February 2012
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KAYAK Mobile is dropping active support and maintenance for our BlackBerry application.
We are sincerely sorry to BlackBerry users, but we have regrettably come to this practical decision.
When we started KAYAK in 2004, we issued BlackBerries to the entire engineering team so we could communicate instantly 24/7. Today we’ve all switched, and it seems our users are doing the same. Our...
Smartphone Shipments Top PCs For The First Time... →
Last year a total of 487.7 million smartphones were shipped. Only 414.6 million PCs, which include tablet PCs, shipped.
December 2011
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November 2011
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More important news that no one will hear -...
iheartchaos:
Well shit, that’s fucking sad. The Western Black rhino of Africa has officially been declared extinct by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. Good night, sweet rhino species. We’re sorry if we fucked things up for you.
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August 2011
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Awesome Female Voice playlist from Eric Mortensen →
ericmortensen:
A 2 hour Spotify mixtape, a work in progress and a mouthful:
Bowery Electric – Floating World Portishead – Humming Björk – Possibly Maybe Cibo Matto – Sugar Water Lovage – To Catch a Thief Tricky – Overcome Massive Attack – Paradise Circus Lamb – I Cry Nelly Furtado – My Love Grows Deeper, Part 1 Sneaker Pimps – Walking Zero CocoRosie – Werewolf Goldfrapp – Black Cherry Madonna...
“Every technology company I have is getting hit by patent lawsuits that are the...”
– Mark Cuban - If You Want To Create More Jobs, Change Patent Law (via david-noel)
July 2011
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June 2011
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May 2011
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March 2011
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February 2011
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“At 4 p.m., the battles appeared to tip decisively in the protesters’...”
– Summary of a week in Egypt is an awe-inspiring story of people power.
How Cairo, Washington Were Blindsided by Revolution - WSJ.com
January 2011
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“The value of liberal democracy used to be sacred in the West.
Now some people...”
– David Cameron’s big ideas: Facebook and Spotify.
David Cameron’s Davos speech in full - politics.co.uk
“All the same conspiracy theories as last year too… “So and so was offended”…...”
– Ricky Gervais (via ericmortensen)
TeuxDeux →
david:
I’ve been using TeuxDeux as my calendar and task list for the last couple months. I can’t recommend it enough.
Amen.
http://lifehacker.com/5726764/why-the-mac-app-store... →
Why the Mac AppStore is a step forward to a limited, curated, censored future.
“VLC player yanked from iPhone AppStore citing “incompatibility between the...”
– This may be bigger than just VLC. By now it is quite hard to build anything without ingredients based on GNU GPL. Is Safari Webkit not already based on it?
(via Wired UK)
December 2010
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“It was as if banks like Goldman were wrapping ribbons around watermelons,...”
– A great read on Goldman’s amazing influence on USA economy.
Taibbi’s Takedown of ‘Vampire Squid’ Goldman Sachs | Rolling Stone Politics
Update: now here.
November 2010
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“Over time, prosecutors said, [Computer shop owner] Mr. Bedi told [musician and...”
– Simply astonishing. If you’re that stupid, you almost deserve it. Almost.
Man Held in Defrauding Roger Davidson, Musician - NYTimes.com
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Only one third of teens prefer piracy
Habbo Hotel survey shows that there is still hope in the world of music:
One thirds of teens prefer to download music without paying for it, [..] while 21% of US and 20% of UK teens prefer not to stump up for their tracks.
That is terrific: even though piracy is still rampant, there is hope: it is only a minority that prefers it.
It gets better:
one fifth of teens around the world still buy...
October 2010
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