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| Posted: 10 Jan 2011 05:20 AM PST  Latest News, Blogs, Tips, and Reviews that I find Interesting and Useful: 1. Facebook hype will fade Mark Zuckerberg is Time's Man of the Year, the movie about him seems likely to be an Oscar winner, and now Goldman Sachs is raising $1.5 billion from its favorite investors on behalf of the social networking company. More @ CNN.com2. Bill Zeller, Princeton Grad Student And 'Brilliant' Programmer, Dies In Apparent Suicide Bill Zeller, a Princeton Ph.D candidate and renowned internet programmer, died Wednesday from injuries sustained in a suicide attempt. He was 27. More @ TheHuffingtonPost3. Android Addresses UI Shortcomings It's amazing to see how much Android's user interface has changed ever since Matias Duarte was hired by Google to improve Android. Matias has previously worked on Sidekick, Helio and Palm's WebOS, so Android is a perfect fit for him. More @ ScientificAmerican 4. Reverse geocache features UI and is reprogrammable 5. Algorithms take control of Wall Street Last spring, Dow Jones launched a new service called Lexicon, which sends real-time financial news to professional investors. This in itself is not surprising. The company behind The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires made its name by publishing the kind of news that moves the stock market. More @ ArsTechnica6. Who's Keeping Tabs on Tablet Security? The operating systems of media tablets are scaled-up versions of smartphone OSes, so security apps for one should work for the other. Given that we've already seen some malware created for the iPhone and for Android phones, and that security vendors expect more mobile malware to emerge this year, shouldn't they be scrambling to provide security solutions for mobile operating systems? More @ LinuxInsider7. 'Windows Will Be Everywhere,' Ballmer Promises Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer delivered a somnolescent and nearly news-free keynote presentation on the eve of the Consumer Electronics Show here, laying out his company's strategy for home entertainment, mobile content, PCs and tablets. More @ Wired8. Amazingly, This Turntable Was Built From Motorcycle Parts 9. Steve's story- Googler 13 I was born in 1972 to a poverty-level family in suburban Chicago. During the first few years of my life, I shared a 600 sq ft, 1 bedroom cottage with my parents, older sister and dog. As a kid, I grew up helping my dad kill roaches and trap rats in his one-man pest control business. More @ Steve'sBlog10. Top 10 Internet Plagues I am not a Luddite. I recognize that the internet has revolutionized communication, business, commerce, politics, entertainment, culture and many other aspects of our world. But, like any new technology, it too is fraught with problems. More @ Listverse |
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