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Taghreedat launches Arabic Wikipedia Editors Program in cooperation with the Wikimedia Foundation
thenextweb.com
Taghreedat, the Middle Eastern volunteer group working to increase the amount of Arabic Web content has just struck a deal with the Wikimedia Foundation, launching the Arabic Wikipedia Editors Program. The first regional program of its kind, it aims to find and train Internet users in the Middle East to...
Brookstone fuel cell USB charger to keep phones powered for two weeks, Engadget editors happy
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If there's a pain that Engadget writers know all too well, it's running out of battery life for a smartphone when we need it most. Say, at a major trade show. That's why we're enthused to hear of an upcoming fuel cell USB charger that Lilliputian Systems is developing...
Belching dinosaurs may have helped keep their world a hot one
arstechnica.com
The world inhabited by dinosaurs was typically a hot one, with high levels of greenhouse gasses, lots of water vapor, and no permanent ice sheets. And, according to a new estimate published in the journal Current Biology, the dinosaurs themselves may have contributed to their hothouse conditions. (Note to...
FBI: Hotel Internet Connections Unsafe
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News updates all day from your Fast Company editors.The government agency known as the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) just went public with the news that the FBI is investigating multiple cases of malware installed via hotel internet connections.According to the IC3, travelers' laptops have been infected with malware after...
Instagram Hitting 50 Million Users About Now
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News updates all day from your Fast Company editors.According to some pretty simple math, Instagram's user base is topping 50 million people about now, a mere handful of days since it was sold to Facebook for a staggering billion dollar price. Considering at the start of this year the user...
Greatist Wants To Build A Brand Around Non-Sucky Health Content
techcrunch.com
When it comes to health and fitness, content farms rule the Internet. Try to search for something like “how to lose weight” and you’ll get a long list of anonymously-written, poorly-sourced articles. So Derek Flanzarich is trying to build something better with Greatist, where he’s founder and CEO. If you...
MSN Launches msnNOW Social Trends App on Facebook, Web and Mobile
mashable.com
msnNOW Homepage The homepage highlights top trends, biggest movers and topic tabs.Click here to view this gallery. One of the Web’s oldest portals, MSN, is about to dive headfirst into one of the Internet’s hottest trends: Social Media. No, Microsoft, which runs MSN, is not launching its own social...
Tech & media events you should be attending [Discounts]
thenextweb.com
It’s been a while, but we’re back with a revised version of our round up of events you should be attending in 2012. We’ve had plenty of additions pour in over the past few weeks that are worthwile events to attend. You will have probably noticed the calendar counting down...
Foursquare Plans To Join Local Coupons Game
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News updates all day from your Fast Company editors.Foursquare CEO and cofounder Dennis Crowley has revealed that his company has serious monetization plans that center on personalized local offers--a transformation for the company from its usual "check-in" game model. Merchants will be able to buy promotions the give users access...
Editorial: Engadget on the Samsung Galaxy S III
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Samsung Galaxy S III preview Under the microscope: Samsung Galaxy S III's HD Super AMOLED display Samsung Galaxy S III wrap-up Was it everything you imagined? The Galaxy S III didn't really slap us silly with hardware spectacle or a particularly brave design and instead plowed into software additions...
Editorial: Engadget on Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo's E3 Keynotes
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Live from Microsoft's E3 2012 keynote! Live from Sony's E3 2012 keynote! Live from Nintendo's E3 2012 keynote! It's early June and we're in Los Angeles, and that can only mean one thing: it's time to get our game on at the Electronic Entertainment Expo. The show is now...
Hackers Find IP Addresses Of All Skype Users
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News updates all day from your Fast Company editors.A script was found on GitHub this past weekend that uses security holes in Skype to display a user's remote and local IP addresses.The script exploits a security hole in Skype 5.5 to fish out all IP information related to an individual...
Instagram is the best, Instagram is the worst
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Ping / Counterping is a special feature where editors of The Verge debate issues from the world of technology head-to-head, no holds barred.There's nothing like a staggering billion-dollar acquisition to put you on the map, is there? Instagram — already an enormously popular photo-sharing service on the iPhone with some...
Instagram's Price To Facebook Was Briefly $2 Billion
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News updates all day from your Fast Company editors.The Wall Street Journal has learned a few incredible facts about the recent deal to buy Instagram. Firstly the deal was led almost exclusively by CEO Mark Zuckerberg himself in a brief and intense three day window, without much of the legal...
90 Seconds On The Verge: June 25th, 2012
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We have a new daily show! It's called 90 Seconds On The Verge (yes, we're going to milk this name just a little bit more). It's a bite-sized look at the biggest stories of the day, presented by one of our charming editors. Today it's me, tomorrow it will...
Zuckerberg Defends His Billion Dollar Instagram Splurge
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News updates all day from your Fast Company editors.Late yesterday Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg faced questions from potential investors in the first part of his pre-IPO whirlwind roadshow. At the New York meeting, Zuckerberg dealt with a lot of questions about his impulsive purchase of Instagram. The deal involved a...
Commentary: Is the Open Web Doomed? Open Your Eyes and Relax
techpresident.com
We asked veteran technology writer and investor Esther Dyson, a longtime friend of Personal Democracy, for her thoughts on a current controversy: is the open web dying? --The Editors...
Facebook Share Price Slides Still Further, Betting Against Its Future Prospects
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News updates all day from your Fast Company editors.Trading in stock options for Facebook began yesterday, but instead of being a positive move for the social network it created a very negative moment in Facebook's timeline because the share price continued its downward spiral from last week and the price...
Hey, Wikipedia Spammers, Start Getting Worried — Datasift Has Built A Tool To Track You
techcrunch.com
Datasift, the social-data platform which specialises in realtime streams, has done something which is going to make PR people quiver in their boots and journalists sit up and notice. They have turned any changes on Wikipedia into a realtime stream which will be searchable and customisable. The implications are that...
Arabic may be one of the fastest growing communities on Wikipedia, but Egypt and Saudi Arabia provide half the content
thenextweb.com
At the ArabNet conference currently taking place in Beirut, Wikimedia Foundation’s Chief Global Development Officer, Barry Newstead spoke about the state of Arabic content on Wikipedia, and on the Internet in general. With 280 languages available on Wikipedia, Arabic is ranked at number 27 in terms of volume [Arabic]. It sounds...
Arabic may be one of the fastest growing communities on Wikipedia, but Egypt and Saudi Arabia provide half the content
Salesforce To Acquire Facebook Marketing Behemoth Buddy Media
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News updates all day from your Fast Company editors.All Things D is reporting that Salesforce and Buddy Media are close to a deal that would have the former acquire the latter for $800 million. Buddy Media (one of Fast Company's 10 most innovative companies in advertising for 2012) manages campaigns...
Ladies and Gentlemen, Welcome to SlashdotTV! (Video)
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You may have noticed that we've posted quite a few original videos on Slashdot in the past few months. Rather than being the work of a few rogue editors with newly-acquired Christmas cameras, this was part of the groundwork for a new site we're launching today. SlashdotTV, found at...
Discovr Unveils People Finder App, Helps You Find Interesting People On Twitter
techcrunch.com
Discovr, the company behind what’s still one of my all-time favorite mobile app discovery tools, Discovr Apps, is out today with a new application for finding people. Not surprisingly, it’s called Discovr People. The startup, which also has apps in the Music and Movies verticals, is not trying to compete...
Facebook Rumored To Be Buying Israeli Face Recognition Firm Face.com
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News updates all day from your Fast Company editors.Over the weekend rumors began to swirl that Facebook was looking at spending about $100 million to buy Israeli startup Face.com to access its clever face recognition technology. Now it's suggested via GigaOm that the momentum for the deal is actually in...
Microsoft Names Windows 8 Versions (You Might Want To Get Comfortable)
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News updates all day from your Fast Company editors.Late yesterday Microsoft revealed what it would be calling its upcoming Windows update. There are three versions, starting with Windows 8--the plain vanilla "one size doesn't quite fit all, at all" variety. Then there's Windows 8 Pro with boosted encryption, device managment,...
Google's latest Gmail tweaks bring contact info to search results, enhanced Circle integration
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By any means, this is certainly far from being one of the biggest changes Gmail's ever seen -- still, it's one that's likely to make a few tasks a wee bit easier for you. Inside the recent tweaks, Google added a new quick access trait that makes contact details...
We're live from CTIA 2012!
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The International CTIA Wireless show is a magnificent showcase of the best in the mobile industry every spring, and we've got a full team of editors ready to scour the show floor in the hopes of finding some precious gems. Unlike last year, we won't expect the show to...
A Brainwave-Scanning Headset That Actually Reads Your Mind
www.readwriteweb.com
(This post was first published by our friends at Gear Patrol.) Futuristic “bio sensor” company NeuroSky has finally perfected what Professor X was born with - a brainwave-scanning headset that can read your mind. Parts of it, at least. Designed for playing iOS and Android games, the MindWave Mobile headset...
90 Seconds on The Verge: June 26th, 2012
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Round two of our new daily show! Welcome to 90 Seconds on The Verge, our bite-sized look at the biggest stories of the day, presented by one of our charming editors. Yesterday it was Josh, today it's me, and tomorrow it will be someone entirely new. Someone you will...
Patch Just Had A Really Nice May (AOL)
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AOL's network of local blogs, Patch, had a pretty nice May, scoring at 14% increase in unique visitors over April – up to 11.7 million. Some more numbers from a Patch press release: "This 14% month-over-month growth outpaced the comScore Regional/Local category as a whole, which grew only 3% over...
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