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New BBC chief vows to re-invent content, not just re-purpose it
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The BBC’s new director-general has vowed to merge TV, radio and online teams so that the the corporation creates “genuinely digital content for the first time”. The BBC is often thought of as an online exemplar. In fact, the big digital ideology of the the last several years has been making...
Nimble 2.0 Looks To Give SMBs A CRM Platform That Actually Does Social Right
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There are few aspects of growing a business that are easy. But when you think about the big picture, one of the most significant challenges — besides hiring attractive, productive interns — is customer acquisition. Not every business scales like Facebook; many have to fight tooth-and-nail for every client, sell...
Exclusive: super-early iPhone prototype had 5″x7″ screen, serial port
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That’s one big iPhone This iPhone prototype was a lot closer to the size of an iPad than an iPhone at 5"×7" and nearly 2" thick. Ars Technica 11 more images in gallery Apple watchers have seen all manner of iPhone prototypes pop up on eBay, in court documents,...
Why Bitcoin Is Like No Other Bubble We've Seen Before
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It's hard for any rational human to look at this chart, and not conclude that Bitcoin is on an utterly parabolic rise, fueled by greed, speculation, and fascination, while being completely divorced from any "fundamentals." We have no idea when the music will stop (it could go to $500 or...
Why The Future Of Search May Look More Like Yahoo Than Google
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When Nirvana was cool Rewind to the late 90s. Almost everything you needed – email, news, sports, stocks, maps and more – was conveniently on one site: Yahoo!. Yahoo! was the “portal” to the Internet that strived to deliver everything you could ever want on its own properties. The crazy...
Feature: Death of a data haven: cypherpunks, WikiLeaks, and the world's smallest nation
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A few weeks ago, Fox News breathlessly reported that the embattled WikiLeaks operation was looking to start a new life under on the sea. WikiLeaks, the article speculated, might try to escape its legal troubles by putting its servers on Sealand, a World War II anti-aircraft platform seven miles off...
Radio Killed The Podcasting Star
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Podcasters are to radio what bloggers are to newspapers: independent voices taking attention away from mainstream media. At least that was the theory, when professional podcasts and blogs were getting started in the 2000s. But unlike blogs, podcasts by indie voices have not gone on to seriously challenge the...
Rise of the Tech Bandits: Jason Calacanis, the Shapeshifter
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Editor's note: In the Summer 2012 issue of SAY Magazine, Dan Frommer's cover story Rise of the Tech Bandits chronicles the history of tech blogging. For the rest of this week, Richard MacManus, who founded ReadWriteWeb in 2003, will be looking back on the early days. Blog network Weblogs, Inc....
Microsoft. Kicks. Ass.
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I’m a Mac user. Have been for 25 years. I have an iPhone, Macbook Air, a couple of iMacs, three or four old iPods, and a massive rat’s nest of old Mac cables and connectors. Love Mac OS X, and iOS. Might not switch to save my life. So yeah,...
The Simplicity Thesis
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The only companies or products that will succeed now are the ones offering the lowest possible level of complexity for the maximum amount of value.A fascinating trend is consuming Silicon Valley and beginning to eat away at rest of the world: the radical simplification of everything. Want to spot the...
iPad prototype from early 2000s revealed in Jony Ive deposition
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Steve Jobs revealed in his biography that Apple actually started development on what would become the iPad prior to its work on the iPhone — but we're now getting some details on just how long it was in development. Network World recently got its hands on portions of a...
iPad prototype renderings from early-2000s revealed in Apple / Samsung court filings
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It's a strange bit of history that the concept of an Apple tablet led to what we know as the first iPhone. It's a fact that Steve Jobs made mention of back in 2010, at an appearance at All Things D, realizing that Apple was capable of building a...
Microsoft's first stab at a tablet: Surface reviewed
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The Microsoft Surface with Windows RT. So Microsoft has gone and done it. Microsoft has been selling operating systems for other companies' computers for more than 30 years. Sticking to the software and letting other people deal with the hardware side is what made Microsoft the multinational behemoth that...
Hands-on: NetZero to offer no-contract 4G mobile hotspot service
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Two things surprised us in the last few days: first, NetZero still exists. This is the company with ubiquitous ads for its dial-up Internet service in the early 2000s (and it, in fact, still sells dial-up). Second, that company is entering a new product arena: mobile hotspots. The new...
Ars Technica System Guide: Gaming Boxes
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Aurich Lawson Since the early 2000s, the Ars System Guides have been helping those interested become "budding, homebuilt system-building tweakmeisters." This series is a resource for building computers to match any combination of budget and purpose. The main Ars System Guide is great for what it is—an updated, step-by-step...
Apple executives and a long history with watches
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Apple design chief Ive pictured with Ikepod designer Newson Apple is building a device for the wrist, and it may even launch later this year. One of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs’ most famous saying is that “we build the products that we want to use.” Apple was not pleased with...
Behold! The Early-2000s iPad Prototype That Started It All
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Prototype 035: it sounds like a nail-biting action RPG but it’s actually one of the first iPad prototypes, built years before the iPhone, and laid by the wayside as Apple kept experimenting with new form factors. The iPad in question, according to a great bit of digging by NetworkWorld, is...
Why I Ditched the iPhone: My Very Own Protocol Droid
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I've been a die-hard "Apple evangelist" for over twenty years - first an avid Mac user, then an early adopter of both iPod and iPhone. In the 90s, when everyone I knew used Windows, I tried to switch them to Mac. In the 2000s, when everyone had Creative-brand MP3...
How today's touchscreen tech put the world at our fingertips
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Aurich Lawson / Thinkstock Welcome back to our three-part series on touchscreen technology. Last time, Florence Ion walked you through the technology's past, from the invention of the first touchscreens in the 1960s all the way up through the mid-2000s. During this period, different versions of the technology appeared...
This Man Thinks He's Spotted The Crucial Weakness In Google's Mobile Ad Strategy
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Here's Google's big strategic problem in mobile advertising, according to Zephrin Lasker, CEO of Pontiflex, the mobile lead generation company: The search giant is treating the mobile ad market the same way it tackled the search and display ad market, and that's a fundamental error. The result of this misstep...
Yeah, It Turns Out That Technology Doesn't Make Us Lonely
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Just recently, we were talking about the bizarre claims by Sherry Turkle that social networking makes us more lonely because we spend less time alone (don't try to make sense of it). Soon after that, the Atlantic published an equally vapid feature arguing that Facebook leads to loneliness. These kinds...
Can Apple fix what’s wrong with television?
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The TV business may be broken beyond even Cupertino’s powers of redemption Family watching television, c. 1958. National Archives FORTUNE — Does this sound like your household? We almost never watch television shows when they are broadcast anymore (with the very notable exception of live sports) We rarely watch shows...
Status Symbols: Palm V
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Status Symbols are devices that transcend their specs and features, and become something beautiful and luxurious in their own right. They're things that live on after the megapixel and megahertz wars move past them, beacons of timeless design and innovation. This might come as a surprise to younger readers,...
Here's what the night sky would look like without light pollution
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Hey folks, it’s Dark Sky Week, a time to extinguish the lightbulbs, switch off the smartphones, and consider the impact light pollution has on our planet and our ability to enjoy it. One artist has taken the time to re-imagine a slew of famous skylines without the endless human-made...
13 ways of looking at Medium, the new blogging/sharing/discovery platform from @ev and Obvious
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[With apologies to Wallace Stevens, the finest poet to ever serve as vice president of the Hartford Livestock Insurance Company.] I. Medium is a new online publishing platform from Obvious Corp. It launched yesterday. Obvious is the most recent iteration of the company that created Blogger, Odeo, and Twitter....
E-commerce startups
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Very few successful e-commerce companies were started in the 2000s. Since then, e-commerce startups have enjoyed a revival. Dozens of companies have gotten traction and venture dollars have followed. Phrases like flash sales, social commerce, and subscription commerce have entered the startup lexicon. As Josh Kopelman points out, the list...
Oceans continue to warm, especially the deeps
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Estimated ocean heat content by depth. Balmaseda, Trenberth, and Källén, courtesy of the American Geophysical Union When discussing global warming, the public eye is mostly directed to global average surface air temperatures, but that’s just one slice of the climate pie. If you haven’t noticed, the ocean is awfully big,...
For Startups, Timing Trends Really Does Matter - Except When It Doesn't
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Now is the best time in history to start your own business. But depending on what kind of company you're building, you have to figure out if your idea is poised to capture a trend - or doomed to miss one and face a much tougher road to success. To...
Investors seek billion-dollar payday as Vringo v. Google trial begins
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Jim Chambers A company with little business beyond a handful of recently purchased patents sued Google last year. That's not at all unusual; but what is unusual is that the company, Vringo, is actually going to trial—starting this morning in Norfolk, Virginia. Vringo will be asking for a nine-figure...
If top startups are "Thunder Lizards," top VCs are radioactive cockroaches
pandodaily.com
More money going to fewer people. That’s generally going to be the theme, when it comes to all things fundraising in the startup world in 2013. Last year, I compared the Series A crunch to a game of musical chairs where thousands of companies are vying for a few hundred...
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