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Bangladesh unveils $130 'Doel' laptops(bbc.co.uk)
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EU bans pre-ticked website boxes to aid consumers(bbc.co.uk)
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Blackberry users revolt against RIM as disruption spreads(guardian.co.uk)
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Jason Fried wrote a column for Inc. on being a one-man company and feeling and fighting the need to exaggerate its size: http://www.inc.com/magazine/201106/dont-exaggerate-your-size...
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As well as the corporate market, RIM also has, at least in the UK, a large teen market. They can't get enough of Blackberry Messenger. You hear it on every bus, tram and train: "What's your pin? I'll BB you..." It's nowhere near as big as t
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Blackberry services down in Europe, Middle East and Africa(bbc.co.uk)
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A related infographic from last year by David McCandless, "How much do music artists earn online?": http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/how-much-do-music...
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I found this Economist piece on Samsung's strategy of "swapping infotainment for lifecare" really interesting: http://www.economist.com/node/21530976
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Here's a list of parties that make up The Greens – European Free Alliance: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Greens%E2%80%93European_Fre... Interesting from a UK POV is that as well as the Green Party, the SNP and Plaid Cymru are included,
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Now available to listen again at the same title link above.
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This is fantastic. Many thanks for sharing.
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BT and TalkTalk to appeal Digital Economy Act(bbc.co.uk)
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"Evan asks his panel if it's getting easier to create a new business in the wired world, or does a lower barrier to entry mean it's more difficult to get noticed? They also consider how good businesses are built on the back of mistakes. "Ev
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Tonight's Bottom Line on Radio 4 (UK): Startups and Mistakes (2030 BST)(bbc.co.uk)
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I am surprised at how high the average development cost for a Mobile/PDA (non-Apple) game is. Almost as much as a Wii or PS2/3 game! Can anyone explain why? Is it something to do with making it compatible for several formats (eg. different
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UK 'must act to solve games industry brain drain'(bbc.co.uk)
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A formula [Bayes' theorem] for justice(guardian.co.uk)
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As a comparison, the logo for Freddie Mercury's birthday resulted in 1.2M Wikipedia pageviews on the day, and ~500k the day after: http://stats.grok.se/en/latest/Freddie_Mercury Jorge Luis Borges? 2.0M -- but the day after (perhaps this i
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Fulham FC introduces tablet CCTV(bbc.co.uk)
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Jeremy Hunt urges web firms to join anti-piracy drive(bbc.co.uk)
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Google chief predicts UK Internet jobs boom (telegraph.co.uk)
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I might be in a minority of one, but for anyone else who had never heard of the Pomodoro Technique before reading this: http://www.pomodorotechnique.com/
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The answer to your second question is covered here: http://blog.pinboard.in/2011/08/a_short_rant_about_hosting/ ("Why not go with Linode/AWS/[other virtualized hosting]?") tl;dr - I/O performance
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Nice idea for a site. Design feedback: Perhaps this is just my personal preference but I found the text very difficult to read (typeface choice + not enough leading). I also could barely make out hyperlinks because the colour was so close t
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I assure you it wasn't me. The Offline feature for Gmail I was referring to was the new Chrome app. It's mentioned in the Google Blog post I linked to and can be found here on the Chrome Webstore: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/
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None at hand -- but I do think the Wikipedia page for brand is an interesting read.[1] It has a section on branding approaches and unlike a lot of articles I found on a quick 15 minute Google just now it's refreshingly dry and hype-free. Ha
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Internet.bs for me. Very cheap, straightforward management, quick to propagate changes.
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That is a bit offhand. Google has added an offline feature to Gmail, and are rolling out access to Calendar and Docs, as they outlined when they announced the Chromebooks at I/O earlier this year.[0] All this replaces the previous work they
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You're very welcome. Good luck! If you do decide to come up with a brand name there are lots of articles online on methods and things to consider. I always remember the tale of George Eastman. He was looking for something short, something t
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I recommend The Black Mirror, an anthology of German and Austrian science fiction: http://www.amazon.com/Black-Mirror-Other-Stories-Anthology/d... Also German, and 50 years old this year (!): the Perry Rhodan series.[0] It was being trans

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