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5 Rules For API Management
TechCrunch - 11 Nov 2012 23:31
APIs are the glue that connect apps. It's as true for consumer apps as it is for the enterprise. API management platforms have come into vogue as apps proliferate across the enterprise. As APIs rise in importance, so has...
Apple starts offering Passbook-enabled gift cards, may save our hides in holiday shopping
Engadget - 11 Nov 2012 20:47
Gift cards often get a bad rap as the last resort in holiday shopping, what we supposedly get only when all hope of a carefully considered present has gone out the window. Apple isn't quite so cyncial, and it may have in...
Tweetro says it's 'completely crippled' by Twitter's strict 100,000 user token limit
The Verge - 11 Nov 2012 20:18
Tweetro has fallen victim to Twitter's strict new API policies that were announced earlier this year. According to an email we received from Tweetro developers, the app saw a huge spike in downloads after the release of ...
Apple's Swiped Swiss Clock Design Cost $21 Million
Gizmodo - 11 Nov 2012 18:00
Not long after the launch of iOS 6, it came to the Internet's attention that Apple's clock design was rather familiar. In fact, it had been lifted straight from the Swiss National Railway. Apple agreed to pay up, but it ...
Get ready for this week's eclipse-chasing adventures
NBC News - 11 Nov 2012 23:46Weekly SkyWatcher’s Forecast: November 12-18, 2012
Universe Today - 11 Nov 2012 23:44
Greetings, fellow SkyWatchers! While we might have to contend with the Moon again, it’s still going to be a very exciting week because the Leonid Meteor Shower is back in town! The beginning of the week brings on ...
NASA probes exploring radiation belts get new name
NBC News - 11 Nov 2012 23:35Apple Pays Swiss Federal Railways $21 Million For Clock Icon [VIDEO]
Mashable - 11 Nov 2012 23:28
Apple reportedly paid $21 million to license the clock icon for use on the iPad, after the company was accused of copying it from Swiss Federal Railways. More About: apple, iOS, trending
Hootsuite flub reveals users' e-mail addresses to other users
CNET - 11 Nov 2012 23:20
Thousands of e-mails sent to users of the social media manager included the names and e-mail addresses of other users. [Read more]
Valve's Gabe Newell confirms work on new game engine, still won't answer your Half-Life 3 queries
Engadget - 11 Nov 2012 23:05
"So what do you wanna know about that's not Half-Life 3?" Valve president Gabe Newell, laughing, asks a crowd of 4chan members who recently visited the Washington-based studio. The group's first question, however, was ju...
Gift Guide: Explore Shakespeare iPad Apps
TechCrunch - 11 Nov 2012 23:00
The Explore Shakespeare iPad apps are interactive versions of Shakespeare plays, made on behalf of venerable British publisher, Cambridge University Press. In addition to the full text of either Macbeth or Romeo and Juli...
Here's the Army of Celebs Microsoft Is Using to Pimp Windows Phone 8
Gizmodo - 11 Nov 2012 23:00
Need to push your product on the masses? What better way to do it than with a vertable army of celebrity spokespeople? This seems to be Microsoft's line of thinking when it comes to Windows Phone 8. They've lined up not ...
The Kobe Luminarie remembers a tragedy with a brilliant light show
The Verge - 11 Nov 2012 22:58
Since 1995, for around two weeks every December, Kobe, Japan becomes a brilliant festival of lights. Known as the Kobe Luminarie, the light show is a way of remembering the Great Hanshin earthquake that took place in the...
Flushed with pride, Korea celebrates toilet theme park
CNET - 11 Nov 2012 22:32
The Restroom Cultural Park showcases loos from around the world. Drop in to the Mr. Toilet House and, er, unload. [Read more]
'Dronestagram' filters satellite photos of US drone strikes for your social feeds
The Verge - 11 Nov 2012 22:30
Dronestagram is the latest project from renowned "new aesthetic" pioneer James Bridle, an Instagram feed which posts satellite images corresponding to US drone strikes in the Middle-East and Asia. Much like Josh Begley's...
With HTC Patent Deal, Apple Is Going For Android’s Jugular
TechCrunch - 11 Nov 2012 22:29
Editor's note: Ansel Halliburton is a lawyer at ComputerLaw Group, a boutique law firm in Palo Alto specializing in intellectual property litigation and entrepreneurship. Apple and HTC announced yesterday that they...
Top 10 Tech This Week
Mashable - 11 Nov 2012 22:23
After weeks of exciting product launches, this week in tech it was time to take a deep look at those exciting new gadgets. This week we had full and in-depth reviews of the iPad Mini, the iPad 4, the Google Nexus 10 and ...
Katy Perry Talks ‘Sims 3 Seasons,’ Social Media and More [EXCLUSIVE VIDEO]
Mashable - 11 Nov 2012 22:14
Katy Perry is a woman of many talents. She's a musician, an actress and she had one of her earliest singles, Hot and Cold, translated into "Simlish." How cool is that? Katy's most recent project with The Sims is her invo...
Windows 8 Laptops Slide Into Tablets
ABC News - 11 Nov 2012 22:09
New computers that run Windows 8 from Lenovo, Dell, Acer, Asus and Toshiba turn from laptop to tablet.
Jay-Z, Gwen Stefani to star in Windows Phone 8 ads?
CNET - 11 Nov 2012 22:01
A report suggests that celebrities will show how Windows Phone 8 makes their lives more personal. [Read more]
These Tiny Carbon Microthreads Could Wire the Computers of the Future Directly to Your Brain
Gizmodo - 11 Nov 2012 22:00
A brain-computer interface is a nice thing to dream about, but it's not exactly around the corner. We are always getting closer, however. Newly developed carbon microthreads could serve as the long-lasting kind of brain ...
iPad: Bringing the joy of reading back to those with vision problems
ZDNet - 11 Nov 2012 21:48
A new study investigating the use of electronic reading devices shows that using the iPad for reading brings the joy of that pastime back to those with vision loss due to disease.