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If you’re guilty of skipping computer history class, here’s an exhaustingly lengthy Infographic from Manolution that can help you catch up. It sums up in detail the story behind the two biggest names in the industry: Microsoft and Apple, from their inception to today. Article source: TNW http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheNextWeb/~3/XeiDsc5lJQA/
The American Library Association (ALA) has just released its 2011 Public Library Funding and Technology Access Survey, and among its findings, 67% of public libraries in the U.S. now offer free access to e-books for their patrons. That’s up 30% since 2007. Of course, access to e-books ranges greatly from state-to-state: 100% of Maryland...
You have to love Simon. Sad thing about his Twitter account though. Weird seeing all the great at replies about it then reading this. Article source: TNW http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheNextWeb/~3/tasT8PLTOUw/
Esports. The idea itself is almost laughable to many: “Esports? What is that, nerds in a closet trying to beat each other at Tetris? They should go outside and get a tan, right guys?” Put the Bud Light down and listen to me: There was once a time when esports was a joke of...
This week’s episode of OMG/JK is a long one — the longest yet, in fact, at 30 minutes. Jason and I apologize for going on and on but we had a lot to talk about. It’s been roughly three weeks since we last recorded an episode and a ton of stuff has happened. And...
When an employee cries foul against a big tech company or its greed-driven investors, it’s easy to take the side of the employee, especially when an employee comes forward on the record to state his or her case. A wronged employee is inherently more sympathetic than a big, greedy private equity firm or a...
Magical. The word has been used hundreds of times in Apple’s marketing to describe its products, but really took prominence with the introduction of the iPad. When Apple CEO Steve Jobs took the stage in early 2010 to introduce what we all knew at that point to be some sort of new tablet product,...
Being able to crunch terabytes of data is great, but having someone else do it for you is even better. HPCC Systems, the LexisNexis Risk Solutions spinoff that launched last week to challenge Hadoop’s big data dominance, is planning to do just that with a cloud service for big data processing. During a video...
“There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to shame the devil ” – Walter Lippmann So, that’s it. The hacking group known as LulzSec has called off its vandalism spree, three days after releasing its one meaningful “payload”: a batch of documents from the Arizona Department of...
Sitting in the gallery of the House of Representatives the other day, we saw the Speaker accept the report of the resignation of the gentleman from New York, as Boehner called Weiner. Yet another knee-drop to the power of Twitter in a city that produces laws like the Valley does startups. Security forbids cameras...