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  • Mobile
    The Post-PC Era Begins In Earnest Next Year

    To date, there are still more installed PCs in the world than there are smartphones or tablets. Next year, that's likely to change. According to projections from mobile analyst Ben Evans, the number of smartphones in use around the world will pass that of PCs for the first time next year. According...

  • Mobile
    Nest Wants To Be The Hub Of The Connected Home

    A Nest thermostat's simple interface could be a hub.A company that makes a “smart” thermostat wants developers to hack together your connected home. Nest,“ The Learning Thermostat,” yesterday announced a new developer program and Web API that will connect Nest with other items in your home like lighting, home appliances...

  • Web
    An Honest, Law-Abiding Patent Troll?

    Given the inanity that is our current patent system, it's not surprising that innocent patent holders can look like trolls. Such might well be the case with SightSound Technologies, a subsidiary of General Electric, which has spent years in patent lawsuits with Apple, CDNow, Bertelsmann, Napster and others. As SightSound's...

  • Cloud
    Microsoft’s Internet Explorer Is Greenest Browser, Says … Microsoft

    Some of the funniest bits in tech media usually start with the introduction: "from a Microsoft-commissioned study," and a new whitepaper from the Fraunhofer Center for Sustainable Energy Systems doesn't disappoint. So, here it comes: Results from a Microsoft-commissioned study reveal Internet Explorer is the least-energy-using browser on the market.Yes,...

  • Cloud
    Nest, The iPod Of Smart Home Tech, Preps Consumers For The Future

    Nest is doing very well. The company that makes the eponymous smart thermostat just closed on an $80 million round of funding, according to GigaOm. It's now shipping 40,000 to 50,000 thermostats every month, which is apparently enough to win the confidence of Google Ventures and Venrock. Call it the iPod...

  • Startups
    Ecosystem + Incubator = Startup “Ecobator” NestGSV

    Startup accelerators are great, as far as they go. The problem is that, after startups enjoy several months of pedal-to-the-metal support and mentorship, the vast majority of them exit the programs and hit a brick wall. The cheerleading stops, venture funding never materializes and the founders go back to writing...

  • Hack
    Trello: Online Collaboration Software at Its Finest

    If you've seen one Web-based collaboration tool, you've seen 'em all, right? That was my thinking, until I started seriously looking at Trello a few weeks ago. Trello takes the drudgery out of collaboration software. It gives users a Web-based workspace that's as easy to use as a whiteboard and...

  • Web
    Nest & The New Era of Home Appliances

    Earlier this week I listed 5 signs of a great user experience in a tech product. One sign is that it changes you. I referred to revolutionary products like the iPhone and Twitter, that modified our online behaviors or habits. This trend is becoming more noticeable with the so called...

  • Entertainment
    Big Radio Takes a Shot at Pandora With Clear Channel/Echo Nest Partnership

    Clear Channel, the largest radio station owner in the United States, has teamed up with music intelligence platform The Echo Nest to build an Internet radio service similar to Pandora and Last.fm.Clear Channel's iHeartRadio service uses The Echo Nest's massive dataset of 30 million songs and 5 billion related data...

  • Web
    Is the EcoPOD the World’s Greenest Data Center?

    HP introduced a new modular data center at HP Discover this week that resembles a double wide mobile home with a cooling system that the company says has 95% better efficiency than the monolithic data centers built over the past 20 years.The cooling system for the HP EcoPOD is designed...

  • Web
    Music Nerds Gain New Powers With Rdio & Echonest API Partnership

    This morning, subscription streaming music service Rdio announced a new partnership with music analytics and recommendation service Echo Nest. The partnership will allow developers to add music recommendations from Echo Nest to their apps and then actually play the music using streams from Rdio. Non-subscribers to Rdio will hear 30...

  • Web
    WikiLeakiLeaks: Open Attack or Honest Attempt At Media Transparency?

    Gawker has had enough of the tight-lipped Wikileaks and its elusive founder, Julian Assange, it would seem. According to a blog post this morning, the media outlet decries the website to be "about as open as North Korea". In response, it has launched the hilariously-named Wikileakileaks, "your source for Wikileaks-related...

  • Web
    The FCC Wants to Know if Your ISP is Honest

    According to a new survey commissioned by the Federal Communications Commission, 80% of Internet users in the U.S. don't know the advertised speed of their home Internet connections (PDF). A quarter of respondents thought that they were always getting the advertised speed their ISPs promised them, even though they did...

  • Web
    Will Google’s Cloud be a Cozy Nest for Aviary?

    Aviary, the online creative platform is a visionary tool. When it launched a few years back, the irony of a Flash based Photoshop competitor was, well, ironic. With the launch of Aviary in Google's App Marketplace, we can say that the company is close to making lightening strike twice, this...

  • Web
    When Negotiation Becomes Dishonesty

    If you've been a geek your whole life then you understand the term "Canadian girlfriend." The Canadian (or sometimes British) love interest is the person you talk about when a member of the opposite sex inquires about your dating status. The story is that you met online, you've formed a...

  • Web
    AlphaLab Demo Day Showcases Pittsburgh’s Finest

    Pittsburgh-based startup incubator AlphaLab hosted its Fall demo day earlier this morning. Created by seed funding group Innovations Works, AlphaLab provides 6 promising startups with funding, office space and business advice over a 20-week mentorship program. Today's event showcased half of those companies and was similar in format to YCombinator,...

  • Social
    Nest Unclutterer: A Better Way to Clean Up Your Twitter Friend List

    Now that you've been on Twitter for eons (right?), there's a good chance you're following an obscenely large number of people. But can a person really follow 1000 people? How about 10,000? The answer, of course, is no. At that point, you're not actually following each and every person's tweet...

  • Web
    Is This Thing On? SpeakerRate Helps Speakers Get Honest Feedback

    The tech event season is beginning to heat up. If you're a speaker, you know that standing in front of a crowd isn't half as hard as getting critical feedback on your talks. People who disliked it will generally remain silent or opt for a snarky tweet or two. Those...

  • Web
    BadBuster Helps You Identify the Greenest Companies

    Today we're a participant in Blog Action Day, a collaborative blogging event in which over 16,000 blogs across the web have marked off a single day to blog about the environment as it relates to their particular niche. In our case, that means web technology, and we've already published our...

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    Gambling
    James Bond Roulette Betting Strategy – Guide to 007 Roulette Strategy

    James Bond roulette strategy is a kind of betting tactic that aims to cover as many bases as possible. In theory, this should help players maximize their winning odds. Does it really work that way in practice? In this comprehensive guide, we discuss how the James Bond roulette strategy works,...

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