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A battle of the sexes on cleanliness and hygiene [infographic]
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Big Question (Answered): "Do You Have Too Many Facebook Friends?"
ReadWriteWeb9 Feb 2012 | 7:04 amEvery day I jump onto Facebook for my work, but honestly, I never use it as it was intended. If you send me a message or like my status, I might engage, but I never reach out to folks. My stream is full of interesting content about people I don't know enough to care about. I know that sounds rude, but there's really only so much room in your life for connections. I have a little over 700 friends and I think that's about 500 too many. I've been considering paring down for some time, not because I think my connections aren't cool, but because I'm missing out on things like my family's birthday… -
Things That Were Once Amazing
Pogue's Posts2 Feb 2012 | 11:04 amDavid Pogue is amazed that people are still amazed at children's tech prowess. It's too bad there's no List of Things That Were Once Amazing, but Are Really Kind of Old News at This Point, he says. It would be a handy clip-and-save document that you could review, perhaps to avoid unwittingly embarrassing yourself at the next cocktail party. -
Leaked iPad 3 Components Reveal New Internals, But No New Design [Exclusive] (Killian Bell/Cult of Mac)
Techmeme9 Feb 2012 | 7:50 amKillian Bell / Cult of Mac: Leaked iPad 3 Components Reveal New Internals, But No New Design [Exclusive] — Images of leaked iPad 3 components hot off the factory floor have been provided to Cult of Mac. They reveal that the internal components of Apple's third-generation iPad are significantly different to those features … -
Tech Talk: 02/08
Tech Talk7 Feb 2012 | 10:00 pmTECH TALK is in Moscow to attend Russia's Safer Internet Day Conference where delegates are debating how to balance child protection with free speech. (Magid, self-ID)
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Holy Kaw!
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A battle of the sexes on cleanliness and hygiene [infographic]
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Coffee-themed bike racks
9 Feb 2012 | 7:13 amJava junkies that commute via bicycle get their coffee experience started before even walking in the door of Filter Coffeehouse & Espresso Bar in Washington, D.C. The quirky joe shop recently installed bike racks shaped like a giant coffee mug and French press. The Washington Area Bicycle Association teamed up with the BikeBrand Your Biz campaign to set up the bike racks that not only accommodate the shop's many bikers, but also are wonderful branding for anyone strolling by. Via Laughing Squid. Coffee and biking make for a good morning. Permalink | Leave a comment » -
America's bacon obsession: 10 bacon-inspired products
9 Feb 2012 | 7:07 amHow much do we love our cured meats? A whole lot: On average, every American eats 18 pounds of bacon per year. Now, that salty meat obsession is reaching a new level. A look at the bacon craze sweeping the States, from the relatively tame bacon shake to the 'wait, what?' bacon lube: View slideshow at The Week. Photo: CC by kimtaro All the top stories from The Week. Permalink | Leave a comment » -
The content marketing explosion [infographic]
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8 historical figures who ate disgusting things
8 Feb 2012 | 11:26 pmBefore you read this article, you may have thought your dog had the grossest eating habits ever. But Fido's penchant for poo is nothing compared to some of these sickos highlighted in Cracked. For example, Victorian scientist William Buckland: He didn't just stop at the meat of animals, either. While on a visit to St. Paul's Cathedral, a strange mark was found on the floor. A debate broke out as to what the stain could possibly be, at which point Buckland got on his hands and knees, licked the stain and confidently announced it to be bat piss. But the craziest thing Buckland ever did, at…
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ReadWriteWeb
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Big Question (Answered): "Do You Have Too Many Facebook Friends?"
9 Feb 2012 | 7:04 amEvery day I jump onto Facebook for my work, but honestly, I never use it as it was intended. If you send me a message or like my status, I might engage, but I never reach out to folks. My stream is full of interesting content about people I don't know enough to care about. I know that sounds rude, but there's really only so much room in your life for connections. I have a little over 700 friends and I think that's about 500 too many. I've been considering paring down for some time, not because I think my connections aren't cool, but because I'm missing out on things like my family's birthday… -
Appcelerator Acquires Cocoafish to Implement Mobile Cloud Services in Titanium
9 Feb 2012 | 7:00 amMobile development company Appcelerator announced today that it is buying "backend-as-a-service" startup Cocoafish to implement cloud services and functionality to its Titanium Platform. Acquiring Cocoafish is an astute move by Appcelerator, which focuses on tools for developers to create native and mobile Web apps. The company realized in its latest mobile developer report that 84% of developers using Titanium were utilizing some type of cloud service. With Cocoafish, Appcelerator attempts to keep all the necessary mobile development tools on its own platform. Appcelerator admits that with… -
Three Ways To Use Linked In If You're NOT Looking For A Job
9 Feb 2012 | 5:00 amA post last week on pimping your LinkedIn profile drew a big response, as well as a divide in comments about whether or not people should be using LinkedIn. One of the bigger misconceptions in comments in emails was that LinkedIn is primarily a job-hunting site. But there are reasons to use LinkedIn even if you have a job you love, aside from the obvious benefits of keeping up on your industry and making connections with potential business partners. Sponsor Among them: LinkedIn is a great contact manager. Not all of your contacts will have their phone numbers in their LinkedIn profile (and if… -
Groupon's First Earnings Call Missed the Mark, But It May Not Matter
8 Feb 2012 | 9:28 pmToday in its quarterly earnings call, Groupon reported that it did not meet fourth quarter expectations. The company posted a $43 million loss, or $0.08 cents per share. Despite the loss, Groupon's revenue in the fourth quarter 2011 grew 194% to $506.5 million, up from $172.2 million in the fourth quarter of 2010. In fact, the fourth quarter 2011 was the company's first quarter of operating profitability since it opening international operations in the second quarter of 2010. This brings everyone back to the same question: Is the daily deals model a real, legitimate business, or is it just a… -
Daily Wrap: January's List of Apps You Need to See and more
8 Feb 2012 | 6:00 pmDan Rowinski rounds up the best apps, in our opinion, of January 2012. This and more in today's Daily Wrap. Sometimes it's difficult to catch everything that hits tech media in a day, so we wrap up some of the most talked about stories. We give you a daily recap of what you missed in the ReadWriteWeb Community, including a link to some of the most popular discussions in our offsite communities on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+ as well. Sponsor New iPhone, iPad and Android Apps for January 2012 In what is surely a labor of love, Dan Rowinski combs through the mass of apps released…
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Pogue's Posts
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Things That Were Once Amazing
2 Feb 2012 | 11:04 amDavid Pogue is amazed that people are still amazed at children's tech prowess. It's too bad there's no List of Things That Were Once Amazing, but Are Really Kind of Old News at This Point, he says. It would be a handy clip-and-save document that you could review, perhaps to avoid unwittingly embarrassing yourself at the next cocktail party. -
Look, Ma, No Hands! Operating a Laptop With Eyes Only
26 Jan 2012 | 10:43 amTobii, a Swedish company, is demonstrating eye-tracking software that really rocked my world. Imagine reading a Web page or Word document on the screen and the page scrolls automatically, gracefully and effortlessly as you proceed through the article. The system knows where your eyes are and how fast you're going. -
A New G-Shock Watch Awaits a New Bluetooth
24 Jan 2012 | 5:57 amCasio's G-Shock GB6900 watch uses a new, low-power Bluetooth chip called Bluetooth Smart (or Bluetooth 4.0) to do amazing things with a PC or smartphone. Butt the watch doesn't work unless your phone also has Bluetooth 4.0 - and right now, only a couple of them do. -
Put Down the Pitchforks on SOPA
19 Jan 2012 | 9:50 amNot enough people have acknowledged that the opposition was arguing two totally different points - the "you're going about it the wrong way" group and the "we want our illegal movies!" group. In the new world of Internet versus government, the system worked. The people spoke, government listened, and that's good. But let us do it responsibly, people. Both sides have an obligation to do the right thing. -
A Gadget Is More Than the Sum of Its Parts
5 Jan 2012 | 12:36 pmIf you think Amazon's real cost to make that Kindle Fire is $201, then by all means go to China and cobble one together yourself. The components are only part of the cost of any gadget.
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Techmeme
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Leaked iPad 3 Components Reveal New Internals, But No New Design [Exclusive] (Killian Bell/Cult of Mac)
9 Feb 2012 | 7:50 amKillian Bell / Cult of Mac: Leaked iPad 3 Components Reveal New Internals, But No New Design [Exclusive] — Images of leaked iPad 3 components hot off the factory floor have been provided to Cult of Mac. They reveal that the internal components of Apple's third-generation iPad are significantly different to those features … -
Steve Jobs' FBI File Released (John Cook/Gawker)
9 Feb 2012 | 7:35 amJohn Cook / Gawker: Steve Jobs' FBI File Released — The FBI has released, and posted on its web site, Steve Jobs' 191-page FBI file. Read it here. The file consists of a 1991 background investigation conducted when Jobs was being considered for an appointment to the President's Export Council in the Bush I White House … -
BranchOut Reaches 300 Million Profiles And 10 Million Users (Tomio Geron/Social Markets)
9 Feb 2012 | 7:25 amTomio Geron / Social Markets: BranchOut Reaches 300 Million Profiles And 10 Million Users — BranchOut, the professional jobs network that runs on top of Facebook, announced that it has reached 300 million profiles in its network. — That's many more profiles than what exists on rival LinkedIn, which has about 135 million members. -
Lytro Teardown Shows Potential Wireless Capability, Smallish Sensor (Devin Coldewey/TechCrunch)
9 Feb 2012 | 7:15 amDevin Coldewey / TechCrunch: Lytro Teardown Shows Potential Wireless Capability, Smallish Sensor — It's been a while since we've heard anything about Lytro (other than nearly grabbing a Crunchie (I voted for them)), the camera where you shoot now and focus later. And the latest news comes not from the company itself … -
Inside Yahoo: Less Show, More Sell (Amir Efrati/Wall Street Journal)
9 Feb 2012 | 7:05 amAmir Efrati / Wall Street Journal: Inside Yahoo: Less Show, More Sell — New CEO Aims to Reduce Emphasis on Ads, Boost Commission Revenue — New Chief Executive Scott Thompson's plan for turning around Yahoo Inc. is beginning to take shape: He wants to push the Internet company away from its advertising roots …
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Tech Talk
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Tech Talk: 02/08
7 Feb 2012 | 10:00 pmTECH TALK is in Moscow to attend Russia's Safer Internet Day Conference where delegates are debating how to balance child protection with free speech. (Magid, self-ID) -
Tech Talk: 02/07
6 Feb 2012 | 10:00 pmHave you ever given thought to PDF files? Today TECH TALK tells us what you'd like to know about them. (Magid, self-ID) -
Tech Talk: 02/06
5 Feb 2012 | 10:00 pmTuesday is Safer Internet Day. It's recognized mostly in Europe but this year Microsoft, Google and other U.S. companies and non-profits are participating. TECH TALK spoke with Microsoft's Jacqueline Beauchere about its plans. (Magid, self-ID) -
Tech Talk: 02/03
2 Feb 2012 | 10:00 pmAn iPhone and Adroid app called Likes shows you what bars and restaurants your Facebook friends like. The story is today's TECH TALK. (Magid, self-ID) -
Tech Talk: 02/02
1 Feb 2012 | 10:00 pmFacebook filed papers yesterday (Wednesday) for an Initial Public Offering (IPO) where it disclosed some astonishing numbers that investors are sure to "like." The story is today's TECH TALK. (Magid, self-ID)
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Mashable!
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Texts Now Popular Ammo for Divorce Battles [VIDEO]
9 Feb 2012 | 7:39 amNew technological and social media tools have a way of messing up relationships — and they can also be used for evidence when those relationships fail and end up in divorce court. A study of divorce attorneys released this week shows an increase in smartphones being used as evidence. Ninety-two percent of the attorneys surveyed in the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers study said they’ve seen an increase in the past few years in the number of cases that use evidence from smartphones; 94% said they’ve seen a rise in the use of texts as evidence in the past three years. -
Photo Finish: Kodak to Stop Selling Digital Cameras
9 Feb 2012 | 7:28 amIn a cost-cutting move and a signal of the company’s poor financial situation, Eastman Kodak on Thursday announced it plans to stop selling digital cameras. The company, which filed for bankruptcy protection last month, will instead focus on online and retail-based photo printing as well as desktop inkjet printing. Kodak plans to phase out all digital camera sales within the first half of this year. The move is expected to save Kodak $100 million. Kodak expects to incur charges of $30 million for exiting the business. “For some time, Kodak’s strategy has been to improve margins in… -
iPhone, Meet Laser Blaster. Is This 2012′s Hottest Toy?
9 Feb 2012 | 7:17 amiPhones aren’t cool. You know what’s cool? Shooting your friends with your iPhone, mounted into a laser blaster. A couple of phone-based friend-blasting systems have crossed our radar this week — one for iPhone, one for any smartphone. First came news that Hasbro is updating Lazer Tag (remember that?) for the app-obsessed 21st century. Its 2012 edition guns, hitting toy store shelves this August for $40 per blaster, include a slot for your iPhone or iPod Touch. Using a free Lazer Tag app and the phone’s built-in camera, the set-up will keep track of who shot whom and… -
3 Ways to Optimize Search on Your Ecommerce Site
9 Feb 2012 | 7:01 amThe Future of Search Series is supported by SES New York, the leading search, social and display conference. From March 19 to 23, get five days of education, inspiration and conversations with marketing experts from the digital space. Register with MASH20 to save 20%. More people are flocking online to get their shopping done these days. But, an online shopper doesn’t necessarily equal genius website navigator. Your need to ensure that your business website’s search tools are simple and intuitive for those who are less technologically inclined — or risk losing customers. -
Twitter to Get First Look at Several New York Fashion Week Collections
9 Feb 2012 | 6:35 amIt worked for Burberry, so why couldn’t it work for us? So seems to be the thought process of several prominent U.S. fashion labels during New York Fashion Week, all of which are planning their own takes on the “Tweetwalk” Burberry debuted at its womenswear show in September 2011. The London-based fashion house made headlines when it posted photos of every look from its Spring/Summer 2012 collection on Twitter seconds before they appeared on the catwalk. The initiative generated a huge amount of interest on Twitter — so much so that both “#Burberry” and “Christopher…
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Ars Technica
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In world of copyright craziness, BitTorrent, Inc. soars to new heights
9 Feb 2012 | 7:06 amIt's a turbulent time in the world of content distribution. Despite a successful protest against overly restrictive anti-piracy legislation, law enforcement has demonstrated its already considerable power to take copyright-infringing websites offline, and several hosting and torrent sites have gone dark voluntarily to evade prosecution. In the middle of all these warring groups—or perhaps more accurately, completely removed from them—stands BitTorrent, Inc., a company whose technological innovation gave the Internet important new capabilities, making it easier for everyone to… -
First week of March fingered for iPad 3 announcement
9 Feb 2012 | 6:50 amThere have been many rumors about the launch of Apple's next-gen iPad, but the first substantial bit of info comes courtesy of All Things D. According to sources speaking to the publication, the iPad 3 will be introduced at an event in San Francisco during the first week of March—the same week the iPad 2 was announced in 2011. Rumors have been all over the map as for what the iPad 3's specs might be. It has been generally accepted at this point that it will come with a higher-resolution "retina" display, but others have pointed to upgraded cameras, a slightly thicker body, a quad-core… -
Double Fine seeks to cut out publishers with Kickstarter-funded adventure
9 Feb 2012 | 6:39 amIt seems industry analysts aren't the only ones questioning the traditional game publishing model these days, as Tim Schafer's Double Fine (Brutal Legend, Costume Quest) has launched a Kickstarter project to crowdsource funding for "a brand-new, downloadable 'Point-and-Click' graphic adventure game for the modern age." Read the comments on this post -
Why don't more game developers see royalties from their work?
9 Feb 2012 | 6:28 amWhen people talk about the importance of actually spending money on games, rather than resorting to a used purchase or piracy, the importance of "supporting the developers" is never far from the argument. Yet for a lot of classic titles being repackaged and sold these days, money from new purchases isn't going to the developers at all, but solely to the publishers that own the long-term rights to the titles. Freelance developer Simon Roth decided to see just how deep this problem goes. He started digging around on Google and talking to his colleagues to determine which developers, if any,… -
Chrome 17 released, will preload autocompleted URLs as you type
8 Feb 2012 | 7:20 pmGoogle has just released Chrome version 17, which brings several minor enhancements to the company's web browser—including a new Web address preloading feature and improved protection against malicious downloads. The new Chrome introduces a "preemptive rendering" feature that will automatically begin loading and rendering a page in the background while the user is typing the address in the omnibox (the combined address and search text entry field in Chrome's navigation toolbar). The preloading will occur in cases when the top match generated by the omnibox's autocompletion functionality…
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NYT > Technology
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Kodak to Stop Making Digital Cameras to Cut Costs
9 Feb 2012 | 7:25 amEastman Kodak, the inventor of the hand-held camera, plans to stop making digital cameras, pocket video cameras and digital picture frames in the first half of 2012 in an effort to cut costs. -
State of the Art: Android Phones Go on a Power Trip - State of the Art
9 Feb 2012 | 7:05 amIn a world crammed with Android phones, HTC, Samsung and Motorola introduce three new models, each of them Verizon 4Gs. -
Digital Security Bills Bruised by a Lingering Antipiracy Fight
9 Feb 2012 | 6:27 amLegislation intended to help protect infrastructure from terrorists is hampered by fears of pressure from advocates who scored a victory against antipiracy bills. -
In Piracy Debate, Is the Sky Falling?
9 Feb 2012 | 6:07 amMedia and Internet giants at odds over dealing with purloined content on the Web may need to agree first on exactly how bad the problem is. -
Young People Are Watching, but Less Often on TV
9 Feb 2012 | 4:32 amYoung people still watch many television shows, but they are streaming them on computers and phones to a greater degree.
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Lifehacker
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Approximate the Weight of Any Item Using a Clothes Hanger [Macgyver Tips]
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Make Frozen Dough Rise Quickly with an Electric Heating Pad [Food Hacks]
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Boost Your Working Memory to Make Time Fly [Mind Hacks]
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Waze for iPhone Offers Voice Control for Hands-Free Operation While Driving [Video]
9 Feb 2012 | 6:00 amiPhone: Waze, our favorite turn-by-turn navigation app for iPhone (and Android) just added a great new feature: hands-free operation. Now you can control Waze with a wave of your hand and the power of your voice. More » -
ContactPrivacy Alerts You When Apps Access Contact Information [Privacy]
9 Feb 2012 | 5:30 amMore »
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Engadget
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Intel teaches Haswell the core values of teamwork, optimism
9 Feb 2012 | 6:43 amSure you can make wild, individualistic boasts about having a 22nm fabrication process and three different GPUs, but that stuff counts for nothing without the magic of cooperation. The Amish know that and so does Intel, which is why its forthcoming Haswell cores will support Transactional Synchronization Extensions (TSX) -- a new instruction set designed to allow cores to work together more closely without hammering each others' fingers. TSX takes greater responsibility for the division of labor between cores at the hardware level, relieving the software programmer of some of this burdensome… -
Canon EOS-1D X and Nikon D4 ISO 204,800 shooting hands-on (video)
9 Feb 2012 | 6:10 amWith mirrorless cameras offering high-resolution APS-C sensors and consecutive shooting speeds of up to 10 frames-per-second, what's left to make a $6,000 full-frame DSLR a compelling purchase, especially for amateur photographers? Low-light performance, for one -- the Canon EOS-1D X and Nikon D4 are both capable of capturing images at up to ISO 204,800, letting you snap sharp photos in even the dimmest of lighting conditions. The benefits of a top sensitivity of ISO 204,800 are significant -- jumping from one ISO to the next doubles your shutter speed. So an exposure of f/2.8 at 1/2 second… -
Kodak to shutter digital camera production this year
9 Feb 2012 | 5:48 amThis year has not been a kind one for Kodak. Last month, the photography pioneer announced that it was filing for bankruptcy (and suing Samsung, incidentally), and now the company has let it be known that it will be dropping out of the digital camera business -- and then some -- marking an end to its line of digital point-and-shoots, pocket camcorders and digital photo frames. Production will end the first half of this year. The future for the company will hold printers, brand licensing, enterprise services and photo labs. Kodak will, however, continue to honor warranties on existing… -
Hacker spites Symantec, puts pcAnywhere's source code out in the open
9 Feb 2012 | 5:24 amSymantec said that folks running its pcAnywhere utility were at an "increased risk" when it revealed that the company had been hacked and its source codes pilfered, and advised customers to stop using pcAnywhere for the time being. Sage advice, as a hacker with the handle YamaTough -- who's affiliated with Anonymous -- helped do the deed and has now published the code for all the world to see. Apparently, the hacker and hackee had attempted to broker a deal for $50,000 to keep the code private, but neither side negotiated in good faith -- YamaTough always intended to release the code, and law… -
Apple announcing iPad 3 first week of March? Anonymous sources think so
9 Feb 2012 | 5:05 amIs the long, treacherous wait for the iPad 3 nearly at an end? That's what anonymous sources tell All Things D. The site caught wind that an Apple event next month will host the announcement of the company's latest tablet. The event is said to be slated for the first week of March at that popular Apple haunt, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco -- and seeing as how last year's event was held on March 2nd, that timing doesn't seem all that crazy to us. As for an actual release date, said sources are a bit less chatty.Apple announcing iPad 3 first week of March? Anonymous…
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Gizmodo
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Fear the Deer—Nature's Unstoppable Killing Machines [Book Excerpts]
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Broke Kodak Will Halt Camera Production [Kodak]
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7 Things You Didn't Know About Steve Jobs From the Guy Who Designed the Original Mac [Steve Jobs]
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A Glimpse Into Your Future as an Elderly Curmudgeon [Video]
9 Feb 2012 | 6:40 amWhat will children of the digital age complain about when they are 70? I personally can't wait to see the shock on my grandkids' faces when I tell them about the days of dial-up modems and the world before Youtube. Watch this video for a look into the crystal ball. [YouTube] More » -
What 14 Years of Weather Looks Like [Video]
9 Feb 2012 | 6:40 amAfter watching this 14 years of weather timelapse in the United States, I've confirmed the one thing I already knew: Every state's weather sucks except for California's. Watch it and you'll agree with me. More »
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GigaOM
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The FCC map of places your mobile data plan won’t work
9 Feb 2012 | 7:16 amThe Federal Communications Commission is spearheading a big effort to get rural Americans online, and to help, later this year carriers can apply for a $300 million fund to bring wireless broadband to the heartlands. Only it’s not the heartlands, as the nifty interactive map shows. The largest areas without 3G coverage are in the Western U.S. So for those of you planning a road trip, a move or who might want to avoid the lure of the web while on holiday, the map gives a big picture view at how much physical area of the U.S. isn’t connected via 3G –something that isn’t… -
Appcelerator buys mobile backend provider Cocoafish
9 Feb 2012 | 7:00 amAppcelerator, which helps developers build native and HTML5 mobile apps, has been on an acquisition tear in the last year and has added mobile backend provider Cocoafish today to fill out its offering. The pick-up, which follows Appcelerator’s purchase of Aptana and Particle Code last year, gives the company a robust cloud infrastructure provider and helps it appeal even more to its 1.6 million developers. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Cocoafish, founded in 2010 in San Francisco by Michael Goff and Wei Kong, is part of an emerging class of mobile backend providers that… -
Oracle buys Taleo in a $1.9B response to SAP
9 Feb 2012 | 6:49 amOracle is buying Taleo , a “cloud-based talent management” company for $1.9 billion or $46 a share. Oracle said Taleo’s SaaS services will become part of the Oracle public cloud. Taleo could bring both more cloud credibility and more vertical expertise to Oracle’s broadening applications portfolio. The news comes two months after SAP, Oracle’s chief rival in enterprise applications, snapped up SuccessFactors, a SaaS-based talent management (aka human resources management) company just down the road from Oracle’ s Redwood Shores, Calif. headquarters,… -
Sony to try the smartwatch game for a second time
9 Feb 2012 | 6:48 amSony’s next-generation SmartWatch is “coming soon” according to the product page, and it looks like a huge improvement over the company’s first attempt, which debuted in Sept. 2010. Like its predecessor, the new SmartWatch connects wirelessly to an Android phone for message notifications on the wrist. The wearable device can also be used for checking Facebook and Twitter or monitoring exercise activities. After watching the video and checking out the device description — Sony says images are illustrative, so the final product could appear differently — it… -
Waze adds hands-free option for traffic reporting, navigation
9 Feb 2012 | 6:00 amWaze, the popular crowd-sourced traffic app, has gotten a lot of great data out of its drivers, whose anonymous travel information helps paint an overall real-time picture of traffic flow. But the app has been more of a manual experience, with people entering in their destination for navigation or inputting traffic and accident data while stopped. Now, with the latest update to Waze on the iPhone, users will be able to operate Waze hands-free, leveraging the phone’s proximity sensor to initiate commands. Users who normally keep the app running while driving to stay abreast of traffic…
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Ubergizmo
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Sharp display panel for iPad 3 spotted?
9 Feb 2012 | 7:25 amJust yesterday we reported that despite rumors of Sharp’s IGZO displays not meeting the yield rates set by Apple, there was still a possibility of Apple utilizing said displays for their upcoming iPad 3. Thanks to Japanese blog Macotakara, the photo you are looking at above appears to be a component allegedly belonging to the display that Sharp will providing Apple for their iPad 3. (more…) By Ubergizmo. Related articles: iPad 3 to feature IGZO displays from Sharp?, Samsung and Sharp rumored to be shipping display panels for Apple's iPad 3, -
Samsung files for “Samsung Galaxy Camera” trademark, smart camera in the works?
9 Feb 2012 | 7:23 amDuring CES 2012, we reported that Polaroid debuted the SC1630 smart camera that runs on Android, and now it looks like Samsung might have something similar planned. Thanks to a trademark filed by Samsung, it seems that the South Korean company has submitted an application to trademark the name “Samsung Galaxy Camera”, with the name being associated with “cameras and camcorders”. Unfortunately apart from its name, little to nothing is known about what Samsung’s plans are. The company has been known to put out a variety of gadgets that range from smartphones, to cameras, to displays… -
TiVo HD DVR from DIRECTV now available
9 Feb 2012 | 7:12 amGreat news if you missed TiVo with your DIRECTV service – the two companies are now back together again, with the release of the new TiVo HD DVR from DIRECTV. DIRECTV customers can now enjoy the TiVo HD DVR experience with DIRECTV’s lineup of HD programming. With the TiVo HD DVR from DIRECTV, users can easily set Season Pass Recordings to automatically record of all of their favorite shows each week so they never miss an episode, create WishList Searches for setting up automatic recordings for TV shows and movies based on keywords (i.e. actor’s name, sports team), use TiVo… -
Kinect used to treat phantom limb syndrome
9 Feb 2012 | 6:39 amPhantom limb, in case you didn’t know, is a syndrome that sometimes occurs after a limb is amputated but the mind of the patient still thinks that the limb is attached. This can lead to very painful and frustrating experiences and requires therapy to get over. Normally it is done with a Ramachandran Mirror Box: patients place their hand in one side of the box and the arm stump on the other side. When the patient looks at the box with the good hand, his/her brain is tricked into thinking that the amputated hand is still there. (more…) By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Kinect for… -
Little Big Planet racing game coming to PlayStation 3?
9 Feb 2012 | 6:33 amLittle Big Planet fans, it seems that Sony might be announcing a new franchise of the game which will take the form of kart racing. This was announced by Future Shop, a retail outlet from Canada who tweeted (tweets have been removed since) this piece of news from an official Sony event, and while it could not be confirmed at that time, a recent image leaked onto the internet seems to have confirmed the existence of the game. The image appears to be a standup banner which Sony is known to favor and has revealed the title of the upcoming game to be “Little Big Planet Karting”. Unfortunately…
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Shiny Shiny
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New BlackBerry Mobile Conferencing app makes conference calls a breeze
9 Feb 2012 | 6:38 amConference calls always sound great in theory, collecting people from different parts of the world together for real-time collaboration and important updates. However, in reality you're left missing scheduled calls, shouting at your phone and trying to reconnect to the... -
HTC Sensation XE is the latest handset to get white-washed
9 Feb 2012 | 6:27 amFollowing in the footsteps of the Nokia Lumia 800 earlier this week, the latest handset to get the white-washed look is the HTC Sensation XE. Originally released in September last year, the new white Sensation XE matches the first... -
Facebook: Did an 'unfriending' incident really lead to alleged murder?
9 Feb 2012 | 5:23 amWe were really saddened to read reports today that a man has been charged with alleged murder of a couple in Tennessee because he was upset that they had unfriended his daughter from Facebook. According to the Associated Press, a... -
Pinterest makes a profit from all our pointless pins
8 Feb 2012 | 12:25 pmYes, we know half of you are so sick of the Pinterest-related posts already and the other half of you are sat there furiously pinning away and sharing bags and books and blankets. But yesterday LLSocial uncovered something rather interesting... -
Logitech launches Touch Mouse M600, a treat for your fingertips
8 Feb 2012 | 9:55 amToday Logitech has launched a new gesture-enabled mouse called the Logitech Touch Mouse M600. Set to take on the Microsoft Explorer Touch Mouse and Apple's Magic Mouse, the sleek device has a touch-sensitive top surface, allowing you to swipe...
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One Laptop Per Child News
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100 XO Project at St. Jacob School in Rwanda
8 Feb 2012 | 5:16 amResumen en español al final del artículo Rwanda which became the site of the largest non-South American OLPC deployment in mid-2011 recently saw the launch of a second, independent OLPC project. This new project is run by a coalition of four different German organizations which distributed a total of 100 XOs at the St. Jacob School in Kigali in November: In Germany a group of dedicated organizations have teamed up to introduce 100 of these laptops for three classes at the St. Jacob School in Rwanda. The Stuttgart-based Care for Kids e. V. has taken the initiative and took over the project… -
OLPC Improves the XO's Membrane Keyboard
6 Feb 2012 | 6:43 amResumen en español al final del artículo One of the most frustrating aspects of my 2010 journey through Uruguay, Paraguay, and Peru was seeing how many children had to use XOs whose keyboards were broken. Uruguay seemed to be particularly hard-hit by this issue. From what I gathered this is due to the fact that they received many XOs which were produced fairly early on when OLPC had yet to implement changes to make the membranes of the keyboards thicker and thereby more robust. As such I was very excited when I saw this photo showing off a new and seemingly much improved membrane keyboard… -
Walter Bender to Talk About OLPC and XO 3.0 at mEducation Event in D.C. on February 10
3 Feb 2012 | 5:50 amResumen en español al final del artículo Yesterday the Mobiles for Education Alliance - which includes many big players such as USAID, U.S. Department of State, Peace Corps, World Bank, IADB, UNICEF, UNESCO, and others - announced an upcoming event with Sugar Labs' Walter Bender. The topic for the February session of the mAlliance's Seminar Series is "The OLPC Project, Learning and the XO 3 Tablet" and according to the invitation it will focus on: The move to a tablet device for OLPC The relationship between device design and learning The OLPC model and the Sugar operating system The… -
Talking About OLPC and Negroponte's Helicopter Deployment on The World Tech Podcast
1 Feb 2012 | 6:16 amResumen en español al final del artículo Even though it was widely reported when Nicholas Negroponte first mentioned that he was planning a new deployment model based on dropping laptops or tablets out of helicopters, few media outlets have bothered to follow up on the idea since then. The one notable exception is New Scientist which conducted an interview with Negroponte in early December where he revealed a few details and the fact that pre-pilots were scheduled to start in January. Now, it shouldn't come as a surprise that we have tried to keep a close eye on the relevant developments. -
Isaac Asimov Speaks About Computer-Supported Education in 1988
30 Jan 2012 | 5:54 amResumen en español al final del artículo I saw the following interview thanks to a volunteer who shared it on the olpc-uruguay mailing list. In it Isaac Asimov - most widely known for his science fiction writings - spends several minutes talking about the use of computers and what is essentially a description of the Internet in education. While that in itself would already be noteworthy the fact that the interview took place in 1988 makes it all the more interesting. It's not hard to find similarities between what Asimov described 24 years ago and ongoing projects such as Khan Academy,…
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Wired Top Stories
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Bitly Fights for Social Analytics With Weapons-Grade Math
9 Feb 2012 | 3:30 amBitly is just one of many tools that are trying to make sense of people's behavior on social networking services -- and put this information to use inside marketing departments. Like Bitly, the Vancouver, Canada-based HootSuite offers a "social dashboard" that seeks to analyze the performance not only of shortened links, but other media. Big names like IBM and Salesforce.com offer social analytics tools. And Google has gotten into the game with its acquisition of another Canadian outfit, PostRank. -
Feb. 9, 1870: Feds Get on Top of the Weather
9 Feb 2012 | 3:30 amPresident Ulysses S. Grant signs a bill creating what we now call the National Weather Service. Forecasting models were simple but generally effective. -
Up Your Game With Banned Sports Gear
9 Feb 2012 | 3:30 amThese athletic aids — from bats to balls to hockey sticks — aren?t approved for official play, but they can give you the unfair advantage you deserve. -
Amphibious Network Lets Marines Share Data From 250 Miles Away
9 Feb 2012 | 3:30 amThe Marines think they have their data network of the future, an experimental communications system that can keep jarheads linked to sea bases 250 miles away. If it works, it'll be a big win for a Navy/Marine plan to take U.S. troops off of land bases where the locals don't want them. And it got its first test this week off the Atlantic coast during a massive wargame. -
Goodbye Magic Bullet: Hello, Highly Resistant Gonorrhea
9 Feb 2012 | 3:00 amPhysicians have announced that the sexually transmitted disease gonorrhea threatens to become untreatable, thanks to the acquisition of antibiotic resistance. Superbug blogger Maryn McKenna reports.
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AllThingsD
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PayPal Wants You to Shop While Straphanging In Singapore
9 Feb 2012 | 7:06 amMobile shopping is getting even more mobile. No longer just about using your smartphone, mobile payment options are now popping up in transit systems in metropolitan areas, as companies look to gauge consumers’ appetites for buying products while truly on the go. EBay-owned PayPal has just launched a pilot in Singapore’s subway stations for commuters to buy goods while en route. The experiment, through which eight merchants will offer Valentine’s Day gifts at reduced prices, is being conducted across 15 subway stations across Singapore. Commuters can make purchases by using… -
End of an Era: Google's Very First Employee, Craig Silverstein -- Technically, No. 3 -- Leaving
9 Feb 2012 | 7:01 amGoogle’s very first employee, Craig Silverstein, is leaving the company to join the high-profile online learning phenom, Khan Academy. News of the departure first appeared yesterday in a line in a newsletter on education-tech entrepreneurship EdSurge and the search giant confirmed the departure to me. Silverstein, who was actually Google’s No. 3 employee — that would be after its pair of founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin — has had a variety of technology jobs at the company over the years since it was founded in 1998. But his first — helping them build the… -
Who's Ready for the (Heaven Forbid) Social Networking Patent Wars?
9 Feb 2012 | 7:00 amPlease see the disclosure about Facebook in my ethics statement. Tech companies have recently ratcheted up their offensive use of intellectual property, especially in the mobile space — but not so much in social networking. Just in case patent wars happen to be contagious, it seems worth evaluating which social networking players are best-equipped. I wrote on Wednesday about a Silicon Valley entrepreneur who is hopeful that Google may pursue some of the patents and patent applications he filed on behalf of a company he started that Google later acquired. Also on Wednesday, on the… -
Kodak to Stop Making Cameras
9 Feb 2012 | 6:56 amEastman Kodak Company has said it will stop making digital cameras, pocket video cameras and digital picture frames in the first half of 2012, in an effort to achieve annual operating savings of more than $100 million. Rochester, N.Y.-based Kodak says it plans to expand its current brand-licensing program instead, and that it will continue to produce retail-based photo kiosks, inkjet printers, online photo gallery and apps, and camera batteries and accessories. The announcement comes a few weeks after the iconic camera company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. -
Oracle Acquires Taleo for $1.9 Billion
9 Feb 2012 | 5:32 amAnother day, another deal in the cloud software space. Today, software giant Oracle stepped up to acquire Taleo, the cloud-based human resources software concern, for $46 a share, or $1.9 billion. The price works out to an 18 percent premium on Taleo, based on its closing price on Wednesday. The deal can’t help but be seen as a response to SAP’s acquisition last year of SuccessFactors, a Taleo rival. Indeed, Taleo’s shares have appreciated significantly in recent months — from $29 to $42 a share over the course of two weeks in December — on speculation that it…
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Wired: Gadgets
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Exclusive: Behind the Scenes of OK Go's Super Bowl Music Video
9 Feb 2012 | 3:00 amCheck out this behind-the-scenes look at the making of the OK Go video seen during the Super Bowl, exclusive to Wired. -
Purported Pictures of iPad 3's Rear Casing Emerge
8 Feb 2012 | 4:28 pmThe launch of Apple's next iPad is just around the corner, if the presence of leaked parts images are any indicator. Today, what reasonably seems to be the rear casing of the new iPad has popped up in photo form on the interwebs. -
Sprint's iPhone Strategy Is Paying Off, Q4 Results Suggest
8 Feb 2012 | 2:46 pmSprint desperately needed a hit, and it looks like it got one. The struggling wireless carrier sold 1.8 million iPhones in its fourth quarter, with 40 percent of those phones going to first-time Sprint customers. -
Adobe Splashes Out With Creative Cloud
8 Feb 2012 | 2:30 pmAdobe is making a big splash into the cloud with its Creative Cloud service, launching an enhanced online version of its sought-after Adobe Creative Suite for $50 a month on a one-year contract. -
Little Lenses: 3 Miniature Cameras Tested
8 Feb 2012 | 3:21 amThese extraordinarily tiny picture machines make snapping photos fun and different.
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Pogue's Posts
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Things That Were Once Amazing
2 Feb 2012 | 11:04 amDavid Pogue is amazed that people are still amazed at children's tech prowess. It's too bad there's no List of Things That Were Once Amazing, but Are Really Kind of Old News at This Point, he says. It would be a handy clip-and-save document that you could review, perhaps to avoid unwittingly embarrassing yourself at the next cocktail party. -
Look, Ma, No Hands! Operating a Laptop With Eyes Only
26 Jan 2012 | 10:43 amTobii, a Swedish company, is demonstrating eye-tracking software that really rocked my world. Imagine reading a Web page or Word document on the screen and the page scrolls automatically, gracefully and effortlessly as you proceed through the article. The system knows where your eyes are and how fast you're going. -
A New G-Shock Watch Awaits a New Bluetooth
24 Jan 2012 | 5:57 amCasio's G-Shock GB6900 watch uses a new, low-power Bluetooth chip called Bluetooth Smart (or Bluetooth 4.0) to do amazing things with a PC or smartphone. Butt the watch doesn't work unless your phone also has Bluetooth 4.0 - and right now, only a couple of them do. -
Put Down the Pitchforks on SOPA
19 Jan 2012 | 9:50 amNot enough people have acknowledged that the opposition was arguing two totally different points - the "you're going about it the wrong way" group and the "we want our illegal movies!" group. In the new world of Internet versus government, the system worked. The people spoke, government listened, and that's good. But let us do it responsibly, people. Both sides have an obligation to do the right thing. -
A Gadget Is More Than the Sum of Its Parts
5 Jan 2012 | 12:36 pmIf you think Amazon's real cost to make that Kindle Fire is $201, then by all means go to China and cobble one together yourself. The components are only part of the cost of any gadget.
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Gear Diary
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Gear Deal: 10% off all Apple iPads and iPods
9 Feb 2012 | 6:45 amToday's Gear Deal is something you don't see every day. In fact, it is something you almost NEVER see! Today Only! you can save 10% on all Apple iPads and iPods. In addition, they will ship for free and, unless you live in California, New Jersey, Tenessee or Puerto Rico, there won't even be tax. All this means, for example, that you can get a 16GB iPod Nano for $134.99, a 64GB iPod Touch for $359.99, a 64GB iPad 2 WiFi for $647.99 and a 64GB iPad 2 WiFi + 3G for just $746.99. Yes, all iPods and iPads are 10% off but this is for today only! Click here to visit the deal page Continue reading… -
Infographic Tells How Long It Will Take to Enjoy That Game!
8 Feb 2012 | 12:30 pmYeah, as a huge fan of RPGs, adventures and shooters for decades and more recently casual games, I would say that gets it about right! Source: NerdApproved via Uniblog, art by Loldwell Continue reading on Gear Diary ... -
FingerLabs Pounds the Beat with Awesome DM1 iPad Update!
8 Feb 2012 | 11:45 amThe sophistication of music production tools for the iPad is simply staggering. I can do more on my iPad than my entire multi-thousand dollar mini-studio from the 90's could ever hope to accomplish! It has gotten to the point where a solid app that lacks a few features - MIDI in, AudioCopy, etc - will get passed over by musicians. Such is the case of DM1, and excellently designed and implemented drum machine and sequencer. It has loads of great programming flexibility and features - but lacking the aforementioned features kept it off of many folks iPads. Now with the 2.0 update FingerLab… -
Mystery of the Crystal Portal for the Kindle Fire Review
8 Feb 2012 | 11:00 amI had bought and enjoyed Mystery of the Crystal Portal for my iPad and also loved the PSP version in spite of some issues with having to pan around the scene, so I was excited to try out the Kindle Fire version. It had been a while since I played, so it felt fresh as I had forgotten most of the game. Let's take a loot at hwo the experience translates to the Kindle Fire! Continue reading on Gear Diary ... -
PhatWare Brings PhatPad to Android!
8 Feb 2012 | 9:15 amIf you have been around PDAs since the Windows CE days, you know that one of the earliest and best app makers was PhatWare, bringing Calligrapher, PhatPad and other apps to a variety of platforms for nearly 15 years. Now they make the next leap, bringing PhatPad to Android - and making the files compatible between iOS, Android and the older Windows Mobile devices as well! Here are some of the details: PhatWare today announces the launch of PhatPad for Android, a note-taking and collaboration app featuring PhatWare’s proven handwriting recognition technology. PhatPad, which has already…
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Lifehacker: Gadgets
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Make Your Own Screen Protector Quickly and Cheaply with Adhesive Vinyl and an Xacto Knife
8 Feb 2012 | 12:30 pmWe'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 » -
LARK Silent Alarm Clock Will Wake You Up Without Disturbing Your Partner and Help You Sleep Better
7 Feb 2012 | 12:30 pmWe don't all have the same sleep schedule, and this becomes problematic when sharing a bed. This is why LARK has devised a silent alarm that you wear around your wrist while sleeping so you'll be woken up gently without disturbing your partner. As an added bonus, it'll track your sleeping patterns and provide you with relevant data as well. More » -
The RCA USB Wall Plate Charger Adds USB Ports to Your Wall Outlets, No Wiring Required
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Read the Manual Before Making Big Purchases
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Why Sub-$100 Android Tablets Are Rarely Worth the Trouble
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Boing Boing » Gadgets
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Reading lamps made from drilled-out books
7 Feb 2012 | 11:05 amTypewriter Boneyard does a sweet line of reading lamps made from drilled-out old books, fitted with replica Edison bulbs. Hardback Book Lamps (via Neatorama) -
Circus Galop: the bonkers, non-human-playable anthem used to stress-test automatic pianos
3 Feb 2012 | 7:42 amHere's a video of a mechanical piano performing Circus Galop (sic), a composition created to test the performance of automatic pianos and other instruments. It apparently can't be played by humans. a single, two-handed human. Circus Galop is a piece for player piano written by Marc-André Hamelin. It was composed between 1991 and 1994 and it is dedicated to Beatrix and Jürgen Hocker, piano roll makers. Its duration is approximately 4–5 minutes.[1] Scores of this piece are available through the Sorabji Archive.[1] Piano rolls of this piece are available from Wolfgang Heisig and Jürgen… -
Test-tube chandeliers, named for Marie Curie
3 Feb 2012 | 7:00 amNamed for Marie Curie, this line of Maria S.C. chandeliers from Poland's Gangdesign uses test-tubes as pendants that can be planted with sprigs or flowers. Here's the sell-copy, Google Translated from Polish to English: This chandelier is made of tubes. It consists of two modules of different sizes, which can occur together or separately. Shape refers to the traditional forms of Art Deco, and the name is an allusion to the person of Maria Sklodowska Curie. "Maria" gives a wide field for the visual experiment. Version of the reel allows free lowering "Maria" to change the arrangement. Maria… -
Mechanical Elephants in America
3 Feb 2012 | 6:00 amHere's a fascinating history of Frank Stuart's Mechanical Elephants, a line of life-sized, rideable elephant automata that were sold to department stores and amusement parks in America in the 1950s. "Cybernetic animal and early robot" historian Reuben Hoggett has collected early print mentions of the Stuart elephants and traced their destiny through the rest of the century. The Billboard 21 Jan 1956 WORKLOAD STILL HEAVY FOR SEARCHLIGHT FIRM NEW YORK. Jan 14.- The huge mechanical elephant owned by Publicity Searchlight Company will earn a raft of publicity for the firm during the next two… -
Toy-sized quadrotors flying in formation
1 Feb 2012 | 11:00 amResearchers from GRASP Lab at the University of Pennsylvania developed software to allow toy-sized nano quadrotors to fly in tight, precise and eerie formation. Gmoke sez, "William Gibson dreams of a mass of these things comprising a flying skyscraper. I imagine them as surveillance and policing drones ready to stop the OWS action or Arab Spring before it can start." A Swarm of Nano Quadrotors (Thanks, Gmoke!)
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Crave: gorgeous gadgets and other crushworthy stuff. - CNET
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Apple will reportedly unveil iPad 3 in early March
9 Feb 2012 | 6:05 amThe next iPad may make its debut in March. (Credit: Apple) Apple may unveil the next iPad at an event scheduled for the first week of March, AllThingsD reported today. The company is expected to announce the newest iteration of its blockbuster tablet at its own event in San Francisco, the report says. This isn't the first time a March unveiling date has been bandied about, but AllThingsD is one of the more reputable sites to say so. With the next iPad, presumably called iPad 3, Apple will look to sustain the momentum of the first two generations of iPads. The iPad 2 launched last March and… -
DirecTV takes its TiVo HD box nationwide, but will its users care?
9 Feb 2012 | 5:30 am(Credit: DirecTV) TiVo and DirecTV's on-again, off-again, really off-again, kinda on-again relationship is now completely back on again. After a 10-city roll out in December of a new TiVo HD box to DirecTV customers, the satellite TV provider is making the box available nationwide. The TiVo HD box mainly gives users access to TiVo's excellent interface and features like WishList Searches so you can automatically record programming based on things like an actor's name, sports team, or personal interests and TiVo's Swivel Search will find shows across TV and DirecTV Cinema. Related stories TiVo… -
Adobe offering new reasons to get DNG religion
9 Feb 2012 | 4:00 amRaw photos store data from an image sensor before it's been converted into a JPEG. Typical image sensors capture only red, green, or blue for a pixel, and through "demosaicing" convert that data into a useful image with all three color elements for each pixel. (Credit: Adobe Systems) Photography enthusiasts have seen the light when it comes to shooting raw images, but plenty of them have yet to convert to Adobe Systems' DNG format for storing those images. But Adobe could bring some new sheep into the Digital Negative fold with abilities arriving in Adobe's Lightroom 4 software… -
Sigma SD1: Wait, did we say $9,700? We meant $3,300
9 Feb 2012 | 1:08 amSigma announced its SD1 SLR at the Photokina show in 2011. (Credit: Stephen Shankland/CNET) Sigma has radically repriced its SD1 camera, saying manufacturing improvements let it lower the unusual SLR's cost by two thirds to $3,300. Sigma introduced the SD1 in 2011 with a premium price of $9,700, chiefly for its Foveon sensor given that other specifications were ordinary. Although the sensor is small, about the size of those on mainstream SLRs from Nikon and Canon, it has the unusual ability to capture red, green, and blue light values for each pixel, not just a single color as with… -
Motorola Droid 4 hands-on: Awesome keyboard, blistering 4G LTE
8 Feb 2012 | 5:47 pm(Credit: Sarah Tew/CNET) If you're aching to get your hands on Motorola's new Droid 4, at least vicariously, you're in luck. My official review sample has arrived and here's what I think so far. Motorola Droid 4 (photos) 1-2 of 17 Scroll Left Scroll Right At CES earlier this year, Motorola dropped a trio of new Verizon handsets offering welcome ... [Read more]Related Links:Motorola's Droid 4 to arrive Friday on VerizonDialed In No. 206: Phones go big at CES (podcast)Massive Motorola Droid Razr Maxx battery a 'Eureka' momentDialed In #208: AT&T complains, Razr Maxx astoundsThe Motorola Droid…
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Electronista | Gadgets for Geeks
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TiVo HD DVR finally available from DirecTV in all of US
9 Feb 2012 | 7:45 amThe long-awaited and promised TiVo-enabled HD DVR from DirecTV is finally available nationwide. Previously, the set-top was only available in 10 markets. The box is unique in combining the TiVo interface and peanut remote control with DirecTV's HD content lineup.... -
Kodak to stop making cameras, end era
9 Feb 2012 | 6:45 amKodak validated rumors and said Thursday that it would stop making what most consider its core products. It plans to shut down production of still cameras, pocket video cameras, and digital photo frames within the first half of this year. The shift would leave it to inkjet printers and other photo printing.... -
Possible Sharp-made iPad 3 display emerges at parts reseller
9 Feb 2012 | 6:35 amA parts reseller, Eye Lab Factory, has managed to obtain what could be a display panel for the iPad 3, says Macotakara. The part measures about 9.7 inches, and uses a flat cable similar to that connecting the iPad 2's display. It also reportedly supports resolutions up to 2048x1536, the level most commonly anticipated for the iPad 3.... -
Tips: Apple intros iPad 3 in early March in San Francisco
9 Feb 2012 | 6:15 amApple may hew closely to the formula of its iPad launch last year for the iPad 3 if leaks Thursday are indicators. The company would use the "first week in March" to introduce the new tablet and put it on sale roughly a week later, AllThingsD heard. The event would take place in San Francisco, most likely at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (pictured) that Apple has used for both iPad events so far.... -
Telus switches on 4G LTE February 10
9 Feb 2012 | 5:55 amTelus became the third Canadian carrier with an LTE-based 4G network on Thursday. Starting on February 10 in Halifax, the carrier will have the same 75Mbps peak download speeds and 12-25Mbps averages as the existing networks from rivals Bell and Rogers. It plans to kick off the network with the Galaxy Tab 8.9 LTE, LG's Optimus LTE smartphone, and Novatel's Ovation MC679 modem; the Galaxy Note with LTE will be available on February 14....
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InformationWeek Mobility News
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iPad 3 Unveil Set For Early March
9 Feb 2012 | 6:54 amApple has scheduled an event in San Francisco to reveal the next-generation iPad. Will LTE be on board? -
iPhone Subsidies Hurt Sprint's Bottom Line
8 Feb 2012 | 7:45 amSprint broke its own records for new subscribers and revenue per user, but still lost $1.3 billion in the fourth quarter, thanks in part to iPhone subsidies. -
Nokia To Cut 4,000 Manufacturing Jobs
8 Feb 2012 | 7:41 amMicrosoft’s mobile partner says it will move smartphone assembly to Asia to better compete with rivals like Apple and Google. -
App Stores Create 500,000 U.S. Jobs
7 Feb 2012 | 2:15 pmAlmost half a million Americans can thank the rise of the "app economy" for their jobs, according to TechNet study. -
Feds To Employees: Use Your Own Devices At Work
7 Feb 2012 | 1:43 pmSurvey finds that 62% of agencies encourage staffers to bring their own mobile devices to work to save the agencies money. Close to half of federal employees are doing just that.
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Engadget Mobile
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DoubleTwist update brings podcast support to auditory Android users
9 Feb 2012 | 2:11 amA fresh version of the DoubleTwist media player hit the Android Market this week, offering a whole new world of podcast possibilities -- for a price. With the in-app upgrade, users can search for and subscribe to a variety of podcasts from the comfort of their own handsets. It's pretty simple. The app will automatically download the latest episodes, too, though there's an option to restrict all downloads to WiFi, in case you're worried about eating into your data plan. You can also choose to either stream or download each file, and manage all your feeds straight from your device. It's… -
PSA: Google Wallet vulnerable to 'brute-force' PIN attacks (update: affects rooted devices)
9 Feb 2012 | 1:07 amSecurity hounds over at zvelo have discovered a vulnerability in Google Wallet that means your precious PIN can be "easily revealed." Digging through the app's code and using Google's open resources to reveal its contents, they uncovered a piratical treasure trove of data: unique user IDs, Google account information, and the PIN stored as a SHA256 hex-encoded string. Since this string is known to carry four digits, it only takes a "trivial" brute-force attack involving a maximum of 10,000 calculations to decode it. To prove their point, the researchers made a Wallet Cracker app -- demoed… -
AT&T and Verizon lobby for less FCC spectrum control, Sprint and other carriers respond
8 Feb 2012 | 4:26 pmSince 1993, the FCC has held the ability to restrict bidders' participation in spectrum auctions based on their current spectrum holdings, needs and dominance in the marketplace. Given that wireless spectrum is a public resource, the current law tasks the FCC with the responsibility to ensure competition in the marketplace and prevent monopolies and duopolies from forming. A new proposal contained within the JOBS Act, H.R. 3630 -- a sweeping bill that primarily addresses the extension of unemployment benefits -- threatens to strip the FCC of this authority and return spectrum auctions to the… -
Tweetbot hits 2.0, heads to iPad with new features and UI in tow
8 Feb 2012 | 12:54 pmThe dev folk over at Tapbots have just unleashed a major overhaul to their famed Twitter client. Tweetbot 2.0 not only sees the addition of a few new traits and a design refresh, but it's also on the receiving end of some welcomed iPad compatibility (iOS 5 only). Though, it's worth mentioning the app isn't universal -- so you'll have to cough up three bucks for the slate variant, even if you've already got the iPhone edition. Amongst the new goodies is a renovated timeline view with pic thumbnails, an optional New Tweets bar, auto-refresh, and a one-tap system for links. If you're still… -
Verizon's double data deal returns this Friday, prepare yourselves accordingly
8 Feb 2012 | 11:21 amIt looks like Verizon's about to double up on double data. According to the Los Angeles Times, Big Red is about to reintroduce the double data promotion that first rolled out in November, and came to a close at year's end. Under the offer, customers signing up for a 4G plan will receive double the amount of monthly data (at no extra charge) for the duration of their contracts, as long as they sign up for two-year deals. Unfortunately, though, the promotion only applies to first time 4G subscribers (or those looking to upgrade from a non-4G plan), and is restricted to smartphones, leaving…
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BGR: The Three Biggest Letters In Tech
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Can smartphone vendors survive with Apple and Samsung dominating the industry?
9 Feb 2012 | 7:00 amApple and Samsung are in the midst of a patent-fueled war with no end in site, but the pair has also inadvertently joined forces to make it increasingly difficult for other vendors to continue making smartphones. New estimates suggest Apple and Samsung combined to take in a staggering 95% of smartphone industry profits in the fourth quarter of 2011. The figures paint an even bleaker picture for the rest of the players in the smartphone business than earlier estimates; UBS analyst Maynard Um said last week that Apple and Samsung’s combined take amounted to 90% of smartphone industry… -
German court clears Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1N for sale
9 Feb 2012 | 6:25 amA German court affirmed a preliminary ruling on Thursday that determined Samsung’s reworked tablet does not look so much like the iPad that it should be banned. The ruling comes as another blow to Apple, which is in the midst of several other lawsuits with rival smartphone and tablet makers over intellectual property. The court said that there were “clear differences” between the Galaxy Tab 10.1N and the iPad, reports Reuters. Apple and Samsung have been tangled in what seems like an endless patent battle in Germany, the Netherlands, the United States, Australia, Japan… -
iPad 3 announcement coming in March
9 Feb 2012 | 5:42 amAll Things D is reporting that Apple is going to hold its annual iPad introduction event during the first week of March. Going one step further, the blog reiterates what the rumor mill (and BGR) has been reporting — faster processor, Retina Display, same basic size and shape, with possibly a dash and sprinkle of 4G LTE. The iPad 3 is expected to be available by the second or third week in March, and iOS 5.1 may be released even sooner. -
iPad 3 design revealed as new wave of parts leak; Retina Display possibly pictured
9 Feb 2012 | 5:25 amMore details surrounding the design of Apple’s upcoming iPad 3 have been revealed as images of a variety of internal components have been published online along with new images of the tablet’s rear shell and possibly Apple’s new Retina Display as well. Following reports on Wednesday that emerged surrounding a purported image of the iPad 3′s rear case, Cult of Mac has published higher-quality images of the same component along with a number of additional internal parts. While the various components pictured in the new leak show significant differences in many instances compared… -
Google’s Motorola buy set to gain approval next week
9 Feb 2012 | 4:20 amGoogle’s bid to acquire Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion is set to gain regulatory approval as soon as next week, multiple reports claim. Google announced last summer that it intended to purchase the struggling smartphone and set-top box maker for $40 per share, and CEO Larry Page explained that Motorola’s patent portfolio was a key draw for the company. Google’s Android partners had fallen under attack from patent predators such as Apple and Microsoft, and the ability to spread Motorola’s patents around as needed could be the only way to save Android. As recent…
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mobileYouth®
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Why everything we believe about Youth Mobile services is wrong
9 Feb 2012 | 2:08 amWhy (Most) Youth Mobile Services are Doomed to Failure Amp’d, Disney, Helio, Virgin Mobile India and Blyk – just a few MVNOs that have tried to capture the youth market and been dashed at the rocks of failure. They failed because the youth market is less about “Big Ideas” amped by your creative agency and [...] (click the item title for the full story) -
Build a Beachhead or Perish: Why everyone apart from your Fans is a distraction
2 Feb 2012 | 2:02 amFans: All Else is mere detail Every brand has fans, even yours Image (c) Flickr Nokia CEO Stephen Elop went on record last week talking about “Building a Beachhead” for Windows phones. It’s an interesting change in tact. By referring to “Beachheads”, Elop acknowledged a growing trend that is quietly revolutionizing marketing, one customer [...] (click the item title for the full story) -
Kodak vs Apple: Key lessons for the mobile industry when focusing on youth
25 Jan 2012 | 11:49 pmKodak Could Have Been in the Mobile Business By Now This week was a tale of two brands. On the one hand, Kodak. Kodak could have been the Apple of photography but last week, the iconic American brand filed for bankruptcy protection. On the other, Apple’s latest earnings figures surpassed analyst expectations. The difference? Not [...] (click the item title for the full story) -
Students are the Future of Mobile Customer Experience
19 Jan 2012 | 1:36 amCraig’s Journey 19 year old Craig from New York is hunting down a patch to solve an upgrade problem with his Android phone. He’s tried T-Mobile customer service but gave up after the rep referred him back to the manufacturer claiming they didn’t support his OS anymore. He shows me a list of forum posts [...] (click the item title for the full story) -
Where would Blackberry be without women?
12 Jan 2012 | 12:19 amimage (c) Flickr The Change Agents that Made Blackberry The world’s 1 billion youth female mobile owners are key to the future of Blackberry. Rather than employing creative agencies to engage this segment, RIM needs to focus on strategies that partner with the key change agents – Disruptive Divas. Increasing female representation in innovation, marketing [...] (click the item title for the full story)
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Deal of the Day: Save 40% on the DICOTA Hard Cover for the BlackBerry Bold 9930 and 9900 - Get it for $11.95
9 Feb 2012 | 7:19 amToday Only: Buy the DICOTA Hard Cover for the BlackBerry Bold 9930 and Bold 9900 and save $8.04! The DICOTA Hard Cover snaps right over the back panel offering slim protection for your BlackBerry Bold 9930 or Bold 9900. Made of impact resistant hard plastic, the DICOTA Hard Cover follows the shape of your device for a perfect fit. The stylish patterns let you add a personal touch to your BlackBerry Bold 9930 or Bold 9900. Deal also available in Canada store List Price: $19.99 Today Only: $11.95 Learn More and Buy Now February 9, 2012 CrackBerry.com's feed sponsored by ShopCrackBerry.com. -
Is your BlackBerry PlayBook not able to connect to the update server?
9 Feb 2012 | 6:31 amSeems as though a lot of people woke up this morning and grabbed their PlayBook to check for updates. If you fit into that criteria then you no doubt noticed that there appears to be an issue with BlackBerry PlayBooks not being able to connect to the update server. Now normally, we might consider this to be a clear sign that RIM is preparing to roll out PlayBook OS 2.0 but in this case, we kind of have to waive off that consideration slightly. You see, the PlayBook update server has been off and on for the past few days now with countless folks reporting that they've not been able to connect… -
Earloomz brings art to Bluetooth earpieces [Contest]
9 Feb 2012 | 12:14 amWe all know that using a cell phone while driving is super dangerous, and in more and states than not, laws are in effect that make it illegal to do so. In fact, 40 states have some sort of handsfree law in effect, meaning that if you're going to be talking on the phone while driving a vehicle, you must not have the phone in your hand. Luckily, newer cars come equipped with speakers the ability to connect to your phone and take or make calls using the car speakers. If you don't have that option available to you, you may choose to use a Bluetooth headset or earpiece. This is a more versatile… -
TrackNSlim for BlackBerry smartphones tracks and reports on your eating habits
8 Feb 2012 | 2:07 pmGet fit with CrackBerry during Fitness Month at Mobile Nations! Fitness month at Mobile Nations and CrackBerry has gotten many into a get fit frenzy. I’m feeling a renewed drive to start my journey back up and reach my weight loss goal. One of my biggest problems is that I tend to forget to keep an eye on my caloric intake. Is what I’m eating healthy enough? Do I really know if I’m taking in enough calories? Can I afford to have the pretzels that I’m thinking about as I’m writing this? Probably not. It isn’t easy for everyone to remember how many calories you need or eat, or know… -
Mike and Ophelia Lazaridis donate $21 million to the University of Waterloo
8 Feb 2012 | 1:35 pmNo strangers to philanthropy, Mike Lazaridis and his wife Ophelia have a long record of donations to the University of Waterloo in their past and that generosity has one again been shown with Mike and Ophelia having announced their pledge of $21 million to science and mathematics faculties at the University of Waterloo: “With their unparalleled generosity, the Lazaridis family enriches our capacity to attract exceptional individuals to join Waterloo as researchers and students,” said University of Waterloo president Feridun Hamdullahpur. “The problems of the world will keep getting more…
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Free Junk Call Blocker for BlackBerry with BBM integration
8 Feb 2012 | 3:05 pmBlackBerry app developer S4BB has announced the launch of their Junk Call Blocker app. The app blocks unsolicited calls and has an ingenious social sharing component so you can share your blocked numbers list with your BBM contacts. In the battle against unsolicited phone calls, BlackBerry users have found a powerful ally. Junk Call Blocker recognizes and blocks incoming junk calls automatically. Besides the existing black list, there’s also a custom blacklist allowing you to block custom numbers. Ideal when you’re dealing with a stalking ex! The other way around, there’s… -
Valentine’s Day Theme for BlackBerry
8 Feb 2012 | 2:32 pmBplay has announced their Valentine’s Day theme for BlackBerry. Decorate your home screen and icons with hearts, treats and teddy bears. Create the perfect Valentine’s mood on your BlackBerry! With My Valentine you can build your own romantic homescreen: a bottle of wine with a box of chocolates under a midnight sky, or set out a wrapped gift with single rose and a cupcake. Customize your BlackBerry to your liking with over 20 options, complete with icon set. Download My Valentine today and set yourself in the mood for a special occasion. Buy the Valentine’s Day theme for $1.99… -
Compilr Lets Developers Write Code From Their BlackBerry PlayBook
8 Feb 2012 | 1:33 pmCompilr is an online integrated development environment for programming languages like PHP, C++, Ruby, Java, C# and Visual Basic. The company has recently launched a pretty cool app that lets developers to write code directly from a BlackBerry Playbook. The guys at Compilr say they’re trying to remove all the hassles around development and the best way to do that was to push the experience to the web to remove friction for developers. Considering all the development environments you sometimes need to program, this makes a lot of sense. Since the product has launched, Compilr has grown… -
PingChat! Rebrands as Touch and Serves Over 100 Million Messages
8 Feb 2012 | 1:12 pmThe guys at Enflick have been really busy making a series of products in the communication space. The company had a very popular app called PingChat! that has since rebranded itself and become Touch. Touch is available for iOS, BlackBerry and Android, and has had some pretty awesome success lately. According to the company, Touch has already served more than 100 million one-on-one messages and nearly 10 million group messages. YouTube intro video for Touch. Touch is an IM client, group messaging app and photo sharing app all wrapped into one. According to the company, since December 2011,… -
RIM Demos Sharing Media Between BlackBerry Smartphone and PlayBook
7 Feb 2012 | 1:00 pmAt BlackBerry DevCon Europe we were given a quick demo of PlayBook OS 2 and some of the features that let you interact with the PlayBook from your smartphone. The idea is really great as many people will have their PlayBook hooked up to their TV, and this will allow them to open files, browse the web and more from the comfort of their couch. At DevCon, the head of Portfolio Software, EMEA, Vivek Bhardwaj, had an issue with the demo and wasn’t able to show us how you can take a photo on your smartphone and show it on the PlayBook. Since then, RIM has posted the video on their YouTube…
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Waze for iPhone Offers Voice Control for Hands-Free Operation While Driving
9 Feb 2012 | 6:00 amiPhone: Waze, our favorite turn-by-turn navigation app for iPhone (and Android) just added a great new feature: hands-free operation. Now you can control Waze with a wave of your hand and the power of your voice. More » -
Make Your Own Screen Protector Quickly and Cheaply with Adhesive Vinyl and an Xacto Knife
8 Feb 2012 | 12:30 pmWe'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
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Black SMS Encrypts and Decrypts Your Text Messages
7 Feb 2012 | 12:00 pmiOS: 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
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More Evidence That iPad 3 Production is in Full Swing
9 Feb 2012 | 7:00 amIt seems like it’s been raining iPad 3 rumors over the past couple of days. Yesterday we heard that the upcoming tablet may not include the quad-core processor we’ve been anticipating. And we also saw a purported image of the slate’s backing.Then last night, both 9to5Mac and Apple.pro posted photos of what they claim to be next-generation iPad components. The pictures show both the front and the back of the tablet’s shell, as well as what appears to be Smart Cover magnets…(...)Read the rest of More Evidence That iPad 3 Production is in Full Swing "More Evidence… -
Foxconn Hacked By Swagg Security Group
9 Feb 2012 | 6:00 amFoxconn, Apple’s largest manufacturing partner, has been back in the media spotlight over the last few weeks. Last month, the New York Times pointed to the company in its report on the poor working conditions in Chinese factories.Foxconn has since been the target of activists and protestors, but now it’s found itself in the sights of a different breed. It seems that the world’s largest component manufacturer has been hacked by a new group called Swagg Security…(...)Read the rest of Foxconn Hacked By Swagg Security Group "Foxconn Hacked By Swagg Security Group" is an… -
iTunes Accounts Being Hacked to Steal Money From Store Credit
9 Feb 2012 | 5:00 amThe amount of customers reporting that their iTunes account have been hacked is growing steadily on Apple’s Support Forum. Customers are reporting that their accounts are being hacked, and the hackers are then using the accounts to purchase gift cards, make purchases on the store, and even using their PayPal accounts.The Globe and Mail reports customers that have been hacked are growing increasingly frustrated with Apple’s response to the issue…(...)Read the rest of iTunes Accounts Being Hacked to Steal Money From Store Credit "iTunes Accounts Being Hacked to Steal Money… -
iOS 5.0.1 Bug Lets Anyone Make FaceTime Calls On Your iPhone, Even With Security Settings
9 Feb 2012 | 4:00 amCanadian tech blogger Ade Barkah has discovered a new security loophole in Apple’s most recent iOS update, iOS 5.0.1. It involves FaceTime, and lets anyone make a call out, even with the highest security settings in place.The loophole has been confirmed to work on both the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S, and hopefully is addressed by Apple soon. Barkah details the bug on his blog…(...)Read the rest of iOS 5.0.1 Bug Lets Anyone Make FaceTime Calls On Your iPhone, Even With Security Settings "iOS 5.0.1 Bug Lets Anyone Make FaceTime Calls On Your iPhone, Even With Security Settings" is an… -
Protestors to Stage Rally in Front of Grand Central Apple Store Tomorrow
8 Feb 2012 | 4:22 pmIt’s been nearly three weeks since the New York Times published its now infamous report on the poor working conditions of overseas manufacturers, and Apple is still feeling the ripple effects. The iPhone-makers were named exclusively in the lengthy article regarding their poor efforts to correct the growing labor problems in China.In response to the allegations, activists setup an online petition calling for Apple to release a “worker protection strategy.” And not only has the petition collected more than 250,000 electronic signatures, but the activists are about to take…
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Apple exploring 3D frame-of-reference iOS interface based on eye, light location
9 Feb 2012 | 6:54 amApple has shown interest in creating a unique user interface for iOS, allowing new features like dynamic shadows based on the angle of light hitting an iPhone screen. Apple's concept was revealed t... -
Google says it won't support fair licensing in open standards as Apple, Microsoft, Cisco have
8 Feb 2012 | 6:18 pmIn a distinct departure from the agreement voiced between Apple, Cisco and Microsoft regarding the need for fair, transparent, understandable and consistent licensing policy for open standards, Google... -
Cisco backs Apple's ETSI request for fair and open licensing of standards patents
8 Feb 2012 | 6:16 pmCisco Systems filed its own letter to the European Telecommunications Standards Institute last week, backing Apple's position calling for "more consistent and transparent application of FRAND" licensi... -
Siri rumored to gain support for Mandarin, Japanese and Russian in March
8 Feb 2012 | 1:38 pmAn Apple software engineer reportedly working on the Chinese-language version of the company's Siri voice assistant says support for Mandarin, Japanese and Russian will be added in March, as well as l... -
Microsoft joins Apple in pledging support for injunction free, FRAND patent licensing
8 Feb 2012 | 11:25 amMicrosoft has issued a public statement outlining its position regarding standards essential patents, committing itself "to always adhere to the promises it has made to standards organizations to make...
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How to Change the World
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Raising Money: What Not to Say and What Not to Believe #OfficeandGuyK
20 Jan 2012 | 10:46 amOver 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
20 Jan 2012 | 8:24 amNow 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
17 Jan 2012 | 1:52 pmThis 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
12 Jan 2012 | 8:16 amHere 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
9 Jan 2012 | 8:01 amWelcome 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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Hacker News vs. Google+
5 Feb 2012 | 10:20 amI might as well have titled this “Hacker News vs Marketers.” Or “Hacker News vs Bloggers.” Or “jerks vs nice people.” But I never participate in Hacker News for a few reasons and I just was faced with these reasons again when I read the responses there to my blog post yesterday. 1. Programmers often have an attitude of “I can code, you can’t, so I am defacto better than you.” This often comes out in Hacker News comments. 2. Programmers love to bash people anonymously and then, in real life, they will come begging for PR for their companies… -
It’s too late for Dave Winer and John Battelle to save the common web
4 Feb 2012 | 5:02 pmThe date was January 3, 2008. Facebook had kicked me off for running a script to try to save the common web. See, I worked with Plaxo to run a simple script. One that would have taken my contacts out of Facebook and put them back into the common web. The script did some very simple things: 1. It grabbed all my friends names. 2. It grabbed all their phone numbers. 3. It grabbed all their email addresses. 4. It gave me a simple CSV file with all that data so I could bring them back to Google, or Microsoft, or anywhere else I wanted to put them. Facebook’s answer was predictable. They shut… -
HTML 5 pushback in San Francisco? Best mobile app designers say yes
1 Feb 2012 | 3:39 pmThe new Path? The one that won a Crunchie last night for great design? It’s not done in HTML 5. This morning I saw something new coming soon from Storify. Not done in HTML 5. This morning I visited Foodspotting, which just shipped hot new apps on iOS, Android, and Blackberry. Not done in HTML 5. More and more I’m hearing that designers and developers are ignoring HTML 5, especially for the high end of apps. Why? Well, Path’s founders told me it just isn’t possible to build a great user interface, the way they did it in HTML 5. Storify’s founder told me it… -
Why Facebook will be worth a half trillion by 2015: the mobile and open graph revenue it’s leaving on the table
1 Feb 2012 | 2:48 pmLots of people think Facebook is overvalued, at about $100 billion (it just released their S1, announcing its IPO). But in talking with developers, like I did with Foodspotting’s founder, Alexa Andrzejewski, and in reading the S1 I see that Facebook has left most of the potential revenue on the table. That makes me think that the folks crying “overvalued” are nuts. Check that interview out, Foodspotting is one of the hottest San Francisco startups, aimed at people who are looking for better places to eat. Here it is from just this morning: See, Mark Zuckerberg is sandbagging… -
2012 brings a pause in the disruption
31 Jan 2012 | 4:58 pmOK, I’ve been talking with hundreds of geeks from around the world this year at three conferences, CES, DLD, and World Economic Forum. I’m seeing a trend that is worth talking about. What is it? We’re seeing the end of one of the most disruptive ages in human history. I believe that we’re seeing a pause in the disruption. More on that a little later. Just think about all the changes humans have been asked to adopt in the past eight years. Most of us, back then, didn’t carry mobile computers in our pockets. If we did use tablets, like I did, they were expensive,…
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PayPal Wants You to Shop While Straphanging In Singapore
9 Feb 2012 | 7:06 amMobile shopping is getting even more mobile. No longer just about using your smartphone, mobile payment options are now popping up in transit systems in metropolitan areas, as companies look to gauge consumers’ appetites for buying products while truly on the go. EBay-owned PayPal has just launched a pilot in Singapore’s subway stations for commuters to buy goods while en route. The experiment, through which eight merchants will offer Valentine’s Day gifts at reduced prices, is being conducted across 15 subway stations across Singapore. Commuters can make purchases by using… -
End of an Era: Google's Very First Employee, Craig Silverstein -- Technically, No. 3 -- Leaving
9 Feb 2012 | 7:01 amGoogle’s very first employee, Craig Silverstein, is leaving the company to join the high-profile online learning phenom, Khan Academy. News of the departure first appeared yesterday in a line in a newsletter on education-tech entrepreneurship EdSurge and the search giant confirmed the departure to me. Silverstein, who was actually Google’s No. 3 employee — that would be after its pair of founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin — has had a variety of technology jobs at the company over the years since it was founded in 1998. But his first — helping them build the… -
Who's Ready for the (Heaven Forbid) Social Networking Patent Wars?
9 Feb 2012 | 7:00 amPlease see the disclosure about Facebook in my ethics statement. Tech companies have recently ratcheted up their offensive use of intellectual property, especially in the mobile space — but not so much in social networking. Just in case patent wars happen to be contagious, it seems worth evaluating which social networking players are best-equipped. I wrote on Wednesday about a Silicon Valley entrepreneur who is hopeful that Google may pursue some of the patents and patent applications he filed on behalf of a company he started that Google later acquired. Also on Wednesday, on the… -
Kodak to Stop Making Cameras
9 Feb 2012 | 6:56 amEastman Kodak Company has said it will stop making digital cameras, pocket video cameras and digital picture frames in the first half of 2012, in an effort to achieve annual operating savings of more than $100 million. Rochester, N.Y.-based Kodak says it plans to expand its current brand-licensing program instead, and that it will continue to produce retail-based photo kiosks, inkjet printers, online photo gallery and apps, and camera batteries and accessories. The announcement comes a few weeks after the iconic camera company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. -
Oracle Acquires Taleo for $1.9 Billion
9 Feb 2012 | 5:32 amAnother day, another deal in the cloud software space. Today, software giant Oracle stepped up to acquire Taleo, the cloud-based human resources software concern, for $46 a share, or $1.9 billion. The price works out to an 18 percent premium on Taleo, based on its closing price on Wednesday. The deal can’t help but be seen as a response to SAP’s acquisition last year of SuccessFactors, a Taleo rival. Indeed, Taleo’s shares have appreciated significantly in recent months — from $29 to $42 a share over the course of two weeks in December — on speculation that it…
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New Report: “Make An App For That: Mobile Strategies For Retailers”
7 Feb 2012 | 10:16 amWhen it comes to shopping, I have a love/hate relationship with my iPhone. Some apps are actually helpful, letting me explore products or buy something immediate. But the vast majority of the retailer apps litter my screens, sitting unused after an initial, disappointing whirl. My frustration is reflected in the findings of my colleague Chris Silva‘s new report, entitled “Make An App For That: Mobile Strategies For Retailers“. Of particular value is that Chris pivots the report around two major strategies retails can use when it comes to mobile: Enrich: These strategies are… -
Jerry Yang’s departure signals a New Day for Yahoo!, the passing of an era for Tech
17 Jan 2012 | 4:30 pmMy first reaction to the news that Jerry Yang is leaving Yahoo! was that this was the passing of an era. I first met Jerry in 1994 when he was still a PhD student at Stanford, before he and David Filo left to run Yahoo! full time. Through bubbles and two economic downturns, Jerry has always been omnipresent in Silicon Valley. But all good things come to pass. With the arrival of Scott Thompson as the new CEO of Yahoo!, it makes sense that Scott be given a clean slate upon which to write the future of Yahoo!. This is very much the norm for incoming CEOs, where founders are asked to take a… -
Predictions Social Business in 2012, Part III: Transforming Your Organization
9 Jan 2012 | 10:26 amThis is the last of three posts I’m writing on predictions and priorities for Social Business in 2012. You can read the first and second prediction posts for more context. Prediction #3: Connected leaders and employees will create sustained competitive advantages through a culture of sharing. This year will see some companies pull ahead of others because they are able to collaborate, innovate and execute better and faster thanks to an ingrained culture of sharing. This is the year that companies get serious about investing in their internal social business capabilities, simply because it… -
Predictions for Social Business in 2012, Part II: Knowing Your Customer
3 Jan 2012 | 4:26 pmRather than simply make prognostications, I wanted to give actionable advice based on these trends. This is the second of my three predictions and priorities for Social Business in 2012 (read the first prediction). Prediction #2: Your customers want to be known. Your customers don’t merely want you to understand their needs or pain points. They want you to know them as individuals anywhere and anytime they engage with you. Companies sure know a lot about us, without knowing much. For example, I’m classified for marketing purposes as a Gen X, 35-45 years old, graduate degree holding, Real… -
Predictions and Priorities for Social Business in 2012 – Part I
2 Jan 2012 | 9:57 amMy pet peeve about the annual predictions ritual is that they lack context for action. It’s nice to know that tablets and big data are important — but what should you do about it? So here’s my attempt at not only forecasting but also to provide actions that companies should be prioritizing in 2012. The Process: I went through my speaking and client engagements in 2011 and looked at which topics and themes I kept referring to over and over again, especially toward the end of the year. I also analyzed which of the tweets from these events were most retweeted to verify where the heat…
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Larry Page’s “Tidal Wave Moment”?
7 Feb 2012 | 10:54 amWho remembers the moment, back in 1995, when Bill Gates wrote his famous Internet Tidal Wave Memo? In it he rallied his entire organization to the cause of the Internet, calling the new platform an existential threat/opportunity for Microsoft’s entire business. In the memo Gates wrote: “I assign the Internet the highest level of importance. In this memo I want to make clear that our focus on the Internet is crucial to every part of our business. The Internet is the most important single development to come along since the IBM PC was introduced in 1981.” The memo runs more… -
Now All That’s Left Is To Write It
7 Feb 2012 | 9:27 amFor posterity, if nothing else, here’s what my desk looks like at the moment. After a particularly enlightening whiteboard session with Steven Johnson late last week, then further musings on the back of bar menus and borrowed receipt-tape with my wife, and finally after waking up and scribbling notes in the middle of the night, I finally have a working outline of The Next Book. No, it’s not supposed to make much sense. Yet. Now all I have to do is write it. -
Do You Think The US Government Is Monitoring Social Media?
3 Feb 2012 | 8:49 amI had the news on in the background while performing morning ablutions. It was tuned to CBS This Morning – Charlie Rose has recently joined the lineup and my wife, a former news producer, favors both Rose and the Tiffany Network. But the piece that was running as I washed the sleep from my eyes was simply unbelievable. It was about the two unfortunate british tourists detained by Homeland Security over jokes on Twitter about “destroying America” (a colloquialism for partying – think “tear up the town”) and “digging up Marilyn Monroe” whilst in… -
In Which I Officially Declare RSS Is Truly Alive And Well.
2 Feb 2012 | 7:50 pmI promise, for at least 18 months, to not bring this topic up again. But I do feel the need to report to all you RSS lovin’ freaks out there that the combined interactions on my two posts – 680 and still counting – have exceeded the reach of my RSS feed (which clocked in at a miserable 664 the day I posted the first missive). And as I said in my original post: If I get more comments and tweets on this post than I have “reach” by Google Feedburner status, well, that’s enough for me to pronounce RSS Alive and Well (by my own metric of nodding along, of course). If… -
It’s Not Whether Google’s Threatened. It’s Asking Ourselves: What Commons Do We Wish For?
2 Feb 2012 | 10:40 amIf Facebook’s IPO filing does anything besides mint a lot of millionaires, it will be to shine a rather unsettling light on a fact most of us would rather not acknowledge: The web as we know it is rather like our polar ice caps: under severe, long-term attack by forces of our own creation. And if we lose the web, well, we lose more than funny cat videos and occasionally brilliant blog posts. We lose a commons, an ecosystem, a “tangled bank” where serendipity, dirt, and iterative trial and error drive open innovation. Google’s been the focus of most of this analysis…
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Throw Away the Maps
6 Feb 2012 | 1:30 amPeople judge us by the path they’ve seen us walk before. They can’t anticipate our future steps. We, ourselves, look to how things have been, what seems to be the lay of the land, without realizing that the maps are not the territory. Want to succeed at work? Then don’t try to do your job. Instead, work towards something larger, more meaningful, and something that blends your convictions internally with your best ability to help others externally. Want to create something new? Then throw away the old, or maybe join two disparate old things together into something new. The… -
The Next Social Networks
5 Feb 2012 | 1:30 amThe rage in social networks right now is Pinterest, partly because it’s probably the first social network that has a much higher adoption rate by females than males, and partly because it’s an interesting concept: somewhere between visual social bookmarking and scrapbooking. What also might not be immediately obvious is that it’s just “easier” to interact there. In that way, Pinterest has something in common with Instagram, which is community around photos. What I’m interested in, though, is Gentlemint, which I keep calling “Pinterest for… -
Learn From Adele – Build Your Platform
3 Feb 2012 | 1:30 amJacq and I just watched Adele Live At The Royal Albert Hall (amazon affiliate link), and though every song was just wonderfully done, I found myself fascinated by what Adele was doing in between each song. Because even though most people would be interested in hearing her belt out her amazing repertoire of hits, what I took away from the performance was Adele’s real magical ability: the ability to resonate with her audience. What Adele Could Teach You About Impact I’m writing something about this right now for my upcoming book with Julien Smith, but I had to share some of the… -
Rob Gokee is a Musical Wizard
2 Feb 2012 | 8:05 amI had such a great experience working with award winning musical composer Rob Gokee. We did some musical work together, and the process was so amazing. Rob helped me create my theme song for Shhh! The Secret Show. So anyhow, he and I sat down to do an interview, and it’s a bit long, but it’s totally worth it. We talk about what collaboration feels like at a distance, what it takes to get music like this made for your own show, and a lot more. Rob’s a hero to me, and has been part of the community for a while. I was so fortunate to have worked with him. Can’t see the… -
Build Your Platform – Start
30 Jan 2012 | 1:30 amThe following is part ONE of a series called Build Your Platform. If you find it interesting, please consider subscribing for free to get the rest of the series. This post is long. You might want to bookmark it for later. The age of social media oversaturation is upon us. People are declaring Twitter bankruptcy to go along with their email bankruptcy. They cite not wanting to start on yet another social network as their reason for not getting more involved with Google+. And just as soon as you start getting into Pinterest, you hear about Path, but wait: there’s Gentlemint, which is…
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AllThingsD » Walt Mossberg
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For iPad and Mobile Devices, a 'Port' out of the Norm
8 Feb 2012 | 6:04 pmThe pocket-size USB flash drive has become nearly ubiquitous in the PC world, for moving files among machines and for adding extra storage. But it can’t be used with most tablets because they lack standard USB ports. [ See post to watch video ] Now, there’s a special, modified, pocket flash drive that works as usual with PCs and Macs, but can transfer and stream files to popular mobile devices without standard USB ports, such as Apple’s iPad and iPhone, Amazon’s Kindle Fire and many other Android devices. Its secret: It has built-in Wi-Fi to beam the files to and from… -
An iPhoto Slide Show on CD
8 Feb 2012 | 6:01 pmQ: How can I burn a slideshow that I made in iPhoto on my MacBook Pro onto a CD? A: You can export the slideshow as a video (a QuickTime movie in Apple parlance) and then burn that video to your CD. Here’s how: In iPhoto, after you’ve created the photo slideshow, with titles, music and so forth, click on the “Export” button at the bottom of the slideshow-creation window. Choose an option for the resolution of your movie and click “Export.” Then, choose a destination on your hard disk where you’ll temporarily store the movie. Next, insert the… -
Real Bonding With Family Around the TV Via Skype
25 Jan 2012 | 6:03 pmAs you read these words, millions of people are conducting video chats using the popular Skype service, now owned by Microsoft. Most of these calls are low-resolution encounters between two individuals, conducted over personal computers. [ See post to watch video ] This week, I tested a new device that aims to transform Skype video chats into room-size experiences, involving whole families or groups of friends on each end—seeing each other, chatting and sharing photos in high definition using TVs. It’s called telyHD, and comes from a small Silicon Valley start-up called Tely Labs. In… -
Track Changes on an iPad
25 Jan 2012 | 6:02 pmQ: You recently reviewed an iPad app that lets you use Microsoft Office programs on an iPad. But does this support the “Track Changes” feature of Office, which I cannot find on any of the office-type apps I’ve tried on the iPad? A: Yes, it does. And tracked changes are synchronized with your PC or Mac. As I noted in the review, the new app, called OnLive Desktop, gives you the complete Windows version of Office on an iPad, via the cloud. So all features in the Windows version, including the tracking of changes, are available. Q: I am a new Mac user and would like to become a… -
Talk Is Cheap and Reliable on Nokia's $50 Phone
18 Jan 2012 | 6:03 pmThe standard price of a smartphone running one of the modern mobile operating systems is typically $200, with a two-year service contract. Recently, there have even been a few, largely unsuccessful, attempts to boost prices to $300. [ See post to watch video ] But phone makers and carriers have been eager to push smartphones into lower price bands to expand the market. Older and more basic models have been showing up for less. Multiple Android models sell for around $100, and a few well below that. Even Apple, which established the $200 standard, sells its iPhone 4, which is outwardly…
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What’s Your Price for Privacy?
8 Feb 2012 | 4:28 pmEveryone’s got a price! Admit it. If Google offered you a certain dollar (or pound or euro or peso or whatever) amount to install a program that would track your Web surfing habits and other personal Internet traffic data to make it available to various advertisers, you’d do it. Some of... Read the full article on http://chris.pirillo.com/ -
Google Me All Night Long or Bing Me (But Don’t You Dare iTouch Me)!
7 Feb 2012 | 4:35 pmThere’s no such thing as an iTouch (at least not as a device that’s made by Apple or for family friendly purposes, I’m guessing)! For that matter, there’s no such thing as an iPod Touch. iPod touch (note the lowercase “t”) is the official Apple designation for... Read the full article on http://chris.pirillo.com/ -
LEGO Bells, Batman Smells, Catwoman Laid An Egg
6 Feb 2012 | 4:42 pmHey, look here! I’ve got LEGO superheroes. I’ve got LEGO supervillains. When the lights go out, all bets are off as to what I’m going to find when I return to the home office the next day after a full night of rest. Or, in my case, a few hours of rest. Insomnia is a [...] Read the full article on http://chris.pirillo.com/ -
A Locker Full of Gnomies
3 Feb 2012 | 4:29 pmFridays are always fun around LockerGnome World Headquarters. It closes off a week of steady TLDRs (and gives me a chance to recharge my batteries so we can do it all again next week), and Diana and I usually have our date night. This week, my parents are still in town, and my Dad was [...] Read the full article on http://chris.pirillo.com/ -
Would You Vote Through Social Media?
2 Feb 2012 | 4:13 pmSo it’s an election year, and it’s always fun to imagine ways we could use technology to move the democratic process along — at least beyond how we used it last time around. By the next one (provided the end-of-the-world nuts aren’t correct about this year’s dire... Read the full article on http://chris.pirillo.com/
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How to Roll Back a Driver in Windows 7
8 Feb 2012 | 2:31 pmRolling back drivers is something that no one enjoys having to do. In most cases, drivers are rolled back because an update either broke or altered the way a device functions that doesn’t improve the user’s experience. Drivers are small bits of data used to tell the operating system how to properly communicate with a [...] -
How to Use Problem Steps Recorder (PSR) in Windows 7
8 Feb 2012 | 1:55 pmArguably one of the best features to be introduced in Windows 7 has been the Problem Steps Recorder (PSR). Windows 7 has been out for a while now, though it’s surprising just how few people know that this helpful application actually exists. Essentially, Problem Steps Recorder makes a visual and text-based documentation of everything that [...] -
How to Engage Key Influencers
8 Feb 2012 | 10:42 amLately we’ve been discussing ways that social media managers can help improve their social strategy, which has become a critical component of any marketing program. A recent study found that 82% of the world’s online population engages in social networking, and two in five use their smartphone to connect to social networks nearly every day. [...] -
Free Home Design Software
8 Feb 2012 | 9:52 amIf you haven’t heard, we are excited over a new group that Chris has formed, called Gnomies. Gnomies is a group of informed, electronics-minded folks who desired a venue in which to share valuable information. One of the members of the group posed an inquiry as to what software others in the group might recommend [...] -
How to Determine Your ROI
8 Feb 2012 | 9:26 amROI is not just a buzzword. This term, which is the abbreviation for “return on investment,” refers to the classic theory in marketing that you must consider the benefit from the overall investment in a marketing campaign. (Of course, the term can be applied to any investment you devote to other aspects in life, such [...]
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#Ebook Deal/Day: The Art of SEO - $17.99 (Save 50%)
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The best iPhone tethering apps (and one to avoid)
9 Feb 2012 | 6:30 amWireless carriers have us right where they want us. When there are only four significant national providers in the US, there’s only so much competition for our business. So when they all band together (even if only in mindset) and decide on a “new rule,” customers are forced to play along. A prime example of [...] -
Google Wallet PIN cracked in seconds (video)
9 Feb 2012 | 5:48 amIn some countries, systems that allow consumers to pay for goods with their mobile phones have been in place for years. In the U.S., however, mobile payments are only just starting to take off. Right now you’ve got two choices: PayPal and Google Wallet. And if you’re using a Sprint Galaxy Nexus, and have already [...] -
Google is considering opening a retail store in Dublin
9 Feb 2012 | 5:01 amIt was only a few days ago that we were talking about Amazon possibly opening a retail store in Seattle. Now it seems Google is considering a similar move, but in Dublin where its European headquarters are located. As well as allowing Google to save a lot of money by paying very little tax, the [...] -
Kinect used to treat phantom limb syndrome
9 Feb 2012 | 4:15 amThe list of uses for Microsoft’s Kinect motion controller seems to be growing daily, as we can now add to the list a therapy for those suffering from phantom limb pain syndrome. Researcher Benjamin Blundell and his team have set out to use the motion sensors in the Kinect to help amputee’s overcome the effects [...] -
Pen-shaped e-reader concept leads to more questions than answers
8 Feb 2012 | 3:57 pmAfter the introduction of the iPad in 2010, focus has shifted away from traditional eReaders. The leading manufacturers in the field — Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Kobo — have all since introduced small tablets that are only e-readers in terms of software. The evolution of the e-ink reader is no longer on the forefront [...]
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Smart New Product: Hover Bar from Twelve South
9 Feb 2012 | 4:50 amI’m a big fan of Twelve South’s products. (We’ve covered their Plug Bug on Simply Stated before.) So I’m very excited to see their newest product the Hover Bar for the iPad. While I’m not a [...] -
The Best Deals on the Restaurant Menu
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How to Keep a Food Journal
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March Book Poll, Now Open
8 Feb 2012 | 1:14 pmHi, Bookies: Well, we seem to have struck a chord with the February choices, so we’re going to stay in kind of the same neighborhood come March: a neighborhood where the accents are British, [...] -
Fluff Wrinkled Clothing in Your Dryer
7 Feb 2012 | 5:42 pmDid you forget a load of clothes in the dryer overnight? The fastest way to remove wrinkles (without dragging out the dreaded iron) is to toss a damp hand towel in the dryer with [...]
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The Princess/prince Pet Dog Cat Handmade Bed/house + Pillow for your furry friend
9 Feb 2012 | 2:06 amAll the animal lovers out there always want the very best for their little pets. Nothing is too much in terms of their comfort. Hey, if we get to have special beds, why shouldn’t they also sleep in style? The Princess/prince Pet Dog Cat Handmade Bed/house + Pillow (quite a mouthful!) is perfect for your special friend. It is basically a luxuriously upscale pet bed, filled with the finest premium cotton cushions for optimum comfort. But they are also designed for your convenience, in that, the mat can be taken out and cleaned. Also, the bed bottom is made out of leather materials to insulate… -
Miu Miu releases limited edition Fashion Week handbags
9 Feb 2012 | 2:02 amFebruary is a month of fashion, and doesn’t Miu Miu know it! In recent seasons, Miu Miu’s enviable range of accessories has been quite a hit on all the runways, with anybody worth her salt in fashion sporting something from their collection. So this time, Miu Miu has taken it one step further, and designed a limited edition collection of handbags to celebrate the four most important international fashion weeks — New York, London, Milan and Paris. They have designed a whopping 46 vintage-inspired bags. Each one is hand-made in 17 different combinations of luxury materials including… -
The Waffle and Syrup Sheets with fruit pillows by Bfiberandcraft
9 Feb 2012 | 1:43 amWhy do the fans of Hello Kitty or Spongebob get to have all the fun? If it is food that you love the most, you should be able to show it proudly. Being a sweet tooth myself, I do sometimes feel the urge to just jump in and drown myself in the large portion of cake or pudding I am devouring at that time. And the Waffle and Syrup Sheets by Bfiberandcraft might be the closest I’ll ever get to it. The set includes one waffle-patterned size fitted cotton sheet, and one syrup-colored top sheet. These sheets are hand-dyed, and made to order. So all you have to do is send them the measurements of… -
Panasonic’s Eneloop batteries wear Disney colors for Walt Disney’s 110th Anniversary
9 Feb 2012 | 1:41 amPanasonic is showing their love for legendary genius, Walt Disney, on the occasion of the 110th anniversary of his birth. They will be releasing limited edition Disney inspired designs of their wildly successful Eneloop rechargeable batteries. Panasonic is one of the corporations participating in the Disney “If you can dream it, you can do it” celebration, and one of the ways they have chosen to honor the animation guru, is by having their batteries wear Disney colors. The limited edition Walt Disney 110th Anniversary series is being offered in two different designs. The first design is… -
Earth Blocks: Earth friendly Lego alternatives
9 Feb 2012 | 1:35 amWe have all grown up playing engineering all kinds of amazing shapes with our beloved Lego bricks. For generations, they have cultivated creativity in little kids. Do you want your kids to get the same joy you did, but are worried about the implications to the environment? The Earth Blocks from Japanese company Colors Tokyo is a very cool eco-friendly and sustainable option to the traditional plastic bricks. These blocks are made from recycled materials like a composite of the bark of the cedar tree, compressed dust from sawn cedar logs, and coffee beans, with just enough polypropylene to…
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Microsoft backs Apple patent view
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App makers' address-book apology
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Ofcom targets switching slammers
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CNN man off air for Beckham tweet
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VIDEO: A380 wing crack checks to be extended
8 Feb 2012 | 4:30 pmAircraft maker Airbus has been ordered to check all A380 superjumbo planes currently in service after cracks were found in wing components.
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6 Powerful Guest Post Tactics that No One’s Talking About
9 Feb 2012 | 6:05 amThis guest post is by Tom Ewer of Leaving Work Behind. Guest posting is a hot topic amongst startup bloggers. It is one of the most widely-adopted blog promotion strategies in existence, and has been made perhaps even more popular by the success of “serial” guest posters such as Danny Iny of Firepole Marketing. His “blitzkrieg” strategy may come across to some as a triumph of quantity over strategy, but nothing could be further from the truth. He understands the key concepts that we will be exploring in this post, and executes them in a highly effective manner. Whilst… -
How to Succinctly Report a Blog Issue to Tech Support
8 Feb 2012 | 6:07 amThis guest post is by Matthew Setter of Malt Blue. How often do you find it happening to you? You discover an issue with your site, or one of your community members emails you to tell you about it, and soon you start to see tweets about it too. Maybe it’s as simple as an error message that detracts from the professional appearance of your site. Perhaps the contact form doesn’t send messages to your contact email address. Or is it that the whole site just displays as a blank page, otherwise known as the white page of death? You’re not a programmer, a software engineer or a seasoned… -
Make Your Blog Load Faster than ProBlogger: Part 2
7 Feb 2012 | 12:05 pmThis guest post is by Devesh of WP Kube. A few months ago, I wrote a guest post here called How to Make Your Blog Load Faster than ProBlogger. Today, I’ll go into some more detailed advice to help you speed up your site even more. If you’re a blogger, you already know about the importance of blog loading speed, and the role it plays in search engine rank and marketing your blog. But if this is new territory for you, here are three quick reasons why you need to speed up your blog: Google includes website loading speed as an important metric in their ranking algorithm. If you want… -
How I Beat my Best Month Ever by Doing Something Good, Better [Case Study]
7 Feb 2012 | 6:04 amMid-December 2010: on my photography site, we launched a new campaign—our first ever 12 Days of Christmas promotion. The result was my biggest month of earnings ever up to that point. The idea was simple: offer discounts on 12 products over the 12 days leading up to Christmas. I used a mix of my own ebooks and products from other photography sites with affiliate commissions. The result was massive. Not only did we see some great revenue generated, it created some lovely buzz on the site. Due to the success of the 2010 campaign, in mid-December 2011 we launched our second 12 Days of… -
Six Steps to Make Sure Your Site Is Ready to Go Viral
6 Feb 2012 | 6:00 amThis guest post is by Nancy Sathre-Vogel of Family on Bikes. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. Surely Google Analytics was confusing my site with another, way more popular site. There was no way my visitor numbers could be so high! And yet they were. One of my posts had taken off and was spreading like wildfire. Those viral post phenomena that happen to others were now happening to me. The first day, 17,000 visitors came to my website. The next day we topped out at 56,000. Readers were coming in droves. It was exciting. It was exhilarating. My site, viral! Wow! And then I took a…
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How to Recover From a Social Media Hangover
9 Feb 2012 | 3:00 am“Hello. My name is Cori and I’m a social media addict. “Today is day 1 of my commitment to give myself a regular break from technology and the foggy, uncreative haze it can unwittingly lead to.” I was reading a post the other day by blogger Michael Brenner at B2B Marketing Insider, talking about getting your social media game on. Of course, being the skimmer that I am, the first thing that caught my attention and made me go back and read the whole thing was his mention of having a Social Media Hangover. His hangover was induced by sometimes (as we all do) forgetting to… -
The “New” SEO Secret Weapon
8 Feb 2012 | 3:00 amIf you have a web site, you may have noticed one of two things about the traffic you get from search engines. Your search traffic may have dried up overnight, with once-healthy streams turning into a sad little trickle. Or you may have noticed a nice, steady improvement as you’ve climbed higher in the SERPs (search engine results pages), while other sites that used to outrank you suddenly evaporated. There’s a super-secret new ingredient in SEO. It was always a factor, but it’s become even more important recently, as the Google team relentlessly declares war on what they see… -
8 Quick Tips for Writing Bullet Points People Actually Want to Read
7 Feb 2012 | 3:00 amIt’s a Twitterized world, we’re just living in it. Blog posts, Tweets, quick videos, Google+, the Facebook Timeline, and tens of thousands of images pinned to digital boards are flying past us faster than we can read them. Faster than we can even scan them, depending on the time of day. What does this mean for writers trying to cut through it all? At least two things that I can think of: You’d better know how to write a compelling headline You’d better know how to write bullet points that grab (and keep) your reader We’re not telling you to keep your copy short. -
7 Crucial Tactics for Writing a Wildly Successful Guest Post
6 Feb 2012 | 3:00 amWe all know that guest posts grow blogs. But not many people realize that tactical guest posting grows careers. Most bloggers I see pump out these articles while reciting the mantra “quantity over quality”; there’s no real strategy and there are no real long-term benefits. In this post I am going to show you the seven crucial tactics for writing a radically successful guest post. Done right, these strategies will get you more email subscribers, coveted Google ranking positions, and a big head-start on your content marketing goals. Who am I to teach you about guest blogging? -
7 Smashing Social Media Marketing Links
4 Feb 2012 | 3:00 amThis week on The Lede … What really works on Twitter One thing social media copywriters should never do 9 productive social media hacks A reminder of the power of the original social media If you just can’t wait for The Lede every Saturday, and you want even more practical, useable links than the seven we highlight here every week, follow @copyblogger on Twitter. It’s painless. Really. // 9 Social Media Hacks You Need to Embrace Now Mr. Baer makes a good case that though social media is inexpensive in monetary terms, it can get good and costly when it comes to spending your…
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In Honor of Susan Niebur – Her Inspiration Will Always Be With Us
7 Feb 2012 | 2:32 pmWhen people ask me about the parent blogging community, I say it is a diverse and supportive community. Most can’t understand how online relationships can translate to friendships, but it does. I had the honor of meeting Susan Niebur (WhyMommy) through BlogHer. Beyond being a parent blogger, she was also also a scientist, mother and amazing friend to many. The first time I had an extended email conversation with her was on the night she posted about her courageous fight with cancer and that she was going in for a Double Mastectomy. When I read that post, I emailed her to see if there… -
Disneyland Explorer – a Disney Parks App for iPad
6 Feb 2012 | 12:06 pmPart of the excitement of our family adventures to Disneyland is going online to plan our trip. Our kids love helping to collaborate so we can fit in all of their favorite Disney experiences in the trip. The Disneyland mobile apps are also helpful for us to get information on the go. When I received this press release about a new Disney Parks app for the iPad, I was excited for a new mobile opportunity to experience and get information about Disneyland. Disney Explorer is a free app for the iPad that offers a mobile experience of the sights and sounds of Disneyland. The app offers the… -
Social Shield: S.O.S. for Parents Trying To Understand Social Networking Terms
3 Feb 2012 | 11:10 amSocialShield Releases the Top Social Networking Terms Kids Don’t Want Their Parents to Know Sheds light on the latest lingo kids are using to hold illicit, risky or secretive conversations As a parent of a tween, I am well aware of the language and terms tween/tweens use to communicate with each other. But add on to that technology – and the dangers of their terms increases exponentially. From watching what goes on – I can see that it does not matter if your child has their own phone or not – these terms are used across devices – including computers. They can be… -
New Release: “Double Fine Happy Action Theater” – A New Kinect for Xbox 360 experience for families
2 Feb 2012 | 2:10 pmOur family loves our Kinect for XBox 360 as family entertainment with a gesture tech slant. We always enjoy trying out the new activities and games that come out for the Kinect, especially ones for all ages. I just received a press release today of a new activity for the Kinect called Double Fine Happy Action Theater. The 18 new family friendly “arcade” like experiences include jumping in a ball house, hot lava, build an ice cave out of your furniture and wait out a blizzard, become a giant monster and stomp buildings and more. Up to six players at once can play with the… -
Connecting With The RickiLakeShow
31 Jan 2012 | 6:17 pmI have been a fan of Ricki Lake for some time and was excited to see her on Dancing With The Stars. Putting my own fantasies aside of dancing on the show with those fantastic costumes, I was rooting for her to win as a fan and as a fellow working mom. When she made the finals – I was so proud! But I am most excited to announce that I am one of the members of social media community called Friends of Ricki that supports her forthcoming television show: The Ricki Lake Show. Our first fun event is a #FriendsofRicki Ustream (http://ustream.tv/rickilake) at 5pm PST this Wednesday,…
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iPad Cup Holder Mount Is Your New Travel Companion, Great for GPS
9 Feb 2012 | 7:15 amThe Satechi SCH 121 iPad Cup Holder Mount looks like just the thing I’ve been looking for to help me use my iPad as a GPS device. For nearly a year I’ve struggled to keep my iPad in place on the road. I love the large screen for easy viewing on the road, but because it’s bulky I need a good mounting solution. Otherwise my iPad jostles about too easily as I take turns or if some jerk suddenly stops in front of me. Read: Why I Bought the iPad 3G The mount fits tablets from 7-10 inches or it will fit your smartphone with one of two included cradles. The base fits into your… -
Avid Studio for iPad: Great Potential, But Too Unstable
9 Feb 2012 | 7:00 amI downloaded the new Avid Studio iPad video editing tool when it launched last week and tested it out this weekend after shooting some video of my kid’s recreation league basketball game. Avid Studio for iPad has great potential as a mobile video editing solution, but it proved too unstable to be usful. If the app didn’t crash so much, I would gladly replace iMovie with Avid for simple video editing on the go. The app crashed a lot rendering it nearly useless. I shot all the video on my iPhone and transferred it via the iPad Camera Connection kit over a USB to Dock sync cable. -
Apple Announcing iPad 3, Release Date Week of March 5th
9 Feb 2012 | 6:37 amApple has chosen the first week of March to launch the new iPad, likely the iPad 3. Apple announced the iPad 2 last year on March 2nd, and it looks like the company is planning to keep to the annual release cycle with a rumored iPad 3 announcement event for the first week of March. The new rumor comes from AllThingsD, which cites un-named sources. According to these sources Apple will hold a special event in California to launch the new iPad, likely at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts where the iPad 2 was announced. There is no specific date given for the iPad 3 announcement event, but… -
NVIDIA’s MWC Invite Hints at Tegra 3 Phones
9 Feb 2012 | 5:54 amNVIDIA has just sent out media invitations to the company’s press event centered at Mobile World Congress later this month in Barcelona, Spain, which promises some quad-core firsts. As the company had worked with partner Asus recently to launch the world’s first quad-core ARM-based tablet in the form of the Transformer Prime, that leaves room for smartphones. In the past, NVIDIA had promised that quad-core phones will begin arriving in 2012, and so it is likely that the ARM-based chip-maker will use MWC to launch quad-core phones. Several phone-makers are expected to launch… -
Droid 4 Review: Hardware Tour & Keyboard Performance (Video)
9 Feb 2012 | 5:33 amThe Motorola Droid 4 brings the iconic Droid line up to date with the addition of 4G LTE and a vastly improved keyboard. While the phone is still waiting for Android 4.0, it has a collection of features that many consumers have clamored for. If you settled for the Samsung Stratosphere, you may want to look for someone to sell to because the Motorola Droid 4 is the must have 4G LTE smartphone with a physical keyboard. While we work on our full Droid 4 review I wanted to give you a hardware tour and share my first impressions on the keyboard performance. The Droid 4 Launches on February…
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Sony full-frame camera coming, 500mm F4 lens finally announced
8 Feb 2012 | 7:05 pmSony has confirmed it will be making a full-frame replacement for its flagship A900 DSLR. No further details were given during a round-table discussion at the CP+ show in Japan, but we find it hard to believe the result will step away from the SLT technology the company has invested so heavily in. The company has also finally announced the A-mount 500mm F4 lens that it has been showing in various states of preparedness since PMA 2007 will be available from late March. -
Ricoh reshuffle sees Pentax take control of cameras
8 Feb 2012 | 5:07 pmRicoh has announced that its Pentax Ricoh Imaging (PRI) business unit will take full control of the design, development and sales of the company's cameras, worldwide. PRI was created when Ricoh bought Pentax and is the business that has been responsible for the design, manufacturing and sales of Pentax cameras. It will now absorb the consumer businesses of Ricoh's Personal Multimedia Product Company, which was responsible for the design, manufacture and sale of Ricoh cameras. The change will take effect from April 1st 2012. -
Sony promises more NEX lenses in updated E-mount lens roadmap
8 Feb 2012 | 5:00 pmSony has said it will have 15 lenses ready for the NEX system by the end of 2013. It made the annoucement of an expanded E-mount roadmap at the start of the CP+ trade show in Yokohama, Japan. The roadmap includes a variety of zooms and prime lenses, including a high-end standard zoom with Sony's premium 'G' branding. There will also be a pancake prime and a mid-telephoto prime lens some time during 2013. -
Sigma DP series reinvented as DP1M and DP2M with 15MPx3 sensor from SD1
7 Feb 2012 | 11:00 pmSigma has totally reinvented its DP series of large sensor compacts with the DP1 Merrill and DP2 Merrill. The DP Merrill models are named after Dick Merrill, inventor of the Foveon sensor and include the most recent version of his technology - the 15x3MP APS-C sensor first seen in Sigma's SD1. Because the Merrill cameras feature full APS-C sensors, they also feature totally redesigned lenses, with the DP1M including a 19mm F2.8 lens to offer a 28mm equivalent field of view and the DP2M having a 30mm F2.8 lens to give a 45mm equivalent field-of-view. -
Sigma SD1 becomes SD1 Merrill and gains (much) keener price tag
7 Feb 2012 | 11:00 pmSigma's new CEO, Kazuto Yamaki has announced the re-branding and re-pricing of the company's flagship camera. The SD1 DSLR will now be know as the SD1 Merrill, in honor of Dick Merrill, inventor of the Foveon sensor technology on which it is based. The price will also be revised, falling to what should be a street price of around $2,299, which Yamaki attributes to work conducted to reduce production costs of the sensor. Despite these changes, his letter promises the performance and characteristics of the sensor have not changed. To avoid disappointing existing SD1 customers, Sigma will offer…
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Shooting Spectacular Fireworks Video
8 Feb 2012 | 11:06 pmIs a U/V or a FL filter a good though, Do fireworks put out that witch the eye can't see. this is something i will try w/my 3ccd cam. I just think the color can . . . Category: Video Camera -
Can't get rid of "turn the power off and on again"
8 Feb 2012 | 2:03 pmThis really did work. I had to really bang it maybe about 10 times. My camera is working great now Category: Digital Camera: Sony -
DCR-TRV350 tape wont eject C:32:11
8 Feb 2012 | 1:04 pmIn the off-chance that somebody knowledgeable still checks this thread, I'm having issues with my Sony HDR-HC5. Back a couple of years ago, the camera quit pul . . . Category: Video Camera: Sony -
Sony HDR-HC3 Tape Door Won't Close with C:32:11 Error Code
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Micro SD card password in Nokia mobile phone
7 Feb 2012 | 3:17 amkindly help me. my 2gb microsd card is locked. i forget password, plz help how this unlock microsd card,i dont want data erase. only i want safly my data of mi . . . Category: Camera Phone
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Flickr goes East Coast: Meet us in New York and Philadelphia
8 Feb 2012 | 4:27 amCome and meet other Flickr members at two events on the East Coast later this month. Swing on by to meet Flickr staff in New York and Philadelphia to talk about gear, take photos, walk with us through the city and chat about the site. Here are our (new) meetup pages, with signup information: New York, February 18th – More info & RSVP Philadelphia, February 19th – More info & RSVP In other news: Starting today, we’re switching to Meetup.com as our main site for global community events. Feel free to start and organize your own, or join in with… -
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Reptar is ready for his trip to another dimension
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iPortrait
4 Feb 2012 | 1:39 pmTablets make for a great weekend project! Have fun. Photos from Buvone, tismey, Pichead, Jonathan Vazquez, • Andrei •, coreyweekley, and PBodyPhotos.Idea from gregivu. -
The Eastern Hemisphere
3 Feb 2012 | 7:09 amThe Blue Marble 2012 photo that we told you about last week, had an amazing reception with more than 3.2 million views to date. That’s why NASA Goddard Photo and Video decided to create another Blue Marble 2012 view, this time showing the Eastern Hemisphere. “The new image is a composite of six separate orbits taken on January 23, 2012 by the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership satellite. Both of these new ‘Blue Marble’ images are images taken by a new instrument flying aboard Suomi NPP, the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS).” NASA describes…
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Shutter Sisters
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fulfilled
8 Feb 2012 | 12:00 am“A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove...but the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child.” - Forest E. Witcraft One goal of our new homeschooling adventure with our youngest son was to cultivate his love of science. Allowing him to guide the curriculum is proving to be exciting. While working on mathematics, spelling, reading, we are also exploring microbiology, chemistry, geography, photography, roman numerals, and Latin... all chosen by him. The… -
me. you. us.
7 Feb 2012 | 8:02 am"Above all else, it is about leaving a mark that I existed.I was here... I was hungry. I was defeated. I was happy. I was sad.I had an idea and I had a good purpose, and that is why I made works of art."- Felix Gonzalez-Torres Why do we take the photos we take? Do you have a story to share? -
i love to jump
6 Feb 2012 | 2:03 am1. jump, it's my birthday, 2. jump, 3. jump, 4. 193/365 - i just like to jump, 5. 132/365 - bench monday - autumn sunshine, 6. bluebells! I love to jump and leap... I'm often drawn to take a jump shot if the location excites me... it almost demands it. Do you like jump? have you tried it? I know that it's not everyone's cup of tea. But if you're tempted, why not have a go? Here's how I do it - Place your camera, aligning the framing you want... fix your focus point... set to self-timer... move into position... and only jump when you see the countdown finishing, and just before the shutter… -
served
5 Feb 2012 | 12:00 amMorning, noon, night, we are fortunate to have some kind of bounty on our tables. Whether it's a home cooked meal, a late night snack or a glorious night out where the food is graciously prepared and served with a smile, there's something about food that not only satisfies hunger (or thirst!) but also serves as instant subject matter for the next quick pic. I have never before captured so many table shots as I do now that I have taken up mobile phone photography. It's as if I just can't help myself. And why should I? Creative bursts come in the most unlikely… -
wonderland
4 Feb 2012 | 12:00 am"This is what a Utah winter looks like," she told me as she drove me from Salt Lake City up to Park City, Utah. I marveled from the passenger side as huge snowflakes poured out of the vast bucket sky. Click, click, click. Through the windshield I snapped image after image of the landscape that surrounded us. Amazed by what I saw. It had rained all day until all of the sudden, it turned to snow. And minutes later, a total transformation from all gray to winter white. I don't recall ever seeing anything quite like it. We could have been on the moon for all I knew. It was a long and…
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Edge Magazine - Main feed
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Opinion: Did Double Fine just kill the publisher?
9 Feb 2012 | 6:02 amTim Schafer's studio has raised $400,000 to fund development of a game most publishers would have dismissed out of hand. Where do we go from here, asks Nathan Brown. Tim Schafer's studio Double Fine launched its new project on crowdfunding platform Kickstarter last night. The developer sought $400,000 for a PC point-and-click adventure, a genre in which Schafer and Ron Gilbert cut their teeth and won the hearts of a generation of fans.read more -
Opinion: Bad lines
9 Feb 2012 | 3:09 amClint Hocking explains why we should stop judging game dialogue by the standards of film. Dialogue in games is terrible. I can say this because I have personally written tens of thousands of words of game dialogue. I have, in the past, both championed and condemned game dialogue writing. I have played games with terrible dialogue and games with less terrible dialogue, and have seen games of both sorts win awards for their terrible writing. I, myself, have won awards for writing games accused of having terrible dialogue. If I am not qualified to make the assertion that game dialogue is… -
Resident Evil: Revelations tops Japanese chart
9 Feb 2012 | 3:09 amResident Evil Revelations is the new number one on the Japanese chart, rising one place as last week's number one, Armored Core V, drops to fifth. In between are three new entries: Soul Calibur V at number two, followed by PhotoKano for PSP and Vita title Ragnarok Odyssey. Just sneaking into the chart is Dragon Age II, published in Japan by Spike, at number ten. http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=462383 NeoGaf Resident Evil Revelations is the new number one on the Japanese chart, rising one place as last week's number one, Armored Core V, drops to fifth.read more -
Converse Japan debuts Mario-themed trainers
9 Feb 2012 | 2:38 amThe Super Mario Bros. X Converse One Star Ox shoe (we're not entirely sure why Mario All Star didn't make the cut) comes in white or black and red with a pixelated Mario sprite and inset yellow star. http://sneakernews.com/2012/02/02/super-mario-bros-x-converse-one-star-ox/ Sneaker News Shoe company Converse, famous for its iconic All Star High Top trainer, has collaborated with Nintendo on a Mario-themed sneaker.Converse Japan's Super Mario Bros. X Converse One Star Ox shoe (we're not entirely sure why Mario All Star didn't make the cut) comes in white, or black, and… -
Skyrim modder makes stunning 1000-man battle
9 Feb 2012 | 2:36 amA modder has made a machinima battle scene using more than a thousand characters in The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim. YouTube user Tyrannicon put together the below video, which features 500 Draugr, 200 skeletons, 500 Dwarven Warriors and a dragon, using mods and console commands. A modder has made a stunning machinima battle scene using more than a thousand characters in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.read more
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Gaming articles at Blogcritics
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PC Game Review: The Book of Unwritten Tales
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iOS Review: Age of Monsters
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iOS Review: Squids
6 Feb 2012 | 1:16 pmFling your Squids into an adventure to save the underwater world from corruption. -
PlayStation 3 Review: Final Fantasy XIII-2
3 Feb 2012 | 10:58 amFinal Fantasy XIII-2 is better than the original XIII and probably the mechanically best Final Fantasy yet.
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GamingAngels
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Nintendo hires a ‘spokesdog’
8 Feb 2012 | 2:00 pmWho’s a good spokesanimal? You are, Uggie, you are! Oops, sorry. I got carried away with the adorable puppy. Nintendo’s hired a brand-new “spokesdog,” Uggie, a Jack Russell terrier, to bark the word about Nintendogs + Cats for Nintendo 3DS. He’ll also spread the word about responsible pet/owner relationships during the month, which happens to be Responsible Pet Owners Month (no, I didn’t know it existed, either). “Uggie didn’t have to sit up and beg for his role as Nintendo’s spokesdog,” said Scott Moffitt, Nintendo of America’s executive vice… -
‘Sleeping Dogs’ Brings Cop Drama to Hong Kong
8 Feb 2012 | 12:00 pmSneak in the shadows and stalk potential suspects as Wei Shen, an undercover cop, tries to dismantle a criminal organization—the Hong Kong Triads. Sleeping Dogs offers shoot-outs at every corner of the city adorned in neon lights bordering the streets. Guns aren’t the only method of combat. Get up close and pound enemies with martial arts and objects found in the city. The United Front Games and Square Enix game is an open-world cop drama that will be released later this year for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Windows PC. “Working on Sleeping Dogs has been such a huge passion for the… -
Battleship: The Movie: The Game is an actual thing (though that’s not its name)
8 Feb 2012 | 11:22 amIn this week’s edition of “Oh, hey, I didn’t expect that (even though I should’ve),” we have Battleship, coming from a partnership between Activision and Hasbro. And so a video game based on a movie based on a board game is a thing that is actually happening. Though you shouldn’t try to say that three times fast. …yep. “We’re geared up for an outrageous sea and land conflict with the all new BATTLESHIP videogame,” said David Oxford, Activision Publishing. “Inspired by the film’s exciting action and stunning backdrop, the… -
‘Skylanders’ is going Giant!
8 Feb 2012 | 10:24 amActivision Publishing is taking big to a whole new level. The successful Skylanders Spyro’s Adventure game featuring real life figurines is getting a sequel—Skylanders Giants. Giants will feature eight new collectible figurines that are both grand in size and power. The new toys are more than twice the size of the original figures, and they pack more in-game punch to match. Some of the new toys will also have a light built-in to detect when they are near or on a ‘portal of power’. The game will also feature eight new regular sized Skylanders, each with their own traits and… -
Initial Kingdoms of Amalur thoughts
7 Feb 2012 | 4:07 pmIt's so pretty! Our review on GamingAngels will be coming soon (we bought it today) but I thought it would be interesting to see what people are saying about Kingdoms of Amular online. What do you think about this format? Are you curious about Kingdoms of Amular? Have you played the demo? [View the story "Initial Kingdoms of Amular thoughts" on Storify]
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Gamespot Recent Updates [News]
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Super Meat Boy headed for mobile?
8 Feb 2012 | 1:59 pmTeam Meat is considering re-working indie hit Super Meat Boy for mobile devices; plans are to make "a re-envisioning of SMB made from scratch for touch[screen]". -
Fallout, Gauntlet retrospective at GDC
8 Feb 2012 | 1:23 pmClassic Games Postmortem series returns to the Game Developers Conference in 2012; Alone in the Dark, Fallout, Gauntlet, and Harvest Moon all going under the microscope. -
Big in Japan Jan 30-Feb 5: Resident Evil: Revelations, SoulCalibur V
8 Feb 2012 | 1:05 pmCapcom's 3DS survival horror still clinging on the top alongside SoulCalibur V and Ragnarok Odyssey; PS Vita also hanging onto third place. -
Skyrim PC players average 75 hours of playtime
8 Feb 2012 | 12:11 pmBethesda creative director Todd Howard says PC edition of blockbuster open-ended RPG has sold multiple millions of copies, runs down lengthy list of features that could be coming to The Elder Scrolls V. -
EA CFO resigns
8 Feb 2012 | 10:45 amEric Brown departing publisher for communications techy company Polycom; former McAfee, Logitech IT manager named chief technology officer.
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Hewlett-Packard Press Kits
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HP at National Retail Federation 2012
15 Dec 2012 | 8:45 pmHP introduced retail products at the 2012 National Retail Federation convention, including a self-checkout system, touch-enabled wall displays and barcode scanners. HP offers a broad portfolio of retail-focused products and services that help retailers create a seamless customer experience across multiple store touch points. -
HP DISCOVER Vienna 2011
28 Nov 2011 | 4:00 pmHP extended its Information Optimization portfolio with solutions that help enterprises turn information into insight, intuition and ideas to quickly respond to changing customer or citizen needs. Additionally, HP announced new Cloud Solutions that advance deployment of private, public and hybrid clouds, enabling enterprises, service providers and governments to capitalize on emerging market opportunities. -
HP Latex Leadership Summit
2 Nov 2011 | 3:00 amHP Designjet L28500 and L26500 Printers improve versatility, from soft signage to vehicle wraps. Announced at the HP Latex Leadership Summit, these new printers featuring HP Latex Printing Technology offer double-sided printing, deeper, richer blacks and greater versatility. -
HP Innovations Shape the Future of Extreme Low-Energy Server Technology
1 Nov 2011 | 3:00 amHP today announced a new industry program, discovery lab and a server development platform focused on the advancement of extreme low-energy servers to significantly reduce complexity, energy use and costs. Combined with HP Converged Infrastructure innovations that allow the sharing of technology resources across thousands of servers, the offerings will pave the way to the future of low-energy computing for emerging web, cloud and massive scale environments. -
ColorLok Technology
31 Oct 2011 | 5:45 amColorLok® paper simply makes your work look better. With ColorLok paper, all you see is your ideas coming to life with vibrant, smudge-resistant inkjet printing and high-quality laser printing and copying. From home offices to multi-national enterprises, ColorLok paper delivers an outstanding office printing experience. That's why HP recommends ColorLok papers for best printing results.
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HP Labs Technical Reports
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Enabling Data Sharing in the Cloud
7 Feb 2012 | 10:10 amHPL-2012-22 Enabling Data Sharing in the Cloud - Casassa Mont, Marco; Matteucci, Ilaria; Petrocchi, Marinella; Sbodio, Marco Luca Keyword(s): Data Sharing; Data Sharing Agreements; Cloud; Dynamic Consent; EnCoRe; Privacy; Security Abstract: Web interactions usually require the exchange of personal and confidential information for a variety of purposes, including enabling business transactions and the provisioning of services. A key issue affecting these interactions is the lack of trust and control on how data is going to be used and p ... Full Report -
Similarity Pyramid: Browsing a Document Database with
7 Feb 2012 | 10:10 amHPL-2012-21 Similarity Pyramid: Browsing a Document Database with - Ahmadullin, ildus; Allebach, Jan Keyword(s): Document database management; document visual similarity; similarity pyramid; Isomap Abstract: Managing large document databases has become an important task. Sorting documents with respect to their visual similarity and layout features, and visualization of the whole document database is a desirable application. A user may wish to search for documents in a database that are similar to a quer ... Full Report -
Planarization coating for polyimide substrates used in roll-to-roll fabrication of active matrix backplanes for flexible displays
7 Feb 2012 | 10:10 amHPL-2012-23 Planarization coating for polyimide substrates used in roll-to-roll fabrication of active matrix backplanes for flexible displays - Almanza-Workman, Marcia; Jeans, Albert; Braymen, Steve; Elder, Richard E.; Garcia, Robert A.; de la Fuente Vornbrock, Alejandro; Hauschildt, Jason; Holland, Edward; Jackson, Warren; Jam, Mehrban; Jeffrey, Frank; Junge, Kelly; Kim, Han-Jun; Kwon, Ohseung; Larson, Dan; Maltabes, John; Mei, Ping; Perlov, Craig; Smith, Mark; Stieler, Dan; Taussig, Carl P.; Trovinger, Steven; Zhao, Lihua Keyword(s): Planarization coating; plastic substrate; self-align… -
Text Documents as Social Networks
7 Feb 2012 | 10:10 amHPL-2012-27 Text Documents as Social Networks - Balinsky, Helen; Balinsky, Alexander; Simske, Steven J.; Keyword(s): Small world network; unusual behavior detection; Helmholtz principle; social networks; keyword extraction; data mining Abstract: Good surface quality of plastic substrates is essential to reduce pixel defects during roll-to-roll fabrication of flexible display active matrix backplanes. Standard polyimide substrates have high density of ?bumps? from fillers and belt marks and other defects from dust and surface scratching. Som ... Full Report -
Feature Selection "Tomography" - Illustrating that Optimal Feature Filtering is Hopelessly Ungeneralizable
7 Feb 2012 | 10:10 amHPL-2010-19R1 Feature Selection "Tomography" - Illustrating that Optimal Feature Filtering is Hopelessly Ungeneralizable - Forman, George Keyword(s): Feature selection; text categorization; visualization; machine learning classification; Abstract: Feature filtering methods are often used in text classification and other high-dimensional domains to quickly score each feature independently and pass only the best to the learning algorithm. The panoply of available methods grows over the years, with frequent research publications touting new func ... Full Report
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Dell Coupons and/or Deals
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All about Linux
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Samsung Planning To Merge Bada OS With Tizen
16 Jan 2012 | 3:15 amSamsung will be merging their homegrown Bada OS for smart phones with Tizen. No time frame has been set for the merger however, it is expected that Samsung will be releasing at least two new smart phones this year(2012) itself running on the Tizen platform. Read more » For more news, tips, and reviews on all things Linux, Open source and Free software, visit Linux Help blog. -
PC-BSD 9.0 - Isotope Edition - Released
15 Jan 2012 | 3:48 amPC-BSD 9.0 (Isotope edition) has been released. PC-BSD is a FreeBSD variant operating system that is targeted specifically at desktop users / end users. One of the uniqueness of PC-BSD is its PBIs or Push Button Installers that allow you to install and uninstall applications just like you are used to in Windows. Read more » For more news, tips, and reviews on all things Linux, Open source and Free software, visit Linux Help blog. -
FreeBSD 9.0 Released
14 Jan 2012 | 7:27 amFreeBSD engineering team has released FreeBSD ver 9.0. This is the first release from the stable/9 branch, which improves on stable/8 and adds many new features. Read more » For more news, tips, and reviews on all things Linux, Open source and Free software, visit Linux Help blog. -
GIMP 2.7.4 Released As a Precursor To Stable 2.8
14 Dec 2011 | 6:04 pmA new version of GIMP - the free graphics suite par excellence - has been released. GIMP ver 2.7.4 , which is termed as an unstable release leading to a stable version 2.8 sometime in January next year, brings a lot of new features. Read more » For more news, tips, and reviews on all things Linux, Open source and Free software, visit Linux Help blog. -
HP Contributes webOS to the Open Source Community
13 Dec 2011 | 4:08 amHP has contributed webOS to the open source community. webOS is a mobile OS originally created by Palm. It uses HTML, CSS, and JavaScript heavily in the application layer of the stack. This is an obvious advantage for developers as applications can be easily built using standard web technologies. And webOS is based on Linux. Read more » For more news, tips, and reviews on all things Linux, Open source and Free software, visit Linux Help blog.
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Nintendo.com – News and Updates
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"I Heart Club Nintendo" Contest Now Live on Facebook
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Canine Superstar Uggie Lands Epic Role as Nintendo's First-Ever ''Spokesdog''
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Nintendo Zone Adds Pokémon Episodes and Game Demos
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Nintendo Download Highlights New Digital Content for Nintendo Systems for Feb. 2, 2012
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New Games and Rewards Available on Club Nintendo- FOR LIMITED TIME ONLY
31 Jan 2012 | 4:00 pmOffer ends 2/29
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Ruby Inside
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This Week in Ruby: Rails 3.2, Rails Tutorial, and Why You Should Learn Smalltalk
27 Jan 2012 | 5:35 pmIt's the latest Web-based syndication of Ruby Weekly, the weekly Ruby and Rails e-mail newsletter (which just tipped 11K subscribers). Ruby Weekly now has a 'tips' page where you can submit links for potential inclusion so if you're releasing something or have written a cool post, fill out the form and you may be in Ruby Weekly next week :-) Headlines Rails 3.2 Released DHH has unveiled Rails 3.2! Not quite as big a deal as 3.1 but has a faster development mode, faster route recognition, a tagged logger, and more. With Rails master now aiming at 4.0.0, it seems 3.2 may be the last version of… -
This Week in Ruby: Nominate Your Ruby Heroes, Include/Extend, Ruby on Netbeans, Jekyll-Bootstrap, and more
20 Jan 2012 | 8:32 amWelcome to this week's Web-based syndication of Ruby Weekly, my Ruby e-mail newsletter. Headlines Vote for your 'Ruby Hero' in the Ruby Hero Awards The Ruby Heroes awards run each year and present 6 community nominated 'heroes' with an award at RailsConf. Nominations are now open so go and drop your nomination for the Rubyist whose code has brightened up your life the most in the past year. Heroku Receives InfoWorld's Technology of the Year Award Sorry it's just a press release but it's great to see a company that came up from the Ruby world continue to do well. Congrats to the Heroku team. -
The Last Week in Ruby: RSpec 2.8, Redcar 0.12, Torquebox 2.0 beta, articles and more
16 Jan 2012 | 3:36 amWelcome to this week's Web-based syndication of Ruby Weekly, the Ruby e-mail newsletter. While I have you, be sure to follow @RubyInside on Twitter as I'm going to be posting news more frequently there than on the Web site in future. Follow @RubyInside Also, if you're interested in getting one interesting programming related quote or link each day on Twitter, check out @codewisdom. Follow @CodeWisdom Headlines RSpec 2.8: The Popular Ruby BDD Tool Goes Supersonic RSpec 2.8 and rspec-rails 2.8.1 have been released and some users have been reporting significant performance improvements. Other… -
RSpec 2.8: The Popular Ruby BDD Tool Goes Supersonic
7 Jan 2012 | 5:53 amRSpec 2.8 has been released, along with rspec-rails 2.8.1 for the full Rails 3.x integration experience. RSpec is a BDD-focused testing tool that's particularly popular in the Rails world where everyone except DHH is using it (if you believe the hoopla). RSpec has faced accusations of being less than speedy in the past, but it seems 2.8 has had a performance firework shoved up its tailpipe: David Chelimsky, the creator of RSpec, also notes that in RSpec 2.8: the documentation has been significantly improved there's improved support for tags and filtering random example running order support… -
The Past 2 Weeks in the World of Ruby: 40 Links to Bring You Up to Speed (January 2012)
6 Jan 2012 | 7:03 amRuby Weekly has just tipped over 10,000 subscribers but I know not everyone is into getting their news via e-mail, so here's the latest frequent roundup of the latest Ruby and Rails news for you, all on the Web :-) Key News, Releases, and Headlines Hungry Academy Application Process Closes This Weekend LivingSocial's 'Hungry Academy' will provide a paid, on-site 5 month Ruby and Rails learning experience and mentorship program to a small group of lucky applicants. Interested? You've only got a few days left to apply. DOS Attack Vulnerability Found in Ruby 1.8's Hash Algorithm Ruby 1.8.7-p352…
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Latest Adobe News
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How to Apply a Duotone Effect to Vector Artwork Using Adobe Illustrator and Phantasm CS
9 Feb 2012 | 6:39 amWith the help of Phantasm CS, you can apply a Duotone Effect or Filter to both vector artwork and embedded images directly in Adobe Illustrator. It is the equivalent function of Photoshop’s Duotone tool, even with the ability to directly exchange settings. We will look how to apply this effect to your vector artwork in [...] -
It's time for a unified ebook format and the end of DRM
9 Feb 2012 | 6:39 amThe music industry has shown that you need to offer consumers a universal format and content without rights restrictions. So when will publishers pay attention? -
Now available: Best of TOC 2012 anthology
9 Feb 2012 | 6:39 am"Best of TOC 2012" explores the ideas that are shaping the content world, including: the adaptation of publishing, digital's legal issues, new tech and tools, and thoughts from the edge of publishing. -
HTML5 Mobile Web Site Development Resources
9 Feb 2012 | 6:34 amLike most developers I’m constantly reading and learning to keep up with the latest trends and technology. A lot of my energy over the past 12-18 months has been on HTML5 and more recently HTML5 mobile websites and apps. There is a ton of great information available on the web but unfortunately there is also [...] -
Conferencer & conferencer
9 Feb 2012 | 6:27 amIf you’re interested in hearing about the latest Away3D releases, sites, collaborations, experiments and updates, then check out the conferences below for when i will next be presenting a session. The talk is called “Getting some perspective: Away3D 4.0 & friends” and is a loose collection of all of the above plus a few observations [...]
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Google Code Blog
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Google Summer of Code 2012 is on!
4 Feb 2012 | 12:08 pmBy Carol Smith, Open Source Team Cross-posted with the Google Open Source Blog Today at FOSDEM I was proud to announce Google Summer of Code 2012. This will be the 8th year for Google Summer of Code, an innovative program dedicated to introducing students from colleges and universities around the world to open source software development. The program offers student developers stipends to write code for various open source projects with the help of mentoring organizations from all around the globe. Over the past seven years Google Summer of Code has had 6,000 students from over 90 countries… -
Fridaygram: science education, simulating galaxies, spider webs
3 Feb 2012 | 12:11 pmBy Scott Knaster, Google Code Blog Editor Most software developers started getting interested in technology at an early age. With that in mind, Google Roots in Science and Engineering (RISE) is a program that annually awards grants to groups that come up with great new ways to teach students in Computer Science (CS) and science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). This year’s awards were just announced. The winners included a program that helps primary school students in Dublin, girls in the San Francisco Bay Area, and kids in Uganda who want to learn about technology. Scientists love… -
Angry Birds Chrome now uses the Web Audio API
31 Jan 2012 | 2:16 pmBy Fred Sauer, Developer Advocate Cross-posted with the Google Web Toolkit Blog Last week Angry Birds for Chrome was updated to use the Web Audio API for all its in-game audio for Chrome users, which means Chrome users get the full Angry Birds experience, without any plugins. The Web Audio API supports a wide variety of use cases, including the high fidelity and low latency requirements of games. Users of other supported browsers will still get sound via Flash or HTML5 audio. How does this cross-browser audio magic work? As you may have seen or heard, Angry Birds was in no small part made… -
Translating JavaScript to Dart
30 Jan 2012 | 12:00 pmMarcin Aaron By Aaron Wheeler, Senior User Experience Prototyper, and Marcin Wichary, Senior User Experience Designer Cross-posted with the Chromium Blog It took approximately 2000 years for the original Rosetta Stone to be discovered, which helped translate the Egyptian Hieroglyphs. We couldn’t wait that long to bridge the Dart and JavaScript worlds, so today we are releasing the JavaScript to Dart Synonym app. Like most web developers, we are familiar, comfortable, and productive with JavaScript. We were curious about Dart, and thanks to a recent Dart hackathon, we had the chance to play… -
g|saudi arabia 2.0 is back
29 Jan 2012 | 10:31 amBy Rania Hadi, MENA Outreach Manager View this post in Arabic Building on a year packed with g|days throughout the Middle East and North Africa, today we are announcing Google MENA’s first 2012 event to kick off the new year. On March 24-25, Google, in collaboration with Badir Technology Incubator, will be hosting our second event in the Kingdom: g|saudi arabia 2.0. We’re coming to Jeddah with a host of fresh sessions on all things technology and business. Google engineers, product managers, and business leaders will be there to not only deliver trainings but will be available for any…
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The Programmer's Paradox
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The First Principle of Software
27 Jan 2012 | 3:03 pmThe very worst thing that any computer can do is lie to you. You have to be able to trust it when it says it will accomplish some work on your behalf. If it tells you one thing, then goes off and does something completely different -- causing a huge mess -- you have the right to be mad. If it shows you deliberately incorrect or misnamed data then you should be pissed. Except during hardware -
An Informal Ramble
22 Dec 2011 | 1:41 pm[ Author’s Note: I really don’t know what to say. It was just one of those days. If you don’t feel like reading a broad rambling on loosely connected ideas, please don’t read this! ]A good place to start -- as always -- is with a few definitions. For this particular discussion it works better if I create them loosely and use somewhat non-conventional meanings. I’ll try to explain why that -
The Engineering of Software
19 Dec 2011 | 2:50 pmThe last thing I ever wanted to be -- twenty-six years ago -- was an engineer. When I started university I had heard that 70% of all engineers hate their jobs and that they were often bored at work. Boredom sounded horrible. What I wanted, was to master the black art of coding. To follow in the foot steps of those early magicians I had seen in the computer magazines. The ones that crafted -
Getting to the Truth
10 Dec 2011 | 5:02 pmOne of the most enjoyable things about building software is that it requires the developers to dig around in other domains. If you’re writing financial software, you need to know how the industry works, understand the terminology, and all of the complex details underneath. If you build something for the printing industry, you need to grok their equipment and business models. Everything you -
Problems and Solutions
30 Nov 2011 | 10:51 amThe world is littered with a growing number of problems. Some of these problems are solvable by using a computer, some not. To solve a problem with a computer all it takes is to design and construct a software solution, then get people to use it. Easy?Solving a problem with software is not nearly as simple as it looks. Many more solutions fail then succeed. The stats are ugly: 66% of all
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The Official Google Blog
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Going gothic with bestselling author Anne Rice
8 Feb 2012 | 9:00 amBestselling Southern American author Anne Rice is coming to Google headquarters to discuss her latest book, The Wolf Gift, on Friday, February 24 at 10am PT. One of the most popular authors of contemporary fiction, Rice has bewitched readers with her vampire chronicles, tales of the Mayfair Witches and other metaphysical gothic fiction for more than thirty years. Submit your question online between now and Feb 23 at midnight PT, and it could be asked during the Interview with the Vampire—we mean, the interview with Anne Rice. To watch the live broadcast, tune in to the Authors@Google… -
Introducing Chrome for Android
7 Feb 2012 | 9:40 amIn 2008, we launched Google Chrome to help make the web better. We’re excited that millions of people around the world use Chrome as their primary browser and we want to keep improving that experience. Today, we're introducing Chrome for Android Beta, which brings many of the things you’ve come to love about Chrome to your Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich phone or tablet. Like the desktop version, Chrome for Android Beta is focused on speed and simplicity, but it also features seamless sign-in and sync so you can take your personalized web browsing experience with you wherever you go,… -
What’s your X? Amplifying technology moonshots
6 Feb 2012 | 6:10 pmLast week, we ran an experiment. We hosted a gathering, called “Solve for X,” for experienced entrepreneurs, innovators and scientists from around the world. The event focused on proposing and discussing technological solutions to some of the world’s greatest problems. Discussions began last week with this small event, and now we invite others to join the conversation on our website and our Google +page. The Solve for X gathering, which we co-hosted with Eric Schmidt, is a place to celebrate a concept we champion internally and that we believe will inspire many others: technology… -
Supporting U.S. student veterans with a new scholarship
6 Feb 2012 | 3:03 pmThe newest addition to the Google scholarships family is the Google Student Veterans of America (SVA) Scholarship. We’re partnering with the nonprofit Student Veterans of America (SVA) to support their mission of providing veterans with the resources, support and advocacy they need to succeed in higher education and throughout their careers. The Google SVA Scholarship is available to student veterans who are pursuing degrees in computer science and related fields in the U.S. for the 2012-2013 academic year. In addition to the financial award, recipients will be invited to attend the annual… -
Super Bowl XLVI: Mobile, Manning and Madonna
6 Feb 2012 | 6:35 amNow that the final Super Bowl touchdown has been scored, the dip bowl wiped clean and the last of the chicken wings devoured, we’re taking a look at some game-day search trends to see what football fans were searching for this year. As the Giants and Patriots battled it out on the field yesterday, U.S. viewers multi-tasked, watching the game on television and also going online more than ever before, turning to their smartphones and tablets to look up players, halftime show performers and their favorite Super Bowl commercials. In fact, around 41% of searches related to [Super Bowl ads] that…
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News announcements
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Google appoints Diane B. Greene to its Board of Directors
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Google, Citi, MasterCard, First Data and Sprint Team up to Make Your Phone Your Wallet
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Google Announces First Quarter 2011 Results*
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Google to Announce First Quarter 2011 Financial Results*
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Google Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2010 Results and Management Changes*
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Facebook Blog
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Introducing New Apps for Timeline
18 Jan 2012 | 5:26 pmNew timeline apps are now available from Foodspotting, Foodily, Ticketmaster, Pinterest, Rotten Tomatoes, Pose, Kobo, Gogobot, TripAdvisor, and others. You can now enhance your timeline with apps that help you tell your story, whether you love to cook, eat, travel, run, or review movies.Apps bring your timeline to lifeOnce you've added an app, you can begin updating your timeline with your activities as they happen. For example, if you love design, shopping or fashion, you can add the Pinterest or Pose apps to make your favorite items part of your timeline.If you love to cook, you can add… -
Listen to Music With Your Friends
12 Jan 2012 | 10:00 amMusic is one of the most powerful and fun ways to connect. Whether it's at a concert with a bunch of people or on a long car ride with your best buddy, we love listening to music with our friends. But what if you could listen to music with your friends when you're alone, like at work, at home or on the go?Today, with music services on Facebook, there's a new way to listen with friends. This feature lets you listen along with any of your friends who are currently listening to music. You can also listen together in a group while one of your friends plays DJ. You can listen to the same song,… -
Timeline: Now Available on Mobile
15 Dec 2011 | 10:00 amUPDATE on Sunday, December 18th 2011: We're excited to announce that timeline is now available on Facebook for iOS version 4.1, for iPhone and iPod Touch devices.Originally Published on Thursday, December 15, 2011: Timeline gives you an easy way to see the things you've shared, and collect all your best moments in a single place. In addition to making timeline available on the web, today we're also launching timeline on Android and m.facebook.com.Mobile timeline starts with your unique cover photo. As you scroll down, you'll see your posts, photos and life events as they happened, back to the… -
Timeline: Now Available Worldwide
15 Dec 2011 | 4:30 amUPDATE on Tuesday, January 24th, 2012: Last year we introduced timeline, a new kind of profile that lets you highlight the photos, posts and life events that help you tell your story. Over the next few weeks, everyone will get timeline. When you get timeline, you'll have 7 days to preview what's there now. This gives you a chance to add or hide whatever you want before anyone else sees it. You can learn more about these new features by taking the quick tour available at the top of your timeline. If you want to get timeline now, go to the Introducing Timeline page and click "Get… -
A Faster Facebook for Android
7 Dec 2011 | 11:30 amToday we're launching an updated Facebook app for Android. It's now quicker and easier to view photos, get messages and navigate around the app.Photos get betterPhotos and albums are up to two times faster than the previous Android app. It's also easier to share photos, view comments and edit captions on the go.View photos with tags, comments and likes Messages on top Your messages and notifications are now at the top of your screen. You can respond to friends and stay updated without leaving the page you're on.Get notifications and messages at the top of every screenMenu on the side You can…
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Twitter Blog
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Post-Bowl Twitter analysis
6 Feb 2012 | 1:06 pmThe results are in: People love to share the experience of watching the Super Bowl with millions of other viewers from around the world. Whether it’s cheering for your team, commenting on the halftime show or discussing the ads, it seems you have a lot to say about this annual tradition—and you’re using Twitter to say it.Here’s a fun fact: in 2008, Twitter’s largest spike in Tweets per second (TPS) during the Super Bowl was just 27. Three years later, fans sent 4,064 TPS, which was the highest TPS for any sporting event at that time.This year, the TPS peak was 12,233 Tweets. The… -
Roar of the crowd: Super Bowl on Twitter
2 Feb 2012 | 11:34 amFrom @TimTebow leading the Denver Broncos to a shocking overtime win (and a new record for sports-related Tweets per second: 9,420) to San Diego Chargers receiver @ericweddle1’s sideline Tweets from the Pro Bowl—we watched all of the NFL post-season’s most memorable moments come alive on Twitter.And while the @Giants and @Patriots’ rematch and halftime show play out on TV, the national conversation is happening well beyond your den: it also happens on Twitter. Follow your favorite NFL players, coaches and commentators during the game, or just search for #SuperBowl to see how everyone… -
Tweets still must flow
26 Jan 2012 | 11:25 amSee below for an update.One year ago, we posted "The Tweets Must Flow," in which we said,“The open exchange of information can have a positive global impact … almost every country in the world agrees that freedom of expression is a human right. Many countries also agree that freedom of expression carries with it responsibilities and has limits.”As we continue to grow internationally, we will enter countries that have different ideas about the contours of freedom of expression. Some differ so much from our ideas that we will not be able to exist there. Others are similar but, for… -
Hack Week @ Twitter
25 Jan 2012 | 12:20 pmHack Week is one of the ways we actively promote innovation through experimentation around the company. This week, a wide range of folks here are taking time away from their day-to-day work to collaborate and develop ideas that they are passionate about. Get comfortable with uncertainty; it leaves room for inspiration. #hackweek— benji shine (@bshine) January 24, 2012Employees across the company have formed nearly 100 teams to work on a variety of projects. Some are developing ways that could make Twitter even easier to use; others are testing out a new feature or tool that people might… -
Twitter Translation Center adds Right-to-Left Languages
25 Jan 2012 | 7:00 amBeginning today, right-to-left languages are now available for volunteers to translate in the Twitter Translation Center, starting with Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew and Urdu. The Twitter Translation Center takes a crowd-sourced approach to translating and localizing Twitter for people around the world. More than 425,000 volunteers contribute to the Translation Center, and to date have helped make Twitter available in 22 languages. With their help, these will be the next four.As we prepare to add Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew and Urdu to Twitter, we’ve developed new ways to ensure that Tweets and hashtags…
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Microsoft PressPass, Information for Journalists - Press Releases
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Microsoft Appoints Laura Ipsen as Corporate Vice President of Worldwide Public Sector
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Microsoft Employees Raise Record-Breaking $100 Million for Nonprofits in 2011
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AARP and Microsoft Release New Study on How Online Communication Connects Generations
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Microsoft and 24/7 Inc. Join Forces to Deliver the Future of Customer Service for Large Businesses
7 Feb 2012 | 6:00 amMicrosoft and 24/7 Inc. announce agreement to combine the power of “Big Data” and natural user interfaces into a new enterprise cloud platform for customer service. -
Microsoft Unveils Microsoft Dynamics CRM Mobile
6 Feb 2012 | 6:00 amNext Microsoft Dynamics CRM service update will include a new, cloud-based, cross-platform, native mobile application.
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Techwatch: Tech News
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Xbox 720: The pre-owned games debate
9 Feb 2012 | 2:20 amWe’ve heard plenty about the next Xbox, which many are calling the Xbox 720 for the time being. The console, which should be out in the autumn of 2013, is alleged to have six times the graphical firepower of the … Continue reading → -
PC sales down 20% in the UK
9 Feb 2012 | 1:10 amThe UK market for PCs is looking decidedly rocky according to the latest figures from Gartner. The research firm, which doesn’t include media tablets in its PC stats as do some rivals, estimated a year-on-year decline of 19.6% in overall … Continue reading → -
Chrome for Android: The reaction
9 Feb 2012 | 12:36 amYou’re unlikely to have missed the fact that this week, Google has pushed out a beta of the Chrome for Android browser. This means that Android tablet and smartphone users can be officially Chromed up for surfing the mobile web, … Continue reading → -
Apple TV to snare 5% of HDTV market?
8 Feb 2012 | 3:14 amAt the end of last year, we heard a lot of rumours about Apple’s supposedly upcoming TV set offering (the iTV, as it has been referred to in the past). Speculation indicated that the HDTV will come in three sizes, … Continue reading → -
Samsung Galaxy S III: Thinnest phone yet?
8 Feb 2012 | 12:50 amThere’s been another rush of rumours about Samsung’s next-generation Galaxy S. One piece of speculation, derived from OLED-Display.net, claims that the handset will be the thinnest phone ever at just 7mm thick. Apparently the firm has managed to find a … Continue reading →
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The Big Blog
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Skype for Symbian supporting the Symbian Belle OS
3 Feb 2012 | 7:25 amSkype is pleased to announce that Skype for Symbian now supports Nokia's Symbian Belle OS. Symbian Belle was announced by Nokia in August 2011 and offers a significantly enhanced user experience on the Nokia 603, Nokia 700 and Nokia 701. A new user interface, virtual QWERTY keypad in portrait mode, split-screen messaging, enhanced Nokia Maps, better web browsing and stronger security are just a few of the improvements that people will be able to enjoy. Skype for Symbian is available for download from the Nokia Ovi store, alternatively, you can visit Skype for Symbian on Skype.com. -
Share your photos and presentations with friends and colleagues with Group Screen Sharing
2 Feb 2012 | 7:11 amWe're releasing an updated version of Skype for Windows (version 5.8) today with a few improvements we want to tell you about. Download the latest version of Skype for Windows and start Group Screen Sharing. Share photos with a group of friends and family or share your screen to display a presentation with up to 10 people. Group Screen Sharing is available with Skype Premium, which also includes Group video calling and live chat customer support. Skype for Windows users can stay better connected with the ability to check their Facebook Newsfeeds, instant messages and video call their Facebook… -
Get even more from Skype ... with #SkypeTips
17 Jan 2012 | 2:09 pmAt Skype, we're all about sharing and making it easy for you to connect with your friends and family using free Skype video calls. We want to make Skype even easier to use, so we've set up a Twitter hashtag - #SkypeTips - so you can follow and see some of our top tips for video calls, international calling, instant messaging, and more. Just follow us on Twitter at @Skype, or if you have a help request to troubleshoot specific account issues, you can send a message over Twitter to @SkypeSupport. Here's a sampling of some of our Skype tips: - Taking off to another country? Use a flag emoticon… -
Congrats to the Best of CES!
12 Jan 2012 | 9:40 pmCES is winding down and thousands of people are leaving Las Vegas with the hottest new technologies top of mind. Hundreds of new tech products were announced this week, we wanted to give a big congratulations to the Sony and Qik teams for launching a stand-out product, the Sony Bloggie Live™ HD camera with embedded Qik™ video from Skype. In fact, we're very excited to share with you that the Sony Bloggie Live™ HD camera was awarded a Best of CES 2012 Award from Laptop Magazine and joins the ranks of other innovative technologies such as the Mercedes Dynamic and Intuitive Control… -
International Skype-to-Skype calling continues to accelerate in 2011
9 Jan 2012 | 7:16 pmNew estimates from telecom market research firm TeleGeography show that while international PSTN call traffic growth is slowing, increasing only 4% in 2011, international conversations by Skype users continued to accelerate. International Skype-to-Skype call minutes increased 48% last year to approximately 145 billion minutes - an increase of 47 billion minutes in 2011 alone. International Skype-to-Skype call volumes are now equivalent to just over 33% of the 438 billion minutes of international PSTN call traffic seen in 2011.* Similarly, Skype-to-Skype calls comprised nearly 25% of 2011's…
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Yodel Anecdotal
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Life at Yahoo!- Keevie Silvay
8 Feb 2012 | 10:29 amSales Director Keevie Silvay’s career has included stints at startups and big companies alike, but it was only when she joined Yahoo! in 2004 did she realize that she could have the best of both worlds. “[Yahoo] is a huge platform with millions and millions of users, but at the same time, it’s always at the leading edge of what’s going on in the industry. “ Keevie says. Keevie and her team handle advertising giants like Proctor & Gamble, General Mills and Kraft and compares finding the best ways to provide them with the ultimate Yahoo! experience to getting a digital MBA. -
Product Pulse- February 7th, 2012
7 Feb 2012 | 1:19 pmYahoo! is kicking off the new year with a slew of new and exciting features and product updates – from Shine’s user-tested guides to the best product finds, to the newest way to enjoy IntoNow. Stay tuned each month as we continue to keep you posted on the latest product news. The Power of Yahoo! Finance for IntoNow Business and economic news fans – this may be for you! This month Yahoo! launched a new feature in IntoNow that makes it simple for you to see news stories related to the companies being discussed on various business television programs and uses the power of Yahoo! Finance to… -
Yahoo! Alliance Boosts ABC News Digital to Record Online Numbers
7 Feb 2012 | 11:31 amThe October announcement of the Yahoo! and ABC News partnership has proven to be a valuable alliance for ABC News Digital, resulting in the most trafficked month in history for their platforms in the month of January with over 414 million page views. ABC News Digital platforms including ABCNews.com, OTUSNews.com, Goodmorningamerica.com on Yahoo! and ABC News articles on Yahoo! News saw an online traffic boost of 165 percent and digital video streams of 100 million – an increase of 179 percent – since the Yahoo! News/ABC News alliance. GoodMorningAmerica.com on Yahoo! is consistently… -
Y! Sports Blogger Predicts Patriots Will Win Super Bowl XLVI Rematch
3 Feb 2012 | 3:44 pmThe big game is almost here, and Yahoo! Sports takes it seriously. Check out “Yahoo! Brings the Super Bowl to You” for details about all the special coverage Y! is planning around the big day. If online searches are any indication of who will win this year’s game, the New England Patriots would come out on top – this year they had 50% more Yahoo! searches than the New York Giants. Still, the Patriots are in for a real fight when they take on the Giants in Super Bowl XLVI. The Patriots’ pass defense isn’t what it was four year ago when these two franchises tussled in Super… -
Ad of the Week: Gatorade on Yahoo! Sports
3 Feb 2012 | 1:35 pmQuench your thirst for rich media with Gatorade’s muscular custom pushdown video and wallpaper on the Sports front page To promote its G series of energy drinks, Gatorade kicked off its Win from Within campaign in G-force style with a rich media custom (sporting) event front and center on Yahoo! Sports. This ad is a triathlon of rich media athleticism: Wallpaper featuring opposing football players leaning into the 950 x 60 banner along the top while a 300 x 250 screen on the right shows one of several brief montages and taglines that Gatorade suited up for this campaign. If you accept…
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The Official Smarthome Blog - All Things Home Automation
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Power Up to 12 Plug-In Devices from a Single Outlet
9 Feb 2012 | 5:00 amAllows for 12 Grounded Outlets Right Angle Grounded Plug On / Off Switch with 15Amp Breaker Excellent for Rack and Cabinet use Heavy Duty Metal Housing Use one outlet to power up to 12 devices at once with the AVB Cable 12 Outlet Power Stip. This heavy-duty metal power strip features 12 wide-spaced transformer outlets. Its 14-gauge, 3-prong power cord has a right angle grounded plug designed for tight spaces, making it ideal for any workspace. A lighted on/off switch with a 15Amp breaker allows you to cut off all power to the outlets without unplugging. Easily mount the power strip to a wall… -
Attractive and Energy Efficient Alternative to Bulky USB Adapters
8 Feb 2012 | 5:00 pmThe CurrentWerks USB Outlet Duo 2 features two powerful in-wall USB charging ports delivering 16 Watts of output power from a standard 110V wall outlet. The Duo’s advanced power management design gives the consumer a total of four charging solutions, two USB charging ports and two standard US/CAN sockets from a single wall outlet. This makes the Duo the second most powerful in-wall charging solution available in the market today, surpassed only by the CurrentWerks Quattro. No more carrying around bulky USB adapters or powering up a computer to charge cell phones, music players, PDAs, or… -
Get Your kids the paperless alternative to notepads, sticky notes and memo pads
8 Feb 2012 | 3:00 pmJoin the Green movement by lowering dependence on paper with the Boogie Board 8.5 LCD Writing Tablet from Improv Electronics. Using just one of these tablets can save as much as 50,000 pieces of paper because it cuts out the need for sticky notes, memo pads, scrap paper, etc. Think about all the grocery lists thrown in the trash after being used and the to-do lists with a few chores on them that are crumpled up and thrown out afterwards. With this LCD Writing Tablet write out a grocery list and afterwards simply erase it from the board with the push of a button so it can be used for another… -
Set the Perfect Mood for Valentines Day
8 Feb 2012 | 12:00 pmWith Valentine’s Day less then a week away, make sure you’re home is ready for this special occasion. Nothing makes Valentine’s more special then the small touches of mood lighting. So set the mood for Valentine’s Day or any other special event with INSTEON-compatible lighting control. Using your home’s existing wiring, these products connect in seconds for whole-house mood lighting at the press of a button. The good thing about these ideas is that the products can be used after Valentine’s is over. With multiple uses for the products you can save money… -
4 Port Switch is the Perfect Solution for High- End Home Theater Setups
8 Feb 2012 | 11:00 amThis high performance HDMI switcher by Hall Research is capable of switching and boosting 4 independent HDMI audio/video sources to one output. Since HDMI digital signals have cable distance limitations, this switcher is equipped with a signal booster and equalizes the inputs for losses in the cable up to 65 feet. This HDMI switch is 3D HDMI ready, can support HDMI 1.3, HDCP 1.1, and DVI 1.0 and 30/36 bit color depth. This unit is equipped with front panel LED indicators for status monitoring. You are able to change which input you would like to use by either pushing the selection button on…
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The Official Smarthome Blog - All Things Home Automation » New Products
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Attractive and Energy Efficient Alternative to Bulky USB Adapters
8 Feb 2012 | 5:00 pmThe CurrentWerks USB Outlet Duo 2 features two powerful in-wall USB charging ports delivering 16 Watts of output power from a standard 110V wall outlet. The Duo’s advanced power management design gives the consumer a total of four charging solutions, two USB charging ports and two standard US/CAN sockets from a single wall outlet. This makes the Duo the second most powerful in-wall charging solution available in the market today, surpassed only by the CurrentWerks Quattro. No more carrying around bulky USB adapters or powering up a computer to charge cell phones, music players, PDAs, or… -
Get Your kids the paperless alternative to notepads, sticky notes and memo pads
8 Feb 2012 | 3:00 pmJoin the Green movement by lowering dependence on paper with the Boogie Board 8.5 LCD Writing Tablet from Improv Electronics. Using just one of these tablets can save as much as 50,000 pieces of paper because it cuts out the need for sticky notes, memo pads, scrap paper, etc. Think about all the grocery lists thrown in the trash after being used and the to-do lists with a few chores on them that are crumpled up and thrown out afterwards. With this LCD Writing Tablet write out a grocery list and afterwards simply erase it from the board with the push of a button so it can be used for another… -
4 Port Switch is the Perfect Solution for High- End Home Theater Setups
8 Feb 2012 | 11:00 amThis high performance HDMI switcher by Hall Research is capable of switching and boosting 4 independent HDMI audio/video sources to one output. Since HDMI digital signals have cable distance limitations, this switcher is equipped with a signal booster and equalizes the inputs for losses in the cable up to 65 feet. This HDMI switch is 3D HDMI ready, can support HDMI 1.3, HDCP 1.1, and DVI 1.0 and 30/36 bit color depth. This unit is equipped with front panel LED indicators for status monitoring. You are able to change which input you would like to use by either pushing the selection button on… -
Solar Powered Spot Light Designed to Look Like a Real Rock
8 Feb 2012 | 8:00 amTricod Inc’s rock-themed Solar Stone Spot Light seamlessly integrates into a yard to blend into its surroundings by day and then provide light where ever needed come nightfall. Designed to look like a common stone, this spot light will be unnoticeable while not in use and give the appearance of just another rock. The Stone Spot Light can be easily moved and used where desired because it is wire-free with the only catch being that it needs to be left in the sun during the day so that it can charge. When fully charged it will provide as much as 10 hours of lighting time. A photocell… -
This Spinning Top is Floating in Mid-Air!
8 Feb 2012 | 5:00 amMesmerize your guests by suspending a spinning top in mid-air through the wonder of physics. Balancing the universe’s two strongest forces – gravity to pull down the magnet and magnetism to push it up – the Levitron OMEGA is composed of a base and floating top with adjustable weights. All you have to do is place the top above the base at the right point for it to begin hovering in mid-air and start amazing all onlookers. The adjustable weights are used to allow the top to reach the equilibrium height needed to properly balance gravity and magnetism so that the top can float.
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The Official Smarthome Blog - All Things Home Automation » Deals
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Get the Sony Tablet S Now at a Lower Price!
5 Jan 2012 | 3:00 pmGet all the great things you love from Sony, now in a tablet. Enjoy a truly optimized tablet that’s responsive and intuitive with a vibrant TruBlack display – its comfortable design fits perfectly in the palm of your hands. Access PlayStation games and Reader eBooks, plus music and new release movies from Music Unlimited and Video Unlimited. Control the living room with the built-in universal IR remote or choose to share, view and transfer personal video, photos and music and more to your DLNA compatible PC, TV or speakers. Sony’s latest software technology brings you fast web… -
Take Advantage of Our Limited Time Offer: HouseLinc for $99.99!
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Electronic House Recently Filed
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Leviton’s Universal Dimmers work with LEDs, CFLs, Incandescents
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App Alert: Twonky Beam Browser Video Streaming
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Top 10 Valentine Movies On Blu-ray
8 Feb 2012 | 12:34 pmJust in time for Valentines Day, pop in one of these favorites for a sweet at-home date night. -
Hot Deal: Pioneer VSX-521-K 5.1 Receiver: $134.99
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House of Marley Rocks Out Bag of Rhythm
8 Feb 2012 | 9:29 amThe House of Marley’s latest musical creation includes Birch wood and cotton.
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Webanalyticsbook - Web Analytics
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5 Benefits of Integrating All Your Enterprise Data
9 Feb 2012 | 7:00 amEnterprise data integration is incredibly beneficial and it presents many advantages, but few enterprises ever do it the right way. According to many studies, only about 10% of all enterprises have ever performed data integration, or actively support that integration. This is mostly because data integration takes a lot of time and money, and the short-term benefits are not quite as great as the long-term ones.However, once the integration is complete, this can help enterprises better survey data and decrease costs by need less people and making it easier for workers to go through the… -
Social Graph Gaming
6 Feb 2012 | 2:59 pmI usually don’t post about SEO anymore, but if I hear all this paid, owned, earned social stuff out there I just feel like I have to defend SEO and especially the value of links a bit. SEO is currently and will be in the near future the online marketing techniques that drives the highest ROI (if done properly). Social engagement or whatever you want to call it is still in the early days and until Facebook, Google Plus and Co. are gamed like below…I just don’t see a chance that the simplicity of the “link system” will be taken over by a social graph. Nowadays it… -
Google Offers Paid Inclusion- Good To Know
1 Feb 2012 | 1:05 pmA few years ago I was really impressed by everything Google did and it remained like that for years. However, recently I really have to wonder were their ethics went. It’s been reported all over the web that the Google+ integration is “a bit” too much and the Google privacy rules might turn into a Spy world. I guess it sucks, but they will probably get away with it. Today I noticed another fun little feature, that should make the Groupons of this world a bit upset: Google started pushing the Google Offers product into the SERPS (top right above all Adwords). The banner and… -
Project Management Software For Streamlining Development
19 Jan 2012 | 7:11 amWhen it comes to project management usually users have strong opinions. Not only the big shops like SAP got a fair share of criticism, but also small companies such as Basecamp usually get tossed after a while since user adaption just goes to hell. The project management field is one of the hardest things to pack into software sind needs are different and can be quite complex while users are used to very simple UIs. A new approach apparently was launched by the company 6 Wunderkinder: Wunderkit, a software that tries to be Google Wave on steroids. A project management software that not… -
Social Link Building Strategies
5 Jan 2012 | 7:25 pmSince people like, share, tweet more than they traditionally link, the influence of social mentions in SEO is currently a hot industry topic. Some SEO experts consider them essential for improving rankings. Other professionals give them a very low influence value . And several SEOs could care less about them one way or the other. Then there’s Google and Bing. The two search engines are desperate to understand social metrics in order to improve their algorithms, so much so that they are trying to coax Facebook and Twitter into sharing more data. This should be a signal to those in SEO that a…
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TED Blog
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Sign up to audition for TED2013 in Doha
8 Feb 2012 | 1:14 pmFrom April to June 2012, TED will be holding 14 auditions, around the world, to search for unheard voices to put onstage at TED2013. Learn more about TED2013 Worldwide Auditions >> Just announced: The very first audition will be held in Doha, Qatar, in April, as part of the TEDxSummit conference. If Doha is the closest audition spot to you geographically, sign up to audition! Signups are open from now until February 28; to audition, you’ll need to send a one-minute video. Learn more about the Doha auditions for TED2013 at on.ted.com/auditionsdoha >> -
New TED Book envisions the ‘living’ cities of the future
8 Feb 2012 | 9:56 amWhat will the urban areas of tomorrow look like? More like an ever-changing and vibrant garden than a static set of buildings and blocks. In our new ebook Living Architecture: How Synthetic Biology Can Remake Our Cities and Reshape Our Lives, British designer and architect Rachel Armstrong re-imagines the world’s cities and argues that in order to achieve sustainable development of the built environment — and help countries like Japan recover from natural disasters — we need to rethink how we approach architecture. By genetically modifying biological systems and studying such things… -
New: Find “courses” from TEDTalks on iTunes U
8 Feb 2012 | 7:51 amNew on iTunes U: Find TEDTalks organized by subject area into courses, curated for students, educators and lifelong learners. In our initial course offering, explore such topics as “Creative Problem-Solving” … “Understanding Happiness” … “Climate Change” … where you’ll find great thinkers from TED exploring multiple aspects of a fascinating topic. Explore these curated collections of TEDTalks on iTunes U … and watch for new courses over upcoming months! -
Remembering Mike deGruy
4 Feb 2012 | 1:34 pmWe are saddened by the news that ocean photographer, filmmaker and storyteller Mike deGruy died yesterday in a helicopter crash in Australia. Mike was truly one of the great teachers and advocates for the oceans, as you can see in his TEDTalk, filmed aboard Mission Blue in 2010: In this talk, as in his photography and his many films, you can sense Mike’s infectious humor, his passion for the oceans — and his example of a life well and richly lived. Photo top: Mike deGruy at Baltra Airport in the Galapagos Islands, April 2010. Photo below: deGruy holds a pair of shoes decorated by… -
State of the X: Stats on TEDx and TEDxTalks in January
4 Feb 2012 | 8:33 amThe new feature “State of the X,” on the TEDx Tumblr, runs the numbers on TEDx and the great video coming from these worldwide independently produced events. To start — how many TEDx events happened in the past month? TEDx events by the numbers: January 77 TEDx events happened around the world 67 cities hosted one or more TEDx events 29 countries hosted one or more TEDx events TEDx by the numbers: All time 3190 TEDx events have happened around the world 800 cities around the world have hosted one or more TEDx event 126 countries have hosted one or more TEDx events One of…
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Techipedia | Tamar Weinberg
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How to Select an Interactive Marketing Agency
31 Jan 2012 | 5:42 amThis is a guest post by Brad Shorr. Check out his earlier posts on How to Hire Your Social Media Marketing Partner and How to Hire Your SEO Partner. It’s very difficult for small and mid-size firms to select the right interactive marketing agency — as evidenced by how often agencies get fired, and how frequently client-agency relationships subsist at a low level of productivity and mutual satisfaction. The best way to prevent agency angst is to select the right agency to begin with. Here are 25 selection criteria to help you do this. I’ve listed the most important ones first,… -
5 Things I’ve Learned from Running BizSugar
24 Jan 2012 | 5:03 amThis is a guest post by Anita Campbell. When my company, Small Business Trends, LLC, first purchased BizSugar in the summer of 2009, the best way I could describe it was as a miniature version of Digg, except that BizSugar focused soley on sharing information geared toward small and mid-sized businesses. This is still true. But as BizSugar has grown over the last couple of years, it’s also become a small business networking site where business owners can discuss issues, get and give advice, and gain insight into the ins and outs of running a small business. As the site has changed and… -
Attack of the Consumer! The Many Ways Consumers Can Put You Out of Business Online
17 Jan 2012 | 6:04 amThis is a guest post by David Rodnitzky. Having the best prices and largest selection of products means nothing on the Internet if you don’t back it up with incredible customer service. Treat customers badly and you will be out of business – period! Bad customer service will get you banned from major advertising networks, skewered in organic results, and ridiculed on social networks. Here are the top ways consumers can crush your business online. Advertising Bans If consumers complain about your business, your money won’t be green enough to buy advertising online. Both eBay and Amazon… -
How to Hire Your Social Media Marketing Partner
11 Jan 2012 | 5:51 amThis is a guest post by Brad Shorr. Want more? See How to Hire Your SEO Partner from November. After taking the social media plunge, companies quickly discover that it is vastly more complicated and time-consuming than they thought. The normal response is, HELP! But companies must avoid a panicky response, because hiring a social media marketing (SMM) partner requires careful study. As I’ll run down in a minute, SMM involves a wide range of activities that require totally different skills. So, First, we’ll take a look at what the activities are, to help clarify the type of support you… -
Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2011
5 Jan 2012 | 5:19 amIt’s my birthday and I have some great news! In January of 2011, I said that I’d make our Internet Marketing Posts of 2011 subscriber only. And I did. Many loyal readers have checked in on the newsletter throughout 2011 to get both evergreen content, the content that typically embraces these monthly updates, in addition to something completely new, monthly digital trends – the stuff you use for presentations and proposals, for arguing that social media and online marketing does have a firm place in today’s landscape. The newsletter, which was sent within the first…
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Web Strategy by Jeremiah Owyang | Social Media, Web Marketing
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Google+ Has a Perception Problem
9 Feb 2012 | 5:36 amRemember that smart kid who sat in the front of the class, but was ignored by the cool kids? That’s a good metaphor for what Google+ is going through. I’ve heard from corporate social strategists I should be cautious about how much time and how frequently I discuss this nascent social newtork, and I spoke to media from a Tier 1 this week who said “does anyone even go there anymore? It seems like a wasteland”. Furthermore take this damning image which has been viewed 11k times suggests Google+ is filled with Google employees –and that’s about it. In fact, in our data on Super bowl… -
Altimeter Webinar Recording: State of Social Media Management Industry
8 Feb 2012 | 10:08 amThis week, Altimeter (myself and Andrew Jones, researcher) hosted a webinar stemming from the the recent report on Social Media Proliferation, which you can download the full report on this blog post. In the embedded slides and video below, you’ll be able to get additional insights on how we perceive how this market will change in the coming years: We’ll see a vendor shakeout, although expect pure play vendors of each of the five uses cases to remain Consolidation will occur from market forces of email marketing, web analytics, CMS, marketing automation, brand monitoring, support… -
Hey Retailers! Refine That Mobile Marketing Strategy (Altimeter Report)
7 Feb 2012 | 10:01 amThis latest Altimeter Report, by my colleague Industry Analyst Chris Silva, focuses on how companies must develop a mobile marketing strategy. It sources research from 26 ecosystem contributors including brands, agencies, and technology providers. To learn more about this report, please register for the webinar in which Chris will provide deeper knowledge from the report. This report is powerful in a few ways, it indicates the growth the in space, referencing that 45% of all mobile phone users are carrying a smart phone, and the growth rate for tablets is 23% annually. The report also… -
Five Trends: How Brands Integrated Social, Mobile, and Web into 2012 Super Bowl Advertisements
6 Feb 2012 | 8:39 amBy Altimeter’s Jeremiah Owyang, Brian Solis, and Zak Kirchner Findings: Five Trends Indicate Cross Channel Integration a Mainstay. Super Bowl ads, while only representing the nation’s largest consumer facing ads are a bellwether for advertising trends for the remainder of the year. To best understand these trends, Altimeter Group’s research team analyzed each Ad in real time, and conducted analysis to best understand the advertising trends for 2012. Using Chicago as a middle ground, we reviewed all ads from kickoff till the game clock expired and found that trends out of 87… -
P&G Layoffs Signal Focus on Digital Industry
4 Feb 2012 | 10:49 amLast week was a tremendous change, giant marketer P&G announces 1600 layoffs as they reduce jobs in various roles, and instead shifting budget to digital marketing. The CEO, when pressed, indicates a strong focus on digital marketing, citing: “In the digital space, with things like Facebook and Google and others, we find that return on investment of the advertising when properly designed, when the big idea is there, can be much more efficient” -Bob McDonald, Chairman-CEO, P&G Yet this is a trend, as P&G had previously cut advertising spend on soap operas on traditional TV,…
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Escape From Cubicle Nation
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Tracking your right life: Interview with Martha Beck
6 Feb 2012 | 12:00 pmThose of you who have been following my work for awhile know that I have been heavily influenced by my coach mentor Dr. Martha Beck. Her book Finding Your Own North Star changed the course of my life when I read it nearly a decade ago, and eventually led to my Escape from Cubicle Nation work. Martha is a Harvard-trained sociologist and bestselling author. She is Oprah’s life coach in residence, and writes a monthly column for O Magazine. In this interview, I talk with Martha about her brand new book Finding Your Way in a Wild New World. Building on the research she started at Harvard… -
Are you massively wrong about the size of your market?
2 Feb 2012 | 4:05 pmI walked in my son’s Cub Scout meeting late last night, and ran into the wife of our den leader. She is a wonderful person; an engaged mother, passionate volunteer and airline pilot. “I am so sorry for being late,” I said. “I was teaching a class.” “No problem at all, where were you teaching?” she said. “On the phone,” I said. She looked puzzled. “You were teaching on the phone? How does that work?” “I teach marketing to coaches who are in the Martha Beck coaching program. They dial in from all over the world, and I… -
A concrete example of how to get yourself to “do the work”
1 Feb 2012 | 8:51 amGolden Gloves contender Amanda Wang and Pamela Slim. Photo by proud cousin Abe Cajudo. They say the best way to learn something and reinforce positive behavior is to teach it. So here, 5 minutes after gaining insight while on a walk to Starbucks, is my advice to help you “do the work” (said channeling Steven Pressfield). To watch directly on YouTube, go here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zVWDH2QflA What I neglected to say in the video is that exercising even a little bit makes everything feel better! <Enjoy getting back to your regularly scheduled programming. I have a… -
How to build a powerful and profitable mailing list
17 Jan 2012 | 12:27 pmIf you have studied small business marketing, you may have heard the frequent cheer “The money is in The List!” And indeed, creating a strong email marketing list is a powerful foundation for any business, online or offline. In this video, I give you a few things to think about as you are establishing your mailing list, as well as a cardinal sin to avoid. To view this directly on YouTube, go here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4xEkc0qEbg More marketing tips coming! At the end of this month, I am going to be opening a new section of Power Boost Marketing for enrollment. Power… -
Bigger goals mean more resistance – don’t back down!
12 Jan 2012 | 12:19 pmHappy 2012! If you followed my planning videos in December, you may have defined some nice juicy goals for yourself this year. And as you have started to execute those plans, you may have already faced some challenges and resistance from your market. My best advice? Don’t back down. Here’s why: (Direct link to YouTube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY-BbkxIkGQ) Bigger Fish! Pescadotes!
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Brian Solis
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Meet the Mother of All Processes
8 Feb 2012 | 10:32 amGuest post by John M. Bernard, author of the new book, Business at the Speed of Now, and Chairman and Founder of Mass Ingenuity. Imagine going to work in one of Henry Ford’s factories a century ago, proud that management referred to you a “hand” or a “hammer” or maybe even a “wrench.” The labels reflected Ford’s emphasis on automation and management’s view of laborers as mere cogs in the machine. Screw this nut onto that bolt; weld this strap to that frame; do it over and over and over again until your brain froze with boredom. Of course, management needed workers to get the… -
2011 Was the Year of the Mobile Consumer, What’s in Store for 2012? Value.
7 Feb 2012 | 10:10 amChris Silva, my colleague at Altimeter Group, released a useful report today that I wanted to share with you here. Mobile is important and I believe you know this. However, when we consider mobile, we often think about the experience when and where it begins. But, we often miss the opportunity to lead a more meaningful journey as it may travel from small screen to larger screens across laptops, desktops and beyond. And along the way, we must now determine our role in this journey to provide information, shape decisions, and influence behavior. In Chris’ report, he reminds us that 2011… -
Season 2 Finale: How Yamaha invests in new customer experiences
3 Feb 2012 | 10:52 amThis is it…the Season Finale! And, what a way to end Season 2 of (R)evolution…. In this episode, Yamaha shares what is by far the most expansive view of disruptive technology’s impact on business infrastructure and culture on the show to date. What you’ll see is a genuine discussion with Jeff Hawley and Rick Williams of Yamaha explore how an already successful business is exploring new opportunities to better define the customer experience before, during and after transactions. It comes down to workflow. Nowadays, it either works for you or works against you. Here,… -
Smartphones, Tablets, PCs, The Devices People Use to Discover Information in Social Media (and when)
2 Feb 2012 | 3:13 pmMy friends over at bit.ly published an interesting graph that reveals the devices as well as the days/times that people use different devices and how and when they consume information. As you can imagine, it’s across the board, but as you can see, there are waves that every device follows, except the desktop. Desktops are of course the devices that we can assume people use during work hours. As such, they are most heavily used on weekdays before noon. Interestingly enough, phone traffic peaks at about the same times, but not to similar effects. What’s also telling is that tablets… -
What’s Love Got to Do with It? The 3P’s of Identity
2 Feb 2012 | 6:16 amGuest post by Allison Cerra, author of Identity Shift With the 2012 Presidential election looming, there’s no shortage of polls to help narrow the field of candidates. I find a recent one from Fox News to be particularly fascinating. Among other questions, Republican primary voters were asked which Republican presidential candidate is most likeable and which they would most trust with a nuclear weapon. While Newt Gingrich scored at the top of the heap in earning the trust vote, he scored only marginally well on the likeability scale. The topic was discussed on the network’s “Fox &…
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Jessica Gottlieb A Los Angeles Mom
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A Strange Note I left Myself
8 Feb 2012 | 10:57 amI don’t know who said it or I’d happy attribute it to them, but I opened up my notes folder in my email and found the following: The more success you have the more difficult it is to be uninhibited because you come to like the success and are afraid of losing it. I don’t remember where I was but I do recall a speaker saying so and I thought, “Oh yes, that’s why I’ve become so timid with my blogging.” It’s true, it’s very true, because blogging makes me feel like I’ve connected with so many of you. However with so many others it makes me feel like I’m standing here, tits… -
Startup Series: EventUp
7 Feb 2012 | 2:41 pmSince incubators like Science are now calling Los Angeles home I figure it’s time to start a series of posts to show off some of our finest startups. Eventup caught my eye because it starts in the geek space but ends up in the mom space (even if they don’t realize it yet). Eventup is a site that allows you to search for a location for your event big or small in and around Los Angeles with other cities soon to launch. If I search New York I find one garden apartment, I’m assuming there will be more fabulous locations soon. Everyone who watches the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills knows… -
Kenmore Blogger Summit 2012
7 Feb 2012 | 2:23 pmIn the end of January I was invited to Chicago along with 40 other bloggers to attend the Kenmore Blogger Summit. Since I am a fan of all things Kenmore I decided to brave Chicago’s winter and have 24 hours in the city. It’s not easy to get to Chicago in the middle of a snowstorm. The flight was delayed and leaving the airport was more complicated than it would have been in Los Angeles or Bali. I think maybe next year’s summit should take place in Bali. The good news is that I got there in time to hear a presentation about Google Plus. I kept waiting to hear about features I didn’t… -
Sports: We do it for The Kids!
6 Feb 2012 | 9:37 amThe Little League in our neighborhood is for parents too. There are moms and dads who spend a lot of time on the fields or hanging out with other parents. So much time that they’ve brought in televisions so that they can enjoy full days at the snack bar with their friends. Baseball is everything for a lot of parents. Baseball was everything for my son. He’s a decent player, not the best, and certainly not the worst. There are divisions by age set up but players can “play up” or “play down”. There’s a live draft and a group of fathers who are building up their summer travel… -
Chevy, Twinkies and Cockroaches?
5 Feb 2012 | 9:14 pmI hate the Chevy and Ford rivalry. I mean everyone knows that I’m polyamorous when it comes to automobiles. I love them all. This Super Bowl Commercial makes me giggle. It’s a fantastic concept but it takes a hard swipe at Ford and features Hostess Twinkies. GM and Hostess have something in common, right? Bankruptcy anyone?
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Berkeley Blog
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Bay Area Media Merger Needs To Add One More Player
8 Feb 2012 | 5:50 pmToday, the Center for Investigative Reporting in Berkeley announced a preliminary merger with The Bay Citizen in San Francisco, with Phil Bronstein taking over temporarily as CEO of the ersatz media operation. The force behind this merger seems to be Warren Hellman, now deceased, but while alive, a philanthropic founder and ongoing supporter of The Bay Citizen and a close friend of Bronstein. It seems to me these nonprofits can leverage the combined talents of their journalists, photographers, web architects, operators, and funders to become the dominant media provider for citizens in the San… -
What's a University? Don't Ask a Sociologist
28 Jan 2012 | 2:35 pmThe other day I went to hear the first in a series of three Clark Kerr Lectures on the role of higher education in society by UC Berkeley Professor Emeritus of Sociology Neil J. Smelser. I went because I thought I'd learn something about how the university might play a role in social change. What I learned was just the opposite: whatever happens in the rest of the world, according to Smelser, the only changes in the university as an institution include the accretion of more courses, more nonacademic functions (such as sports), and more academic conflicts over fiefdoms. I felt as if… -
He Was a HELLuva MAN
22 Dec 2011 | 5:48 pmThere are events in your life that you will never forget. The memorial put on for Warren Hellman in San Francisco's Emanu-El temple yesterday was like going to heaven with all your friends only everyone except the one we mourned was all very much alive. We stood in long lines -- one for friends and family and the other, just as long, for people who had some connection to Warren through his love of music, the outdoors, sports, education, business, and just people. Great people are like children. They never grow up. In many ways, Warren refused to grow up, even denying the authority… -
New Media Nomenclature
19 Dec 2011 | 3:43 pmI was trying to describe the machinations of new media to a friend who still reads only print. Once started, the dictionary of new media began to flow. Below is a sampling of terms, which might strike some as exaggerated and others as all too true. Thanks to Make magazine writer William Abernathy for adding his tweaks. New Media Nomenclature Confused about social media, new media, and whatever happened to your daily newspaper? Here’s a dictionary of new media terminology that might help you distinguish a Facebook friend from a Citizen Reporter. Aggregation – unpaid reprinting of original… -
Big Ideas Fest Lived Up to Its Name
8 Dec 2011 | 4:28 pmI'm not a conference-going person. In fact, I'd rather spend three days in solitary confinement at a high-risk prison (which I've never done...yet) than three days trapped in a conference with hundreds of people I don't know or necessarily want to know and listen to boring speeches. The Big Ideas Fest (www.bigideasfest.org), an education-solutions-oriented conference organized by the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (www.ISKME.org), held Dec. 4-7 at the Ritz Carlton in Half Moon Bay, blew my mind. It was a conference I didn't want to end, and in…
