1. J.P. Morgan: Global E-Commerce Revenue To Grow By 19 Percent In 2011 To $680B  permalink

J.P. Morgan: Global E-Commerce Revenue To Grow By 19 Percent In 2011 To $680B
Techcrunch.com

With e-commerce spending performing well over the past holiday season, retailers are hoping this trend will continue into 2011. J.P. Morgan senior analyst Imran Kahn has released his annual report forecasting trends for the New Year that includes a number of positive projections for the e-commerce industry.

2. Opera unveils touch browser for tablet and netbook PCs  permalink

Www.opera.com

If you were nice in 2010 then there is a good chance Santa left you one of the hottest gifts of the year — a tablet. Now that it is January you are probably looking for ways to get the most of out of your tablet. Luckily, Santa has some special Norwegian helpers who worked all through the holidays to kick off the New Year with a browser ...

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3. Announcing Google Shared Spaces  permalink

Announcing Google Shared Spaces
Googlewave.blogspot.com

In August, Google announced that Wave would no longer be developed as a standalone product, but that the Wave technology would survive in other products. Today, I am happy announce the launch of Google Shared Spaces in Google Labs as one of those off-shoots.

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4. Install any OS on a Google CR-48 laptop with Luigi  permalink

Install any OS on a Google CR-48 laptop with Luigi
Downloadsquad.switched.com

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5. Survey Says: The iPad Is Not A Kindle Killer  permalink

Survey Says: The iPad Is Not A Kindle Killer
Techcrunch.com

While plenty of people predicted that the iPad would kill the Kindle when it first came out (including us), that turned out to be wrong. Very wrong. The Kindle went on to become the best selling product in Amazon’s history over the holidays, selling an estimated 8 million units last year.

6. Austin Ventures  permalink

Austin Ventures
Www.crunchbase.com

Austin Ventures has worked with talented entrepreneurs to build valuable companies for nearly twenty-five years. With $3.9 billion under management, AV is the most active venture capital and growth equity firm in Texas. With an investment focus on business services and supply chain, financial services, media and information services, software and ...

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7. App-y Holidays: iOS Gorged, Android Stuffed, RIM Got Leftovers, Windows Phone Went Hungry  permalink

App-y Holidays: iOS Gorged, Android Stuffed, RIM Got Leftovers, Windows Phone Went Hungry
Techcrunch.com

There has already been plenty of data out there suggesting that Apple had a monster holiday season. We’ll know for sure in a few weeks when they announced their earnings. For now though, we have to go by what third-party developers are seeing when it comes to app download numbers. And one company, Flixster, has given us some key details of ...

8. Church Trends with Sam Chand  permalink

Church Trends with Sam Chand
Tonymorganlive.com

Before I left for vacation, I connected with several of my friends in ministry to ask them about the trends they are seeing in ministries. I thought it might be helpful to begin the year focusing on the future of the church. Over the next couple of weeks, I’ll share thoughts from folks like Brad Lomenick, Ed Stetzer, John Saddington, Jenni ...

9. Interior allows some suspended drilling to resume  permalink

Interior allows some suspended drilling to resume
Rodrichardson / RSS

The Obama administration says 13 companies whose deepwater drilling activities were suspended last year may be able to resume drilling without detailed environmental reviews.

10. Shreveport police on the scene of a shooting  permalink

Rodrichardson / RSS

The shooting was reported about 1:30 p.m. in the 4100 block of Fairfax Avenue, according to Caddo 911 dispatch. Few details are available at this time. But one man, who is not cooperating police, is bleeding from the hand.

11. Safari for iOS needs a text size preference and text reflow  permalink

Roger Johansson / 456 Berea Street

One of the features I miss most in Safari for iOS is the ability to increase text size. Sure, zooming in increases text size, but all too often it also makes the lines of text too long to fit on the screen of my iPod Touch. Having to swipe left and right for each line of text makes reading zoomed text on a small iOS device very annoying very ...

12. FotoSketcher 2 adds new effects, improves performance  permalink

FotoSketcher 2 adds new effects, improves performance
Downloadsquad.switched.com

FotoSketcher 2 is here, and a lot has changed since Erez first wrote about the photo stylizing app. For starters, there are new filters like sepia, vignette and "old photo texture," and four new frame effects have also been added. FotoSketcher 2 now even offers real-time brushstroke previews.

13. Brief.ly  permalink

Brief.ly
Momb.socio-kybernetics.net

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14. WouldTheyLike  permalink

WouldTheyLike
Momb.socio-kybernetics.net

15. BitTorrent's Mainline and uTorrent clients reach 100 million active monthly users  permalink

BitTorrent's Mainline and uTorrent clients reach 100 million active monthly users
Downloadsquad.switched.com

BitTorrent, the company behind the BitTorrent protocol and the Mainline and uTorrent clients, has just released some rather fantastic figures. Not only are over 100 million people using the two clients, but 20 million are downloading torrents on a daily basis.

16. The year of the rabbit  permalink

The year of the rabbit
Staff Moleskine / Moleskinerie

Tweet� We hope you all had a great year start and had the chance to write down some resolutions for it with the Blank Dice. We would like to celebrate the season of greetings coming from East also.� 2011 is the year of the hare/rabbit in Japan by the oriental Zodiac. We are glad to [...]

17. 2011 National Spring Church IT Roundtable Feb 24-25 - Near Orlando, FL - Be there!  permalink

Jpowell.blogs.com

Spring 2011 National Church IT Roundtable - w00t! Spread the news! We're Florida bound for spring 2011! Dates: Feb 24-25, 2011. There will also be pre and post event activities...most notably Wednesday. Calvary Chapel Melbourne is also not far from the Kennedy Space Center so add that to your possible extra things to do before/after the ...

18. The Placid Christian Life  permalink

The Placid Christian Life
Ben Arment / History in the Making

Christianity looks very different in the context of placidness than it does in adventure. Without any fear, breath-taking risk, stress or agony, we only give God access to the very superficial emotions of our human experience. But when you're leaping...

19. Careful the Culture You Create  permalink

Careful the Culture You Create
Bob Franquiz / Bobfranquiz.com

Church planters - when you're starting your church, you're creating a culture, whether you realize it or not. The language you use, the stories you tell, the pictures you paint of the future, the things you place emphasis on - all of it is creating the culture of your church.  Here's why it's important to realize this: because sometimes we can ...

20. Drew Goodmanson on Church Planting & Technology  permalink

Drew Goodmanson on Church Planting & Technology
Kevin D. Hendricks / Church Marketing Sucks

We talk with CFCC board member Drew Goodmanson about church planting and technology. The good news? Churches are getting better with their websites.