Daily Archives: February 8, 2013

Inside Revenge Porn, The Internet Subculture Where People Post Naked Photos Of Their Exes

February 8, 2013
Inside Revenge Porn, The Internet Subculture Where People Post Naked Photos Of Their Exes

PinkMeth See Also ‘Robots Now Pose The Central Economic Dilemma Of The Obama Era’ Startup 15Five Built A Simple Way For Companies To Dramatically Increase Productivity Women Suing ‘Revenge Porn’ Websites Could Use A Creative Legal Strategy There is a seedy underbelly of the internet where people post nude or otherwise compromising photos of...

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How Facebook’s Impending Deal For Microsoft’s Atlas Fits In With Its Plan For World Domination

February 8, 2013
How Facebook’s Impending Deal For Microsoft’s Atlas Fits In With Its Plan For World Domination

Samba Tech See Also Etch A Sketch Made One Of The Saddest Ads You’ll Ever See To Honor Its Deceased Inventor Robin Williams Is The New Don Draper In A CBS Pilot Brands Don’t Read Up To 97% Of Tweets About Them In early December, we said that Facebook was looking to purchase Microsoft’s...

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There’s Another Big Change At Yammer That Employees Don’t Know About (MSFT)

February 8, 2013
There’s Another Big Change At Yammer That Employees Don’t Know About (MSFT)

Yammer A Yammer employee dresses up as Microsoft chairman Bill Gates. See Also ‘This Isn’t Yammer Anymore’ Microsoft Has Already Broken A Key Promise About Yammer’s Independence Microsoft: Yammer Is Teaching Us To Write Software Faster Starting July 1—the beginning of Microsoft’s fiscal year—Yammer salespeople won’t be Yammer salespeople any more, Business Insider has...

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After not installing its own tools, security firm Bit9 hacked as crooks use its certificates to sign malware

February 8, 2013

It’s never good to make a mistake. An ironic mistake, however, can be all the more painful. Today, Bit9, a network security firm, reported a breach of its network. The issue was first reported by Krebs on Security, citing a source that had been informed by the firm. Bit9 noted in a public blog...

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Dell deal in doubt as Michael and Co. refuse to raise price, likely spiking a shareholder war

February 8, 2013

The saga of taking Dell private just hit a speed bump after the consortium in place to buy the firm declined to raise its price. Given that the deal was considered pat a short stretch ago, what went wrong? Dell’s second largest shareholder isn’t having it, claiming that the offered price is far too...

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Postmates will expand its ‘Get It Now’ one-hour delivery service to Seattle, its second city

February 8, 2013
Postmates will expand its ‘Get It Now’ one-hour delivery service to Seattle, its second city

Postmates, the local courier service that allows users to track their deliveries using their smartphone, is bringing its Get It Now service to its second city: Seattle. While perhaps being hidden away under the “What’s New” section of the Apple App Store, we noticed it when we were prompted to update Postmates’ Get It...

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A Visual History Of The Photograph [Infographic]

February 8, 2013
A Visual History Of The Photograph [Infographic]

We are in a new era of photography. The Mobile Revolution has fundamentally changed the nature of how photos are taken, where they are taken, by whom they are taken and, most importantly, how often they are taken. People now take photos of everything and share them to other phones, social media sites and...

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Africa May Leapfrog The World In Big Data

February 8, 2013
Africa May Leapfrog The World In Big Data

Africa is already well known for leapfrogging the rest of the world in use of mobile money, but African countries now have another big leapfrogging opportunity: big data analytics. Across the continent, there’s a tremendous potential for using data analytics in powerful new ways in a wide range of industries and domains, from telecommunications...

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12 Really Good Reasons To Jailbreak iOS 6 Right Now

February 8, 2013
12 Really Good Reasons To Jailbreak iOS 6 Right Now

Now that you have the option to jailbreak your iPhone 5, iPad Mini or other iOS 6 device, you might be wondering if you should. For many, it’s a no brainer. For more casual users or folks who only recently jumped on the iOS bandwagon, there are some important questions. Is jailbreaking legal? That...

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A Twitter chat: How technology in schools can help bridge the skills gap

February 8, 2013

The digital economy is demanding new skills from workers, but too many students finish high school unprepared for the future. To explore how emerging technology and new approaches to education could address that, this week, I moderated a Twitter chat with McGraw-Hill SVP Jeff Livingston and Rashid Davis, principal of New York’s Pathways in...

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