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The BBC’s plans for “the first digital Olympics”? 24 simultaneous live streams across 4 screens.
thenextweb.com
The BBC has given the biggest indication yet of what its digital offering will look like for the London Olympics, and The Next Web was on hand yesterday to get a glimpse of the action. Back in January last year, the BBC announced it was reshaping BBC Online. The underlying...
'Minecraft' creator Notch names next project '0x10c', promises 'hard sci-fi' gaming
www.theverge.com
"It's now the year 281 474 976 712 644 AD, and the first lost people are starting to wake up to a universe on the brink of extinction, with all remote galaxies forever lost to red shift, star formation long since ended, and massive black holes dominating the galaxy."...
The Number Of Mobile Devices Will Exceed World’s Population By 2012 (& Other Shocking Figures)
techcrunch.com
Despite its long and boring name, Cisco’s “Visual Networking Index (VNI) Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast Update” is one of the more fascinating data-filled reports you’ll read this year. The report examines the dramatic growth we’re seeing in the mobile Internet space, including the massive demands for mobile data, the growth...
How To Get Past The Hidden Psychological Biases That Plague Investors
www.businessinsider.com
The person who is sitting across from you in the conference room, more and more often, doesn't look like you. Neither does the person who gets off at your subway stop. The PTA Board is changing, too. This doesn't sit well with most people, but not because they're bad people....
Big Tech: MSFT May Be Late to Tablet Fight, But Has the Cash to Keep Sparring
www.wired.com
Even Windows Vista hasn't stopped Microsoft from plodding forward profitably. Photo: Stephen Edgar - Netweb On one level, Microsoft’s likely introduction of its tablet Monday is just sad. No matter how cool, the effort seems doomed to feel half-hearted, simply because it came so late. The iPad launched more than...
Whither Groupon? A Wall Street Analyst Breaks It Down
www.betabeat.com
Mr. Rohan (LinkedIn.com) The fate of Groupon has been a topic of intense interest on this blog. So how fares the discount diva these days? According to one Wall Street analyst speaking yesterday to the Daily Deals Summit, the long-term future might be bright, but she's likely to break a...
Oracle Makes A Smart Move In Its War With SAP (ORCL, SAP)
www.businessinsider.com
Just because Larry Ellison thinks SAP's management is "on drugs," doesn't mean he's dismissing his ancient rival. Today Oracle unleashed two new products to make SAP customers love it. Both of the new products add analytics to SAP applications and can be used with Oracle Exalytics database, which competes...
In Week Two, Marissa Mayer Googifies Yahoo: Free Food! Friday Afternoon All-Hands! New Work Spaces! Fab Swag!
allthingsd.com
Yahoo’s new CEO Marissa Mayer’s second week is showing even more signs of what the company will be like under her regime. In short: It will be just like Google from whence she came. Praise be: Yahoogle lives! Wasting little time, Mayer has added a weekly Friday afternoon all-hands...
In Week Two, Marissa Mayer Googifies Yahoo: Free Food! Friday Afternoon All-Hands! New Work Spaces! Fab Swag!
This Could Be The Reason Google Wanted Buddy Media (GOOG)
www.businessinsider.com
Why would Google want to buy Buddy Media? The deal didn't go through, but it's a little weird that Google wanted to snatch up a company that helps businesses create Facebook pages and Foursquare contests and analyze results. Unless you start looking at a bigger picture. Google has finally decided...
Why Adding Marc Benioff Is A Brilliant Decision From Cisco (CSCO, CRM)
www.businessinsider.com
It's a major coup for Cisco that Salesforce.com founder and CEO Mark Benioff has agreed to join Cisco's board. First of all, if any company could use a little Benioff pizazz, it's Cisco. Although Cisco is still the biggest, baddest network vendor in the world, it is facing a whole...
Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) now hitting unlocked Galaxy S II in America
www.engadget.com
See that? That's the sign that awoke yours truly this morning. And that just happens to be confirmation that the long-awaited Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) update is finally coming to unlocked (read: global, non-carrier branded) Galaxy S II smartphones situated in the United States. If you'll recall, said...
France's ANDRA developing a million-year hard drive, we hope our badly-written blogs live in perpetuity
www.engadget.com
Us humans have been quick to embrace digital technology for preserving our memories, but we've forgotten that most of our storage won't last for more than a few decades; when a hard drive loses its magnetism or an optical disc rots, it's useless. French nuclear waste manager ANDRA wants...
France's ANDRA developing a million-year hard drive, we hope our badly-written blogs live in perpetuity
Solmeta N3 geotagging module for Nikon DSLR review: fast GPS locks, minimal battery drain
www.engadget.com
There's a reason "Nikon GP-1 alternative" is a search phrase that finds its way into Google's simplistic query box frequently. Put simply, the only GPS add-on with Nikon's name on it is universally seen as a poor purchasing decision. For one, it's still right around $200... despite the fact...
Netflix Engineer Daniel Jacobson: The API at the Root of Your Business
www.readwriteweb.com
The first place I had ever seen an API actually at work was as part of an operating system. It was a strange OS at that, a permutation of CP/M that used a graphical front end called GEM, which would later be ported to the Atari ST. The definition was...
Finally, a Major New Reason to Use Blogger: Easy Custom Templates
technologizer.com
At this point, blogging has been around so long that there’s nothing extraordinary about almost anyone–from an eleven-year-old to a grandma–having his or her own blog. One basic thing about blogging, however, remains surprisingly tough: gaining control over a blog’s look and feel. Automattic’s WordPress.com, Google’s Blogger, and Six Apart’s...
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