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An epic battle of good and bad (rumor sources)!

Posted May 16, 2012 - 1:57 pm

Your dad’s Wall Street Journal was the sheet that aimed to tell you everything you needed to know that morning to face the many-headed, irrational beast known as The Market. Your Wall Street Journal? It wants to have the very best sourcing on what your next iPhone is going to look like, and it usually succeeds.
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New tech advice: don't learn to code

Posted May 15, 2012 - 11:17 am

Jeff Atwood says "Please Don't Learn to Code," for a variety of reasons. Angry commentary erupted immediately.
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Facebook IPO sucker scheme task list almost complete

Posted May 15, 2012 - 11:00 am

Facebook's long campaign to set up suckers for its IPO is nearly complete. Suckers, please report to the starting gate.
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Taking the measure of big data: More is more

Posted May 15, 2012 - 8:00 am

Some believe that 99.9% of big data is worthless, but I disagree. What you might discard as worthless today, may be useful to another analyst tomorrow. It depends on the questions you ask the data, how you ask them, and when.
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Xamarin adds Android designer to Visual Studio

Posted May 15, 2012 - 6:08 am

Mono for Android SDK offers app-designing for both Microsoft's and Xamarin's IDEs.
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Lenovo working with Intel on ThinkPad Windows 8 tablet

Posted May 15, 2012 - 12:06 am

Lenovo is working with chip maker Intel on a future ThinkPad tablet based on Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system, a Lenovo executive said.
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ESG Lab Review: HP 3PAR Peer Motion Software

Posted May 14, 2012 - 4:50 pm

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What enterprise mobile apps can learn from mobile games

Posted May 14, 2012 - 3:43 pm

Enterprise mobile apps are shifting from small, narrowly task-oriented programs to larger, more complex ones. To design them well, enterprise developers can learn a lot from a surprising source: mobile games.
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10 essential performance tips for MySQL

Posted May 14, 2012 - 2:06 pm

From workload profiling to the three rules of indexing, these expert insights are sure to make your MySQL servers scream.
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How many more Scott Thompsons are out there?

Posted May 14, 2012 - 1:41 pm

Scott Thompson may be gone from Yahoo, but many of you still are reporting to a phony running your own department or company.
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Startup uses DDOS to confuse BitTorrent sites

Posted May 14, 2012 - 10:51 am

New "Pirate Pay" Russian-based startup, partially funded by Microsoft, monitors illegal files and stops the download process.
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Moving from CouchDB to MySQL, or vice versa

Posted May 14, 2012 - 10:40 am

Sauce Labs decided they needed to dump CouchDB and move to MySQL. Two years ago, a different blog detailed how and why to move from MySQL to CouchDB.
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Adobe backpedals, will now patch software for free

Posted May 13, 2012 - 8:35 pm

Changes tune after customers, security pros condemned Adobe's advice to spend hundreds on upgrades to get fixes.
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Gaming merit badge to help churn out next gen of FPS designers

Posted May 11, 2012 - 7:05 pm

Every Scout trying for the new Game Design merit badge will want to build COD:Black Ops. Most will bail on electronic games for lack of programming skills; only a a few will realize what they really want is to spend their adulthood inventing great computer games.
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How Apple is breaking free of Google's Maps (and maybe Google, entirely)

Posted May 11, 2012 - 11:33 am

It’s no secret that Apple and Google have the kind of relationship that touring bands have with Ticketmaster: an aspiring artist with a thinly veiled contempt for the company that has all the right connections.
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Disable Facebook Timeline in Firefox and Chrome

Posted May 10, 2012 - 9:29 pm

Here's how you can disable Facebook's heinous Timeline "feature" and go back to the old Facebook wall.
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Turn off elastic scrolling in OS X

Posted May 10, 2012 - 9:19 pm

Here's how to turn off elastic scrolling in OS X.
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OS X Lion 10.7.4 features

Posted May 10, 2012 - 9:12 pm

Here's what you'll find in the 10.7.4 update to OS X Lion.
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Upgrade to OS X Lion 10.7.4

Posted May 10, 2012 - 9:04 pm

Here's how you can update to OS X Lion 10.7.4.
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Google shares Codie award for best cloud application/service

Posted May 10, 2012 - 8:49 pm

Keynote Systems and Scribe Software in three-way tie with Google Apps; best integration solution also sees two winners
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DVDs and Blu-rays will soon waste more time with new unskippable piracy warnings

Posted May 10, 2012 - 8:48 pm

In a move that seems like it will encourage piracy rather than curb it, the U.S. government is adding new warning messages that can't be skipped at the outset of DVD and Blu-ray movies. And there won't just be one--there will be two, one to "warn" and one to "educate."
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Study: iOS surpasses Android in enterprise usage

Posted May 10, 2012 - 8:42 pm

Consumerization trends in the enterprise shifted dramatically in the first quarter of 2012, with mobile devices running Apple's iOS operating system showing more activity in the workplace than those running Google's Android, as well as end users migrating from Facebook and toward Twitter.
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Mozilla cracks down on memory leaks in Firefox add-ons

Posted May 10, 2012 - 8:40 pm

It was only a few short months ago that Mozilla put its Firefox browser on a memory “diet,” and this week it announced that it's doing much the same thing for Firefox add-ons as well.
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Windows 8 Pro: Features IT pros need to know about

Posted May 10, 2012 - 8:36 pm

Microsoft announced last month that Windows 8 will be sold in three editions: two for PCs powered by x86 processors and one for ARM-based tablets, called Windows RT.
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Facebook developers: How to get admitted into the new App Center

Posted May 10, 2012 - 8:34 pm

Facebook yesterday announced the launch of its new apps directory, called the App Center . The App Center, says Facebook's Aaron Brady, "gives developers an additional way to grow their apps and creates opportunities for more types of apps to be successful." Facebook says people will be able to access the App Center on the Web and in the iOS and Adroid Facebook apps in the coming weeks.
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