Daily Archives: February 28, 2012

Facebook Expands Media Sharing on Timeline

February 28, 2012
Facebook Expands Media Sharing on Timeline

One of the intriguing aspects of Facebook Timeline, ever since the initial launch last September, is how it highlights the media you consume. Music you listen to, videos you watch, newspapers and books you read, and (more recently) images you “pin” on Pinterest. Facebook termed the concept frictionless sharing, because it allows you to...

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Chinese microblog Sina Weibo eyes new revenues as it braces for the impact of real-name rules

February 28, 2012

Chinese Internet giant Sina is looking to diversify the monetisation strategies of its Sina Weibo microblog as it prepares for impending new regulation that is likely to reduce usage of the service. The company says the real name regulation, which are due to go live on March 16 and aimed at cracking down on anonymous...

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MEET THE NEXT CEO OF MICROSOFT: Steven Sinofsky Is The Heir Apparent

February 28, 2012
MEET THE NEXT CEO OF MICROSOFT: Steven Sinofsky Is The Heir Apparent

Microsoft It was summer 2009. Microsoft had just shipped the final code for Windows 7 to PC manufacturers, who had begun burning it onto the tens of millions of new computers that would ship that Christmas. It should have been a triumphant moment for Steven Sinofsky. In just over three years of running Windows,...

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RSA 2012: Bruce Schneier on the Threat of "Big Data, Inc."

February 28, 2012
RSA 2012: Bruce Schneier on the Threat of "Big Data, Inc."

Schneier defined this industry as “the companies that collect, aggregate, and use personal data,” citing as one example data aggregation company ChoicePoint (now part of Reed Elsevier and integrated into LexisNexis). To this mix, he added Internet magnets like Google and Amazon, social networks including Facebook, a certain very large company named Apple, “and...

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GOODBYE, CABLE TV: 2.3 Million Americans Have Pulled The Plug Since 2010

February 28, 2012
GOODBYE, CABLE TV: 2.3 Million Americans Have Pulled The Plug Since 2010

Screengrab A scene from the 1983 movie ‘Videodrome’ See Also THE OSCARS FOR QUANTS: The 2012 Academy Awards In Charts And Data Pinterest Has A Porn Problem THE DEATH OF SATELLITE TV, CONT’D: Dish Subscriber Collapse Worse Than Predicted This chart (below) from ISI Group tells you all you need to know about the...

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Google Offering $1 Million Bounty for Chrome Exploits

February 28, 2012
Google Offering $1 Million Bounty for Chrome Exploits

Google is offering up to $1 million in total bounties for hackers who can find security exploits in its Chrome browser. There’s no better way for the Chrome team to shore up security problems than by inviting people to point them out. The contest will convene at Chrome’s table at the CanSecWest security conference...

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Watch this epic TED Talk from 2023, created by Ridley Scott and starring Guy Pearce

February 28, 2012

This is a pretty cool piece of promotional material for the upcoming Ridley Scott flick Prometheus. It features Peter Wayland, the charismatic and dangerous magnate behind the world’s first humanoid robotic system. Actually, it stars Guy Pierce, playing the titular character in Scott’s new film. The movie is set in the universe of the...

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Why Hackathons Are The New American Dream

February 28, 2012
Why Hackathons Are The New American Dream

Boonsri Dickinson, Business Insider One reason why hackathons are becoming more mainstream is that you can show up with an idea, pitch it to a group of talented engineers who work at Facebook and other major tech companies, assemble a team, and work all weekend. Then leave two days later with venture funding, office...

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iPad 3 Rumor Roundup

February 28, 2012
iPad 3 Rumor Roundup

Unless Apple is conning the world, the iPad 3 should be announced next week. It, like its forbears, is the subject of many a rumor, some more likely than others. We’ve collected most of them here in this post with arguments for and against, for your convenience and flaming pleasure. Of course, we’ll be...

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Why Windows 8 is Microsoft’s most vital launch in years

February 28, 2012
Why Windows 8 is Microsoft’s most vital launch in years

Microsoft Windows was a fact of life for an entire generation raised on the PC. But we live in a different world now, and perhaps nothing underscores how much that world has changed more than the fact that the version of Windows that Microsoft is getting ready to launch this year is its most...

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