Daily Archives: August 17, 2012

Jefferies: The Apple Television Is In Full Production (AAPL)

August 17, 2012
Jefferies: The Apple Television Is In Full Production (AAPL)

AP Apple exec Eddy Cue. He’s the one working on Apple TV deals. Jefferies analyst Peter Misek says the Apple TV is in full production in a new note this morning. Misek is raising his price target on Apple to $900, up from $800, and he’s adamant that Apple is developing a full-blown TV,...

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Wait, It’s Not Okay To Have Sex With Your Employees?

August 17, 2012
Wait, It’s Not Okay To Have Sex With Your Employees?

YouTube Gary Friedman. See Also Fareed Zakaria Is Forgiven By Time And CNN There’s An Eerie Similarity Between Procrastination And Taking Drugs Ditching Your Comfort Zone Is The Only Way To Get Anywhere In Life The highly visible CEO of Restoration Hardware has apparently been ousted after an inquiry into a relationship he is...

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Top Groupon Investors And A Board Member Did Not Think The Company Should Have IPO’d When It Did (GRPN)

August 17, 2012
Top Groupon Investors And A Board Member Did Not Think The Company Should Have IPO’d When It Did (GRPN)

Kevin Maloney / Fortune Brainstorm Tech via Flickr Marc Andreesseen thought Groupon should hold off on its IPO In her lead-in to an exclusive interview with Groupon CEO Andrew Mason, All Things D’s Kara Swisher just reported this bombshell: It’s not well known, but last year before it went public, Groupon almost didn’t. With...

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NASA Put The Curiosity On Mars For Less Money Than AT&T Spent Improving Its Service Last Year (T)

August 17, 2012
NASA Put The Curiosity On Mars For Less Money Than AT&T Spent Improving Its Service Last Year (T)

Email More Of course we realize the following is a comic strip, but the numbers add up. If only all that money could fix the problems we were having with dropped calls. This comes to us from Gizmodo: Doghouse Diaries   Recommended For You Please follow SAI: Tools on Twitter and Facebook. Follow Dylan...

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There’s A Big Security Flaw In Your iPhone (AAPL)

August 17, 2012
There’s A Big Security Flaw In Your iPhone (AAPL)

Flickr / Brian Wilkins A famous iPhone hacker and developer who goes by the name Pod2g just opened up about major security hole in the iPhone he discovered that could be used to swipe personal information using text messages. Without getting too technical, the loophole could allow someone to send you a text message...

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Deets For iOS Keeps Contacts Up To Date Automatically, Lets You Share Files, Photos & More

August 17, 2012
Deets For iOS Keeps Contacts Up To Date Automatically, Lets You Share Files, Photos & More

Deets is a newly launched mobile app that lets you organize your contacts and keep everyone’s information up-to-date automatically, but that description alone sells it a bit short. This new iOS app is a little bit of everything – it’s a communication hub, a contact synchronization utility and even social networking service. The idea is...

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Color-Changing Soft Robots Will Someday Simulate The Crawlers Of The Deep

August 17, 2012
Color-Changing Soft Robots Will Someday Simulate The Crawlers Of The Deep

Soft robots are made of silicone and use hydraulic controls to move across a surface or lift an object. Researchers at Harvard University have gotten these guys to walk around (albeit while tethered to a heavy control unit) and now they’ve gotten them to change color. The robots work like octopi in that the...

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DataSift rolls out Historics to reveal trends in tweets from as far back as January 2010

August 17, 2012

DataSift, the UK startup that allows developers and businesses to do incredibly smart things with Twitter’s firehose and other social data, is today rolling out its Historics service to every company with a DataSift subscription. Historics is a product that allows DataSift customers to “aggregate, filter and unlock insights from public Tweets, both in real-time...

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Many Romney Supporters Appear To Be Delusional About A Key Reason For His 13% Tax Rate

August 17, 2012
Many Romney Supporters Appear To Be Delusional About A Key Reason For His 13% Tax Rate

Twitter I’ve got to be honest with you, America. I LOVE our tax code. See Also David Simon Explains Why So Many Jaws Dropped When Mitt Romney Said He Had Never Paid Less Than A 13% Tax Rate MITT ROMNEY: I Have Never Paid Less Than 13% On My Income Taxes Romney Won’t Talk...

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There’s A Really Good Chance Windows Tablets Will Be Significantly Cheaper Than The iPad (MSFT)

August 17, 2012
There’s A Really Good Chance Windows Tablets Will Be Significantly Cheaper Than The iPad (MSFT)

Steve Kovach, Business Insider This is one of Lenovo’s Windows 8 tablets. As Microsoft’s hardware partners prepare to release their own Windows 8 and Windows RT tablets to compete with Microsoft’s own Surface, focus seems to be turning to how the devices will be priced. Bloomberg quotes Lenovo’s North American boss David Schmoock as saying...

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