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Instagram reaches 27 million registered users, shows off upcoming Android app — Instagram, the photo-sharing app that has taken a definitive lead on iOS, said it has surpassed 27 million registered users. — Co-founder Kevin Systrom didn't disclose daily active users.
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Peter Thiel, university-hater, heads to campus — (Reuters) - Peter Thiel, the superstar Silicon Valley investor, has famously dismissed university as a waste of time and money, and even offered students cash to drop out. — But his views apparently do not apply to himself - or to Stanford University.
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Khan Academy: The future of education? — (CBS News) Sal Khan is a math, science, and history teacher to millions of students, yet none have ever seen his face. Khan is the voice and brains behind Khan Academy, a free online tutoring site that may have gotten your kid out of an algebra bind with its educational how-to videos.| USA Today: |
Apple: iPad preorders sell out, demand ‘off the charts’ — If you are hoping to score a new iPad from Apple, you might have to wait. Apple's website shows March 19 as the earliest ship date for online orders of its popular tablet computer. And there is a limit of two per customer on the number of tablets that can preordered.| Matthew Belloni / Hollywood Reporter: |
Les Moonves: Steve Jobs Approached CBS for Apple TV Content — The CBS CEO spoke at the UCLA Entertainment Symposium on Saturday, which also included a panel on negotiating talent deals. — CBS CEO Leslie Moonves said Saturday that he was approached about a year ago by Steve Jobs … | Chris Foresman / Ars Technica: |
Review: iPhoto for iOS out-does Adobe for mobile image editing — Apple released the final piece of its iLife suite for iOS on March 7, delivering a universal version of iPhoto for iPad and iPhone (sorry, iPod touch users). We spent some quality time with the app using an iPad 2 and iPhone 4 …
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Digital Photography Review and 1001 Noisy Cameras
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Walmart Buys Facebook's Birthday And Holiday Reminder App Social Calendar — It looks like retail giant Walmart has made another acquisition. The e-commerce giant has bought Social Calendar, an app on Facebook that allows you to get birthday and holiday reminders by email and SMS …
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Why the new iPad's Retina Display matters — Specs are specs, and every time a new device is announced we expect the numbers to ratchet a little higher. This is the stuff that makes people (especially tech pundits) so cynical of upgrade cycles: the typical incremental updates don't tend …
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| Dana Mattioli / Wall Street Journal: |
Stores Smarten Up Amid Spam Flood — Retailers have started to wear out their welcome in customers' email inboxes, forcing stores to rethink their spam strategies. — Last year, the nation's top 100 retailers by e-commerce revenue sent recipients an average of 177 emails apiece …
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| Alexis Madrigal / The Atlantic Online: |
How Frictionless Sharing Could Undermine Your Legal Right to Privacy — You might not think about the Fourth Amendment while you're using Facebook and other online tools, but you probably should. — You are no doubt familiar, now, with Facebook's concept of “frictionless sharing.”
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Wake Forest Law Review and Scripting News
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IndieGoGo releases new algorithm for promoting crowdfunding projects — Crowdfunding website IndieGoGo has flipped the switch on its promotional algorithm, which pushes campaigns to its front page. The algorithm adds, what it says is, more democracy to a human bias-driven industry.Sponsor Posts
Channel 9:
Defrag Tools: WPT - Command Line — Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder, and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT).
Defrag Tools: WPT - Command Line — Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder, and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT).
Cloud Foundry:
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
Rackspace Blog:
Love, Magic, & APIs — I will confess, I am old enough to remember my GeoCities page. Don't hate. It was amazing, it was... this transformative moment in which I took real, actual information, and transformed it into something visible and memorable.
Love, Magic, & APIs — I will confess, I am old enough to remember my GeoCities page. Don't hate. It was amazing, it was... this transformative moment in which I took real, actual information, and transformed it into something visible and memorable.
Hortonworks » Blog:
Getting the most out of business analytics — One of the most prevalent uses of Hadoop architecture by enterprises is to create business intelligence and analytics tools that can be leveraged to identify areas …
Getting the most out of business analytics — One of the most prevalent uses of Hadoop architecture by enterprises is to create business intelligence and analytics tools that can be leveraged to identify areas …
Unison's blog:
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).Who's Hiring In Tech?
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