Catching Up (9/15)
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Remembering a Relationship, One Chat at a Time - Health - GOOD
Clark and I met on the Thursday before Labor Day, August 30, 2007.
When Kickstarter Goes Wrong: Were 419 Backers Almost Taken for a $27,637 Ride? | Betabeat — News, gossip and intel from Silicon Alley 2.0.
About a month ago, there was a $2,000 Kickstarter project called the Tech Sync Power System , a system for controlling home lights from mobile devices over a wifi connection. The project creator, registered as Steven Washington from Chesapeake, VA, said he was working on a team of six people and promised to ship mobile apps and hardware to backers who contributed as little as $20.
A New and Improved Moore's Law - Technology Review
The conclusion, backed up by six decades of data, mirrors Moore's law, the observation from Intel founder Gordon Moore that computer processing power doubles about every 18 months.
Sept. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Google Inc. reported progress in possible settlement of a lawsuit over the search-engine company’s digital reproduction of books, lawyers told the judge in the case.
Google Reports Progress in Digital Books Settlement Talks - Businessweek
When I was young I wanted to write a challenging book of ideas. I had in mind the kind of “deep” book that public intellectuals of the 1950s and ’60s wrote: The Lonely Crowd , The One-Dimensional Man , The End of Ideology .
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Data scientist: The hot new gig in tech - Fortune Tech
FORTUNE -- The unemployment rate in the U.S. continues to be abysmal ( 9.1% in July ), but the tech world has spawned a new kind of highly skilled, nerdy-cool job that companies are scrambling to fill: data scientist.
The Agonies of Picking a Product Name - Fog Creek Blog
Picking a product name is all agony and no ecstasy. It’s also a giant time-slurping vortex. And in the end, it kind of doesn’t matter.
Netflix Cuts Its Guidance by One Million Subscribers - Peter Kafka - Media - AllThingsD
The strategy behind the split of our services is four-fold: (1) to create a dedicated DVD rental division that takes pride in great execution and maximizes the opportunity for disc rental over the coming decade; (4) to remain very price aggressive, with $7.99 per month for unlimited streaming of a huge library of TV shows and movies, and $7.99 per month for unlimited DVD rentals, 1 out at-a-time.
Netflix stock plunges after cutting subscriber outlook - Sep. 15, 2011
That's also down from the 25.6 million global subscribers Netflix had on June 30, the end of its second quarter.14 September 2011 9:03 GMT / By Stuart Miles Your phone is only going to get faster and better in the future, according to Qualcomm, as it's outlined the next step for its Snapdragon processor at its Innovation Qualcomm event in Istanbul. The company’s processors, which power the majority of today’s smartphones from HTC to BlackBerry and beyond, will boast even higher speeds, better graphics, and greater connectivity in the near future, Qualcomm’s Cristiano Amon told those gathered.
Qualcomm details next-gen 2.5GHz Snapdragon processors - Pocket-lint
News.me finally gets its wings — but can it fly? — Tech News and Analysis
As the flow of information from social networks and other digital sources like Twitter continues to increase, the need to have that river of data filtered and “curated” also increases. That has produced a growing crop of curation and aggregation services and apps, including one called News.me , which started as a side project within the New York Times and then became part of the Betaworks startup incubator run by John Borthwick in New York.If You Already Hate Windows 8 Then You Hate Technology
I hate the term fanboy. It's a pejorative meant to denigrate someone's opinion.September 15, 2011, 1:26 PM — Hactivist group Anonymous announced it will launch a new weapon on Saturday to replace the Low Orbit Ion Cannon application it uses to automate distributed denial of service attacks.