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  • Apple’s Next Battleground Isn’t TV; It’s Web Services

    Apple’s Next Battleground Isn’t TV; It’s Web Services John Paczkowski, allthingsd.com Apple does hard­ware and soft­ware well, and it’s at the top of its game when it does them togeth­er. But when it comes to Web ser­vices, the com­pa­ny is a lag­gard, with an ever-lengthening conga line of mis­steps. There are hands-down fias­co… http://flip.it/fuyg5 Related…

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  • The New Places Where America’s Tech Future Is Taking Shape

    The New Places Where America’s Tech Future Is Taking Shape Joel Kotkin, forbes.com Tech­nol­o­gy is reshap­ing the eco­nom­ic geog­ra­phy of the Unit­ed States, but there’s dis­agree­ment as to how. Much of the media and pun­dits like Richard Flori­da assert that the tech rev­o­lu­tion is bound to be cen­tral­ized in the dense,… http://flip.it/MESlA Related articles Don’t…

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  • New registry to tally, track burn pit illnesses among vets

    ‘This generation’s Agent Orange:’ New registry to tally, track burn pit illnesses among vets By Bill Briggs, NBC News contributor, nbcnews.com An Amer­i­can flag dan­gles from the Tor­res home, the sign of a long bat­tle won: a new law — signed Thurs­day by Pres­i­dent Barack Obama — cre­at­ing a reg­istry of U.S. ser­vice mem­bers per­haps…

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  • Turn your iPhone into an action cam

    Mophie OutRide action-cam case for iPhone now available: 170 degrees of Xmas footage for $150 Sarah Silbert, engadget.com We took a look at Mophie’s Out­Ride ruggedi­zed action-cam case back at IFA in August, but the month of Decem­ber noto­ri­ous­ly brings many more photo ops. Per­haps that’s why the com­pa­ny has cho­sen to announce avail­abil­i­ty of…

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  • Minority Report tech: coming to your living room

    Dan Lyons, readwrite.com The company is called Leap Motion, and if you want to get an idea of how much everyone in San Francisco is buzzing about them, consider this: A few weeks ago I was visiting a different hot new startup in San Francisco, and in the middle of their d… RT @rishad: Huge…

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  • Apple watch on the horizon

    THE END OF SMARTPHONES: The Latest Rumor Is That Apple Is Working On A Computer Watch Nicholas Carlson, businessinsider.com Tech/Media Long before Apple ever revealed its lat­est iPhones and iPads to the pub­lic, we knew almost exact­ly what they would look like and what kind of fea­tures they would have thanks to rumors ema­nat­ing from…

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  • Xmas rules for proper iPhone conduct

    Teenager Gets New iPhone For Christmas… Along With 18-Point Contract From Mom Killian Bell, cultofmac.com Imag­ine your delight as a teenage boy who’s just unwrapped a shiny new iPhone for Christ­mas. It’s prob­a­bly your first smart­phone — maybe even your first cell­phone peri­od — and you can’t wait to turn it on and start play­ing…

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  • What can Best Buy learn from B&H and Apple stores?

          How Best Buy can learn from B&H Photo by Greg Sandoval, cnet.com New York’s top photography store provides a clinic on how to sell tech gear. This is how you sell tech gear: Yes­ter­day I walked into B&H Photo in New York, which claims to be the coun­try’s largest non-chain cam­era store,…

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  • Crack the job application systems

        4 Strategies for Conquering Online Job Application Systems Brie Reynolds, lifehack.org If you’re like the majority of job seekers, you spend quite a bit of time searching for jobs online. While there are lots of other job search methods—networking, company research, career fairs, recruiters, and the like—once you finally find a job… RT…

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  • Why big data is about mining real world behavior

    By STEVE LOHR, nytimes.com Business experts and recent research predict that machine-generated sensor data will become a larger and larger portion of all data produced. That is opening up a huge opportunity for Big Data technology beyond the consumer Internet. RT @nytimesbits: Big Data: Rise of the Machines http://flip.it/X0O7J http://flip.it/82cR0 Bits Blog: Big Data: Rise…

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  • Professions that encourage a lack of empathy?

    Which professions have the most psychopaths? The fewest? Mark Frauenfelder, boingboing.net The Wis­dom of Psy­chopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Ser­i­al Killers Can Teach Us About Suc­cess, by Kevin Dut­ton, has this side-by-side list of pro­fes­sions with the high­est per­cent­age of psy­chopaths (CEO tops the list) and low­est… RT @BoingBoing: Which professions have the most psychopaths?…

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  • Sarah Palin, fruit flies and science funding

    The Fiscal Cliff Is Forcing a Biomedical Day of Reckoning Luke Timmerman, xconomy.com Luke TimmermanSarah Palin, the onetime candidate for the second-highest elected office in the U.S., once delivered a rant on the campaign trail about waste she perceived in federal support of fruit fly research.Scientists everywhere were… http://flip.it/DNFcj Related articles Watch the Palin Turkey…

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  • Design trends for future web developers

    10 New Web Design Trends You Can Expect to See in 2013 Amber Leigh Turner, thenextweb.com Well, it is that time of year where we start to reflect on the past year and look for­ward to the new year. In 2012 we have seen sev­er­al new trends appear in web design, one of the most…

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  • Avoid recruiters and put your skills up for auction

    Hounded By Recruiters, Coders Put Themselves Up For Auction J.J. Colao, forbes.com When Pete Lon­don post­ed a resume on LinkedIn in Decem­ber 2009, the JavaScript spe­cial­ist stum­bled into a trap of sorts. Short­ly after cre­at­ing a pro­file he received a mes­sage from a recruiter at Google. Just days later, anoth­er from… RT @ForbesTech: Hounded by…

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  • Why and what you need to keep learning to stay competitive

    Learning Should Be Your Top 2013 New Year’s Resolution Eze Vidra, thenextweb.com As we get clos­er to the New Year, the rit­u­al of mak­ing res­o­lu­tions begins and we all flock to the usual pat­terns: we want to to eat health­i­er, work out more, get pro­mot­ed, or spend more time with our kids and fam­i­ly. These…

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  • Why you must keep learning to stay competitive

    Learning Should Be Your Top 2013 New Year’s Resolution Eze Vidra, thenextweb.com As we get clos­er to the New Year, the rit­u­al of mak­ing res­o­lu­tions begins and we all flock to the usual pat­terns: we want to to eat health­i­er, work out more, get pro­mot­ed, or spend more time with our kids and fam­i­ly. These…

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  • NYC emerging as a social tech startup powerhouse

    Why 2013 Will Be a Big Year for NYC’s Tech Start-Ups! Alan McGlade, forbes.com New York City has a thriv­ing start-up scene and now is firm­ly estab­lished as the num­ber two inno­va­tion cen­ter behind Sil­i­con Val­ley. The ramp in momen­tum can be felt across the city land­scape from the mayor’s office where Michael… RT @flipboardtech:…

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  • Should I learn app development or HTML5?

    HTML5 vs. Apps: Here’s Why The Debate Matters, And Who Will Win Business Insider, businessinsider.com Tech/Media HTML5 is a new tech­nol­o­gy that allows devel­op­ers to build rich web-based apps that run on any device via a stan­dard web brows­er. Many think it will save the web, ren­der­ing native platform-dependent apps obso­lete. So, whi… RT @SAI:…

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  • How to never get lost again: apps for travel

    Road Tripping In The Digital Age Ryan Lawler, techcrunch.com I’m just wrap­ping up a week-long road trip, in which a trav­el com­pan­ion and I vis­it­ed some friends in South­ern Cal­i­for­nia. We hit up a few dif­fer­ent spots along the way, includ­ing San Luis Obis­po, Santa Bar­bara, Los Ange­les, San… RT @TechCrunch: Road Tripping In The…

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  • Why Apple, Google and Microsoft are not doomed

    Contrary to media frenzies, Apple is not giving up on innovation (it is actually becoming a more efficient, responsible, transparent and happier place to work). The Year of Doom For Microsoft, Google and Apple Haydn Shaughnessy, forbes.com 2012 was the year of the doom mer­chant in busi­ness. In the fan­ta­sy world of dying plan­ets earth…

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  • FDA finally tries to regulate pharma social media, God Help Them

    FDA Guidance on Responding to Unsolicited Requests for Off-Label Information pharma-mkting.com Two days after Christ­mas, on Decem­ber 27, 2011, while most of us were still on vaca­tion, the FDA qui­et­ly issued “Guid­ance for Indus­try Respond­ing to Unso­licit­ed Requests for Off-Label Infor­ma­tion About Pre­scrip­tion Drugs and Med­ical… RT @pharmaguy: FDA Guidance on Responding to Unsolicited Requests…

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  • Teen with cancer creates his own musical goodbye wishes

    (via Zach Sobiech, Teen With Cancer, Records Touching Song To Say Goodbye (VIDEO)) Related articles Dying Teen Sings Farewell Song (foxnews.com) “Clouds,” a song by 17-year-old osteosarcoma patient Zach Sobiech (boingboing.net) Teenager with cancer writes a song to say goodbye (telegraph.co.uk) A song by 17-year-old osteosarcoma patient (scienceroll.com)

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  • How and why to get an iPhone without the contract

    (via What can you do with an unlocked iPhone 5? Here are 3 options — Apple News, Tips and Reviews) Related articles Deal Alert! iPhone 5 on Sale at Walmart for $127 (dailysavings.allyou.com) Apple Takes The Wraps Off iPhone 5 (misco.co.uk) Apple May Already Be Testing the New iPhone and iOS 7 (mashable.com)

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  • Why Straight Talk is the best iPhone plan for information and knowledge workers

    Since most  information and knowledge workers don’t spend nearly as much time chatting on a phone these days as managing data in other forms (email, messages,  sites, social media), it increasingly makes little sense to spend the thousands of dollars a year charged by major carriers for a their phone services. Fortunately, some smaller companies…

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  • Straight Talk and other pay as you go iPhone carriers

    (via Straight Talk: It could let you dump AT&T or T-Mobile — Mobile Technology News) Related articles Consumer Reports: Prepaid Phone Plan Can Be Smart Way To Save (pittsburgh.cbslocal.com) Revealed: Secrets of a smartphone bill under $50 (redtape.nbcnews.com) Prepaid Phone Plans Give U.S. Cell Phone Users a Choice in a Post Paid World (z6mag.com) A…

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  • T Mobile as an alternative to iPhone mobile carrier contract lock in

    (via NYC and 13 more cities get T-Mobile’s iPhone-friendly upgrade — Apple News, Tips and Reviews) Related articles You Can Finally Change Your iPhone’s Carrier Logo Without Jailbreaking (cultofmac.com) Life After The iPhone: How AT&T’s Bet On Apple Mobilized The Company (forbes.com)

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