Linux is a rounding error in Apple?s world

Open source and Linux have been hugely successful, changing how software is developed and delivered. Naturally, one of the ways that success can be measured is in dollars, though the corporate world’s two-fisted adoption of open source have seen the rewards accrue and spread in ways visionary Linus Torvalds couldn’t have predicted all of those [...]


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Source: http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2012/03/29/red-hat-nears-revenue-milestone-world-yawns/

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Twitter Expands European Business

Twitter is signaling its intentions to ramp up its European business by posting 17 new job openings for its new office in Dublin, Ireland. Most of the positions are sales-related, and include jobs that cover Spain and the Netherlands, two new territories for the company's ad products. Twitter has around 900 employees worldwide.

Source: http://allthingsd.com/20120403/twitter-expands-european-business/

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Professional Decorating Ideas in the Houzz

Service brings consumers and interior designers together through sample rooms and social networking.

Source: http://allthingsd.com/20120403/professional-decorating-ideas-in-the-houzz/

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Could the Next Elite University Be Online and Venture-Backed?

The Minerva Project says it's planning to launch the first elite American university in a century.

Source: http://allthingsd.com/20120403/could-the-next-elite-university-be-online-and-venture-backed/

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European regulators probe Motorola following Microsoft, Apple complaints

European regulators are investigating Motorola Mobility for allegedly overcharging Microsoft and Apple for use of its industry standard patents in their products, Reuters reported on Tuesday. Both companies filed complaints with the European Commission, which is now conducting the investigation that will look to determine whether Motorola failed to honor its “irrevocable commitments” made to standard-setting organizations. In February, Microsoft had asked antitrust regulators to intervene in its patent dispute with Motorola, claiming the company “has refused to make its patents available at anything remotely close to a reasonable price.” In its complaint, the software giant also named Google, which is in the process of acquiring Motorola. Regulators confirmed�that they are investigating Samsung as well in order to determine whether

Source: http://www.bgr.com/2012/04/03/european-regulators-probe-motorola-following-microsoft-apple-complaints/

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LG LS831 Windows Phone revealed in FCC filing

It looks as though LG is gearing up to offer a new Windows Phone. The image above accompanied a recent FCC filing for the LG LS831, a phone that first popped up in benchmark reports late in the summer of 2011. Now that it’s checked in stateside, some additional details about the handset have been [...]

Source: http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/lg-ls831-windows-phone-revealed-in-fcc-filing-2012043/

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Wii U launch expected November 18, but hardware is lacking

The Wii U is now expected to launch on November 18. That’s not an official release date from Nintendo, instead a claim made by a Japanese retailer. It is a date that makes sense though, as the Wii launched on Sunday, November 19 in 2006. November 18 this year is also a Sunday, which ties [...]

Source: http://www.geek.com/articles/games/wii-u-launch-expected-november-18-but-hardware-is-lacking-2012043/

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Girls Around Me app both creepy and sobering

An application that briefly appeared on the iTunes store allowed users to physically track down single women and send them messages. But the app only worked because of sloppy privacy practices. Girls Around Me, which has just been pulled from the app store by Russian developers i-Free, worked entirely from publicly available information. It did [...]


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Source: http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2012/04/03/girls-around-me-app-both-creepy-and-sobering/

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So What Exactly Can Location Aggregators Do With Our Foursquare Data?

Foursquare says Banjo and Sonar can aggregate users' location data, but Girls Around Me couldn't. What's the difference?

Source: http://allthingsd.com/20120403/so-what-exactly-can-location-aggregators-do-with-our-foursquare-data/

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Exclusive: Yahoo Loses Associated Content's Luke Beatty, as Restructuring Looms

In yet another high-level executive departure, Luke Beatty, the founder of the Associated Content unit that the Silicon Valley Internet giant bought several years ago for $90 million, is departing.

Source: http://allthingsd.com/20120402/exclusive-yahoo-loses-associated-contents-luke-beatty/

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Tour an 8-bit America with Google Maps tweak

Most online April Fool’s jokes are, to put it as kindly as possible, awful. Of all the companies that try to put creative “pranks” together, however, Google is among the best at managing April Fool’s stunts that are geeky enough to be laughed at in a good way rather than an uncomfortable, “I can’t believe someone thought this would be clever” way. This year, Google cooked up a creative new feature for Google Maps that lets users tour America with 8-bit graphics that will make any NES fan shed a nostalgic�tear. As an added bonus, the Zelda-like U.S. landscape in this new version of Maps transforms into an 8-bit Street View when the user zooms in all the way. A

Source: http://www.bgr.com/2012/04/02/tour-an-8-bit-america-with-google-maps-tweak/

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Hackers steal 1.5 million card numbers in huge MasterCard, Visa breach

Hackers stole credit card numbers belonging to as many as 1.5 million MasterCard and Visa customers, Global Payments, Inc. confirmed on Sunday. The international credit card processor was blocked by Visa after it reported the possibility of a major security breach on Friday. The company did not indicate how the hackers gained access to its system or who might be responsible for the attack.�”Based on the forensic analysis to date, network monitoring and additional security measures, the company believes that this incident is contained,” the firm told The Wall Street Journal while noting that cardholder names, addresses and Social Security numbers were not compromised. The company did say that the credit card numbers were downloaded during the attack rather than

Source: http://www.bgr.com/2012/04/02/hackers-steal-1-5-million-card-numbers-in-huge-mastercard-visa-breach/

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Overloaded plasma panel creates awesome light show

The video above is the very definition of the cliche “don’t try this at home.” Created by YouTube user Aussie50, it depicts his effort to see how long an LG plasma television can hold up to the stress of being overloaded electrically by an ultra-powerful microwave transformer before burning out. Before you start to complain [...]

Source: http://www.geek.com/articles/geek-cetera/overloaded-plasma-panel-creates-awesome-light-show-20120331/

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Visa drops Global Payments following theft of 1.5 million card numbers

Following a massive security breach, Visa has dropped Global Payments from its registry of providers that meet data security standards, The Associated Press reported on Monday. Global Payments CEO Paul Garcia said that the company will continue to process Visa transactions, however being dropped from the registry “could give our partners some pause that they’re doing business with someone who experienced a breach.” Garcia fully expects his company to be reinstated once it has been issued a new report of compliance, although he declined to specify when that might happen. The CEO maintains that the situation is “absolutely contained” and is being fully investigated. Global Payments confirmed on Sunday that hackers stole credit card numbers belonging to as many as

Source: http://www.bgr.com/2012/04/02/visa-drops-global-payments-following-theft-of-1-5-million-card-numbers/

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Overloaded plasma panel creates awesome light show

The video above is the very definition of the cliche “don’t try this at home.” Created by YouTube user Aussie50, it depicts his effort to see how long an LG plasma television can hold up to the stress of being overloaded electrically by an ultra-powerful microwave transformer before burning out. Before you start to complain [...]

Source: http://www.geek.com/articles/geek-cetera/overloaded-plasma-panel-creates-awesome-light-show-20120331/

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Android 4.0.4 for Nexus S 4G leaked

The Nexus brand has taken quite a bit of a hit over the recent few weeks, with Google failing to provide what we have all considered the defining feature for the handsets (quick and timely updates). It’s disheartening to see that only a subset of the Nexus S users are on ICS, but we’ve finally [...]

Source: http://phandroid.com/2012/04/01/android-4-0-4-for-nexus-s-4g/

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Google Drive leak suggests 5GB of free cloud storage

Rumors surrounding Google?s cloud storage service are�ramping up as we move closer toward the product’s rumored release date. The service will apparently be called Google Drive and is similar to Dropbox, which allows users to store files on cloud servers and access them from computers and mobile devices. According to a leaked screenshot obtained by TalkAndroid, Google Drive will offer 5GB of free storage�instead of the previously rumored 1GB. The image also reaffirms that files can be accessed through computers, mobile phones, tablets and via a web browser, and it will allow users to edit a document in one place that will automatically be updated in all locations. Google Drive is rumored to launch the week of April 16th. Read

Source: http://www.bgr.com/2012/03/30/google-drive-leak-suggests-5gb-of-free-cloud-storage/

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Selling used Android phones poses huge identity theft risk, expert says

Android users who are looking to sell their old devices should be wary of the possible consequences. McAfee identity theft researcher Robert Siciliano warned that personal data from Android devices is not completely removed after a user activates the built-in wipe option, The Los Angeles Times reported on Friday. “What’s really scary is even if you follow protocol, the data is still there,” Siciliano said. If you have a BlackBerry or Apple device, Siciliano said your data can be fully deleted by following the manufacturer’s directions. As for smartphones running the Android operating system and computers running Windows XP, Siciliano recommends that people don’t bother with selling them at all. “Put it in the back of a closet, or put

Source: http://www.bgr.com/2012/03/30/selling-used-android-phones-poses-huge-identity-theft-risk-expert-says/

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Linux is a rounding error in Apple?s world

Open source and Linux have been hugely successful, changing how software is developed and delivered. Naturally, one of the ways that success can be measured is in dollars, though the corporate world’s two-fisted adoption of open source have seen the rewards accrue and spread in ways visionary Linus Torvalds couldn’t have predicted all of those [...]


Related posts:

1. Torvalds attacks Microsoft: show us the 235 Linux patent violations
2. Apple has ‘out-Linuxed’ Linux with OS X Leopard
3. More Linux love amid Vista’s woes – Is this the rise of the penguin?

Source: http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2012/03/29/red-hat-nears-revenue-milestone-world-yawns/

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Super fast HTC One X camera tested against Galaxy Nexus and Sony Xperia S

The HTC One X has been showing some amazing performance. The device is arguably the best device unveiled at Mobile World Congress. And one of the factors HTC tried to emphasize the most in Barcelona was the device’s camera performance. We have already done a quick test, and the HTC One X won against a [...]

Source: http://phandroid.com/2012/03/31/super-fast-htc-one-x-camera-tested-against-galaxy-nexus-and-sony-xperia-s/

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U.K. court orders ISP to expose porn downloaders

Thousands of broadband subscribers in the United Kingdom who illegally downloaded pornography will soon have their identities exposed.�The United Kingdom’s High Court has ordered O2, a large U.K.-based Internet service provider, to hand over personal details identifying more than 9,000 subscribers to�Golden Eye International and Ben Dover Productions, two companies run by British porn actor and producer Lindsay Honey. The subscribers in question are found to have illegally download copies of copyrighted movies owned by the pornographer, and their identities will be turned over to the court so that�Golden Eye International and Ben Dover Productions can seek damages. O2 reportedly fought in court to protect the identities of its subscribers, however the company confirmed that it would cooperate with the

Source: http://www.bgr.com/2012/03/30/u-k-court-orders-isp-to-expose-porn-downloaders/

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Create an eerie symphony of sound with jelly

And here you were under the impression that jelly was just for eating. Well, in most cases it is, unless you hook it up to a fancy capacitive sensor and some other bits of hardware and software to make this wiggly snack sing. A group of students at their last year at Les Ateliers French [...]

Source: http://www.geek.com/articles/geek-cetera/create-an-eerie-symphony-of-sound-with-jelly-20120331/

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Review: Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7

On a number of occasions I’ve found myself referring to tablets as a “living room device”. They are something that you can use to check your email while watching the game, pass around to show off pictures of the family, and the device you grab to play a game during the commercials. For most people, [...]

Source: http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/review-samsung-galaxy-tab-7-7-20120330/

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Leaked screenshot suggests Google Drive to offer 5GB free storage

When we last checked in on Google Drive, it looked like Google was finally going to launch their oft-rumored cloud storage service — albeit with a scant 1GB of space for your files. According to a freshly-leaked screenshot, that’s not the case: Google may be planning to one-up competitors like Dropbox and offer up 5GB [...]

Source: http://www.geek.com/articles/geek-pick/leaked-screenshot-suggests-google-drive-to-offer-5gb-free-storage-20120330/

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Research In Motion is dead

I saw from the inside and outside how RIM transformed the mobile landscape, and how the company even battled its own inner demons throughout the years. Here are my thoughts on the company’s worst quarter in five years: RIM grew incredibly fast. It grew faster than the company knew how to manage, and RIM slowly ? and then quickly ? slipped as a result. This is the company that used to make users choose between a device with Wi-Fi and no GPS, or GPS and no Wi-Fi, just to have two products on the market instead of one. This is the company that refused to take the consumer market seriously for a number of years. This is the company that

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheBoyGeniusReport/~3/HuD_ucNnra4/

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Best Buy will close 50 big stores while opening 100 small ones

Best Buy is approaching its mixed fourth quarter earning results with mixed strategies.  While the company is planning on the inevitable downsizing of personnel, a loss of 400 positions in the company?s corporate and support areas, it is also planning a change in retail strategy. Of course there will be the inevitable in store reorganizations [...]


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Source: http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2012/03/29/best-buy-will-close-50-big-stores-while-opening-100-small-ones/

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Foxconn workers react to reduced hours, same pay

In response to one of the largest investigations ever conducted of a U.S. company’s foreign partners, Apple manufacturing partner Foxconn has agreed to hire tens of thousands of new workers, eliminate illegal overtime, improve safety condition and upgrade workers’ housing and other amenities, Reuters reported on Friday. After probing three Foxconn plants and interviewing over 35,000 workers, the Fair Labor Association reported that it found serious violations of Chinese labor laws, such as illegal and unpaid overtime, and extreme hours. Foxconn plans to reduce workers’ hours to 49 per week, which includes overtime, and it does not plan to raise salaries. The company will also hire additional workers and build more housing and canteens to combat overcrowding. While some of

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheBoyGeniusReport/~3/5-4EKVDP3YE/

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RIM: "It's Going to Be an Absolute Gong Show for the Next Few Quarters"

More dour predictions from Wall Street analysts following RIM. Over the past year, they have become the Greek chorus in the company's rapidly unfolding mobile market tragedy.

Source: http://allthingsd.com/20120330/rim-its-going-to-be-an-absolute-gong-show-for-the-next-few-quarters/

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