iPhone 4S Headed to 15 More Countries

Apple’s iPhone 4S is currently available in 29 countries. By the end of next week, it will be available in 44.
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Early Adopter: Is the Future of User Experience Design Made of Paper and Polish?

Everyone can move a sticky note. This is the concept of the trio of creators of UXPin, a paper prototyping kit for mocking up a Web site before a single line of code is ever written. It has become popular with designers who value speed and iteration–and, now, they’ll be able to UXPin-up a whole new set of interfaces.
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IPad Debuts in 11 More Countries

This week is a big one for international iPad launches. By its end, the device will have debuted in 11 new countries: Poland, Taiwan, Denmark, Portugal, the Czech Republic, Sweden, Norway, Hungary, Malaysia, Finland and South Korea.

DST's Alexander Tamas Talks About New Investors, New Investments and Dealing With Troubling Russian Stereotypes

After Russia-based Internet investor Digital Sky Technologies got $388 million in a stock-swapping deal with South Africa media giant Naspers — coming after an earlier $300 million investment from China’s Internet behemoth Tencent — BoomTown dialed up DST partner Alexander Tamas in London to interview him about the implications. This developing international spiderweb of digital and media companies begged the question of what DST might do with all this new dough, especially since it has created quite a splash over the last year investing massive gobs of money in high-profile, social-focused U.S. Internet companies.

Dell Polishes Off Polish Ops

Dell is unloading another PC factory. The company is selling off its two-year-old computer manufacturing plant in Lodz, Poland, to Foxconn, the world’s largest contract electronics manufacturer, for an undisclosed sum.
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DST Still Shopping for Facebook Shares

Russian investor Digital Sky Technologies appears to be hungry for a bigger piece of Facebook. The firm just finished spending $100 million to purchase current and former Facebook employees’ shares of the company, on top of a $200 million direct investment into the social-networking site earlier this year.

Palm–Without Me

Verizon Searches for Google

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We have these fake queues at front of 20 stores around the country to drum up interest in the iPhone.”

An Orange Poland spokesman lays the groundwork for a forthcoming Polish joke

Polish President No Penis

If you’re developing search engine optimization software in Poland, it’s probably not wise to test it on the Web site of your notoriously humorless president–especially if you plan to insult him. A 23-year-old programmer is facing three years in prison after he Google-bombed the Web site of Polish President Lech Kaczy?ski, making it Google Polska’s [...]