Daily Archives: January 5, 2013

If Lance Armstrong Wants To Redeem Himself, This Is A Strange Way To Begin

January 5, 2013
If Lance Armstrong Wants To Redeem Himself, This Is A Strange Way To Begin

Spencer Platt/Getty Images See Also Lance Armstrong Is Considering Admitting He Doped The Long, Ugly Downfall Of Lance Armstrong Testimony Reveals The Moment When Lance Armstrong’s Team Decided To Dope Lance Armstrong is considering finally admitting that he doped, Juliet Macur of the New York Times reports. According to Macur, Armstrong “has told associates...

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You Have To Meet The Nice Guys Of OkCupid

January 5, 2013
You Have To Meet The Nice Guys Of OkCupid

Nice Guys of OkCupid See Also Meet Grokr, The First iPhone App You’ll Want To Use Every Day Check Out MeetMoi, The Dating App That Has Quietly Reached 3 Million Users How To Get More Love On OkCupid When it comes to dating, tech savvy singles use OkCupid to find potential mates. It’s typical...

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San Francisco’s ‘Mansion Discounts’ Are Luring Tech Millionaires

January 5, 2013
San Francisco’s ‘Mansion Discounts’ Are Luring Tech Millionaires

Sothebys Homes See Also The Most Blinding Christmas Decorations On The Internet How The Search For The God Particle Led To This Cool Startup The 20 Most Expensive Homes Sold In America This Year Jeff Paster, a developer of luxury homes in California’s Marin County, couldn’t find a buyer for the brand-new waterfront mansion...

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Is it crazy to think we could see a Yahoo! phone or mobile OS at some point?

January 5, 2013

There is a major Internet brand in Silicon Valley that has hundreds of millions of users, significantly improving mobile apps, a position that places it between the Big 4 of Apple, Google, Microsoft and Amazon, and it may not be out of the realm of possibility that it could come out with a smartphone...

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Google says Maps redirect on Windows Phone was a product decision, and will be removed

January 5, 2013

Today, a Google spokesperson provided The Next Web with a statement indicating that the company intends to remove the redirect that it has in place for Windows Phone users who attempt to access the Google Maps product, ending its practice of sending them to its search homepage. As indicated below, the reason for this is performance:...

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A decade after launch, the tale of how Apple kept Safari a surprise

January 5, 2013

The great thing about a software prototype? You can’t leave it in a bar. While Apple has a hard time keeping secrets lately, there was a time — before blogs and Twitter and small, portable devices — that the company was really, really good at it. Friday brings us an entertaining post from a...

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Five tools to take your recipe file digital

January 5, 2013
Five tools to take your recipe file digital

My recipe file — a giant turquoise file folder that’s about to burst — is both an eyesore and an impediment in my quest to create a paperless home. So I recently decided to digitize it. My goal was to create something easily searchable but also, hopefully, fun to browse the way a physical...

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All computing isn’t equal: Here are the four types

January 5, 2013
All computing isn’t equal: Here are the four types

The world of data centers, servers and networking cables looks pretty monolithic to most people, but like Darwin’s finches, when you spend time talking to users you realize that they have evolved into different creatures. And because the types of machines and software that enterprise customers buy are very different from what Amazon might...

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What Games Are: Here Come “Local” Mobile Games

January 5, 2013

Editor’s note: Tadhg Kelly is a game designer with 20 years experience. He is the creator of leading game design blog What Games Are, and consults for many companies on game design and development. You can follow him on Twitter here. When we talk about “social” in the context of gaming, we mean one of two ideas....

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Google Pledges To Restore In-Browser Maps Access To Deprived Windows Phone Users

January 5, 2013

Rejoice, Windows Phone users: your daylong Google Maps crisis will soon be over. After causing quite a kerfuffle the other day by effectively blocking some Windows Phone users from accessing Google Maps in-browser, Google has released a statement (obtained by The Next Web) clarifying its rationale and promising that it would soon fix the...

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