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Apple defends green credentials of cloud computing services
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Greenpeace report named Apple among worst offenders for using highly polluting coal to power their data centresApple disclosed sensitive information about energy demand at the data centre housing its iCloud service for the first time on Tuesday, defending its green credentials in the face of a campaign by Greenpeace.In a...
Google 'Zerg Rush' and fight off the hordes invading your search results
www.theverge.com
Google's famed sense of humor is on display again today, with an easter egg thrown into the company's search service. Googling the words "Zerg rush" provides not only the relevant results, but also an army of Os (taken from Google's logo) intent on eating away those precious answers. All...
This 'Marry Me' video only feeds my existential crisis | Sunny Hundal
www.guardian.co.uk
We are all moved by love and amateur dancing, but seeing other people's lavish marriage proposals is making me feel inadequateThis video turned up on my Facebook feed the other day, as is de rigueur, and I watched with much amusement. As I got into it, my amusement turned into...
Location-Based Shopping App Shopkick Partners With MasterCard On Rewards Program
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Mobile shopping app shopkick is announcing a partnership with MasterCard today which will allow cardholders to earn “kicks” (shopkicks’ in-app rewards) by linking their card with shopkick’s Buy & Collect program and making qualifying purchases. These kicks can later be redeemed for things like gift cards, music downloads, movie tickets, and other...
Straight from New York Design Week: Inflatable ‘meat’ balloons – Yes, really
thenextweb.com
Given that it is Sunday night, there is a strong chance that in the past few days, as the weekend came, crescendoed, and now flees, you have attended a party. Good for you. Bonus points if you hosted, of course. However, I bet that at the soiree you attended, balloons were in...
As BPI Tries To Block The Pirate Bay From The UK, Dan Bull Explains Why Musicians Should Block BPI
www.techdirt.com
With Newzbin2 getting censored in the UK, BPI -- basically, the UK wing of the RIAA -- has been looking to have courts order many more sites blocked, with The Pirate Bay being target number one. Dan Bull, the UK-based musician who we've written about many times for his consistently...
Striiv pedometer goes wireless, gets social
gigaom.com
Striiv, a smart pedometer that uses game mechanics to motivate people, is getting updated Wednesday with a new personal wireless connection that lets users encourage and compete with each other. With the new Striiv Connected social component, Striiv is moving beyond a more solo experience and utilizing relationships to help...
Brainstorming site Tricider falls victim to outrageous clone
gigaom.com
German startups may have a reputation for cloning others (thanks, Rocket), but sometimes it goes the other way — and one Berlin startup has just been copied in a particularly egregious way. It’s enough to make you laugh, unless you’re the proprietors of brainstorming site Tricider. Somebody in Russia has...
AllThingsD Is Launching a Timeline of Tech on Facebook -- and We Need Your Help
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Click here to: go to our new Timeline or share your top tech on Facebook There aren’t too many techie happenings that are greeted with grumpy ire as when Facebook makes an interface change. So when the social networking site rolled out Timeline to brand pages a few weeks back,...
Kickstarter Gets Yet Another $1M Project: The Pebble, An iPhone-Friendly Smartwatch
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And my love/hate relationship with Kickstarter only continues to grow. Screw paying bills, I have shiny things to buy. Hitting your self-set funding goal on a Kickstarter project is great and all — but all the really cool kids pull in at least a million bucks. Bonus points for...
Android 'Key Lime Pie' comes after Jelly Bean
www.theverge.com
We've been tipped by a reliable source today that Google will be using the name "Key Lime Pie" for the version of Android that comes after Jelly Bean (in fact, the information comes from the very same source that tipped us to the Jelly Bean codename last year). We...
Geek Made: 10 heartfelt gifts for the unique geek in your life
www.geekwire.com
Forget the flowers and candy…If you’re looking for a last-minute Valentine’s idea to make your sweetheart swoon, these handmade gifts will surely win you some romance bonus points. These ideas are memorable, affordable, and sustainable, so what’s not to love? Pixelated Popup Card Find a project below that speaks...
Bird-free physics puzzling in space with Gravity Fleet
www.insidemobileapps.com
Gravity Fleet is a new iOS-based physics puzzler from young Argentinian indie studio Coffee Powered Machine. It’s available now as a $0.99 Universal download from the App Store with a free Web-based demo available here. The basic premise of Gravity Fleet sees players commanding a spaceship whose job it is to...
DailyDirt: I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing...
www.techdirt.com
The Cola Wars have been over for a long time. As usual in war, there are no real winners -- just a lot of wasted spending. Now that we're giving peace a chance, here are just a few lingering concerns over these dark-colored soft drinks. Coca-Cola and Pepsi are going...
Where in the World?
blogs.law.harvard.edu
Years ago, before Flickr came into my life and provided incentives for hyper-identifying everything about every photograph, I had a brief-lived series of photographic teases called Where in the World? — or something like that. (Can’t find the links right now. Maybe later.) So I thought I’d fire it...
An Author’s Plan for Social Media Efforts
www.chrisbrogan.com
Here’s a freebie: if I were an author looking to get the most out of the social web (and I am), I’d do something along the lines of what I’m about to share. Your mileage may vary, but here’s a decent approximation of the things I’d do. Please feel...
livejamie on Naming myself “LOL” in single-player video games will never cease to be hilarious. (Bonus points to who can name the game.)
Distimo Monitor Lets Developers Track Mobile Apps Across Platforms
techcrunch.com
App store analytics startup Distimo is diversifying its business model and broadening its current offering of reports for operators and handset manufacturers with a new product dubbed Monitor. This solution enables mobile application developers to collect and analyze relevant statistics about their works across app stores. Bonus points for...
Like Royal Weddings
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Nat Torkington: Tech Giant IPOs are like Royal Weddings: the people act nice but you know it’s a seething roiling pit of hate, greed, money, and desperation that goes on a bit too long so by the end you just want to put an angry chili-covered porcupine in everyone’s anus...
livejamie on Naming myself “LOL” in single-player video games will never cease to be hilarious. (Bonus points to who can name the game.)
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