
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