Daily Archives: October 27, 2012

IPAD MINI WATCH: The Black iPad Mini Is Still Available (AAPL)

October 27, 2012
IPAD MINI WATCH: The Black iPad Mini Is Still Available (AAPL)

AP See Also IPAD MINI SALES WATCH: White iPad Mini Pre-Orders Are Sold Out MICROSOFT: The iPad Mini Is An Overpriced Toy APPLE: Here’s Why We Made A Small iPad Even Though Steve Jobs Said He Hated Small Tablets In the lead up to the announcement of the iPad mini, and even after it...

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Google Cancels Its October 29 Android Event Because Of Hurricane Sandy (GOOG)

October 27, 2012
Google Cancels Its October 29 Android Event Because Of Hurricane Sandy (GOOG)

Onliner A leaked photo of LG’s new Nexus phone. See Also Leaked: Here’s Google’s First 10-Inch Tablet REVIEW: Samsung’s Giant New Smartphone, The Galaxy Note II Google’s Next Smartphone Leaks Again On Twitter And The Specs Sound Pretty Amazing Google just notified the press that its big Android event in New York on October...

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Hurricane Sandy From Space

October 27, 2012
Hurricane Sandy From Space

Email More NASA Recommended For You Please follow Science on Twitter and Facebook. Follow Henry Blodget on Twitter. Ask Henry A Question » Tags: Hurricane Sandy | Get Alerts for these topics » Advertisement: Article source: SAI http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider/~3/qzGTz7Wd4eI/hurricane-sandy-from-space-2012-10

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Despite murmurs of hope, cybersecurity legislation remains utterly dead in the U.S. Congress

October 27, 2012

TNW called this some time ago: Cybersecurity legislation is flatlined in the U.S. Congress, despite recent calls to chest-shock its corpse in hopes of a miracle. Well, miracles are vanishingly rare, and cybersecurity is kaput until calendar 2013. Out today in The Hill, the very influential political publication, is a starkly titled post: “Cybersecurity bill likely dead.”...

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Why I’m mad at everyone involved with Passbook

October 27, 2012

Ever since I made the switch to the smartphone three years (and four generations) ago, I’ve always carried around an iPhone. Granted, this doesn’t make me a special snowflake, but for all intents and purposes, I’ve been “that girl” with my phone. I don’t get every new upgrade or shell out big bucks on...

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Mark Zuckerberg has just liked Mitik the walrus, Facebook’s entertainment mascot

October 27, 2012
Mark Zuckerberg has just liked Mitik the walrus, Facebook’s entertainment mascot

Did you know that Facebook has a mascot? Well, not for the company, but for its entertainment division? It’s a walrus named Mitik and the company’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, has just “liked” a page dedicated to this 234-pound mustachioed baby walrus. According to its Facebook page, Mitik was born in June this year and...

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Weekly Wrap-Up: The New ReadWrite, Apple’s iPad Mini, And Better Ways To Measure Social Media Influence

October 27, 2012

The New ReadWrite, Apple’s iPad Mini, and Better Ways To Measure Social Media Influence. All of this and more in the ReadWrite Weekly Wrap-up. After the jump you’ll find more of this week’s top news stories on some of the key topics that are shaping the Web – Location, App Stores and Real-Time Web...

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What top VCs look for in gaming startups

October 27, 2012

The following is an excerpt from a chapter of “Game Design Secrets,” a new book by Wagner James Au. In this excerpt, two experienced venture capitalists talk about how they decide which game startups to invest in. Nabeel Hyatt, a venture partner with Spark Capital, is in a unique position to understand game design as...

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Isis in action: It’s pretty simple but no replacement wallet

October 27, 2012
Isis in action: It’s pretty simple but no replacement wallet

The mobile carrier payment platform Isis launched Monday in Austin, Texas and Salt Lake City, Utah; and it works pretty much as advertised. After a lousy initial experience with the service when my phone wasn’t supported and I couldn’t even find merchants who knew about the program or accepted Isis, I scored a review...

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Getting beyond the magic broadband bullet theory

October 27, 2012
Getting beyond the magic broadband bullet theory

Too many national discussions about broadband’s impact on economic development get caught up in wonky mumble jumble and blue-sky numbers. Meanwhile, at the community level, many a discussion regresses to “why should my tax dollars help teenagers surf YouTube?” No wonder U.S. broadband speeds languish behind Iceland and Slovenia. Policymakers (many well-intentioned), government agencies,...

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