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Google +1 Buttons Go Live on Display Ads. Google’s +1 button will begin appearing on some ads in the company’s Display Network starting Tuesday. The buttons actually began appearing in AdWords search ads in late May. The move to display was announced in September, with the idea that you or your friends in your Google network can show that you like or want to recommend a display ad.
“As we explained in our initial announcement several weeks ago, we believe that incorporating personal recommendations into display ads has the potential to change the way people view advertising,” Dan Friedman, AdWords product marketing manager, wrote on the company’s Inside AdWords Blog. A practical comparison of the Apple iPhone 4S, Samsung Galaxy S II and Motorola Droid Bionic. Comparing devices that rely on fundamentally different ecosystems isn’t always productive. For the user that is entrenched in the iOS system, with hundreds of apps to their name, there is little chance that they are going to be switching over to an Android device any time soon. And for those that have all of their data wrapped up in Google’s services, extracting it and switching may feel like it just isn’t worth it. But there are many out there that are still on the outside looking in. Recent numbers put the worldwide market for smartphones somewhere at 75% so there are some who might benefit from a head-to-head-to-head of the flagship devices available in the Android and iOS ecosystem.
We’ve done a series of comparisons that pit the iPhone 4S, the Samsung Galaxy S II and the Motorola Droid Bionic against one another in the ways that matter to consumers at the ‘daily use’ level. Build and feel. Computer virus hits US Predator and Reaper drone fleet. A computer virus has infected the cockpits of America’s Predator and Reaper drones, logging pilots’ every keystroke as they remotely fly missions over Afghanistan and other war zones.
The virus, first detected nearly two weeks ago by the military’s Host-Based Security System, has not prevented pilots at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada from flying their missions overseas. Nor have there been any confirmed incidents of classified information being lost or sent to an outside source. But the virus has resisted multiple efforts to remove it from Creech’s computers, network security specialists say. And the infection underscores the ongoing security risks in what has become the US military’s most important weapons system. BlackBerry cuts made roads safer, police say. ABU DHABI // A dramatic fall in traffic accidents this week has been directly linked to the three-day disruption in BlackBerry services.
In Dubai, traffic accidents fell 20 per cent from average rates on the days BlackBerry users were unable to use its messaging service. In Abu Dhabi, the number of accidents this week fell 40 per cent and there were no fatal accidents. On average there is a traffic accident every three minutes in Dubai, while in Abu Dhabi there is a fatal accident every two days. Lt Gen Dahi Khalfan Tamim, the chief of Dubai Police, and Brig Gen Hussein Al Harethi, the director of the Abu Dhabi Police traffic department, linked the drop in accidents to the disruption of BlackBerry services between Tuesday and Thursday. Email, Messenger and internet functions were unavailable to users in the Middle East, Africa and Europe after a crucial link in the BlackBerry network failed.
What time is the Samsung Galaxy Nexus event where you live? Dennis Ritchie: The Shoulders Steve Jobs Stood On. Dennis Ritchie (standing) and Ken Thompson at a PDP-11 in 1972.
(Photo: Courtesy of Bell Labs) The tributes to Dennis Ritchie won’t match the river of praise that spilled out over the web after the death of Steve Jobs. But they should. Unwrapping Ice Cream Sandwich on the Galaxy Nexus. (Cross-posted on the Google Mobile blog) Beaming a video with a single tap or unlocking a device with only a smile sounds like science fiction.
Now, you can actually do these things (and more) with a phone that fits in the palm of your hand. Wednesday morning in Hong Kong—together with Samsung—we unveiled Galaxy Nexus, the first phone designed for the latest release of Android 4.0, also known as Ice Cream Sandwich. With a super slim profile, Galaxy Nexus features a 4.65” Contour Display with true high definition (720p) resolution and a lightning-fast dual core 1.2ghz processor combined with 4G LTE or HSPA+ technology. Galaxy Nexus also features the latest in software: Ice Cream Sandwich makes Android simple and beautiful, and takes the smartphone to beyond smart. Beauty and simplicity With Ice Cream Sandwich, our mission was to build a mobile OS that works on both phones and tablets, and to make the power of Android enticing and intuitive. 4chan Founder: Facebook and Google Do Identity Wrong.
4chan founder Christopher Poole (aka "moot") says that Google and Facebook "do identity wrong," and that people should not be tied to just one identity on the web.
In a passionate speech at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Poole claimed that Internet users should have a choice as to whether they want to stay anonymous on the web or use their real identities. The argument comes as Facebook and Google push to remove anonymity from the web. Malaria scientist celebrates success after 24 years. Google Announces Flow Visualization for Analytics. Desktop dreams: Ubuntu 11.10 reviewed. Ubuntu 11.10, codenamed Oneiric Ocelot, prowled out of the development forest earlier this month.
In our review of Ubuntu 11.04, released back in April, we took a close look at the strengths and weaknesses of the new Unity shell and compared it with GNOME 3.0. In this review, we're going to revisit Unity to see how much progress it has made over the past six months. We will also take a close look at the updated Software Center user interface and the transition from Evolution to Thunderbird. The Unity desktop shell, which provides the heart of Ubuntu's user interface, is one of the distribution's key differentiating features. It was originally unveiled at an Ubuntu Developer Summit in 2010 and became a standard part of the desktop installation in version 11.04 earlier this year.
The difference between management and leadership. Mark Staples » Blog Archive » Is Informatics a Science? Why Diversity Is Bad For Startups. Editor’s note: The following is a guest post by Penelope Trunk, writer and founder of Brazen Careerist.
In a meeting last week one of our investors, fed up with a recent pivot, said, “Guys, this is not a science project.” Everyone in the meeting who actually works at the company said, “Yes, it is.” Because a startup is a science project. A startup is not just a smaller version of a big business. Anti-XML. Linux kernel hits 3.1, adds support for NFC and Wiimotes. Robert Scoble - Google+ - Why I'm treating startups more critically lately I've… A fresh design, and Google+ sharing.
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9 Things Will Disappear in Our Lifetime. 1. The Post Office. Get ready to imagine a world without the post office. They are so deeply in financial trouble that there is probably no way to sustain it long term. Dev Naruka: PreSales tickets of @jazzy...
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