Daily Archives: July 8, 2012

The guy who invented the mouse must be loaded, right? Wrong.

July 8, 2012
The guy who invented the mouse must be loaded, right? Wrong.

When you think about all of the amazing inventions during the past 100 years, one of the things that changed the world was the computer mouse. By pointing and clicking, you can manipulate things on your screen and get things done that people never imagined would be possible. Seriously, think about the computer mouse...

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LG is developing a quad-core-powered smartphone with a 10 megapixel camera

July 8, 2012

LG has confirmed that it is currently developing a new smartphone that will be its first to be powered by a quad-core processor and feature a camera with a resolution of more than 10 megapixels. LG’s first quad-core based device — the Optimus 4X LTE — was released this month, but it is planning...

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The ultimate geek road trip: North Carolina’s mega data center cluster

July 8, 2012
The ultimate geek road trip: North Carolina’s mega data center cluster

This article is the first in a four-part series that we’re publishing this week. One day, one tank of gas, and three data centers – it was a road trip that only a geek would dream up. My destination: a cluster of cutting-edge and massive data centers spread across a few hundred miles north...

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Track Record In China Sets Cisco’s “TOS” Scandal In A More Sinister Light

July 8, 2012
Track Record In China Sets Cisco’s “TOS” Scandal In A More Sinister Light

Cisco did some apologizing this past week. The networking giant apologized for all the confusion about Cisco Connect Cloud and the suspect terms of service that many people viewed as a way for the company to monitor behavior and potentially cut off their router if they infringed. Cisco Connect Cloud is a service that updates...

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Netflix’s CCO Friedland: Brazil is a challenging market

July 8, 2012

The Brazilian market is “challenging,” Netflix’s chief communications officer Jonathan Friedland declared in an interview with the Brazilian blog TechTudo, before detailing the issues facing the film TV streaming company in this country. As we reported, Netflix initially faced negative feedback following its launch across Latin America last September. While some problems have been solved...

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Impermanent Data Apps, The Newest Weapons In The War For Messaging

July 8, 2012
Impermanent Data Apps, The Newest Weapons In The War For Messaging

Earlier this week, Josh Constine wrote an epic piece on Facebook, Google and Apple’s impending messaging war. As Constine explains, we have most likely reached “peak SMS,” that is, text messaging is on the decline and another form of messaging will take its place. But as the major empires wage total war for glorious...

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Report: New Kindle Fire Tablet With A Better Screen Launching Soon (AMZN)

July 8, 2012
Report: New Kindle Fire Tablet With A Better Screen Launching Soon (AMZN)

Steve Kovach, Business Insider See Also 10 Essential Tips And Tricks For Jelly Bean, The New Version Of Android The 10 Most Important Gadgets Of The 21st Century 11 Super Useful Apps You Should Be Using Amazon will launch a new Kindle Fire tablet in Q3 this year, according to All Things D, citing...

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From fake bylines to European e-book tax, here’s the week’s media news in review

July 8, 2012
From fake bylines to European e-book tax, here’s the week’s media news in review

A lot has been happening in the world of media this week, and as usual we’ve taken the liberty of looking at some of the key, notable events this week and thrown them together in an easy-to-digest compendium here. Without further ado, here’s the week’s media news in review…. Video: Live AND on-demand This...

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These tools will help you optimize your app’s monetization

July 8, 2012
These tools will help you optimize your app’s monetization

How can you monetize your app? If you are a technical person, chances are you find this much more difficult than developing the app itself. This is why we decided to work on a list of tools that will help you increase the revenues you make from your app. To elaborate this selection, we...

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How Colleges Are Becoming Entrepreneurial

July 8, 2012
How Colleges Are Becoming Entrepreneurial

Editor’s note: Dan Schawbel is the managing partner of Millennial Branding, a Gen Y research and management consulting firm. He is also the #1 international bestselling author of Me 2.0 and was named to the Inc. Magazine 30 Under 30 list in 2010. Subscribe to his updates at Facebook.com/DanSchawbel. Colleges are starting to become startup incubators by offering...

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