Tech News – October 9th 2012 to October 11th 2012
Tech news – October 9th 2012 to October 11th 2012:
- Branch Bulletin –
Designing the drawer At Branch, our design philosophy is to give you what you need, at the precise moment you need it — simply and delightfully. Last week, we shipped the drawer. Now, every branch you… - Cloud Awards Voting is Open | LinkedIn –
- Microsoft Tamps Down Office for iOS Expectations –
Today on Twitter, Frank Shaw, lead of corporate communications at Microsoft tamped down expectations concerning the potential 2013 release of Office for iOS and Android devices. Here … - Turkey diverts Syrian plane to Ankara – Europe – Al Jazeera English –
Turkey says the passenger aircraft coming from Moscow is suspected of carrying heavy weapons to Damascus. - Kickstarter in the UK » The Kickstarter Blog — Kickstarter –
In July we tweeted that Kickstarter would open up to UK-based projects for the first time this autumn. Today we're very excited to announce that that day has finally arrived. Hooray!Beginning October 31, people in the United Kingdom will be a… - Germany approves circumcision on boys – Europe – Al Jazeera English –
New legislation ends legal row over the religious tradition of circumcision after a local court banned the practice. - Bain Capital Wants a Piece of Gawker –
After we published nearly 1,000 pages of Bain Capital's confidential financial records—including audits revealing for the first time that Bain employed a potentially illegal tax dodge currently under investigation by the New York attorney general—we thought we might hear from the good folks at Mitt Romney's former private equity firm, perhaps asking us to take down the documents. Well, Bain finally got in touch yesterday. And they want to explore investing in Gawker Media. More » - Office for iOS and Android reportedly confirmed by Microsoft product manager, due March 2013 (update) | The Verge –
Microsoft product manager Petr Bobek has confirmed that the software maker is planning to release native iOS and Android versions of Office 2013 next year. Speaking at a press event in the Czech Republic earlier today, Bobek told Czech site IHNED that native apps will be made available from March 2013.
A press release, seen by The Verge, from Microsoft's Czech Republic team confirms the availability for iOS and Android. "In addition to Windows, Office will be also available on other operating s… show all text - In Teammates’ Doping Stories, Armstrong Cast as Enforcer –
Evidence put forth by the United States Anti-Doping Agency drew a picture of Lance Armstrong as an infamous cheat, a defiant liar and a bully who pushed others to cheat with him. - President Bill Clinton on the Real Mitt Romney –
- TweetDeck Gets A Visual Refresh On All Platforms, Now Looks More “Twittery” | TechCrunch –
For you hardcore Twitter users, the main app just doesn't cut it. You need multiple windows and notifications and more windows and stuff like that. For me, I enjoy the simple original web version of Twitter, but what do I know. Today, TweetDeck for all platforms, except iOS, was updated, and you can now go check it out and rejoice. - The Shooting of Malala Yousafzai, The Girl Who Wanted to Go to School : The New Yorker –
On Tuesday afternoon, Taliban militants attacked and seriously injured Malala Yousafzai, a fourteen-year-old campaigner for education for girls in Mingora, a town in Swat Valley, in Pakistan’s North Western Frontier Province. Malala was returning home from school when the men attacked; a fellow-student and a teacher were injured as well. “A bullet struck her head, but her brain is safe,” a doctor told the Express Tribune newspaper. Malala was flown in a military helicopter to a military hospital show all text - SpaceX | Launch Central –
- A Mitt Romney Abortion Timeline –
The Obama campaign may have over-reached when they said Romney wants to "outlaw" abortion. But Romney has held many postions on the issue. - Pandora: Pandora and Artist Payments –
Have you heard of Donnie McClurkin, French Montana or Grupo Bryndis? If you haven't you're not alone. They are artists whose sales ranks on Amazon are 4,752, 17,000 and 183,187, respectively. These are all working artists who live well outside the mainstream – no steady rotation on broadcast radio, no high profile opening slots on major tours, no front page placement in online retail. What they also have in common is a steady income from Pandora. In the next twelve months Pandora is on track to… show all text - A Fat, Mustachioed Orphan Finds a Home –
Mitik, a 15-week-old, 234-pound walrus rescued from the ocean off Alaska, will arrive Thursday at the New York Aquarium, one of a few institutions that exhibit walruses. - As usual, it’s OK if you’re Apple | Ed Bott –
The World’s Most Predictable Tech Pundit, MG Siegler, notes that Microsoft has issued a major update (170 MB in size) to Windows 8. That update is being delivered 69 days after the release of Windows 8 to manufacturing and 17 days before its release to the general public.
Probably not the best sign in the world that Microsoft has to release service packs to the RTM version of Windows 8 before it has even launched. I mean, why declare RTM then? Well one possibility is that you’re working to meet… show all text - Microsoft executive pay: CEO Ballmer and President Sinofsky dinged over browser-ballot issue | ZDNet –
Summary: The salaries and incentive awards for Microsoft's CEO and some of its top executives are public. Redmond's European browser-ballot problem didn't sit well with the evaluation committee. - No Filter: Inside Hipstamatic’s Lost Year Searching For The Next Killer Social App | Fast Company –
If Lucas Buick's company Hipstamatic is on the verge of bankruptcy, you couldn't tell by the dinner spread. It's mid-September and we're at the Isola restaurant in the Mondrian Soho, an expensive hotel-cum-lounge where you're never quite sure you're wearing the right style of Warby Parkers. Under the airy space's glass ceiling and sparkling chandeliers, Buick and "director of fun" Mario Estrada knock back espresso martinis and old-fashioneds, while digging into tuna and pine nut crudos and fenn… show all text - API Promotion in the Growing Competitive Sphere | SOA Software – Atmosphere API Management & SOA Governance Blog –
In the early days of API promotion, there was mostly a simple release-and-sit-back approach taken by most enterprise-level businesses seeking to put their product into the hands of the waiting public. As niches saturate, the public is still waiting but now there are so many competitive products rushing to fill their hands that active promotion… Continue reading →
- Redefining Medicine With Apps and iPads –
Technology has given clinicians new tools to diagnose symptoms, decide treatments and to share information, changing what it means to be a doctor or a patient. - Cloud Expo 2012 West –
- Welch can’t take the heat: I quit – The Term Sheet: Fortune’s deals blog Term Sheet –
The former top GE executive says he will no longer write for Fortune following coverage of his jobs conspiracy tweet.
FORTUNE — Jack Welch has left our building, metaphorically that is.
Welch said he will no longer contribute to Fortune following critical coverage of the former CEO of General Electric, saying he would get better "traction" elsewhere. On Friday, Welch suggested that the Obama administration, calling them "these Chicago guys," had manipulated MORE - Pakistani Activist, 14, Is Shot by Taliban – NYTimes.com –
Malala Yousafzai, a 14-year-old activist who advocates the education of girls in Pakistan's Swat Valley, was shot on Tuesday. In 2009, she was featured in a New York Times documentary. - Box Debuts HTML5 Embeddable Framework To Integrate Content With Third-Party Enterprise Software Apps | TechCrunch –
At Box's annual Boxworks event today, the company debuted a new way for its cloud storage and collaboration platform to be accessed across the enterprise. Via a new HTML5 embeddable framework, developers can integrate their Box accounts and information into a number of well-known third-party enterprise applications including Concur, Cornerstone OnDemand, DocuSign, Eloqua, FuzeBox, Jive, NetSuite, Oracle, SugarCRM and Zendesk.Box, which now has 14 million users around the world, including 140,00… - Home | Red Bull Stratos –
- Attention Disorder or Not, Pills to Help in School –
Drugs that are normally used to increase focus are in some cases being prescribed simply to improve struggling, low-income students’ academic performance at school. - Jack Dorsey Is At Twitter Officially On Tuesday Afternoons; All His Direct Reports Moved Back To Costolo In January | TechCrunch –
Jack Dorsey has spoken out to comment on the profile of Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, out this weekend in the New York Times, which painted a slightly less than flattering picture of his role as chairman at the company. Dorsey confirms a reduced role — but also tries to mitigate that by saying this has already been going on for some time.On his Tumblr page, Dorsey writes that the operational role Costolo had asked him to take back in 2011, covering product, design, and brand, was only on an inter… - Cloud Computing Bootcamp – Agenda | Cloud Computing Bootcamp –
- IMF says global economy could get worse – Business – Al Jazeera English –
Global growth forecast cut to 3.3 per cent amid continued eurozone crisis and slowdown in powerful emerging economies. - Twitter / GonzalezCarmen: Name This Band & Get FREE … –
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- Calxeda gets $55M as ARM-based servers near reality — Tech News and Analysis –
Calxeda, the Austin, Texas-based chip firm that’s using cell phone chips to build servers, has raised $55 million more from new investors that include Austin Ventures and Vulcan Capital, as well as the firm’s existing investors. The company, which just this month said its servers would be in production by the end of the year, had previously raised $48 million in a uniquely structured round designed to get the company all the way to actual customers.
The idea of using ARM-based chips in the data… show all text - Know and show what you got – TwentyFeet – Social Media Monitoring & Ego tracking –
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- I’m Joining Twitter | Mike Industries –
Over five years and exactly 10,000 tweets ago, when I first tiptoed into the lonely textfield that was Twitter’s “What Are You Doing?” box, I typed the following:
Current thoughts: This could get extremely noisy.
— Mike Davidson (@mikeindustries) December 17, 2006It was a reaction to many things, good and bad. The ease of publishing messages. The prevalence of insignificant breakfast trivia in the public feed. The lack of any filtering controls. The growing number of my friends becoming insta… show all text
- Start-Ups: Silicon Valley Season 1 – Geeks are Definitely the New Rock Stars – Video – Bravo TV Official Site –
Get a glimpse into the lives of these tech mavens where the future of the world is in their hands. Monday November 5 @ 10/9c – Previews - Answering Questions About Twitter’s C.E.O. – NYTimes.com –
Answers to reader questions about Twitter and its chief executive, Dick Costolo, a former improv comedian, the subject of a profile in Sunday Business. - Did Obama Just Throw The Entire Election Away? – The Dish | By Andrew Sullivan – The Daily Beast –
The Pew poll is devastating, just devastating. Before the debate, Obama had a 51 – 43 lead; now, Romney has a 49 – 45 lead. That's a simply unprecedented reversal for a candidate in October. Before Obama had leads on every policy issue and personal characteristic; now Romney leads in almost all of them. Obama's performance gave Romney a 12 point swing! I repeat: a 12 point swing.
Romney's favorables are above Obama's now. Yes, you read that right. Romney's favorables are higher than Obama's rig… show all text
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