http://techcrunch.com – After years of rumors, the Facebook Phone aka the HTC First finally launches April 12th for $99 on AT&T. It’s light and supple, plus comes with a suped-up version of Facebook Home pre-installed that pipes in non-Facebook notifications, but the 5MP Camera is a let down. (IT news)
Email this pagehttp://techcrunch.com – Y Combinator-backed Firebase is expanding the infrastructure that it offers to app developers with its first module — Firepad, a Google Docs-style text editor that allows you to collaborate with others. To a consumer, that might not sound very exciting. After all, we’ve already got Google Docs. (IT news)
Email this pagehttp://techcrunch.com – Lulu (formerly Luluvise), the controversial mobile app that lets girls anonymously review and recommend guys, is seeing some pretty decent traction since it rebooted in February to focus on launching across U.S. college campuses, early Facebook-style. The London/U.S. (IT news)
Email this pagehttp://techcrunch.com – “It’s absurd that people won’t go to a restaurant unless they’ve read reviews but they don’t do that for their healthcare.” That’s why top electronic medical records startup Practice Fusion‘s CEO Ryan Howard said his company built Patient Fusion, a site where you can compare reviews of nearby physicians and book appointments as soon as within an hour (IT news)
Email this pagehttp://ubuntuforums.org – Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 311 for the week April 1 - 7, 2013. Links to UWN Wiki page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue311 In This Issue Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail) Beta 2 releasedWelcome New Members and DevelopersUbuntu StatsUbuntu Global Jam - An Early Call for Events!Showcase the diversity of the Ubuntu community!Call for nominations to the (Hardware)
Email this pagehttp://techcrunch.com – Editor’s note: Tadhg Kelly is a veteran game designer, creator of leading game design blog What Games Are and creative director of Jawfish Games. You can follow him on Twitter here. So let’s be upfront about a couple of things. First, I went to the OUYA party at GDC. Second, I also was invited to the pre-dinner beforehand. (IT news)
Email this pagehttp://techcrunch.com – High Fidelity, a new startup from Second Life founder Philip Rosedale, has raised $2.4 million out of a $3.4 million round, according to a new SEC filing. (IT news)
Email this pagehttp://techcrunch.com – Notice a little extra red in the blue sea of Facebook the past couple of days? That’s a new picture shared by the Human Rights Campaign, an advocacy group for LGBT individuals and their allies, which is being used to show support for marriage equality. Proposition 8, which outlaws same-sex marriages in California, has moved in front of the Supreme Court for review. (IT news)
Email this pagehttp://news.opensuse.org – Last week we let openSUSE 12.3 out of the gate. Like always, it was exciting and fun to see the result of so much preparation get to our users! So, how did it go and what did we learn? Conversations We had great conversations with you on google plus and we were very happy that 40 people joined the openSUSE team hangout on the release day! (Distributions)
Email this pagehttps://www.linux.com – The branch of the GTK+ tool-kit being used for introducing support for client side decorations is being prepped for review and ultimately being merged to mainline... The branch of the GTK+ tool-kit being used for introducing support for client side decorations is being prepped for review and ultimately being merged to mainline... Read more at Phoronix (Software)
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