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Find My iPhone - Will Someone Remotely Wipe Yours?

tonybove — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:41:00 -0700

The Find My iPhone feature of MobileMe is cool, but how easy is it for someone to use it in a malicious way to remotely wipe your iPhone? As easy as getting your MobileMe password. Fortunately if you are within reach of the computer you synced it with, you can restore your personal information and settings, as well as your content, by connecting the iPhone to your computer and restoring it from a previous backup using iTunes.[...]

Real Rates of Return

Ed Ring — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:01:00 -0700

It would be easy to condemn as irresponsible the City Council of Vacaville, California, for their vote last month, June 2009, granting “3% at 50″ benefits to their firefighters. At this point, don’t we all know these are financially unsustainable promises? But on the other hand - isn’t ”3% at 50″ the standard for municipal firefighter contracts?

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Mid-Grid Water Systems

Ed Ring — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:55:00 -0700

It is common to think of the “grid” as pertaining to energy, electricity in particular. But just as oils and gasses flow through pipelines, and those pipelines are also parts of the energy grid, so water infrastructure can be considered a grid. Water is as fungible as energy.

And just as centralized energy and water infrastructure are known as the grid, then independent energy and

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Google TV Ads attacks the $70-billion market

Ellen_Andersson — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:19:00 -0700

AO Exclusive: $70 billion business market. The latest features and partnerships in Google TV Ads, the self-service system for advertisers using the online TV market, now reach 95 million U.S. homes. The system has also created a new group of advertisers, those who previously haven’t used television advertising. One of them is Golden Gateway Financial.

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Ultimate Mobile Device

Todd Smith — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:23:00 -0700

Should Cisco link mobile devices to their data centers to create the Ultimate Mobile Device described here?: http://www.UltimateMobileDevice.com

And, if so, should Cisco use "Holly" as a virtual concierge between a person's computer system and their mobile device, so that a person can contact Holly on their computer from their mobile device and Holly can then provide the requested[...]

Milton Friedman on Greed

TimDraper — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:46:00 -0700

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Firefox 3.5 Released to Public

Andy Plesser — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:10:00 -0700

Firefox 3.5 has been released to the public. What does it mean and specifically, what could it mean for open standards for Web video?

Earlier this month, I interviewed Chris Blizzard, evangelist for the Mozilla Foundation. I have republished this interview with today's news. Below is our interview with Mark Surman, executive director of the Mozilla Foundation.

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Non-For-Profit Monopoly

Raj Kapoor — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:37:00 -0700

I believe Not for profits (non-profits) are disrupting for-profits on the internet. These organizations - often started by a community-oriented founder - create a simple application or database, grow their user base thru word of mouth and community and eventually use the community to crush all the for-profits trying to provide a similar product.[...]

GM, a Pheonix Rising?

Irving Wladawsky-Berger — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:35:00 -0700

I often start my seminars on business transformation by discussing why innovation is not an option, but rather an imperative for any company, - no matter how big, powerful and successful. Failure to innovate will invariably get a company into serious trouble, perhaps even impacting its ability to survive into the future, especially in times of rapid change and fierce competition.[...]

Royalties Killed the Radio Station

Bambi.Francisco — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:40:00 -0700

See this video on Vator.tv »

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Monetizing Social Networks

Raj Kapoor — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:09:00 -0700

Social networks are here to stay...100s of millions of consumers now use them as an indispensible tool to stay current with friends and interests. There has been a lot of debate on how they can make money. Let's keep in mind that they ARE making money today (facebook over $300M annual revenue and LinkedIn well over $100M) - more than most internet sites - but just not a lot on a per user basis.
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Complex Systems

Irving Wladawsky-Berger — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:34:00 -0700

Last week I attended the second Engineering Systems Symposium at MIT. The Symposium was co-sponsored by MIT’s Engineering Systems Division and CESUN - the Council of Engineering Systems Universities.

Chuck Vest, - former MIT president, and now head of the National Academy of Engineering, - gave an excellent keynote address. He talked about some the grand challenges that the field of engineering faces.[...]

Vivienne Tam's HP Notebooks

Andy Plesser — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:16:00 -0700

HP's line of fashion-oriented notebooks, designed by Chinese-born, American-based fashion designer Vivienne Tam, are being marketed globally around the world, including China.

The team at HP is surely buoyed by news that the government of China will delay the order to PC makers to install Web-filtering software called Green Dam.

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YuMe, Msnbc.com Video Ad Syndication Deal

Andy Plesser — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:09:00 -0700

Msnbc.com, the first major U.S. news site to provide embeddable videos, is moving to monetize its embedded videos and has a new association with YuMe, the Redwood City, California-based video ad network.

Msnbc.com will continue to manage advertising on its own site, as YuMe will manage video insertion, sales and reporting for the embedded videos.

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iPlayer launching worldwide July 1st and dealer list

moonshell_moonshell — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:15:00 -0700

Just a quick news piece to let you all know that the iPlayer, the new slot-1 media player that handles various video formats directly will be hitting retail stores on July 1st 2009.

Also, the team have released a new loader that adds the video bookmark feature and have also eliminated the syncing issues when seeking within videos.

For purchasing convenience, there is the dealer list through the link below:

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