Data Storage: Better Hard Drives Ready for Lift-Off
courtesy ScienceDaily – Aug. 31, 2013 — Operating a hard disk drive is as complex as keeping a superfast car on the road. Read/write heads within the hard disk must process … Continue reading
Dotcom to Launch Political Party in New Zealand
by George Szalai – Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom is working on launching a political party in New Zealand. Dotcom, who is accused by the U.S. of participating in a “mega … Continue reading
Twitter Acquires Social TV Firm Trendrr
The social network previously bought Bluefin Labs and partnered with Nielsen on ratings data. – by Eric Hayden, courtesy Hollywood Reporter Twitter has snapped up another social-media firm that analyzes … Continue reading
Energy Dept. hacked; 14,000 employees affected
by Zack Colman, courtesy TheHill– Personal information for roughly 14,000 past and current Energy Department employees was compromised in a recent hacking attack, the department said in a memo … Continue reading
Carl Icahn Discloses ‘Large’ Stake in Apple in Tweet
by Adam Satariano, courtesy Bloomberg – Billionaire investor Carl Icahn said he has built up a stake in Apple Inc., ramping up the pressure from activist shareholders who want to … Continue reading
Elon Musk Reveals Design for High-Speed Transit System Hyperloop
by JON M. CHANG, courtesy ABC News – “Pulled all nighter working on Hyperloop (as did others). Hopefully, not too many mistakes.” That tweet from Elon Musk’s personal Twitter account was … Continue reading
World’s First Twitter Hotel Caters to Social Media Addicts
courtesy BusinessLounge – If you’re one of those people who can’t stop tweeting even when they are on vacation, you might find the world’s first Twitter-themed hotel, in Magaluf, Spain, … Continue reading
Bitcoin Ticker Available On Bloomberg Terminal For Employees
by Roman Dillett, courtesy TechCrunch – Bitcoin is now officially mainstream. According to BTC Geek, Bloomberg terminal users can now look up Bitcoin’s pricing history. Data comes from ubiquitous Bitcoin exchange service … Continue reading
Facebook is the suburbs while Twitter is the city
by @ericmbudd – Social networks enable varied forms of interaction within their users, through spectrums of openness, hierarchy, and discovery. Facebook and Twitter are the most used services to connect … Continue reading
Clara Shih rides social media savvy to Starbucks board
Clara Shih knew that whole Facebook thing was going to be big. – Peter Delevett, courtesy mercurynews – She was a young marketing manager in 2007 when she grew intrigued by … Continue reading
Antoher Opportunity To Get Your HARDWARE to Market
by Chritty Watts – By popular demand, Hardware is becoming popular again, and Mattermark has compiled a list of companies worth noticing. – According to Mattermark’s website, it offers a “range … Continue reading
Social Sharing Behavior Said More Prevalent on Mobiles Than Desktops
courtesy MarketingCharts – Consumers are more social on mobile devices than on desktops, declares ShareThis, as the result of its new study comparing 4.9 billion social signals on the desktop web against … Continue reading
Chinese Tech Giant Sina Focuses On Social Commerce. Plans To Roll Out An Online Banking Platform
by Prasant Naidu, courtesy business2community — The Chinese tech giant behind the Twitter style microblogging platform Sina Weibo, Sina has shown its interest towards social commerce. According to a story published at TNW, … Continue reading
Tech startups don’t sell bars of soap
courtesy Techinasia Retail and tech are completely different beasts with different business models, operating costs, logistics, human resources, etc. When we’re talking about tech startups scaling across the Southeast Asian region, … Continue reading
PLEASE RETWEET and WHY? (GRAPH)
by A.M. Watts, art courtesy of theemiliagroup We enjoy sharing charts and graphs. This Social Media piece of art is one that was a must share, as we are aware, most … Continue reading
Hackers Hijack ‘Jersey Shore’ Twitter Accounts
by Marshall Honorof If the crew of “Jersey Shore” seemed less obnoxious than usual on Twitter this past week, it’s because a prolific team of troublemakers hacked them. TeamHype, a group … Continue reading
Welcome to the third wave of wearable technology
by Lieu Thi Pham | July 10, 2013, 2:30 AM PDT, courtesy smartplanet NEW YORK — When Dr. Sabine Seymour launched the Computational Fashion program at the art and technology institute Eyebeam … Continue reading
Market for Fake Social Network Accounts Still Booming
by Robert Lemos, courtesy eweek Want to be popular online? Sites continue to sell fake followers to make people appear to have a large following, but competition has led to a … Continue reading
Internet Founding Father and Googler, Vint Cerf Talks About the Future of Libraries at London Conference
Filed by Gary Price on July 12, 2013, courtesy infodocket The legendary Vint Cerf (currently Internet Evangelist at Google) spoke about a number of topics when he was interviewed by CUNY journalism … Continue reading
StarWalk Kids Media Offers Free July Access to eBook Collection
StarWalk Kids Media has announced that it has made all 160-plus ebooks in its collection available free of charge for anyone with Internet access—children, families, and educators—during the entire month of … Continue reading
Vine for Android phones updated with unique quick-capture feature
IPhone owners, be jealous: Android users are getting a Vine feature you can’t have. The Vine app for Android received an update Thursday afternoon that brought it up to date … Continue reading
Will Smith Adds $3 mil to ‘The Fancy’
Social Shopping just got fancier by @ChrittyWatts Will Smith has added $3 million dollars to the further growth of the The Fancy, an e-commerce site you will come to know with … Continue reading
Infectious Disease Research Gets a Boost from Websites, Blogs, and Social Media
courtesy ScienceDaily July 3, 2013 — While public health officials around the world are on alert about the pandemic potential of new disease threats, a team that includes Penn State … Continue reading
Westport Native Doug Imbruce Sells Qwiki To Yahoo For $50 Million
courtesy stamford.dailyvoice.com WESTPORT, Conn. — Westport native Doug Imbruce is enjoying a $50 million birthday gift after selling his startup Qwiki to Yahoo, he announced via his Twitter and Qwiki’s blog. “So … Continue reading
Tweet timing tells bots, people and companies apart
courtesy psypost Tweet timing can differentiate individual, corporate and bot-controlled Twitter accounts independent of the language or content of a tweet, according to research published July 3 in the open … Continue reading
Bebo’s $849M Implosion Teaches a Brutal Lesson in Social Networking
by Ryan Tate, courtesy wired.com Also-ran social network Bebo has been bought back by one of its founders for $1 million five years after that same founder, along with his … Continue reading
As Egypt Erupts in Political Tumult, Twitter Translates High-Profile Tweeters
by Mike Isaac, courtesy AllthingsD In an ongoing effort to make Twitter more readily accessible to the world, Twitter continued its experiments with tweet translation on Wednesday, giving people the … Continue reading
Google + Facebook = 70 percent of all mobile ad revenues worldwide
by John Koetsier, courtesy Venturebeat By itself, Google accounts for 56 percent of all global mobile ad revenues. Social giant Facebook takes a much smaller chunk with 13 percent. But … Continue reading
A screenshot showing the new privacy settings for Vine that are immediately available through an update from Google’s Play store and Apple’s App Store. Vine adds privacy settings, video shooting tools and ‘re-vining’
By Paresh Dave, courtesy LATimes Vine, the mobile application that enables users to create six-second videos, released a significant update Wednesday, adding privacy settings, video-shooting tools and new opportunities to … Continue reading
Social Networks Shape Monkey ‘Culture’ Too
courtesy ScienceDaily posted by Chritty Watts, TiA Staff The researchers, led by Andrew Whiten of the University of St Andrews, made the discovery by combining social network analysis with more traditional social … Continue reading
Kanye Earns Steve Jobs’ Autograph by Siring Child
Thank Yeezus. Kanye West recently celebrated his first Father’s Day after girlfriend Kim Kardashian gave birth to North “At Least It’s Not Kaidence” West.On such an occasion, what do you … Continue reading
What I Learned About Technology After Talking To A Bunch Of Teenagers This Weekend
by Steve Kovach, courtesy BusinessInsider I spent this weekend in Cleveland for my little cousin’s high school graduation. He’s 18. Most of his friends are 17-19 years old. And when … Continue reading
As IPO Nears, Twitter CEO Says “We Think Of Revenue Like Oxygen”
by Gregory Ferenstein, courtesy TechCrunch As Twitter nears its IPO, CEO Dick Costolo seemingly refuses to focus on the money. “We think of revenue like oxygen. Essential to life but … Continue reading
A New Twist That Could Speed the Internet
by Evan Applegate, courtesy BusinessWeek What strands of copper were to the 19th century, strands of glass are to the 21st. Since their introduction in the 1980s, fiber-optic cables have … Continue reading
The internet, the Cloud, social media, and technology could all be working to change the way that human’s are evolving.
This article titled “From memory to sexuality, the digital age is changing us completely” was written by Jonathan Freedland, for The Guardian on Friday 21st June 2013 20.00 In this … Continue reading
First Apple, and Now Myspace? New Services Try to Crash Pandora’s Party
By Olga Kharif, courtesy Bloomberg.com Remember MySpace? Contrary to what you might think, it’s not dead. In fact, the music-oriented social network launched a redesigned site and a new mobile … Continue reading
There’s a Fly in My Tweets!
by HENRY KAUTZ, Published: June 21, 2013 (courtesy NYTimes) ROCHESTER — MANY important public health questions are difficult and costly to answer. What kind of risks do highly localized sources … Continue reading
How APIs Help Us Comprehend The Infinite Concept Of Data
by Alex Williams, courtesy TechCrunch Data is like oil. It only has a future value just sitting in a big pool. “Pure data,” as my fellow panelists said Friday night … Continue reading
VIDEO: Thieves using ‘mystery box’ to instantly unlock and rob high-tech cars
Evidently, car buyers are not the only ones big on in-car technology. Would-be thieves seem to be digging all the high-tech systems as well. Moving up from the trade of … Continue reading
New Way To Sell Digital Music? Bitcoins Increase In Legitimacy And Rise In Value
New Way To Sell Digital Music? Bitcoins Increase In Legitimacy And Rise In Value When I first wrote about Bitcoin over a year ago and suggested musicians check out digital music … Continue reading
Today’s Acqui-Hires Will Become Tomorrow’s Innovators
by Peter Relan, courtesy TechCrunch There is no doubt about the unprecedented wealth of talent in Silicon Valley, both technical and entrepreneurial. The area has become known as a mecca, … Continue reading
CloudUp Is A Fast, Dead-Simple Way To Share And View Files On Any Platform (Without The Folders)
by Rip Empson, courtesy TechCrunch In today’s world of email, social networks, SMS, chat applications and cloud services, there are plenty of ways to share share a file, folder, photo or … Continue reading
Woz Up With That?
Huh? Kanye’s birthday gift from Kim was… Woz? by Eric Mack, courtesy CNET The Apple co-founder and iconic rapper get together for a chat about their shared interest in technology. … Continue reading
University of Michigan study links social media and narcissism
Jenniffer Weigel, courtesy Chicago Tribune For those Americans unnerved by the popularity of social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter, a new study from the University of Michigan will come … Continue reading
Kim Dotcom: Megaupload User Information Erased in ‘Data Massacre’
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai, courtesy mashable On Wednesday, Kim Dotcom revealed that a large amount of user data was wiped from his old and controversial file-sharing service Megaupload by hosting provider LeaseWeb. In classic Dotcom … Continue reading
Scientists discover genuine use for AR vision by giving firefighters
courtesy digitaltrends It’s hard to discredit the genuine bravery of firefighters. After all, their job regularly requires them to run into burning buildings and ensure that as little damage as possible … Continue reading
Creating Successful Product Flows
by Ryan Glasgow, courtesy medium.com This is the second article in a three-part series on building products for critical mass. Part I discusses why every startup needs a story and … Continue reading
FACEBOOK’S BLACKOUT; ‘LIKE’ IF YOU WERE HIT
Facebook experiences apparent outage courtesy OddOnion Facebook is currently suffering an apparent disruption that is preventing many of its users from accessing the social network. Downforeveryoneorjustme.com was giving visitors intermittent … Continue reading
Instrument allows people to tweet musical numbers as a way to promote city-wide art initiative.
by Matt Sabourin (courtesy PFSK) From June 1st through June 16th, 88 pianos (one for each key on a instrument) are being placed throughout NYC’s five boroughs by the non-profit … Continue reading
WhatsApp hits new record after processing 27 billion messages in one day
by Jon Russell (courtesy TNW) Mobile messaging service WhatsApp has announced record user numbers, after revealing that the service just processed 27 billion messages over a 24 hour period. That’s … Continue reading
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