Google’s social team has had a lot of love for iOS lately: Just days after rolling out a revamped iPhone app for Google+ , the company now released an iOS app for its social activity service Schemer . The app mimics Schemer’s Android app in form and functionality, allowing users to tell the world what they’re plans are – and then join with friends for group activities. Schemer has been an interesting initiative for Google

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Google launches Schemer app for the iPhone

Just days before Facebook’s big IPO, the company is getting a lesson from another Silicon Valley startup on how to improve its iPad app. ISwifter is showing how it can create a full-fledged Facebook app that also includes Flash gaming

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ISwifter’s TheWorx iPad app recreates Facebook, but with games

Yale researchers Daniel Abadi and Alexander Thomson A team of Yale researchers think they have developed the cure for Oracle and IBM dominance in the world of database performance, and it isn’t even technically a database.

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Calvin: A fast, cheap database that isn’t a database at all

When Mattias Swenson, Patrik Ring and their three co-founders first decided to launch a startup out of high school, the plan was to work on it for a year and then move on with their lives. Growing up in Stockholm, they said, they didn’t know of anyone else who gave up university for entrepreneurship. But more than five years later, they’re still at it

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Bloglovin, a prettier take on RSS and Tumblr, gets Betaworks investment

There’s been a lot of attention paid to Facebook’s business model recently, especially with the news that General Motors has killed a $10-million advertising campaign devoted to the giant social network — not exactly a great sign of confidence in advance of the world’s most eagerly anticipated IPO. And GM’s move is only the latest indication of discontent, as other advertisers are also questioning their spending

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Facebook’s biggest problem is that it’s a media company

Chinese and U.S. operators continued to dominate the list of global mobile operators by revenue, according to Wireless Intelligence. China Mobile further solidified its top spot in both subscribers and revenue, but, most surprisingly, Verizon Wireless leapfrogged its corporate parent Vodafone in the fourth quarter in overall revenues

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Verizon is now bigger than parent Vodafone

Square is by now used to watching a parade of established payment companies try to duplicate its mobile payment system, including most recently VeriFone, which rolled out its SAIL platform earlier this month. However, while VeriFone’s actual credit-card swipe reader doesn’t look like Square’s dongle, it’s pretty clear that Verifone used Square as a blueprint for its own service: going as far as to lift much of the language in its legal user agreement directly from  Square’s merchant user agreement

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VeriFone’s SAIL caught copying rival Square’s user agreement

Apple’s next iPhone model will reportedly have at least a 4-inch display  according to sources “familiar with the matter” and reported by the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday. Apple hasn’t officially commented, which is expected as the company doesn’t make statements on unreleased products. However, the WSJ has a history of reporting on solid information about future Apple products, possibly as planned leaks from Apple itself

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Why a 4-inch iPhone makes sense (Hint: not due to Android)

Today Intel is launching a Flipboard-like digital magazine, “ iQ by Intel ,” that aims to attract “a younger audience” through a blend of employee-curated content and original stories. iQ is designed to be read on smartphones and tablets. So far, it’s mostly a lot of pieces from TechCrunch and Mashable.

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Intel hopes the youngs will like its new mobile magazine

It’s unclear if a small, niche player that offers the benefits having actual servers located on the Channel Islands can create a business that can compete with Amazon’s infrastructure as a service or the myriad private clouds people want to build, but the experiment is worth watching. Calligo , founded by Julian Box, the former CTO of Virtusteam has leased servers at data centers on the Jersey and Guernsey Islands to provide a cloud option for companies that need to keep their data offshore. The offshore Jersey shore

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Calligo creates an offshore cloud (with a cameo from Nicira)