Daily Archives: September 8, 2011

Lowe’s rolling out 42,000 iPhones to use in payment systems similar to Apple Store’s

September 8, 2011
Lowe’s rolling out 42,000 iPhones to use in payment systems similar to Apple Store’s

Lowe’s home improvement stores, in an effort to keep up with its largest rival Home Depot, will be deploying 42,000 iPhones to its employees, reports Bloomberg. The devices will be used to help answer customer’s questions as well as ring out purchases. This is a very similar system to the one that Apple uses...

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Node.js Contest Winner Peers Into Web Site Users’ Behavior

September 8, 2011
Node.js Contest Winner Peers Into Web Site Users’ Behavior

As winning developer @3rdEden puts it on his distribution source, “You sign up for the service, and place one single script at the bottom of your page. The observer.js script will establish a real time connection with our server and stream the events to our database (note no private information is logged). You can...

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WHOOPS: Carol Bartz May Have Just Forfeited $10 Million (YHOO)

September 8, 2011
WHOOPS: Carol Bartz May Have Just Forfeited $10 Million (YHOO)

See Also: Why Was Bartz Fired Over The Phone? Here Are The Best Gossipy Answers We’ve Heard So Far CAROL BARTZ FIRES BACK: ‘Yahoo F***ed Me Over’ DEAR ROY BOSTOCK: Carol Bartz Called You A Doofus And Said You Have No Balls… Is Yahoo Still Going To Pay Her $10 Million? Fired Yahoo CEO...

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Weeks into Apple CEO tenure, Cook gets charitable

September 8, 2011
Weeks into Apple CEO tenure, Cook gets charitable

Since Tim Cook has taken over as CEO for Steve Jobs, conventional wisdom has dictated that due to the pair’s cozy relationship and similar style and approach to managing Apple, it would be business as usual. That’s not quite correct, as it’s becoming clear Cook has some of his own ideas over how to...

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Yahoo Poaches CNET Editor-In-Chief As Homepage Editor

September 8, 2011
Yahoo Poaches CNET Editor-In-Chief As Homepage Editor

See Also: One Year Ago, This Is How Carol Bartz Saw Her Job Details Of The Spat Between Yahoo! And Alibaba Meet Yahoo’s Next CEO* Scott Ard is the new front page editor of Yahoo. The CNET editor-in-chief joins the company just days after longtime front page head Liz Lufkin was pushed out by...

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One Of The Worst Mobile Apps Ever Invented? (MSFT)

September 8, 2011
One Of The Worst Mobile Apps Ever Invented? (MSFT)

See Also: Windows Phone Apps Will Run On Windows 8, Says NVIDIA Microsoft And Twitter Renew Their Search Deal In 5 Days, We’ll See A Windows 8 Tablet From Samsung AVG Mobilation Windows Phone app” /Microsoft is investigating a new AVG antivirus app for Windows Phone 7 after complaints that the app was collecting...

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Hey Twitter, you are a media entity now — embrace it

September 8, 2011
Hey Twitter, you are a media entity now — embrace it

In an informal chat at Twitter headquarters on Thursday, chief executive Dick Costolo talked about some of the numbers behind the service (as Erica reported earlier), including the fact that the network has over 100 million active users now. That may be a long distance away from Facebook’s more than half a billion, but...

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TomTom’s newest GPS gets smart with Yelp, Expedia and Twitter integration

September 8, 2011
TomTom’s newest GPS gets smart with Yelp, Expedia and Twitter integration

Navigation is an amazing thing, but it hasn’t changed a whole lot since we first started using it around 2002 or so. But if navigation mogul TomTom has its way, your nav is about to get a lot more connected. The Amsterdam company’s newest model, the TomTom Go Live 1535M is looking to harness...

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NumberFire Is The Tool That Will Help You Dominate Your Fantasy League This Year

September 8, 2011
NumberFire Is The Tool That Will Help You Dominate Your Fantasy League This Year

Image: numberFire.com See Also: FOOLED YA: 10 Awesome Trick Plays That Worked Colts Owner Says Peyton Manning Will Be “Out For Awhile” ESPN To Pay $1.8 BILLION Per Season For Monday Night Football Your fantasy football season starts just hours from now and you need every edge you can get. NumberFire is the analytics...

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UNVEILED: Nike Announces The Air Mags, Those Self-Lacing Sneakers From "Back To The Future" (NKE)

September 8, 2011
UNVEILED: Nike Announces The Air Mags, Those Self-Lacing Sneakers From "Back To The Future" (NKE)

Image: Nice Kicks See Also: NETFLIX: “We’re Not Cracking Down On Simultaneous Streaming” 10 Things Missing From Apple Products That We Desperately Want Back McAfee: Watch Out For Car Hackers! An update to this post appears at the bottom. Nike’s about to produce some incredible shoes from the future.Or rather, from Back to the...

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