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How Much Would The Average Person Pay For A Standalone HBO Go Subscription? About $12 A Month
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Two years ago, HBO introduced HBO Go, giving fans a way to access all of their favorite programming online, on tablets and mobile devices, and increasingly on connected TV platforms. For those of us who have had a chance to use it, HBO Go is nothing short of a revelation,...
Court Sentences Web Designer For Creating Infringing Torrent Site
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After its launch in 2008, the StudentBay e-learning torrent site quickly became associated with The Pirate Bay due to its familiar logo, Swedish roots and other alleged links to the site. StudentBay began with a promise to bring free textbooks to students all over Sweden but before the end of...
The open source problem solvers creating government 2.0
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Meet the new breed of technologist who's hacking the government at every level to make it work better for youBen Berkowitz woke up three years ago to find a huge graffiti tag scrawled across his neighbor's wall, which he couldn't avoid seeing through his back window. "I was calling city...
Hijacker Tears Large BitTorrent Site Apart, Succeeds Where U.S. Authorities Failed
torrentfreak.com
When the United States Trade Representative (USTR) compiles the annual ‘Notorious Pirate Markets’ list there are always a core of BitTorrent sites included. The Pirate Bay, KickAssTorrents and isoHunt make their usual appearances but among them are always Zamunda and ArenaBG, two Bulgarian torrent trackers that are not only their...
Sweet: CSS Hat turns Photoshop layer styles into CSS3, now available on Windows and Mac
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CSS Hat is a simple and highly useful Photoshop plugin that generates CSS3 based on your Photoshop layer styles. It’s easily one of the most useful Photoshop plugins I’ve ever seen, and now after much demand (since meeting success on the Mac), the team is releasing CSS Hat on Windows...
Is This The Galaxy S IV? No - Just An Expansys Web Designer's Mock-Up
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Don’t worry, the Samsung Galaxy S IV won’t look like an iPad mini with the camera relocated after all. Famed Android device leaker Evleaks tweeted out a render he suggested was the upcoming Galaxy S IV, but it turns out there was less to the image than meets the eye:...
NatWest and RBS customers face another weekend without money
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Irate NatWest and RBS customers claim IT problem still not fixed, despite RBS claim that 99% of accounts now up to dateHundreds of NatWest and Royal Bank of Scotland branches will open with extended hours for a second weekend to tackle the ongoing problems faced by what appears to be...
Nokia courts app developers for its revamped Asha platform with a new SDK and in-app payment tool
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Nokia unveiled a new platform for its Asha range of smartphones and feature phones today, which puts a greater on apps and offers two separate screens, called ‘Home’ and ‘Fastlane’. It’s unclear whether this is an entirely new mobile operating system, or a re-engineering of the Series 40 platform which...
Chrome's Impressive Desktop Rise: Does It Even Matter?
www.readwriteweb.com
Once upon a time, that little blue "E" logo was practically synomous with the Internet itself. Double-clicking the Internet Explorer icon was, for so many people, the only gateway to the World Wide Web, aside from Netscape Navigator. Today, the desktop browser landscape is very different. Netscape's long gone,...
Revenge of the DevOps: Microsoft Targets Next Visual Studio for Admins Too
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You've heard this from ReadWriteWeb for the past several months: The exodus to the cloud for enterprise services and resources is moving control of everyday work away from the IT department. So what happens with all those displaced IT workers and administrators who are no longer managing applications and...
Movies are way more interesting when they’re rewritten with code
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Me? Watch movies? Psh. Why pay good money watching a movie when I could just find out what happens by reading code? It’s time to give in to your inner geek, my friends. Created by Ben Howdle, Movies as Code is exactly what you think it is: Popular movies rewritten in a programming...
Google's homepage through the lens of 14 different Android browsers
www.theverge.com
One of Android's strengths as a platform is the tremendous variety of apps that can be found to tackle any given task. Web browsers are just one example, with Google itself even releasing a beta version of Chrome in addition to the standard Android browser — but how do...
Instagram's New Web Profiles Finally Bring Photo-Sharing To That Other Place You Like To View Photos: Your Desktop
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Instagram's new web profiles make it easier to view, follow, and discover--but not upload--photos on the web. Instagram just launched a new web profiles feature that redesigns the look and feel of its mobile photo-sharing experience for the web. Each web profile, which you can get to by visiting...
Instagram's New Web Profiles Finally Bring Photo-Sharing To That Other Place You Like To View Photos: Your Desktop
Andrew James Joins the PandoDaily Team!
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“So, I want to officially offer you the job. What do you think?” “Let me think about it…. but yes.” “Wait, which?” “Yes.” “Ok, great! When can you start?” “Monday.” “When can you get to San Francisco?” “Tuesday.” If I had any doubt about hiring Andrew James* it was...
BII MOBILE INSIGHTS: HTML5 Adoption-- Fact Or Fiction?
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Mobile Insights is a new daily newsletter from BI Intelligence delivered first thing every morning exclusively to BI Intelligence subscribers. Sign up for a free trial of BI Intelligence today. Mobile Payments To Surpass $1 Trillion By 2017 (IDC via Information Age)According to IDC's Financial Insight's Worldwide Mobile Payments 2012-2017 report, worldwide purchase volume over mobile...
Cheers to Failure: Confessions and Cocktails at the Startup Funeral
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RIP, startups. “I thought this was gonna be like a real funeral,” Betabeat’s date complained. Her confusion was understandable. The invitation for Friday night’s Startup Funeral—a sort of reverse launch party for failed startups–instructed us stop by the “New Work City Funeral Home.” So we were a little surprised, upon entering...
Overlapps: Find apps you’ll love, read interviews with their creators
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With over 600,000 apps of variable quality in the App Store, it has become quite hard to find what we are looking for. This is the problem the Barcelona-born platform Overlapps hopes to fix. Launched in March and usually sold for €0.99, its iOS app will be free for the next few...
When is it time to stop calling yourself a freelancer and become an entrepreneur?
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Self-employed. Freelancer. Entrepreneur. Business owner. However you label it, these people are making an independent living by themselves and their businesses they have built. These “labels” often blend into one another: those who are self-employed consider themselves business owners, business owners consider themselves entrepreneurs, freelancers consider themselves self-employed. For those who enjoy...
Where you can find great sources of web design inspiration
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There is no shortage of inspiring places to find amazing web design on the Intenet. What there is a shortage of, however, is time. Your time. You want to be creating, not consuming, so how do you know where to find the best examples of web design to inspire and...
Instagram For The Web Coming Soon? Online 'View Profile' Link Spotted In The Wild
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Instagram became a billion dollar company by providing a service that existed entirely within the mobile app realm. But it’s looking like the social photo-sharing juggernaut may be almost finished with constructing a bridge to the web as well. Web designer Cole Reinke says he recently was logged into Instagram...
Download Site Founder Receives 4.5 Year Jail Sentence, Forfeits $4.7m
torrentfreak.com
In June 2011, the biggest ever operation aimed at tackling online movie piracy took place in Europe. The target for police in Germany, Spain, France, and the Netherlands was movie-streaming portal Kino.to and its affiliates. More than a dozen people were arrested and since then various individuals have been brought...
3D printers shape up to lead the next technology gold rush
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A number of young companies are racing to corner the burgeoning consumer market for 3D printingAfter six years of "barely scraping by", Brook Drumm, a California-based web designer, had accumulated about $50,000 in credit-card debt. To salvage his finances, Drumm decided on an unorthodox solution: start a 3D printer company....
Swedish Appeals Court Says Web Designer Is Responsible For Copyright Infringement On StudentBay
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It's really amazing how fearful people who don't understand technology are of anyone who has any connection to file sharing, no matter how remote. Over in Sweden, an appeals court has overturned a lower court ruling absolving a web designer of any liability for designing the StudentBay -- a torrenting...
JOB OF THE WEEK: Senior Web Designer
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Check out the Business Insider Jobs section >> As part of our new partnership with SimplyHired.com, each week we'll feature one of the awesome jobs advertised on the Business Insider jobs board. Senior Web Designer YOLO Publishing New York, NY Why it’s cool: YOLO Publishing is a rapidly growing internet marketing company...
Web Design Criticism: A How-To
www.smashingmagazine.com
Web design is a relatively young field. It’s youthful, growing and made up of people from all kinds of backgrounds, many of whom lack formal design training. We have learned, and still are learning, as we go.I came into my first job as a Web designer for Boeing back...
110 Free Classy Social Media Icons | Jason LaRose Design | Freelance Web Designer and Logo Designer
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Hey guys, I'm introducing FriendFeed to my colleague Christopher Savoie (http://friendfeed.com/chrissavoie). He's our new web designer extraordinaire. Just signed up. Please give him a warm welcome. :)
SeaMonkey: A Light, Easy HTML Editor I’ve Come To Love (& Wishes For More)
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Until about four months ago, I used FrontPage 2003 as my HTML editor. Shut up. Seriously, shut up. It was a wonderful program, despite being old. But I wanted to keep up with the times, and SeaMonkey is now my tool of choice for doing HTML. Some thoughts and tips,...
The Ultimate Free Web Designer’s Icon Set (750 icons, incl. PSD sources)
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There are thousands of free icon sets out there, and every other day we see new sets being released by the design community. In fact, Smashing Magazine has been releasing icon sets for years now, too. But today’s release is particularly important. Over the last 1.5 years, Oliver Twardowski...
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