Did WikiLeaks And Facebook Bring Down Tunisia's Ben Ali? Rwanda: Bloggers take on Stephen Kinzer. Collaborative Consumption. Collaborative consumption. A sharing economy takes a variety of forms, often leveraging information technology to empower individuals, corporations, non-profits and government with information that enables distribution, sharing and reuse of excess capacity in goods and services.[1] A common premise is that when information about goods is shared (typically via an online marketplace), the value of those goods may increase, for the business, for individuals, and for the community.[2] Collaborative consumption as a phenomenon is a class of economic arrangements in which participants share access to products or services, rather than having individual ownership.[3] The collaborative consumption model is used in marketplaces such as eBay, Craigslist, Tradepal and Krrb, emerging sectors such as social lending, peer-to-peer accommodation, peer-to-peer travel experiences, peer-to-peer task assignments or travel advising, car sharing or commute-bus sharing.[4] Scope[edit] Types of collaborative consumption[edit] History[edit]
Rachel Botsman: The case for collaborative consumption. OWNI.eu, Digital Journalism. Ultimate CES 2011 Tablet Roundup: 25 Tablets Compared. To say there were a few tablets at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show would be a vast understatement. With more than 80 tablet launches in total, there were at least as many Android tablets and devices on the show floor as almost anything else, including 3D devices, which popped up almost everywhere else. There was even a 3D tablet, as a matter of fact. We’ve boiled down the overflowing list of tablets down to a manageable 25. There are dozens we missed, no helping that. This is not a technical guide to the tablet world, merely a recap of some of the notable (and some notably bad) tablets we saw at the show.
Motorola Xoom The Motorola Xoom is our favorite tablet of the show. BlackBerry PlayBook The BlackBerry PlayBook entered CES an underdog, but left as one of the hot items of the show. Toshiba Android Tablet This still-unnamed Toshiba tablet is running Android 2.2, but should be upgradeable to 3.0 (Honeycomb) before the tablet hits retail sometime this spring. Dell Streak 7 and 10. iPad 2 with High Res Screen, SD Card Slot and iPhone 5 with A5 Processor? Take a peek at some high probability rumors coming your way via Engadget, a couple about the iPad 2, iPhone 5, and a next generation Apple TV.
First there's a few bits having to do with that super mysterious iPad 2 dummy model that was sighted at a booth at CES 2011 - non working, not confirmed as anything legit, but the details here don't seem that far fetched: a "super high resolution" screen similar to that of iPhone 4's Retina Display (hotness.) Then there's the notion of an SD card slot - this one I and we are a little bit less confident in, unless Apple plans on marketing the iPad to be more like the easy-open G3 towers of yore, openable and customizable - almost like a computer that was meant to be modified!
The final couple of details on the iPad two are thus - a screen size that's exactly the same as the current model (likely,) and both front and rear cameras (also likely.) That all sound alright to you? The Daily Slash: January 14, 2011. Population-wide reduction in salt consumption recommended. The American Heart Association Thursday issued a call to action for the public, health professionals, the food industry and the government to intensify efforts to reduce the amount of sodium (salt) Americans consume daily. In an advisory, published in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association , the association sets out the science behind the American Heart Association’s recommendation for the general population, which is to consume no more than 1500 milligrams (mg) of sodium a day because of the harmful effects of sodium – elevated blood pressure and increased risk of stroke, heart attacks and kidney disease.
Elevated blood pressure (hypertension) is a major public health problem – approximately 90 percent of all Americans will develop hypertension over their lifetime. Sodium consumption is currently more than two times higher than the recommended upper limit of 1,500 mg daily, with 77 percent of that consumption coming from packaged, processed and restaurant foods. Google Translate Adds Conversation Mode. Nouvel An: réception en mairie des nouveaux arrivants : Uzès. SICTOMU, DECHETTERIE accueil peu agréable. : Vivre à Uzès. Mémoire: les cuisines de l'Uzège aménagées dans l'ancien abattoir public : Uzès. iPhone 5, iPad 2 to follow Motorola Xoom? iPhone 5, iPad 2 to follow Motorola Xoom? iPhone 5 and iPad 2 will ditch the home button? Motorola Xoom, the forthcoming Android tablet, has no buttons present in most of current Android devices available. Looks like Apple inc is not just planning solar-powered devices, but also products with less physical buttons.
According to a Los Angeles Times report, Apple inc might remove the home button, based on a report of website Boy Genius Report. The new rumor suggests that iPhone 5 and iPad 2 (or Apple devices scheduled to hit the stores this year) will not rely on the home button, and will get access to the “return to home” function by pushing a button programmed inside the touchscreen UI. The report also added that some folks inside the Cupertino, California-based company are now testing the iPad with no home button model, most likely the iPad 2, reportedly scheduled to arrive in the USA exclusively (in just three months) next quarter. Around The Web: 1. Related Articles. Rumor: iPad 2 To Launch On April 2nd or 9th. Although Apple is notoriously tight-lipped about new products in the pipeline, it’s pretty easy to predict when they’ll refresh one of their devices as long as you know when they last released an update… and this is doubly true for iOS devices, which follow a strict yearly update cycle.
Knowing this, you’d have to be addled-of-brain and swollen-of-tongue to bet against the iPad 2 shipping anytime before early April: after all, the first iPad shipped in America on April 3rd, a Saturday. MacNotes‘s “reliable sources” tipping either an Apil 2nd or April 9th U.S. release for the iPad 2 aren’t really saying anything jaw-dropping then. They suggest, like last time, that the iPad 2 will ship on a Saturday early in April, and, like last time, it’ll be a U.S. exclusive for a a couple months before launching internationally.Also like last time, they say it’ll be six months before big box retailers like Wal-Mart and Best Buy get to offer the tablet. Well, yeah. Duh. Related. Rumor: iPad 2 and iPhone 5 "have no Home button" January 14, 2011 iPhone, iPad and iPod touch new releases | Appletell. Twitter for Mac: ‘Tweet’ from Anywhere in OS X. Just a few days ago everyone (including us) was talking about a simple bookmarklet for Safari that sends the site title and link to Twitter for Mac (Tweetie 2).
Last night, I even found a Safari extension that did the same thing but also adds a tweet option in the contextual menu (right click) within Safari. Right after I tweeted the link, @SebastienPeek told me “who needs that when you can highlight anything, right click and it’ll show Tweet?” I had no idea what he was talking about, do you? I asked him if it was Safari only and he went one step more and said that it’s system wide, you can do it with a right click and highlight of any text.
@BoltClock is credited with pointing me to this discovery. It’s system-wide for all apps that support Mac OS X’s contextual menu item additions. Here’s some visual goodness: Simply click and drag almost any text in Safari or Chrome, right click and ‘Tweet’. Tweeting tyrants out of Tunisia: the global Internet at its best. Even yesterday, it would have been too much to say that blogger, tweeters, Facebook users, Anonymous, and Wikileaks had "brought down" the Tunisian government, but with today's news that the country's president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali has fled the country, it becomes a more plausible claim to make.
Of course there was more to such demonstrations than some new technology. An individual act of desperation set off the last month of rioting, as a college-educated young man set himself on fire after police confiscated his unlicensed fruit and vegetable cart. Tunisia's high unemployment rate, rampant corruption, and rising food prices added to the anger at Ben Ali's 20+ year rule. People risked their lives in the street, with some getting a bullet for their troubles, but the Internet played a significant role in organizing these protests and in disseminating news and pictures of them to the world. Here's a guide to the part of this battle fought in cyberspace over the last month. Espionnage chez Renault : ouverture d'une enquête préliminaire. Le parquet de Paris a annoncé, vendredi 14 janvier, l'ouverture d'une enquête préliminaire confiée à la Direction centrale du renseignement intérieur (DCRI) sur l'affaire d'espionnage industriel qui secoue Renault.
Le constructeur automobile a déposé plainte jeudi pour l'espionnage industriel dont le constructeur automobile se dit victime. "La plainte vise des faits de vol en bande organisée, d'abus de confiance aggravé et des faits de fourniture d'éléments intéressant le secret économique français à une puissance étrangère", a déclaré le procureur de Paris, Jean-Claude Marin. Les données volées concernent le programme de voitures électriques du constructeur. Mardi, les trois cadres dirigeants de Renault soupçonnés dans cette affaire d'espionnage avaient été convoqués à des entretiens préalables à un éventuel licenciement. Le constructeur automobile français avait déjà mis à pied ces cadres qui avaient connaissance de son programme de véhicules électriques. Pour en savoir plus : Politique : Hollande pense toujours pouvoir jouer sa carte.
À son tour. Après Martine Aubry et Ségolène Royal jeudi, François Hollande présente aujourd'hui ses vœux pour 2011 depuis son fief de Tulle en Corrèze. «Je ne vais pas les instrumentaliser», promet-il dans une critique en creux de ses deux concurrentes pour l'investiture socialiste. En présence du préfet de région et de Bernadette Chirac, François Hollande promet un discours «consensuel». «Je vais montrer quelle est la logique de mon action en Corrèze en insistant sur l'innovation. Il n'y aura pas d'attaques politiques contre le gouvernement», assure-t-il. Depuis la rentrée de septembre, l'ancien premier secrétaire du PS est l'homme qui monte.
Aujourd'hui, François Hollande considère avoir franchi une étape. Après, en cas de victoire, tout devient possible. Avec ses troupes, il a quand même livré bataille pour contester le calendrier des primaires. » Primaires : le plus dur reste à faire pour le PS. Russian state oil giant takes $7.8bn stake in BP - Business News, Business. BP's chief executive Bob Dudley and Vladimir Putin, the Russian Prime Minister, called it "an alliance based on mutual advantage", and said the British company will swap 5 per cent of its shares, valued at $7.8bn (£4.9bn), for 9.5 per cent of Rosneft.
Under the deal, BP will help exploit new oil and gas exploration licences awarded to Rosneft last year, which cover approximately 125,000 square kilometres in the shallow waters of the South Kara Sea, an area roughly equivalent in size and prospects to the UK North Sea. The extensive cross-shareholding between a publicly-traded international oil major and a state-owned oil company is a first for the industry, BP said. More than one-quarter of BP's oil production already comes from Russia, through its 50 per cent-owned venture TNK-BP, and it already owns 3 per cent of Rosneft. Earlier in the day, BP had described the visit as "routine", yet it was anything but. Rosneft: Company history.
Australian floods: Why were we so surprised? | Environment. What's going on in Australia is rain. British people might think that they're rain experts. Truth is that they hardly know what rain is. The kind of cold angel sweat that wets British windscreens isn't proper rain. For weeks now rain has been drumming in my ears, leaping off my corrugated steel roof, frothing through the rocks, spouting off the trees, and running, running, running past my house and down into the gully, into the little creek, into the bigger creek, and on to the Nerang river and out to sea at Southport. We've had more than 350mm in the last four days. My creek is running so high and so fast that I can't get out and my workforce can't get in. The rain comes in pulses. So, yeah, as Australians say, the problem is rain.
The meteorologists will tell you that the current deluge is a product of La Niña. It takes La Niña to bring rain to the inland, in such quantities that it can hardly be managed. The rest of the world might well be scratching its head. Technical glitch forces Murdoch to delay iPad newspaper launch - Online, Media. Mr Murdoch was to unveil the paper in San Francisco next Wednesday alongside his fellow media titan Steve Jobs, co-founder and chief executive of Apple, maker of the iPad.
But the event has been postponed following fears of teething problems with the iTunes based subscription service. News Corp has hired 100 journalists to work on The Daily,which has its headquarters in New York. The product will be exclusively available on iPad and will be a mixture of written and video content. The company is hoping that The Daily will encourage a culture of paying for news in digital formats, in line with its policy of charging for access to the websites of some of its British newspapers.
Wednesday’s launch had been due to take place at San Francisco’s Museum of Modern Art but was postponed by the two companies. Leading computer expert warns of cyber attack on National Grid - News, Gadgets & Tech. James Martin, who has made a fortune from making predictions about future developments in computers, warned that the only sure way of safeguarding the electricity grid against a coordinated cyber assault is to disconnect it completely from the internet. Martin, who has advised various governments during his long career and has donated $150m (£95m) to Oxford University for studying future problems, said that the national electricity grids of Britain and the United States are especially vulnerable because they are controlled by computers that use the internet to communicate.
In a wide-ranging interview with The Independent at his home on a private island off Bermuda, Martin warned that there is ample evidence that hostile foreign agents have already targeted the American electricity grid in order to test whether it would be possible to cause widespread blackouts for long periods of time. “If you knocked out all the power in America, it would be devastating. Links for the 1/14 TRMS. Richard C. Holbrooke Is Remembered With Affection and Humor. Mats Larsson: Det räckte med en enda man för att störta diktatorn - Nyheter - Senaste nytt | Expressen - Nyheter Sport Ekonomi Nöje.
Online tool can help seniors quickly determine risk for dementia. (PhysOrg.com) -- A quick online assessment tool developed by Johns Hopkins researchers can help worried seniors find out if they are at risk of developing dementia and determine whether they should seek a comprehensive, face-to-face diagnosis from a physician, according to a new study.
The tool, which is being refined and validated, is not meant to replace a full evaluation from a doctor that includes a physical exam, blood work, imaging studies and more. Instead, this assessment provides a scientific way to help a person educate herself about a disease that doctors now believe is best managed if caught early. “As the population ages and dementia becomes more prevalent, it’s important to get people diagnosed early,” says Jason Brandt, Ph.D., a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the leader of the study appearing online in the journal Alzheimer’s & Dementia. Explore further: Younger adults hit hardest this flu season. German 'action plan' after dioxin food scare.
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