A girl and her two dogs Image by pedrosimoes7 California beach, Sesimbra, Portugal Sometimes I can’t help but think back to my first cellular phone back in the mid-1990′s. But the history of mobiles started a decade prior, when phones were beyond the means of most consumers. Now we have countries with more mobile...
An Autumn Afternoon’s Walk Image by bossbob50 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrEu3wXrZRo – David Darling It was a dark and gray, overcast day. The light was unrelievedly "blah": flat, lifeless. But, I think, if you are one of the one’s lucky to see with artist’s eyes (acquired through nature or nuture) considerations such as that don’t amount to...
A kiss on the cheek Image by Kalexanderson MongoDB might be a popular choice in NoSQL databases, but it’s not perfect — at least out of the box. At last week’s MongoSV conference in Santa Clara, Calif., a number of users, including from Disney, Foursquare and Wordnik, shared their experiences with the product. The...
supervamp in a fur skirt and top with leather boots Image by haughty haute couture Much of the past few weeks focused on the new Galaxy Nexus, which is no surprise: The hardware pushes some new limits with a screen that rivals a high-definition television. Hardware is only half the story, however, as Android...
Arrival of the invisible train Image by Rising Damp In this era of cheap-and-reliable rent-a-data centers, does it make sense for a company to build a new data center on its own anymore? Amazon’s data center guru James Hamilton is pretty clear he sees no reason for most companies to build new data centers...
Olga Image by cami121586 Zynga executives and investors ringing the NASDAQ opening bell Zynga held its initial public offering on Friday, raising $ 1 billion in a stock market debut that valued the company at some $ 8 billion at the height of the day’s trading. However, Zynga’s stock did not have the day...
No tan grandes Image by darkrigel A Coruña Squrl has updated its iPad app, shifting its primary focus from video bookmarking to video discovery. The app, which was just launched, will allow users to more easily find and watch the newest content from all of their favorite video publishers. Among other updates to the...
Pull your pants up!!! Image by silent (e) For all of those in a perpetual snit about personal data privacy, here’s bold proposal: donate your own medical data. And do it now — don’t wait till you’re dead. Michael Driscoll, CTO of Metamarkets, (see disclosure) made this pitch in his blog earlier this week. Lots...
clasped hands and a water bottle Image by Serenae After a long-running controversy, the 13,000 employees of the Los Angeles Police Department will definitely not move to Google Apps. And that’s final. On Wednesday, the Los Angeles City Council voted to officially kill a proposed deployment of Google Apps to the LAPD. The city’s...
IMG_0012 Image by jeffdhartman Daddy Daughter Dance The ripples continue to spread from a recent Oregon court ruling involving a blogger who was sued for defamation, and argued that she should be covered by the state’s “media shield” law. The judge decided that she didn’t qualify as a journalist, which in turn reignited the...
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