January 2012
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36 Clever Logos With Hidden Symbolism →
Bored Panda: If you are a graphic designer looking for some logo ideas and inspiration, then it’s your lucky day because we handpicked another list of Clever Logos With Hidden Symbolism. Check this 36 Clever Logos if you need some inspiration, our you want to amuse yourself. They have more links with other logos too at the beginning of the post. Have fun!
Jan 31st
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Babylonian Twins HD FREE for the iPad →
TouchArcade: Originally developed for the Amiga, Babylonian Twins never made it to market but found life nearly 17 years later on the App Store. This platformer that has you swapping between two different characters, each with different abilities, in order to solve the many puzzles and progress through the game. It’s a lengthy and satisfying trip too, and currently you can grab the iPad...
Jan 30th
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Steam on iOS and Android →
Wired UK: The app lets users access a number of services attached to the PC or Mac Steam client, including chat, the ability to browse profiles and communities, access to screenshots, browse the game catalogue and even buy games. The one thing it won’t let you do, for the time being, is play them. The first step for valve to create and commercialize iOS and Android games in my opinion....
Jan 27th
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The 10 Best Selling Cars Of All Time →
Nice to still see the Model T on this list.
Jan 27th
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Apple reports massive Q1 2012 results
The Verge: The company booked a $13.06 billion profit on $46.33 billion in revenue, marking the biggest quarter in company history — well over 50 percent larger than its previous record in Q3 2011. Apple sold a remarkable 37.04 million iPhones, 15.43 million iPads and 5.3 million Macs during the quarter, which represent increases of 128 percent, 111 percent, and 26 percent from last year....
Jan 25th
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Math scores jumped 20% with iPad textbooks →
AppleInsider: On the heels of Apple’s e-textbook announcement in New York City this week, publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt announced the results of its “HMC Fuse: Algebra I” pilot program at Ameila Earhart Middle School in California’s Riverside Unified School District. The Algebra I digital textbook is touted as the world’s first full-curriculum algebra application developed exclusively for...
Jan 21st
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Jan 20th
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KODAK IS BANKRUPT →
Business Insider: This speculation was amplified on September 30, when the Wall Street Journal reported that Kodak had hired Jones Day for restructuring advice. This move reaked of bankruptcy. Days later, Kodak denied the bankruptcy rumors in a statement that was riddled with caveats. […] At 12:22 AM this morning, this announcement crossed the wires…
Jan 19th
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[Interview] Man Started The World's Largest...
Business Insider: When he started his company in 2002, he wasn’t a kid coming straight out of college looking to raise money for a tech idea. Nor was he an ultra-rich investor, painstakingly searching for the next Internet behemoth. He was just a middle-aged man with a big idea, and a plan. “We had two Macs and this business idea that we could start a hotel chain for...
Jan 17th
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Google will protest SOPA using popular home page →
CNet: “Like many businesses, entrepreneurs and web users, we oppose these bills because there are smart, targeted ways to shut down foreign rogue websites without asking American companies to censor the Internet,” a Google spokeswoman said. “So tomorrow we will be joining many other tech companies to highlight this issue on our US home page.” Will this protests be enough...
Jan 17th
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Murdoch on MySpace: 'We screwed up in every way... →
Wired UK: Rupert Murdoch, one of Twitter’s newest media darlings, has unburdened himself on one of the worst bets of the post dot-com boom: News Corp’s ill-fated purchase of MySpace. “Many questions and jokes about My Space.simple answer - we screwed up in every way possible, learned lots of valuable expensive lessons,”Murdoch tweeted from his iPad at the Consumer...
Jan 17th
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Wikipedia, Reddit plan site blackouts in SOPA... →
CNN: A handful of large websites will go dark on Wednesday to protest an anti-piracy bill that critics say will wreck the Internet as we know it.
Jan 17th
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Dr. Seuss Style BATMAN Character Art (6 Pictures) →
Cool character art!
Jan 17th
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Porsche reveals 2013 Boxster →
German Car Scene: Due to be launched this April, the Boxster will be available with a six-speed manual gearbox as standard or the seven-speed PDK (Porsche Doppelkupplungsgetriebe) as an option. The base model Boxster uses a 2.7 L flat six which develops 195 kW (265 hp) – 10 hp up on the 987 version, enough for a 5.7 second 0-100 km/h time – with the PDK. Moving up the scale, the...
Jan 13th
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Apple IPhone Sales in China Stores Suspended →
Bloomberg: Apple had advertised that the store would open at 7 a.m. At 7:15 a.m., people began chanting “Open the door!” and “Liars!” after a man said over a bullhorn that the phone wouldn’t go on sale today, without giving an explanation. The store stayed closed “for safety reasons,” Wu said. Beijing police temporarily cordoned off the shop after it was pelted with eggs from the crowd.
Jan 13th
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[Video] Italians Turn to Gambling for Pension... →
Bloomberg: Bloomberg’s Nicole Itano reports on gambling in Italy, the country’s third-biggest industry, which is worth 76.1 billion euros annually, according to anti-mafia association Libera.
Jan 12th
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Solar power research looks to sunflowers for... →
Wired: The arrangement - a form of Fermat spiral - has each floret turned at a “golden angle” - about 137 degrees - with respect to its neighbour. The researchers twisted each mirror to be 137 degrees relative to its neighbour and it made a huge difference. The optimised layout takes up 20 percent less space than the current layout of the PS10 in Spain, and even increased total...
Jan 12th
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Google Fuses Google+ Into Search →
TechCrunch: Today, Google is launching an update to its core search engine at Google.com that continues this trend — and then some. They’re calling it ‘Search plus Your World’. The short version is that Google search results are going to be automatically personalized (to a greater degree than they were already) for each user, with signals drawn from your Google+ Circles being used to highlight...
Jan 11th
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28 Parody Logos That Say The REAL Meaning Of...
Business Insider: A logo is a fundamental part of every brand. Companies spend millions tinkering with their logos, trying to figure out what will stick in the minds of consumers. When a consumer views one, it triggers all sorts of thoughts and emotions. Unfortunately for brands, those aren’t always positive.
Jan 7th
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Top 1% of Mobile Users Consume Half of World’s...
The New York Times: The world’s congested mobile airwaves are being divided in a lopsided manner, with 1 percent of consumers generating half of all traffic. The top 10 percent of users, meanwhile, are consuming 90 percent of wireless bandwidth.
Jan 6th
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HTC Has First Profit Drop in Two Years
Bloomberg: HTC Corp. (2498) , Asia >’s second-largest smartphone maker, posted its first quarterly profit decline in two years as competing models fromApple Inc. (AAPL) and Samsung Electronics Co. damped demand for its handsets. Fourth-quarter net income dropped 26 percent to NT$11 billion ($364 million) from NT$14.8 billion a year earlier, the Taoyuan, Taiwan-based company said in a...
Jan 6th
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Smoking calendar →
Guerrilla Blog: If this calendar by AOK Deutschland won’t make you want to stop smoking, very few other things will. And of course as the official state main health insurance in Germany they have a vested interest for that silly annoying thing to stop.   - Please see the image on this link. Creative!
Jan 5th
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Yahoo finally gets a new CEO: PayPal president... →
Wired: Former PayPal president Scott Thompson has been named as chief executive officer of waning internet empire Yahoo. He’ll take over the role, which is currently being filled by chief financial officer Tim Morse, on 9 January. Thompson will formally replace Carol Bartz, the previous CEO, who was fired by Yahoo last September.
Jan 5th
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Your Problem Isn't Motivation →
Harvard Business Review: “Peter,” my friend Byron emailed me a few days ago. “I haven’t been diligent about working out over the past five years and I’m trying to get back in the gym and get myself into a healthier state. I’ve found that on my quest for a Mind, Body, Spirit balance, my body has been neglected. I need to fix it, and it’s VERY hard for me...
Jan 4th
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Introducing Bajaj Auto’s Brand New…Car? →
New York Times: The company that introduced it on Tuesday, Bajaj Auto, best known for making motorcycles and motorized three-wheeled rickshaws, does not even call its newest product, the RE60, a car. Bajaj (no relation to the reporter) prefers the generic term four wheeler. - With this economy this can be a solution to some people… But really ugly one.
Jan 4th
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Google Is Busted For Violating Its Own Rules And... →
Business Insider: Google has been paying bloggers to write posts in praise of Google Chrome, which is a violation of its own standards on such things. But Google apparently didn’t know it was doing this.
Jan 4th
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1.2 Billion Mobile Apps Were Downloaded Over The... →
TechCrunch: With nearly 7 million new Android phones and iPhones activated on Christmas Day, an app-downloading frenzy was a foregone conclusion. App research firm Flurry estimates that a combined total of 1.2 billion apps were downloaded during the holiday week between December 25-31. That compares to an average of 750,000 mobile apps downloaded per week earlier in December, or a 60 percent...
Jan 3rd
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FilmOn AIR tuner for iPhone/Android attempts TV... →
From Slashgear: Internet-based TV provider Fil­mOn has revealed a com­pact ATSC TV receiv­er don­gle for iPhone, iPad, Android devices and Mac/PC users, the Fil­mOnAIR, promis­ing mobile stream­ing and record­ing of free-to-air shows in theUS. Set to retail for $95.95, or come bun­dled with a $149.95 annu­al Fil­mOn sub­scrip­tion, the Fil­mOn AIR comes as the com­pa­ny is embroiled in a lengthy...
Jan 2nd
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iOS app: Gympact Makes You Keep It or Pay
Let’s see if this app will make a difference to people who want to workout. At the beginning of each week, users set a goal for the number of times they’ll visit the gym and name a price they’re willing to pay for not meeting that goal. If they miss their goal, they pay the price. If they make it, they receive a portion of the cash collected from all the people who missed their goals....
Jan 1st