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Anatomy of a Fake Quotation >> The Atlantic
"Yesterday, I saw a quote from Martin Luther King Jr. fly across my Twitter feed: "I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy." - Martin Luther King, Jr". I was about to retweet it, but I hesitated. It didn't sound right. After some Googling, I determined that it was probably fake, which I blogged about last night. "Here's the story of how that quote was created."
Send three and fourpence, we're going to a dance.
Visual analytics: the EU-funded free ebook >> VisMaster
"This book is the result of a community effort of the partners of the VisMaster Coordinated Action funded by the European Union. The overarching aim of VisMaster was to create a research roadmap that outlines the current state of visual analytics across many disciplines, and to describe the next steps that have to be taken to foster a strong visual analytics community, thus enabling the development of advanced visual analytic applications."
Free ebook. Your tax pounds/euros at work.
US wireless carriers scale down scope of mobile payment system >> Reuters
"The joint venture, known as Isis, had originally planned to take market share from Visa Inc and MasterCard Inc, by setting up its own payments network and collecting fees on every transaction conducted via mobile phones. "But Deutsche Telekom AG's T-Mobile USA, AT&T and Verizon Wireless have now adopted a less ambitious goal to set up a "mobile wallet," that can store and exchange the account information on a users' existing Visa, MasterCard or other card, the paper said, citing people familiar with the matter."
A win for the credit card companies.
Dance Writer: App Uses Human Body To Render Type >> PSFK
If you need your words rendered with letters that look like a body contorted into different shapes... well, it's better than Comic Sans. Just.
BlackBerry Bold Touch 9900 review >> PC Advisor
"We were lucky enough to get some hands-on time with the new BlackBerry Bold Touch 9900/9930, and though it's difficult to get a truly accurate feel for a smartphone that's tethered to a table and while hundreds of feisty journalists peer over your shoulder, I can say with little hesitation that the Bold Touch 9900 is one very impressive BlackBerry."
So it's not a "review", it's a "hands-on" to a device tethered to a table. A few minutes spent typing is apparently enough to determine that it's fantastic. 20 minutes is enough to award 9/10.
Come on, this sort of stuff is nonsense. "First impressions", perhaps.
Photoshop "JDI" Survey >> Survey Monkey
What are your concerns about Photoshop? What features would you like to see? List interface changes/additions? Knock yourself out. Don't forget to mention the price.
Osama Shoot down video scam spreads on Facebook >> Naked Security
Like night following day.
Bing Microsoft and RIM helping people make better decisions with Bing on BlackBerry >> Microsoft Bing blog
"This morning at RIM's annual Blackberry World, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced on stage a new alliance between Microsoft and RIM, outlining how the two companies can work together to help people make better decisions with Bing on BlackBerry devices. Central to this collaboration, , Blackberry devices will use Bing as the preferred search provider in the browser, and Bing will be the default search and map application for new devices presented to mobile operators, both in the United States and internationally. Also, effective today Bing will be the preferred search and maps applications with regular, featured placement and promotion in the BlackBerry App World carousel."
Two things. First, if RIM has been smart then it will have driven a hard bargain on this, which means that it will get a payment for every use - and installation? - of Bing. Second, will people who want to change it be able to?
We'll Fix Our Platform In Post >> carpe aqua
"Hardware specs are porn for the gadget blogs, but software and apps are what sell tablets and phones to regular users. iOS is not without flaws, but I can't think of any gaping holes in the platform that make it hard to justify an iPad or iPhone to someone. I would run out of fingers if I had to list all the holes in the Xoom or Playbook."
Enterprise buyers will look at this sort of thing in detail, don't forget. Gadget blogs are one thing, business purchasers quite another.
Windows generates less than a third the profit of iOS + OS X >> asymco
"The end of an era is the end of growth in one dominant business model. The PC era was epitomized by the concentration of profits in a dominant operating system vendor. That growth has slowed if not ended. The post-PC era is being kicked off by a new business model where profits are being concentrated in a hardware+software+service integrator."
It would be interesting to see the profits for Windows PCs manufacturers added in.
Sumber : guardian.co.uk/
Posted in: BlackBerry News
