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by doron 16y ago
Google is bad for business?? this is an utterly bizarre statement. HTC seems to be doing well for itself tooling their machines with Google android. Consider the potential revenue business generates from Adwords. Or freeing small businesses
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by doron 16y ago
It Got worse with smartphones too, people seem to respond to read their emails or ply their stupid flying bird game in the most idiotic of places (the subway stairwell comes to mind) Sometimes i stifle the urge to just push the annoyance d
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by doron 16y ago
I am totally getting one, soonish. I confess, i have a Watch fetish :(
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by doron 16y ago
Surely you do realize that the the constant use of computers in a work place is not reserved for IT professionals alone. It may be true that some piece of software is programmed for exclusive and specific OS use that is critical for the day
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by doron 16y ago
The allinone package that Apple provides (the imac) is easy to maintain, and get support for when required, we need a compact platform due to space constraints, and other allinones are not much cheaper. Apart from a good online support netw
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by doron 16y ago
IOS made great inroads in the enterprise environment, The Iphone is immensely popular, and rightly so, the Ipad is gaining ground as well. Where inroads are stymied is in the desktop platform - OSX. the Reasons for this can be debated on th
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by doron 16y ago
Yeah, somewhat akin to saying "Noam Chomsky is just a better known linguist". factually true, but misses much.
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Digital Humanities: A Multiple Choice Test(babylonisburning.net)
1 points by doron 16y ago|0 comments
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The Twitter Revolution Must Die(blog.ulisesmejias.com)
5 points by doron 16y ago|4 comments
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How Egypt Switched Off The Internet(gigaom.com)
128 points by doron 16y ago|66 comments
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by doron 16y ago
Following the media frenzy that is the aftermath of Chua's article i cannot help but feel that there is a larger macro narrative at play here. There is no doubt, the article struck a nerve for many Asian-Americans, some of which try to eith
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Much conventional wisdom about programs written by volunteers is wrong(economist.com)
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by doron 16y ago
I wonder how the graph will continue if we add one possible scenario. That the war on terror will last for decades to come, escalating conflicts in other locations, say Pakistan or somewhere in the gulf (again) World wide war without end..
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FCC approves Comcast-NBC merger(money.cnn.com)
15 points by doron 16y ago|4 comments
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by doron 16y ago
I am an android user with absolutely no intention of switching, that said, this is a completely reasonable set of arguments. The iphone will sell on Verizon by the millions and fast, faster than Android, hopefully it will force manufactures
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by doron 16y ago
Perhaps that is the point, you shell off the responsibility to somebody else, pay some money to some 3rd entity and you have insurance, and you pay premium the more lacking you are in responsibility. Thats not to mention the case that some
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by doron 16y ago
You need a license to operate your car, not so with your PC. {edit} Some of your users might well be incompetent computer users and wont pass the "test". I have often thought about why people dont do backups even when the new tools are easy
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by doron 16y ago
Hear Hear, true for nonprofits as well, in my mind perhaps even more so, as they exist for the public trust. I got some fire and ire, restricting users software choices and tools, as it was a zoo before. It is too bad, I dont want to restri
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by doron 16y ago
I believe https://guardianproject.info/apps/gibber/ does exactly this, in conjunction with Orbot
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by doron 16y ago
If true. I wonder about the possibility of No Vzw bloat on board, how will that effect the sales of android, will the Iphone cost more as a "Premium" clean phone?
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US tells Twitter to hand over WikiLeaks supporter's messages(guardian.co.uk)
7 points by doron 16y ago|0 comments
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by doron 16y ago
My sentiment exactly, wonder if the solution includes something akin to the rootkit they deployed once before.
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by doron 16y ago
Like water under the hot sun. your software turns into vaporware. thats what cloud means right now, Its magic. at least when some congressmen calls your service provider. The Orb - Fluffy clouds http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHixChYgGRI
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by doron 16y ago
The implications on current work environments in almost any business might be profound. Enterprise Software design, Work desk architecture, cubicles, 9-5, are all but symptoms of a industrial era work culture. While effective (indeed there
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by doron 16y ago
The constant trickle of rockets creates a very poor incentive for any economic development, leaving an already troubled region in a spiraling economic downturn and brain drain for those who are able to leave. Other effects will surely be re
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by doron 16y ago
Do post more Amit. your input might be of value here.
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by doron 16y ago
http://www.bugmenot.com/
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by doron 16y ago
"What happens when one company ties its market destiny to another’s rate of innovation? The movie “One OS, Many Partners” that we’ve seen before in Wintel theaters didn’t have a happy ending." Except for the proliferation of cheap unimagina
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Universal robotic gripper based on the jamming of granular material(ccsl.mae.cornell.edu)
2 points by doron 16y ago|0 comments
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If the FCC Had Regulated the Internet A counterfactual history of cyberspace.(slate.com)
1 points by doron 16y ago|0 comments

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