Kevin Krejci/Flickr Dec. 14 (Bloomberg) — The cost of occupying office space in San Francisco soared the most of any market in the world as technology companies such as Salesforce.com and Mozilla Corp. fueled leasing in the city, according to broker CBRE Group Inc. Occupancy costs — rents plus local taxes and service charges...
Yesterday, a nightmare unraveled at Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, where more than 25 innocent children and teachers were gunned down by a deranged shooter. But amidst the unspeakable horror were displays of love and courage that may have saved many children’s lives. ABC’s Diane Sawyer interviewed 29-year-old Kaitlin Roig, who was...
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Every Internet user knows how frustrating CAPTCHAs can be; they often require repeated attempts, can create barriers which deter users from completing your forms, and worst of all, they’re not perfect at detecting if you truly are human. With all due respect to those who are fighting the global problem of spam, a better solution...
Sitting cross-legged in the leather chair of my home office, it took me fifteen seconds to find someone who was willing to sell me 2,500 “quality Twitter followers” to boost my account — for the low price of about $25 bucks. The followers would arrive in three days and stick around for the whole...
The enterprise landscape has changed over the past few years. So much that Peter Levine, a partner at venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, says that there’s been a renaissance with increased growth on the consumer side. The industry is ripe for the taking too as there are hundreds of billions of dollars at stake....
Internet porn surfers everywhere were crying foul last week over Google’s decision to change its “SafeSearch” feature to exclude adult content from searches. Anyone that uses Google to find adult images will likely notice something different when they type in their dirty little specifics: less skin, more filtering. The change isn’t that huge, you...
Covers for the iPad mini are sold everywhere, popping up quickly after Apple introduced the small slate in October. I’m still using a Zagg Keys 9 keyboard and case combo for my iPad mini, but there are times that I want to lose the keyboard and go with a stylish case. Just yesterday, I...
Networking is an important skill to have these days, but this interpretation of the idea is more literal than most: Ericsson, which has been working for a while on a form of capacitive coupling that turns the user into a human cable, is apparently in talks that could lead to commercialization. After all, we’re...
If it seems like just yesterday that we were talking about how error-prone Twitter and other social-media outlets were during a crisis, that’s because it was almost yesterday — Hurricane Sandy, the last event to really stress-test the accuracy of real-time citizen reporting and “networked journalism,” happened just six weeks ago. Now, the shooting...