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FES watch + more things
Who’s Behind the E-paper FES Watch? – Digits – WSJ – interesting the way Sony has become an internal VC operation. It makes sense since they need disruptive innovation and they still have smart people. they also need to allow their engineering talent to keep having an outlet for their creativity. The FES watch is…
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Modified android phones & other news
Google Under Pressure as Modified Android Phones Take Off | TheNextWeb – 20 per cent sounds on the low side to me for modified Android phones. Why would you need modified Android variants? You have modified Android phones because Google services are basically unuseable in China and North Korea. Amazon’s Fire phone and tablets are…
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IPSec Flaw + more things
Expert calls for network security protocol vetting – Xinhua | English.news.cn – I don’t blame the sentiment expressed given OpenSSL vulnerability Heartbleed and IPSec flaw; however it would be good if the Chinese government contributed positively to the open source community rather than it being a one-way street. What the great unknown is how often…
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AirBnB + other news
AirBnB AirBnB seems to be the goldilocks of the sharing economy. It has at least as much disruptive negative impact as Uber, yet doesn’t seem to attract the same level of vitriol. On the demand side of things, while I know people who have had negative AirBnB experiences, they still don’t seem to realise its…
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Morality + other news
Morality One in 10 Brits admits to lying pretty much all the time | Quartz – great PR story. How else do you build an empire over a third of the world by guile and a selective approach to morality? The UK tried to establish a common morality with the Empire as mother and the…
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Bassline + more news
Bassline Bassline: The UK Dance Scene That Was Killed by the Police | VICE United Kingdom – Bassline was a Sheffield-specific scene. Sheffield has had a history of birthing electronic music genres. The most notable one for me was the bleep techno scene from the late 1980s. Bassline built on the trends that came before…
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Be Marlboro + more news
Be Marlboro Health groups call to end “Be a Marlboro” campaign | Marketing-Interactive – I grew up with ‘Marlboro Country’ billboards showing the cigarette to be the poison of choice for the middle-aged cowboy taking a break. Be Marlboro was a much need revamp of the Marlboro brand. Modern-day UK Marlboro man could also be…
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GSMA World + more news
GSMA World GSMA World 2014 in Barcelona, time to end the show? | Digital Evangelist – The global get together that is GSMA World rolls into Barcelona this week and I am left with the feeling that as with Telecoms before it no longer fits a purpose. – GSMA World, CeBIT and the bi-annual Telecom…
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Yandex + more news
Yandex Yandex Reports Revenue Up 37% In Q4, Ad Network Revenue Nearly Doubles – Russian search giant Yandex reported a strong Q4 2013 today, with overall revenue up 37 percent from Q4 2012 and continued growth in text-based advertising – Yandex is the sleeping giant of the search world. My friend and fellow former Yahoo…