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Android Is Having A Cinderella Moment
[Fast Company] For years, the Android smartphone operating system stood as the neglected stepsister aside the iPhone’s radiant, beloved iOS. Tens of thousands of suitors–app developers including large corporations and rising creative talents–hurried first to build something for iOS phones. … Continue reading
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Publishers Are Mining Solid-Gold From Apple And Amazon’s Nugget-Sized Reads
[Fast Company] Try explaining an e-book to a Luddite. How would you describe it? Well, it’s a book–a novel, a biography, some textbook or tome in a digital form. That definition needs a rewrite, now. This week Apple introduced a … Continue reading
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Dashboard Your Life
Tame the tangle of bills, finances and frequent-flier miles by visiting only a few websites instead of 20 [WSJ] They tower ominously, mocking our lax responsibility. They are the stacks of bills, account statements and frequent-flier updates. Even going paperless doesn’t … Continue reading
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The One-Stop Personal Finance Site Is Coming–Pay Bills!
[Fast Company] Most personal finance sites let consumers look but not touch–they can view bills but not pay them. Tech startups and a few brave banks are slowly trying to change all of that. Managing personal finances probably isn’t on … Continue reading
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The Search For What Clicks In The New Digital Singles Scene
[Fast Company] Online dating startups are using quirky concepts, and emerging technology—from facial recognition to geolocation—to challenge traditional predecessors like Match.com and eHarmony. Where’s the love and where’s the money? [Read the rest of The Search For What Clicks]
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CES: Cloudy With A Chance Of Social
[Fast Company] Why are these gadget geeks more excited about web services than the hard, shiny objects that usually arouse nerd desire? It turns out to be a growing trend in the tech world, one that the Consumer Electronics Association … Continue reading
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Serendipity, Guaranteed
New tech doesn’t leave chance encounters to chance. [Technologizer. See Original] Serendipity is wonderful, but it doesn’t happen often. For every enriching coincidence – meeting someone who becomes a lifelong friend or lifelong partner, finding that fantastic hidden restaurant – we … Continue reading
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The Brave New World of Mobile Phone Privacy
Marketers’ plans to track you may not be nefarious. But they sure can feel that way. [PC World, May 20, 2011. See Orignal] When Apple sneezes, the world takes interest in ear-nose-throat medicine. So upon learning that their iPhones have … Continue reading
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Rule One: Don’t Mess With How People Do Things
[Technologizer. Read Original] Recently, I drove a Mini Cooper for the first time. (Rented from Zipcar for $13/hour. Not bad.) That’s not news, obviously. They’ve been around forever. But it taught me something very important about product design: It’s really hard–and … Continue reading
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Cutting the Cable-TV Cord? Maybe Some Day
Fear and rebutting at the Future of TV conference in New York City [Technologizer. Read Original] Cord cutting–getting rid of cable or satellite TV–is the buzzword du jour in the TV and electronics industries. Pundits have proclaimed TV dead, or … Continue reading
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