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• The iPad 3's A6 Processor to be Dual-Core?

  MacRumors: Mac News and Rumors - iOS Blog

  Arnold Kim

  8 Feb 2012 | 5:47 pm

  TheVerge's Joshua Topolsky summarizes the iPad 3 casing findings reported earlier today, but also adds his own sources regarding some details of the iPad 3. Image from RepairLabs As expected, the iPad 3 will reportedly include a 2048x1536 Retina Display, be nearly identical physically, and use the A6 processor. The A6 processor, however, is claimed to have a dual-core chip, not a quad-core one, at least according to his sources: What is surprising, however, is that our sources say that the A6 will not be a quad-core chip, but will remain dual-core. We've previously had heard that the device…

• Nintendo and Converse collaborate on an amazing sneaker

  Holy Kaw!

  8 Feb 2012 | 5:25 pm

  Clear out room in your closets, gamers. Converse is releasing their ‘One Star Super Mario Bros.’ shoe this March! Via Like Cool. Get your Nintendo fix. Permalink | Leave a comment  »

• Siri may speak and understand Chinese, Japanese, and Russian by March

  TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

  Chris Rawson

  8 Feb 2012 | 2:30 pm

  According to Chinese tech site DoNews (sketchy English translation here), Apple plans on bringing support for Mandarin Chinese to Siri as early as March of this year. Other dialects of Chinese, such as Cantonese, will remain unsupported for the time being. Support for Japanese and Russian is supposedly coming at the same time. Although the source may sound somewhat suspicious -- a Chinese tech site that claims to have inside information from an Apple engineer working on Siri -- this information does align with Apple's own promise to increase Siri's linguistic acumen in 2012. Apple has also…

• Smart Little Piggies Pay Less! Jewel-Matching Action Game Goes On Sale

  AppCraver | iPhone Apps, iPad Apps and iPod Touch Apps

  BarbH

  8 Feb 2012 | 2:10 pm

  PiggyWoogy TMDeveloper: Jdea Co., Ltd. Price: $0.99Download from the App StoreUser Ratings: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ7QKMr3B1AJdea recently launched iOS game Piggy Woogy, a match-3 puzzler with the added bonus of top-notch action, is available for a temporarily reduced price of $0.99. Piggy Woogy normally retails at $1.99, but Jdea is offering the game at a fifty percent discount in order to celebrate its quick success and to give even more gamers the opportunity to become part of the game’s enthusiastic fan base.Piggy Woogy owes its success to the game’s unique concept, which…

• iOS 5.1 Release Date Rumoured for March 9th?

  iPhone in Canada Blog - Canada's #1 iPhone Resource

  Gary Ng

  8 Feb 2012 | 4:35 pm

  iOS 5.1 beta has been available to developers since the end of last November, and currently sits at beta 3, released last month. When will the final GM release come out? According to YourDailyMac (via BGR), evidence within carrier profiles leads them to believe it will be Friday, March 9th: We today discovered that Apple published eleven new profiles for various iPhone-operators. These files are compatible with iOS 5.1 and are set for release on March 9. This could indicate that iOS 5.1 will be released around that date, is will be available for the following devices; iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4,…

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  MacRumors: Mac News and Rumors - iOS Blog

• The iPad 3's A6 Processor to be Dual-Core?

  Arnold Kim

  8 Feb 2012 | 5:47 pm

  TheVerge's Joshua Topolsky summarizes the iPad 3 casing findings reported earlier today, but also adds his own sources regarding some details of the iPad 3. Image from RepairLabs As expected, the iPad 3 will reportedly include a 2048x1536 Retina Display, be nearly identical physically, and use the A6 processor. The A6 processor, however, is claimed to have a dual-core chip, not a quad-core one, at least according to his sources: What is surprising, however, is that our sources say that the A6 will not be a quad-core chip, but will remain dual-core. We've previously had heard that the device…

• Tweetbot for iPad Hits The App Store

  Jordan Golson

  8 Feb 2012 | 12:37 pm

  Popular iPhone Twitter client Tweetbot has finally arrived on the iPad, with a user interface instantly familiar to any current Tweetbot user. Designed for the Twitter power-user, Tweetbot packs a lot of punch into an intuitive, slick interface, with unique functionality like Smart Gestures which give quick access to a variety of features through double or triple-taps. The Next Web and Business Insider have more in-depth reviews. The app is $2.99 and is a separate purchase from the iPhone app, a fact some users may dislike, but Tweetbot co-developer Paul Haddad explained his thoughts…

• Vonage Rolls Out "High-Definition" VoIP Calling App

  Jordan Golson

  8 Feb 2012 | 10:24 am

  Vonage has introduced yet another app to its growing mobile arsenal. The latest, called Vonage Mobile (not to be confused with another app called Vonage Mobile, introduced in 2009) adds a Skype-esque component to the old app's VoIP calling component. Users with Vonage Mobile installed can make "high-definition" audio calls or SMS-type text messages over Wi-Fi and 3G to other Vonage Mobile users. Users can also make low-cost international calls with credits added via In-App Purchasing. Calls to landline or wireless numbers in the US, Canada or Puerto Rico, from anywhere in the world, are free…

• 'iBank Access' Seeking to Remake Personal Finance on the iPad

  Eric Slivka

  8 Feb 2012 | 5:26 am

  As Intuit's Quicken options for Mac users continue to falter in the wake of a stripped-down Quicken Essentials release and the company's ongoing efforts to make the more fully-functional Quicken 2007 compatible with OS X Lion, other personal finance software firms have attempted to step into the void. One of the more successful companies has been IGG Software with its iBank software, which is available as both a Mac application and a companion iPhone app. IGG Software has been teasing a few tidbits about its work on an iPad application over the past few months, and as noted in a new blog post…

• The Best Superbowl Ad Was for the iPhone

  Jordan Golson

  7 Feb 2012 | 3:53 pm

  More than fifty commercials aired during the Super Bowl this past Sunday, including one from Samsung that again poked fun at Apple's customers. Apple didn't run any ads during the Super Bowl, at least not officially -- a fact that puzzled some commentators. But, as investment guru Jim Cramer points out, Apple did have an advertisement of sorts air during the Super Bowl. After the game was over, Colts hall of gamer Raymond Berry carrier the Vince Lombardi Trophy along a long line of New York Giants players. Players took turns touching or kissing the trophy, all the while taking photos and…

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  Holy Kaw!

• Nintendo and Converse collaborate on an amazing sneaker

  8 Feb 2012 | 5:25 pm

  Clear out room in your closets, gamers. Converse is releasing their ‘One Star Super Mario Bros.’ shoe this March! Via Like Cool. Get your Nintendo fix. Permalink | Leave a comment  »

• Why Congress is way richer than you [infographic]

  8 Feb 2012 | 4:28 pm

  Via Online Schools. Depressing infographics. Permalink | Leave a comment  »

• The bookcase that’s always ready for more

  8 Feb 2012 | 4:19 pm

  The thing about bibliophiles is that, before you know it, the bookcase is full and it’s time to drag in a few more boards and cinder blocks to accommodate the newcomers. With the REK, such worries are a thing of the past, as the system accordions out when more space is needed and collapses into a handy rectangle when it’s time to pack up shop and move on to greener pastures. Unfortunately, the price is listed as “on request” meaning the 99% is out of luck, but perhaps it’ll inspire you to hit the workshop for a little DIY action if you can drag your nose out of…

• How Harvard spends student tuition [infographic]

  8 Feb 2012 | 3:24 pm

  Via Online Universities. (H/T Muhammad Saleem) The scoop on education. Permalink | Leave a comment  »

• Lizard shortage offers rare evolution test

  8 Feb 2012 | 1:01 pm

  A devastating 2004 hurricane that wiped out a Caribbean lizard population offered an unprecedented opportunity to put an evolutionary theory known as the “founder effect” to the test. The founder effect describes the loss of genetic variation that occurs when a new population is established by a very small number of individuals from a larger population. “Founder effects are very hard to study,” says Thomas Schoener, a professor of evolution and ecology at University of California, Davis and a co-author of the study. “One must be in exactly the right place at the…

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• Siri may speak and understand Chinese, Japanese, and Russian by March

  Chris Rawson

  8 Feb 2012 | 2:30 pm

  According to Chinese tech site DoNews (sketchy English translation here), Apple plans on bringing support for Mandarin Chinese to Siri as early as March of this year. Other dialects of Chinese, such as Cantonese, will remain unsupported for the time being. Support for Japanese and Russian is supposedly coming at the same time. Although the source may sound somewhat suspicious -- a Chinese tech site that claims to have inside information from an Apple engineer working on Siri -- this information does align with Apple's own promise to increase Siri's linguistic acumen in 2012. Apple has also…

• Protests against iPhone factory conditions planned at Apple Stores

  Mike Schramm

  8 Feb 2012 | 12:15 pm

  Stories about troubling factory conditions at Foxconn are all too familiar, unfortunately, but hearing that protestors are planning to do something about it is new. GigaOM reports that this Thursday, representatives from Change.org and Sumofus.org are planning to bring petitions to Apple Stores in major cities around the US, asking the company from Cupertino to put together "a worker protection strategy" for the factories overseas that it contracts to make all of its products. The organizations will arrive at stores in Washington, DC, New York City, San Francisco, London, Sydney and…

• Tweetbot 2.0 update adds inline images, Readabilty integration and more

  Kelly Hodgkins

  8 Feb 2012 | 11:50 am

  Tweetbot was already a great Twitter client and the 2.0 update that rolled out today makes the app even better. Tweetbot 2.0 has several notable features including inline image preview and a single-tap link which automatically opens content inside the app. If the page you request is text-heavy, new Readability integration will remove all the fluff and format the text perfectly for your screen. The overall look and feel of the app is also a bit more polished. If you're a Tweetbot user, you can download the update for free from the iTunes App Store. If you're not, now might be a good time to…

• Sprint Q4 2011 results: 1.8 Million iPhones sold

  Kelly Hodgkins

  8 Feb 2012 | 6:30 am

  Sprint posted its Q4 2011 earnings on Wednesday and announced it sold 1.8 million iPhones in the quarter. Forty percent of those sales were to new customers and, overall, the carrier added 1.6M net subscribers in the quarter. Sprint iPhone sales were strong, but it still trails Verizon Wireless which sold 4.3 million iPhones and AT&T which activated 7.6 million iPhones. Combined the three carriers account for about 13.7 million of Apple's 37 million iPhones it sold in the quarter. The iPhone boosted Sprint last quarter, but it wasn't all rainbows and unicorns for the carrier. Sprint…

• Daily iPhone App: Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective scares up some fun

  Mike Schramm

  8 Feb 2012 | 5:00 am

  I've been waiting for this one for a while. Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective is a title that won accolades on the Nintendo DS last year, and it's now arrived on iOS in a universal version (that's free to download to boot). The idea is that you're a ghostly "phantom detective" who must solve his own murder. You can't directly interact with the living, but you can mess with inanimate objects in their world. So move objects around and try to change the fate of other dead people. It sounds morbid, but there's a fun sense of humor and style that keep it entertaining. The first two chapters are free…

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  AppCraver | iPhone Apps, iPad Apps and iPod Touch Apps

• Smart Little Piggies Pay Less! Jewel-Matching Action Game Goes On Sale

  BarbH

  8 Feb 2012 | 2:10 pm

  PiggyWoogy TMDeveloper: Jdea Co., Ltd. Price: $0.99Download from the App StoreUser Ratings: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ7QKMr3B1AJdea recently launched iOS game Piggy Woogy, a match-3 puzzler with the added bonus of top-notch action, is available for a temporarily reduced price of $0.99. Piggy Woogy normally retails at $1.99, but Jdea is offering the game at a fifty percent discount in order to celebrate its quick success and to give even more gamers the opportunity to become part of the game’s enthusiastic fan base.Piggy Woogy owes its success to the game’s unique concept, which…

• Slidevana’s Keynote Themes Work With Mac or iOS Devices

  BarbH

  8 Feb 2012 | 12:40 pm

  Most presenters spend more than half their time creating slides, instead of honing their message. Slidevana enables presenters to focus on the message, not the medium. Slidevana.com announced today it has launched its Keynote theme and presentation template for Mac, iPad and iPhone. The new template package is designed to enable presenters to build better presentations in a fraction of the time by allowing them to create slides quickly, spend more time honing their message, and deliver insightful and powerful presentations. Based on the same techniques used by top management consulting firms,…

• Lucky Birds Fly Into the App Store Ready to Take Off

  BarbH

  8 Feb 2012 | 10:20 am

  Lucky Birds CityDeveloper: Articul Media Price: $0.99Download from the App StoreUser Ratings: Articul Media is launching their new arcade, action and puzzle game Lucky Birds in the Apple App Store. Lucky Birds is currently compatible with the iPhone3, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S with iOS 4.3 or later.Featuring three Lucky Birds — Sneaky Sparrow, Dull Pigeon and Big Crow — the goal is to safely get these birds home before night falls, otherwise they might not be so lucky after all. Lucky Birds love to land on telephone wires but must be very careful not to fall to the ground.  (more...)

• Ghostwriter Notes 4.0 Supports iPen Stylus for Better Digital Notes

  BarbH

  8 Feb 2012 | 9:05 am

  Ghostwriter Notes - Handwriting - Sophisticated notes taking & PDF annotation!Developer: Majorspot, Inc. Price: $1.99Download from the App StoreUser Ratings: Majorspot, Inc., an emerging mobile applications developer focused on productivity solutions, today announced the launch of Ghostwriter Notes version 4.0 for the iPad and iPad 2. Running on iOS 4.3 or later, the app now provides support for the revolutionary new iPen stylus.This tablet writing tool provides the closest emulation of writing on the iPad with an actual pen, and is set to revolutionize the way busy users write and format…

• MiLi Power Releases The Shine, and External Battery for iOS Devices

  BarbH

  7 Feb 2012 | 4:40 pm

  MiLi Power recently released the Power Shine, a 4000 mAh external battery that is sleek, portable, and highly compatible. The Shine is an easy to use external battery for iPad, iPhone, Android, Windows phone, or any other device using micro USB. Keeping in line with other MiLi products, The Shine is small and lightweight, with an appealing rounded design.Don't let the small size fool you; the 4000 mAh external battery will keep a device powered for hours. The Shine offers awesome extended battery life, providing up to: 26 hours of data, 34 talk hours or 90 hours of media.  (more...)

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  iPhone in Canada Blog - Canada's #1 iPhone Resource

• iOS 5.1 Release Date Rumoured for March 9th?

  Gary Ng

  8 Feb 2012 | 4:35 pm

  iOS 5.1 beta has been available to developers since the end of last November, and currently sits at beta 3, released last month. When will the final GM release come out? According to YourDailyMac (via BGR), evidence within carrier profiles leads them to believe it will be Friday, March 9th: We today discovered that Apple published eleven new profiles for various iPhone-operators. These files are compatible with iOS 5.1 and are set for release on March 9. This could indicate that iOS 5.1 will be released around that date, is will be available for the following devices; iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4,…

• Save $10 Off $50 iTunes Cards at Shoppers Drug Mart [COUPON]

  Gary Ng

  8 Feb 2012 | 11:39 am

  Shoppers Drug Mart has a coupon available for customers to save $10 off $50 iTunes Cards, a 20% discount. Just click here to download the coupon and print it. The deal goes until February 15th. Other iTunes Cards sales are also upcoming at London Drugs starting February 10th (a similar deal), and also 7-11 has $25 cards for $20. iTunes Cards can be used to fund your Apple ID for purchases in the App Store, iTunes, and Mac App Store. [via RFD] Save $10 Off $50 iTunes Cards at Shoppers Drug Mart [COUPON] is a post from: iPhone in Canada Blog - Canada's #1 iPhone Resource Related posts: $50…

• aTV Flash 1.3 (black) Update Brings Automated Firmware Backups

  Gary Ng

  8 Feb 2012 | 11:22 am

  For those using aTV Flash (black) for their second generation Apple TVs, Firecore has just announced their 1.3 update that includes automated firmware backups and other miscellaneous features and bug fixes. The former 1.2 update was released back in mid-January brought various zoom options. It’s not quite Valentine’s Day, but we couldn’t wait to show how much we love you all – so today we have a fresh new version just for you. Version 1.3 includes an all-new firmware backup option, new translations, playback enhancements and a whole slew of other improvements and…

• Donate to Bell’s Let’s Talk Day Mental Health Campaign via Text, Call, or Retweet Today

  Gary Ng

  8 Feb 2012 | 10:55 am

  Today is Bell’s Let’s Talk Day, an initiative to raise awareness and discussion about the lingering stigma that surrounds mental health and illness. Olympian Clara Hughes is the spokesperson for the campaign: “Fighting stigma is critical to advancing Canadian mental health, and it’s the first pillar in the Bell Let’s Talk mental health initiative,” said Clara Hughes, Canada’s six-time Olympic medalist and the smile at the forefront of the Bell Let’s Talk campaign. “By telling my own story, I’m proud to be a part of the conversation…

• The Crown in Canada iPhone App Launched to Celebrate Her Majesty’s Diamond Jubilee

  Gary Ng

  8 Feb 2012 | 10:24 am

  Queen Elizabeth II recently celebrated her Diamond Jubilee, 60 years of ruling the throne and to celebrate the Government of Canada has launched the Crown in Canada iPhone app, as part of Diamond Jubileeweek. The Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages, James Moore: “Our Government supports commemorating important milestones in Canadian history, such as the Diamond Jubilee,” said Minister Moore. “Part of commemorating such a special anniversary involves trying to reach new audiences, including young Canadians. These new applications will provide an opportunity…

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• 'Rebuild' Universal Update To Roll In iPhone Support Tomorrow

  Brad Nicholson

  8 Feb 2012 | 2:21 pm

  Rebuild [$2.99] for iPhone and iPod Touch is actually happening -- and soon. Tomorrow will see the debut of the post-apocalyptic strategy title on smaller devices, courtesy a big-time Universal update for the iPad versions of the game. Developer Northway tells that the update will also roll in retina support, too. This is easily one of our favorite strategy games on the App Store this side of Civ Rev [$6.99 / HD], and we're stoked that a "maybe" porting scenario as of a couple of months ago has become a reality. If you haven't read anything about Rebuild check out our review. Or just pick it…

• Epic Issues Indie Game Dev Challenge to Remake 'Fighting Fantasy' Books in the Unreal Engine

  Eli Hodapp

  8 Feb 2012 | 11:10 am

  We've just got word that Epic has teamed up with online college and game jam host Train2Game for the upcoming Make Something Unreal Live event which puts four startup studios against each other to create a game using the Unreal Engine. These sort of competitions seem to happen with reasonable regularity, but what makes this one more interesting to us than most is two things: First off, all of the games will be specifically developed for the iOS platform. Secondly, Epic has licensed the Fighting Fantasy IP. Fighting Fantasy is a series of game books which are also available on the App Store.

• Coming Tonight: 'Corpse Party', 'DoDonPachi Blissful Death', 'Pinball Arcade', 'Ragdoll Blaster 3', 'Raid Leader', 'Star Wars Pit Bots', and More

  Eli Hodapp

  8 Feb 2012 | 10:06 am

  Hey it's Wednesday, which for our purposes means exactly one thing: Tons of iOS game releases. There should be something for everyone in this list of games, whether you're a pinball fan, like simple physics games, Star Wars, or even really creepy Japanese RPGs. This works like all other weeks in that these games should all be available in the USA at 11:00 PM Eastern, or potentially much, much earlier if you're East of North America. In which case, these games should all be available now, or very soon. 100 Trials, $1.99 - Forum Thread - This is a "re-imagining" of 100 Rogues, a roguelike that…

• 'Pizza vs. Skeletons' Hands-On Preview

  Brad Nicholson

  8 Feb 2012 | 8:00 am

  Only in the indie space do we see games like Pizza vs. Skeletons. Bright and humorous, as well as off-the-walls, it's a 2D action game that stars a 10-foot tall pizza. It has a knack for catching you off guard by design; delicately crafted to avoid the mechanical monotony so common in its space, it's an adventure that re-imagines what it is in almost every level. Sometimes you'll save puppies. Other times, you'll ski. Or butt heads with gigantic skulls. Or just bash skeletons because, hey, that's fun. You just can't pitch this game to a major publisher. This will never be a blown-up, $60…

• 'Beat Sneak Bandit' is Sneaking Into the App Store Next Week

  Jared Nelson

  8 Feb 2012 | 6:00 am

  We've been keeping close tabs on Bumpy Road [$2.99] developer Simogo's upcoming rhythm-based stealth puzzler Beat Sneak Bandit since they originally teased it last October. We've even had some extensive hands-on time with a limited preview version of the game, and that's just served to make us even more excited for the final release. And today, Simogo has revealed that Beat Sneak Bandit will be hitting the App Store February 16th. Hey that's just a week away! To celebrate, they've released a slick new trailer for the game: You can bet we'll be all over Beat Sneak Bandit like fingerprints on…

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  Lifehacker: Iphone

• Make Your Own Screen Protector Quickly and Cheaply with Adhesive Vinyl and an Xacto Knife

  Adam Dachis

  8 Feb 2012 | 12:30 pm

  We've previously mentioned that you can make your own screen protector on the cheap with adhesive vinyl. Although it's a simple process to understand in theory, it helps to actually see it in practice. This video from Household Hacker demonstrates how to make a vinyl screen protector and apply it to your device in just a few minutes. More »

• The Best Virtual Assistant for iPhone

  Adam Dachis

  8 Feb 2012 | 10:30 am

• Black SMS Encrypts and Decrypts Your Text Messages

  Adam Dachis

  7 Feb 2012 | 12:00 pm

  iOS: Anyone can pick up your phone and read your text messages. It's also not that difficult for someone to install spy software or for the U.S. government to acquire your messages from your carrier. If you want to keep your text messages private, Black SMS is an app that provides a very simple method for doing so. You simply type in the message, set a password, and send it over to iMessage. The recipient can then use their copy of Black SMS to decrypt the message using the password you set by simply pasting the message into the app and entering the password. (Watch the video above for a…

• Get the Most Out of Your iPhone's Notification Center, from Beginner to Jailbreaker

  Thorin Klosowski

  7 Feb 2012 | 6:00 am

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• Organize Your Apps by Action Instead of Category for a More Intuitive Find-and-Launch System

  Adam Pash

  6 Feb 2012 | 1:00 pm

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  Gizmodo: Iphone

• Nature's Greatest Predator Reduced To Blaring Your LMFAO

  Andrew Liszewski

  8 Feb 2012 | 8:20 am

• An iPhone Used as a Hockey Puck at 82 MPH

  Sam Biddle

  8 Feb 2012 | 7:36 am

  If you want to sell something in tech, you can either employ cleavage or violence. In this case, the boys at G-Form are demoing their new iPhone case by beating the hell out of it with a hockey stick. Sure! More »

• TripLingo Romance Edition: Love Abroad

  Roberto Baldwin

  7 Feb 2012 | 3:28 pm

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• DigiTech's iPhone Guitar Pedal Lets You Shred Without Your Phone

  Mario Aguilar

  7 Feb 2012 | 12:40 pm

• Nooka: The Not-So-Intuitive, But-Still-Cool-Looking Clock

  Roberto Baldwin

  6 Feb 2012 | 3:00 pm

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  CBC | Canadian News

• Toronto mayor's transit vision thwarted by council

  8 Feb 2012 | 5:13 pm

  Toronto Mayor Rob Ford suffers a major defeat as council rejects his vision for the city's transit future in favour of a plan brought forward by the councillor in charge of the Toronto Transit Commission.

• RCMP hunt 'dangerous' gunman after Alberta shootout

  8 Feb 2012 | 5:05 pm

  RCMP are searching for a man they describe as armed and dangerous and have confirmed that a second man was found dead inside a home near Killam, Alta., on Wednesday — a day after a shootout injured two officers.

• Mask ban bill debated by MPs

  8 Feb 2012 | 5:02 pm

  Alberta MP Blake Richards says he is confident about his bill that would make it illegal to wear a mask or disguise during a riot. The bill was debated a second time in the House of Commons Wednesday.

• Tainted ecstasy seized as 2 Calgarians arrested

  8 Feb 2012 | 4:58 pm

  Police have charged two people in connection with trafficking ecstasy laced with PMMA in Calgary.

• Russell Williams divorce pub ban lifted

  8 Feb 2012 | 4:55 pm

  Key elements of a sweeping publication ban have been lifted on divorce proceedings between convicted sex killer Russell Williams and his estranged wife.

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• Census figures give Harper ammunition in pitch for reforms

  8 Feb 2012 | 5:17 pm

  Statistics on immigration, work force and aging population critical as Ottawa assesses everything through prism of demographics

• Census shows changing times require new approaches

  8 Feb 2012 | 5:08 pm

  Both Westerners and Easterners will have to think differently about their roles within the new Canada

• Divorce of sex killer Russell Williams now open to public scrutiny

  8 Feb 2012 | 4:55 pm

  Former colonel’s wife declines to take bid for publication ban on proceedings to Supreme Court of Canada

• Please your partner (and yourself) with a spousal RRSP

  8 Feb 2012 | 4:50 pm

  The contributor to the plan not only gets the deduction but an age difference can extend the period of time that you can make contributions

• Huffington Post launches distinct Quebec edition of online news outlet

  8 Feb 2012 | 4:49 pm

  Around 120 bloggers join journalists to produce French-language website’s material

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  Fool.com Headlines

• Modified Study, Same Bloody Results

  8 Feb 2012 | 5:39 pm

  Merck's vorapaxar still causing bleeding.

• Why Bulls Might Be Wrong About the Dow's Biggest Winner

  8 Feb 2012 | 5:38 pm

  A recap of today's biggest movers.

• Akamai Rides the Cloud to Analyst-Stomping Results

  8 Feb 2012 | 5:29 pm

  This edition of "Akamai Wins" is powered by cloud computing.

• How Do These Shippers Boost Their Returns?

  8 Feb 2012 | 5:19 pm

  Delivering answers with the DuPont formula.

• 1 Dividend Stock That Could Pay Up

  8 Feb 2012 | 5:15 pm

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  San Francisco Bay Area and California Business News — — SFGate

• Ernst & Young paying $2M in audit settlement

  By MARCY GORDON, AP Business Writer

  8 Feb 2012 | 4:59 pm

  (02-08) 16:59 PST WASHINGTON, (AP) -- The watchdog agency for the accounting industry said Wednesday that it has fined big firm Ernst & Young $2 million for alleged lapses in three audits of a pharmaceutical company.... Presented By: Chicago Booth Business Forecast   Ads by Pheedo

• APNewsBreak: Sources: New military roles for women

  LOLITA C. BALDOR, Associated Press

  8 Feb 2012 | 4:40 pm

  (02-08) 16:40 PST WASHINGTON, (AP) -- For the past decade women in the U.S. military have served, fought and died on the battlefields in Iraq and Afghanistan. On Thursday, Pentagon rules will catch up a bit with reality,... Presented By: Chicago Booth Business Forecast   Ads by Pheedo

• Sarkozy advises against military strike on Iran

  By JAMEY KEATEN, Associated Press

  8 Feb 2012 | 4:32 pm

  (02-08) 16:32 PST PARIS, France (AP) -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy put his reputation as a stalwart friend of Israel on the line Wednesday, warning that military action was no way to deal with nuclear-minded Iran...

• Repsol YPF ups Argentine shale deposit potential

  By MICHAEL WARREN, Associated Press

  8 Feb 2012 | 4:02 pm

  (02-08) 16:02 PST SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) -- Repsol YPF on Wednesday raised the estimate for potentially recoverable oil and gas in its part of Argentina's "Vaca Muerta" (Dead Cow) basin to the equivalent of nearly 23...

• More photos found in Calif. teacher abuse case

  By CHRISTINA HOAG and GREG RISLING, Associated Press

  8 Feb 2012 | 4:00 pm

  (02-08) 16:00 PST LOS ANGELES, CA (AP) -- The scandal embroiling an elementary school where two teachers were arrested last week on lewdness charges widened Wednesday with revelations of 200 more inappropriate photos of...

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  In Search of Enlightenment

• Time Waits For No One...

  3 Feb 2012 | 8:01 pm

  Originally posted April 2011Biological aging is the greatest health threat to humanity today. It causes more disease and suffering in the world than all infectious diseases (HIV, malaria, etc.) or any other cause (e.g. poverty, war, natural disaster, etc.). The inborn aging process causes cancer, heart disease, stroke, AD, joint pain, vision and hearing impairment, etc.The harms of senescence (even if we exercise and eat a healthy diet) are certain, severe and universal. The diseases of aging afflict both rich and poor, and developed and developing countries. And, unless the biological clocks…

• PLoS One Study on Genetics of Exceptional Longevity

  30 Jan 2012 | 3:04 pm

  The Jan. 2012 issue of PLoS ONE has this study on the genetics of longevity. The abstract:Like most complex phenotypes, exceptional longevity is thought to reflect a combined influence of environmental (e.g., lifestyle choices, where we live) and genetic factors. To explore the genetic contribution, we undertook a genome-wide association study of exceptional longevity in 801 centenarians (median age at death 104 years) and 914 genetically matched healthy controls. Using these data, we built a genetic model that includes 281 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and discriminated between…

• EMBO Reports Paper Online

  27 Jan 2012 | 3:50 am

  My paper "'Positive Biology' as a New Paradigm for the Medical Sciences" is now published in the advance online section (for Jan. 27) of Nature's EMBO Reports. The abstract:Most basic and applied research in the medical sciences today is premised upon the presumption that well-ordered science requires us to prioritize what one can call “negative biology”. Negative biology is the intellectual framework that presumes the most important question to answer is- what causes pathology? Positive biology, by contrast, focuses on a different set of questions and priorities. Rather than making…

• Enhancement Book (Chapter 1)

  25 Jan 2012 | 5:45 am

  Over the coming weeks I will be making my way through Allen Buchanan's new book Beyond Humanity? I am looking forward to reading this timely book which is written by a first-rate scholar who has made substantive contributions to various debates in practical ethics and political philosophy.My goal here on the blog is to make a few notes for each chapter, primarily for my own benefit so I can return at a later point to write something more substantive. So on to Chapter 1.Chapter 1 begins with a very useful characterization of the "anti-enhancement" stance. This characterization resonates with…

• PSR Paper Published

  24 Jan 2012 | 8:40 pm

  My paper "Virtue Epistemology and the ‘Epistemic Fitness’ of Democracy" is now out in print in the latest issue of the journal Political Studies Review. The abstract: In this article I explore three distinct advantages of linking virtue epistemology to an epistemic defence of democracy. First, because intellectual agents and communities are the primary focus of epistemic evaluation, virtue epistemology offers political theorists the opportunity to develop an epistemic defence of democracy that takes ‘realism’ seriously (e.g. the cognitive limitations and biases of humans). Second,…

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  Joel on Software

• New York City gets a Software Engineering High School

  13 Jan 2012 | 11:56 am

  This fall New York City will open The Academy for Software Engineering, the city’s first public high school that will actually train kids to develop software. The project has been a long time dream of Mike Zamansky, the highly-regarded CS teacher at New York’s elite Stuyvesant public high school. It was jump started when Fred Wilson, a VC at Union Square Ventures, promised to get the tech community to help with knowledge, advice, and money. I’m on the board of advisors of the new school, which plans to accept ninth graders for fall of 2012. Here’s why I’m excited about this new…

• How Trello is different

  6 Jan 2012 | 11:14 am

  Just a few months ago, we launched Trello, a super simple, web-based team coordination system. The feedback has been overwhelmingly positive and adoption has been very strong, even in its early, 1.0 state. Trello is new kind of development project for Fog Creek. It’s 100% hosted; there will never be an “installed software” version of Trello. That allowed us to modernize many aspects of our development process; I am happy to announce that there is absolutely no Visual Basic code involved in any part of Trello. What’s next, flying cars? The biggest difference you’ll notice (compared…

• Should you launch at a conference?

  15 Sep 2011 | 8:28 pm

  Should you launch at Launch? (Or TechCrunch Disrupt? Or Demo? They’re all pretty similar). This year I launched two major new products at conferences: Careers 2.0 and Trello, and both times, it was totally worth it. First, a little background. There are three popular conferences where you can launch new products: Launch, TechCrunch Disrupt, and Demo. They all work the same way: You apply. If you have a half-decent product that is genuinely new, you’re likely to get a spot. That said, hundreds of companies apply for these conferences with unbearably awful products, so there’s always…

• Announcing Trello

  13 Sep 2011 | 10:44 am

  Around the time of Fog Creek Software's ten year anniversary, I started thinking that if we want to keep our employees excited and motivated for another ten years, we were going to need some new things to work on. It occurred to me that we could easily afford to make four little two-person teams to launch four new products. That would give our developers more chances to move around from product to product when they got bored, which would make Fog Creek Software an even better place to work. Each team, we decided, would be guided by the spirit of lean startups. They would ship early and often.

• Stack Overflow DevDays is Back!

  27 Jun 2011 | 12:51 pm

  [UPDATE - September 6th - Regrettably, DevDays had to be cancelled. See the announcement on the Stack Exchange Blog for details.] Stack Overflow DevDays, the universe's best conference series for coders, is back, and it's bigger than ever! Here's the idea behind DevDays. You're a developer. You'd love to learn all the latest hot new technologies. Things like DVCS, HTML 5, Node.js, CSS3, Hadoop, etc. The stuff the cool kids are all talking about on the playground while you're stuck in the basement somewhere grinding away on Java Enterprise Visual Basic. The idea behind DevDays is a fast,…

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  Jon Udell

• Energy literacy

  Jon Udell

  8 Feb 2012 | 7:33 am

  In yesterday’s Keene Sentinel guest editorial, YES: Press for more domestic oil, Andrew Morriss consistently misreports oil production figures. Saudi Arabia: 8.1 billion barrels/day; Russia: 10.4 billion; America: 7.9 billion; Iran: 3.7 billion. Those numbers struck me as wrong by orders of magnitude. So I consulted my favorite online scientific fact-checking tool: WolframAlpha. Q: What is 7.9 billion barrels of oil in dollars? A: $1.05 trillion. In other words, if we were to convert our daily production to dollars we could pay off the national debt in 15 days. (Real answer: 41 years.)…

• The memory palace

  Jon Udell

  30 Jan 2012 | 6:28 am

  As we increasingly augment our minds I sometimes pause to reflect on the trade-offs we are making. What powers does the unaugmented mind possess? What do we give up when we outsource our memories to the collective electronic mind? In Dilemma of a Cyborg Carina Chocano writes: For everything that’s gained by our ability to store and maintain more information than ever before, something is lost that has to do with texture, context and association. The science journalist Joshua Foer, author of “Moonwalking With Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything,” said in a…

• Another way to think about geeks and repetitive tasks

  Jon Udell

  9 Jan 2012 | 8:08 am

  The other day Tim Bray tweeted a Google+ item entitled Geeks and repetitive tasks along with the comment: “Geeks win, eventually.” Here’s the chart posted on Google+ by Bruno Oliveira: A couple of things bothered me about this. First, there’s the adversarial tone. The subtext is a favorite geek quotation: First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. That gem is often attributed to Gandhi. Wikiquote disputes that and finds a close variant in Nicholas Klein’s 1918 speech to the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. Either way…

• When 2.0: Scheduling the Internet of things

  Jon Udell

  4 Jan 2012 | 6:23 am

  Before my podcast went AWOL I had been meaning to interview Toby Considine about his efforts to mesh schedules for things with schedules for people, and to define Internet calendaring extensions for that purpose. So when Phil Windley wrote to ask me how I thought calendaring might relate to the personal event networks he wants to bootstrap, I suggested that we ask Toby on an episode of Phil’s Technometria podcast. Phil, I suspect, is actually one of five identical quintuplets. One teaches at BYU. Another runs a startup called Kynetx. A couple of others take care of family, church, and…

• Teaching is about conveying a way of thinking

  Jon Udell

  2 Jan 2012 | 7:01 am

  As I build out the elmcity network, launching calendar hubs in towns and cities around the country, I’ve been gathering examples of excellent web thinking. In Ann Arbor’s public schools are thinking like the web I noted that the schools in that town — and most particularly the Slauson Middle School — are Doing It Right with respect to online calendars. How, I wondered, does that happen? How does a middle school figure out a solution that eludes most universities, theaters, city governments, nightclubs, museums, and other organizations with calendars of interest to the…

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  Think Vitamin

• Rails 3.2.1

  Jason Seifer

  8 Feb 2012 | 6:00 am

  Greetings, folks! If you haven’t been keeping up with the latest Rails news, we have a new version! Ruby on Rails 3.2.1 has recently been released with some very welcome changes! Faster development mode – Rails now only reloads the classes you’ve actually changed between requests in development mode. Explain queries – In development mode, you can automatically show the explain of certain queries by calling .explain at the end of your query. The results will go in your log. Active Record Store – Active Record now has a built in way to do key/value storage right…

• Treehouse Groups are live!

  Ryan Carson

  8 Feb 2012 | 5:45 am

  You can now create a Treehouse Group Account for your company, university, school or any grouping of two or more people. Group plans are 25% cheaper so it’s a great way to save money. We’ve added a simple Groups Dashboard that allows you to see … Group Activity: Who’s watching videos and unlocking Badges Ranking in your Group, based on Badge unlocks More info … Group pricing is 25% off normal prices, which allows people with large groups to save a bit of money. You only need 2+ people to sign up. If you’re already a Member, you can’t be brought into a…

• Free Video: Getting started with iOS development

  Amit Bijlani

  7 Feb 2012 | 7:38 am

  In this 6 minute video, we will get you started with iOS development by learning about the benefits of Apple’s iOS Dev center and how to gain access to the integrated development environment (IDE) called Xcode. This video is from Treehouse, a high-quality video training site with hundreds of short videos on topics like … Accessibility CSS3 Aesthetic Foundations Django HTML CSS HTML5 iOS Development JavaScript jQuery NoSQL PHP Responsive Web Design Ruby Ruby on Rails UX Version Control WordPress Theme Design New videos are added regularly, so it’s a great way to stay…

• Another Round of Treehouse Nerd Merit Badges!

  Nick Pettit

  7 Feb 2012 | 6:00 am

  We recently launched Treehouse and, thanks to you, it’s been successful beyond our wildest expectations. Thank you all so much! We had so much fun celebrating with our previous giveaway, that we thought we would do another one.If you tweet to @treehouse the name of your favorite web app, we’ll randomly pick 10 winners to receive a "Mike the Frog" Nerd Merit Badge! Here’s a picture of what they look like:

• Pears: An open source collection of common markup & style

  Allison Grayce

  6 Feb 2012 | 10:38 am

  Lo and behold, Mr. Dan Cederholm has done it again! This time the folks over at SimpleBits unveiled their latest project, Pears, an open source WordPress theme that enables you to get your own pattern library up and running quickly. This is super helpful to collect, test and experiment with your collection of semantic HTML & CSS patterns. For beginners it can be a great way to begin to understand the relationship between markup and style. No matter which audience you fall into, it is a handy tool for improving speed and productivity. Also make sure to take notice of the Pears website…

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  Successful Software

• A curated list of 200 articles for microISVs and startups

  Andy Brice

  1 Feb 2012 | 7:00 am

  I have been steadily adding to the curated list of links on this site. Currently there are links to 200 articles, loosely categorized into topics such as ecommerce, market research, product naming, Pay Per Click and SEO. I have tried to select articles that contain ‘actionable’ information, rather than wafflely articles about ill-defined subjects such as time management and motivation. Some of the articles linked to were written by me, but the majority weren’t. I hope you find something useful. I would be surprised if you don’t. Go to the links page Filed under:…

• Pivot Tables demystified

  Andy Brice

  5 Jan 2012 | 9:05 am

  Online businesses generate a lot of data. Sales data, marketing data, traffic data etc. Pivot tables can be a useful tool for analysing and extracting useful information from this sea of data. A lot of people seem to have heard of Pivot Tables without understanding what they are or how to use them. Despite the slightly cryptic name they are really just a way of summarizing tables of data. Nothing to be intimidated by. I’m going to try to demystify them here with a simple example. Let’s imagine you have got an Excel spreadsheet with a month of (fictitious) sales transaction. It looks like…

• Promoting your software

  Andy Brice

  2 Dec 2011 | 9:09 am

  This is a video of a “Promoting your software” talk I did at ESWC 2011. In it I discuss my experiences attempting to try every form of promotion known to man including: SEO, Google Adwords, magazine ads, affiliates, Facebook ads and hanging out in wedding forums using a female pseudonym. With real data! You can’t read the slide text in the video, but I have included the slides below. A couple of people asked me afterwards whether anything I tried had worked. Yes! I wouldn’t have survived long as a microISV otherwise. But I didn’t really want to dwell on what had…

• Cppcheck – A free static analyser for C and C++

  Andy Brice

  28 Nov 2011 | 4:46 pm

  I got a tip from Anna-Jayne Metcalfe of C++ and QA specialists Riverblade to check out Cppcheck, a free static analyser for C and C++. I ran >100 kLOC of PerfectTablePlan C++ through it and it picked up a few issues, including: variables uninitialised in constructors classes passed by value, rather than as a const reference variables whose scopes could be reduced methods that could be made const It only took me a few minutes from downloading to getting results. And the results are a lot less noisy than lint. I’m impressed. PerfectTablePlan is heavily tested and I don’t think…

• ESWC 2011

  Andy Brice

  13 Nov 2011 | 8:13 am

  No proper post this week. I’m too busy finishing off my talk ‘Promoting your software’ for ESWC 2011 in London next weekend (19-20 Nov). I am going to talk about my experiences attempting to try every form of promotion known to man including: SEO, Google Adwords, magazine ads, affiliates, Facebook ads and hanging out in wedding forums using a female pseudonym. With audience participation! Plus real data! There are also some other interesting looking talks. Chatting to other people in the business over coffee or beer is also invaluable. If you haven’t booked a ticket,…

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  Tea Obsession

• Palos Verdes Sunday

  7 Feb 2012 | 7:33 pm

  Sunday walk by the shore cliff of Palos Verdes. An afternoon of sunshine, breeze, peace, rainbow, whale watch, painters, and a good mood to match. Just want to share my sky with you~ :)

• Bag + Tea not = Delicious Tea

  3 Feb 2012 | 8:55 pm

  Ok, this moment I feel like a geek~ Took me 3 hours to put this together, I am so darn proud for a second. :P

• Articles that might be useful

  3 Feb 2012 | 10:12 am

  Since 2006, tea obsession has marked baby steps of my tea journey through the years. There are some useful info and some not. It's time to sort them out and select a few that I feel useful. This is a rather large tasks for me, so updates will be made continuously in several categories: Phoenix Dan Cong, brewing tips, equipments, understanding of tea beyond leaves.To start with, information relates to Phoenix - Feng Huang Dan Cong…

• New teas arrive today!

  2 Feb 2012 | 7:26 pm

  Today is tea day! The little "bite" size tea cookie is the most innovative tea product in recent history. Asians can handle loose leaf teas especially broken leaves rather well, perhaps we aren't as fussy with spitting out the leaves while others find it absurd to show such ill manner particularly in public. :P Well, that's one of the reasons why tea bag is invented right?! There is a need for improvement, then ought to be an innovation to meet the demand. Today we are much more conscious about our health, what we eat and drink become the first and most important issue in our lives today.

• Orchid in bloom

  26 Jan 2012 | 9:24 pm

  Flower is a must have decor for the Chinese New Year. Visiting the flower market after new year's eve dinner is also a popular activity. In the southern part of China, flowers are plenty even in the winter, chrysanthemum, peony, peach flower, plum flower, orchids, kumquats are the most popular. This yellow dandrobrium is one of the favorite orchids I have. It is the first rebloom in 3 years and bloomed on Monday, the first day in Chinese calendar!Charcoal was burning in stove, spring water is boiling in Shao Diao - clay kettle, my mother and I drank some Zhi Lan Xiang and Cha Wang - King of…

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  Chamber Music Today

• Ingrid Stölzel’s Explorations of Time and Identity

  DSM

  31 Jan 2012 | 5:15 pm

  A   fter picking the title ‘For the Time Being,’ I realized just how often I use this expression in my daily life. When we say these words we imply that whatever state we are in or whatever action we are performing is temporary and merely a fleeting moment. In reality, of course, all states and actions are temporary, and our perception of permanence is an illusion. ‘For the Time Being’ is the newest in a series of works examining this concept of passing time.”  — Ingrid Stölzel.I   didn’t measure how long I was doing mouth-to-mouth…

• Kristen Plumley, Star Fleet Soprano

  DSM

  28 Jan 2012 | 5:16 am

  I   think that the science fiction genre has inspired so many artists... painters, poets, and certainly musicians. It is such an imaginative form of expression that speculates on our destiny — where are we going in the future? Science fiction and the music we associate with it truly resonates with many, many people.”  — George Takei.I   was a HUGE science fiction fan growing up, so this concert is like a ‘dream-come-true’ for me. It’s the most fun I’ve ever had on-stage.”  — Kristen Plumley.I t takes real guts and…

• Communion with the Audience: Encores taken from Bach’s Solo Cello Suites

  DSM

  23 Jan 2012 | 1:55 am

  M    any movements from Bach’s unaccompanied string works contain implied polyphony. Although earlier approaches describe this technique as a way of using arpeggiation to embellish a melodic line, to disguise an otherwise unacceptable melodic progression, to delay the resolution of dissonance, or to create underlying voice-leading patterns, these descriptions cannot account for the variety and complexity of the implied polyphony in these pieces. ...[using analysis based on auditory stream-segregation techniques, I come to the conclusion that—] Bach did not treat implied…

• Chamber Music for Dressage Freestyle (kür)

  DSM

  18 Jan 2012 | 9:04 am

  I   want people to feel that it’s not just a kur but something like art. I hope people have a physical feeling as they hear the music—for me it is so special. I want them to be excited as they listen and watch. I think there’s a lot of emotion in it... My music before was mostly French, and this kur has some international music, but I’m also using some music by Polish composers... It’s difficult to put a name to this music, but it’s like a mix of classical with trance.”  — Michal Rapcewicz, FEI World Cup 2009.T his November 2011 post about the…

• How likely to sing after radiation therapy for head-and-neck cancer?

  DSM

  16 Jan 2012 | 3:40 pm

  F   or oropharynx and nasopharynx cancers, it is sometimes possible to limit the dose received by the larynx according to the extent of the primary lesion. Thus, if the tumour constraints permit, the maximum dose to the larynx must be less than 63 to 66 Gy. To reduce the risk of laryngeal edema, it is recommended if possible to limit the mean non-involved larynx dose to 40 to 45 Gy [to prevent dysphonia or significant damage to vocal cords/folds].”  —  C. Debelleix and co-workers, Centre Hospitalier Dax-Côte d'Argent, France.T he question in this post's…

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  Jazz

• Matt Wilson: Trios, Quartets And 'Don Knotts'

  7 Feb 2012 | 8:01 am

  Like a comedian, the drummer knows something about offhand dexterity and split-second timing.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us

• Leala Cyr And Ricardo Vogt: Live At Berklee

  6 Feb 2012 | 4:14 pm

  She's from a small Midwestern town. He's from Southern Brazil. But they've been collaborating for years — she with voice and trumpet, he on guitar — and they demonstrate their blend of musical traditions in a live broadcast Feb. 9 at 8 p.m. ET.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us

• Coleman Hawkins And Charlie Parker Were Not Particularly Good Actors

  6 Feb 2012 | 10:14 am

  Hawk, Bird and the great play-synch of 1950.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us

• Around The Jazz Internet: Feb. 3, 2012

  3 Feb 2012 | 4:24 pm

  A new crowdfunded festival in Philadelphia, plus Jamal, James and Junebug.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us

• Vanguard Jazz Orchestra: Live At The Village Vanguard

  3 Feb 2012 | 2:03 pm

  There's a tradition in many New York City jazz clubs: Monday nights are reserved for big bands. The Village Vanguard, the most storied of clubs, has observed this practice since 1966. Watch a live concert webcast at 9 p.m. ET on Monday, Feb. 13.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us

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  JAZZ MUSIC NEWS - Google News

• 'Try not to judge. Just let it be' - London Free Press

  8 Feb 2012 | 4:11 pm

  'Try not to judge. Just let it be'London Free PressBy ANGELA SCAPPATURA, QMI Agency Laila Biali's music may be filed under the jazz category in the music stores, but her sound is hardly traditional. While her current sound is rooted in jazz, the award-winning Canadian composer, pianist and singer said and more »

• Music DVD Review: Jazz Icons - Series 5 - Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)

  8 Feb 2012 | 4:04 pm

  Music DVD Review: Jazz Icons - Series 5Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)ORG Jazz fans owe a debt of gratitude to the folks behind the Jazz Icons DVD series. As explained in the liner notes for the recently issued fifth series, a steep downturn in the DVD market during 2009 just about closed the door on this invaluable and more »

• Jazz Chior Performs at Cohen's Medical Center - Patch.com

  8 Feb 2012 | 1:43 pm

  Jazz Chior Performs at Cohen's Medical CenterPatch.comSeaford students visit comes as father gets positive news on sick son a year after musical group lifted spirit with performance. By Patch Staff Timing was on their side when the Seaford High School Jazz Choir performed at Cohen Chilldren's Medical and more »

• What Do You Know About... Jazz music and social perception - University Daily Kansan

  8 Feb 2012 | 1:33 pm

  What Do You Know About... Jazz music and social perceptionUniversity Daily KansanBy Kelsea Eckenroth Pete Williams is currently working on “Weird Bodily Noises: Race, Gender and Alternative Jazz History in Kansas City.” When you hear the words “weird bodily noises,” what do you think of? I'm sure it's nothing close to jazz music.

• Axed musicians to protest outside Grammy Awards show - Reuters

  8 Feb 2012 | 11:15 am

  New York Daily NewsAxed musicians to protest outside Grammy Awards showReutersOrganizers said on Wednesday they hoped dozens of music artists and fans of Latin jazz, gospel and blues music would join in the demonstration, and attend an alternative concert. Some 23000 people have signed a petition demanding that the Recording musicians to protest at GrammysStuff.co.nzAxed musicians to protest at GrammysABC OnlineGrammy categories may be cut, but the music remainsCBC Radio 3 (blog)Contactmusic.com -Chicago Tribune -Monsters and Critics.comall 271 news articles »

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  NEWS IN ENGLISH

• Vancouver Canucks captain Henrik Sedin missed practice with ankle injury

  8 Feb 2012 | 5:15 pm

  ST. PAUL, Minn. - Vancouver Canucks captain Henrik Sedin missed practice Wednesday one day after suffering a right ankle injury.Sedin suffered the injury in a 4-3 win over Nashville after blocking a point shot from defenceman Kevin Klein in the fi...

• Sabres' coach Ruff watches game from above the ice

  8 Feb 2012 | 4:51 pm

  BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - Walking slowly and stiffly, Buffalo Sabres coach Lindy Ruff made his way to the coach's box to watch his team play the Boston Bruins on Wednesday night, two days after he broke three ribs during a collision in practice."I'm do...

• Leafs-Flyers on NHL Network highlights busy Thursday

  8 Feb 2012 | 4:49 pm

  The Philadelphia Flyers and Toronto Maple Leafs will meet for the first time in more than three months when the Leafs come to the Wells Fargo Center in one of 10 games on Thursday's NHL schedule. The Leafs and Flyers haven't played since Oct. 24,...

• Flyers star Claude Giroux shines as MVP candidate for Philadelphia

  8 Feb 2012 | 3:15 pm

  PHILADELPHIA - The clip has become a replayed classic. Former Philadelphia Flyers general manager Bobby Clarke was at the podium and set to announce the team's first-round pick in the 2006 NHL draft.Then he blanked."Philadelphia selects, from Gati...

• With Coyotes situation up in the air, Doan could be moving on from Phoenix

  8 Feb 2012 | 2:55 pm

  The thought has at least crossed Shane Doan's mind.With the Phoenix Coyotes' ownership situation still in limbo and unrestricted free agency staring him in the face, the veteran forward could be playing out his final season in the desert."Obviousl...

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  nhl hockey - Google News

• Toronto, Detroit to play Winter Classic at Michigan Stadium - USA TODAY

  Google Inc.

  8 Feb 2012 | 1:17 pm

  USA TODAYToronto, Detroit to play Winter Classic at Michigan StadiumUSA TODAYBy Kirthmon F. Dozier, Detroit Free Press Michigan Stadium hosted the Big Chill hockey game between Michigan and Michigan State on Dec. 11, 2010. A league official confirmed the NHL's plan, but asked not to be identified because there is a 10:30 am Finally! Hockey, beer coming to Michigan Stadium for Red Wings' Winter ClassicDetroit Free PressNHL set to make Leafs-Red Wings Winter Classic officialWindsor StarNHL to announce 2013 Winter Classic at Michigan StadiumTSNNew York Times…

• Anaheim Ducks Vs. Carolina Hurricanes 2/8/12: Rob's Free NHL Hockey Pick - Sports Chat Place

  Google Inc.

  8 Feb 2012 | 6:27 am

  Globe and MailAnaheim Ducks Vs. Carolina Hurricanes 2/8/12: Rob's Free NHL Hockey PickSports Chat PlaceThis is a game the Ducks should win but we've seen them throw up recent duds like the one against the Columbus Blue Jackets the other night. Still, they're playing much better hockey of late and getting a mediocre Carolina club at home should be Ducks beat Flames 3-2 in 8th round of shootoutGreenwich TimeIginla believes Flames playoff-boundToronto SunDucks Vs. Hurricanes: Anaheim Closes Homestand Against CarolinaSB Nation Los Angelesall 147 news articles »

• Buffalo Sabres Vs. Boston Bruins 2/8/12: Kyle's Free NHL Hockey Pick - Sports Chat Place

  Google Inc.

  7 Feb 2012 | 8:26 pm

  Globe and MailBuffalo Sabres Vs. Boston Bruins 2/8/12: Kyle's Free NHL Hockey PickSports Chat PlaceThe Boston Bruins look for their 17th road victory of the season on Wednesday night as they travel to the First Niagara Center to take on the Sabres who look to escape the Eastern Conference basement with a huge divisional victory over Boston.NHL coaches out with hockey-related injuriesComcast SportsNet Philadelphia (blog)Capitals' Laich plays 2 days after hurting knee Sabres coach Ruff day to day The Journal News | LoHud.comSabres coach Ruff day to day after breaking 3…

• Owen Nolan announces retirement from NHL - abc7news.com

  Google Inc.

  8 Feb 2012 | 1:42 am

  abc7news.comOwen Nolan announces retirement from NHLabc7news.com7, 2012, announcing Nolan's retirement as a professional NHL hockey player. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma) (AP Photo) SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Owen Nolan, who hasn't played in the NHL since the 2009-10 season, announced his retirement Tuesday at the San Jose Tribute to Owen Nolan: 10 moments that best celebrate his hockey legacy (Video)Yahoo! Sports (blog)Owen Nolan announces retirement from NHL.San Francisco Chronicleall 339 news articles »

• NHL roundup: Brodeur shuts the door on Rangers - London Free Press

  Google Inc.

  7 Feb 2012 | 11:37 pm

  Yahoo! Sports (blog)NHL roundup: Brodeur shuts the door on RangersLondon Free PressBy Sports Network New Jersey Devils defenceman Mark Fayne (29) reacts as he blocks a New York Rangers shot in front of goalie Martin Brodeur (30) in the third period of their NHL hockey game at Madison Square Garden in New York, February 7, 2012.Brodeur, red-hot Devils blank Rangers 1-0Greenwich TimeRangers, Devils remind us why NHL coaches' challenges are a necessityYahoo! Sports (blog)National Hockey League Game CapsulesSports NetworkSB Nationall 322 news articles »

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  How to Change the World

• Raising Money: What Not to Say and What Not to Believe #OfficeandGuyK

  GuyKawasaki

  20 Jan 2012 | 10:46 am

  Over the past two weeks via my partnership with Microsoft and Office Web Apps, I’ve provided templates of models for you to create enchanting PowerPoint pitches, Word business plans, and Excel financial models. They are all available for you to download from my SkyDrive account. I hope these documents and blog posts help you save a boatload of time and increase the quality of your efforts.I leave you with two sets of top ten lies: one of entrepreneurs and one of investors so that you know what not to say and what not to believe. Top Ten Lies of Entrepreneurs “Our projections are…

• Design a Sam Adams beer

  GuyKawasaki

  20 Jan 2012 | 8:24 am

  Now this is a fun project. I’m helping Sam Adams “tap” the knowledge of beer drinkers and crowd source its next brew. Join the party by getting the app and designing your beer: The final brew will be released in Austin in the first week of March. #sponsored

• How to Create an Enchanting Financial Forecast #OfficeandGuyK

  GuyKawasaki

  17 Jan 2012 | 1:52 pm

  This is the third post in my Microsoft partnership, and it’s all about numbers. The topic is crafting your financial forecast to include in your pitch. Bill Reichert, my partner at Garage Technology Ventures, created an Excel model and wrote this blog post. There’s a lesson in this too: Get the best person for the job. His grasp of financial models and how to present them exceeds mine by two orders of magnitude. The Purpose of Financial Projections When it comes to financial projections, there are two types of entrepreneurs: first, the “visionary entrepreneur” who…

• How to Create an Enchanting Business Plan #OfficeandGuyK

  GuyKawasaki

  12 Jan 2012 | 8:16 am

  Here is the second post in my series about planning, pitching, and launching a new business venture. In partnership with Microsoft and Office Web Apps, I’ve created a Word document that outlines a good business plan. It’s saved to my SkyDrive folder here. Feel free to download it and use it as inspiration. And if you’re working with a partner, you can use the free Word Web App to stay in sync. I provided the PowerPoint document before the Word document because a good business plan is an elaboration of a good pitch as opposed to a good pitch being a distillation of good business plan.

• How to Create an Enchanting Pitch #OfficeandGuyK

  GuyKawasaki

  9 Jan 2012 | 8:01 am

  Welcome to the first in a series of blog posts I’ll be doing as part of a partnership with Microsoft and Office Web Apps. Over the next two weeks, I’ll cover everything a budding entrepreneur needs to turn an idea into an enchanting investment opportunity—from the perfect pitch to a killer business plan to financial forecasts. I’m going to start with a little dissertation on creating effective PowerPoint pitches for your company. I embedded the sample deck for you to click through by using the PowerPoint Web App. When you’re ready to get started, you can download the…

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  Entrepreneur Update

• Seven Ways to Kill Your Meetings and Unleash Productivity

  8 Feb 2012 | 12:08 pm

  Despite studies showing that meetings are a colossal waste of time, they remain common. Here's how to collaborate while cutting back on meetings.

• The Danger of Being Franchisee No. 1

  8 Feb 2012 | 10:00 am

  Sure, it's a thrill to get in on the ground floor of a hot new concept. But it's risky to invest in an unproven business model. Here are questions to ask.

• How the White House Became a Social-Media Powerhouse

  8 Feb 2012 | 7:00 am

  Macon Phillips, the White House's director of New Media, describes how the administration is using social media in unique ways -- and how your business can too.

• No-Cost Ways to Increase Your Sales This Year

  8 Feb 2012 | 5:02 am

  You don't need to spend a lot to win a lot of sales in 2012.

• The Battle Against SOPA Is Far From Over

  8 Feb 2012 | 4:00 am

  Even though the anti-piracy bill has been sidelined, other proposed legislation still exist that pose equal threats to online businesses.

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  VentureBeat

• Police seize Megaupload founder’s $4.3M home, let pregnant wife stay

  Jennifer Van Grove

  8 Feb 2012 | 4:56 pm

  Government officials have Megaupload founder and accused money-launderer Kim Dotcom right where they want him — locked up in New Zealand awaiting an extradition hearing — but that’s not stopping them from kicking the Internet mogul while he’s down. New Zealand authorities seized Dotcom’s $4.3 million Coatesville home today, according to The New Zealand Herald. The property, not previously seized in a January raid taking $16 million in assets, is currently occupied by the alleged crime-ring leader’s pregnant (with twins, no less) wife and three children.

• Facebook gives us some clues about the next 12 months of Timeline

  Jolie O'Dell

  8 Feb 2012 | 2:25 pm

  Facebook product chief Carl Sjogreen gave developers and others a few clues about what to expect from Facebook over the next year. At the Inside Social Apps conference in San Francisco today, the Facebook executive laid out the three most important parts of Facebook’s third-party development platform: Open Graph, mobile, and games. “The point of Open Graph is a tool to let apps deeply integrate with Facebook and fill out your Timeline and enrich the News Feed,” he began. “It’s based on the belief that Facebook is more interesting… if it includes more than…

• Foursquare for iPhone, Android enhanced with new Explore features and menu info

  Jennifer Van Grove

  8 Feb 2012 | 2:18 pm

  A hungry sojourner should find a more satisfying experience tracking down a good meal if refreshed iPhone and Android applications from Foursquare deliver on their promise to simplify the discovery of places. The New York location-based company, currently in the midst of a rebrand, has shipped colorful Explore tab updates to its most popular mobile applications. The Explore tab, the home of place discovery, now features smarter search capabilities, a new navigation for quick access to top picks and trending locations, the ability to search beyond your present location, and the option to…

• Path CEO: We screwed up by uploading your personal data and we have erased it

  Sean Ludwig

  8 Feb 2012 | 2:03 pm

  The CEO of Path, a startup focused on sharing your life with just close contacts, has apologized after a hacker showed that Path’s iOS app uploaded extremely personal data to its servers without permission. The purpose of uploading that data was to be better connected with your friends and family in Path’s systems. But Path’s users, naturally, were up in arms that their contacts, e-mail addresses, and phone numbers were taken and some called for Apple to block the iOS app the in App Store. Others threatened legal action. CEO Dave Morin (pictured) said the company is sorry…

• Groupon’s first earnings report a net loss, but they are still doing great if you don’t count what they spend

  Ben Popper

  8 Feb 2012 | 1:30 pm

  There were a lot of doubters who said Groupon was nothing more than a Ponzi scheme looking to cash out with an IPO. Groupon just reported its first quarterly earnings as a public company, and did better than many on Wall Street expected. Yet the stock is taking a beating, dropping 15 percent after hours trading. The daily-deals company announced that revenue and active customers were way up on a year-over-year basis. The company said it was in the black for the first time, swinging from a $336.1 million loss to an operating income of $15 million. Reuters points out, however, that Groupon…

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  A VC : Venture Capital and Technology

• Payments Day

  Fred

  8 Feb 2012 | 3:24 am

  Yesterday was payments day at USV. Two pretty big things that our firm has been involved in for a while now were coincidentally announced on the same day. First, our newest portfolio company Dwolla announced the closing of a round we led on their blog. Dwolla is building a large network of engaged users via a radically lower cost payment system. How much lower? Zero for transactions below $10 and a $0.25 flat fee for transactions over $10. If you move $10,000 over the Dwolla network, you or the recipient (your choice) will be charged $0.25. That's it. Dwolla does this by avoiding credit…

• Building The Ecosystem

  Fred

  7 Feb 2012 | 2:58 am

  I've always seen the work that my colleauges and I do as more than venture capital investing. That is our main job and we need to do it very well. But we also need to work to make sure the macro environment for our investing activities remains attractive. There are two primary activities that Union Square Ventures focuses on in addition to our core venture capital activities of backing and then working closely with entrepreneurs and their teams. They are policy advocacy around protecting the freedom to innovate and efforts to build the ecosystem for startups and entrepreneurship. Longtime…

• The Academy For Software Engineering

  Fred

  13 Jan 2012 | 2:39 am

  A number of years ago, I wrote a blog post talking about the need to teach middle school and high school students how to write software. In the comments (where the good stuff happens), a Google engineer told me to go down to Stuyvesant High School and meet a teacher named Mike Zamansky who had taught him to write code in high school. So I did that and thus begun my education into the world of computer science education in the NYC public high school system. What I learned was that other than Mike's program at Stuyvesant and a few other small programs, there wasn't much. So began…

• Shapeways and 3D Printing

  Fred

  11 Jan 2012 | 3:03 am

  Last week, in the thread on Herky Jerky Investing, the AVC community forked into an incredible discussion about 3D printing and our portfolio company Shapeways. If you click on this link, you'll see that the conversation just goes on and on and on. Clearly 3D printing is something that has captured the imagination of many members of the AVC community. We are huge believers in the power of technology to feed creativity and new kinds of businesses. 3D printing in general and Shapeways in particular is exactly that kind of transformative technology. It is still not on the radar of most…

• Fredsquare

  Fred

  7 Jan 2012 | 4:29 am

  Our very own Kid Mercury has built a learning community (and game) called Fredsquare. The following is a guest post he has written to introduce all of you to it. I hope you'll visit Fredsquare, play the game, and learn a bit about startups too. I am sure the Kid will love to get your feedback on Fredsquare in the comments too. FredSquare is an application I’ve hacked together for the AVC community. Its mission statement is to help startups learn. Here’s how it works: Articles and videos from around the web that help startups learn are imported the site. Comments on AVC tagged #fs are also…

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  VentureBeat

• Police seize Megaupload founder’s $4.3M home, let pregnant wife stay

  Jennifer Van Grove

  8 Feb 2012 | 4:56 pm

  Government officials have Megaupload founder and accused money-launderer Kim Dotcom right where they want him — locked up in New Zealand awaiting an extradition hearing — but that’s not stopping them from kicking the Internet mogul while he’s down. New Zealand authorities seized Dotcom’s $4.3 million Coatesville home today, according to The New Zealand Herald. The property, not previously seized in a January raid taking $16 million in assets, is currently occupied by the alleged crime-ring leader’s pregnant (with twins, no less) wife and three children.

• Facebook gives us some clues about the next 12 months of Timeline

  Jolie O'Dell

  8 Feb 2012 | 2:25 pm

  Facebook product chief Carl Sjogreen gave developers and others a few clues about what to expect from Facebook over the next year. At the Inside Social Apps conference in San Francisco today, the Facebook executive laid out the three most important parts of Facebook’s third-party development platform: Open Graph, mobile, and games. “The point of Open Graph is a tool to let apps deeply integrate with Facebook and fill out your Timeline and enrich the News Feed,” he began. “It’s based on the belief that Facebook is more interesting… if it includes more than…

• Foursquare for iPhone, Android enhanced with new Explore features and menu info

  Jennifer Van Grove

  8 Feb 2012 | 2:18 pm

  A hungry sojourner should find a more satisfying experience tracking down a good meal if refreshed iPhone and Android applications from Foursquare deliver on their promise to simplify the discovery of places. The New York location-based company, currently in the midst of a rebrand, has shipped colorful Explore tab updates to its most popular mobile applications. The Explore tab, the home of place discovery, now features smarter search capabilities, a new navigation for quick access to top picks and trending locations, the ability to search beyond your present location, and the option to…

• Path CEO: We screwed up by uploading your personal data and we have erased it

  Sean Ludwig

  8 Feb 2012 | 2:03 pm

  The CEO of Path, a startup focused on sharing your life with just close contacts, has apologized after a hacker showed that Path’s iOS app uploaded extremely personal data to its servers without permission. The purpose of uploading that data was to be better connected with your friends and family in Path’s systems. But Path’s users, naturally, were up in arms that their contacts, e-mail addresses, and phone numbers were taken and some called for Apple to block the iOS app the in App Store. Others threatened legal action. CEO Dave Morin (pictured) said the company is sorry…

• Groupon’s first earnings report a net loss, but they are still doing great if you don’t count what they spend

  Ben Popper

  8 Feb 2012 | 1:30 pm

  There were a lot of doubters who said Groupon was nothing more than a Ponzi scheme looking to cash out with an IPO. Groupon just reported its first quarterly earnings as a public company, and did better than many on Wall Street expected. Yet the stock is taking a beating, dropping 15 percent after hours trading. The daily-deals company announced that revenue and active customers were way up on a year-over-year basis. The company said it was in the black for the first time, swinging from a $336.1 million loss to an operating income of $15 million. Reuters points out, however, that Groupon…

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  CenterNetworks

• Deal Site Smackdown: The Valentine’s Day Edition

  Allen Stern

  8 Feb 2012 | 6:06 am

  Next Tuesday is the annual holiday known as Valentine’s Day. The day is named after St. Valentine and over 150 million cards are exchanged – here’s the full history of this very special day. This year the new deal sites are holding a cage match with each site offering a deal with a national floral delivery service. Most of these deals expire asap so you should be quick if you want to grab some flowers for your sweetie. Also note that the delivery fees are higher for a delivery on Valentine’s day. Lastly, I see some of the local cities within the deal sites are also…

• Top 10 Russian Web Startups of 2011

  Yakov Sadchikov

  7 Feb 2012 | 5:37 am

  Yakov Sadchikov, President & CEO of visual search engine Quintura, has put together the following list of the top 10 Russian web startups for 2011. In September 2011, Russia became the largest Internet market in Europe with 51 million online users. Who are the top emerging internet companies that disrupt the Russian market. Find out below a list of top 10 Russian web startups of 2011. 1. Oktogo.ru Having raised $5 million in venture capital from European early-stage investors, Oktogo.ru is #1 in Russian online travel. Russia’s ‘Booking.com‘ Oktogo.ru has not only collected the…

• NCR Sells Blockbuster Express Kiosks To RedBox

  Allen Stern

  6 Feb 2012 | 4:27 pm

  Somehow I thought this year would be the end for the Blockbuster Express kiosk machines. Back in November they changed their pricing model and it seemed like it just became a lot more expensive to rent from Blockbuster Express versus rival RedBox. As an infrequent movie renter, I found the Redbox machines to have a better selection and a better price – and you can nearly always find a free movie rental code for RedBox. Today RedBox has agreed to acquire the kiosks and “other assets” from Blockbuster Express.  RedBox notes in their release that the deal is worth up to $100…

• Shark Tank Recap – February 3

  Allen Stern

  3 Feb 2012 | 6:48 pm

  Below is a recap of the February 3, 2012 episode of the ABC show Shark Tank (episode 301). If you are unfamiliar with Shark Tank, the concept is simple – entrepreneurs pitch their ideas to a panel of investors and the investors have to provide at least the amount the entrepreneur is seeking for a deal to be completed. Pitch #1 – Chord Buddy Founder Travis Perry created a plastic gadget that you place onto an acoustic guitar to help you learn how to play the guitar. As you learn how to play, you remove pieces of the Chord Buddy until you have completed removed the gadget and are…

• SXSW Releases 2011 Demographics

  Allen Stern

  1 Feb 2012 | 1:46 pm

  Another year, another SXSW festival coming up in just a few weeks. What will this year’s event hold? Last year seemed like a big shift for both the event and for attendees. The event was split up into many locations (I think this was a huge mistake), more commercialization than ever and it seemed like lots of people came to Austin but didn’t buy a badge – they just surfed the hallways of the convention center and also attended lots of Sixth Street non-official events. Each year the event grows larger and hotel rooms display sold out signs earlier and earlier. I wonder if…

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  trendsspotting blog

• “Trends and Innovations in Mobile Accessories” Research Report

  Dr. Taly Weiss

  1 Feb 2012 | 8:03 am

  We are happy to announce the release of a new TrendsSpotting research report  uncovering  major  trends  in  Mobile  Accessories. Based  on  exploration  of  over  2000  new  accessories  released  since  2011  +   CES  2012  and  a  market  analysis  of  major  market  trends  characterizing  this   growing  market, TrendsSpotting  has  identified  about  150  recently  released   products  that  reflect  new  emerging  trends  in  mobile  accessories. The  innovations  analyzed  in  this  report  are  profiled  according  to …

• LEADING DIGITAL WOMEN PREDICT 2012

  Dr. Taly Weiss

  11 Jan 2012 | 6:20 pm

  For the last five years TrendsSpotting trends research company has published prediction reports covering trends in tech, mobile and social media, suggested by leading technology and business experts. TrendsSpotting’s Influencers Prediction Reports 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008 are read by thousands of readers and are used by leading companies to plan their future (viewership at Slideshare/TrendsSpotting). As TrendsSpotting is involved in re-placing the role of women in the digital world (see us at Microsoft’s Women Think Next and WIFT), we have decided that this year we will dedicate this…

• Emerging market for mobile health products

  Dr. Taly Weiss

  9 Nov 2011 | 3:15 am

  In the past year, products using mobile devices to monitor health conditions are becoming more popular with the first ones now getting accepted by the Food and Drug Administration. Among health care apps entering the market are blood pressure monitoring cuffs, CT-scan viewers, and pocket ultrasound machines. The market is still at its first steps but rapid growth is expected: according to mobile market consultancy research2guidance, by 2015 30 percent of the world’s smartphone users will be using mobile health products, up from 5 percent today. The big promise for consumers are…

• 2020 Predictions -Model for Future Innovations

  Dr. Taly Weiss

  14 Oct 2011 | 2:12 am

  Based on the concept of “The Internet of Things” TrendsSpotting has developed  a working model for NPD.  ”The ANA Model” was developed  and implemented while working with tech companies, and allows us to predict future products and services. The “ANA Model” identifies the process where data is collected from reported “Actions”, then delivered to predefined monitor systems or professionals by “Notifications”. The outcomes can “Alert” people through a visualized system. Few daily activities are presented to reflect the…

• How crowdsourcing games help solve scientific problems: Review of current projects

  Dr. Taly Weiss

  6 Oct 2011 | 7:09 am

  It has been shown that the human capacity has still important advantages over computers. Scientists have learned to use crowd sourcing tools to improve their research. To achieve cooperation, they present models of the problems in a game like display and challenge the partipants to find solutions. Scientists in Carnegie Mellon University (look up Luis von Ahn) were the first to use human brains to help them solve problems associated with searching for images on the web (computers are not very good at distinguishing images from each other using visual cues). This lead to the development…