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Leveson: Social media and blogs aren't popular enough to carry proper news
paidcontent.org
The UK’s big inquiry in to the culture, practice and ethics of the “press” has recommended a new body to better self-regulate news media — but has overlooked blogs and social networks because they are neither popular nor newsy enough. The result leaves large mainstream newspaper publishers, which are in...
Come On Google, Show Us Some Real Google+ User Numbers Already
siliconfilter.com
Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that things aren't looking so great for Google+. According to data from comScore, Google+'s users spend just about 3 minutes per month on the site. On Facebook, that number is closer to six or seven hours per month. Google itself, however, has never...
Twitter launches 'Certified Products' to further encourage the apps it wants
www.theverge.com
Brands like Pepsi, Virgin, and the New York Public Library want to use Twitter for market research and talking to customers. But while it's pretty easy for consumers to hop on Twitter and start exploring its many uses, it's been much tougher for businesses. Twitter's new Certified Products Program...
How the iPad made Apple the top 'PC' vendor, and what it means for Windows
www.geekwire.com
What is a “personal computer” in 2012? Do tablets count? Most of the major technology research firms say no. As reflected in the chart above, they count PCs and tablets separately when reporting their data. “Media tablets” such as the iPad and Kindle Fire are separate from traditional desktop and...
Riot Breaks Out At Foxconn Factory
www.businessinsider.com
A riot at has broken reportedly broken out a factory owned by Foxconn, the company famous for its production of Apple gadgets. Ed Flanagan of NBC News reports: Reports early Monday from China suggest that a mass disturbance or riots may have broken out at a Foxconn factory in the...
Oh great: New attack makes some password cracking faster, easier than ever
arstechnica.com
Enlarge / A slide from Steube's presentation outlining a more efficient way to crack passwords protected by the SHA1 cryptographic algorithm. hashcat.net A researcher has devised a method that reduces the time and resources required to crack passwords that are protected by the SHA1 cryptographic algorithm. The optimization, presented...
Sorry Nick, Mark Zuckerberg Doesn’t Owe You Fifty Dollars
pandodaily.com
Nick Bilton wants his fifty bucks. The New York Times tech writer figures that’s his share of Facebook’s $100 billion valuation — based on his own contribution to the “poking, liking and sharing on the site”. After all, Bilton argues, “without me, and the other 844,999,999 [users] Facebook would look...
Dell investigates report of its computers being sold to Syria
www.computerworld.com
Dell is investigating a report that a Middle East reseller has sold large numbers of computers to a Syrian company with ties to the embattled government there, in violation of U.S. export restrictions....
Funders Club raises over $1M for startups online -- including itself
venturebeat.com
Since its launch three weeks ago, Funders Club has raised over $1 million for startups. Funders Club is a platform where accredited investors can access an inventory of vetted, early-stage companies. The startups publish comprehensive profiles on the site, along with a fundraising goal. Members have the opportunity to make...
Dell investigates report of computers sold to Syria
www.pcworld.com
Dell is investigating a report that a Middle East reseller has sold large numbers of computers to a Syrian company with ties to the embattled government there, in violation of U.S. export restrictions.Despite U.S. trade sanctions against Syria, Dell reseller BDL Gulf sold Dell laptops, tablets and desktop computers...
No, the next iPhone won’t have a flexible display
9to5mac.com
Thanks to either a bad translation or simply a quote taken out of context, the latest Apple rumor floating around is that the next iPhone will include a flexible display. The rumor originated from The Korea Times who quoted Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Kwon Oh-hyun as saying the company is...
The Windows 8 roll out rolls on: Intune customers can now snag the RTM
thenextweb.com
As the final date, and dates, of the Windows 8 release process race towards us, the product continues to hit its early availability milestones. Today, Microsoft Intune customers can download the Windows 8 RTM build. This access is actually slightly ahead of schedule, ZDNet reports, noting that “Intune users were...
Kickstarter: the crowdfunding site that wants to spark a creative revolution in the UK
www.guardian.co.uk
Got a bright idea for a film, a comic or even a hi-tech watch? For many, Kickstarter could be the answer - and now it's launched in BritainTime was, in the olden days, that in order to create a video game, or fund a film or album, or make a comic,...
Zynga shuts Baltimore studio and consolidates three other locations
venturebeat.com
Following up on its promise to be more cost efficient, Zynga is shutting down its Baltimore studio today and consolidating locations in three other cities. About 1 percent of the work force, or maybe 30 people, will be out of work as a result. The Baltimore shutdown isn’t a...
Costa Rican Students Fight For The Right To Photocopy Textbooks
www.techdirt.com
One of the most important pieces of research to emerge last year was "Media Piracy in Emerging Economies". A central theme was that much unauthorized copying around the world is driven by attempts to impose Western-level prices everywhere, resulting in media goods that are simply beyond the reach of most...
The rise and fall of Grant Shapps' Twitter followers
www.guardian.co.uk
Conservative chairman appears to have found technique to boost number of followers to more than 55,000The ubiquitous and social media savvy new Conservative chairman Grant Shapps appears to have found a technique to boost his Twitter followers to more than 55,000.It appears that Shapps, at regular intervals, increases the number...
Now is the Time to Quit Facebook
www.readwriteweb.com
There's a debate going on about whether or not Zuck should hand over some cash to users. Nick Bilton at the New York Times is waiting for his cash out. I, too, have argued that Zuck should "share" his Facebook kingdom, an online culture that he created (and owns more...
This Futuristic City Car Will Be Made With 3D Printing
www.businessinsider.com
Engineer Jim Kor wants to make a car that is efficient, affordable, simple, and safe, and that can be easily produced in small or large numbers. And he's doing it with 3D printing. The car he's developed is the Urbee 2, a two-seat, three-wheel hybrid. Thanks to its big windows...
Garbage in garbage out: Google Fiber edition
gigaom.com
After lackluster fiber registrations in certain Kansas City neighborhoods, Google has adjusted down the number of homes in certain neighborhoods eligible for the service. The search giant says it is lowering the number of homes in 73 of its designated “fiberhoods,” because it had orginally collected bad data, but others...
GNOME 2: Still king of the Linux desktop
www.pcworld.com
It seems fair to say that Linux users enjoy a degree of choice that's unmatched by the proprietary players in the desktop computing world, what with the wide variety of both distributions and desktop environments from which they can choose. For that reason, it's all the more striking when...
Apple's new iPad launches in China with short queues and no chaos
thenextweb.com
Apple product launches in China are renowned for being chaotic and rowdy but today the company begin selling its new iPad in the country under rather unusual circumstances. Instead of being greeting by massive queues and anxious customers — as has become the norm — the Retina display equipped device...
How To Get Windows on the iPad (With Microsoft’s Blessing)
www.wired.com
Yes, Microsoft does approve of Windows on the iPad (Photo: Wired.com/Jon Snyder) Microsoft has sicced its lawyers on the OnLive Desktop — an internet service that streams Windows onto the iPad — but this won’t stop another free-thinking startup from sending Microsoft’s flagship operating system onto Apple’s tablet by way...
BlackBerry Z10 Selling In "Large Numbers", Says BlackBerry -- Some U.K. Retailers Sold Out Over The Weekend
techcrunch.com
The company formerly known as RIM is holding its first developer event in Europe since launching its new BlackBerry 10 platform last Wednesday. Speaking at the BlackBerry Jam event in Amsterdam, UK MD Stephen Bates said the launch of the first BB10 device — the full touch Z10 — has exceeded expectations,...
BlackBerry Z10 Selling In "Large Numbers", Says BlackBerry -- Some U.K. Retailers Sold Out Over The Weekend
Profits over your dead body
arstechnica.com
Imagine living in a world where visiting the doctor was an experience fraught with danger. Where the drugs you were prescribed may or may not be effective—and may or may not be safe. Imagine having a medical procedure recommended that wasn't known to work. Up until the beginning of...
DailyDirt: Logarithmic Thinking Is Natural
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Most of us have been taught to understand math-related topics in a linear way, but that might not be the way our brains are hard-wired. Kids actually tend to have an innate number scale that is logarithmic, so even though they know how to count to ten (or even twenty),...
Small companies can do quick market research with Peanut Labs’ Crowdvibe (exclusive)
venturebeat.com
Peanut Labs is launching its Crowdvibe site today to allow anyone to create quick polls or market research surveys with large numbers of respondents in a variety of targeted markets. Crowdvibe (at the site Crowdvi.be) taps Peanut Labs’ network of more than 50 million consumers on 200 social networks...
Peanut Labs extends its self-serve platform for creating market surveys (exclusive)
venturebeat.com
Peanut Labs is launching its Samplify self-serve platform, which allows small and big companies to quickly find a reliable audience of survey respondents for test-market surveys and other scientific polls that require representative audiences. The platform gives survey creators real-time access to samples of people who are ready to...
Predicting Twitter popularity is all about probability
gigaom.com
Tweets have the power to decimate markets, but they also have users and companies seeing dollar signs. With huge marketing, political, and social mobilization potential, how can you predict which tweets will get more views, and which retweets will go viral? A new study developed a statistical model that attempts to...
IMAGiNE Piracy Group Founder Jailed For 23 Months
torrentfreak.com
In 2011 the notorious IMAGiNE movie piracy release group was dismantled by U.S. authorities after releasing large numbers of movies onto the Internet, many of them still playing in theaters. Since then, slowly but surely IMAGiNE members have been charged with criminal copyright infringement and given sentences ranging from 23...
Study: Apps not that important to smartphone users
www.wpcentral.com
We've seen the headlines, we've heard the pundits (looking at you, Scoble) that tout apps as the "big" thing on smartphones. And while initially this may hold true for new users, the novelty wears off, or so suggests a new study by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American...
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