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Are Programmers Responsible For the Actions of Their Clients?

Posted by on January 3, 2013 No comments

Bobfrankly1 writes “Robert Stuart and his company Extensions Software are being charged by New York authorities, claiming he is promoting gambling in New York because of the actions of his clients. They are charging him after he rejected a plea agreement that would have him plead guilty to lesser charges, adding backdoors to his software, and using said backdoors to gather details on his clients and their customers.” Another article on the case at Salon.

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Mixpanel Is Tracking More Than Actions Now, Introduces User Analytics

Posted by on July 2, 2012 No comments

mixpanel-logoEvery time I talk to Mixpanel co-founder Suhail Doshi, he likes to update me on how many actions his analytics startup is tracking for its customers every month. (In case you’re wondering: The latest number is more than 6 billion.) But Mixpanel isn’t just tracking actions anymore — starting today, it’s tracking people, too and providing a more “user-centric” view of its data.

Specifically, when customers open up their Mixpanel dashboard, they’ll see a new menu under the “actions” section called “people”, where they can get data about all of their visitors, such as gender, age, and country, and then correlate that data with user activity, so that, for example, you can tell whether men or women are spending more time in your app. Doshi says these are the kinds of “really hard but very specific” questions that most companies have to build their own in-house analytics systems to answer.
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Analytics Startup Mixpanel Is Tracking 4 Billion Actions Each Month — And It’s Cash-Flow Positive

Posted by on March 1, 2012 No comments

mixpanel logoMixpanel, the analytics startup backed by Sequoia Capital, hasn’t yet succeeded in its goal of unseating established analytics services like Omniture — but momentum is building.

Let’s start with the biggest number that co-founder Suhail Doshi shared with me this week. He says the company is now tracking 4 billion actions every month. Back in July 2010, that number was “only” 1 billion. He also says there are more than 2,500 organizations who are sending Mixpanel data every month (I guess that’s Mixpanel equivalent of an “active user”). And that customer base was built through word-of-mouth because, Doshi says, “We basically do almost no marketing” the startup’s total monthly marketing spend is between $ 3,000 and $ 5,000.

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Motorola pits Voice Actions against Siri, claims to take the title belt (video)

Posted by on February 27, 2012 No comments
Voice Actions vs. Siri

Siri may be the media darling and, admittedly she’s the one with the winning personality. But Motorola wants to remind you that Android has a voice control app of its own and argues it’s better than its iPhone 4S exclusive competition. In a series of videos, which we’ve embedded after the break, Moto pits Voice Actions against Siri on a trio of handsets — the Atrix 2, Photon 4G and Electrify. A faceless taskmaster tells the handset to send a text, pull up driving directions and load a website. In each of the tests, Voice Actions bests the polite lady inside the iPhone and gets crowned the champ. Though, we can’t help but think things would have turned out differently if the competition involved finding the meaning of life.

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Patent application hints at Voice Actions for Google TV

Posted by on February 21, 2012 No comments
Google TV Voice Actions

Android on your phone can send texts, perform searches, set alarms and execute plenty of other tasks with little more than a simple voice command. Google TV is, for all intents and purposes, just Android blown up to fill your 42-inch TV — so it would only make sense that Voice Actions might one day come to the Mountain View-branded set top solution. Well, a patent application filed back in September hints that just such a thing is on its way. Rather than require new hardware though, an Android phone would act as an intermediary, passing commands to the Google TV device. An added bonus to being able to ask your TV “when is Seinfeld on?” is that, since the phone is actually passing on the instructions, you can control your set remotely. As an example the filing suggests using GPS to determine when a user is within a quarter mile of their home, then turning on the TV and tuning in to whatever station happens to be airing The Soup Nazi. Hit up the source for all the details.

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Motorola to continue pushing ‘smart actions’, wants to make you look cleverer

Posted by on January 25, 2012 No comments

Motorola to continue pushing 'smart actions', wants to make you look cleverer

Motorola’s automated smartphone rule system first appeared on its Droid Razr; a way of sidestepping laborious menu hopping for everyday tweaks and extra functionality — with some location-based awareness thrown in. Motorola’s senior VP, Alain Mutricy, recently announced that the company plans to continue the roll-out of this smart actions system, presumably on its Razr series, which will also see further expansion this year. The VP added that Motorola will focus on its high-end hands in the US, continuing to roll-out LTE capable handsets. Moto’s earnings report will arrive soon and should set the stage for whatever else its new owners are plotting for 2012.

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Verizon reportedly fires 40 employees for strike actions

Posted by on December 7, 2011 No comments

Verizon Communications employees were terminated for strike-related acts ranging from physical violence to making racial threats, the Boston Globe reports.
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