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Nokia Announces The 808 PureView And Its 41MP Camera, We Go Hands-On
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I think it’s safe to say that the new 808 Pureview handset was a surprise to just about everyone here at Nokia’s press conference. Not only did Nokia manage to squeeze a 41-megapixel sensor (no, that’s not a typo) into a smartphone, they squeezed it into a smartphone that runs...
How Much Would The Average Person Pay For A Standalone HBO Go Subscription? About $12 A Month
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Two years ago, HBO introduced HBO Go, giving fans a way to access all of their favorite programming online, on tablets and mobile devices, and increasingly on connected TV platforms. For those of us who have had a chance to use it, HBO Go is nothing short of a revelation,...
Facebook payments to challenge PayPal, Google, Apple, and more
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Facebook’s very quiet announcement last week that is dropping Facebook Credits in favor of local currency pricing was likely the quietest declaration of war the world has seen. The notice, made on the company’s developer blog, means Facebook is taking on payments providers PayPal, Google Wallet, and, perhaps preemptively, Apple’s iTunes. Plink...
People Are Facebook’ing-and-Buying More Than Ever, Even If They Don’t Realize It
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A thin Reuters survey says 34% of people THINK they’re using Facebook less than six months ago, but Nielsen DATA shows usage is up 18 minutes to seven hours nine minutes per month per user in that time span. Meanwhile, Reuters says four out of five people THINK they’ve never...
RentHackr: The best way to find out if your landlord is ripping you off
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Let’s face it. Apartment hunting is one of the most miserable things in existence. Sure, if you’re filthy rich the problems may not seem as dire, but for the average person finding a place to live means tons and tons of work and time. One of the worst parts of...
How One Hacker Quit the Programming Life for Bluer Skies
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Frank Duff quit the programming life — and became a bike messenger. Photo: Frank Duff Some people believe that everyone should be a programmer. But Frank Duff is living proof this notion should be taken with a large grain of salt. In 2003, Duff quit his job as a software...
SpaceX CEO claims he can send you on a round-trip to Mars for $500K
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Your dream of visiting the Red Planet may soon come true if the claim made by Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, actually comes to fruition. The commercial space travel entrepreneur told the BBC in an interview that he’s figured out how to send a person on a round-trip journey to...
How The JOBS Act will hurt the startup industry
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Today, Obama is set to sign into law the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act. In this post I’m going to argue that the passing of the JOBS Act is really bad for the health of the startup industry. Specifically, the JOBS Act is likely to lead to a startup speculative...
NSF-Funded Project Aims To Enable Print-On-Demand, Customizable Robots
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In some of the old science fiction stories I remember from Weird Tales and Ray Bradbury and the like, robots always figured. But they always came the way you might expect a new dryer or hot water heater to arrive. In a big box, packed in straw or foam, heavy...
Assimilate UK! The British Music Industry Now Controls Your Internet
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One by one the UK’s ISPs are falling to a creeping censorship of the web led not by some secretive government organisation but by the UK’s music industry in the shape of the British Phonographic Industry, the British record industry’s trade association. There is no democratic check on what’s happening...
Social Media Gurus Push Conversations Over Kudos, And Fail
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This is a guest post by Roger Warner of Content and Motion. Here’s classic example of how badly some companies are screwing up on social media. Back in February this year Coca-Cola Australia invited its fans to some ‘banter’ or chat. Fans obliged. Much fun ensued. Coca-Cola looked stupid. What’s...
7 Beautiful display typefaces you can download right now for free
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The art of type design is for a special breed of designer. The insane attention to detail required to create typefaces is enough to drive the average person crazy, as every subtle curve and rule matters. If you’re a novice to the world of typography, you’ll most likely be familiar...
Google’s Age Engage program hopes to teach your grandparents how to use the Internet
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Those native to the tech scene know a lot more about the Internet than the average person. Seniors, on the other hand, have largely missed out on the World Wide Web, barring some exceptions (like my great great uncle). We’ve all likely experienced that moment: trying to explain social networks to...
Forms can be beautiful too
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Like all structural elements built into HTML, forms aren’t inherently beautiful. In fact, forms on their own are quite ugly and dull, which is exactly why it’s usually a good idea not to leave form styling up to the browser and OS. Sadly, this happens all the time. The good news...
Build-your-own-website service Wix.com adds HTML5 support
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Monday, drag and drop website builder Wix.com launched its HTML5 website builder, which builds websites with video and animation for devices that don’t support Flash. Creating a website these days is extremely easy. Drag and drop website builders for the coding inept are all over the Web, from Wix.com and Moonfruit, to...
What entrepreneurs can learn from Nigerian email scammers
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I like reading academic papers. They are a glimpse into the minds of talented researchers and provide a great view of what’s next in the infrastructure startup world. A colleague recently forwarded me a tweet about a paper by Cormac Herley of Microsoft Research. It had one of the most attention-getting...
Ten Dollar Fonts brings incredible experimental typefaces to the masses
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The art of type design is for a special breed of designer. The insane attention to detail required to create typefaces is enough to drive the average person crazy, but somehow a special few are able to master the subtle curves and rules that go into type. Fine typefaces can...
Taking the Guesswork Out of Retirement Saving
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How often do you tinker with your retirement savings? Many people think about this when starting a job or opening a 401(k), but sometimes not again until they are ready to retire. According to financial advisers, that’s too late. This week, I forced myself to look at accounts I rarely...
The Average Person Alive During WWII And Now on Facebook Has 42 Friends
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Whoa: You might pay just a $1 for a daily gigabyte in 2020
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“By 2020 the average person will download one gigabyte of personalised data each day, and it will be delivered for less than $1 a day.” That’s a striking comment from Hossein Moiin, CTO of Nokia Siemens Networks. Not only does it speak to the enormous growth in our data needs through...
Local newspapers' crisis: how we let the readers decide
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Today's extract from What do we mean by local?* is taken from a chapter by Ian Carter, editorial director of the Kent Messenger Group.The company, which also owns radio stations, has been owned by the Boorman family since 1890. It publishes 14 newspapers across the county of Kent - eight...
Windows 8′s Consumer Preview racks up 1 million downloads in 24 hours
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Microsoft’s Consumer Preview of its Windows 8 operating system has seen some 1 million downloads in its first day of availability. While not a surprising figure, given the massive popularity of Windows, the number underscores how critically important the upcoming piece of software is for the larger computing market. People...
One million 3-D printing projects later, Shapeways grabs a new investment
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After 3-D printing more than one million objects, Shapeways announced the close of a $6.2 million second round of funding, reports the New York Times. Keeping up with the growing interest in three-dimensional printing, the company helps you design and print nearly any object of your dreams. While 3-D printing has been...
Data stored in Apple's iCloud deemed 'safe' for most users
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Unless you're sharing or storing information of importance to national security, information saved on Apple's servers through iCloud should be secure enough for the average person's needs, a new analysis has found....
Bohemian Rhapsody Video Taken Down Again, This Time By The Drunk Guy Himself
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Well, this is a fun twist. We just wrote about the story of now-world-famous drunk guy Robert Wilkinson, his poor Freddy Mercury impersonation, and the resulting takedown and reinstatement of the video by EMI. Now a commenter points us to the fact that the video has been taken down again,...
Negativity sucks: PositiveTalk is social app for happy thoughts only
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If you don’t have anything nice to say… Just kidding! PositiveTalk is a web-app that attempts to accentuate the positive social chatter in your life. It eliminates the negative with a somewhat messy and crowded Facebook-esque interface, peppered with graphs and charts obsessively calculating positivity, inspirational quotes, and a...
Justin Rosenstein Is Bringing Sexy Back ... To Business Software
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Given how much time the average person spends at work, why should we spend it fighting with our software tools? Asana co-founders Justin Rosenstein and Dustin Moskovitz say you shouldn't. And they are leading the charge to make enterprise software sexy again. Rosenstein and Moskovitz hail from Facebook (Moskovitz as...
Blank Label Turns to Kickstarter to Add Custom Women’s Shirts to Its Catalog
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Founder and “Chief Shirt” Jan Ki started Blank Label in 2009 after noticing that off-the-rack shirts didn’t fit properly and that custom shirts were too expensive for the average person. Now that the men’s shirts division of Blank Label has reached 25,000 customers, the company is ready to replicate its...
Financial Responsibility Company SaveUp Has Exclusive Access to Intuit’s Data Aggregation Technology
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SaveUp, a personal finance company that rewards users for financial responsibility, is the first startup to partner with Mint parent company Intuit for data aggregation ahead of the release of a public API. Intuit chose SaveUp as its first partner because of the startup’s commitment to changing how the average...
Financial Responsibility Company SaveUp Has Exclusive Access to Intuit’s Data Aggregation Technology
Twitter Finally Ditches “50+”, New and Old Tweets Now Show Their Exact Counts Of Retweets and Favorites
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Tweets past, present, and future now show their exact number of retweets and favorites instead of showing “50+” if they pass that count in a move that could promote vanity and competition on Twitter. You can see a tweet about stopping polio from Bill Gates last year got 1,178 retweets and...
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