Daily Archives: November 11, 2012

Here’s The Saddest Detail So Far In The Petraeus Affair…

November 11, 2012
Here’s The Saddest Detail So Far In The Petraeus Affair…

See Also That Cryptic Letter To The ‘Ethicist’ Is NOT About The Petraeus Affair The Truth Is… Hanging Out Alone A Lot With Someone You Find Attractive Is Asking For Trouble Petraeus’s Mistress Triggered FBI Probe By Emailing Threats To Another Woman Most of the coverage of the David Petraeus story has focused on...

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Congress Launching Investigation Of Petraeus Investigation–Petraeus May Testify

November 11, 2012
Congress Launching Investigation Of Petraeus Investigation–Petraeus May Testify

Getty See Also Here’s The Saddest Detail So Far In The Petraeus Affair… The Truth Is… Hanging Out Alone A Lot With Someone You Find Attractive Is Asking For Trouble PETRAEUS COLLEAGUE: Biographer Paula Broadwell ‘Got Her Claws Into Him’ Congress is launching an investigation of the Petraeus investigation, Josh Mitchell and Jessica Holzer...

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How A Simple Gmail Search Could Lead To An Invasion Of Your Privacy

November 11, 2012
How A Simple Gmail Search Could Lead To An Invasion Of Your Privacy

statigr.am/luvfithealth Filming at A-Rods mansion prompts talk of new laws Turnovers doom Miami Dolphins in crushing loss to Tennessee Titans Gov. Rick Scott may shift stance on health reform law A diet of white rice, few veggies and sweetened drinks puts Hispanics at greater risk of diabetes Miami Hurricanes unable to stop Virginia See...

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Best Buy has spent 50,000 hours training its employees about Windows 8

November 11, 2012

Key to Windows 8 are its new user interface elements, and its added touch-powered features. However, while these fresh capabilities open doors, at the same time they represent challenges; users need to be trained in the new features of Windows 8. To that end, Microsoft has invested heavily in opening stores, and new ‘pop-up’...

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A behind-the-scenes look at how The Omni Group builds apps

November 11, 2012
A behind-the-scenes look at how The Omni Group builds apps

Given that there are more than 1.1 million apps available for smartphones, and more than 700,000 apps available in Apple’s App Store alone, it’s likely that whatever a consumer is looking to do, there’s an app for that. But what does it take to actually make an app? The Omni Group, makers of popular...

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Facebook teams up with ChildLine to suppress intimidation and abuse with new ‘Step Up: Stop Bullying’ campaign

November 11, 2012

You probably didn’t know it – your humble servant was equally unaware – but Anti-Bullying Week is coming up in the United Kingdom. Bullying, a common occurrence among youths that comes in many forms and flavors is a real, and often painful problem. Bullied kids can fall behind in school, withdraw socially, and even harm themselves due to stress...

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Last week on GigaOM Pro: crowd labor, mobile tech in politics, and more

November 11, 2012

In addition to surviving one of the most divisive elections in recent history, we just wrapped up GigaOM’s conference season with this week’s successful (and totally sold out!) GigaOM RoadMap. If you weren’t able to join us in San Francisco on Monday, our editorial team has done a fantastic event wrap-up, highlighting each of...

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This week in cloud: hedging Amazon’s regions and Rackspace seeks deals

November 11, 2012
This week in cloud: hedging Amazon’s regions and Rackspace seeks deals

Last week, RedisToGo started making its hosted version of the Redis key value store available from Amazon’s US-West facility data centers to all its customers. This may not seem like ground-breaking news, but it’s worth noting since RedisToGo was reliant on Amazon US-East, the giant cloud provider’s oldest and biggest data center complex which has been subject...

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TV now has web-like ad metrics–so why aren’t they being used?

November 11, 2012

Since the advent of internet advertising, marketers have been demanding verifiable results and increased accountability from their media buys, instead of being forced to rely on the sorts of broad gender and age demographics used by TV for decades. And now that possibility is a reality, thanks to smarter set-top boxes, new software and...

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Setting The Stage For Detroit’s Renaissance: Music, Automotive, And Manufacturing

November 11, 2012

Detroit used to be the fourth most populous city in the United States. As of 2010, with a population of around 750,000, it ranks 18th. It’s not news that the economy of the city, largely reliant on the automotive industry, has deteriorated significantly. On our Northern Meetup tour, this was painfully obvious. I didn’t...

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