September 16, 2012
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Acer was ready to announce a new smartphone running Alibaba’s Aliyun OS when Google told them that if they released it, they’d end their partnership. Acer, which uses Android for 90% of its smartphones and no fool, canceled the release. Acer, … Continue reading
September 14, 2012
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nnocence of Muslims is a crude and trashy video that portrays the Prophet Mohammad as a hate-mongering bum who approves of violence and sexual child abuse. Considered by Western audiences that adores the popular cartoon South Park, which mocks many religions … Continue reading
September 13, 2012
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The sheer scale of Twitter is amazing: 2.8-billion tweets a day works out to about 5,000 tweets a second. Each tweet of 140 characters (or about 200 bytes) has to be sent, recorded, and retransmitted to up to 20 million … Continue reading
September 12, 2012
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I hate to break it to you, but the new iPhone 5 is not going to be the second coming of Steve Jobs; it’s not going to give the economy a big push upward; nor will it be the best phone … Continue reading
September 11, 2012
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Go Daddy, the popular and controversial Web domain and service company, which crashed and burned, along with millions of it customers on September 10th, is now claiming that it wasn’t taken down by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, … Continue reading
September 10, 2012
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I got involved in computers just in time for the revolution. It was the 1970s, and we were moving from centrally managed computers to PCs. For the next 40 years, users had an unprecedented level of choice, which put the … Continue reading