Daily Archives: August 28, 2011

Google TV Will Hit Europe Next Year (GOOG)

August 28, 2011
Google TV Will Hit Europe Next Year (GOOG)

Image: Associated Press See Also: Here’s What You Need To Know About Tim Cook, Apple’s New CEO A Photo Biography Of The Great Steve Jobs Our Very First Apple Gadgets And Why We Loved Them So Much Google TV is coming to Europe in 2012, chairman Eric Schmidt revealed at a conference in Edinburgh,...

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Cartoon: They Retired His Number

August 28, 2011
Cartoon: They Retired His Number

Not only did he skate to where the puck was going to be, he reshaped the rink, redefined the arena… and replaced the puck with the Mighty Mouse. The debate will rage for a long time over what piece of technology best encapsulates Steve Jobs’ influence on our world: The iPhone? iPod? iMac? iPad?...

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Jobberman.com redefines online recruitment in Nigeria [Interview]

August 28, 2011
Jobberman.com redefines online recruitment in Nigeria [Interview]

The Nigerian Internet ecosystem is filled with scores of recruitment boards – NGCareers, Careers Nigeria, Naija Hot Jobs, to name but a few. Job portals are popular in Nigeria for good reason – with almost three quarters of the country’s population under the age of 35, and an unemployment rate of over 19% (according...

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The Social Network Paradox

August 28, 2011
The Social Network Paradox

Editor’s Note: Nina Khosla is a designer and founder of Teethie, a social blogging startup focused on building interest-based communities. You can follow her @ninakix. Over the years, there’s been a radical change in the way we interact with our networks of friends online. It used to be that we had a few of...

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Startup Scotland: The Next Web delves into digital life north of the border

August 28, 2011
Startup Scotland: The Next Web delves into digital life north of the border

The Next Web has written a lot about the UK startup scene over the past few years and, well, it’s fair to say that London has received a pretty big look-in. But we have also covered many fantastic startups based outside the UK capital – for example Screenreach (Newcastle), Datasift (Reading), Buffer (Birmingham), VideoBee...

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Probably the most realistic gaming costumes you’ve ever seen

August 28, 2011
Probably the most realistic gaming costumes you’ve ever seen

This isn’t the first time Metroid characters have been brought to life in costumes, but they stay so true to the game’s appearance that for a split second, looking at the photos, you’ll think that they’re fake. Originally released in 1986, the Nintendo game is a 2D side-scroller, and animator Daniel Cattell’s costumes look...

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How to embrace remote meetings

August 28, 2011
How to embrace remote meetings

Consider this: managers spend between 30 to 80 percent of their time in meetings and more than 50 percent of them consider many meetings to be a “waste of time.” Ninety percent of managers attribute the failure of most meetings to a “lack of planning and organization,” and most managers have never been trained...

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Ever wonder where the Windows XP default wallpaper came from?

August 28, 2011
Ever wonder where the Windows XP default wallpaper came from?

One of the most famous wallpaper images is undoubtedly the default Windows XP image showing a blissfully relaxing vista of green rolling hills and a bluer than blue sky. The wallpaper, probably one of the most viewed images of all time, is aptly named ‘Bliss.’ Do a Google image search for just the word...

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HealthTech FAIL: Lessons For Entrepreneurs From Health Startups Gone Awry

August 28, 2011
HealthTech FAIL: Lessons For Entrepreneurs From Health Startups Gone Awry

Editor’s note: This guest post was written by Dave Chase, the CEO of Avado.com, a patient relationship management company that was a TechCrunch Disrupt finalist. Previously he was a management consultant for Accenture’s healthcare practice consulting to 25 hospitals and was the founder of Microsoft’s Health business. You can follow him on Twitter @chasedave....

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Could Portal: No Escape be the next fan film to go legit?

August 28, 2011

With clever writing and imaginative gameplay that challenges players to “think with portals,” the Portal video game series, produced by Valve Software, has been a favorite of gamers since the first game’s release in 2007. And Portal 2, which was released last April, sold three million copies in its first two months on shelves....

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