December 2011
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November 2011
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October 2011
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September 2011
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July 2011
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Jul 15th
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Reuters: Evidence "increasingly against" phone... →
Despite a recent move to classify mobile phones as possibly carcinogenic, the scientific evidence increasingly points away from a link between their use and brain tumors, according to a new study on Saturday.
Jul 5th
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DigiTimes implies that Apple will start shipping... →
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June 2011
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Jun 29th
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Jun 23rd
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Yahoo! Maps APIs Service Closure Announcement –... →
Yahoo’s slow disintegration process continues on. Five Maps APIs will be unavailable as of Sept. 13, 2011.
Jun 15th
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Via SiliconFilter: The Slowest Loading Sites on... →
The fastest loading websites are: Windows Team Blog (4.37 seconds), Marco.org, Facebook, Associated Press and Android Central (less than a second)
Jun 15th
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Happy 100th Birthday IBM
Jun 14th
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Natural Language Processing With Prolog in the IBM... →
Many years ago I spent a lot of time programming using Prolog (a logic programming language). I had not kept up with this language and assumed it had disappeared. So, imagine my surprise when I read that Prolog is used in IBM’s Watson System for Natural Language Processing. The PDF linked here is a short paper briefly describing how Prolog is used in Watson.
Jun 13th
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Jun 8th
WSJ: SecurIDs Come Under Siege →
I guess it is just as well that my Paypal Security Key fob doesn’t work anymore since it is based on SecurID. I assumed the timing mechanism got out of whack. Perhaps it is simply out of commission. Paypal never responded to my email requesting another key.
Jun 7th
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May 2011
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Android Central: AT&T confirms to devs:... →
Good news for AT&T Android phone users.
May 18th
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May 17th
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The Mercury Men-Retro webisode series on SyFy.com later this year. Looks like a homage to the old serials as well as Dave Stevens’ Rocketeer.
May 9th
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May 7th
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New Bing Maps iOS SDK →
The iOS map control supports Bing’s road, aerial and hybrid aerial map styles, and includes the ability to add pushpins to the maps and access the user’s location via the GPS to locate the phone on the map.
May 6th
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April 2011
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Windows Phone blog says NoDo updates scheduled for... →
Update schedule at: Where’s my phone update
Apr 28th
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From NPR-Sitting All Day: Worse For You Than You Might Think
Apr 26th
Elisabeth Sladen, 'Doctor Who' Actress Dies At 63...
*Elisabeth Sladen, ‘Doctor Who’ Actress Dies At 63 : NPR* http://www.npr.org/2011/04/20/135553513/elisabeth-sladen-doctor-who-actress-dies-of-cancer?sc=nd
Apr 20th
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Testing embedding a PhotoSynth photo
Created this PhotoSynth panoramic image using the Microsoft PhotoSynth app on an iPhone 4.
Apr 20th
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Apr 19th
Via NPR: 'Robot Journalist' Out-Writes Human... →
Narrative Science turns data into stories
Apr 18th
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March 2011
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