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Samsung Announces Plans for iPad Challenger

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Samsung is the next consumer electronics manufacturer to come out swinging against Apple’s iPad. A senior executive confirmed plans to release a “slate PC” during the second half of this year.The key differentiating points for this tablet will address what Samsung feels are two major shortcomings of the iPad:...

This 18-Slide Pitch Landed Payment Startup Dwolla $16.5 Million
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Dwolla, a startup that makes it easy and cheap for businesses to collect payments, just raised a $16.5 million Series C round. The company charges $0.25 per transaction, not a percentage like credit card companies, and it has processed more than $1 billion to date. Top VC firm Andreessen Horowitz...

Google and other tech companies deny PRISM surveillance claims, NSA says claims 'inaccurate' and not used domestically
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Claims made by The Washington Post that the National Security Agency was tapping into the servers of nine tech companies for details of user activity have been denied by Google and most of the other companies alleged to be involved. Google cares deeply about the security of our users’ data. We disclose...
Google and other tech companies deny PRISM surveillance claims, NSA says claims 'inaccurate' and not used domestically

5 Business & Design Tools Every Tech Freelancer Should Learn
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Guest author Danny Groner is manager of blogger partnerships and outreach for Skillfeed. When you work as a freelance designer or coder, your success or failure is entirely reliant on you. Since there's no one else you can blame for missed deadlines or shoddy work, it's incumbent on you...

VMware's SlideRocket finds a home with ClearSlide
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SlideRocket, the tool that lets marketing pros build slick multi-media presentations that kill PowerPoint ennui, now has a new home with ClearSlide. VMware bought SlideRocket just under 2 years ago but signaled in December that it would offload it, along with other non-core technologies. ClearSlide CEO Al Lieb said that...

Pulitzer winner Jennifer Egan will tweet a story for The New Yorker starting tonight
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Award-winning novelist Jennifer Egan is no stranger to experimenting with form. Her last book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Visit From the Goon Squad, included an entire chapter formatted as a PowerPoint presentation, and her latest story, set to be published in The New Yorker, is divided into 140-character sections...

Docurated Is An Enterprise File Management Service To Search And Collect The Data You Need
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Docurated is a document management solution targeted towards enterprise users — it is publicly launching onstage at Disrupt NY. It aggregates all your documents in one place, turning them into a beautiful searchable and customizable database. Docurated will now provide Dropbox integration as well. “We don’t need any more 20...

Nordic giant Schibsted wants to be world's No 1 for online classifieds
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Norwegians reckon the online free ad market is up for grabsThe Nordic media giant wants to be the No 1 worldwide of online classifieds by replicating its high-margin business one market after another, with great discipline. It starts in 2005 with a PowerPoint presentation in Paris. Schibsted ASA, the Norwegian...

4 Ways to Boost Your SharePoint Performance
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The folks at Quest Software have written a white paper describing their top performance killers for SharePoint (registration required). It is worth summarizing the results here, for those of you that still use this tool and are getting complaints from your end users, or who haven't looked at your storage...
Mayhem: Microsoft’s open-source app for controlling just about anything
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The technologies shown at Microsoft Research’s annual “TechFest” science fair aren’t typically ready for public use. But one that emerged last week, dubbed Mayhem, is available for download, it’s an open-source project, and it has some interesting implications for how we use our devices in our lives. Mayhem is a...

Even Will Wright's PowerPoint slides are fascinating
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SimCity and The Sims creator Will Wright is not only one of the video game industry’s most successful and fascinating developers but is one of its most insightful speakers as well. Over the years, Wright has developed a reputation for his wide-ranging presentations, which he delivers with his trademark...
NSA's Prism surveillance program: how it works and what it can do
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Slide from secret PowerPoint presentation describes how program collects data 'directly from the servers' of tech firms• Obama deflects criticism over NSA surveillance Since Prism was first revealed by the Guardian and the Washington Post, there has been much discussion across the media around exactly what the NSA's top-secret program...

Microsoft Previews New Touch-Friendly MSN And Bing For Windows 8
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Microsoft just gave a quick sneak peek of the redesigned version of MSN while at the IAB MIXX digital ad conference. It’s optimized for Windows 8 (in fact, it will be the default home page for Internet Explorer 10 on many Windows 8 devices), and it will be launched on the same day as the new Windows,...

Acer unveils 10.1-inch Iconia W510 Windows 8 tablet with $799 price tag
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Acer has just unveiled its Windows 8 lineup at Computex, among them the seriously attractive 10.1-inch Iconia W510 tablet. We're a bit light on details as of now but here's what we do know. The W510 is a convertible, full HD touchscreen, IPS display tablet with three different use...

Appafolio Lets You Make Native Multimedia Presentations On iOS
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Like how there are all sorts of companies offering tools to let you build your own web site today, a new wave of them is doing the same thing for mobile apps. Appafolio stands out among the various options because it lets you create a polished native presentation for iOS...

5 Ways to Increase Donations through Social Media
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We finished up our Increasing Donations through Social Media seminar yesterday and it was great to meet individuals from the not-for-profit world in Indianapolis. We had some awesome conversations surrounding the idea of telling YOUR story to the world… the story that drives emotion through each and every donor. I...

New Mahdi Strain of Spyware Targets Iran & Israel
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The discovery of the Flame virus earlier this year brought cyberespionage to the international stage. Flame is highly sophisticated spyware, software designed to snoop on infected machines, of unprecedented complexity and scale. But spyware does not need to be created by government-backed hackers to be highly effective. Sometimes simple viruses work...

'GoldenEye' title director creating grindhouse-inspired Intel ultrabook ads
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Intel wants you to know that whatever you might think, its super-modern ultrabooks are definitely better than laptops from the Middle Ages. A series of new commercials will showcase Intel's "new era of computing" by showing the ultrabook in settings from mid-20th-century genre films. So far, all we've seen...

This Is What Developing For Android Looks Like
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You know how all Android developers complain about fragmentation? Yeah, this is what fragmentation looks like. Animoca, a Hong Kong mobile app developer that has seen more than 70 million downloads, says it does quality assurance testing with about 400 Android devices. Again, that’s testing with four hundred different phones...

GrabCAD Now In 3D, Sets Sights On Being The GitHub For Mechanical Engineers
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Whatever you think of Hollywood’s current preoccupation with all things thee dimensional, in the world of mechanical engineering, 3D is definitely the way to go. But sharing those CAD-generated renders with clients is more often done Old Skool using print screens, drawings or the dreaded powerpoint presentation. That’s a pretty...
Kevin Clark's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week
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I'm relatively new around here. I'm a composer, and an all-around arts/internet/economy type guy. I teach, speak, and occasionally consult, when I'm not building a new grantmaking platform for New Music USA. And the Onion just called our podcast (Actually Happening) pedantic, so I can die happy now. I've...

NSA had no 'direct access' to tech company servers, say CNET sources
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CNET is reporting that a "former government official who is intimately familiar with [the] process of data acquisition" detailed in the leaked PRISM slides says that the NSA had no direct access to tech company servers. In fact, the Washington Post had updated its original story with a statement...

SlideShark Becomes a Turnkey Mobile Preso Viewer for New Box Platform
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Earlier this year, my colleague David Strom shared with you the sudden rise of a mobile presentation tool called SlideShark. It was a fairly simple concept to begin with: Upload a PowerPoint presentation to Brainshark's servers, and then deploy that presentation to multiple recipients who can watch them from their...

If You Eat Something, Say Something: DHS Sounds The Alarm On The 'Terrorist Implications' Of Food Trucks
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It's interesting (or maybe just kind of sad) that various government agencies see possible terrorists everywhere but rarely, if ever, catch one. Despite the large number of personnel being thrown at the problem (along with lots of money), actual terrorists seem to be in limited supply. But these agencies haven't...
If You Eat Something, Say Something: DHS Sounds The Alarm On The 'Terrorist Implications' Of Food Trucks

9Slides releases iPad app to make slick presentations
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Does your PowerPoint presentation need a little spice? 9Slides, a Seattle startup led by former Microsoftie Ruchit Garg, thinks it can help. And today the company is rolling out a new iPad app, which allows users to quickly add video to the presentation using the iPad’s built-in camera. Garg notes...

Why The Classic Career Question 'What Should I Do With My Life?' Is Totally Wrong To Ask
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Whether you're a new college graduate or you've spent years in the work force, one question seems to linger: "What should I DO with my life?" LinkedIn's founder, Reid Hoffman, says that's the wrong question to ask. Instead, professionals should be asking, "How can I help?" and trying to understand...

Gov 2.0 FAIL: El Bloombito Thinks New York City’s New 311 App Really Bites
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The Mayor's Instagram account is working just fine. While the outside world piles accolades on New York City for tech-forward initiatives like the applied sciences campus, hackathons, and open data efforts, residents who've tried to digitally interact with city government know there's still a ways to go. That's partly why...

Microsoft uses Siri to slam Apple in new Windows 8 ad (video)
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We all know Microsoft likes to directly challenge its competitors, especially Google. Now Microsoft is taking a swing at Apple in a new 30-second advertisement that uses Siri’s voice to make fun of the iPad. The ad shows a Windows 8 tablet sitting side-by-side with the iPad. As the...

Apple Lawyer Asks Judge For Legal Win In Wake Of Samsung's Questionable Info Leak
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Samsung and Apple’s big patent trial took an intriguing turn earlier this week when members of Samsung’s legal team decided to send information that was unusable in court to a handful of eager reporters. Of course, Apple wasn’t about to take that lying down. Apple attorney William F. Lee recently...

Silicon Valley Geeks Are Talking Up This Watch That Alerts You When You Get Email
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Foursquare's Dennis Crowley may be obsessed with Nike+ FuelBand, a wristband that keeps track of your daily activity and how many calories you burn. Google Matt Cutts, however, has his eyes set on the inPulse smartwatch, which is a device that lets you email reminders straight to your watch. Cutts wrote...
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