April 8, 2013

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Fwd: Gartner May Be Too Scared To Say It, But the PC Is Dead

Gartner May Be Too Scared To Say It, But the PC Is Dead by Mark Hachman

Gartner has finally come out and said it: The PC market is dying.
Except it hasn't said that, quite. But it is, and saying so is really
important. The market-research firm predicts a 7.6% decline in PC
sales this year, to 315 million units (including desktops and
notebooks) from the roughly 341 million PCs sold in 2012. The real
knife in the PC's heart, though, is that Gartner is now finally
willing to predict a long-term decline: 302 million PCs in 2014,
falling to 272 million in 2017,...
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Many Free Android Apps Are Starting To Look A Lot Like Malware by
Antone Gonsalves

The money-go-round between app developers and ad networks is starting
to blur the line between many free Android apps and malware. While
these legitimate apps aren't stealing passwords, they're still riding
roughshod over user privacy by gratuitously sucking up your contact
and location information — or worse. What These Bad Apps Glom Onto
Between last September and March, security vendor Bitdefender analyzed
130,000 popular Android apps on Google Play and found that roughly 13%
collected your...
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What Apple's Jony Ive Can Learn From Facebook Home by Brian S Hall

Facebook Home, which Facebook has described both as "a new way to turn
your Android phone into a great, living, social phone" and "the best
version of Facebook there is," won't be available on Apple's iPhone
anytime soon, if ever. Does Apple care? Probably not, although it
should. More than an app, though not quite a operating system,
Facebook Home delivers a highly visual, system-wide presentation of
real-time social data that also makes innovative use of touch-based
gestures. In the process,...
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Why Amazon Isn't Giving You True Cloud Flexibility by Robert Rizika

Guest author Robert Rizika is CEO of ProfitBricks USA. Cloud Computing
is so hot right now that the cloud pretenders are crawling out of the
woodwork. You don't have to look very far to find consultants who know
nothing and "cloud services" that consist of little more than tacking
the word "cloud" onto an otherwise ordinary service. Ironically,
though, some of cloud computing's biggest issues come from the paragon
of the technology: Amazon. For the past several years Amazon Web
Services (AWS)...
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HTML5: Alive And Well With CIOs by Matt Asay

Apparently, native apps have won. We even said so right here on
ReadWrite. After all, Facebook apparently likes native more.
Unfortunately, CIOs missed the memo, and the dirty little secret is
that most of the world's software, including apps, is written for use,
not sale. That means that most of the world's software is not going to
follow what Facebook's mobile strategy is, but rather what those
stodgy enterprises do. Those stodgy enterprises? They're all in on
HTML5. I spent...
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Another Battle In The Google Vs. Microsoft Cloud War [Infographic] by
Brian Proffitt

Microsoft is gunning for the online productivity tools user base in a
big way, marketing Exchange Online in an effort to take on Gmail. So,
how do these two platforms compare? If you're looking at uptime, which
is a pretty big number for any cloud-based system, the Google
Enterprise team reported earlier this week that their actual Gmail
uptime percentage for 2012 was 99.983% - better than Google's
guaranteed 99.9% rate. "This translates to an average of just over
seven minutes of service...
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Microsoft Execs Flock To Amazon And Red Hat by Matt Asay

Microsoft may be a distant runner-up to iOS and Android in the
smartphone race, and still lags Amazon EC2 in the cloud wars, but
executives from the Windows Phone and Azure divisions aren't hurting
for respect. In the past week, senior Microsoft executives have joined
disruptive challengers in the mobile and cloud markets, suggesting
that Microsoft's brainpower isn't lacking, even if its market share
is. The first executive departure was Charlie Kindel, the former
Microsoft executive who...
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The 5 Best Nerd Movies Ever by Brian S Hall

These remain the post-glory days of the nerd. From Larry Ellison,
island-owning-cutthroat-businessman-billionaire, to Mark Zuckerberg,
billionaire-coder-CEO-visionary, the once-lowly nerd — with Silicon
Valley serving as his Xanadu — is now creator of much of the world's
riches, seer of the world's future, and the person to whom Presidents
and hopefuls come for money, anointing and benificent manipulation of
Big Data. It was not always thus. Even while Bill Gates was
destroying the...
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A Goodreads Spoiled: All Your Books Are Belong To Amazon

A Goodreads Spoiled: All Your Books Are Belong To Amazon by Brian Ford

Last week, Amazon bought the social book-discussion site Goodreads for
an undisclosed sum. My immediate Twitter reaction was, well, cynical:
Basically, all of your book related social activity on Goodreads just
became advertising fodder for Amazon. Congrats and good luck! — Brian
Ford (@brianericford) March 28, 2013 My second tweet was still snarky,
but more on the money: "Our goal is to be an open place for all
readers to discover and buy books from all retailers..." - Goodreads
2012...
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Smarter Marketing: How Minority Report Got It All Wrong by Sarah Rotman Epps

When I talk to marketing executives about the Smart Body, Smart World
paradigm — how sensor-laden devices like wearables give us access to
new domains of information and what we can do with that information —
they always bring up the movie Minority Report. The 2002 sci-fi crime
thriller has become the reference point people imagine when they think
about the future of advertising: specifically, the scene in which Jon
Anderton (Tom Cruise) walks through the mall and billboards show him
ads based...
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Forrester CEO Thinks Apple Needs To Build A Foldable iPhone by Dan Rowinski

Everybody can agree that Apple's next couple of iPhones need to be
more than just iterative updates. From the design to the hardware to
iOS, Apple clearly needs to do… more. But some people like to take
that idea of "more" to ludicrous extremes. Usually it is some obscure
blog trying to make a name for itself (if ever so briefly). Other
times it happens to be the founder and CEO of one of the largest and
most respected industry analyst groups in the world. Forrester's Chief
Wants...
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Not Even 6-Second Vine Videos Are Safe From The Copyright Police by
John Paul Titlow

Well, that didn't take long. Two months after its launch, the social
video-sharing app Vine has received its first copyright takedown
notices. The complaints were sent by NPG, the record label owned by
Prince, whose music appeared in a few six-second videos on Vine. This
is absurd. Uploading an entire Prince album to YouTube is one thing.
But six disjointed seconds in smartphone camera quality? Something
tells me four clips of that nature aren't going to eat into Prince's
album...
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Apple's Apology To China: Mission Accomplished by Brian S Hall

Apple's formal apology yesterday to the people of China may not be
enough to dissuade China's government from its continued attacks on
the company. But if the immediate response is any guide, it should be
enough to let Apple keep building out its business in the world's
largest mobile computing market. Following a damning and highly
visible attack by state-owned China Central Television that accused
Apple of "arrogance" for allegedly providing shoddy service to its
Chinese customers, CEO...
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The Batting Order Of Collaboration by Avinoam Nowogrodski

With baseball season having just officially started, you're probably
thinking about what lineup your favorite team will set this year to
perform best. The scrappy, quick-thinker should lead off. The
heavy-hitting influencers take the plate mid-way through. The
finishers are positioned at the end to cap off our efforts. But are we
talking about baseball or a project management team? Project
management is an age-old process that has its perks on the surface. In
theory, ideas come together,...
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How To Watch Major League Baseball Games Online by John Paul Titlow

For baseball fans, it's an exciting time of year. For those who prefer
to stream games online, however, the anticipation can be tinged with a
bit of frustration. That's because baseball games are still easiest to
find on traditional cable or satellite TV. Fortunately for cord
cutters, there are some options when it comes to tuning in online,
some of them more, shall we say, up to legal snuff than others. First
and foremost, there's MLB.tv. That's the official subscription
streaming...
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A Visual History Of The Web Told Through Webby Winners by Dan Rowinski

Every year, the Web changes a little bit more. As the years tick by,
we may not notice how everything on the Internet is becoming a little
bit more beautiful, a little easier to use. But, if you remember what
the Web looked like in 1995 and now look around at what we have now in
2013, it is the difference between antiquity and modernity. The Webby
Awards have been celebrating the best on the Web since 1997. Like the
Web, the Webby Awards have grown in size and stature in the last 16...
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Aereo Legal Victory Means Disruption For More Than Broadcasters by
Brian Proffitt

An ongoing court battle may decide the fate of an upstart programming
provider that could prove to be disruptive to broadcasters and even
other services that provide ways for cable cutters to obtain the shows
they want. Aereo, the controversial startup that provides subscribers
with access to local TV programming on tablets and smartphones, will
live to fight another day after a decision handed down from the U.S.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York, affirming an
earlier ruling...
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Good Luck Building A Business In Today's Youth Market by Matt Asay

Teens may not have much money, but advertisers still focus on them so
as to develop long-term brand loyalty. Get a teen buying Nike at 15,
the thinking goes, and she'll continue to buy Nike throughout her
life. Unfortunately, this logic breaks down for social networking
sites, which sees a constant churn of flavor-of-the-month social
networking apps coming into favor, then falling out of sight. Don't
believe me? Look at Facebook. Facebook's Youth Problem Facebook used
to be the cool spot for...
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DDN: Calling for Submissions!! We are Doing a Medical and Legal Theme and Need Your Domains!

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April 7, 2013

Hi Everyone,

We are looking for both Medical and Legal Space Domains to kick off this week.

We have had both of these themes before and are always successful,
therefore we are looking forward to a solid week of sales with you.

Dig deep in your portfolios and let me know what you have. Below are
some bullet points for a little inspiration:

Medical Specialties
Medical Transcription
Health Care
Health Insurance
Treatment
Rehab
Legal Information
Legal Resources
Drunk Driving
Law
Lawyers
Attorneys
Etc.....

As always, we specialize in .com, .net and .org, but we will always
look at other extensions as long as the names are solid.

Send over what you have (with prices) and let's kick this week off
with a sale together ;0)

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