The first iPod nano was released on Sept. 7, 2005, and in the six intervening years, it has undergone a lot of changes. In fact, the nano has one of the most mercurial design histories of any Apple product. Here’s a quick look back at the history of the iPod nano over the years...
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. Unlike Johnny Carson’s Carnac character (pictured at left), there are serious and legitimate...
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Marty McFly’s crazy kicks in Back To The Future II have long been a geek’s dream. Ostensibly made by Nike in the film, they would tighten themselves around your feet automatically and, more important, they’ve been the paragon of ultimate geekiness for a certain subset of shoe fanatics. Well, now it looks like you,...
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Your Twitter stream is being flooded by that tweet-happy friend who posts entirely too often for your tastes. They aren’t quite so annoying that it warrants an “unfollow”, but their updates definitely do soak up a bit of your feed and not always with stuff you want to see. Fortunately, there’s an app for...
The explosion of big data has caused far-reaching ripples in the enterprise. Organizations today are faced with unprecedented challenges in sorting, processing and analyzing their data, which has in turn given rise to a new generation of technologies. One such example is the R statistics language, which was originally developed by noted statisticians Robert...
“If we gave it away, how can we ensure we get to benefit from it?” reads a header from one slide in the strategy session, again uncovered by Mueller. Bullet point #2 in that slide responds, “Do not develop in the open. Instead, make source code available after innovation is complete.” Then bullet point...
Perhaps best known for their line of rugged, work-anywhere satellite phones, Iridium Communications has revealed today that they’re looking to try something new. Alongside news of a new handset dubbed the Iridium Extreme, Iridium has also unveiled their new AxcessPoint hotspot, which allows users to get online and get their email fix just about...
We here at TNW Microsoft watch nearly every video that comes out about Windows Phone handsets, for science of course, but only bring you a slice of them. Quite often the ads and videos are simply average, and thus unworthy of note. We tend to bring you the best, and the worst. Today we...