Daily Archives: January 19, 2013

HP: Windows 8 Was Clearly ‘A Slower Start Than Many People Expected’ (HPQ, MSFT)

January 19, 2013
HP: Windows 8 Was Clearly ‘A Slower Start Than Many People Expected’ (HPQ, MSFT)

See Also Slow Windows 8 Sales Hurt Intel Windows Suffers As Holiday PC Sales Shrink Microsoft Says It Sold 60 Million Windows 8 Licenses Since Launch, In Line With Windows 7 Microsoft’s new touch-based remake of Windows is off to a slower than expected start, says HP’s PC boss Todd Bradley. Speaking with Bloomberg...

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A Q&A With Sheryl Sandberg’s Husband, Dave Goldberg On Why He Avoided An IPO For His Company, SurveyMonkey

January 19, 2013
A Q&A With Sheryl Sandberg’s Husband, Dave Goldberg On Why He Avoided An IPO For His Company, SurveyMonkey

AP Sheryl Sandberg and Dave Goldberg See Also Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg And Her Husband Have Done The Impossible It’s Becoming Clear That No One Actually Read Facebook’s IPO Prospectus Or Mark Zuckerberg’s Letter To Shareholders 27-Year-Old Box CEO Plans To Hire 300 More People, IPO In 2014 Over a year ago, Dave Goldberg,...

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Demand For Google’s Nexus 4 Phone Is 10X What Google Expected (GOOG)

January 19, 2013
Demand For Google’s Nexus 4 Phone Is 10X What Google Expected (GOOG)

Steve Kovach, Business Insider See Also REVIEW: Google’s Latest Smartphone, The Nexus 4 Another Explanation For Why You Still Can’t Buy Google’s Nexus 4 Smartphone Google’s Nexus 4 Sales Are Pretty Tiny, According To This Estimate The demand for Google’s Nexus 4 is ten times what it was expecting, CNET reports. CNET’s report is...

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After calling Barack Obama out on Twitter, Kim Dotcom has launched Mega, the replacement to Megaupload

January 19, 2013
After calling Barack Obama out on Twitter, Kim Dotcom has launched Mega, the replacement to Megaupload

And we are a go. Despite rumors and persistent chatter that Kim Dotcom intended on moving his Mega project to a .co domain, and away from a .co.nz TLD, the service has been pushed live as Mega.co.nz. Kim Dotcom held a countdown of sorts on his Twitter account, tweeting content for his fans along...

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Rep. Zoe Lofgren: Reforming the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act will take “a very long time”

January 19, 2013

The zealous prosecution of Aaron Swartz, which his family partially blamed for his recent suicide, has led to Rep. Zoe Lofgren, a Congresswoman who represents a large swath of Silicon Valley, to introduce ‘Aaron’s Law,’ a bill that would narrow certain elements of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). The proposed changes to the law were first...

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Mega hits 100,000 registered users in one hour as Kim Dotcom teases MPAA with ‘MegaMovie’ screenshot

January 19, 2013
Mega hits 100,000 registered users in one hour as Kim Dotcom teases MPAA with ‘MegaMovie’ screenshot

Update: Mega crossed the 250,000 user mark and massive usage has brought the site to a crawl. So far, Mega has won the day. – He built it. They came. Then the government took it away, and so he built it again. And they came yet again. Today, an hour after he flipped the...

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Better Place CEO departs, following Shai Agassi’s exit

January 19, 2013

It’s musical chairs at electric car infrastructure company Better Place. The company is officially changing up its current CEO, Evan Thornley, who took on the role only three months ago, following the departure of Better Place founder and original CEO Shai Agassi. Better Place says Idan Ofer, Chairman of the Board, will act as...

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A hands-on demo with Node, the ultimate sensor device (video)

January 19, 2013

One of the more interesting things I got to see at last week’s CES in Las Vegas was Node, the modular sensor developed by Variable Technologies. At the center of Node is a Bluetooth-connected sensor module that looks a bit like the body of a flashlight. Users can connect two small sensor modules to...

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GarageBand 101: Using Magic GarageBand to create a jam-along band

January 19, 2013
GarageBand 101: Using Magic GarageBand to create a jam-along band

It’s been years since I’ve been in a proper band. I’m unable to commit to a band schedule, but it’s nice to jam with a decent rhythm section. Magic GarageBand, however, is turning into a fun way for me to practice. Magic Garageband is a way within Apple’s OS X app GarageBand to specify the...

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What Games Are: Playing In Interesting Times

January 19, 2013
What Games Are: Playing In Interesting Times

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. It’s no great revelation that financial reports can be arcane and hard to...

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