mardi 31 janvier 2012
Twitter CEO: 2012 Will Be the Twitter Election
“I really think 2012 is going to be the Twitter Election,” Dick Costolo said on stage at AllThingsD‘s
media conference in Laguna Nigel, Calif., Monday evening. It was an
unusually confident declaration from a CEO who has hitherto appeared
remarkably modest in his communications.
By saying that 2012 would be a “Twitter
Election,”...
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Want to Print Facebook? Better Get 11.5 Billion Sheets of Paper [INFOGRAPHIC]
Printing a year’s worth of Facebook statuses would be equivalent to printing more than 500 million Oxford English Dictionaries, a new survey found.
Sure, it would be a waste of paper, but a UK online cartridge
retailer thought it would be interesting to find out how much paper
would be needed to print a year’s worth of Facebook statuses...
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Megaupload Data Safe for Another Two Weeks
The data on Megaupload will not be erased for at least two more weeks, Cnet reports citing Megaupload lawyer Ira Rothken.
The data on the file hosting service, whose founders have been
accused of piracy and money laundering, was in danger to be erased as
soon as Thursday, Feb. 2, as the site’s assets were frozen and it was
unable...
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lundi 30 janvier 2012
What Piracy? The Entertainment Industry is BOOMING!
We’ve pointed it out
numerous times in the past. Despite the rampant piracy, Hollywood and
other entertainment industries continue to break revenue and sales
records year after year.
In an excellent report commissioned by the CCIA, Techdirt’s Mike Masnick has has made an excellent overview of how well things go in the various entertainment...
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8 Crazy Things IBM Scientists Have Learned Studying Twitter
A team of IBM researchers spends their days sifting through Twitter.
They use live streams of tweets to develop machines that are smarter
than the typical computer, an area of study known as "machine
learning."
Using these tweets, they've developed technology that allows a
machine to understand that some tweets are just background...
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Megaupload Data Could Be Erased This Week
All the data on Megaupload – legal or illegal – could be erased as soon as Thursday, Feb. 2, the Associated Press reports.
The file storage website hires outside companies – Carpathia Hosting
Inc. and Cogent Communications Group Inc – to store its users’ data.
Since Megaupload’s assets have been frozen, the service cannot pay...
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dimanche 29 janvier 2012
Megaupload’s Kim Dotcom Loses ‘Call of Duty’ Top Spot While in Prison [VIDEO]
Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom can’t defend his top-spot score in the game Modern Warfare: Call of Duty 3 from behind bars — he was recently bumped to the no. 2 spot by a player named Azaros.
On Wednesday, a judge denied Dotcom bail, meaning he likely won’t be able to usurp Azaros’ Modern Warfare 3 title anytime soon.
But Kim Dotcom,...
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HP's Jon Rubinstein Leaves The Company, webOS Dies A Little More
And just like that, he's out. The former head of Palm is leaving HP, and with webOS
all but buried, it's no real surprise. HP's acquisition of Palm proved
disastrous, and after Jon Rubinstein was shifted into a product
innovation role after the first major blow to webOS, we sort of figured
he wouldn't hang around too much longer. He...
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Twitter's new censorship plan rouses global furor
This screen shot shows a portion of the Twitter
blog post of Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012, in which the company announced it
has refined its technology so it can censor messages on a
country-by-country basis. The additional flexibility is likely to raise
fears that Twitter's commitment to free speech may be weakening as...
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Computer viruses infecting worms to create hybrid 'Frankenmalware,' says BitDefender
Most computer users are all too aware of the threat of viruses and
worms infecting their machines, but according to security research firm
BitDefender different types of malware may now be infecting each other
to create a new breed of security risk. Dubbed "Frankenmalware," the
hybrids are created when a virus infects a machine that...
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Megaupload in pictures
A week has already passed since the closure of Megaupload (file hosting) and Megavideo (video player). Seven people were arrested in this case two of which were released yesterday afternoon, while the demand for release of the iconic boss Kim Dotcom, was rejected by New Zealand authorities. Today we present the case Megaupload images.
Kim...
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vendredi 27 janvier 2012
Angry Birds on Facebook Launching Your Way on Valentines Day
What could be more romantic than playing Angry Birds on Facebook with your sweetheart or with a social network of relative strangers? The highly anticipated Facebook version of Angry Birds will officially be landing in a browser near you on Feb. 14, Valentines Day.
Rovio, the studio behind the game, has put out a trailer (above) and...
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Can Regular Investors Buy a Piece of Facebook ?
Now that it looks like Facebook is (finally!) going to file for an IPO, plenty of potential investors want to know how they can get in on the action.
Mashable is not a financial publication, and we’re not in
the business of giving stock market tips. But we can break down the IPO
process — and gauge the likelihood of a regular investor...
14:29 0
Eight Easy Ways to Boost Your Website on a Budget
Call me the website fairy. I know the last New Year’s resolution on
your list is to revamp your website. You're most likely putting it off
because you work too many hours, can’t afford a designer and you tense
up every time you think about it.
The following tips from small-business owners will make your site
discoverable to potential...
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mercredi 25 janvier 2012
"We're just like YouTube," Megaupload lawyer tells Ars
Megaupload's US attorney, Ira Rothken, has a succinct description of the US government case against his client: "wrong on the facts and wrong on the law."
The week has been a busy one for Rothken, a San Francisco Internet law attorney
who has previously represented sites like isoHunt and video game
studios like Pandemic. When I call,...
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Is Manufacturing the New Black?
For years, news about the manufacturing sector in the U.S. has been
bleak, punctuated by tales of factory closings and outsourced
production. But in the beginning of January, the Labor Department
offered a little glimmer of hope. It seems that manufacturing companies
have been adding jobs for the past two years. No, we’ll never beat...
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Google Offers Expands to Five New Cities.
Google’s daily deals service, Google Offers, is coming to five new locales: Charlotte, Kansas City, Milwaukee, San Antonio and Tampa.
These five cities bring the total number of locales where Google Offers is available to 38.
Furthermore, this number will soon be 40, as two more cities – Oklahoma City and Omaha – are on the “coming...
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Bill Gates Recalls Final Talks With "Steve Jobs"
Bill Gates reflects on the death of his longtime friend and rival Steve Jobs in an upcoming interview with Nightline’s Bill Weir.
“You gotta pick important stuff because you only have a limited
amount of time,” Gates says, reflecting on Jobs’ passing, mortality and
his own philanthropic goals in a segment posted to Yahoo.
Walter...
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mardi 24 janvier 2012
How to Become a Tech Guru in One Year ?
You have an industry-changing idea for a technology company. In your
mind, the organization solves a major problem, secures $50 million in
seed funding and breaks beta testing records. You’d launch this company
tomorrow if it wasn’t for one big problem...You don’t know how to code.
Up until August 2011, this was a major roadblock,...
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Why Apple says it can't build an iPhone in the US
It's not just about cheap labor — flexibility in staffing, supply chains and reconfiguring factories matter
By CHARLES DUHIGG and KEITH BRADSHER
When Barack Obama joined Silicon Valley’s top luminaries for
dinner in California last February, each guest was asked to come with a
question for the president....
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