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Windows Phone owners who happen to live in Bulgaria, Costa Rica, Croatia, Estonia, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey, Ukraine, and Venezuela, here is some good news for you, and hopefully it will be able to perk you up through the middle of the week as the weekend looms in the horizon. Microsoft has announced that they will be opening up the Marketplace in those countries, so may the downloading begin! This would mean the aforementioned 13 countries will be joining Argentina, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Peru, and the Philippines for some Marketplace goodness, bringing the total number of Marketplace storefronts to 54. Of course, Microsoft is definitely not going to stop here, as they have plans outlined for the UAE, Bahrain, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kazakhstan, Israel, Thailand, and Vietnam in the near future. This would definitely mean the 70,000 plus apps available on the Marketplace will not stay that way for long with the opening up of new markets.
I recently attended The Creators Project in San Francisco, a globe-roaming two day free event that celebrates an eclectic mix of avant-garde music and arts installations, and attracted tens of thousands of people. It could have easily been re-named " The Curators Project" because of the superb collection of bands, artists, installations, and even food trucks -- all carefully selected by a small team of curators. (The Googleplex at night) The UK newspaper The Guardian, claims that Google's Android operating system is far less valuable than Google's revenues from Apple devices.
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Angry Birds publisher Rovio Entertainment has acquired its fellow Finnish game development house, Futuremark Games Studio, in order to get some new talent.
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After the Associated Press published an article on March 20th about employers asking job candidates for Facebook and social media passwords, the response was, to say the least, overwhelming. In the month since, there have been thousands of tweets and social media status updates, more than 2,000 blog posts, and hundreds of news articles on the "trend." Legislation was proposed in at least three states, and by April 9th, Maryland had hastily passed a bill.
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Alors qu'Apple annonce avoir écoulé plus de 3 millions d'unités du nouvel iPad en 4 jours, les premiers retours utilisateurs font état d'une chauffe plus accentuée de la tablette. En moyenne 5°C plus élevé lors d'... +suite Après les stations d'accueil, les chargeurs sans fil et les casques Bluetooth, voici les autocuiseurs pour smartphones sous Android ! Le constructeur Panasonic vient de lancer la première gamme d'autocuiseurs qu'il est possible de contrôler...
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The British have an umbilical cord which has never been cut and through which tea flows constantly. It is curious to watch them in times of sudden horror, tragedy or disaster. The pulse stops apparently and nothing can be done, and no move made, until “a nice cup of tea” is quickly made. There is no question that it brings solace and does steady the mind. What a pity all countries are not so tea-conscious. World-peace conferences would run more smoothly if “a nice cup of tea”, or indeed, a samovar were available at the proper time.
Vendredi 9 mars 2012, l’AFDESI, Altran et DotScreen faisaient le point après le lancement de l’expérimentation à Auxerre du portail de services de télévision interactifs MesServicesTV basé sur le standard HbbTV. Nous allons faire un tour d’horizon de cette expérimentation et sur HbbTV un peu plus en général. Le contenu du portail Le portail MesServicesTV est un bouquet de services interactifs basé sur HbbTV indépendant des chaines de la TNT qui ont lancé pour la plupart leur propre service HbbTV, notamment pour accéder à des informations sur leurs programmes, voire à de la TV de rattrapage. Voici le sixième et dernier épisode de cette longue cette série qui va porter sur l’économie des contenus et la régulation. Ouf !
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Passez me voir à la Maison Connectée Orange demain Jeudi 26 Mai ! Chers lecteurs, si demain jeudi 26 vous passez Place Georges Pompidou, sur la gauche du Centre Beaubourg, vous verrez le studio démo d'Orange qui vous présente la Maison Connectée. J'y serai toute la journée pour interviewer les humains à ma façon, leur poser des questions (crétines, ou pas) et partager notre compréhension des geekeries les plus folles de l'ère numérique. Si vous passez dans le quartier, n'hésitez pas à passer me voir, on causera ;-). Cela fait partie des petits trucs qu'on garde dans un coin de sa tête.Bien ca, bien bien, du rire aux larmes au rire... by Dec 9
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There are still plenty of opportunities to create a lucrative business in the "job" and "talent" market. Not only was LinkedIn's entry into the public market a hit last year (its IPO brought the company $352.8 million), but this BusinessWeek article (a GigaOm re-post) from last May touts numerous potential acquisition targets that might complement their business. Among those targets include Hashable, Socialware, Yammer, Indeed and BranchOut. Sprouting from Ireland, Zartis is a new player in this space, who see the growing difficulty in hiring, particularly technical talent.TechZulu - Discover. Cover. Connect.
When we think of our neighbors to the North in Canada, we think of bountiful natural resources, open land, and flannel shirts; we don’t necessarily think of tech. The major cities are dominated by industries such as oil, resource exporting, and politics. With the latest in RIMs downward spiral, Canada should be expected to leave this industry to the Valley. So, when I arrived back in my home country after six years of sunny and buzzing California, I thought that finding a tech scene would be a needle in a haystack. I couldn’t have been farther from the truth.
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The New Year is almost here- a perfect time to set goals to improve my business. For parents like me working at home and confined to a small work space, being organized is vital. While I have gone through my desk and decluttered over the last few months, the next step is to figure out how I can improve my business workflow and in turn improve my productivity. 1. Tame the receipts: Folders on my desktop are great for day to day review of expenses, but scanning and storing receipts either on my computer or in the cloud is a more efficient long-term solution. 2.Posted by Phil Jeudy in More about me . La retraite, plus precisemment la principe d’arrêt de toute activité professionnelle, est dans la bouche de beaucoup de Français , ceux issu de la civilisation post-moderniste, dont la principale caractéristique est de croire au Père Noel. C’est à la fois un leurre, et une nécessité : - un leurre, car les principes mêmes de son mécanisme, et de son financement tel qu’il existe en France, ne sont pas pérennes, et je sens un grande fragilité dans l’équilibre.