Daily Archives: June 24, 2011

Inspired By Wikipedia, Quora Aims For Relevancy With Topic Groups And Reorganized Topic Pages

June 24, 2011
Inspired By Wikipedia, Quora Aims For Relevancy With Topic Groups And Reorganized Topic Pages

Quora has just announced a redesign of its Topic Pages and the introduction of Topic Groups, aiming to make information discovery and navigation on the site a little bit easier. The motivation behind these changes is a thrust towards ease of search and content relevancy on Quora, as there is currently a ton of...

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Steve Jobs Should Fire These Three Apple Employees

June 24, 2011
Steve Jobs Should Fire These Three Apple Employees

Image: via Magerleagues on Flickr Robert Scoble Weekend bitchmeme: the three people Steve Jobs should fire (can someone else exploit these?) Why mobile users and developers should care about what Matt Murphy thinks Foodspotting and Yelp has new restaurant-finding and review competition: Chewsy See Also: Check Out Flipboard’s Minimalist, “Inside Of An iPod” Office...

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Google Health: Why It’s Ending & What It Means

June 24, 2011
Google Health: Why It’s Ending & What It Means

When Google Health launched just over 3 years ago, ReadWriteWeb’s founding Editor Richard MacManus called it decent and a good start, but short on advanced functionality or integration with the existing healthcare system. MacManus called Health 2.0 game-changing (and potentially hugely profitable) but said that Google Health fell far short of its potential relative...

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iPad for Business Round-Up: Skype for iPad Details Leaked and More

June 24, 2011
iPad for Business Round-Up: Skype for iPad Details Leaked and More

Visit the Qwest resource center for relevant briefs and reports to help you better manage your enterprise. Learn how managed security services can help you focus on what you do best in this report from IDC: The Extended Enterprise: Manage Complexity, Cost, and Compliance. The iPad isn’t just a hot new consumer device, it’s...

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Weekend Giveaway: A Kobo eReader Touch

June 24, 2011
Weekend Giveaway: A Kobo eReader Touch

If you’re curious about the new generation of touchable e-readers, now’s your chance to pick one up just for being a CrunchGear reader. Kobo has been generous enough to donate one of their new eReader Touch Editions for us to give away, and a few gift cards as well. I like the device: it’s...

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Skype mess: How far will this go?

June 24, 2011

Wow…. the ugliness around Skype keeps getting bigger and bigger. The Internet telephony company which is in the process of being sold to Microsoft for $8.5 billion is fast becoming a poster child of investor greed and corporate mistreatment of it employees. Earlier this month, Skype cut many key executives, a move that is...

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The Next iOS 5 Beta Is Out Now! Here’s What’s New (AAPL)

June 24, 2011
The Next iOS 5 Beta Is Out Now! Here’s What’s New (AAPL)

Wi-Fi Sync works now. Image: Dan Frommer, Business Insider See Also: The 7 Most-Wanted Features STILL Missing from iOS 5 Secret iPhone Feature: Play Full HD Video The Truth About iOS 5: Apple Can’t Be Beat Apple has just released the second beta of iOS 5 for developers. The biggest new addition: Wi-Fi syncing...

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Case Study: How Welch’s Uses Virtualization to Keep the Juice Flowing

June 24, 2011
Case Study: How Welch’s Uses Virtualization to Keep the Juice Flowing

This post is part of our ReadWriteCloud channel, which is dedicated to covering virtualization and cloud computing. The channel is sponsored by Intel and VMware. Read the white paper about how Intel Xeon processors help organizations get unprecedented levels of performance. When Welch’s came close to outgrowing its data center, the fruit juice company’s...

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Tony Blair’s personal contacts book leaked by LulzSec rival TeaMp0ison

June 24, 2011
Tony Blair’s personal contacts book leaked by LulzSec rival TeaMp0ison

Amid all of the hacking stories and leaks of private information that we’ve seen over the past few weeks, it should come as no surprise when it happens again. This time, former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair has had a wealth of his private information set public by a group calling themselves TeaMp0isoN. The...

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Google Health has six months to live, so now who’s going to disrupt healthcare?

June 24, 2011

Sad news reached us today that Google is to close its Health service. While the company says that it simply failed to gain enough traction to be sustainable in the longterm, to me it doesn’t bode well for the future of healthcare. Google Health was designed to let individuals manage all their own healthcare information,...

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