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The idea is pretty much dead that the iPhone is just for your personal life. But to see that 40 percent of iPhone sales are for the enterprise is a bit of shocker.
But according to Larry Dignan of ZDNet, that's just what an AT&T; executive said at a conference this week.
Ron Spear
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Legendary funk music pioneer Bootsy Collins is starting an online education program for bass players. His Funk University is now accepting enrollments, and classes start July 1.
A member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Collins rose to fame playing bass with James Brown and wit
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Today quite a variety of entrepreneurs presented their business ideas at my Online Strategy Roundtables. Several times I brought up how precious our time is and we need to treat it as such. So many people become enamored with technology and the building of the product before they
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Launched in December, news aggregator TopicFire has now turned its attention to Facebook. It has generated two dozen news pages devoted to breaking news topics, populated on Facebook. These run the gamut from Apple News to World News. (Via the latter, I just found out actor Gary
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Two anonymous twitterers in the American state of Pennsylvania - @bfbarbie and @CasablancaPA - tweeted harsh criticisms of the state's attorney general, Tom Corbett, who is a candidate for the governorship. On May 6, a grand jury in Harrisburg subpoenaed the identities and other
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When Twitter COO, Dick Costolo announced on Monday that they were making some changes to their terms of service for developers, prohibiting third-party networks from advertising in users' streams, many in the tech industry initially reacted by saying that the move would spell the
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As more and more college students look for internships, hoping to gain valuable work experience prior to graduation, startups would be wise to create strong internship programs. That was the message of Richard Bottner, founder of the college recruiting firm Intern Bridge and Mark
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The deep complexities of managing a cloud infrastructure for the enterprise are only just beginning to emerge.
Today we are at Gluecon, talking with three companies about managing that complexity in the cloud. Let's take a quick look at these three companies and the services the
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Dedicated e-readers like Amazon's Kindle and Barnes & Noble's Nook are coming under increasing pressure from mobile phones and tablet devices like the iPad. According to the latest research from Informa Telecoms & Media, sales of e-readers with broadband connections will peak in
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Early in his administration, President Obama vowed to open up government with more interactive online initiatives like Recovery.gov. Though some called his early efforts a "significant failure," Obama has pressed on with attempts to create transparency, including a memo earlier t
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Paper books are a joy to hold and read, but in a hyperlinked world they can feel a little limited. Dr. Sorin A. Matei of Perdue University is making paper books writable and multi-layered with 2D barcodes (QR codes) through a system he's built called Ubimark.
Imagine having a cl
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BlockChalk, the anonymous location-based social networking service, just announcedthat it is now a venture-backed startup. BlockChalk's investors include Battery Ventures, Mitch Kapor, Harrison Metal, Founder Collective, Joshua Schachter, Josh Stylman, Tom McInerney, and David Li
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Mozilla is following in Opera's footsteps by porting an AppStore friendly version of their browser over to the iPhone with their upcoming app Firefox Home. Due to Apple's restrictions the app will not offer a full fledged browser experience and thus you cannot simply navigate to
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Google Buzz just got a new feature that is very similar to Twitter's retweet functionality. Over the course of the day, Google will roll out a reshare button for Buzz, that will allow you to easily share interesting posts you find on Buzz with your followers there. These posts ca
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Google announced this morning that it is enabling real-time discussions on YouTube channels by adding support for Google Moderator. Moderator allows sites to request questions or ideas from its audience that can then be voted up or down by the site's community of visitors. The se
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Pakistan has now partially lifted its ban on YouTube, according to Naguibullah Malik, Secretary of Information Technology and Telecom. The site was one of many including Facebook, Flickr and Wikipedia that were banned last week in response to the "Everybody Draw Muhammad Day" mov
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A drawback to the Twitter API is its incompatibility with the cloud.
The API looks for one IP address when making a call. A rate limit is imposed so a busy Twitter app may be difficult to access during heavy load times. But the cloud is not one IP address. It's a network of thou
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Barnes & Noble has just released its BN eReader for iPad, a mobile e-Reader application that competes with Apple's own iBooks app and the popular Kindle for iPad. The new BN eReader sports several features that could position it as a worthy competitor, the most notable of which i
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A world where we download objects off the Web the same way we currently download our data? If this futuristic notion is one day going to come true, it's thanks to 3D printing developers like FormZ, ProtoPulsion, Z Corp, Print2 3D, and Thing Labs. Our selection of the top videos m
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In the month since the well blowout beneath the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, the real-time web has been leveraged for communicate between concerned parties. At other times it has been noteworthy for how it could have been used but wasn't. Here are five instanc
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It's like an API festival here at Gluecon. I tweeted that this afternoon. But it's not just Gluecon, though - they're one of the hottest topics in discussions about cloud computing.
In his presentation today at Gluecon, John Musser of Programmable Web illustrated how hot APIs hav
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Yesterday Apple passed Microsoft to become, for the first time, the "world's most valuable technology company," according to the New York Times. Apple gained a stock-based valuation of $222.12 billion while Microsoft's was $219.18 billion.
Does this make Steve Jobs the Bill Gates
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We're pleased to announce that in collaboration with Microsoft, ReadWriteWeb will be hosting a competition for Visual Studio developers to see who can create the most compelling Visual Studio 2010 extensions.
Extensions are an add-on to Visual Studio 2010 that improves the user e
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Fanit is another start-up that has discovered the gospel of game play and is using it to promote their music recommendation experience.
Fans support their favorite artists and bands by purchasing badges. 100% of the money for the badges go to the artists, according to the compan
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Hey augmented reality fans! Next week in Santa Clara, California, is the first ever Augmented Reality Event where the best and brightest in the AR field will join together for a two-day conference to advance the business of everyone's favorite emerging technology. If you live in
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Last month we wrote a short post about using Google Wave for live blogging. Today, during Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook privacy press conference, we decided to put this theory into practice and live blogged the event with Wave. The reaction to our experiment was overwhelmingly posit
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Google made a number of announcements in the past week that are of interest to educators: opening Google Wave to the public and extending Google Voice accounts to students. But one announcement that didn't receive much press was its release of CloudCourse, the new internal learni
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As technology becomes more a part of our day-to-day lives, some are worried that it is stunting the education of children by taking away time from activities like reading. A startling discovery from the London-based National Literacy Trust finds that children are more likely thes
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If you are a subscriber to Mahalo CEO Jason Calacanis's listserv (you are, right?), you probably found your email inbox slammed last week when the list briefly allowed recipients to reply to the entire list. In today's "Jason Nation" missive, Calacanis apologized, explaining the
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A natural curiosity surfaces when a company from a different era starts using API's and leveraging the cloud. It shows how fast the world is changing as Web oriented architectures become more predominant.
Mastercard, Blockbuster and Pitney Bowes are all companies we've reported a
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The same day on which Facebook has rolled back changes to its default privacy settings, Pew Research has released a report on privacy and reputation among young adults that has some interesting results. Though many have proposed that older generations of Internet users are more c
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