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Daily Archives: August 12, 2011
Reading In Four Dimensions: “Books Are Only Going To Get Better And Better, But There Will Be Fewer of Them”
Andrew Losowsky is having a busy week. For one thing, he has just been appointed the new Books Editor for the Huffington Post (disclosure: Aol blah blah blah) and his latest essay – Reading in Four Dimensions – has just been released as a Kindle Single. In the essay, Andrew discusses the future of...
Poll: Can Big Data Be Democratized?
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. There are a number of projects out there that claim to be “democratizing”...
YouTube Posts Biggest UK Traffic Month Ever
Experian Hitwise reports that YouTube just had its biggest month of traffic ever in the UK. In July, YouTube accounted for 1 in every 35 UK Internet visits, period. The boom in traffic is due to massive growth in mobile viewing. Since January, mobile visits to YouTube have doubled in the UK. Hitwise estimates...
Final WP7 Mango build leaks
The title says it all, folks: The RTM version of Mango (build 7720), something that we have all been waiting for, has leaked. If you want to get it, for whatever reason, head here. Instructions on installation can be found here. Now, we are going to tell you that you should not upgrade your phone...
Can AT&T Grab T-Mobile Plus Qualcomm’s 700 MHz Spectrum?
Last Monday’s suspension by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission of the 180-day countdown clock for the review of ATT’s proposed purchase of wireless spectrum from Qualcomm, was another signal that regulators for the current administration may not be as permissive about acquisitions as those for the prior one. Now, as The Wall Street Journal...
The Patent System Is The World’s Biggest Threat To Innovation Today
My fellow journalists are understandably outraged at the German court’s decision. “Tablets and its smaller sibling smartphone are devices that are similar no matter who makes them,” writes ZDNet’s James Kendrick. “The function of these devices leaves little room to make the appearance of them distinctive, and that’s why this injunction is insane.” “How...
Here’s What Facebook Reminds Its Employees To Do Every Day
The person who paid $70,000 to tour Facebook might have been trying to get some insight into how the company works. Hopefully, that person read the walls. When visiting Facebook, it’s impossible not to notice the motivational posters peppered throughout the building. They seem to be there to remind Facebook developers to keep thinking...
Students love tech and Twitter enabled classrooms produce better grades [Infographic]
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We all love technology, it makes our lives better, it gives us access to better ways to plan and it makes learning easier, but the next generation of students are becoming more reliant on it than ever, perhaps too reliant. The infographic below shows just how in tune with tech modern students are, but...
RIM: Forget Sprint, We’ll Try A 4G PlayBook On Verizon Instead (RIMM)
Image: Steve Kovach, Business Insider In response to Sprint canceling plans to carry a 4G version of the BlackBerry PlayBook, RIM has said it will focus on other carriers instead. In a statement sent to us, RIM said it is working on a LTE version of the PlayBook, the 4G technology used by Verizon....