Daily Archives: August 24, 2012

Kodak Wants To Sell Film Business, Focus On Printers

August 24, 2012
Kodak Wants To Sell Film Business, Focus On Printers

Soon, Kodak will cease to be a film company. After spending almost a decade swirling the pot and the past eight months going directly down the drain, Kodak has decided to sell its traditional film businesses (and some other camera businesses) to become a fully commercial-focused businesses, with printers at center stage. Technically, the...

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GAME ON: Mitt Romney Changes Message On Economy, Advocates Middle Class Tax Cuts And More Government Spending

August 24, 2012
GAME ON: Mitt Romney Changes Message On Economy, Advocates Middle Class Tax Cuts And More Government Spending

See Also It Is Infuriating That I Can’t Vote For A Fiscal Conservative Without Also Supporting Religious Aggressives I Know Everyone Hates Taxes, But Here’s The Reality: America Has Low Taxes Here’s The Chart That Might Get Obama Fired… I have been tough on Mitt Romney’s economic plan, which is vague, lacking in important...

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Why Starting A Non-Profit To Create Social Change Is A Bad Idea

August 24, 2012
Why Starting A Non-Profit To Create Social Change Is A Bad Idea

Combine their penchant for creating social change with their innate entrepreneurial inclinations, and it you might expect a wave of Gen Y-owned non-profits to launch in the next few years. That might still happen, but the latest research suggests that non-profits may not actually be the best way to drive social change. Much has...

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Cartoon: Mars Needs Megapixels!

August 24, 2012

See more of Rob’s cartoons at Noise to Signal.

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Chinese government official admits domestic mobile Internet industry is ‘relatively backward’

August 24, 2012

Speaking at a seminar hosted by wireless operator China Mobile, a Chinese vice minister of industry has candidly admitted that some of the technology in his country’s mobile Internet industry, such as core devices and operating systems, have been “relatively backward” and have left overseas OS-makers like Apple and Google space to flourish in...

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IDC: Smartphone shipments overtake feature phones in China, as Apple’s share halves

August 24, 2012

IDC‘s latest figures for China’s mobile market are out and the research firm has revealed that smartphone shipments outnumbered that of feature phones for the first time, according to data captured between April and June. The company reported that 44 million smartphones shipped during the period, that’s 51 percent of the total number of...

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Awesome: Kickstarter Keylet brings your key and wallet together (and it’s already funded)

August 24, 2012
Awesome: Kickstarter Keylet brings your key and wallet together (and it’s already funded)

I can’t be the only one that has issues keeping my keys and wallet together, especially on the (rare) occasion that I head out for a run or other exercise. Scratch that, I know I’m not alone because 833 good people have backed Keylet, a very cool Kickstarter project that literally brings your keys...

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The Future of Streams: Twitter Looms As Biggest Obstacle

August 24, 2012
The Future of Streams: Twitter Looms As Biggest Obstacle

One of the five reasons why Web publishing is changing is the emergence of streams of information. In other words, a constant flow of information ordered chronologically and (ideally) topically too. In the near future, the theory goes, it won’t matter where you enter content – a blog platform, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, etcetera –...

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Deal done: A Chinese video giant is born as Youku-Tudou $1 billion merger is completed

August 24, 2012

Just days after both companies’ shareholders approved the deal earlier this week, Chinese online video giants Youku and Tudou have sent out an official announcement that the monolithic merger, estimated at more than $1 billion, is complete, noting that Tudou will be delisted from the Nasdaq exchange on Friday. With completion of the deal, Tudou is now a...

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