Daily Archives: January 12, 2013

How Money-Losing Pandora Could Become Profitable … If It Wanted To (P)

January 12, 2013
How Money-Losing Pandora Could Become Profitable … If It Wanted To (P)

Pandora founder Tim Westergren See Also It Turns Out That ‘The Walking Dead’ Super Bowl Ad Is Actually For Time Warner Cable This Artist’s Photos Of Himself Falling Off Things Are Utterly Compelling A British Store Has Deleted The Logos From These Famous Brands There are two ways to think about Pandora. The first...

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The Drones Are Here! (And You Can Buy One Now)

January 12, 2013

Parrot, a company best known for making Bluetooth headsets and accessories, has been expanding its offerings over the last few years.  The company not only makes the best headphones on the planet, but also a really cool hovering drone vehicle.  The AR Drone is equipped with 720p HD video camera, so you can capture...

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Family Of Aaron Swartz Blames MIT, Prosecutors For His Death

January 12, 2013
Family Of Aaron Swartz Blames MIT, Prosecutors For His Death

Selfagency via Flickr Aaron Swartz cofounded Demand Progress, an advocacy group. See Also 26-Year-Old Reddit Cofounder Aaron Swartz Has Died The Five Coolest Things We Learned From Nate Silver’s Reddit AMA How The World Is Remembering A ‘Hugely Important Internet Voice,’ Aaron Swartz The family of Aaron Swartz, along with his partner, Taren Stinebricker-Kaufmann,...

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Oracle confirms latest Java 7 vulnerability and announces ‘a fix will be available shortly’

January 12, 2013

Oracle on Saturday confirmed the 0-day vulnerability discovered in Java 7 that made headlines this week. Furthermore, the company told Reuters that “a fix will be available shortly,” but wouldn’t go into more detail as to when exactly that would be. On Thursday, the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT), which falls under the...

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Windows Phone users report playback issues with YouTube, days after the Google Maps brouhaha

January 12, 2013

Windows Phone users are reporting playback issues with YouTube videos on their handsets. Not all users are experiencing the issue, it should be noted. To understand today’s situation, we have to step back: Microsoft recently accused Google of stymieing it from building a proper YouTube application for Windows Phone. In its public complaint concerning the FTC’s...

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14 startups we predict will go even bigger in 2013

January 12, 2013
14 startups we predict will go even bigger in 2013

What if you could invest in any startup on the map right now? It’s an irresistible “what if,” isn’t it? After all, savvy entrepreneurs spend just as much time eyeballing other successful — and up-and-coming — companies as they do evaluating their own market position. To get a sense of which companies are (or will)...

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Digitizing the doctor’s office: 7 ways technology will shape healthcare in 2013

January 12, 2013

At the Consumer Electronics Show this week, all kinds of health devices and apps are taking center stage. But beyond potentially improving the health of individuals, what does the boom in digital health mean for the health care industry over all? This week, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) released its annual report on the top health industry...

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iPhone 5 with $45 Straight Talk Unlimited plan now at Walmart

January 12, 2013
iPhone 5 with $45 Straight Talk Unlimited plan now at Walmart

It’s practically impossible to get Apple’s iPhone 5 on the cheap without a contract, but at least there’s another option for the commitment-averse to save money on the monthly service bill. Straight Talk is officially supporting the iPhone 5 now with its $45 plan advertised as unlimited talk, messages and data. The price of...

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Let’s stay in touch: 5 apps for actually keeping up with contacts

January 12, 2013
Let’s stay in touch: 5 apps for actually keeping up with contacts

9,432 … Or 6,175 … Or 2,279. Depending on the app doing the counting, those refer to the number of people I’ve collected as contacts over the past six or so years of my digital life. The number varies — actually, much more than I expected — but, regardless, it’s high enough that I’ve...

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The Boy Who Cried Facebook Phone

January 12, 2013
The Boy Who Cried Facebook Phone

In The Lord of the Rings, when Sauron’s forces capture Gollum, they torture him in Mordor but are only able to get two things out of him: “Shire” and “Baggins”. Over the past few days, we’ve had similar frustrations in trying to track down the content of the Facebook event taking place this coming...

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