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Google rolls out NFC-equipped Places business kits

By
patty
– December 12, 2010Posted in: Misc.

Yelp may be the raconteur of restaurant recommendations and Foursquare the cardinal of check-ins, but Google has an ace up its sleeve: NFC chips. The company's embedded near-field communications chips into each and every one of these "Recommended on Google Places" window stickers, which you'll be able to trigger with a shiny new Nexus S — just hold your handset up to the black dot, and voila, your phone gets a "tag." Google's now distributing the signs on a trial basis to Portland, Oregon businesses as part of a larger Google Places kit, though it doesn't explain how (or if) they'll be able to program the chips. Either way, if you own a hot new joint in Portland, you might as well give it a spin. Find the sign-up form at our more coverage link, or peep a Nexus S doing its thing after the break.
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Throw a Playboy Party on Facebook

By
Ace The Catman
– December 12, 2010Posted in: Misc.

GameStop's social games publisher Jolt Online has just released its latest Facebook game, Playboy Party. Yes, it's exactly what it sounds like.
More: http://mashable.com/2010/12/01/playboy-party-facebook/

For all you Maxim fans…

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iPad 2 Coming In The Next 100 Days

By
Ace The Catman
– December 12, 2010Posted in: Misc.

According to Digitimes, Foxconn factories are currently assembling iPads 2 for shipment within the next 100 days which, by my calculations, puts the ship date at around February/March or, if WolframAlpha is to be believed, March 17, 2011.


More: http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/07/ipad-2-coming-in-the-next-100-days/

Nice. This means i can cop the first version on the cheap. Thank you Steve Jobs.

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Want to be popular on the Internet? Be a jerk!

By
patty
– December 12, 2010Posted in: Misc.

That's it guys! We've been going about this whole thing all wrong. #allhateovereverything

Hey, you! Want more social media "buzz" in your life?

Then forget about so-called social media consultants and how-to guides. If you're looking to engage your Facebook friends, get things going on Twitter, or attract commenters on your hipster-themed Tumblr blog, stop messing around and start pissing people off. It's science!

According to a study by U.K. research group Statistical Cybermetrics, cyberspace citizens are overwhelmingly attracted to the negative. (Gasp!)

To confirm this fairly obvious fact, researchers used an algorithm called "sentiment analysis" to identify emotional content in posts left on the BBC's online discussion forums and the link-sharing website digg.com, reports New Scientist.

Pinpointing keywords, emoticons and subtle linguistic markers such as misspellings, the algorithm calculated a "happiness score" for each post. "Long conversation threads are overwhelmingly more emotionally negative than short ones, with happiness scores decreasing logarithmically with the number of messages," writes New Scientist. "What's more, long conversations almost always start with negative comments."

Read More –> http://on.msnbc.com/euj7Ri



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Patriot intros Supersonic USB 3.0 flash drive, milks 100MB / sec from a single chip

By
doc
– December 11, 2010Posted in: Misc.

At present, there seem to be three strategies to embracing the potential of USB 3.0

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FCC report finds 68 percent of US broadband connections aren’t really broadband

By
doc
– December 11, 2010Posted in: Misc.

FCC BroadbandAs the FCC itself has made abundantly clear, the definition of “broadband” is an ever-changing one, and its latest report has now revealed

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T-Mobile says it’ll launch ’4G’ tablets in 2011

By
doc
– December 11, 2010Posted in: Misc.

T-Mobile Logo“T-Mobile is working closely with the majority of our OEM partners to deliver 4G products by integrating HSPA+ into roadmaps in 2011 as the dominant global standard. Consumers will continue to see HSPA+ fuel future innovation in a variety of mobile consumer electronics from smartphones and tablets to emerging devices. T-Mobile will continue to be at the forefront of wireless innovation, delivering an aggressive 4G product lineup in 2011, including 4G tablets.”

Read More: http://tinyurl.com/22v6ybm

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#Facebook hosts first ever #HackerCup via @mashable

By
Fluff Daddy
– December 10, 2010Posted in: Misc.

Facebook is known for its hackathons — all-night coding sessions designed to help create new products or improve others. Now the company has announced its first Hacker Cup.

Facebook says it’s “bring[ing] engineers from around the world together to compete in a multi-round programming competition.” The Hacker Cup is very similar to Google’s popular Google Code Jam.

Contestants will be challenged with solving algorithmic-based problem statements. Those who successfully solve the problems in the allotted period of time will advance to the next round.

Registration opens on December 20 and the 72-hour qualification round will start on January 7, 2011.

This round will consist of three problems. Only the competitors that can correctly solve at least one problem will advance to the first online round.

The first online round will consist of three sub-rounds that each last three hours. The top-scoring 1,000 participants from each of these sub-rounds will advance the the second online round.

The 25 competitors who score the highest in the second online round will advance to the finals, which will be held at Facebook’s campus in Palo Alto. Facebook will fly the 25 participants in and pay for their expenses.

At the in-person final round, a winner will be crowned and not only given the title of “world champion,” but also $5,000 in cash.

If you want to brush up on your skills before the competition starts, you can visit Facebook’spuzzles page.

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