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4" screens for Apple's next iPhone will be built as soon as June - www.appleinsider.com   18:18 16/05/2012
A trio of screen suppliers are reportedly gearing up to begin production of 4-inch displays for Apple’s next iPhone as soon as next month, putting the device on track for a fall launch. LG Display, Sharp, and Japan Display Inc. have all been tapped to build the new, larger screens for Apple, and they will be built as quickly as June, according to Reuters . That means production of the sixth-generation iPhone could begin as soon as August just in time for the anticipated fall launch. The details corroborate an earlier report from The Wall Street Journal , which also cited anonymous sources in claiming that Apple has begun ordering screens at least 4 inches in size for its next iPhone. However, the Journal’s report did not specify an iPhone...
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The Nokia Lumia 900 is a top-rated phone alongside the iPhone 4S. Photo: Ariel Zambelich/Wired It looks like the iPhone 4S and Nokia Lumia 900 have some mutual respect for one another, according to tests users have conducted asking each phone what the best smartphone ever is. Friday morning, an enterprising iPhone 4S owner asked Siri, “What’s the best cell phone ever?” The answer ? According to Wolfram Alpha, the source of the query results, it’s the Nokia Lumia 900 — in the bright blue Cyan hue. Conversely, when you ask basically the same query on the Nokia Lumia 900 using Microsoft’s TellMe service and Bing, it tells you that the iPhone is still the best phone to buy. Here, it just does a simple Bing web search to get the answer. The...
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Thousands of Twitter passwords exposed - news.cnet.com   23:19 8/05/2012
Twitter is investigating the release of what appear to be thousands of user account passwords and e-mail addresses. “We are currently looking into the situation. In the meantime, we have pushed out password resets to accounts that may have been affected,” Twitter spokesman Robert Weeks told CNET in an e-mail. “For those who are concerned that their account may have been compromised, we suggest resetting your passwords and more in our Help Center.” The user data, so vast that it took five Pastebin pages to post, was released yesterday and blogged about on Airdemon.net , putting the number of accounts affected at 55,000 or more. It’s unclear who posted the data, and why. Weeks disputed that estimate, noting that many of the passwords...
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In a massive leak, some 55,000 Twitter accounts have been compromised, leaving them open for abuse. According to AirDemon , accounts belonging to celebrities were attacked in the process. The leak is large enough that 5 PasteBin pages were required to host the list. I’m going to link to them, only  so that you can see if you are among the hacked: one , two , three , four , five . The pages have racked up thousands of views, implying that the accounts could have already been compromised. If you see any funny tweets in your stream, this might be why. According to initial reports, a ‘Twitter insider’ said the following [TNW has not verified this remark, so treat it appropriately]: “The micro blogging platform is aware of this hack and was taking necessary...
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Tablets Want To Kill Your Laptop - www.readwriteweb.com   18:50 9/05/2012
Laptops are doomed. In the next five years, tablets will displace notebook-style computers to become the dominant personal computing platform. And the transition from laptop to tablet has already begun. That’s the key finding of a new Forrester Research report that predicts the end of the laptop’s 15-year reign. The trend is already well under way among people born between 1980 and 2000, known to demographers as the millennial generation. In the U.S., 30% of tablet owners in this age group have purchased a tablet in place of a PC, compared to 20% of baby boomers.  “For this growing body of [millennial] users, PCs will seem like clunky trucks rather than sleek cars, dampening their long-term propensity to buy conventional PCs,” says the 19-page...
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Linux-ноутбук, спроектированный для разработчиков На конференции разработчиков Ubuntu компания Dell заявила о возобновлении работ над проектом Sputnik — это ноутбук Ubuntu 12.04 с базовым набором инструментов (emacs, vim, git и т.д.) и поддержкой дополнительных «профилей» для софта. Например, сейчас идёт работа над сборкой первого профиля: Android, Ruby и JavaScript. Sputnik задумывается как оптимальная стандартная конфигурация плюс мета-система для...
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The WebKit project, creators of the rendering engine that powers web browsers like Safari and Chrome, has added support for the new Intent tag , part of the proposed Web Intents standard . Originally developed by Google’s Paul Kinlan , Web Intents are a kind of meta-website API that would allows sites to easily pass data between each other — for example, to edit a photograph or share a URL with friends. Since Kinlan initially proposed Web Intents — which are based on a similar system used in Google’s Android operating system — Mozilla and several other companies have joined forces to work on standardizing Web Intents . Web Intents offer a way to connect your favorite sites to each other and pass data between them. The canonical...
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The New Bing Makes Google Look Anti-Social - www.readwriteweb.com   00:22 12/05/2012
ReadWriteWeb: The New Bing Makes Google Look Anti-Social http://t.co/zogEiKM6
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Bing Reinvents Social Search and Discovery - mashable.com   01:27 11/05/2012
Bing has been reinvented, offering enhanced search results that tap into the power of social media. Microsoft has done this by pulling people out of search results and putting them in their place: A right-hand social column that will eventually include Facebook, Twitter, Google+ Quora and LinkedIn integration, as well as people who may know something about your most recent Bing query. It even offers a way to ask questions on your favorite social network, directly through Bing. It’s something of an about-face for the Number 2 search engine, which up until earlier this year has been slowly but surely integrating Facebook information (like “Likes”) directly into Bing Search results. This update is actually Phase 2 of a major overhaul. Bing quietly rolled out the first...
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Why Microsoft Is Being Left in the Dust - mashable.com   23:59 11/05/2012
Pete Cashmore: Why Microsoft Is Being Left in the Dust - http://t.co/WokViHCG
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VMWare Makes BYOD Mandatory For Employees - www.cultofmac.com   23:40 11/05/2012
Cult of Mac: VMWare Makes BYOD Mandatory For Employees http://t.co/7SDY2B6a
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Introducing the App Center - Facebook Developers - developers.facebook.com   13:33 12/05/2012
Today, we’re announcing the App Center, a new place for people to find social apps. The App Center gives developers an additional way to grow their apps and creates opportunities for more types of apps to be successful. In the coming weeks, people will be able to access the App Center on the web and in the iOS and Android Facebook apps. All canvas, mobile and web apps that follow the guidelines can be listed. All developers should start preparing today to make sure their app is included for the launch. A place to find great apps For the over 900 million people that use Facebook, the App Center will become the new, central place to find great apps like Draw Something , Pinterest , Spotify , Battle Pirates , Viddy , and Bubble Witch Saga . Everything has an...
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Что такое «открытое облако»? В Red Hat считают, что это точно не VMware Облачные вычисления * , Open source * Недавно Red Hat опубликовала своё виденье того, каким должно быть «открытое облако» (и даже посвятила этому вопросу отдельную страницу “ Open Cloud ” на своём сайте). Что вызвало дискуссии о том, насколько подходит под это определение то или иное решение. Статья под хабракатом — один из примеров подобного обсуждения. Хочу...
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Cult of Mac: Foxconn Chief Reveals Preparations Are Now Underway For Apple's HDTV http://t.co/E7dFgfTd
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Report: Apple Is Dropping Google Maps from iOS 6 - gizmodo.com   13:03 11/05/2012
Apple hasn’t really needed Google maps for a while now, but until now it’s continued to lean on the service to power iOS’s Maps app. 9to5mac is reporting that Apple will drop Google’s mapping service in iOS 6 in favor of an entirely in-house system. According to 9to5’s sources , the experience with the new app is “much cleaner, faster, and more reliable,” but what else would you really expect an Apple source to say? More interesting is the new 3D mode, which is powered by C3 Technologies , a 3D mapping company Apple bought up last year. If it’s anything close to what the video demos of C3’s 3D maps, it’ll be a huge addition to the Maps app. The move away from Google Maps would make sense...
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Apple’s Coming Map App Will “Blow Your Head Off” - allthingsd.com   23:56 11/05/2012
All Things D: Apple’s Coming Map App Will “Blow Your Head Off” -by @JohnPaczkowski http://t.co/YLjEvGly
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Sources: Google Is Close to Buying Meebo - allthingsd.com   23:32 11/05/2012
All Things D: Sources: Google Is Close to Buying Meebo -by @LizGannes http://t.co/7XDDg03i
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Hacker News YC: It's OK for Apple to block Firefox, but wrong when Microsoft does it http://t.co/ki7k5FyM
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How Google's Self-Driving Car Works - spectrum.ieee.org   23:22 8/05/2012
Once a secret project, Google’s autonomous vehicles are now out in the open, quite literally, with the company test-driving them on public roads and, on one occasion, even inviting people to ride inside one of the robot cars as it raced around a closed course . Google’s fleet of robotic Toyota Priuses has now logged more than 190,000 miles (about 300,000 kilometers), driving in city traffic, busy highways, and mountainous roads with only occasional human intervention. The project is still far from becoming commercially viable, but Google has set up a demonstration system on its campus, using driverless golf carts, which points to how the technology could change transportation even in the near future. Stanford University professor Sebastian...
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Why should I have written ZeroMQ in C, not C++ - www.250bpm.com   22:39 11/05/2012
Hacker News YC: Why should I have written ZeroMQ in C, not C++ http://t.co/31KVIJ6B
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Typesafe roadmap indicates the maturing of Scala - ovum.com   13:04 11/05/2012
Typesafe roadmap indicates the maturing of Scala Typesafe is the open-source organization behind Scala, the Java Virtual Machine (JVM)-compatible language that takes Java into concurrency the functional programming way. Scala’s nearest rivals are languages such as Erlang, Haskell, and F#.Net, but what makes Scala special is that it is seamlessly compatible with Java. Programming in Scala allows the blending of traditional object-oriented Java with a functional programming style. Typesafe as an organization is modeled on Red Hat in terms of its business model, with subscription-based services on top of a host of open-source projects that take Scala to new levels. Typesafe Stack 2.0 is the latest version of a set of integrated tools that offer a Rails-type web...
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Simperium - simperium.com   18:37 9/05/2012
A New Data Layer Simperium is a service for developers to move data everywhere it’s needed, instantly and automatically. We deal with data Use a Simperium library and write a few lines of code. Simperium can then move any JSON data across multiple versions of your app and your backend services. Our hosted service manages persistence, security, conflicts, scaling, versioning, and backups. Learn how it works → Make users happy Your users will never have to wait for network connections or a server response again. With full offline support, Simperium instantly moves changes at the first available opportunity. Only data that changes gets sent, so it’s fast and efficient. Build unique backend services...
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Just yesterday, I finally moved the Google+ iPhone app atrocity to the back screen of my iPhone, and then the company goes out and does this . It makes the darned thing all pretty with a fresh update. And maybe even more usable? (I can’t confirm this as the update has somehow not hit my iPhone’s “Updates” section, but early reports are saying nice things). If you’re at all familiar with Google’s previous iOS developments, you’ll remember how the Google+ iPhone app was a dog to use. I couldn’t even scroll through long comment threads with the screen locking up. Plus, it regularly crashed. And it kept pinging me with updates every time someone “Circled” me…although, apparently, that last one was by design. Today’s update, then, is at least...
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With the next iPad model at least a year away and the next iPhone a few months off, the Apple rumor mill is pondering a new Apple product line: the MacBook Air. On Monday, Digitimes reports that Apple is considering selling a MacBook Air for $799, which would be $200 cheaper than the least expensive model available now. Predictably, many  are running with this . An Apple computer starting at $799 would be a big deal — the cheapest traditional laptop the company has ever made. The Digitimes report had few details, but the theme that’s emerging in the flash analysis around the idea of a $799 Air is that Apple wouldn’t do it by choice, but would be “forced to”  out of some sort of response to the threat of Intel-based ultrabook notebooks — which, mind you,...
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Apple намерена занять рынок ультрабуков снижением цен на MacBook Air Железо , Apple Уже ни для кого не секрет, что такие продукты как iPod и iPad стали неким образцом компьютерной индустрии, с которыми всегда так или иначе сравнивают все остальные продукты того же класса и назначения. Мало того, несмотря на то, что Apple занимает только около 8% из мировых продаж электроники, компания Стива Джобса умудряется получать в три раза...
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Martin Fowler on ORM Hate - java.dzone.com   16:28 9/05/2012
Javalobby Did you know? DZone has great portals for Python , Cloud , NoSQL , and HTML5 ! I am an author, speaker, and loud-mouth on the design of enterprise software. I work for ThoughtWorks, a software delivery and consulting company. Martin is a DZone MVB and is not an employee of DZone and has posted 37 posts at DZone. You can read more from them at their website. View Full User Profile Martin Fowler on ORM Hate 05.09.2012 Email Views: 1694 Tweet While I was at the QCon conference in London a couple of months ago, it seemed that every talk included some snarky remarks about Object/Relational mapping (ORM) tools. I guess I should read the conference emails sent to...
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Oracle vs Google: Суд признал Google виновной Сегодня в федеральном суде Сан-Франциско 12 присяжных огласили свой приговор. Жюри признало вину интернет-гиганта лишь частично: по двум пунктам обвинения из четырех компания Google была признана невиновной. Жюри единогласно согласилось с тем, что Google позаимствовал структуру и организацию языка Java у Oracle. Также, компания Google была признана виновной в нарушении авторских прав Oracle, на...
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Samsung’s “Innovative” New S Voice Feature Looks Exactly Like Siri [Image] Buster Heine (12:03 pm PDT, May 03) On the left is Siri, on the right is the S Voice Copycat This morning Samsung announced their newest high-end Android phone, the Samsung Galaxy S III. With a release date of May 29th, the new phone comes with a lot of crazy new features, like Smart Stay, that uses facial recognition to determine if you’re looking at it, and if not, it’ll turn the screen off. But topping the list of awesome new features is the “innovative” voice recognition feature. It’s innovative because you can say things like, “Hi Mr. Galaxy phone, what’s the weather gonna be like today?” and S Voice will pop-up a screen that...
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Will Microsoft Dump Bing? - www.pcmag.com   20:06 27/04/2012
Hacker News YC: Microsoft Dumping Bing? http://t.co/mefhVaIm
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The Next Web: Is that an iPhone in your bra or are you just happy to see me? http://t.co/OqjswlD7 by @thatdrew
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Wired: 5 Reasons Why Nokia Lost Its Handset Sales Lead and Got Downgraded to 'Junk' http://t.co/20SUyuTN
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Google’s sale of a previously purchased arm of the company this morning, 3D modeling software SketchUp, to Trimble , is its first divestment in years, and according to sources the search giant made a profit, as it sold SketchUp for more than it bought it for back in 2006. This could signal a sea change in how Larry Page executes his vision for a leaner, more focused Google. The company frequently shuts down extraneous products , but that requires redistribution of their team members internally. If it’s now willing to sell them instead, Google could streamline around the theme of making user’s lives more convenient, while making some money at the same time. It wasn’t that SketchUp wasn’t working. It had 30 million activations since joining Google as part...
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Five months after its debut, Amazon’s ( AMZN ) Kindle Fire tablet has not only become the retailer’s No. 1 selling item, but it’s also taken more than half of the entire Google ( GOOG ) Android tablet market, according to a new report from comScore. The 7-inch device, which runs a highly customized version of Google’s Android operating system, has nearly doubled its share of the Android tablet market over the last two months, comScore said, from 29.4% in December 2011 to 54.4% last February. ComScore said the next most popular tablet after the Fire is Samsung’s Galaxy Tab, with 15.4% market share in February, followed by Motorola’s Xoom with a 7% share. Amazon has a long way to go, however, if it wishes to take on the top tablet: Apple’s ( AAPL )...
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Reuters Apple is the most profitable company in the world. The company should generate $45-$50 billion of profit this year. That’s way more than the next-most-profitable company in the world, ExxonMobil, which generated about $30 billion of profit last year. You knew that already. But here’s what you might not have known: Apple’s iPhone business alone is likely more profitable than any other company in the world . Say what? Seriously. Apple’s overall profit margin is 30%. The iPhone , most analysts agree, is more profitable than some of Apple’s other products. So perhaps the iPhone business has a profit margin of, say, 35%.  The iPhone business, meanwhile, is currently generated about $100 billion of revenue per year....
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Apple Announces WWDC2012 for June 11 - mashable.com   17:11 25/04/2012
Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference will be held at San Francisco’s Moscone West June 11 to 15, the company has announced. Just like last year, the conference will focus on Apple’s two major software platforms: iOS and OS X. “We have a great WWDC planned this year and can’t wait to share the latest news about iOS and OS X Mountain Lion with developers,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing. Given that June is traditionally the month when the next-generation iPhone is announced, it’ll definitely be in the mix this year, too. The iPhone 3GS and the iPhone 4 were both announced at WWDC, but iPhone 4S strayed from this tradition and was announced in October 2011. It’s interesting to note that WWDC 2012 is...
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VMware has confirmed a leak of source code from the ESX hypervisor. The code was posted on Pastebin on April 8 by a hacker calling himself “Hardcore Charlie.” VMware confirmed the theft yesterday, and said there is a “possibility that more files may be posted in the future.” The good news is that the code dates from 2003 to 2004. While VMware ESX is still heavily used, VMware is shifting customers to a newer hypervisor called ESXi, which has a smaller attack surface and is designed to be more secure. “The fact that the source code may have been publicly shared does not necessarily mean that there is any increased risk to VMware customers,” the company said. “VMware proactively shares its source code and interfaces with other...
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Tim Cook On Windows 8: It's A Toaster-Refrigerator - Business Insider - www.businessinsider.com   17:41 24/04/2012
AP   On Apple’s earnings call CEO Tim Cook addressed the forthcoming tablets from Microsoft . In short, he’s a skeptic. Microsoft’s plan is to release an operating system that works on traditional PCs as well as tablet computers. Cook thinks that’s crazy. He said anything can be forced to converge. But the trade offs at end of the day don’t please anyone. “You can converge a toaster and a refrigerator,” but it won’t please anyone, he said. In other words, trying to combine a touchscreen tablet with a PC that uses keyboards and mice is a bad idea. He said Apple would never have the MacBook Air converge with the iPad into one device. It would need too many compromises. He also said that Microsoft...
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Hacker News YC: Jonathan Schwartz says Google's Android didn't need license for Java APIs http://t.co/0xWEg4fh
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It’s still premature to say you need firewall or antivirus protection for your television set, but a duo of recently diagnosed firmware vulnerabilities in widely used TV models made by two leading manufacturers suggests the notion isn’t as far-fetched as many may think. The most recent bug, found in a wide range of high-definition TVs from Samsung, was disclosed on Thursday by Luigi Auriemma, an Italy-based researcher who regularly finds security flaws in Microsoft Windows , video games , and even the industrial-strength systems used to control dams, gas refineries, and other critical infrastructure . While poking around a Samsung D6000 model belonging to his brother, he inadvertently discovered a way to remotely send the TV into an endless restart...
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Now That Google Has Cloned It, What’s Next For Dropbox? - techcrunch.com   16:26 24/04/2012
Google finally launched its long-rumored Google Drive online storage service today. This was probably one of Google’s worse-kept secrets, so the launch itself wasn’t much of a surprise to anyone – least of all Dropbox , which – until today – was pretty much synonymous with online storage for documents. If nothing else, Google Drive is a full-frontal assault on Dropbox on virtually every level. Google is not just massively undercutting Dropbox’s pricing scheme, but thanks to integrating Drive with Docs, it is also able to offer far more features. With this kind of competition, the future might not be so bright for Dropbox. It’s not just Google, though. Just yesterday, Microsoft also launched its new SkyDrive apps, which also replicate Dropbox’s functionality and...
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Microsoft набирает команду разработчиков браузерной версии Skype Skype * , Microsoft Пока официального сообщения от Microsoft по поводу создания браузерной версии Skype нет. Зато есть вполне себе официальная вакансия на должность разработчика веб-приложения Skype. В описании вакансии указано, что приложение должно быть основано на HTML5 и JavaScript (приложение, насколько можно судить, не будет требовать наличия Flash или Silverlight). Эта версия будет...
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(Credit: Photo by: Jason Hiner/CNET) Motorola Mobility CEO Sanjay Jha pulled off one of the most difficult things to do in the technology industry: He surprised people at a press conference. When Jha took the stage at the Consumer Electronics Show 2011 and revealed the Motorola Atrix smartphone and the “Lapdock” that made it act like a laptop computer, it sent reporters scrambling. They expected the unveiling of the Motorola Xoom, the highly anticipated and already-leaked first official Android tablet to take on the Apple iPad . But, it was the Atrix and the Lapdock that stole the show. Was this a hybrid smartphone/PC, the veritable missing link of computing? If so, how did it work? The key was Motorola’s homegrown software called...
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A slide depicting Android’s history shown to the jury in a San Francisco courtroom during Google’s opening arguments SAN FRANCISCO—Two of the world’s most powerful tech CEOs—Oracle’s Larry Ellison and Google’s Larry Page—testified in the same San Francisco courtroom today, presenting very different portraits of Google’s behavior while building its Android operating system. The all-star day of testimony was the second day of trial in Oracle v. Google , a lawsuit about whether Google violated copyright and patent rights that Oracle acquired when it purchased Sun Microsystems in 2009. Google’s opening: “The Java language is free and open” Oracle’s argument is that while Java is an open-source...
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Twitter loves open source. In fact, its engineers are known to be heavy  consumers and producers of open source  technology, and the team has already managed to release a lot of its own work into the community, including  Bootstrap , a toolkit for kickstarting CSS for websites and apps and  Cassie : A Scala client for Cassandra. Now, Twitter’s really making a commitment to the movement,  becoming an official sponsor of the  Apache Software Foundation  (ASF). For those that don’t know, ASF is a non-profit foundation that provides organizational, legal, and financial support for a broad range of open source software projects. As Twitter’s own Chris Aniszczyk notes , Twitter needs the ASF to thrive because it depends so much on Apache projects like  Mesos...
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Email is not broken: It’s a framework, not an application - blog.killtheradio.net   16:42 16/04/2012
2012 04. 15 Email is not broken: It’s a framework, not an application Andrew Lyon Technology I’ve been seeing a lot of posts on the webz lately about how we can fix email. I have to say, I think it’s a bit short-sighted. People are saying it has outgrown it’s original usage , or it contains bad error messages , or it’s not smart about the messages received . These are very smart people, with real observations. The problem is, their observations are misplaced. What email is Email is a distributed, asynchronous messaging protocol. It does this well. It does this very  well. So well, I’m getting a boner thinking about it. You send a message and it either goes where it’s supposed to, or you get an error message back....
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Macgasm Apple Tips, Apple News, Apple Everything. Sergey Brin Backtracks On Anti-Apple and Facebook Rhetoric It didn’t take long for Sergey Brin to feel like he needed to “clarify” his comments to the Guardian about “internet freedom” as well as Facebook and Apple ‘s part in destroying the free and open web. It’s only been two days since he made the comment. Sergey Brin has taken to Google+, obviously, to clarify his point, which reads more like damage control than it does a clarification. Brin, clarifying his stance on Google+ : In the interview came the subject of digital ecosystems that are not as open as the web itself and I think this portion has led to some misunderstanding of my views. So to...
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The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark . If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here . Name: Tracky Quick Pitch: Tracky is an application that boosts productivity by cutting Internet clutter. The web and mobile app brings email, chat, task collaboration and file sharing to one place. Genius Idea: Tracky is an application for planning, collaborating and getting tasks done. From the platform, share goals, news and finished tasks onto Twitter , Facebook and Pinterest . To the Tracky team, the Internet is an over-saturated place where people at work are bombarded with applications and tabs. The Tracky solution is simple — cut out...
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Google is moving quickly to adjust its Gmail systems after a disruption left some of its users unable to access the service for nearly an hour. The company reported that between 17:42 and 18:46 UK time on Tuesday it had been working on a partial disruption to the mail service. The issue is now believed to have been fully resolved. “The problem with Google Mail should be resolved,” the company said in a status update. “We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience and continued support.” According to Google, the disruption had left some users unable to access the service. The outage is thought to be limited in scope, impacting roughly two per cent of all Gmail users. V3 offices in San Francisco did...
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Sergey Brin: I'm Worried About the Internet - mashable.com   16:46 16/04/2012
Google co-founder Sergey Brin is worried about the future of the internet. There are “very powerful forces that have lined up against the open internet on all sides and around the world,” he said in an interview with The Guardian . According to Brin, one of the biggest threats to the openness of the internet is pressure from governments, which are trying to control the information flow on the internet. The overzealous entertainment industry, which is trying to end piracy, is another threat, and walled gardens raised by companies such as Facebook and Apple, which control what software can be released on their platforms, is equally dangerous, claims Brin . “I am more worried than I have been in the past. It’s scary,” he said. Brin specifically targets...
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Red Hat присоединяется к сообществу OpenStack Компания Red Hat, производитель корпоративного дистрибутива Linux, middleware, виртуализации и ПО для облачных вычислений, наконец, присоединилась к сообществу OpenStack. Произошло это вместе с формированием организации, которая будет управлять развитием открытой облачной платформы — OpenStack Foundation . С момента запуска проекта OpenStack в июле 2010 года, NASA и Rackspace в значительной степени...
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FBI track Anonymous hacker using his girlfriend’s boobs The FBI swooped on Higinio O Ochoa III after he posted the snap, which included a gloating message to his online victims.He took the picture on his iPhone and posted it on Twitter without realising it contained GPS data pointing directly to his house. Researching the username “w0rmer”, investigators also found a reference online which included Ochoa’s full name. Ochoa, is an alleged member of CabinCr3w, an offshoot of the hacktivist collective Anonymous. A criminal complaint filed in connection with the case reveals that pictures of a amply proportioned young woman taken in an outer-Melbourne suburb played a key role in the case. The snap posted by 30-year-old Ochoa shows a girl in a...
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Hacker News YC: Wemux - Set up tmux for party pair programming http://t.co/8pkIPkAG
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Developer Week in Review: Everyone can program? - radar.oreilly.com   23:28 13/04/2012
I’m devoting this week’s edition of the WIR to a single news item. Sometimes something gets stuck in my craw, and I have to cough it out or choke on it (hopefully none of you are reading this over lunch …). Yet another attempt to create programming for dummies … Just today, I came across a news article discussing a recent Apple patent application for a technology to allow “non-programmers” to create iOS applications. This seems to be the holy grail of software design, to get those pesky overpaid software developers out of the loop and let end-users create their own software. I’ll return to the particulars of the Apple application in a moment, but first I want to discuss the more general myth, because it is a myth, that...
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Get free, real-time web analytics for your site now! Screen Resolution Alert for Web Developers Web analytics firm reports that 1366x768 overtakes 1024x768 for first time Boston, USA and Dublin, Ireland, Wednesday, 11th April, 2012: A major milestone in screen resolution sizes has been passed according to independent web analytics company, StatCounter. The company’s research arm, StatCounter Global Stats reports that for the first time 1366x768 has become the most popular screen resolution worldwide, having overtaken 1024x768. “The data reflects a continuing trend of users moving to larger screen resolution sizes,” commented Aodhan Cullen, CEO, StatCounter. “The screen resolution size people are using is a critical...
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Intel Hints Next MacBook Pros Might Have Retina Displays - www.cultofmac.com   12:11 13/04/2012
Intel Hints Next MacBook Pros Might Have Retina Displays John Brownlee (10:54 am PDT, Apr 12) Intel’s upcoming Ivy Bridge update are scheduled to be officially announced and made available on April 23rd, and they will most likely be immediately used to build updated, Air-like MacBook Pros including second-gen Thunderbolt controllers . But could the next MacBook Pros also have HiDPI, Retina-ready displays? It’s conjecture at this point, but we know Apple has been interested in moving to Retina quality displays in its Mac line for quite some time, and now a recent comment from Intel VP Kirk Skaugen confirms that Ivy Bridge makes it possible for PC makers to make retina display laptops and computers, “if OEMs choose to use it.”...
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habrahabr: Project Glass — Очки будущего от Google или «почувствуй себя терминатором» http://t.co/Ys464CdL
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Two years ago, Oliver Cameron had a hit on his hands. He built an app called Voices , which turned your incoherent mumbles into Darth Vader’s brooding baritone, and it became the #1 app in the App Store. His app Postman was featured by Apple in a “there’s an app for that” iPhone commercial . Life was good, but Cameron was stuck at a university in England and thought it was time to move on to something bigger. He spent six months packing his bags and filing Visa paperwork, dropped out of school, and was off to the United States, destined for the same Summer 2011 YCombinator class that graduated Codecademy. Cameron, now 23 and backed by $1.5 million in funding from...
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Continuing along in our quest to give you the tools that you need to build ridiculously powerful web sites and applications in no time flat at the lowest possible cost, I’d like to introduce you to Amazon CloudSearch . If you have ever searched Amazon.com , you’ve already used the technology that underlies CloudSearch. You can now have a very powerful and scalable search system (indexing and retrieval) up and running in less than an hour. You, sitting in your corporate cubicle, your coffee shop, or your dorm room, now have access to search technology at a very affordable price. You can start to take advantage of many years of Amazon R&D in the search space for just $0.12 per hour (I’ll talk about pricing in depth later). What is Search? Search...
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Why you suck at estimating – a lesson in psychology - blog.muonlab.com   23:10 12/04/2012
random .NET and web development musings April 12 2012 Why you suck at estimating – a lesson in psychology We all suck at estimating, regardless of how experienced we are. This is a fact that you should accept. Most of us are either ignorant to this or in denial. There are many ways we try to hide our inadequacies, mostly revolving around mathematical transformations of the form: E’ = mE + c I.E. make an arbitrary estimate (E), multiply it by some amount (m) and add a bit (c). I’m not denying that there is some sense to this, you can spend considerable time and effort refining your favourite m value by tracking your velocity, having regular retrospectives and reflective analyses etc. This method alone however is ignorant to significant...
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Anti Flashback-Trojan 1.0.1 Your rating: Now say why… ( 2 ) 5 Checks for, and removes, Flashback Trojan.   Free Add to my Watch List Email me when discounted Anti Flashback-Trojan a free application that checks for, and removes (if necessary) the Flashback Trojan. Flashback is a variant of the Tsunami Trojan for Linux, and has so far infected over 600, 000 Macs. Now you can check weather your Mac is infected and remove the Flashback-Trojan without resorting to manual removal in Terminal. For more information what Flashback does, including manual removal instructions, see the F-Secure website. Incidentally, all my apps are free, but any donation would be very much...
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Urgent Fix for Zero-Day Mac Java Flaw - krebsonsecurity.com   15:47 4/04/2012
Urgent Fix for Zero-Day Mac Java Flaw Apple on Monday released a critical update to its version of Java for Mac OS X that plugs at least a dozen security holes in the program. More importantly, the patch mends a flaw that attackers have recently pounced on to broadly deploy malicious software, both on Windows and Mac systems. Distribution of 550,000 Flashback-infected Macs. Source: Dr.Web.com The update , Java for OS X Lion 2012-001 and Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 7, sews up an extremely serious security vulnerability ( CVE-2012-0507 ) that miscreants recently rolled into automated exploit kits designed to deploy malware to Windows users. But in the past few days, information has surfaced to suggest that the same flaw has been used with great...
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Who Needs an Office Building in the Sharing Economy? - www.readwriteweb.com   20:28 3/04/2012
ReadWriteWeb Office workers spend about a third of their time at their desks. The rest of the time, that work space is idle. That’s wasteful. It wastes the rent paid on those square feet of space. It wastes the energy spent heating, cooling, lighting and powering it. Does that employee even need to commute to the office to do her job? If not, that’s even more wasted time, space and energy. Idle office spaces are perishable goods. They spoil on the shelf and we throw them away. Such inefficiency is not long for this century. The solution is “collaborative consumption.” To start us off, a mobile app called LiquidSpace is teaming up with forward-thinking local governments to find a better way for our increasingly digitized...
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Who helps make Linux? Microsoft. - www.zdnet.com   11:47 3/04/2012
Linux is made by corporations… including Microsoft. Every year, The Linux Foundation compiles an analysis of who actually contributes the most to Linux’s code (PDF Link). In the last year, 2011, besides the usual suspects, which includes Red Hat, Intel, Novell, IBM, Samsung, Oracle and Google, you’ll also find some you didn’t expect to see such from such as Nokia and, drum-roll please, Microsoft. Microsoft has significantly contributed before to Linux . In the past though its main contributions have been to its own Hyper-V virtualization hypervisor drivers. Hyper-V is Microsoft’s 64-bit hypervisor-based virtualization system. It’s Microsoft’s answer to VMware and Linux’s own native Kernel-based Virtualization Manager (KVM) . Microsoft...
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Learnings from open-sourcing Bootstrap - www.markdotto.com   16:30 2/04/2012
Deep thoughts by one Mark Otto . Web Platform Designer at Twitter. Creator of Bootstrap . Broheim. ← Back home Learnings from open-sourcing Bootstrap Monday, April 2nd, 2012 Bootstrap wasn’t my first open-source project, but it’s definitely the largest and most successful, largely thanks to Jacob and the community of course. Since open-sourcing Bootstrap seven months ago, I’ve realized a few things about open-source that I’d like share with you all. Communication is paramount No matter the success of an open-source project, folks using your hard work begin to depend on you and what you’re doing. Communication becomes more important as the age and use of the project increases. When’s the next release, and what will it include?...
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The icon in the red box in this screenshot is PNG content returned by the remote sites exploiting an unpatched Java vulnerability. The image is dropped onto vulnerable Macs and can be changed any time the author wants. Developers behind the Flashback trojan for the Mac have updated it to exploit a vulnerability in the Java software framework that has yet to be patched for machines running Mac OS X, an antivirus firm warned on Monday. Flashback.K, as the latest variant is called, is able to hijack Macs even when users don’t enter an administrative password. Instead, it does this by exploiting a critical Java vulnerability classified as CVE-2012-0507 , F-Secure researchers wrote in a blog post . Although Oracle released a fix for the security threat in...
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Digital Trends: TweetDeck taken offline following discovery of bug exposing Twitter accounts http://t.co/tumWyLYE
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Led by the 4S, Apple’s iPhone line continues to rack up strong sales at AT&T, Verizon and Sprint. So strong that some believe it’s likely the top-selling phone at all three of those carriers. “Our March checks indicated the iPhone continues to extend its market share gains,” Canaccord Genuity analyst Mike Walkley writes in a note to clients today. “In fact, we believe iPhones are outselling all other smartphones combined at Sprint and AT&T and selling at roughly equal volume to all Android smartphones at Verizon.” That’s pretty astonishing, all things considered. The iPhone does have some formidable competition. Indeed, Walkley notes that Samsung’s Galaxy S II is selling quite well at AT&T and Sprint, while its Samsung Galaxy Nexus is doing well...
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IBM отмечает 25-летний юбилей операционной системы OS/2 Операционные системы * 2 апреля 1987 года корпорация IBM, проведя двойную пресс-конференцию для журналистов, объявила о своих планах дать новый старт рынку персональных компьютеров, превзойдя собственный результат шестилетней давности. Тогда были представлены четыре новых модели компьютеров, включая и модель стоимостью 11 000 $, которая была в семь раз быстрее своих...
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Новые модели: Новые обзоры: Версия для печати Блоггерам Microsoft Windows Phone 7 – причины провала. Часть 2 Содержание: Технические ограничения WP7 – отсутствие конкуренции В Microsoft, создавая Windows Phone 7, ориентировались только на американский рынок, почти не принимая в расчет другие страны и не думая о них. В США основным конкурентом для будущих продуктов был Apple iPhone, поэтому в компании создавали...
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Apple Inc. is 36 Years Old Today - www.ifans.com   17:51 1/04/2012
Here’s a fun fact that you probably didn’t expect on April Fools’ Day: Apple Inc. is 36 years old today, having been founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak on this day in 1976. In its early days, Apple had quite the bumpy road when they were working to build their operating system and Microsoft was also just getting started with theirs. In addition to that, the founders of Apple had been working hard to release their first consumer PC sporting a graphical user interface on January 19th, 1983; this was the Apple Lisa. Since then, a lot happened. The Macintosh was released in 1984 accompanied by the historical “1984″ commercial, followed by Jobs leaving the company in 1985. Then they entered the portable computer market with the PowerBook in 1991, but...
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Стало известно, что компания Amazon намерена выпустить в этом году сразу три новых модели планшета Kindle Fire. Напомним, первый Amazon Kindle Fire с 7-дюймовым сенсорным дисплеем вышел осенью прошлого года. Он работает под управлением ОС Android и вместо каталога приложений Google Play (Android Market) поддерживает Amazon Appstore и музыкальный, видео и другие сервисы Amazon. Планшет Amazon Kindle Fire отличается невысокой ценой и очень неплохо продается. Если верить...
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Хабы: Электронные книги, Гаджеты. Устройства для гиков Южнокорейская компания LG Electronics объявила о начале серийного производства гибких экранов для электронных книг. В отличие от большинства современных дисплеев e-ink, в новинке будет использоваться не стеклянная, а пластиковая подложка похожая на «защитную пленку» для экранов сотовых телефонов. Пластиковые экраны будут гибкими, более тонкими и прочными, чем их стеклянные...
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Релиз GNOME 3.4. Обзор новшеств - www.opennet.ru   00:10 31/03/2012
После шести месяцев разработки официально представлен релиз десктоп-окружения GNOME 3.4. В новой версии полностью переработан интерфейс web-браузера Epiphany, добавлено приложение для управления виртуальными машинами и организации удалённого доступа Boxes, интегрированы функции поиска документов, улучшена поддержка графических планшетов, реализовано глобальное меню для приложений, обеспечена поддержка плавной прокрутки, расширены...
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Google is about to launch a new commenting system that will tie into the search giant’s Google+ platform, web services and web search, a source close to the product’s development confirmed with The Next Web Tech-WD blogger Saud Al-Hawawi also reported yesterday  that several new Google features that have yet to be announced were discussed at the Google event G-Saudi Arabia , including the new commenting platform. The Google comment system, which will almost certainly rival that of Facebook, will have deep links to Google’s network of services and websites, indexing comments in Google Search, and most significantly, the system will be available for use on third party sites. You can’t go anywhere these days without running into a site that is using...
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Ask Ars: how safe is my data stored in iCloud? - arstechnica.com   11:50 22/03/2012
Apple uses “industry best practices” to keep iCloud data protected. Apple’s iCloud service lets users sync a staggering amount of data between Macs, Windows PCs, iPhones, and iPads. Though Apple says it stores this data securely in an encrypted format, just how safe is it? An Ars reader wrote in to ask us this question, so we decided to investigate. The simple answer is that your data is at least as safe as it is when stored on any remote server, if not more so. All data is transferred to computers and mobile devices using secure sockets layer via WebDAV, IMAP, or HTTP. All data except e-mail and notes—more on that later—are stored and encrypted on disk on Apple’s servers. And secure authentication tokens are created on mobile...
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CNET News CNET News Mobile Google+ Hangouts now calling any phone With the flip of a virtual switch, Google has graduated a popular experimental feature into a standard for Google+ users, the ability to place calls to any number using Google Hangout. by Jessica Dolcourt March 23, 2012 2:23 PM PDT Follow @jdolcourt Now you can place calls to phones from Google+ Hangouts. (Credit: Google) Video chatting in Hangouts is busting out of Google+. Video calls among two or more Google+ users was the big draw when Hangouts launched, but now Google has flipped the switch the allow Google+ users to make phone calls to almost any phone number, not just within the Google+ ecosystem. That means that...
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Moving large data volumes from the Amazon storage cloud to rivals Windows Azure and Rackspace takes ten times as long as it does to move data from Azure and Rackspace into Amazon, according to a series of tests conducted by storage vendor Nasuni. Nasuni conducted five series of tests, in each case moving 12TB of data between two cloud services. The results , announced today, show that moving data from Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) to Azure or Rackspace takes far longer than it does to move data from the competing cloud services into Amazon. For example, moving 12TB from Amazon to Azure takes 40 hours, while moving the same amount from Azure to Amazon takes just four hours. Further results: Rackspace to Amazon took five hours, Amazon to Rackspace took...
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The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark . If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here . Name: OneID Inc. Quick Pitch: Goodbye user names and passwords. Genius Idea: OneID has created single-click login so users don’t have to enter a user name, password, credit card number or billing information. OneID also has no centralized data storage, making it extremely difficult for hackers to access confidential information. Steve Kirsch wants to swap his 352 user names and passwords for a simple single click sign-in. The Silicon Valley entrepreneur with 30 years’ experience hopes to take the web by storm with his new startup, OneID....
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Linux 3.3 - kernelnewbies.org   14:20 19/03/2012
Immutable Page Info Attachments Linux 3.3 Linux 3.3 has been released ( official announcement ) on 18 Mar 2012. Summary : This release features as the most important change the merge of kernel code from the Android project. But there is more, it also includes support for a new architecture (TI C6X), much improved balancing and the ability to restripe between different RAID profiles in Btrfs, and several network improvements: a virtual switch implementation (Open vSwitch) designed for virtualization scenarios, a faster and more scalable alternative to the “bonding” driver, a configurable limit to the transmission queue of the network devices to fight bufferbloat, a network priority control group and per-cgroup TCP buffer limits. There...
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Марк Шаттлворт опубликовал в своем блоге интересную информацию и заявил о значительном увеличении доли промышленных решений на базе серверной редакции Ubuntu: >>-----Цитата---->> Замечательная вещь случилась в этом году: компании начали внедрение Ubuntu вместо RHEL для крупномасштабных промышленных решений, в массовом порядке. <<-----Цитата----<< График: Ubuntu vs RHEL on Public Web Services Он отмечает, что благодаря интеграции компонентов...
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3 Predictions On The Future Of Enterprise Software - techcrunch.com   02:11 17/03/2012
TechCrunch: 3 Predictions On The Future Of Enterprise Software http://t.co/aMsY9t4V by @uzisho
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A decade ago, Linux developer Red Hat faced a decision that would make or break the company: whether to stop producing the very product that gave Red Hat its name. The company was built on Red Hat Linux, but when Paul Cormier—now the head of Red Hat’s technologies and products group—joined the company as vice president of engineering in 2001, he knew Red Hat’s devotion to open source alone couldn’t create a business model capable of standing up to the Microsofts and Oracles of the world. He pushed for drastic action. To move from small player to big-time enterprise software competitor, Cormier argued that Red Hat had to ditch the freely downloadable Red Hat Linux. Instead, it should replace Red Hat Linux with a more robust enterprise software...
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Could Anonymous be the next al-Qaeda? FBI Director Robert Mueller warned a group of cybersecurity experts on Thursday that online attacks will replace terrorism as the most serious threat facing the U.S., according to The Associated Press . Mueller pressed private businesses and Internet security firms to secure American digital infrastructure from rogue hackers and attacks sponsored by foreign governments. “We are losing data, we are losing money, we are losing ideas and we are losing innovation,” Mueller said at the RSA Digital Security Conference in San Francisco. “Together we must find a way to stop the bleeding.” Counterterrorism is still the FBI’s top priority, but the agency is working to better equip itself against online attacks. Trained cyber...
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Nokia Lumia Windows 8 Tab Coming Later This Year? - techcrunch.com   02:10 17/03/2012
TechCrunch: Nokia Lumia Windows 8 Tab Coming Later This Year? http://t.co/NdmCbc2K by @mjburnsy
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Apple To “Blow Our Minds” With Amazing Products This Year - www.redmondpie.com   16:03 24/02/2012
Advertisements Apple’s new CEO Tim Cook held his first shareholder meeting yesterday, and it seems the guy is pretty bullish on what his company is going to offer to us gadget junkies over the coming months. During the meeting, Cook teased that Apple is working on some mind-blowing products for 2012, with the money quote coming early on in proceedings. “You can be assured we are working as hard as ever this year to deliver an incredible year and some products that will blow your mind.” Well darn Mr. Cook, what could you mean by that? We’re going to go ahead and suggest that an Apple leaf blower isn’t really what the man meant, though we aren’t going to say that wouldn’t be the best darned leaf blower we’ve ever seen. Cook also...
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Apple Acquires Chomp to Improve App Store Discovery - thenextweb.com   22:22 24/02/2012
Apple has acquired the app search and discovery platform Chomp in order to rebuild the way that apps are searched for and discovered on the App Store, reports MG Siegler of Techcrunch . The acquisition should help to rectify issues that many have finding new apps on the App Store that are of value. Updates below. Chomp has several deals in place with other company’s that will apparently remain in place for now, but with the team and product transitioning into Apple hands, both those deals and any standalone products will be shuttered. Apple apparently bought the team and the tech behind the company out specifically to use in overhauling the App Store’s search and recommendation system. The terms of the acquisition aren’t known yet. But it’s likely that the deal was...
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Ubuntu running from a docked Android phone Canonical has announced a new product called Ubuntu for Android that will bring the popular Linux distribution to high-end Android smartphones. The product consists of a complete Ubuntu desktop experience that is intended to be installed on the device alongside the standard Android environment. Users will be able to run Ubuntu from their phone when they plug the device into a dock that connects to a keyboard and monitor. The underlying concept is similar to that of the WebTop environment that Motorola ships on the Atrix handset and other devices. The new Ubuntu variant runs on top of the Android kernel and is designed to work well on devices with dual-core ARM CPUs. Unlike Motorola’s Ubuntu-based WebTop environment,...
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Cult of Mac: John (@DrCrypt) is on a plane to Barcelona to cover Mobile World Conference for us. Lucky bastard. Safe flight john! http://t.co/tRR5HtpN
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Techland: How Target knew a high school girl was pregnant before her parents did | http://t.co/Ss9GRAVt
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Не стоит паниковать по поводу слабых RSA ключей — просто заботьтесь о своих P и Q Вы возможно уже видели препринт опубликованный сегодня Ленстрой и др ( обсуждение на хабре ) о проблемах с энтропией в криптографических системах с открытыми ключами. Закир Дурумерик , Ерик Вустров , Алекс Халдерман , и Я (Надя Хенингер) ждали, чтобы раскрыть похожие результаты. Мы опубликуем полную статью после того, как все задействованные...
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Thoughts on Scalability, NoSQL, Big Data, DevOps, Cloud, PaaS Top Myths of Moving Mission-Critical Applications to the Cloud Special  Guest Post   By Nati Shalom,  at CloudNewsDaily.com Research conducted by HP  found that the majority of businesses in the EMEA region are planning to move their mission-critical apps to the cloud. Of the 940 respondents, 80 per cent revealed plans to move mission-critical apps at some point over the next two to five years. This is a fairly dramatic shift in how most companies and enterprises in particular plans to embrace the Cloud. This would be a good time for a reality check, to look at some of the predominant myths about cloud adoption, and what we should change as we start to...
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Android tablets are doomed without a single OS version - www.zdnet.com   19:23 19/02/2012
This weekend has been an Android tablet weekend. I’ve been updating all the tablets I have, both OS and app updates. I like doing it as it is fun to get under the hood with Android and tinker. All of this updating has driven one point home that Google hasn’t understood yet — until there is one OS version on all Android tablets they will never compete well. The tablets I have are varied, yet have something in common that is giving me fits. All but one of them is running Android 2.3 (Gingerbread), which is not even an official tablet OS version according to Google. The one exception, the Galaxy Tab 10.1, is officially running Honeycomb, a “real” tablet OS. The latest version of Android, Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS), has been out for a few months and there are even apps...
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Ирак уступил России первое место по степени риска заражения, которому подвергаются компьютеры при веб-серфинге.
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No, It's Not a Scottish Flag... It's the New Windows 8 Logo! - www.readwriteweb.com   23:06 17/02/2012
ReadWriteWeb It will take some getting used to. Okay, I take that back: No, it won’t. The official explanation from Microsoft this afternoon for its design choice for the new Windows 8 logo - a white cross on a tilted blue rectangle - is that the logo wanted to return to its origins and stop being a flag. “If you look back to the origins of the logo you see that it really was meant to be a window,” writes Microsoft user experience director Sam Moreau this afternoon. ” “‘Windows’ really is a beautiful metaphor for computing and with the new logo we wanted to celebrate the idea of a window, in perspective.” Granted, the four-color motif was starting to look a little dated, and newcomers to computing were...
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Поисковик DuckDuckGo перешагнул черту в 1 млн. запросов в день и продолжает расти. Это хорошие новости, поскольку качество поиска ddg часто бывает выше, чем в Google. Что в целом неудивительно: с появлением Google+ и интеграцией этой штуки во все нужные и ненужные аспекты работы сервисов поискового гиганта, последние стремительно превращаются в помойку. Туда им и дорога, в принципе. Еще один серьезный провал Google — персонализация фильтрация...
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The End of Mac - gizmodo.com   16:03 17/02/2012
The latest Mac OS X is now just OS X. The “Mac” is now gone. It’s a clear declaration of intentions. The end of Macintosh—the desktop metaphor that reigned supreme for more than two decades—is near. Not the MacBooks and the iMacs, no, but what defines them. Their software soul. Two more years and it will be nothing but compost under the flowers of iOS. Yes, yes, I know. “Outrage!” “Bring out the tar and the feathers!” “Burn him!” Whatever. The fact is that it’s happening. Apple is doing it, using an app-centric user experience model, and Microsoft is doing it too, with their information-centric Metro interface. The latter will take over Windows just like iOS is taking over OS X. Yes, Microsoft is killing...
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Cult of Mac: Why Mountain Lion's AirPlay Mirroring Is Hollywood's Worst Nightmare http://t.co/jiSunuNt
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Архитектура Google 2011 | Insight IT - www.insight-it.ru   23:19 17/02/2012
Архитектура Google 2011 28 ноября 2011 Иван Блинков Архитектура Google была одной из первых статьей на Insight IT . Именно она дала толчок развитию проекта: после её публикации посещаемость блога увеличилась в десятки раз и появились первые сотни подписчиков. Прошли годы, информация устаревает стремительно, так что пришло время взглянуть на Google еще раз, теперь уже с позиции конца 2011 года. Что мы увидим нового в архитектуре...
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Релиз пакета MySQL Cluster 7.2 - www.opennet.ru   23:18 17/02/2012
Компания Oracle представила стабильный релиз MySQL Cluster 7.2, пакета для развертывания кластерной конфигурации СУБД MySQL, позволяющих построить распределенные хранилища и высоконадежные конфигурации, которые могут обеспечить уровень доступности сервиса порядка 99.999% при обеспечении требований ACID к выполнению транзакций (атомарность, согласованность, изолированность.
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Прошлогоднее упоминание Mozilla Foundation о том, что фонд намерен приложить усилия к созданию операционной системы для смартфонов и планшетов оправдалось. Mozilla намерена показать рабочее демо системы на приближающемся Mobile World Congress в феврале, а стадия готового продукта будет достигнута в конце 2012 года. Мобильная ОС от Mozilla — интерфейс пользователя и стек приложений — полностью построена на использовании web-технологий, в качестве...
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Apple unveils Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion coming this summer with 100+ new features Apple bringing Macs to the living room with AirPlay for Mountain Lion First Look: Messages for Mac Game Center for Mountain Lion to offer cross-platform play between Mac, iOS
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The Piracy Threshold - mattgemmell.com   16:02 17/02/2012
Matt Gemmell The Piracy Threshold Feb 17 th , 2012 Music and movie industries, you’re well-known for being incredibly short-sighted, greedy and stupid. I’m not going to argue with that, because you really are. All right-thinking, rational people look upon your recent efforts towards creating further draconian legislation (such as SOPA and ACTA ) with disdain and dismay, because you’re once again looking in the wrong place for the source of your problems. Let me make this perfectly clear: piracy is your own fault . You’ve got the whole situation almost exactly backwards. You laughably think that: Piracy is an unfixable social disorder. Piracy happens because of a lack of effective security measures. Piracy is the consumer’s fault....
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Apple’s iCloud Is No Dropbox Killer (It’s Much More) - techcrunch.com   14:40 16/02/2012
With today’s reveal of the next version of OS X  - OS X 10.8, aka Mountain Lion – Apple is more deeply integrating its iCloud service into the operating system itself. No longer will storing your documents in the cloud feel like an extra, value-added feature – it will feel like part of the OS itself. The cloud is just another drive, Apple seems to say, and saving to the cloud should look and feel no different than saving to your Documents folder or your Desktop. The idea, of course, is not novel. It’s what startups like Dropbox are doing today: making a drive that appears like any other, but that can be accessed from any machine. While on the surface, it’s easy to dub iCloud “Apple’s version of Dropbox,” the truth is actually more complex: it’s about building...
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This morning Apple released the developer preview for Mac OS X 10.8 ‘Mountain Lion’, whipping up Apple fans and product owners into a frenzy as the Cupertino-based technology giant showed its plans to further merge the Mac OS and iOS platforms. As is customary with any big release from Apple, a number of publications run interviews with prominent Apple figures, asking them about the company’s plans and inspirations behind their new products and software. The Wall Street Journal spoke with Apple CEO Tim Cook, whilst Phil Schiller went on record with prominent Apple pundit John Gruber . With Mountain Lion, Apple has borrowed heavily from its mobile success and incorporated many much-loved and useful features that have been core to the iPhone and iPad experience,...
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15.02.2012 21:17  Стоимость разработки Debian Wheezy оценена в 19 миллиардов долларов Один из разработчиков проекта Debian попытался оценить стоимость разработки с нуля продукта, аналогичного Debian GNU/Linux. Используя модель оценки затрат COCOMO и анализатор исходных текстов SLOCCount , а также приняв, что в среднем разработчик зарабатывает 72 тысяч долларов в год (средняя зарплата по данным сайтов Salary.com и PayScale.com), был сделан вывод, что стоимость...
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8 Questions To Identify A Lame Programming Job - architects.dzone.com   22:43 13/02/2012
Architects Zone Did you know? DZone has great portals for Python , Cloud , NoSQL , and HTML5 ! Spotlight Resources Essential EMF The Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) is a powerful framework and code generation facility for building Java applications based on simple model… Advertising - Terms of Service - Privacy - © 1997-2011, DZone, Inc.
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Hacker News Bot: Chrome to become the standard browser on Android 4.0 and above... http://t.co/FZ7BRCq0
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habrahabr: Блог компании Intel / Анонсирована аппаратная поддержка транзакционной памяти в Haswell http://t.co/coidlJQQ
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Transactional memory going mainstream with Intel Haswell - arstechnica.com   18:41 9/02/2012
This is actually a Sandy Bridge wafer shot. I couldn’t find one of Haswell. Intel has announced that its Haswell architecture, due to ship some time in 2013, will include hardware support for transactional memory. Transactional memory is a promising technique designed to make the creation of reliable multithreaded programs easier. It does this by using a transactional model wherein complex operations can be performed concurrently, in isolation from each other, with those operations either completing or being undone as if they’d never been started—a model that developers are already familiar with from database programming. Transactional memory refresher For a longer explanation of transactional memory, read our coverage of IBM’s hardware...
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Updated : Path and Pinterest are probably two of the hottest social services right now, racking up millions of users and generating an ocean of favorable coverage. But both have gotten tripped up by the same thing that has made the social web a minefield for both Facebook and Google: namely, decisions that put their interests ahead of their users  and a lack of disclosure about what was going on behind the scenes or under the hood of their services . Will these missteps spell doom for either company? Probably not. But the backlash is a welcome reminder that for social apps, the trust of users is not something to be toyed with. Path, a mobile photo-sharing app that expanded to become a full-fledged mobile social app when it relaunched a couple of months ago , was...
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It’s About Trust and Apple Broke It - brooksreview.net   14:25 10/02/2012
Craig Grannell responding to the idea/ragae that Apple should have prevented Path from uploading a users address book : But more to the point, why should Apple become a watchdog for the less-than-moral behaviour of some developers? Just because you can do something, that doesn’t mean you should. What I think we all have to keep in mind here is the concept of trust and more specifically who is asking for our trust. Apple isn’t saying that we should trust developers, quite the contrary, because of the review process Apple is saying that we actually shouldn’t trust developers. What Apple is telling iOS (and now with the Mac App Store, OS X) users is that they can and should trust Apple. And therefore they can trust everything in the App Stores because those apps...
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The Next Web: Breaking down the rumors: What's happening with Apple's MacBook Pro? http://t.co/9BInbpcT by @BradMcCarty on @TNWapple
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TechCrunch: Google Chrome Is Now Available For Android (And It's Fantastic) http://t.co/QGxYOHdp by @jasonkincaid
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Google Near Launch of Cloud-Storage Service - online.wsj.com   00:19 9/02/2012
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Windows 8’s Metro: The face of a DOA operating system. Some of my die-hard Windows friends are very excited by Windows 8 arrival later this year . Others fear that Windows 8 will be a repeat of Microsoft’s Vista disaster . Me? I know Windows 8 will be a Vista-sized fiasco. Before jumping into why I think far most PC users will still be running Windows 7 in 2016 than Windows 8, let me explain that while I prefer Linux as my desktop operating system, I don’t see Windows 8 charge into a brick wall as being a pro-Linux or anti-Microsoft issue. In fact, as desktop operating systems go, I rather like Windows 7.  Yes, really. Besides, it’s not like Windows 8’s forthcoming failure will help desktop Linux. Looking back, when Vista flopped, in the long run it...
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Марк Шаттлворт представил новую сборку Ubuntu Business Desktop Remix, основанную на пакетной базе Ubuntu Linux 11.10 и отличающуюся от базового варианта иной подборкой представленных по умолчанию приложений. В состав установочного образа новой сборки включены программы, наиболее часто используемые на предприятиях и интересные для корпоративных пользователей. Для загрузки образа требуется регистрация на сайте, так как в комплект включены...
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Say what? Google is going to do hardware? LOL! - gigaom.com   22:09 10/02/2012
Google is making an Android-powered entertainment system and will design and sell it under its own brand, according to the Wall Street Journal . This is somewhat like the hit Wi-Fi-enabled music system made by Sonos, a Santa Barbara, Calif.–company. When I read the news, the word that came to mind: amazing! Amazing, because I just finished a post about Google’s me-too-ism affliction. Amazing, because as MG Siegler points out , the Mountain View, Calif.–based Internet giant will make hardware. Amazing, because Google thinks that it will actually be able to crack the consumer electronics marketplace. Amazing to think that this company will build a supply chain and manage relationships with retailers and get people to buy it. (Or it can sell directly over the web,...
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Artur Sabirov: PHP и Ruby в прошлом. Будущее за Delphi, Perl и Pascal! http://t.co/Jst94qpx
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Some people might say that there’s no way Google could be more aware of your browsing habits. Not true! There is much they don’t know. But it’s not because they don’t want to know. Last night Google rolled out two programs aimed at increasing their awareness of how people use their browsers — what sites they visit, for how long, for what purpose, etc. They’ll pay you for the privilege, a bit like being a Nielsen family. They even give you a little box! The “lightweight” option (first noted at Search Engine Land ) is simply a Chrome browser extension that “will share with Google the sites you visit and how you use them.” You’ll be given a $5 Amazon gift card when you sign up, and then another one every three months. Not exactly frontier gold but some people...
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Listen to Your Community, But Don't Let Them Tell You What to Do - www.codinghorror.com   17:42 3/02/2012
You know how interviewers love asking about your greatest weakness, or the biggest mistake you’ve ever made? These questions may sound formulaic, maybe even borderline cliche, but be careful when you answer: they are more important than they seem . So when people ask me what our biggest mistake was in building Stack Overflow I’m glad I don’t have to fudge around with platitudes. I can honestly and openly point to a huge, honking, ridiculously dumb mistake I made from the very first day of development on Stack Overflow – and, worse, a mistake I stubbornly clung to for a solid nine month period after that over the continued protestations of the community. I even went so far as to write a whole blog post decrying its very existence . For the longest...
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Suffering-oriented programming - nathanmarz.com   01:51 8/02/2012
Monday Feb 06 2012 Monday, February 6, 2012 Someone asked me an interesting question the other day: “How did you justify taking such a huge risk on building Storm while working on a startup ?” (Storm is a realtime computation system). I can see how from an outsider’s perspective investing in such a massive project seems extremely risky for a startup. From my perspective, though, building Storm wasn’t risky at all. It was challenging, but not risky. I follow a style of development that greatly reduces the risk of big projects like Storm. I call this style “suffering-oriented programming.” Suffering-oriented programming can be summarized like so: don’t build technology unless you feel the pain of...
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Martin Casado, CTO and co-founder of Nicira Nicira, the not-so-stealthy-but-seriously-hot networking startup is ready to tell the world what it offers and who is buying its software. The list of customers is impressive. Nicira’s Network Virtualization Platform is used at eBay, NTT, AT&T, Fidelity Investments and Rackspace, and I expect more companies to announce their use of the networking virtualization solution in the coming months. Nicira, the brainchild of Martin Casado, who gained fame in networking circles after his Stanford dissertation became the basis for the OpenFlow protocol, is backed with more than $50 million in funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed Ventures and New Enterprise Associates. Diane Greene, the co-founder of VMware (s vmw)...
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February 1 Is Change Your Password Day, I've Decided - gizmodo.com   17:22 26/01/2012
If you are like me—and of course you are, right? we are all gingers inside—you probably have password security that ranges from awful-like- Batman-Forever to thoroughly mediocre. Also if you are like me, you might’ve bought shoes from Zappos once— Keen Coronados in India In/Black Olive, to be precise—and been informed that some jerk might’ve stolen your password . Which, in my case, means they’ve got one of a series of root passwords that could potentially access one of my other accounts. And, boy, I’ve got a lot of accounts, I realized as I was counting up all the password changes I needed to make. And then, a nanosecond later came the realization that this is going to keep happening, every year, every month, maybe every week. It’s...
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Here's How Google Search Is Destroying Our Memory - www.businessinsider.com   13:45 23/01/2012
via Crisp360 “ We are becoming symbiotic with our computer tools, growing into interconnected systems that remember less by knowing information than by knowing where the information can be found.” This sentence comes from the findings of  a new study conducted by psychology professors at Columbia University , the University Of Wisconsin-Madison, and Harvard University .  Essentially, the study asserts that internet search is destroying our “internal memory.” “When people expect to have future access to information, they have lower rates of recall of the information itself and enhanced recall instead for where to access it.” In other words, instead of remembering the name of every U.S. President, we now remember ...
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I’m often asked about the home automation system I installed in my smart home . Between mobile broadband, intelligent sensors and software, I’m able to control my thermostat, a webcam and multiple lights all from my Android or iOS smartphone. But the first question you need to answer when considering a project like this is: Which networking protocol do you want to use? The answer to this single question affects every home automation decision down the line because of compatibility. Choosing among ZigBee, X-10, Z-Wave, Insteon and others (I chose Insteon) dictates which compatible devices you can connect in your smart home. With so many choices, maybe a simpler approach is needed, and that’s exactly what Belkin is offering with its new WeMo product line . Belkin...
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Russia's Top 5 Web Startups Of 2011 Mostly Rip Off U.S.'s - www.readwriteweb.com   22:05 20/01/2012
ReadWriteWeb In America, 240 million people are wired …to the Internet. And in Russia, 60 million people are online. That’s nearly half of Russia’s population of 139,390,205 people . Russia is currently the largest Internet market in Europe, and its Internet population has been steadily growing year over year. The population of Internet users has just hit 42.8% of the entire Russian population. Last year, we wrote about the top 10 startups of 2011 . But what are the top Russian startups? And are they all just American knockoffs? We took a look at Russian startups, breaking them down into five categories: hotel booking, games, daily deals sites, discovery engines and social networks. Here they are, in no particular order...
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What It’s Really Like to Work at Google - www.lockergnome.com   17:28 19/01/2012
Social Media & Technology What It’s Really Like to Work at Google Posted by Kelly Clay on Jan 16, 2012 | 17 Comments Google. It’s one of the most common household words in today’s modern society, and yet for a company that is used by most of us essentially as an algorithm, it tends to trigger a highly emotional response when overheard. It’s a dream job for college students nearing graduation, a highly coveted invitation to lunch by friends and colleagues who work near campus, and the bane of existence for those who produce content for the Internet. For several years, most of the public has seen quick glimpses of the life of those who work at Google: offices filled with primary colors, couches, large kitchens, massage chairs, and even hammocks...
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Why e-books will be much bigger than you can imagine - gigaom.com   15:28 18/01/2012
The e-book business will grow faster than people think. Innovations from Amazon and Apple have increased the velocity at which we consume e-books, but there are two emergent behaviors that will increase the rate of overall consumption. But before I get into those behaviors, I’ll start with a story about my experience with the book business, and how that led me to start a specialty e-book company called FlatBooks . The lessons I’ve learned through these experiences can help you understand why I think that the e-book business can really take off. How I got into the book business aka Tales of a clueless author I’m a photographer who’s known for a particular style of photography. I’ve run StuckInCustoms for the past several years and slowly built up a great...
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Красный Ёж: Линус никогда не пользовался Debian! - http://t.co/sr2r2mwH - " Как страшно жить. " (цы)
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IBM makes 12-atom magnetic memory - www.bbc.co.uk   16:27 13/01/2012
Researchers have successfully stored a single data bit in only 12 atoms. Currently it takes about a million atoms to store a bit on a modern hard-disk, the researchers from IBM say. They believe this is the world’s smallest magnetic memory bit. According to the researchers, the technique opens up the possibility of producing much denser forms of magnetic computer memory than today’s hard disk drives and solid state memory chips. “Roughly every two years hard drives become denser,” research lead author Sebastian Loth told the BBC. “The obvious question to ask is how long can we keep going. And the fundamental physical limit is the world of atoms. “The approach that we used is to jump to the very end, check if we can store information...
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Jonathan Koomey at GigaOM’s GreenNet event in 2009 If we’re going to add Koomey’s Law  to the canon, suggesting that power requirements of a unit of computing will decline by half every 18 months, we thought it was important to make sure our readers were also aware of some of the other big laws governing technology today. So get your geek on as we explain 10 other principles that govern the growth and use of technology and why they matter. It’s unlikely this will come in handy at a cocktail party, but it might help you win an argument on the internet. Amdahl’s Law.  This is named after computer architect Gene Amdahl and is used to find the maximum expected improvement to an overall system when only part of the system is improved. Put another way: It...
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Scala IDE 2.0 Adds Refactoring Support - www.infoq.com   01:13 12/01/2012
Martin Odersky: RT @alblue: My piece on #scala IDE has been published at InfoQ: http://t.co/VclygbZp
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Twitter против нового поиска Google - www.searchengines.ru   01:08 12/01/2012
Alexandr (sqrt): Покупаем попкорн RT @gray_ru: Twitter против нового поиска Google http://t.co/QMKyFz2c
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habrahabr: Блог компании Intel / CES 2012: новые ультрабуки, планшетные компьютеры и первый настоящий смартфон с Intel Atom внутри http://t.co/bdC8RzbZ
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Why Samsung Is The Next Apple - techcrunch.com   20:03 11/01/2012
For most of the ten years I’ve been coming to CES, every presentation, every booth, has had one goal: to create an ecosystem in order to encourage consumer to lock in. Year after year, presentation after presentation, someone has come out to show how the phone will connect to the fridge which, in turn, will connect to the TV. And year after year, they failed. Until now. Samsung, and to some extent the other vendors, have finally cracked it. For most of the past few years they’ve watched as Apple ran circles around them in terms of media sharing and remote control. Obviously Apple’s systems have been limited to iPod/iTunes/iPad/Mac but Samsung, a major player in both the white goods and the mobile markets, can now have it all. First, some numbers. Samsung is number one...
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Dear Lifehacker, What is the deal with lithium-ion batteries (the kind found in smartphones and laptops)? I’ve heard lots of different things about how to take care of them, like that they need to be kept charged between 40% and 80%, or that they should be drained completely and charged to 100%. What is the ideal configuration to maintain a good battery life to battery health ratio? Sincerely, Befuddled About Batteries Dear Befuddled, There is a lot of confusion surrounding this issue, mostly because lithium-ion batteries are different from older, nickel-based batteries (which suffered from a nasty memory effect not present in lithium-ion batteries). You’re right, though—charging them incorrectly can decrease their lifespan. Most lithium batteries should...
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The Raspberry Pi Foundation announced this week that its $35 Linux computer has entered the manufacturing stage. The system, which is an open board with a 700MHz ARM11 CPU and 256MB of RAM, could be available for sale within a matter of weeks. The foundation, which is located in the UK, was originally founded in 2009 with the aim of developing an affordable computer that children could use to learn computer programming. The organization produced two batches of sample boards last year for testing purposes prior to the recent transition to full-scale manufacturing. Raspberry Pi intends to offer two separate models with different hardware specifications. The initial manufacturing run is focused on the “B” model, which is the higher-end $35 configuration. They...
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CES 2012: Intel fakes ‘live’ Ultrabook demo, mulls massive advertising campaign to push MacBook Air-killers Christian Zibreg Apple Inc January 10, 2012 at 4:15 am UPDATE: As several commenters pointed out, it’s probably meant as a gag as Intel executive at one point joked about driving one handed and then without hands at all. The distinction remains unclear though due to audio not being clear enough. Nevertheless, the question remains: Why run the thing through backstage and not give a real-life demo? It looks like chip giant Intel has gone too far by attempting to have prospective buyers sold on Ultrabooks.  Bright Side of News* editor Anshel Sag caught Intel’s Mooley Eden cheating during yesterday’s press conference at the...
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If you haven’t heard of Tylt, don’t be too surprised, as the name is fairly new. In reality they’re a fresh new line put out by perennial iPhone (and other phone) accessory maker Technocel. Famous for its portable batteries for mobile phones and USB-powered devices, Technocel has partnered up with MNML — the company behind the fantastic TikTok and LunaTik watches, as well as a new stylus project — to turn out rethought versions of their most popular phone batteries under the Tylt name. The batteries are polished-up versions of their 1500 mAh Zumo, 1800 mAh Energi and 5000 mAh PowerPlant batteries for iPhone and Micro-USB. They’re shiny, sleek and pleasant to use. They come with flip-out Micro-USB or 30-pin connectors and all charge, one way or another, via...
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16 января Mandriva может быть объявлена банкротом Несмотря на то, что совсем недавно вышел дистрибутив Mandriva Linux 2011, дела у компании идут не очень хорошо. Фактически, если не найдется какого-либо приемлемого решения, удовлетворяющего и акционеров, и руководство компании, то 16 января Mandriva объявит о банкротстве. Вообще говоря, подобная ситуация не является новинкой для разработчиков, поскольку несколько лет назад в похожем...
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comScore has released its search data for December 2011, and Google continues to dominate in terms of share, with 65.9%, compared with 65.4% in November 2011 and 66.6% in December 2010. Year-over-year, queries increased 9.7% in December. Yahoo queries came in with 14.5% share, compared with 15.1% in November 2011 and 16.0% in December 2010. Microsoft’s Bing’s share of searches in December was 15.1%, compared with 15% in November 2011 and 12.0% in December 2010. Since Bing powers Yahoo search, combined the two search engine’s share of searches was 29.6%, compared with 30.1% in November 2011. AOL queries declined 8% in December with 1.6% share. In terms of search queries, this was the first month Bing overtook Yahoo in terms of search queries, says Citi analyst Mark Mahaney....
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Yesterday we covered Twitter’s statement about Google’s new social search product. The company said it was concerned about how the results would be bad for users of Google search, and of course Twitter itself. After much back and forth, one Twitter employee, General Counsel Alex Macgillivray to be exact, has tweeted an example of the type of search results that concern Twitter so much: Folks asked for examples. Here’s what a user searching for “@ wwe ” will be shown on the new @ Google . twitter.com/amac/status/15… — Alex Macgillivray (@amac) January 11, 2012 The screenshot is a Google search for “@WWE” , the Twitter handle for World Wrestling Entertainment, the most popular professional wrestling brand on the planet. Here’s a larger...
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Skype is killing long distance, one minute at a time - gigaom.com   12:16 10/01/2012
The Internet is a great deflator, squeezing out the middle men and lowering prices. The shifting fortunes of Wall Street brokers and travel agents are good examples. However, the Internet’s deflationary impact is on full display in the international long distance market where Skype has started to take away any and all growth from the phone companies. Skype (now a division of Microsoft), which at its very basic level is a people-to-people connectivity service, has become everything the phone companies feared it for. The latest data from research firm  Telegeography  shows that international voice traffic — typically the most lucrative part of a phone company’s business — is declining sharply. The declines are coming at a time when the prices of long-distance calls...
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What to Expect From Mobile Marketing Tech in 2012 - mashable.com   20:05 11/01/2012
Matthias Galica is CEO of  ShareSquare , the leading platform among brand and entertainment marketers for incentivizing offline-to-online consumer engagement. As new technologies emerge that seek to bridge the real world with the digital, the offline-to-online marketing learning curve only gets steeper. For instance, what is the future of the QR code, and should we prepare to be wowed by augmented reality? Read on for my mobile marketing predictions of 2012. 1. Quick Response (QR) Codes The Good : We’ll witness the disappearance of non-standard formats, an exponential rise in capable mobile devices, and a steady march toward improved calls-to-action spurred by more accountable analytics.
 The Bad : Even though the arrival of native QR scanning in Android...
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Lumus see-through wearable display hands-on - www.engadget.com   17:28 11/01/2012
Lumus was showing off two different types of wearable displays, the development kit — or DK-32 shown above — and the PD-18-4 a monocular version using the same technology. Driven by Lumus’ patented Light-guide Optical Element, a micro-display pod, and the Optical Engine which projects light into the lens — where it is reflected back to the user’s eye via reflectors embedded in the lens — the Lumus’ DK-32 delivers a bright 720p 3D-capable display. The effect is really quite impressive, the colors are bright — and adjustable using the display pod — and images were surprisingly clear. But the best part, of course, is that while you’re watching YouTube vids and walking about you’ll avoid stumbling into objects and...
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OnLive can turn your iPad into a remote desktop with live-streamed MS Office apps and more January 9, 2012 | Dean Takahashi View Comments Delivering on one of the big promises of its cloud-streaming technology, OnLive is announcing today that its OnLive Desktop app will give iPad users full access to desktop applications such as Microsoft Word using high-speed streaming technology. The cloud service is potentially disruptive to a number of different parties in the documents ecosystem. That means that Windows desktop applications that are stored and executed in OnLive’s cloud — web-connected data centers — can operate as quickly and responsively as if they were stored on the user’s own computer. OnLive is taking the same network that...
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Prettier than Apple? Vizio’s new line of computers are very attractive January 9, 2012 | Tom Cheredar View Comments Vizio, a company best known for its line of LCD televisions, is launching a new line of computers, which the company debuted today at the Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas. The line consists of five new all-in-one computers — two desktop PCs, a laptop and two ultra thin notebooks — that will run Windows 7 operating system. While there is certainly no shortage of PCs in the market, Vizio’s lineup is quite aesthetically pleasing, as you can see in the image above. Many people have pointed out that Apple’s success is directly related to the aesthetics of its products, and sales of Vizio’s new line could put that...
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Dropbox Tests Automatic Camera Uploads - mashable.com   21:32 29/12/2011
Pete Cashmore: Dropbox Tests Automatic Camera Uploads - http://t.co/iM97QBBk
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TechCrunch: Amazon, Apple Soar In Customer Satisfaction In 2011; Netflix Plummets http://t.co/K9ppn2Co by @leenarao
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Rejoice, Android fans! Steve Jobs’ best friend Eric Schmidt says that they are readying their own high-powered tablet to compete with the iPad 3. This Nexus tablet was rumored back in 2010 , but he says it’s now only six months away. In an interview with Il Corriere della Sera, Schmidt declares that Google is preparing “a tablet of the highest quality” that will be in the market in six months, just in time to butt heads with Apple’s next iPad revision. Presumably, this will be their tablet version of the Nexus, the crème de la crème of the Android tablets. He also says that we will see more “brutal competition between Apple and Google Android.” He also says that Steve Jobs was a “friend of mine” and a Michelangelo...
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Image: YouTube / Raspberry Pi Foundation The Raspberry Pi is a $25 computer that is powerful enough to run Quake 3, a pretty intense 3D video game. It plugs straight into a TV with an HDMI output and it’s designed to be cheap enough that anyone can buy. So why is the Raspberry Pi foundation, the organization behind this charming device, making the computers in the first place? We spoke with Eben Upton, executive director of the Raspberry Pi foundation to find out why. Here’s what we learned: It’s primarily intended for the education market. The whole idea was conceived as a way to get kids to learn how to manipulate and program computers earlier on. The Raspberry Pi foundation wants to open-source the technology so “a company in China...
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Note is Creating “Phablet” Market, Says Samsung - allthingsd.com   21:21 29/12/2011
All Things D: Samsung’s Note Creates Phablet Market -by @JohnPaczkowski http://t.co/PfdEDjEA
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Samsung introduces transparent LCD displays - www.coolest-gadgets.com   21:38 28/12/2011
Samsung introduces transparent LCD displays by Edwin - on December 27th, 2011 I still remember when I watched Minority Report, where the idea of a transparent LCD display certainly blew my mind away. Of course, since then, Hollywood did come up with its fair share of transparent displays across various movies such as “Avatar” and “I, Robot”, implanting the thought that transparent display screens are no big deal in the future. If that is the case, then chances are we are already in the future, considering what Samsung has done with their LTI460AP01 Transparent LCD display. Let us take a break here and read on how different transparent LCDs are compared to your regular LCDs. First of all, regular LCD panels require the presence of BLUs (Back Light...
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Why Windows 8 Tablets Might Surprise Everyone - www.wired.com   21:33 28/12/2011
At Microsoft’s Build conference, Michael Angiulo, corporate vice president of Windows Planning, Hardware and PC Ecosystem, displays a prototype Windows 8 tablet. Image: Microsoft Windows-based tablets haven’t been treated kindly by the test of time. Those released in the Windows XP era relied on wonky, stylus-based data entry, and even modern, touch-based tablets running Windows 7 are poor performers. Indeed, Microsoft has a troubled tablet history that the public isn’t soon to forget. This November, Forrester released a study that showed consumer interest in a Windows-based tablet dropped significantly this year. At the start of 2011, 46 percent of potential tablet owners wanted a Window device. By Q3, that number slipped to 25 percent. Forrester’s...
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Amazon Builds World’s Fastest Nonexistent Supercomputer Amazon’s supercomputer doesn’t exist. Except that it does. Photo: MarkHillary /Flickr The 42nd fastest supercomputer on earth doesn’t exist. This fall, Amazon built a virtual supercomputer atop its Elastic Compute Cloud — a web service that spins up virtual servers whenever you want them — and this nonexistent mega-machine outraced all but 41 of the world’s real supercomputers. Yes, beneath Amazon’s virtual supercomputer, there’s real hardware. When all is said and done, it’s a cluster of machines, like any other supercomputer. But that virtual layer means something. This isn’t a supercomputer that Amazon uses for its own purposes. It’s a supercomputer that...
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The source code for Oracle’s Solaris 11 operating system is now out in the open for anyone to peruse and compile, thanks to a furtive posting of a compressed archive that has been mirrored across scores of bitstreams and filesharing sites. But so far, Oracle hasn’t moved to do anything about it, and the question remains whether the code was leaked by a disgruntled Oracle employee, or if this is the strangest open-source code-drop in history. “The question I have is, what is it?” said Bryan Cantrill, former Sun Microsystems engineer and developer of the DTrace diagnostics tool, and now vice president of engineering at Joyent, in an interview with Ars. “Is it a deliberate act or not?” First flagged on December 19 by an anonymous poster...
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By Slash Lane Published: 11:56 AM EST (08:56 AM PST) Google Chairman Eric Schmidt has teased that his company plans to release an Android-powered “Nexus” tablet within the next six months to take on Apple’s market leading iPad. Schmidt’s comments, in which he said the device will be “a tablet of the highest quality,” came in an interview with Italian newspaper Corrier della Sea ( via Slash Gear ). The comments signal that Google plans to make another push to counter Apple’s iPad. Google’s first formal attempt to break into the tablet market came earlier this year with the Motorola Xoom , which ran a tablet-exclusive operating system in Android 3.0. But the Xoom failed to catch on while Apple continued to see...
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habrahabr: Информационная безопасность / Иранские хакеры смогли получить управление американским БПЛА и посадить его на сво... http://t.co/bArEwv9h
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Just last week, Google was promoting the fact that “Google+” was the No. 2 fastest-growing search term of the year in its annual Zeitgest list. And it did have an amazing pop when it hit “ 10 million members ” a couple weeks after launch last summer. People wanted to know what this new Google+ thing was all about. And since it didn’t exist the year before, on a percentage basis the growth in the number of searches for the term was astronomical. If you are not paying close attention and hear that “Google+” was the No. 2 search term of the year, you might assume that a lot of people are still searching for it. But you would be wrong. The Zeitgeist site shows all sorts of stats about that pop in searches for “Google+” back in July. What you won’t find...
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Top Google searches in 2011: iPad 3, iPhone 5, Steve Jobs and yes – Rebecca Black Christian Zibreg Apple Inc December 15, 2011 at 10:30 am As originally reported on our sister blog, the search Goliath has published its annual list of top search queries, a tradition that started eleven years ago. It comes as little surprise that ‘iPad 3′ and ‘iPhone 5′ were among the fastest-growing search terms of the past year. More specifically, ‘iPhone 5′ was the sixth fastest-growing search term on Google.com in 2011, while ‘iPad 3′ ranked tenth. Feverish iPhone 5 speculation hit its highest point in search the week of September 25, just a week ahead of the October 4 iPhone 4S presser. Searches for ‘iPhone 5′ rose 1,658 percent between...
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America’s favorite pastime, and perhaps that of all first-world countries, has yet to be truly rocked by technology. Sure, there have been a few true advancements like on-demand, streaming and the DVR, but only about 30 minutes of the average seven hours of TV Americans watched in 2010 was time shifted . Forty percent of homes have a DVR today, but most are just using them as tapeless VCRs. The reasons are complex and can’t be summed up easily, but most would agree that DVRs and streaming options are where smartphones and MP3 players once were: plenty of people are throwing things against the wall, but nothing’s sticking. I don’t have the answers, but I do understand what the problem is and what it might take to change it. I can only hope that such a...
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5 trends driving the future of work - www.zdnet.com   14:48 14/12/2011
As the year draws to a close, you may be assessing your career plans against the backdrop of holiday hoopla and the uncertain employment climate. To get a leg up, grab an eggnog and read on to learn about trends that could change how you’ll be making a living in the years to come: Trend 1: Independent consulting to see hockey stick growth curve According to a new study from MBO Partners , a company offering services to independent consultants, by 2013, the number of independent workers in America is expected to grow from 16 million to over 20 million. By 2020, that figure could climb to include more than half of U.S. workers, leading to a new independent majority comprised of freelancers, consultants and other independent workers. Blame the economic turmoil or a...
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14 December 2011 freeware , opinion piece Open Letter To Mozilla – Please Stop Chasing The Version Rainbow and Fix Your Firefox Web Browser I used toadorethe Firefox web browser. Now all I seem to do is spend time moaning when it hangs for seconds at a time, moves like treacle or worse just crashes on me. Do a search for Firefox sucks and you’ll get back 8,340,000 results, which is incredible for a product that just a few years ago was phenomenally stable and popular. What happened guys? How could you let a poster child of the open source movement become a Windows 95 clone? Sure, I hear you when you say it’s my plugins, but Chrome runs addons without this problem, so why can’t you? The fact is that Firefox is losing market share month on...
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5 Principles of Innovation - www.digitaltonto.com   13:41 11/12/2011
by Greg Are innovators born or made?  Surely, those who spawn ideas that change the world are special – different then the rest of us. Take one look at an Einstein, a Henry Ford or a Steve Jobs and it seems that they were bequeathed with something unique.  They have a flair and a surety about themselves that borders on the sublime.   Yet many others also have flair and surety and never accomplish anything of note. Moreover, as I’ve written before, stories of great innovators often contain struggle and privation .  Given a deeper look, innovation seems more learned than innate and there is surprising consistency about what drives it.  Here are 5 principles to guide you. 1. Think Small Peter Drucker once wrote, “Effective innovations start...
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Here's Why The New Path Will Make You Want To Delete Facebook - www.businessinsider.com   13:28 11/12/2011
Image: Apple Facebook is basically a glorified phone book at this point. Odds are you have more than 500 friends on the site to track. Enter Path , a lightweight social networking app that caps the number of friends you can have to 150. That number should sound familiar. It’s the Dunbar Number — a theoretical limit to the number of connections you can meaningfully track at any time. Path is a much more elegant way of keeping track of those closest friends when compared to Facebook. It’s a continuous timeline that includes locations, photos, videos and comments. It makes you feel more involved with the world. It shows you all the things that happened while you were doing what you were doing. You’ll feel okay with taking a picture of your food and...
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Advertisements In an interview with Sunday MIDDAY, a local TV program in India, Wozniak shared some pretty interesting thoughts on the success of Apple and the modern smartphones of today. Wozniak describes the Apple III, LISA and even the Macintosh computers as failures . Back in its humble beginnings, the Macintosh was created from a list of formulas developed by Apple executives. It wasn’t until the Mac was modified often and frequently over time that it became a good computer. Wozniak explains it further: The Apple III was a failure, the LISA was a failure, and the Macintosh was a failure. It was only by modifying the Macintosh hugely and over time that we made it a good computer… “Marketing people were in charge and some very bad...
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Bug in Adobe Reader Could Endanger Your PC - mashable.com   01:36 10/12/2011
Pete Cashmore: Bug in Adobe Reader Could Endanger Your PC - http://t.co/ShaNhzOh
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Google: Tablets Are For Fun, Laptops Are For Work [study] - www.readwriteweb.com   01:53 5/12/2011
ReadWriteWeb As part of its ongoing sponsored research into mobile computing habits, Google released some interesting findings about the way consumers use their different devices. Google refers to the tablet as a “third digital screen in consumer’s lives that fill[s] the gap between desktops and smartphones.” Its study found that people use tablets for personal rather than work-related activities 91% of the time. Google found that users quickly migrate entertainment activities over to their tablets when they get them. They use tablets for longer sessions on weekends than on weekdays. And 42% of the time, people are using tablets to multitask, especially in front of the TV, and even while eating or cooking. Tablets In The...
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Image: dimnikolov via flickr This may soon be the only place you see the Firefox logo. In the past two years, Google’s Chrome browser has made remarkable strides against Firefox and the rest of the the browser field. Chrome’s share of the market has gone from 5% to 18%, according to Net Market Share , and Firefox’s share has dropped from 25% to 22%. (Remarkably, Internet Explorer still has 52% of the market, though that’s down from 62% two years ago. Apple’s Safari is stuck at an irrelevant 5%). If nothing changes, Chrome will soon vault ahead of Firefox. But, as Ed Bott observes over at ZDnet , something big may already have changed. Specifically, Mozilla , which makes Firefox, may have had its oxygen supply cut off....
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Why I Will Never Feel Threatened by Programmers in India - blog.jpl-consulting.com   01:45 5/12/2011
Home > Essays > Why I Will Never Feel Threatened by Programmers in India Why I Will Never Feel Threatened by Programmers in India December 4th, 2011 John I got a call from a friend of a friend the other night. It was a fellow with whom I’d talked 11 months ago about a project he and his partner were looking to start. We established then that I wasn’t the guy for him, that I was likely too expensive for their big-dreams, small-means budget. Fast forward to present day: their project is still not launched, it’s still not right. They’ve paid for something between 600-700 hours of development with a firm in India, and they should have launched 6 weeks ago. Sure they’re only being charged $14/hour for that work, but I think the Indian...
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Why developers need a Mac « Tim Anderson’s ITWriting - www.itwriting.com   03:23 30/11/2011
Why developers need a Mac By tim, on November 24th, 2011  Follow tim on Twitter I am by no means an Apple fan. For one thing, I find Windows (and Linux) stable and fast, so you are not going to hear me argue that my computing life was transformed once I made that Switch (with a capital letter). Admittedly that is partly because I am familiar with how to fix and tune Windows and remove foistware, but it is not that hard. For another, I am not an admirer of Apple’s secretive approach, or the fact that most requests for comment from journalists are responded to with silence. For a third, I dislike the notion that all apps for its popular mobile platform must be distributed through the Apple store and subject to a fee, now extended to in-app upgrades and...
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Яндекс приобрел SPB Software, компанию-разработчика мобильных продуктов Москва, 28 ноября 2011 года. Яндекс (NASDAQ: YNDX) приобрел компанию SPB Software, ведущего разработчика программного обеспечения для производителей мобильных устройств и мобильных операторов. SPB Software предлагает широкую линейку мобильных продуктов, в том числе – трехмерный интерфейс для смартфонов и планшетных компьютеров. Таким образом, Яндекс начинает предоставлять...
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With great powers … - altdevblogaday.com   14:12 27/11/2011
Robert-Walter Studied Software Engineering and Computer Science, worked as a researcher and software architect, then switched to the game development domain, as a researcher at the Entertainment Computing Group, University of Duisburg-Essen. Interested in Game Development Methodologies, Game Design, Game Abstraction, Tooling, Model-Driven Software Development, and many other stuff. With great powers … Robert-Walter 8:33 am on November 25, 2011 Counting comments… Once, James Gosling (inventor of Java) was asked what he’d change if he could do Java over again. He replied: “I’d leave out classes”. I read about this in this—kind of controversial—article by Allen Holub: Why extends is evil . But to set things clear: I...
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6 reasons why 2012 could be the year of Hadoop - gigaom.com   20:57 25/11/2011
GigaOM: Six reasons why 2012 could be the year of Hadoop http://t.co/2OFin3ox
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What exactly is a PC? That question is likely to become a hot topic over the next few years. Originally, we thought of PCs as the Apple II or then the IBM PC. They were machines that had to sit on a desk because, while significantly smaller than a mainframe, they were still big and bulky. They had large monitors, boxy bases, and big keyboards. The original Macintosh attempted to make this footprint a bit smaller and the package more compact, but the IBM clones won the day. Windows won the day. PCs by Compaq and HP led to machines by Gateway and Dell. Boxy bases were joined by massive towers. Bigger seemed better. Small monitors were replaced by huge monitors. Then something changed. While laptops had existed in various forms for years, by the mid 2000s, the prices,...
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How Online Reading Has Evolved in 2011 - www.readwriteweb.com   20:41 25/11/2011
ReadWriteWeb: How Online Reading Has Evolved in 2011 http://t.co/wbbcAZ7n
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Wireless contact lens display now a reality - www.extremetech.com   19:31 25/11/2011
Share This article It has finally been done: A team of US and Finnish bioengineers have embedded an antenna, radio receiver, control circuitry, and LED into a wearable contact lens. If you’re a rabbit, you can hop along to their research lab at the University of Washington, Seattle, and try it out right now — but if you’re a human , you’ll still have to wait a couple more years for the bionic, Terminator-like HUD of your dreams. The team, led by Babak Praviz, has successfully displayed a single, remotely-controlled pixel onto a contact lens worn by a rabbit. Power from an external battery is transmitted via RF to an antenna that runs around the edge of the contact lens (the gold ring that you see in the image below), so that the...
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GigaOM: Mac making a move in the enterprise, grew 44 percent in Q3 http://t.co/Cbx6SC0z
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Microsoft shoots down Google's Dart language - news.cnet.com   16:25 23/11/2011
CNET News CNET News Deep Tech Microsoft shoots down Google’s Dart language by Stephen Shankland November 23, 2011 9:15 AM PST Follow @stshank Google hopes to better the Web with Dart, but Microsoft has declared itself an opponent of the programming language rather than a potentially valuable ally. Google hopes Dart will address shortcomings in JavaScript , the programming language that endows Web sites with some brains. In a blog post yesterday, though, Microsoft said that improving JavaScript is the way to go. Five members of Microsoft’s JavaScript team said the Dart sales pitch argues “JavaScript has fundamental flaws, and to support these scenarios requires a ‘clean...
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habrahabr: JAVA / [Перевод] Red Hat: Позвольте «облаку» OpenShift компилировать ваши Java-приложения http://t.co/It2rIBQb
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Looks like Congress has declared war on the internet - gigaom.com   12:38 28/10/2011
Many internet users in the United States have watched with horror as countries like France and Britain have proposed or instituted so-called “three strikes” laws , which cut off internet access to those accused of repeated acts of copyright infringement. Now the U.S. has its own version of this kind of law, and it is arguably much worse: the Stop Online Piracy Act, introduced in the House this week , would give governments and private corporations unprecedented powers to remove websites from the internet on the flimsiest of grounds, and would force internet service providers to play the role of copyright police. To recap a bit of history, the Stop Online Piracy Act or SOPA is the House version of a previous bill proposed by the Senate, which was known as the...
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HP decides to keep PC division - www.reuters.com   18:18 27/10/2011
  Article Comments (3) HP ditches costly PC unit spin-off By Poornima Gupta SAN FRANCISCO | Thu Oct 27, 2011 7:48pm EDT SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Hewlett-Packard Co ditched a plan to spin off its personal computers unit, a month after the ouster of CEO Leo Apotheker whose idea would have cost billions of dollars in expenses and lost business. New Chief Executive Meg Whitman, who replaced Apotheker, had vowed a quick decision on an issue that was beginning to alienate its PC partners, investors and customers. Whitman still has one unresolved item before her — the future of WebOS software. Apotheker put the WebOS division in jeopardy after he killed the WebOS-based TouchPad tablet...
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You say you want a revolution? It's called post-PC computing - radar.oreilly.com   11:46 25/10/2011
You say you want a revolution? It’s called post-PC computing An examination of the post-PC wave and its major players. by Mark Sigal |  @netgarden  |  +Mark Sigal  |  Comments: 5 |  24 October 2011 “You say you want a revolution, Well, you know, We all want to change the world.” — The Beatles I loved Google engineer Steve Yegge’s rant about: A) Google not grokking how to build and execute platforms; and B) How his ex-employer, Amazon, does. First off, it bucks conventional wisdom. How could Google, the high priest of the cloud and the parent of Android, analytics and AdWords/AdSense, not be a standard-setter for platform creation? Second, as Amazon’s strategy seems to be to embrace...
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Microsoft OmniTouch gives us what we all want, maybe - www.coolest-gadgets.com   18:21 21/10/2011
Microsoft OmniTouch gives us what we all want, maybe by Mark R - on October 21st, 2011 What you are seeing here is a project from Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University, and it could easily be the future. This OmniTouch has the amazing ability to turn any surface into a touchscreen. All of this is possible with this shoulder-mounted device that is both pico-projector and Kinect. So if you want to use your hand to run applications, just hold it out and the proper buttons will appear. Forget about a tablet PC, all you need is just a paper tablet! What I really like is how the user can just go to a nearby wall if they want to see an email. He or she can even finger paint on the wall, using their hand as a palette. Yes, the hand can be used as an interim...
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ReadWriteWeb You make data. A lot of it. From Web browsing to link sharing to photos published online, from phone bills to medical records to online banking - almost all of us produce an incredible amount of electronic data that slips right through our fingers - often into the gaping maw of a corporate world without our best interests in mind. What if you could easily capture all that data yourself, though? What if you could use it like fuel for apps built for you to view, sort and take action based on all that data? What if you could offer selective access to outside parties to that data? That’s the vision behind the Locker Project, an open source personal data platform, and Singly , its corporate partner for hosted installs of the data lockers....
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Dropbox CEO: We'll integrate with everything - gigaom.com   22:00 19/10/2011
Cloud-storage startup Dropbox just closed a $250 million funding round , and now it has its eyes set on being the foundation of a future where we’re never without our data. Phone, tablet, TV, car, you name it. Dropbox plans to be integrated into everything, with its icon becoming to file access what Facebook’s icon has become to sharing. And what Dropbox has in mind is about far more than apps. As Founder and CEO Drew Houston explained to me during a call, Dropbox won’t just be a downloadable application like it is now, but will be the default option for storing files to and accessing them from the cloud. Mobile is the first and obvious area to begin — Forbes highlighted a partnership with HTC and six other pending mobile deals in an article this morning — but...
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BlackBerry users revolt against RIM as disruption spreads - www.guardian.co.uk   18:43 11/10/2011
Article history BlackBerry users were hit with service disruptions for a second day on Tuesday. Photograph: Oliver Lang/AP Smartphone maker Research In Motion (RIM) is facing a user revolt after tens of millions of users in Europe , the Middle East and Africa suffered a second day without services such as BlackBerry Messenger (BBM), as the company struggled with problems at its hub in Slough, Berkshire. The company also revealed that the areas affected now include South America, with users in Brazil, Chile and Argentina suffering loss of service. With more than 70 million subscribers to its services around the world, RIM may have suffered lasting damage to its reputation. Reaction on social networks suggested that some users are considering moving to...
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VentureBeat: BlackBerry service back online globally after worst outage in RIM’s history (and the launch of iOS 5) http://t.co/ExwpRJAJ
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Samsung and Apple were in federal court in California on Thursday to argue over Apple’s request for a preliminary injunction barring sales of Galaxy Tab and Galaxy S devices in the US. US District Judge Lucy Koh suggested that Samsung’s devices do appear to infringe on Apple’s design patents , though her final decision, expected soon, has yet to be issued. Meanwhile, Samsung’s efforts to leverage standards-essential 3G patents to ban sales of Apple’s newest iPhone 4S have fallen flat in The Netherlands. A Dutch court ruled that standards agreements require Samsung to negotiate licensing for the patented technology, used in 3G networking, on fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory terms. The whole legal morass between Apple and Samsung...
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VentureBeat: Why the world’s biggest supercomputer will use graphics chips (video) http://t.co/yi07uxba by @deantak
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The Next Web: Windows 7 zips past Windows XP to become most used OS in the world http://t.co/pR6fDD9e on @TNWmicrosoft
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The iPad Mini Myth, Busted - www.fastcompany.com   00:25 14/10/2011
Fast Company: The iPad Mini Myth, Busted http://t.co/pix0W883 by @Kiteaton
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Ubuntu will power HP's new cloud service - arstechnica.com   18:48 11/10/2011
Ubuntu Linux will be the primary operating system powering HP’s upcoming cloud service, Ubuntu maker Canonical said last week. HP recently opened a private beta program for an infrastructure-as-a-service cloud that will offer both compute and storage capacity, using the OpenStack open source cloud platform. OpenStack, which was recently spun off from Rackspace , is designed to work with multiple operating systems and virtualization platforms. Options include VMware, Hyper-V, Windows and Xen. HP is going with an all-open source lineup, with the Linux-based KVM as its hypervisor, and Ubuntu for the operating system. “HP has chosen Ubuntu as the lead host and guest operating system powering their Public Cloud,” Canonical said in a blog post . “HP and Canonical are...
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The other big mobile handset announcement of the month, Google and Samsung’s 11 October unveiling of what’s widely expected to be the next Nexus-branded handset running Android, is now less than a week away, and BGR claims it’s got a scoop on the specs we can expect to see on the device. If the blog’s sources are correct (and they often are), we’re looking at an Android 4.0 ‘Ice Cream Sandwich’ handset with a 4.6 inch curved glass screen, LTE “4G” radio, a 5-megapixel rear camera (1.3-megapixel front-facing) and 1080p HD video capture – something’s been missing from ‘vanilla’ Android devices up to now. BGR is also claiming that this will be a Verizon exclusive in the USA, and officially dubbed the Galaxy Nexus. All the specs, detailed below, seem...
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Независимая компания Compuware в течение года проводила тесты на быстродействие всех облачных хостингов. Для тестов использовалось собственное ПО CloudSleuth. На их сайте любой может посмотреть результаты тестов за последние 30 дней, но сейчас впервые опубликована полная статистика за 12 месяцев . Все результаты в xlsx Читать дальше →
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Existing Users: New Users: Register now InfoQ InfoQ En | 中文 | 日本語 | Br 634,980 Sep unique visitors Article The content has been bookmarked! There was an error bookmarking this content! Please retry. David Pollak and Dick Wall Discuss Barriers to Scala Adoption Posted by Rick Hightower on Oct 04, 2011 David Pollak, famous Scala advocate, wrote a blog post, “Yes, Virginia, Scala is hard” that has caused a bit of a brouhaha in the Scala community. The post claims that Scala tries to do too many things, has poor IDE support, has an intimidating type system, and more. Ultimately David’s assertions question Scala’s broad appeal and if Scala will ever be...
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Porn Is No Longer A Leading Indicator of Web Innovation - www.readwriteweb.com   21:03 6/10/2011
ReadWriteWeb: Porn Is No Longer A Leading Indicator of Web Innovation http://t.co/UHzdEcQu
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Testing Considered Evil - unprotocols.org   17:56 5/10/2011
Follow Pieter Hintjens on Twitter Legal | About | Contact | | | Posts by date Disclaimer: the contents of this site are liable to shift in transit. Side effects may include raised eyebrows, puzzlement, giggles, nausea. For external use only. Do not read while driving heavy machinery. Taking anything you read on the Internet too seriously is liable to damage your mental health. Testing Considered Evil @hintjens’ Unprotocol Blog  » Testing Considered Evil First: blog:1 Elegant Little Pieces Edited: 1304191253|%e %b %Y by: pieterh Comments: 0 Tags: Previous: blog:16 A Tale of Two Bridges Edited: 1312413245|%e %b %Y by: pieterh Comments: 0 Tags:...
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Nothing like having Oracle validate your mission - www.datastax.com   17:43 3/10/2011
Nothing like having Oracle validate your mission By Billy Bosworth | October 3, 2011 | 0 Comments “Go for the tried and true path.  Don’t be risking your data on NoSQL databases.” I know… strange quote in a blog post from a NoSQL company, right?  Well, I wanted to quote the final paragraph from Oracle’s 15-page white paper titled: “Debunking the NoSQL Hype” written just four months ago in May, 2011.  At the time, I said it was validation that Oracle knew the viability of these databases and they were responding defensively.  Many disagreed with me stating that Oracle genuinely believed NoSQL databases were not viable in today’s enterprise. Well, if that was the case, I’ll give Oracle this much — they are fast learners!  Based on...
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Linus Torvalds’s Lessons on Software Development Management - h30565.www3.hp.com   12:20 28/09/2011
HP LaserJet Multifunction Printers Linus Torvalds’s Lessons on Software Development Management by sjvn01 on 09-26-2011 10:14 AM If anyone knows the joys and sorrows of managing software development projects, it would be Linus Torvalds, creator of the world’s most popular open-source software program: the Linux operating system. For more than 20 years , Torvalds has been directing thousands of developers to improve the open source OS . He and I sat down to talk about effective techniques in running large-scale distributed programming teams – and the things that don’t work, too. Torvalds says there are two things that people very commonly get completely wrong, both at an individual developer...
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I remember the first time that I used cloud-based operating system Jolicloud . There was something about it that just made sense to me, as someone who spends the majority of my time online. Then, when Google’s Chrome OS landed on my door with the Cr-48, I thought I’d seen the future. But as much as I like working in the cloud, and the freedom that it can bring, there’s a lot to be said for the ability to use applications that are native to my desktop. Unfortunately there hasn’t been a good way to do this, except with file management apps such as Dropbox. That is, until we saw Bitcasa . The promise of Bitcasa is to bring you infinite storage on your desktop. CEO Tony Gauda tells me that he had the idea to build the platform back in February of this year. Though...
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Twitter's new plan: Commerce? - tech.fortune.cnn.com   22:11 19/07/2011
comments Twitter’s new plan: Commerce? July 19, 2011: 6:43 PM ET Twitter CEO Dick Costolo discusses the company’s business model, the departure of its co-founders, and its future in advertising. By Dan Primack, senior editor Dick Costolo FORTUNE —Almost from the moment the first 140 characters were tweeted, people have been asking Twitter how it will make money. The initial answer has been “advertising,” but company CEO Dick Costolo today suggested that “commerce” might be the next leg of Twitter’s revenue stool. During a keynote interview at Fortune BrainstormTech in Aspen, Costolo was pressed about his company’s business model. After discussing its various advertising options —...
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Hands-on with the native Google+ app for iPhone - arstechnica.com   22:10 19/07/2011
Three weeks after the public coming-out of Google’s new social networking initiative , Google+ , Apple has finally approved the native Google+ app for iOS devices. The free app is only compatible with iPhones though—not only is the Google+ app not configured for iPad screens, we’re already hearing reports from readers that it straight up won’t load on the iPad, nor will it load on the iPod touch. This is a confusing decision, and Google’s response to our inquiries about it didn’t answer the “why.” The company did, however, passively indicate that it’s working on separate apps for those platforms, so it’s possible that we may see multiple versions of Google+ for iOS soon: “We are working quickly to roll out...
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Why files need to die - radar.oreilly.com   19:22 14/07/2011
Why files need to die Files are an anachronism in the digital age. It’s time for something better. by Alex Bowyer |  @alexbfree |  Comments: 24 |  14 July 2011 Files are an outdated concept. As we go about our daily lives, we don’t open up a file for each of our friends or create folders full of detailed records about our shopping trips. Create, watch, socialize, share, and plan — these are the new verbs of the Internet age — not open, save, close and trash. Clinging to outdated concepts stifles innovation. Consider the QWERTY keyboard. It was designed 133 years ago to slow down typists who were causing typewriter hammers to jam. The last typewriter factory in the world closed last month , and yet even the shiny...
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