Category: Information Visualization

  • TMobile offers real 4G on iPhone for half the price

    (via T-Mobile expands 4G network, sort of offers 4G iPhone | Dialed In – CNET Blogs) Related articles ScrewMat for iPhone 4 Repair, iPhone 4S Repair, and iPhone 5 Repair Now Available in Canada with Wi West Wireless (prweb.com) Seattle iPhone carrier recommendation (ask.metafilter.com) Apple working on iPhone 6 running on iOS7: Report (ibnlive.in.com)

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  • T Mobile to make iPhone plans more affordable

    (via T-Mobile to offer cheapest iPhone 5 in 2013 – Tapscape)

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  • Lifehacker top iPhone apps

    Most Popular iPhone Apps and Posts of 2012 Thorin Klosowski, lifehacker.com 2012 was an interesting year for Apple’s iPhone and iPad. We got a new operating system with iOS 6, and that came with a fair share of problems. Still, lots of new features, apps, and fixes came along. Here are the most popular iOS-related…

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  • Holiday Shopping Tips From Behavioral Economists

    Cass R. Sunstein, bloomberg.com Behavioral economists study human errors. People don’t always make the best choices for themselves, so there’s good reason to doubt whether they will always make the best choices for others. RT @BloombergNews: Don’t end up getting someone a useless gadget: Holiday shopping tips from a behavioral economist | http://flip.it/aqLw8 http://flip.it/uXoyK Holiday…

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  • The Cash-Only Doctors Club

      businessweek.com Concierge doctors don’t take insurance, but do make house calls. Once an option only for the rich, they may change health care for everyone RT @BW: Is concierge medicine the future of healthcare? | http://flip.it/0htzp #longreads http://flip.it/fHvQI The Cash-Only Doctors Club Related articles Paul Hsieh on Concierge Medicine (healthcarebs.com) Dear Congress: Listen to…

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  • Japan explores remote, virtual workforce after disasters

    After a Disaster, Japan Looks for Alternatives to the Office bloomberg.com Cour­tesy Soco­co Think your boss is stub­born about let­ting you work from home? Try going to Japan. Telecom­mut­ing is sim­ply not built into the busi­ness cul­ture there. Just 12 per­cent of Internet-connected Japan­ese office work­ers woul… RT @BloombergTech: After a disaster, Japan looks for…

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  • Calculating a College Degree’s True Value

      businessweek.com Some states are posting their graduates’ salaries online RT @BW: What’s a college degree really worth? | http://flip.it/TbD8l http://flip.it/wx3kw Calculating a College Degree’s True Value Related articles Is the value of a college degree dwindling away? (bizjournals.com) Is this the ‘definitive guide’ to the college grad job market? (costofcollege.wordpress.com)

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  • Gen Y professionals give up cubicles for personal control

    American Dream Fades for Generation Y Professionals By Elliot Blair Smith -, bloomberg.com After being dis­missed from her job as a Mid­town Man­hat­tan secu­ri­ties attor­ney in Octo­ber 2009, Christi­na Tretter-Herriger hitched a used horse trail­er to her Dodge Ram pick­up and drove 1,628 miles to Texas. The 32-year-old lawyer sold… RT @BloombergNews: For young Generation…

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  • Why Apple will grow faster with Tim Cook

    Tim Cook’s Attention to Culture Will Grow Apple Even More Paul Spiegelman, inc.com THE CULTURE GAP How Tim Cook treats employees may leave him a legacy bigger than Steve Jobs’. Much has been writ­ten about the bril­liance of Steve Jobs and the icon­ic com­pa­ny that he built. Many say that it was Steve Job’s laser…

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  • Talented workers bring their own devices

    Worried Workers: BYOD Or You’re SOL [Infographic] Brian Proffitt, readwrite.com It is a common perception around the world that Americans, by and large, have problems relaxing. We don’t take what little vacations we do get and increasingly use technology to blur the line between work and home life. But a new study shows that… RT…

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  • Apple’s Passbook Is a Surprise Success for Developers

    Christina Bonnington, wired.com It’s been a few months since Passbook was announced, and talk has died down to almost nothing. Is anyone even using the service? It turns out, yes, and we’re using it a lot. Apple’s Passbook Is a Surprise Success for Developers http://flip.it/CjHIO http://flip.it/vOHyS Apple’s Passbook Is a Surprise Success for Developers Related…

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  • AT&T liberate mifi displays status

    AT&T MiFi Liberate: The Best MiFi I’ve Ever Used Sam Biddle, gizmodo.com If you can afford one, hotshot, an LTE MiFi will change your life a little bit: you have Internet virtually everywhere you go, a wireless high-speed network in your bag.Most MiFi gadgets are lousy. This one is stellar.What Is It?A tiny… AT&T MiFi…

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  • Mailbox app for iPhone replaces Apple mail

    Mailbox for iPhone: a next-generation email app inspired by Sparrow and Clear By Ellis Hamburger, theverge.com Cloud to-do list com­pa­ny Orches­tra today announced Mail­box, an email client for the iPhone it’s been build­ing for the last year. I’ve been test­ing Mail­box for the last few weeks and it’s noth­ing short of spec­tac­tu­lar. It’s the best…

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  • ZenPayroll Launches Cloud-Based Payroll Service With $6.1M In Seed Funding From CEOs At Yammer, Box, Yelp And Dropbox

    Alex Williams, techcrunch.com Y Com­bi­na­tor com­pa­ny Zen­Pay­roll launched its cloud-based pay­roll ser­vice today with $6.1 mil­lion in seed fund­ing from Google Ven­tures and invest­ments from the CEOs at Yam­mer, Box, Yelp and Drop­box. It is the largest seed round ever … RT @TechCrunch: ZenPayroll Launches Cloud-Based Payroll Service With $6.1M In Seed Funding From CEOs…

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  • Transcriptic biotech startup funded by Google Ventures

    Biotech Startup Transcriptic Receives $1.2M In Seed Funding Led By Google Ventures And FF Angel Catherine Shu, techcrunch.com Start­up biotech com­pa­ny Tran­scrip­tic has raised $1.2 mil­lion in a seed fund­ing round from a wide group of investors led by Google Ven­tures and FF Angel (Founders Fund‘s seed stage arm), and pri­vate investors Mark Cuban and…

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  • Farmingo digitizes organic farmers markets

    Farmigo Opens Doors to Online Farmers Market Bonnie Cha, allthingsd.com The ben­e­fits of your local farm­ers mar­kets are plen­ty. You’re get­ting fresh food, sup­port­ing local farms and help­ing to cre­ate a more sus­tain­able food sys­tem. But with lim­it­ed hours and loca­tions, you prob­a­bly can’t take advan­ta… RT @allthingsd: Farmigo Opens Doors to Online Farmer’s Market…

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  • Ditch the pricey telecom Internet with Freedompop

    Still Seeking to Shake Up Mobile Market, FreedomPop Also Looks to Rattle Home Broadband Ina Fried, allthingsd.com Free­dom­Pop, a start-up aim­ing to offer free and low-cost mobile broad­band access, is now tak­ing aim at the home Inter­net mar­ket as well. The com­pa­ny, backed by Skype founder Niklas Zennstrom, plans on Wednes­day to start tak­ing pre­ord……

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  • Why the iPod touch is the perfect VOIP soft phone: Freedompop

    FreedomPop Aims to Turn an iPod Touch Into an iPhone, With a 4G Add-On Ina Fried, allthingsd.com Wire­less start-up Free­dom­Pop is announc­ing plans on Tues­day to start sell­ing an add-on that effec­tive­ly gives an iPod touch many of the capa­bil­i­ties of an iPhone. The $99 add-on brings wire­less data capa­bil­i­ties to a third-generat… http://flip.it/lw7Sl Related…

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  • Why Apple maps debacle was actually a success

    Is Google’s New Maps App Actually a Big Triumph for Apple? Frederick E. Allen, forbes.com Last Sep­tem­ber when Apple ditched its Google Maps iPhone app and replaced it with its amaz­ing­ly inept home-built Maps app, the move was so round­ly denounced as a step back­ward and a weak­en­ing of the iPhone envi­ron­ment that chief exec­u­t……

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  • Marketing clouds: here comes machine learning

    Beyond Marketing Clouds — The Age of Machine Learning Raj De Datta, CEO, BloomReach, allthingsd.com The advent of Sales­force Mar­ket­ing Cloud and Adobe Mar­ket­ing Cloud demon­strates the need for enter­pris­es to devel­op new ways of har­ness­ing the vast poten­tial of big data. Yet these mar­ket­ing clouds beg the ques­tion of who will help… RT @allthingsd:…

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  • I’m Tim Ferriss, and This Is How I Work

      lifehacker.com Tessa Miller View Profile • Google Plus • RSS When we kicked off the How I Work series in August, we encour­aged read­ers to tell us whose pro­duc­tiv­i­ty tips and tricks they were dying to know. No one has been more… http://flip.it/zcWep I’m Tim Ferriss, and This Is How I Work Related articles Tim Ferriss…

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