Tech News – October 1st 2012
Tech news – October 1st 2012
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- Bahrain court upholds verdict in medics trial – Middle East – Al Jazeera English –
Nine medics arrested during last year's pro-democracy uprising lose their final appeal and could now face jail time. - The BigDataExpo™ Daily –
A newspaper by BigDataExpo® – updated daily with a curated selection of articles, blog posts, videos and photos. - Devops for DNS | Virtualization Journal –
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- Four key trends changing digital journalism and society – O’Reilly Radar –
It’s not just a focus on data that connects the most recent class of Knight News Challenge winners. They all are part of a distributed civic media community that works on open source code, collects and improves data, and collaborates across media organizations.
These projects are “part of an infrastructure that helps journalists better understand and serve their communities through data,” commented Chris Sopher, Knight Foundation Journalism Program Associate, in an interview last week. To apply… show all text - Can you gamify content curation? This startup thinks so — Online Video News –
Many video curation startups do away with the old-fashioned programming guide to help users find TV shows and online clips. Turkey-based Woisio, which launches its private beta Monday, takes a little bit of a different approach: it keeps the guide – but gets rid of the schedulers.
Woisio wants, instead, to use game mechanics and collaborative filtering to compile a new set of channels, and, in turn, get rid of the traditional middlemen. “Media shouldn’t be mediated,” said the company’s founder … show all text - Twice As Many Mobile News Readers Prefer Browsers to Apps [Study] –
News organizations have invested significantly in native apps for iOS, Android, WP7 and even, for a time, webOS — yet nearly three times as many tablet owners and twice as many smartphone users access news primarily through browsers rather than apps, according to a Pew Research Center study released Monday.
Sixty percent of tablet news readers and 61% of smartphone news readers in the survey said they get most of their news through web browsers on those devices. Twenty-three percent of tablet … show all text - Let me guess: You sleep with your iPad, don’t you? » Nieman Journalism Lab –
Chances are good that the warm glowing warming glow of an iPad screen is one of the last things you see before you fall asleep or one of the first things you reach for when you wake up.
A study released today by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism finds most news junkies who own tablets use them before 8 a.m. and in the after-work hours. The explosive growth in mobile devices isn’t just changing where we access the news — waiting in line for coffee, sitting on the tra… show all text - Deadly bombing in eastern Afghanistan – Central & South Asia – Al Jazeera English –
Suicide bomber wearing police uniform kills 14 in Khost, including at least four police and three foreign soldiers. - White House Hack Attack | Washington Free Beacon –
Hackers linked to China’s government broke into one of the U.S. government’s most sensitive computer networks, breaching a system used by the White House Military Office for nuclear commands, according to defense and intelligence officials familiar with the incident. One official said the cyber breach was one of Beijing’s most brazen cyber attacks against the United States and highlights a failure of the Obama administration to press China on its persistent cyber attacks. - Enterprise IT managers worry about cloud security – FierceEnterpriseCommunications –
Whether it is regulators threatening fines or CEOs fuming about data breaches, IT managers are well aware of the security risks from the adoption of cloud computing. The latest warning from a UK regulator only reinforced that message. - Twitter / CloudExpo: Top 3 #Oracle tweets from #OOW … –
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- Oracle expands cloud services; unveils world’s ‘first’ multi-tenant database | ZDNet –
Summary: CEO Larry Ellison unveils Exadata X3, touted as "the world's fastest computer for business." - Jason Calacanis’ Next Act, And Another Pivot For Inside.com, As A ‘Knowledge Community’ | TechCrunch –
Serial entrepreneur and investor Jason Calacanis appears to be gearing up for the launch of his next venture, which may also signify one more pivot for his information site Mahalo. And that next step also looks like a new chapter for an internet domain that itself has seen a couple of pivots.
On a tip from a reader, we visited inside.com and found this:
Clicking to subscribe, you get sent to a mailing list creator owned by Calacanis, and an email confirmation referring questions directly to him… show all text - Kindle Paperwhite is a big step forward for e-ink readers (Review and video) — Tech News and Analysis –
When Barnes & Noble announced the front-lit Nook Simple Touch with GlowLight in April, the company stressed the e-reader’s usefulness for reading in bed while your partner sleeps beside you — which seemed like a niche use. At the launch of the front-lit Kindle Paperwhite, though, Jeff Bezos said Amazon “figured out early” that most people will want to leave the Paperwhite’s light on all the time. In other words, the light’s not just a gimmick, it’s an upgrade.
After a week of testing the Kindle… show all text
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