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iOS 6, the new iPhone/iPad operating system released last week, has replaced Google Maps with a a map app Apple built itself - except, as Tom Simonite notes, it doesn't really work: People living outside the US seem to have...
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When the iPhone 5 was announced tech bloggers dubbed it "really boring," but the phone sold more than 2 million units in the first 24 hours of pre-orders. Yglesias explains the disconnect: Give the world a genuinely exciting, genuinely innovative...
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Aaron Paul and Dita Von Teese attend the Burberry Spring Summer 2013 Womenswear Show at Kensington Gardens on September 17, 2012 in London, England. By Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images for Burberry. Lauren Yapalater compiled many more photos of "Aaron Paul [Being]...
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Blog: Chuck's Blog
My youngest teenage daughter is starting to enjoy reading those celebrity tabloids: who's together now, who's breaking up, etc. Not exactly my thing, but - hey - it works for her. Our tech industry is not immune from the same kind of speculation. With both Cisco and EMC both playing prominent roles in the broader transformation of the IT industry, it seems that we're both in the rotation once again. As part of my customer meetings, I'm now occasionally pinged by people who are curious as to my personal take on all of this. Like anyone, I can speculate on the future, but the past is largely a matter of fact. People tend to forget all the great stuff the two companies have done together in the past -- for our mutual customers. So I remind them. And while no one can predict what the future might bring, the past is always worth considering ... The Very Early Years Remember, I've been at EMC a very long time (almost 18 years!), and I can clearly remember a time many years ago when EMC and Cisco were like ships passing in the night. We did our storage stuff, they did their...
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After a terrific David Leonhardt piece, Derek Thompson highlights the findings of a Congressional Research Service study (pdf) - that tax cuts don't generate economic growth. Thompson summarizes: Analysis of six decades of data found that top tax rates "have...
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Blog: Internet Tubes
Could not agree more... and glad that someone like Peter Sonsini finds value in what "I" do! If I’m developing a new application, how can I find the most reliable, secure services that are compatible with my run-time environment and...
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Obama has never apologized for America, merely at times acknowledged its mistakes (like torturing prisoners against clear prohibitions in domestic and international law) alongside its strengths (like being one of the the most stable and benign democracies in history). I...
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The young: Suzy Khimm flags the above chart from May by Political Math. Khimm comments: Labor force participation has been slowly declining for decades, in part because more young people are pursuing higher education. But there’s been a particularly sharp...
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Blog: Internet Tubes
Some good old geek humor for a Friday: "And, Ruby as a language feels a little strange. Maybe it was designed for hipsters. If I had a dog, it would bark at Ruby code." "Discovered jQuery. Have no idea how...
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Blog: Internet Tubes
Hey #Oracle and #RedHat... Why are you recreating the wheel with your newly proposed PaaS control specs (#camp)? The proposed OASIS standard, called CAMP (Cloud Application Management for Platforms), is an API (Application Programming Interface) for a set of commands...
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Glaswegians have a disturbingly high mortality rate, and researchers haven't been able to explain why: People have a tendency to blame Glasgow’s peculiar outcomes on whatever they worry about most in Britain today. At last count there were 17 competing...
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An entertaining glimpse of the real-life dude that inspired Jeff Bridges' character in The Big Lebowski: Director Jeff Feuerzeig recounts their first meeting: In 1986, twelve years before The Big Lebowski, first screenplay in hand, I flew from NY to...
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Bradford Plumer passes along some bad economic news: A new report (pdf) from the National Employment Law Project finds that low-wage jobs, paying $13.83 per hour or less, have dominated the recovery to date. In many cases, they appear to...
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