Daily Archives: August 7, 2011

Anonymous hacks Syrian Ministry of Defense website

August 7, 2011

Who would’ve thought that hackers would use new web design capabilities of HTML5, CSS3 and JS to make Anonymous pages…

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The pain point for Bloom Energy & fuel cell makers

August 7, 2011
The pain point for Bloom Energy & fuel cell makers

In the grand scheme of energy technologies, the key component that makes up a fuel cell — which is like a chemical battery that produces electricity — is relatively short lived. This achilles heel is one of the main reasons that building, installing and selling fuel cells can be so expensive, and almost none...

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Patents and Unions: When Good Intentions Go Horribly Wrong

August 7, 2011
Patents and Unions: When Good Intentions Go Horribly Wrong

Watch me ruin your Sunday afternoon with one word. Ready? Here we go. Patents. This week on NBC’s Press:Here we talked about the topic most of our readers equate with a long, slow, painful root canal. Or worse. Laura Sydell of NPR was also on the show, and if you haven’t listened to her...

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As Apple’s smartphone sales boom, should its rivals release fewer handsets?

August 7, 2011
As Apple’s smartphone sales boom, should its rivals release fewer handsets?

July saw many of the world’s major smartphone manufacturers post their second quarter financial results, documenting how they had faired in an increasingly competitive and consistently growing market. Apple and Samsung posted highly encouraging handset sales, grabbing first and second positions as the world’s top smartphone vendors in terms of sales. HTC posted another...

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Beating the iPhone at any cost may prove too expensive for Google

August 7, 2011
Beating the iPhone at any cost may prove too expensive for Google

When the iPhone was introduced in January of 2007, it caught the mobile phone industry flat-footed. The hardware on the market was archaic compared to the iPhone and the operating systems running on them were years behind Apples iPhone OS. Even prior to the release of the iPhone , Google saw an opportunity to...

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The companies that died so that Groupon could live

August 7, 2011
The companies that died so that Groupon could live

Business ideas that are truly unique, innovative, and new are nearly impossible to come up with. So when a company hits it big on an certain concept, it’s always interesting to probe into the past and see if they were really the first to give it a shake. Usually they are not. Companies that...

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Is G+ Putting Facebook On The Defensive?

August 7, 2011
Is G+ Putting Facebook On The Defensive?

Editor’s note: This guest post is written by Tom Anderson, the former President, founder and first friend on MySpace. You can now find Tom on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+. If it’s not obvious yet, Google+ is going to be able to “undercut” Facebook when it comes to game developers and platform transactions. Instead of taking a 30% cut...

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What today’s startups can learn from yesterday’s marketing

August 7, 2011
What today’s startups can learn from yesterday’s marketing

If you had asked me 6 months ago whether I’d ever write a piece about how technology and startups could learn from traditional business than I probably would have laughed at you. Typically speaking old business versus new business, when it comes to marketing, is like comparing apples and oranges. Recently though I have...

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Planet of the iPad

August 7, 2011
Planet of the iPad

Spotify at 35 thousand feet continues to amaze. Will it upend Apple at its own game? More likely, iCloud will absorb the innovation in a more efficient combination of streaming and caching. But the inflight video is on the blink and the WiFi is cooking some Amy Winehouse and I am writing run on...

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Some Trending Topics are More Equal than Others

August 7, 2011
Some Trending Topics are More Equal than Others

It was a year ago when Andy Baio posted this tweet, and in his (far less than) 140 characters perfectly captured the key elements in this blog post: trending topics, geographies, and exogenous/endogenous events. Indeed, as Danah Boyd also pointed out on her blog, There are two types of trending topics on Twitter: endogenous...

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