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Monthly Archives: January 2012

Twitter CEO Dick Costolo took the stage at AllThingsD‘s media conference in Laguna Nigel, CA, Monday evening to defend the company’s new censorship policies. Twitter announced last week that it would begin censoring tweets in certain countries to comply with local laws. The move sparked outrage among many users, who gathered un... Read More>>

31 January 2012 | no comments | Internet | 2,786 views

The content creation class shall inherit the Internet. Richard Florida coined the expression the “Creative Class”, his belief being that these some 30 to 40 million would be the driving force for economic development in a postindustrial world. Instead of driving the macro economy theContent Creation Class refers to the group of... Read More>>

31 January 2012 | no comments | Internet | 2,338 views

It’s hard to tell when darkened UI elements and black or dark gray backgrounds became associated with “professional.” While Apple’s Aperture and Adobe’s Lightroom are the best known proponents of the concept in image editing, they’re certainly not the first pieces of software to bear the subdued loo... Read More>>

30 January 2012 | no comments | Technology | 3,228 views

Internet Censorship has been in the news over the last few weeks, with SOPA, PIPAand Twitter’s new feature, and sticking to that theme, it seems that Web calling firm Skype has joined the rank and file of those censoring users in China. CNET cites a report from the Financial Times, in which it is revealed that, through its Chine... Read More>>

30 January 2012 | no comments | Internet | 3,064 views

Peter Corbett (@corbett3000) is the CEO of the creative agency iStrategyLabs, and is the founding organizer of DC Tech Meetup. As a young CEO of a growing company, I find that the most valuable insight I’m gaining these days has been from other CEOs. Certainly this realization isn’t revolutionary – YPO, EO, Mindshare and a... Read More>>

30 January 2012 | no comments | Startups | 3,945 views

Businesses faces a dynamic landscape where both customer and employee demands are changing.  The world is changing, and there are three market shifts that are driving this change – mobile social and cloud. These trends change what we connect, how we connect and how we transact. Obviously mobile is changing what is connected. We a... Read More>>

30 January 2012 | no comments | Internet, Startups | 3,132 views

Recently, the director of Firefox Asa Dotzler, who responsible for the desktop product, release news that Firefox will no longer support Windows XP SP2 and the previous systems, specifically the Windows 2000, Windows XP RTM and Windows XP SP1. Here is the news: For a number of years we’ve held off on updating our Window... Read More>>

30 January 2012 | no comments | Internet | 4,031 views

With more phones and more options opening every day for mobile and peer to peer payments, the waters are getting a bit muddied. At the request of some of TNW’s Twitter followers, we thought we’d put together a list of the leading options, including the pros and cons of each. Expect this post to be updated as the landscape changes.... Read More>>

17 January 2012 | no comments | Technology | 4,384 views

TP-Link was showing off a couple of interesting new wireless routers at CES this week. The Wireless N Nano Router is the world’s smallest at 2.5 x 2.5 x 0.75 inches, it weighs practically nothing, and it draws power over Micro USB. Also, even though the router’s tiny, it’s the real deal with top speeds up to 150Mbps. Think about... Read More>>

16 January 2012 | no comments | Technology | 4,113 views

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