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Pinterest bigger than Tumblr? Depends who you ask, and where you draw the line
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It’s a strange game, comparing the relative size of websites. The pageview, once the key metric that ruled them all, is in decline as technology leaves it slowly in the dust, gripping several ’90s business plans as it fades away. And yet we do it anyway, mostly because it’s fun,...
Apple Only Wants 16+ Year-Olds Working Its Dodgy Sweatshops (AAPL)
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Apple products are made in factories that regularly employ young teenagers, constantly work people more than 60 hours per week, and falsify records to cover up their misdeeds. That's according to the shameless gossiping muckrakers at... uh, Apple Inc. The company's brightly-named "Supplier Responsibility 2010 Progress Report" (PDF) contains some...
New Boundary App For Splunk Predicts Root Cause Of App Brownouts
techcrunch.com
Boundary‘s application performance monitoring technology is now integrated into Splunk‘s enterprise platform, providing a window into apps that increasingly are distributed across cloud and on-premise virtualized environments. Boundary provides a snapshot every second of the app’s topology. That data now appears in Splunk Enterprise, which collects and indexes machine data such...
AOL's Alto adds visual organization to e-mail
www.pcworld.com
Attempting to stay relevant in a world where even Yahoo! gets more press, AOL on Thursday launched the beta version of its new cloud-based e-mail management tool, Alto. Alto won't replace Gmail, Yahoo!, AOL, or any other e-mail services. Instead, the free HTML 5-based client manages your existing accounts...
16GB Galaxy S III on T-Mobile is $279.99 after rebate
www.theverge.com
Pricing for the Galaxy S III on T-Mobile is now live on the company’s site, and the phone is not cheap. With a two-year contract and a Classic voice and data plan, the 16GB version will cost you $279.99 — and that’s after you get reimbursed $50 for the...
This is what the "fiscal cliff" looks like (infographic)
venturebeat.com
2012 may not mark the end of the world, but it may signal a nasty end to the perhaps not great — but also not terrible — economic malaise of the United States. In 2013, unless changed by bipartisan legislation, two things are mandated to happen. One is the automatic expiration...
Delicious makes drastic changes to its feature set. Scraps "stacks", replaces with good ol' tags.
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As someone who saw Delicious’ stacks feature as its USP, I’m somewhat surprised at this. Delicious has decided to make changes to its feature set, the most significant being the removal of “stacks”, a feature which let its users collaboratively create collections of links. Delicious will instead now revert back...
AOL unveils Alto: a web-based email client with an emphasis on aesthetics and organization
www.engadget.com
A cleanly organized inbox may be a holy grail that's seemingly out of reach, but AOL (which happens to be our parent company) has unveiled a web-based e-mail client dubbed Alto to help cut through clutter. Instead of singing up for a brand-new email address, users log into the...
Believe It Or Not, There's A Way To Get Android Apps On Your Mac (GOOG, AAPL)
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If you're bummed out that certain Android apps don't have an iOS counterpart, you might have some good luck on the way. BlueStacks is a piece of software that lets you run Android apps on your Mac. It's still very early in its development, but anyone with a Mac can...
FixYa releases its smartphone report with common problems and solutions
thenextweb.com
Unless you are fond of a particular brand, choosing a smartphone can be a bit confusing. Even when you have read the specs, the handsets on offer seem to be very similar. If you’re lucky enough to have a friend who is an expert in these matters, you’ll be sorted...
Instagram 2.1 update adds HDR-esque 'Lux' mode and UI refresh (hands on)
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The iPhone photo-sharing app Instagram has never been shy about incorporating new capabilities, and it just received a 2.1 update that adds a UI makeover, a new filter, and an HDR-inspired feature called "Lux." We spent some time with the app to check out the new features, and to...
Sony reveals Exmor RS camera sensor for smartphones
www.electronista.com
Sony has formally unveiled it stacked CMOS sensor for smartphones. Last seen in January, the Exmor RS camera modules boast a backside-illuminated CMOS sensor which stacks the pixel layer over the signal ship, shrinking the module's size. The two layers being independent of each other, combined with the pixel layer...
Rhapsody announces Napster launch in 14 countries across Europe
www.engadget.com
As part of its Napster (and Napster International) acquisition from a while back, Rhapsody promised it would spread the music service across more places worldwide, with one of the many focuses being to have a stronger presence in Europe. Well, staying true to its word, Rhapsody's announcing today that...
Packrati.us Makes It Super Easy To Store Twitter Links in Your Delicious Account
www.makeuseof.com
On any given day, I get around 100 weblinks in my Twitter account – either from people I follow or links I post myself. As you can imagine, that soon stacks up and that then presents a problem when I want to find a particular link I came across...
Reimagining Books: How Citia's iPad App Compares to a Paper Book
www.readwriteweb.com
Kevin Kelly's book What Technology Wants was one of my favorite non-fiction books of 2011. In my April 2011 review, I gave it 5 out of 5 stars. It's fitting that Kelly's book is the first to be turned into an iPad app on a new iOS platform called Citia....
Amazon Web Services eases private cloud creation
www.computerworld.com
Amazon Web Services said it has made it possible to create private clouds using CloudFormation, which automatically creates stacks of resources described using templates....
This Photo Perfectly Sums Up Everyone's Feelings On the Yellow Pages [Humor]
gizmodo.com
I would like to take this opportunity to personally thank Kate who perfectly sums up how I, and probably a good chunk of the population, feel about those giant stacks of unclaimed phone books showing up at apartment buildings every year. More »...
Motorola Atrix HD unveiled: 4.5-inch display, Ice Cream Sandwich and more
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Motorola has published a landing page for the newest addition to its Atrix smartphone series, the Motorola Atrix HD. The device stacks up well in the specs department and features a 4.5-inch display screen with a resolution of 720 x 1280 pixels, an 8-megapixel rear-facing camera, a 1.3-megapixel front-facing...
The Real Victims of the Newspaper Collapse
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The Onion is on to something here. There’s something about big stacks of newspapers that appeals to a certain kind of person — I used to work with one of them, and actually, come to think of it, I kind of was one of them — and the creative destruction...
HP Envy Sleekbook 6z review: an inexpensive thin-and-light with AMD innards
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More Info HP unveils Envy Spectre XT Ultrabook, other thin-and-lights in various sizes HP takes EliteBook W-series on a trip to Ivy Bridge, throws in Z220 Xeon for good measure HP refreshes EliteBook line with five new models, Ivy Bridge and optional LTE HP has been fleshing out its...
Google Drive blocked in China hours after launch, leaving Baidu and local players to dominate
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Google announced its Google Drive cloud storage service yesterday and just hours later the service was blocked in China, just like Dropbox and countless other Western Internet services, leaving the door open for local players to dominate in Google’s absence. While the blocking of the new Google service is no...
PBS stacks humans against all other life on Earth, discovers we're doing okay
www.engadget.com
At just over 7 billion in number, human beings are kind of a big deal. Despite our greatness in numbers, however, there are quite a few other species sharing our little blue dot. Sadly, the one greatest in number isn't something you see every day or ... well, ever,...
Google Drive vs Dropbox, SkyDrive, Box and more – How does it stack up?
thenextweb.com
With today’s release of Google Drive the obvious question to be asked is how it stacks up to the existing competition. Whether you choose to use Drive by itself, or in conjunction with something else, it’s best to move forward while educated so we’re here to help you out. We’ll...
New software aims to preemptively nab Wall Street crooks
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With so many big banks’ reputations in the toilet, one software vendor is betting that they’ll want to do a better job of cracking down on their more unethical employees before they become a public relations headache. MIT’s Technology Review blog reports that Digital Reasoning, a software company that has traditionally...
Microsoft plans to “drive shared hosting to the next level” with project ‘Antares’
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What up techheads. I take it that you are into such things as servers. I know that because you clicked on this link, and have therefore self-inducted yourself into an elite little group. Hey everyone. Here’s the skinny: Microsoft has a project called ‘Antares’ under construction that is looking to shake up shared hosting....
Samsung Galaxy S Marries Android to an Amazing Screen [PICS]
mashable.com
The Galaxy S from Samsung could well be the “new hotness” in the Android lineup — something to follow the glow of the Nexus One (lackluster sales and all, the device still sends tech nerds into fits of frothy exuberance).Just announced at CTIA, the Galaxy S will feature a...
Podcast via @PDP2010 - Jacqueline Goldsby - work w/ "Mapping the Stacks: A Guide to Black Chicago’s Hidden Archives" - http://bit.ly/aNWgYk
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Podcast via @PDP2010 - Jacqueline Goldsby - work w/ "Mapping the Stacks: A Guide to Black Chicago’s Hidden Archives" - http://bit.ly/aNWgYk
Google Glass software update released, adds multi-shot, HDR photos, and photo captions
venturebeat.com
Last night Google released a software update for Google Glass that offers better photos and photo captions. It’s part of a team goal to push out new releases every month. The new photo software captures multiple images every time you take a picture, then stacks them to create a better-quality...
Due To The Apple / Google Deathgrip, Former CEO John Lilly Says For Mozilla, “Mobile Is A Little Scarier”
techcrunch.com
iOS and Android aren’t leaving much room for Firefox to burrow into mobile. “We knew there was going to be a transition from desktop being primary to mobile and tablet being primary” said Mozilla’s former CEO and current board member John Lilly today at TechCrunch Disrupt NYC. “What I worry about,...
Due To The Apple / Google Deathgrip, Former CEO John Lilly Says For Mozilla, “Mobile Is A Little Scarier”
BitNami Goes Beyond AWS Cloud with Application Library
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BitNami announced today that they're going to be offering ready to run images of popular open source stacks for a wider range of public and private clouds. Previously, BitNami's cloud images were only available for Amazon Web Services (AWS), but the company is now providing images for Eucalyptus, OpenStack, VMware...
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