Daily Archives: January 27, 2013

Your Friends Will Actually Come To Your Super Bowl Party If You Buy One Of These Massive TVs

January 27, 2013
Your Friends Will Actually Come To Your Super Bowl Party If You Buy One Of These Massive TVs

Yahoo Shopping See Also How To Do The Ray Lewis Squirrel Dance Jerry Rice Floats A Conspiracy Theory That His Coach Lost The 2003 Super Bowl On Purpose The 3 Worst Super Bowl Ads Ever Football’s biggest game of the year is one week away. If you’re planning on hosting an epic Super Bowl...

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These People Love Tech Brands So Much They Got Tattoos of Them

January 27, 2013
These People Love Tech Brands So Much They Got Tattoos of Them

Email More Flickr/simonov Do you love technology enough to get the Cisco logo tattooed on your arm? This guy and many more have chosen to use their bodies as a means of expressing their love for all things tech. Recommended For You Please follow SAI on Twitter and Facebook. Follow Dylan Love on Twitter....

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Exclusive With GUESS Exec on How The Company Turned Its Business Around With iPads

January 27, 2013
Exclusive With GUESS Exec on How The Company Turned Its Business Around With iPads

  This post was originally published on OPEN Forum.     Michael Relich Just two years ago, clothing retailer Guess? had some serious merchandising issues. “Our buyers were working off a system where merchandise was represented by a long number, and it was hard to tell the items apart,” says chief information officer Michael Relich....

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Mistake? Calls against STEM visa immigration fixes could slow passage of key Senate bill

January 27, 2013

Late last week TNW brought you news of forthcoming Senate bill with bipartisan support that would enact two key changes to U.S. immigration policy, potentially alleviating a bottleneck that denies legal status to highly educated workers and entrepreneurs. Quickly, the bill raises the number of H-1B visas that are given out each year, up to...

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SMS growth in China slows as mobile customers turn to alternatives like Tencent’s WeChat

January 27, 2013

The rise of mobile messaging services like Tencent’s WeChat looks to be having a direct effect on China’s SMS volume. The country’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has revealed that the number of text messages sent on mobile networks grew by only 2.1% in 2012, even as wireless service penetration grew by...

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One-time Twitter rival Plurk lands million-dollar investment and relocates to Asia

January 27, 2013
One-time Twitter rival Plurk lands million-dollar investment and relocates to Asia

If you’re an early user of Twitter, or someone who enjoyed social networking when it became to go mainstream around 2008, then the chances are that you may remember Plurk. The Canadian startup offered a more visual take on Twitter and FriendFeed (another once popular service), and today’s its being reborn with a funding...

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MobileTechRoundup podcast 288: Acer’s Windows 8 slate and unlocked cellphones

January 27, 2013

MoTR 288 is 57 minutes long and is a 34.5 MB file in MP3 format. CLICK HERE to download the file and listen directly. HOSTS: Matthew Miller (Seattle) and Kevin C. Tofel (Philadelphia) TOPICS: First thoughts of the Acer W510 Windows 8 tablet / dock. Build quality, specs, performance, usage. Unlocking your phone is...

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Devops, complexity and anti-fragility in IT: Stability and resilience

January 27, 2013

What is the “stability-resiliency tradeoff,” and does it really exist? This — the third post in my series on devops, complex systems, anti-fragility and cloud computing — will focus on that question, the one that prompted Phil Jaenke to write the blog post that inspired this series. Phil is a friend and he has an...

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Getting an MBA? Should you bother?

January 27, 2013
Getting an MBA? Should you bother?

New research by the Financial Times indicates that the value of an advanced business degree is eroding — at least as measured by the rate of pay increases for recipients. Bottom line is that graduates of the top US programs in the mid 1990s tripled their salaries in five years on average, but grads...

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Twitter Expands Ad Services To Middle East, North Africa After Regional Users Tripled Over The Last Year

January 27, 2013
Twitter Expands Ad Services To Middle East, North Africa After Regional Users Tripled Over The Last Year

Twitter announced yesterday that it has started selling advertising services in the Middle East and North Africa after users in the region tripled over the past year. The microblogging platform will work with Cairo-based agency Connect Ads to market its sales products across the region. While financial details of the deal were not disclosed,...

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