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The investment, confirmed in an interview by Foursquare Chief Executive Officer Dennis Crowley, is part of a funding round from late last year that valued New York-based Foursquare at more than $600 million, people with knowledge of the terms said in December.
You can put lipstick on a Windows Phone pig, but it's still a pig.
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Hardly. Windows Phone is a distant third in the market, but in my opinion it's superior to the competition. Android is the real pig. I recently dumped mine (no more Google at all in my life) and got a Lumia 928. I only have minor fit-and-finish type complaints.
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Fair enough. I've had it up to here with my Android phone, actually. It's not long for this world, and will die either by upgrade or by a rage-filled smash against the wall. Phone's choice.
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I was getting the same way with mine.
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As of Thursday, Google will sell you a $999 package called "Chromebox for meetings". The set-up includes a Chromebox — Google's answer to the Mac Mini — as well as a 1080p HD camera, a combination mic and speaker and a remote with a QWERTY keyboard on the back.
Get your thousand-dollar enterprise version of Google Hangouts, here!
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Mashable wrote: Chromebox — Google's answer to the Mac Mini What a joke! A Mac Mini is a real computer (even a workgroup server, if you want).
/ravi
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..or you can use the mobile phones and big screen TV you already have and put together equivalent functionality leaving - oh about $800 in the H&B[^] account?
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..or even use an XBOX-1 with the Kinnect doing the fancy "camera follow the speaker" stuff, with the added advantage that there would be an Xbox in every conference room.
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If you want to know why big tech companies act the way they do, follow the money. Based on the latest SEC filings, Apple's still a successful hardware company, and Google's still in the advertising business. Meanwhile, how's that "devices and services" shift working for Microsoft? Money goes in, money goes out. Can't explain that.
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Standards-making is like sausage making. You need it, but it’s ugly. Yet the standards process is the necessary evil behind every technology we rely on. "Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made."
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A few years ago, the PC was the heart of digital living. Now it's just one of many devices -- and one Sony can live without. Sony sells computers? Oh wait, that's "Sony sells computers."
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... or that they just cannot compete in a constrained market.
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True. They did tend to try to price themselves at the high end of the market (usually without reason)
TTFN - Kent
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Sony likes to do that...
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'He can neither spell consumer nor device' says Joachim Kempin I guess someone's a little miffed they didn't get the job...
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Wow. Tell us how you really feel, Joachim! Sour grapes, much?
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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An alarmist report that's become a universal reference in discussion of development practices obscures a much less dire reality. Leaning toward success?
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There's a reason they call it chaos theory
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To celebrate the creative use of technology, Google wants one lucky developer artist to be a part of it. Google has teamed up with the Barbican, Europe’s largest multi-arts conference venue, in order to create a DevArt interactive gallery to be displayed at the Digital Revolution exhibition this summer.
The Medieval and Gothic artistic revolution, Renaissance, Baroque, Romanticism--is coding and technology the next revolution?
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At the Apps World North America conference in San Francisco, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak gave WIRED a wide-ranging interview, touching on everything from his preferred iPhone 5s color (he has all three) to the fictional operating system in the movie Her. But his most interesting comment by far was a heretical recommendation for his former company: Apple, he thinks, should release an Android handset. Sure, and Microsoft should ship a Linux distro
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Apple ship an Android handset? What on Earth is Mr. Wozniak smoking? (No, I don't want some. The only time I would be caught smoking is if I had been set on fire.)
<voice type="Ebeneezer Scrooge"> Bah. dumb bugs </voice>
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Why not? According to many in the industry, the Android OS is clearly better than iOS. It being open source, they could probably remove any dependency on anything Google.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Researchers say they have found another unique identifier Well, that should make logging in at the office more interesting
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That Iranian guy who hasn't washed in 80 years... he should be able to log in real fast!
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