الخميس، 3 مايو 2012

Meet Signal, the Instagram of Citizen Journalism

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Meet Signal, the Instagram of Citizen Journalism
4:02:59 AM
What do you get when you combine a photo-sharing mobile platform like Instagram with more geo-location awareness and a Reddit-style voting system for stories breaking all over the world? Answer: Signal, the app citizen journalism may well have...



Fine-Tuning Nanotech to Target Cancer
3:34:53 AM
The results of the human trials are startling. Even at a lower-than-usual dose, multiple lung metastases shrank or even disappeared after one patient received only two-hour-long intravenous infusions of an experimental cancer drug. Another...



For Major Brands, BlackBerry Is Still the 'Wait and See' Platform
Wednesday, May 02, 2012 11:21 PM
ORLANDO -- For Research In Motion, this week has been all about BlackBerry 10, the new operating system for its phones that's set to debut to customers in the fall. Until BB10's big debut, though, RIM faces an uphill battle in app support from...



How Much Is Apple Worth? [INFOGRAPHIC]
Wednesday, May 02, 2012 11:20 PM
Tech giant Apple is worth a lot of cash. In addition to being the largest publicly traded company on the U.S. stock market, its 2011 sales were worth $128 billion -- more than 160 different nations' gross domestic products. This Best Computer...



NYC Bans Student-Teacher Interaction on Social Media [VIDEO]
Wednesday, May 02, 2012 11:08 PM
Should teachers in the digital age be allowed to Facebook friend and Twitter follow their students? The New York Department of Education (NYC DOE) says no. The city's first social media policy released earlier this week draws a clear line between...



How One Startup Is Reinventing the Mail
Wednesday, May 02, 2012 11:00 PM
Talk about a secret startup! James Hirschfeld and sister Alexa started Paperless Post while James was still in college at Harvard. They worked on their business in secret, pushing the definition of "stealth mode" to new heights: James designed...



Pinstagram! How Two Friends Merged Pinterest and Instagram in Two Days
Wednesday, May 02, 2012 10:44 PM
What would happen if two of the digital world's hottest startups, Pinterest and Instagram, were mashed into one? Two friends decided to find out, in a weekend coding adventure that began as a joke. Pek Pongpaet and Brandon Leonardo were...



What Walter Isaacson Thinks of Social Media and Politics
Wednesday, May 02, 2012 10:25 PM
Walter Isaacson has attended many White House Correspondents' dinners as a journalist, media mogul, and historian. This is thanks to a career that's included serving as editor of Time Magazine, chairman and CEO of CNN, president and CEO of The...



Hungry? Appetude Finds Delish Dishes Near You
Wednesday, May 02, 2012 10:00 PM
The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. Name: Appetude Quick Pitch: Find and rate...



What Is an IPO? [VIDEO]
Wednesday, May 02, 2012 9:39 PM
The marketplace has seen some impressive initial public offerings (IPOs) come out of the tech world in recent years -- LinkedIn, Groupon and Zynga to name a few, with Facebook waiting in the wings. But what does "going public" actually entail?...



Applicants Wanted For Goldman Sachs Social Media Manager
Wednesday, May 02, 2012 9:25 PM
Think you've got the social media brand strategy skills to turn a company once called "the Death Star of capitalism" into social media gold? If you said, "yes" you're in luck -- Goldman Sachs is hiring for a "social media community manager" to...



Future iPhone May Let You Gift Tunes by Tapping Devices [VIDEO]
Wednesday, May 02, 2012 9:04 PM
A patent filed by Apple suggests the company may start offering the ability to gift songs to friends via a future iPhone, using Near Field Communication (NFC). Published by the US Patent & Trademark Office on April 26, the patent talks specially...



Bucket List Baby's Fight Against Fatal Illness Inspires Millions Online
Wednesday, May 02, 2012 8:23 PM
Avery Canahuati was six months old when she died on Monday from a genetic disease called spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). For months, her parents Mike and Laura Canahuati chronicled her life on a blog that is still inspiring millions of people...



Harvard and MIT Bring Their Courses to the Online Masses for Free
Wednesday, May 02, 2012 7:50 PM
In the past few years, the tools that could make for really excellent online distance learning have emerged piecemeal. We have reliably good videoconferencing, live video streaming, collaborative document editing and so on. We don't know how best...



Twitter Mourns Junior Seau, Questions Pro Football
Wednesday, May 02, 2012 7:34 PM
Pro football legend Junior Seau was found dead at Southern California home on Wednesday. His girlfriend found him unconscious with a gunshot wound to the chest, according to reports. He was 43 years old. Seau was a six-time NFL All Pro and made...



 
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