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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 29 2012 @ 01:50 PM EDT |
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 29 2012 @ 02:24 PM EDT |
Global reporting is vital, but few magazines pay travel expenses
anymore. Here's my solution.
Roberta
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| Authored by: Gringo_ on Friday, June 29 2012 @ 02:39 PM EDT |
This is not
good news, and Microsoft is no
"White Knight". Execs from Microsoft and RIM
met earlier
this year to discuss a partnership that would see RIM ditch
its
Blackberry OS in favor of Redmond's Windows Phone as the
main operating system
for its smartphones, according to a
published
report....
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is said to have
huddled with RIM executives after former RIM co-chiefs Jim
Balsille and Mike
Lazaridis left the company in January.
Ballmer pitched a plan under which RIM
would drop its own OS
for Windows Phone, Reuters reported
Friday.
You would think RIM would be wise enough to avoid
this.
Look what Microsoft's help did for Nokia. Their shares are
now just a
notch above the pink sheets. NOK is down 56.2%
year-to-date, and fell to a
fresh 16-year low of $2.04
earlier in the session. At last look, the stock
is down 1%
at $2.09.
My hope is that Google would come in and help
them
continue to develop their new QNX devices - but this time
running Google
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| Authored by: Gringo_ on Friday, June 29 2012 @ 03:14 PM EDT |
Google yesterday claimed that its Chrome is the world's
most popular
browser, interceding for the first time in the
dispute over browser usage share
-
Computerworld.
That's an
amazing performance, considering that for most
of its existence Google did
nothing to promote it. I'm sure
those nearly a million a day Android
activations had
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| Authored by: Gringo_ on Friday, June 29 2012 @ 03:31 PM EDT |
There's an interesting article
by Trent Nouveau over at
TGDaily...
A new report claims that PC vendors -
including
Hewlett Packard (HP) - are up in arms over
Microsoft's recent decision to enter
the lucrative tablet
market with its Surface device.
"Most were
debating whether or not to bother with
WART
(Windows on Arm RT) devices, and
struggling to find a reason
to do so," says Charlie Demerjian of
SemiAccurate.Then
Microsoft just unveiled one of the largest and most
unethical industrial espionage campaigns of the last few
decades, so it is no
surprise that everyone is jumping
ship."
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"That said, HP
may be the first, but SemiAccurate is hearing
just about every OEM out there is
scrapping one or more WART
designs, with most renewing Android efforts with
every
resource at their disposal... Microsoft's incompetent
management and
Apple envy earned the enmity of their largest
partner, and others are following
closely."
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| Authored by: Gringo_ on Friday, June 29 2012 @ 03:55 PM EDT |
"Google Repeats Stunt; Brin Wears Project Glass
Sunglasses" - Tom's Guide [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 29 2012 @ 04:12 PM EDT |
The basic idea behind Megabox is simple. Give the public access to
free music, and cut out the big labels so artists get properly compensated from
the revenue being generated.
This revenue comes from the Megakey application
that users have to install. Megakey works like an ad blocker, but instead of
blocking ads it replaces a small percentage with Mega’s own ads. Those who
prefer not to install the app have the option to buy the music
instead.
“Music will be free for users who install the Megakey App. Anyone
who does not like the App can just purchase the music,” Dotcom
explains.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 29 2012 @ 05:47 PM EDT |
“You could end up getting fined just for clicking on the wrong
link,” said Steve Anderson, founder of OpenMedia.ca, which has been joined by
the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the US
digital rights group Public
Knowledge, the Council of Canadians,
the global consumer advocacy group SumOfUs.org,
software company Tucows, Chilean public
interest group ONG Derechos
Digitales and the Washington, DC-based watchdog group Public Citizen. “Your
Internet access could be terminated; your own content could be removed from the
web and you may not have access to the kind of online material you have
now.
“I think if this goes through a lot of people will be looking over
their shoulder and they’ll be very nervous about what they click on. If you
click and end up downloading something that is covered by copyright, you could
be dragged into court.”
Gillian Shaw,
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 29 2012 @ 06:28 PM EDT |
Megaupload Judge Defers Decision On Seizing Users’
Data Bloomberg;
Megaupload Judge To Issue Order On Return Of User Data
“Shortly” Torrentfreak;
Megaupload founder still faces NZ extradition battle
Reuters;
MegaUpload scores a big win in court case CNet;
Dotcom farce calls for new police inquiry NZ Herald;
The Panel with Josie McNaught and Finlay MacDonald
Radio
NZ Afternoons, 29 Jun, 2012, ogg or mp3, from 6'25" to 19'05"
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 29 2012 @ 08:12 PM EDT |
nice little graph, not much else
http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/29/visualized-the-iphone-five-years-after-launch
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| Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Friday, June 29 2012 @ 09:31 PM EDT |
Leap second today (Saturday).
Failure to adjust, could potentially
result in some goofy eye pea lawsuit.
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You are being MICROattacked, from various angles, in a SOFT manner.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Friday, June 29 2012 @ 10:09 PM EDT |
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Scrapping the machines brings to
an end the embarrassing e-voting debacle which has cost the taxpayer more than
€54m since it emerged the expensive equipment was faulty.
They could not be
guaranteed to be safe from tampering. And they could not produce a printout so
that votes/results could be double-checked.
...
A condition of the
contract [Destruction of the machines] is that two electronic chips in each
machine, which hold information on how the equipment works, are
destroyed.
I wonder who is so concerned about those
chips?
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- yardstick - Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 30 2012 @ 05:30 AM EDT
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| Authored by: Gringo_ on Saturday, June 30 2012 @ 01:41 PM EDT |
Google Glass Team: ‘Wearable Computing Will Be the Norm’
By Steven Levy -
link
I ... bit at the opportunity to do a phone
interview with two of the leaders of Glass. Google
originally hired project
head Babak Parviz from the
University of Washington, where he was the McMorrow
Innovation Associate Professor, specializing in the
interface between biology
and technology. (One relevant
piece of work: a paper called “Augmented Reality
in a
Contact Lens.”)
The other Glass honcho, product manager Steve
Lee, is a
longtime Google product manager, specializing in location
and
mapping areas. Here is the edited conversation.
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