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What people love and hate about the iPhone 4S

Jan
2012
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Here’s a look at what people love and hate about the iPhone 4S from ChangeWave Research. As you can see, people love Siri, the ease of use, and the nice camera. They hate the battery life and the fact that it doesn’t have 4G. Read more By Jay Yarow and Jon Terbush for Business Insider, 01 Dec 2011.

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How social technologies are extending the organization

Dec
2011
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Companies are improving their mastery of social technologies, using them to enhance operations and exploit new market opportunities — key findings of our fifth annual survey on these tools and technologies, in which we asked more than 4,200 global executives how organizations deploy them and the benefits they confer. When adopted at scale across an emerging [...]

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Hardware companies will have to quit the tablet market in 2012

Dec
2011
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Because hardware companies like Dell, HP, and Acer have so few advantages over companies that offer content as well, DigiTimes reports that they may be getting out of the tablet game entirely next year. Content companies like Amazon or Barnes & Noble can subsidize their tablets like crazy — they’ll make their money back after the fact as customers buy content [...]

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It’s official: flash mobile player is dead

Nov
2011
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Adobe confirmed what reports were saying all morning: It’s done with the Flash Mobile Player and has now thrown its lot in with the HTML5 crowd — for mobile at least. “We will no longer continue to develop Flash Player in the browser to work with new mobile device configurations (chipset, browser, OS version, etc.) [...]

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16 examples of steve jobs being a huge jerk

Nov
2011
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When it comes to Steve Jobs, there’s the “Good Steve,” and then, there’s the “Bad Steve,” says biographer Walter Isaacson. His mammoth personality could inspire those around him just as easily as it could tear them down. Here are 16 examples of when he did the latter. Read more By Dylan Love for Business Insider, 25 Oct [...]

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The digital living room isn’t here yet

Nov
2011
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Despite all the hype around Netflix streaming, and Apple’s iTunes movie store, the fact of the matter is that the physical disc is still the king of home entertainment, Dan Frommer at SplatF reports. As you can see in the chart below, digital streaming/sales only accounted for 19% of the home entertainment market in the third quarter. The rest of [...]

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Truly amazing: quantum levitation

Oct
2011
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Visit site By the Association of Science-Technology Centers (ASTC)Videos posted on YouTube, 16 Oct 2011.

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The future of social gaming isn’t all about facebook

Oct
2011
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The bulk of social gaming revenue in the next three years will not come from Facebook, as you might suspect, but rather from alternative platforms that are dominant in other countries. In a study conducted by SuperData Research on behalf ofViximo, a social games and applications platform, it found that non-Facebook social gaming will explode [...]

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Qwik fails: 15 disastrous product launches that were quickly killed

Oct
2011
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This morning, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings announced that Qwikster is no longer. Hastings decided to listen to shareholders and consumers and kill Qwikster before even giving it a chance. Was it the right move? Netflix shares plunged around 7% today while the rest of the market rallied. Investors clearly aren’t impressed, but they may just be responding to [...]

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Convert word documents to clean HTML

Oct
2011
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