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All but the most outlandish rumors around an Apple product launch actually proved to be close to the truth today, as the company launched its next iteration of the phenomenally successful iPad. There were few surprises, but Apple clearly has raised the bar on the high end of the tablet market. The only rumor that did not prove to be on the money was the name: neither iPad 3 or iPad HD. Apple is simply calling this the new iPad.

The new iPad will have, as expected, a “retina display” that approaches the pixel density of the current iPhone 4. In this case the 2048 x 1556 resolution will render 264 pixels per inch, which Apple executives say will make it impossible for the normal retina to distinguish among pixels at normal use distances of about 15 inches . The new screen will also boast 44% greater color saturation. The new resolution will not require any rush to rewrite code, however. While optimizing for the new display will render the best results, Apple says existing iPad apps will scale to the new dimensions, and text will benefit from the sharper rendering. All of Apple’s native apps are being upgraded to optimize to the new pixel count.

The display is complemented by a higher-resolution 5 megapixel backside camera that also has autofocusing, 1080p video recording and image stabilization. The still camera also incorporates facial recognition technology.

While some rumors suggested that the iPhone 4S' Siri voice control feature would find its way into the new iPad, Apple is making do by adding voice to text dictation to the keyboard.

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Police Censor Google, Facebook and 8,000 Other Sites by AccidentIn Denmark, a “human error” carried out by the police resulted in thousands of websites being completely blocked at the DNS level yesterday. Danish visitors to around 8,000 sites including Google and Facebook were informed that the sites were being blocked by the country’s High Tech Crime Unit due to them offering child pornography, a situation which persisted for several hours.

According to NITEC chief Johnny Lundberg, it began when an employee at the police center decided to move from his own computer to that of a colleague.

“He sat down and was about to make an investigation, and in doing so he placed a list of legitimate sites in the wrong folder,” Lundberg explained. “Before becoming aware of the error, two ISPs retrieved the list of sites.”

That list contained 8,000 sites.

After becoming aware of the problem NITEC corrected the error but it took at least 3 hours for customers of the ISPs to regain access to the sites in question. Fortunately no more ISPs adopted the erroneous lists in the meantime, but that was by sheer luck.

Lundberg said that his organization was sorry for the mistake and has now adopted a new system whereby blocked sites have to now be approved by two employees instead of one, although why that was not the case already for such a serious process is up for debate.

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Pandora A “Buy,” Expected To Maintain Growth

Wall Street analysts expect Internet radio service Pandora to show another quarter of strong growth when it reports fourth-quarter earnings after the closing bell Tuesday. The company’s shares rose on Monday in particular because of an upgrade to “buy” from “hold” by Stifel Nicolaus analyst Jordan Rohan.

In his new report, he described Pandora as a “must-have” application for smartphones and tablets and predicts that ad dollars will follow. He points out that the company continues to expand its local ad sales force in major markets such as Los Angeles, New York and Chicago.

“Its efforts are noticeable with the increased appearance of local advertising and newer formats, such as videos rolls on smartphones,” he wrote. “The sales organization appears to remain nimble and open to unique opportunities, such as a Leap Day sponsorship by Lexus and a coordinated campaign by JC Penney.”

Rohan predicts earnings of 1 cent per share on revenue of $86.5 million in the fourth quarter. That’s more bullish than the consensus estimate of a loss of 2 cents per share on revenue of $83 million. In the third quarter of 2011, Pandora essentially broke even on revenue of $75 million.

JP Morgan analyst Doug Anmuth projects revenue of $83.3 million, reflecting 80% advertising growth and a 40% increase in subscription sales. He also estimates that active users during the quarter increased to 43 million from 40 million, with total listening hours up 87% from a year ago.

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Shares in Pandora Media, the internet-radio pioneer that went public last year, fell after the company predicted ad sales this quarter wouldn't meet analysts' expectations.

Pandora said yesterday that it expects consumer-advertising sales this quarter to be lowest of the year.

In a statement after markets closed yesterday, Pandora said its ad revenue this quarter would be $72 million to $75 million. It predicted a loss, excluding one-time charges, of 18 cents to 21 cents a share. Analysts had forecast revenue of $86.4 million and a loss of 2 cents a share.

Laura Martin, an analyst at Needham & Co., said Pandora has more mobile-ad inventory than it can sell. But she expects marketers to embrace the platform because about 70% of users listen on mobile devices.

Pandora faces growing sales and programming expenses. The company is accelerating hiring a sales force in the top 10 U.S. radio markets, CEO Joe Kennedy said yesterday on a conference call. Marketing costs rose 46% in the quarter ended Jan. 31, to $21 million. Programming expenses more than doubled, to $48.2 million, as the number of listeners rose.

Pandora Still Has More Mobile-Ad Inventory Than It Can Sell

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Hormel's Spam is using its first "spokesperson," an animated character dubbed "Sir Can-A-Lot," in a new campaign.

Now celebrating its 75th year, Spam will employ the character in TV ads to run in 46 markets during a six-month campaign, but also aims to leverage it to generate more social media conversation for the brand, reports Ad

Age.

The campaign, from BBDO Minneapolis (Spam's agency since the brand launched), will use the character to "crusade to rescue the world from routine meals." Spam has been using a "Break the Monotony" campaign, encouraging use of the product as an ingredient in a variety of meals, since 2009.

Spam has about 119,000 "likes" on its Facebook page, but only about 1,250 Twitter followers.

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Spam Brand Unveils First (Animated) Spokesperson

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A court in Berlin ruled this week that Facebook violated users' rights with its Friend Finder feature, which drew on members' email contacts to suggest friends. But in the U.S., Facebook not only won a potential class-action lawsuit related to Friend Finder but is now seeking to recover more than $700,000 in attorneys' fees from the five users who brought the lawsuit, court papers reveal.

The U.S. lawsuit -- brought by Robyn Cohen, Shannon Stoller, Christopher Marshall, Bryan Siglock and Debra Lewin -- alleged that Facebook's Friend Finder tool violated a California law that bans companies from using names or photos in ads without people's consent.

Friend Finder searches people's email contacts to determine which ones are on Facebook and then suggests them as friends. The users alleged that Facebook wrongly promoted Friend Finder by displaying members' names and photos in ads to their friends. Facebook's ads for the feature said that the members found other friends by using the tool, and suggested that people "give it a try."

U.S. District Court Judge Richard Seeborg dimissed the case last October on the theory that Cohen and the other users had not shown they were injured by Friend Finder. Absent some tangible harm, the users did not have "standing" to proceed in federal court, the judge ruled. Seeborg never reached the substantive question of whether the tool violates California's misappropriation law.

Shortly after Seeborg threw out the lawsuit, Facebook quietly filed a motion seeking reimbursement of $706,950 for its attorneys' work on the case. Facebook says the amount is "reasonable" given that users sought more than $100 million in damages. (California's misappropriation law provides for damages of $750 per incident.)

Facebook declined to comment on its efforts to obtain attorneys' fees.

Facebook Seeks $700K From Users Who Lost Lawsuit



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Students in a startup class at Boulder Digital Works conceived of a social way to get your international candy fix. The website, intlcandy.co, asks users to sign up and complete a survey about what kind of candy from around the world they’d like to sample. When the project launches at the end of April, the goal will be to create a matchmaking and penpal-esque platform that will match those who want to taste a certain kind of candy with those who can actually get their hands on it.

The Global Candy Community

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American Express card members can now sync their cards with Twitter and when they tweet using special hashtags, savings offers are loaded directly into their cards.

When card members use their synced card for qualifying purchases online or in-store at participating merchants, the savings are automatically delivered via a statement credit within days.

National merchant partners so far include 1-800-FLOWERS.COM, Best Buy, Century 21 Department Store, The Cheesecake Factory, Dell, FedEx Office, FTD, Gulf, H&M, McDonald’s, Seamless.com, Sports Authority, Ticketmaster, Virgin America, Whole Foods Market and Zappos.com.

In order to sync their cards, members go to https://sync.americanexpress.com/twitter and follow instructions. All of the current American Express special offers are highlighted as “favorites” on the @americanexpress Twitter page.

AmEx Turns Tweets Into Savings




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Help Remedies: Help I Want to Save a LifeYou’re already bleeding, so why not help save a life?

Help Remedies: Help I Want to Save a Life is a kit that packages not only adhesive bandages, but also bone marrow donor kits. Now you to become part of the bone marrow donor community any time you cut yourself.

The idea was conceived by Graham Douglas who watched his twin brother struggle finding a bone marrow donor. Douglas approached Help Remedies who put the idea into production by partnering with the world’s largest bone marrow donor organization, DKMS. The product is on sale on Fab.com.

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