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Dropbox, a web-based file hosting service, raised $250M in Series B financing led by Index Ventures, Benchmark Capital, Goldman Sachs and Greylock Partners.
Dropbox
Website: http://www.dropbox.com/
Blog: http://blog.dropbox.com/
Twitter: @Dropbox
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Dropbox
Drew Houston, founder at CEO
Google+: https://plus.google.com/u/0/106018438597331086699
Twitter: @DrewHouston
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/drewhouston
[ Ryan Carson on "This Week in Startups." ]UPDATE: PayPal has unfrozen Diaspora*'s account after community outpouring of tweets and emails.
Diaspora* the open source social network that arose out of privacy issues associated with Facebook last year, recently reached out to the community for donations to sustain the network, which was all well and good until PayPal shutdown their account.
"We’re sorry to say that PayPal has frozen our account, so we’re currently unable to process contributions by credit card," Diaspora* wrote on its blog. "PayPal is notorious for arbitrary blocking of legitimate donations. We’ll get this sorted out as quickly as we can."
Watch this amazing video of the history of the iPhone that tracks innovations from the first mobile phone call to the A4 chip that powered the iPhone 4 dedicated to the memory of Steve Jobs [h\t Found on Frequency ].
This video created by CNET UK animates the history of the iPhone going as far back as the first mobile call made to Motorola's DYNATAC...
Obsessive readers, take note: just-launched Small Demons collects user-contributed details -- real-life people and locations mentioned, things like foods characters like and cars they drive, historical references and other books and movies based on the book -- so you can easily find new things to enjoy as well as read.
Founded by former Yahoo! product VPs Valla Vakili and Tony Amidei, the then-stealth company raised $3M in May from undisclosed investors.
Here's how it works. Type in "Harry Bosch," the protagonist in author Michael Connelly's mystery "The Black Echo," and you will see pages created for items like the history of the character's name. In this case, the detective is named after Hieronymus Bosch, an early Netherlandish painter of religious and moral concepts. From there you can find books about the painter...
Disclaimer: This workaround for installing the iOS 5 update comes courtesy of Steven Correa, Mahalo systems administrator. We make no guarantee that the following steps will work in every case and we are not responsible for any further errors you may encounter as a result of this tutorial. This guide is for informational purposes only. It worked for us in the office, but make sure you backup your data before attempting this tutorial.
Apple owners worldwide have shared a common experience today, broken iPhones and iPads. But this workaround, explained for Mac, will allow you to locally install and update your iPhone or iPad after you have downloaded the iOS 5 update and are unable to install it while connected to iTunes.
You will need to enter Device Firmware Update (DFU) mode -- entering DFU mode will erase all of your data, so backup your data before...
First we didn't get the iOS 5 update. Then, we couldn't get the service to activate. Now none of the thirdapps work. People are complaining of bricked phones all over the globe going down and #ERROR 3200 and #Downloading iOS 5 are now trending worldwide on Twitter [ See how to fix the problem by locally installing the iOS 5 update here ].
Members of the LAUNCH team who have been one of the "lucky" few to actually update to iOS 5 now are experiencing errors with all non-native apps. Even trying to restore our phones with iOS 5 has resulted in the above error.
"Yep, mine is also bricked until further notice...
Everyone knows Apple released iOS 5 today, but getting it to work on the iPhone 4 isn't going so well. Across Twitter and Google+, we've seen numerous reports of people's phones getting completely wiped or turning into plain ol' bricks
UPDATE: We warned people about the iOS 5 update, now see how fix iOS 5 by installing it locally.
Among them is Om Malik, founder of GigaOm, who tweeted, "oh oh… iOS 5 wiped out a lot of my data. back up not doing its thing." Om vented his frustrations on his blog here.
It appears that intense user demand on Apple's servers has caused the update to run slowly and even in some cases completely crash iPhones...
