December 2011
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Dozens of Places to Educate Yourself Online
All education is self-education.  Period.  It doesn’t matter if you’re sitting in a college classroom or a coffee shop.  We don’t learn anything we don’t want to learn. Those people who take the time and initiative to pursue knowledge on their own are the only ones who earn a real education in this world.  Take a look at any widely acclaimed scholar, entrepreneur or historical figure you can...
Dec 28th
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Anonymity, Content Management and Zero Footprint...
Key Ideas   Anonymity  At a recent talk at the Web 2.0 Summit, 4chan founder Christopher Poole (aka “moot”) explains how Google and Facebook “do identity wrong,” and that people should not be tied to just one identity on the web. Poole explains, to some people, he’s a son, and to others he’s a hacker or a friend. Identity is more complex than the world’s largest social networks would like you to...
Dec 26th
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Technology Patents: Useful and Ridiculous
By Hugh Langley for The Telegraph Google is under fire for alleged patent infringement in its Android mobile operating system. Intellectual property is a vexed issue in technology, with empire built on some innovations, and some laughable attempts to restrict rivals from implementing trivial features. Useful patents PageRank Named after its co-developer, Larry Page, PageRank is the...
Dec 25th
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Japanese Firms, DOCOMO, KDDI and SOFTBANK...
Mobile payments are nothing new to the people of Japan, who’ve used NTT DoCoMo’s Osaifu-Keitai as the de facto standard for years. Based on Sony’s FeliCa smart card, the system is incompatible with the NFC Type A and B technologies that are spreading across the globe. Hence, there’s a growing concern for interoperability in the Land of the Rising Sun, prompting NTT...
Dec 24th
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Volkswagen turns off Blackberry email after work...
Volkswagen has agreed to stop its Blackberry servers sending emails to some of its employees when they are off-shift. The carmaker confirmed it made the move earlier this year following complaints that staff’s work and home lives were becoming blurred. The restriction covers employees in Germany working under trade union negotiated contracts. Campaigners warned that the move would not be...
Dec 23rd
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General Mills Accelerates Digital Marketing...
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. - General Mills is expanding its successful General Mills Worldwide Innovation Network (G-WIN) open innovation program to include emerging digital marketing technologies with the launch of G-WIN Digital.  Through G-WIN Digital, the company seeks to connect with partners who have digital marketing technologies focusing on video, social, mobile and gaming. “From the Betty...
Dec 22nd
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Two Things Every Great Mobile App Must Have
remotelymobile: What makes a great app? To be more specific – what makes a really great mobile app?  As I have written in some of my previous posts there are unique challenges with mobility in terms of form factor (which is just a fancy way of saying device size) and what it means to be productive. These challenges are not always accounted for. Many mobile app designs suffer from poor layouts,...
Dec 20th
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How Instagram can gain users, make money and keep...
digithoughts: Instagram; You can start making serious money today without upsetting your users and at the same time massively increase your user base. Here’s how:   Instagram is an iOS only, superb photo sharing app. It’s easy, quick and fun to snap a picture and share it. The filters and the forced square photo format makes photos more interesting and appealing than they really deserve to. I...
Dec 16th
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mHealth: Closing the Gap Between Promise and...
Stakeholders at last week’s third annual mHealth Summit in the Washington, D.C., area touted the potential of mobile health technology to improve health care quality, increase patient centeredness and reduce costs. However, they also acknowledged that while mobile tools have helped revolutionize nearly every other industry in the U.S., the health care field has lagged behind. HHS Secretary...
Dec 14th
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Mobile Passes Print in Time-Spent Among US Adults
NEW YORK (December 12, 2011)—US adults now spend more time on mobile devices each day than they do with print media, according to a new forecast by eMarketer. Meanwhile, time spent watching traditional TV—whether live or recorded on a DVR or DVD—is also increasing, despite industry fears of online encroachment and consumer “cord-cutting.” The average adult consumer has spent 4 hours and 34...
Dec 13th
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How Twitter Proves That Place Matters
By Richard Florida for the Atlantic Twitter is a fascinating place to explore not just the connectedness of people but of places. In a previous post, I mapped the locations of the 500 leading “Twitterati.” When it comes to celebrities, the Twitterverse is still overwhelmingly American: almost three quarters of them are located in the United States. Los Angeles, with its large...
Dec 13th
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WatchWatch
Americans and Mobile Computing: Key Trends in Consumer Research  
Dec 7th
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Email Evolved: Free unlimited email aliases to help counter spam Ian Clarke is a Computer Scientist and Entrepreneur, with a track record of both technical and business innovation, and an outspoken thinker and activist on issues relating to freedom of speech, intellectual property law, and technology. The Irish born original designer and lead developer of Freenet continues his mission to keep...
Dec 6th
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Dec 3rd
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Yes, Even iPhones Can Spy on You, Too
By ADAM CLARK ESTES for the Atlantic Wire An Apple hacker has discovered that Carrier IQ, the shady smartphone software recently found to be logging keystrokes on Android and BlackBerry devices, is also installed on the iPhone. Don’t worry, fanboys. It’s off by default — probably. After  As on other smartphones, the presence of Carrier IQ in Apple’s iOS firmware is...
Dec 1st
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