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Discover groundbreaking new iPhone, iPad, and Android apps at the May 23d SF AppShow.  

Join us on May 23d from 6-9 PM for the 14th edition of the premiere app event, the SF AppShow. Watch and listen to our unique brand of entertaining app demos and app industry discussion.

We’ve put together another stellar lineup for the May 23d SF AppShow.

With Memorial Day and summer on the horizon, the event will feature apps for the summer. Here’s the run down of the apps to be showcased.

• Beat The Traffic
• CrowdCall      
• GiddyUp        
• Junaio
• Shufflr.tv        
• SlimDown
• StagePage
• Tether
• The Ultimate Drive  
• ViaMe

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The SF AppShow brings together app developers to demo their newsworthy new apps and unrecognized app gems to a live audience with an exciting social backdrop. The events are also streamed live on the web via Ustream.tv (and archives are available to view online). Past presenters have been featured in the New York Times, BBC, network television and the iTunes App Store home page after appearing in the SF AppShow!

Previous SF AppShow events in SF, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and Chicago were sell out shows and drew quite a bit of positive industry press. Typically the events are watched by developers, entrepreneurs and investors.

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Mark Zuckerberg: Secret Engagement, Secret Wedding, Day After Facebook IP (anewdomain.net)

First Comes IPO, Then Comes Marriage: Facebook’s Zuckerberg Marries GF in Secret Ceremony

By Julie Blaustein

A day after the company he cofounded went public, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg got married today. Here’s the shot from his Facebook page. The Zuckerberg marriage to Priscilla Chan appeared on Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook timeline at 7:00 p.m. PT Saturday, May 19, 2012.

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Facebook Post IPO (infographic)

Via anewdomain.net, via mediatapper and kissmetrics ... here's what Facebook looks like after the IPO on Friday, May 19, 2012. 

 

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Are you going to the Maker Faire this weekend? SEND PICS!

Send pics, videos to run on our site at aNewDomain.net.

It is a wild, weird and wonderful festival. Email me at gina@ginasmith.com with Maker Faire in the title and I'll share it at aNewDomain.net -- tech news, views, reviews -- with Gina Smith, John C. Dvorak, Jerry Pournelle ...

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Top 10 Blacklisted Apps in the Enterprise (CNET Tech Republic, Gina Smith)

Here's my latest piece from TechRepublic. A lot of fun doing this one!

Excerpted below.

The top 10 apps being blacklisted in the enterprise

By Gina Smith

May 17, 2012, 1:44 PM PDT

Takeaway: Whether they’re regarded as productivity killers or security risks, many apps have made it onto company blacklists.

Thanks to the invasion of personal apps, services, and hardware in enterprise, it shouldn’t surprise anyone that smart IT pros out to protect data are conducting a wholesale blacklisting of the apps they find most threatening to data security.

Zenprise, a mobile device management company that specializes in BYOD, recently released itsZenprise MDM Cloud Report. The report includes the top 10 apps that enterprises are blacklisting (or attempting to blacklist) in the United States and globally. The list is theirs. The snide commentary, mine. So here they are. The 10 most blacklisted apps this month, in descending order.

Note: This list is also available as a photo gallery.

1: Angry Birds

Would someone please muster up the courage to tell the CEO to stop with the slingshot already?

2: Facebook

Imagine an update like, “I am sitting here listening to our blowhard manager give a talk that could fell a tree.”

3: Google Play

Buying apps on company time? And potentially with company money? Hard stop.

4: Dropbox

Worst case: Employee walks off with your company data and Dropbox is installed on four of her computers. Nuff said.

5: Skype

Now this is what you want. Folks texting and calling relatives all over the world. It puts a whole new spin on the idea of personal calls at work, doesn’t it?

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Yahoo CEO resume flap: IT pros react (my Tech Republic piece May 10, 2012)

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By Gina Smith

May 10, 2012, 4:41 AM PDT

Takeaway: IT pros react harshly to Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson’s false claims of a computer science degree, adding fuel to investor Daniel Loeb’s pressure for a Yahoo board CEO ouster.

As Yahoo investor Dan Loeb continues to urge Yahoo’s  YHOO board of directors to fire new CEO Scott Thompson - Loeb on Wednesday sent yet another letter to the press and the beleaguered company’s board - IT pros we contacted reacted pretty vehemently to what has emerged as Thompson’s falsified claims of holding a degree in computer science from Stonehill College in Easton, MA.

Yahoo execs called the computer science degree claim an “inadvertent error” in a San Jose Mercury News interview.

Loeb, according to records, runs a hedge fund that owns outright nearly 5.9 percent of Yahoo’s stock. In his latest letter, Loeb wrote that “Thompson’s fantasy degree was in no way an ‘inadvertent error.’ The evidence shows us he had been using false credentials for years.” Loeb and his fellows are demanding an immediate ouster.

IT pros I contacted reacted hotly on the issue.

John Livingston, an IT pro for the American Red Cross in Savannah, Georgia, wondered “if someone is willing to lie on (his) resume, what else would (he) be willing to lie about?”

Such prevarication “just makes it harder for people looking for IT jobs,” Livingston added, saying that though anyone can easily lie about extra degrees and certifications.

Tech pro Paul Miller agreed that ethics is “the bigger issue here.” Nonetheless, he said, “The irony of Silicon Valley (venture capitalists) and (hedge) fund managers asserting moral outrage is patently absurd. The “giant elephant” in the room is “that this was perpetuated for years and … no one noticed until some guy with an agenda began to dig up dirt. The fact that someone can claim a degree (he or she) does not have - and that there is little way to tell them from the (rest) of herd who has ‘earned’ a degree, without researching an educational background, tells how little these degrees mean.”

Andrew Terry, an IT consultant in the London area, also sided with Thompson’s detractors. He pointed out that “there’s a big difference between what most of us think of as resume padding (versus) adding qualifications (one) doesn’t have.”

“If I found out someone lied on the resume about something as important as a degree, (the employee) would be fired. I personally worked my ass off for my computer science degree,” said Peter Schmidt, a CTO at a Boston-based aviation firm. “Thompson’s bald-faced lying angers me.”

Other IT pros were a little easier on Thompson, though all 12 tech pros this reporter interviewed expressed distress at the prevarication.

Isn’t a degree really just a glorified piece of paper? Yes and no, IT pros said. “I don’t have a degree,” said Dan Phillips, who is in tech support and network security in Ontario, Canada. “What I do have is nearly two decades of real world IT experience and that gets me in the door every time.

“Not to knock all computer science students, but I won’t hire anyone straight out of school because they just won’t have the knowledge that’s needed for some high end IT jobs,” Phillips said. “Certifications are nice but you tend to have to MORE HERE ...

Anna's Hummingbird (I identified the shiny whizzy bird in my lavender! YAY)

Thanks to this site -- I finally identified the name and type of hummingbird in my Northern California coastal backyard. Constantly in the lavender. Well, turns out it's Anna's Hummingbird Calypte ...

Here are the high points! From the site:

Family: Trochilidae, Hummingbirds view all from this family

Description ADULT MALE Hood usually appears uniformly dark (almost black in harsh light), but when light catches it a metallic rose-red iridescence is revealed. ADULT FEMALE Has metallic greenish yellow upperparts. Underparts grayish white with yellowish green feathering on flanks and a few dark spots (iridescent in the right light) on throat. Tail has striking white tips on outer three feathers and a dark subterminal band. IMMATURE Similar to adult female; immature males gradually acquire adult's head coloration.

Dimensions Length: 3 1/2-4" (9-10 cm)

Habitat Common and widespread within its restricted west coast range. Resident year-round in many parts, especially in coastal districts, but often found at higher altitudes, and further inland, during breeding season than in winter. Favors deserts, scrub-covered slopes, urban parks, and gardens.

Observation Tips Easiest to observe at feeders throughout the year, and in city parks and ornamental gardens in winter.

Range Western Canada, Northwest, Alaska, California, Texas, Southwest

Voice Utters a sharp tchik call.

Discussion Males are amazingly colorful when seen in the right light and are pugnacious when defending territory against rivals. Sexes are strikingly dissimilar.

Jerry Pournelle's latest column is enjoying its time in the sun -- letting it languish for awhile so all the weekend readers can enjoy him and Chaos Manor a bit.

It's aNewDomain.net with Gina Smith, John C. Dvorak and Dr. Jerry Pournelle

TechRepublic: Commodore Pioneer Jack Tramiel Dies, Wozniak, Industry React

Below is the 1982 American advertisement for the Commodore 1982. A piece of tech history.

Commodore pioneer Jack Tramiel dies: Wozniak, industry and tech pros react

By Gina Smith

April 10, 2012, 12:42 PM PDT

Takeaway: Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, remembers tech pioneer and Commodore founder Jack Tramiel in an interview with Gina Smith. Tech pros who cut their teeth on early systems like the Commodore 64 and the Atari Series computers weigh in on how those early systems got them in the biz. Tramiel, 83, has died.

Jack Tramiel, the tech revolutionary and Holocaust Auschwitz concentration camp survivor who brought the Commodore 64 and Amiga Series computers to the world in the early and mid 1980s, has died at 83.

Those two computing lines were prescient in that, unlike efforts from Apple and IBM at the time, Tramiel wanted a computer for the “masses” and targeted home rather than business users. The systems were far ahead of their time in many ways.

Tramiel’s death is a huge loss, Apple co-founder and inventor Steve Wozniak told me in an interview today. (Disclosure: I co-wrote Wozniak’s memoir, iWoz: How I invented the Personal Computer and Had Fun Doing It — WW Norton, 2005).

In 1975, Wozniak and the late Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs tried to get a few thousand dollars from Commodore as Wozniak was designing the Apple II, which he said was ... MORE at Tech Republic ... and here's our coverage at aNewDomain.net

Rexxfield Founder Michael Roberts: On Defamation (civilination.org)

Rexxfield Founder Michael Roberts Shares His Personal Story of Defamation and Explains How His Company Helps Other Victims Regain Their Good Name

Posted on April 10, 2012 by Andrea Weckerle

Michael Roberts is the Founder of Rexxfield, a company that assists and supports individuals who have been the victims of online lies, defamation, and privacy invasion by “rendering all reasonable assistance in order to have deceptive materials retracted or hidden from the public domain and the victims’ good name and reputation restored.”

He understands first-hand what being a victim feels like, having been on the receiving end of character assassination and defamatory attacks by his ex-wife, who is now in prison for a murder conviction, and others associated with her case or seeking to capitalize upon it.

CiviliNation: Tell us about your company Rexxfield and what let to its creation.

Michael Roberts: To understand why Rexxfield was created, you first need to understand what happened in my personal life, which is a long, convoluted and incredibly complicated story.

In December 2000, my now ex-wife Tracey Richter murdered 20-year-old Dustin Wehde in what was described by one prosecutor as an execution-style killing . She claimed self-defense, and despite contradictions in her testimony and evidence to the contrary, I believed her – perhaps because at the time I couldn’t emotionally fathom the fact that she actually murdered someone in cold blood. Then in early 2004, after I discovered her affair with another man, she attempted to kill me, first by drugging me and then, when I was semiconscious, by suffocating me. By the grace of God I survived the ordeal but to this day I’m still struggling from the injuries sustained from the attempt on my life. Thankfully, the Iowa Department of Justice, crime victims compensation fund paid for my associated medical expenses.

I finally wised up, saw her for the person she really is, and filed for divorce. But notwithstanding the evidence that she had killed one man and attempted to murder another, the Family Court judge in the subsequent divorce case gave primary care of our children to my ex-wife time and time again. This just goes to show that domestic relations courts are seriously flawed and that some judges make highly questionable decisions that have serious and negative repercussions on innocent lives.

Finally, in the summer of 2011, 10 years after killing Dustin Wehde, Tracey was finally arrested and charged with first-degree murder.  She was convicted unanimously by a jury of 12 on 7 November and is now in prison serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole.

Fortunately, after her incarceration, I was able to obtain primary custody of our children.

What does all of this have to do with the creation of Rexxfield? Everything, I would say.

Right after I filed for divorce in 2004, my ex-wife began a relentless Internet smear campaign against me, my business, and any individual that offered any kind of support to me, whether financial, emotional, vocational, or otherwise.

My business at the time was mile2, and the relentless attacks on my reputation and, by association, my business, brought mile2, which designed, developed and delivered information security training and information assurance services, to its knees. I was forced to sell for a fraction of what it would’ve otherwise been worth had it not been for these attacks. Even then the flaming aspersions continued until July 30, 2011, the day Tracy was arrested on first-degree murder charges.

She is actually now a 3 times convicted felon; in 2009 she also received felony convictions for both perjury and fraud by trials in Iowa and Nebraska, respectively.

Rexxfield was founded in 2008 in response to understanding what character assassination and unfounded attacks on businesses can do. I had experienced first-hand the devastation that these types of attacks can cause and that, in most cases, neither law enforcement nor the civil authorities and judiciary can relate to this issue.

Instead, what I’ve frequently found is that the very entities that are supposed to help people who have been wronged seem to take the position that “sticks and stones will break your bones, but names will never hurt you”. In my case, I had to fully prove that all of these anonymous attacks in fact originated from my ex-wife before anyone would even listen to me. So, in the process of having to convince the legal system to take my situation seriously, I developed some proprietary techniques, technologies, and methods for getting behind the cloak of anonymity in ways that ultimately helped inexorably link Tracey to the poison-penned attacks.

Unfortunately my breakthroughs were too little and too late to prevent the damage to my own name and business, but as I started blogging about my experiences I found myself being inundated with desperate cries for help. These requests ranged from tearful calls from parents of cyber bulling victims to the CEOs of multi-billion dollar companies. Realizing the desperate need for these types of services, Rexxfield was born..

CiviliNation: What kinds of people typically seek Rexxfield’s services?

Michael Roberts: Calls for help are incredibly diverse. Some are relatively simple and yet emotionally devastating because they come from teenaged cyber bullying victims, and others originate from from powerful people in multinational corporations. We also receive many calls from frustrated law-enforcement officials who are trying to investigate serious crimes. I’ve helped law enforcement investigate in cases of rape, robberies and even death threats against police officers who are living in fear despite their station in life. In all of these situations, without exception, the Internet service providers were not willing to reasonably cooperate with the investigations -  I have found Google and Facebook to be quite notorious in this area.

I was recently invited  to teach some of my methods to members of a joint federal and state task force whose mandate is protecting children from exploitation. I showed them some of the techniques we have developed and how the task force can implement those techniques into their own investigations. The group then shared some horror stories with me, including a case involving Facebook where a teenage rape victim was involved in a chat through Facebook less than half-an-hour before the crime took place. In that case it took months before Facebook complied with the requests for the originating IP address, by which time the evidence had perished because the ISP providing the connectivity to the suspect had subsequently purged the log file records. And to think the loss of this information could have been easily avoided with the proper cooperation.

In addition to helping private individuals and businesses, I am also assisting members of State House of Representatives in drafting new laws that will force Internet service providers to retain this perishable evidence for at least 2 years, because currently there are no laws addressing this obvious need. Obviously this needs to be balanced with people’s desire for privacy, so I want to make clear that through these proposed laws we are not asking to give Big Brother the keys to everybody’s Internet activities; on the contrary, we want the Internet service providers to remain the sole custodian of these confidential records and to only provide information in instances of legitimate civil and criminal warrants or subpoenas. In other words, we simply want to help avoid what happened in the rape case I described above.

CiviliNation: How have the attacks against you helped positively influence your work at Rexxfield?

Michael Roberts: Had I not gone through this fiery trial, I would’ve been like so many other people and considered the issue of online attacks and character assassination a mere trifle not worthy of serious attention. I would probably have also dismissed the victims who issue anguished cries for help as thin-skinned weaklings, as seems to be the reaction by most people who have not experienced this tragedy firsthand and simply refuse to see what is happening online.

CiviliNation: What is your response to people who claim that online reputation attacks against adults are rare and not something that most people need to worry about?

Michael Roberts: I would encourage such people to take a course in critical thinking, sympathy, empathy, and to open their eyes. I’ve found that until somebody has experienced this issue first-hand, or even second-hand through someone they love, they simply cannot relate to the devastation it causes.

Anonymous free speech is a wonderful privilege and should be preserved. In many cases horrible problems have been avoided by the ability to communicate anonymously, such as in situations involving whistle blowing of white-collar crimes, community awareness of when sexual predators move into the neighborhood, and many other alerts that are of great community benefit.

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Send a pic if you have a great one on your smartphone. Our journalists Ant Pruitt and Julie Blaustein are finding the most beautiful photos -- from all sorts of make and model smartphones and tablets. Tell us the camera and model you used, what software or any (ie HDR apps) you used and what the subject is. Send me a link if you want a linkback! 

 

Here's a winning entry, captured on DROID X.

 

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Home Schooling Newbie: This week's unit: The Pomo Indians of Calif.

 

Happy Monday! www.ginasmith.com and anewdomain.net is where i'm at TWiT geeks : )

I was on Leo Laporte's TWiT today -- and I just noticed TWiT points to this blog, which I don't update nearly often enough. ginasmith.com is my personal site, too -- and our aNewDomain.net with me, John C. Dvorak, Dr. Jerry Pournelle and a huge and amazing team of tech pros and journalists is rocking. Fun! And yes, I am writing for TechRepublic and other CBSi sites.

Check out Jason Hiner and  Dan Patterson's sites -- they were awesome on the show. Thanks, Leo!

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What happened to BYTE, teamBYTE, Gina Smith and Jerry Pournelle? WIKIPEDIA ENTRY (from Wikpedia)

UBM brought the BYTE name back when it officially relaunched BYTE as BYTE.com on 11 July 2011. Its launch editor was tech journalist Gina Smith. ^[9] Smith began appearing in media outlets to talk about the upcoming relaunch in December 2010, most regularly on This Week in Technology with Leo Laporte, her former radio cohost ^[10] and co-author ^[11]

UBM heavily promoted Smith as part of its byte.com relaunch from her hiring in December through launch -- continually promoting her journalistic credentials on a pre-launch stubsite as a New York Times best-selling coauthor of Steve Wozniak's autobiography, iWoz (W.W. Norton, 2005), and a nationally-known tech journalist via ABC News, PC/Computing, Popular Science, The MIT Technology Review, the San Francisco Chronicle/Examiner Sunday Edition and the long-running On Computers with Gina Smith and Leo Laporte, among other tech posts. ^[12]According to byte columnist and National Lampoon writer Dino Londis, Smith from January through July selected and led 70 IT professionals and journalists^[13], including original byte contributor Jerry Pournelle, cover artist Robert Tinney and original byte magazine editor Carl Helmers, as a relaunch edit team she called teambyte. He said she relied on almost no corporate resources before launch; rather the team created nearly 1TB of prelaunch edit copy, video and audio content in the months before the July 2011 launch using outside tools like Google Groups, Dropbox, Gmail and various other personal equipment and services.^[14]

A day after launch, UBM, via its subsidiary PR Newswire, garnered a spot on New York City's Times Square billboard, giving the return of the venerable media site maximum visibility.^[15]Launch editor Smith left BYTE on September 21, 2011, according to her website,^[16]as did then byte.com executive editor, Brian Burgess, "to pursue other opportunities," according to her website ^[17] -- a week later, she, Burgess and tech pundit John C. Dvorak, her colleague from the 1993 CNET launch team, began talking publicly about "a new domain" they planned to launch "in coming weeks." ^[18]

On November 11, 2011, that new site launched as anewdomain.net, and Smith named among its participating editors two dozen former teambyte edit team members, who also had exited byte.com after her departure ^[19] On December 5, 2011, Smith and Dvorak announced on anewdomain.net that BYTE's flagship columnist Jerry Pournelle was leaving for the new property, too, effectively completing the launch team's exodus into the Smith/Dvorak fledgling property, aNewDomain.net.^[20]

After Smith left BYTE in September 2011, UBM posted Jerry Pournelle's final byte column.^[21]Pournelle soon after began writing regularly for the Smith/Dvorak anewdomain site, which now hosts the famed column in lieu of byte^[22]. UBM continues to show Pournelle's photo on the Byte site, ^[23], though Pournelle's column now runs only at anewdomain.net and Pournelle's site at jerrypournelle.com.

Currently, Larry Seltzer is editorial director of BYTE.com, a URL that now redirects to an informationweek.com Internet address^[24]and runs news from UBM's Informationweek IT-focused news property. BYTE's focus, the site says, is a trend called the "consumerization of IT"^[25]. Smith serves with Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales and Washington DC attorney Andrea Weckerle on the board of a non-profit dedicated to curbing hate speech online.^[26]

Full entry, which was replaced by a suggestion my leaving had someeething to do with the Demetrius column, is defamatory. I am sure no one at UBM would ever do that. But who. Interesting.

Byte (magazine)

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Byte

BYTE Vol 1. No. 4, cover dated December 1975
Categories	Computer magazines
Frequency	Monthly
First issue	September 1975
Final issue	July 1998
Company	UBM
Country	United States
Language	English
Website		ISSN	microcomputer magazine, influential in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s because of its wide-ranging editorial coverage.[1] Whereas many magazines from the mid-1980s had been dedicated to the MS-DOS (PC) platform or the Mac, mostly from a business or home user's perspective, Byte covered developments in the entire field of "small computers and software", and sometimes other computing fields such as supercomputers and high-reliability computing. Coverage was in-depth with much technical detail, rather than user-oriented. The Byte name and logo continued to exist as of 2011, but as an online publication only, with different emphasis.[2] BYTE started in 1975, shortly after the first personal computers appeared as kits advertised in the back of electronics magazines. BYTEwas published monthly, with an initial yearly subscription price of $10. Contents   [hide]  1 How BYTE started 2 The early years 3 Growth and change 4 End of the printed magazine, and online publication 5 See also 6 References 7 Further reading 8 External links [edit]How BYTE started In 1975 Wayne Green was the editor and publisher of 73 (an amateur radio magazine) and his ex-wife, Virginia Londner Green, was the Business Manager of 73 Inc. In the August 1975 issue of 73 magazine Wayne's editorial column started with this item: "The response to computer-type articles in 73 has been so enthusiastic that we here in Peterborough got carried away. On May 25th we made a deal with the publisher of a small (400 circulation) computer hobby magazine to take over as editor of a new publication which would start in August ... BYTE."[3] Byte's first editor was Carl Helmers and in the first anniversary issue he wrote: "BYTE began with its first issue dated September 1975. That first issue was assembled from scratch in seven weeks of hectic activity starting May 25, 1975." Byte was published by a new company, Green Publishing, which was wholly owned by Virginia Green, who had kept the surname after her divorce ten years earlier. Because she started Green Publishing and Byte Magazine with limited capital, which she borrowed from her family, much of the work of the early issues was sub-contracted to various individuals and companies, mostly in the Monadnock Region of New Hampshire. 73 Magazine, which had excess staff capacity, did much of the "paste-up" of the magazine pages for the first 4 issues under sub-contract from Virginia Green. In 3 of those first 4 issues, without permission or authority, Wayne Green inserted his name and the title of Publisher just before the final page "boards" were sent to the printer. After the third occurrence, Virginia Green removed all work in progress from the 73 premises and used other sub-contractors and her own growing Byte staff. A 1985 Folio magazine article suggested that "One day in November 1975 Wayne came to work and found that the Byte magazine staff had moved out and taken the January issue with them."[4] This Folio article quoting Wayne Green was the genesis of libel actions by Virginia Green against both Folio and Wayne Green in the New Hampshire Superior Court inManchester. Folio had never attempted to corroborate Wayne Green's statements with Virginia Green, Carl Helmers, or the law firm that organized Virginia Green's publishing company to publish, inter alia, Byte Magazine. Both Folio and Wayne Green settled before trial with large payments to Virginia Green. The January 1976 issue has Virginia Green listed as Publisher. Virginia Green Williamson's second husband, attorney Gordon Williamson, wrote a book contending that Wayne Green's role in founding Byte was minimal and that litigation between the parties was settled against Wayne Green's interests. See "See Wayne Run. Run, Wayne, Run." (Barkley, 1988). The February 1976 issue of Byte has a short story about the move. "After a start which reads like a romantic light opera with an episode or two reminiscent of the Keystone Cops, BYTE magazine finally has moved into separate offices of its own." In the autumn of 1976 Wayne Green announced the planned launch of a computer magazine called Kilobyte. Byte quickly trademarked KILOBYTE as a cartoon series in Byte magazine as the first of a planned family of trademarks based upon the original "Byte" trademark. A trademark infringement lawsuit in US Federal Court in Concord, New Hampshire by Byte against Wayne Green and Kilobyte was settled with Green changing the name of his proposed magazine to Kilobaud before the first issue was produced. Byte magazine's policy was not to mention competitors in its pages, including Wayne Green's publications. There continued to be competition and animosity between Byte Publications and 73 Inc., both located in the small town of Peterborough, New Hampshire. [edit]The early years Byte was able to attract advertising and articles from many well-knowns, soon-to-be-well-knowns, and ultimately-to-be-forgottens in the growing microcomputer hobby. Articles in the first issue (September, 1975) included Which Microprocessor For You? by Hal Chamberlin, Write Your Own Assembler by Dan Fylstra and Serial Interface by Don Lancaster. Advertisements from Godbout, MITS, Processor Technology, SCELBI, and Sphere appear, among others. Early articles in Byte were do-it-yourself electronic or software projects to improve small computers. A continuing feature was Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar, a column in which electronic engineer Steve Ciarcia described small projects to modify or attach to a computer (later spun off to become the magazine embedded computer applications). Significant articles in this period included the Kansas City standard for data storage on audio tape, insertion of disk drives into S-100 computers, publication of source code for various computer languages (Tiny C, BASIC, assemblers), and breathless coverage of the first microcomputer operating system, CP/M. Byte ran Microsoft's first advertisement, as "Micro-Soft", to sell a BASIC interpreter for 8080-based computers. [edit]Growth and change
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In spring of 1979, owner/publisher Virginia Williamson sold the magazine to McGraw-Hill. She remained publisher until 1983, about 8 years after founding the magazine, and subsequently became a vice president of McGraw-Hill Publications Company. Shortly after the IBM PC was introduced, in 1981, the magazine changed editorial policies. It gradually de-emphasized the do-it-yourself electronics and software articles, and began running product reviews, the first computer magazine to do so^{[citation needed]}. It continued its wide-ranging coverage of hardware and software, but now it reported "what it does" and "how it works", not "how-to-do-it." The editorial focus remained on any computer system or software that might be within a typical individual's finances and interest (centered on home and personal computers).

From 1975 through 1986 Byte covers usually featured the artwork of Robert Tinney. These covers made Byte visually unique. In 1987 Tinney's paintings were replaced by product photographs, and Steve Ciarcia's "Circuit Cellar" column was discontinued.

Around 1985 Byte started an online service called BIX (Byte Information eXchange) which was a text-only BBS style site running on the CoSy conferencing software, also used by McGraw-Hill internally.^{[citation needed]} Access was via local dial-in or, for additional hourly charges, the Tymnet X.25 network. Monthly rates were $13/month for the account and $1/hour for X.25 access. Unlike Compuserve, access at higher speeds was not surcharged. Many of the Byte staff were active on the service. Later, gateways permitted email communication outside the system.

Byte continued to grow. By 1990 it was a monthly about an inch in thickness, a readership of technical professionals, and a subscription price of $56/year, a high figure for the time. It was the "must-read" magazine of the popular computer magazines. Around 1993 Byte began to develop a web presence. It acquired domain name Japan, Brazil, Germany, and an Arabic edition published in Jordan.

[edit]End of the printed magazine, and online publication

Byte's readership and advertising revenue were declining when McGraw-Hill sold the magazine to CMP Media, a successful publisher of specialized computer magazines in May 1998. The magazine's editors and writers expected its new owner to revitalize Byte but CMP ceased publication with the July 1998 issue, laid off all the staff and shut down Byte's rather large product-testing lab.^[5][6] Subscribers were offered a choice of two of CMP's other magazines, notably CMP's flagship publication about Windows PCs.

Publication of Byte in Germany and Japan continued uninterrupted. The Turkish edition resumed publication after a few years of interruption. The Arabic edition also ended abruptly.^[7]

Many of BYTE's columnists migrated their writing to personal web sites. The most popular of these was probably science fiction author Jerry Pournelle's weblog "Byte, describing computers from a power user's point of view. After the closure of Byte magazine, Jerry Pournelle's column continued to be published in the Turkish editions of PC World, which was soon renamed as PC LIFE in Turkey. In 1999 CMP revived BYTE as a web-only publication, from 2002 accessible by subscription. It closed in 2009.^[8]

UBM brought the BYTE name back when it officially relaunched BYTE as BYTE.com on 11 July 2011. Its launch editor was tech journalist Gina Smith. ^[9] Smith began appearing in media outlets to talk about the upcoming relaunch in December 2010, most regularly on This Week in Technology with Leo Laporte, her former radio cohost ^[10] and co-author ^[11]

UBM heavily promoted Smith as part of its byte.com relaunch from her hiring in December through launch -- continually promoting her journalistic credentials on a pre-launch stubsite as a New York Times best-selling coauthor of Steve Wozniak's autobiography, iWoz (W.W. Norton, 2005), and a nationally-known tech journalist via ABC News, PC/Computing, Popular Science, The MIT Technology Review, the San Francisco Chronicle/Examiner Sunday Edition and the long-running On Computers with Gina Smith and Leo Laporte, among other tech posts. ^[12]According to byte columnist and National Lampoon writer Dino Londis, Smith from January through July selected and led 70 IT professionals and journalists^[13], including original byte contributor Jerry Pournelle, cover artist Robert Tinney and original byte magazine editor Carl Helmers, as a relaunch edit team she called teambyte. He said she relied on almost no corporate resources before launch; rather the team created nearly 1TB of prelaunch edit copy, video and audio content in the months before the July 2011 launch using outside tools like Google Groups, Dropbox, Gmail and various other personal equipment and services.^[14]

A day after launch, UBM, via its subsidiary PR Newswire, garnered a spot on New York City's Times Square billboard, giving the return of the venerable media site maximum visibility.^[15]Launch editor Smith left BYTE on September 21, 2011, according to her website,^[16]as did then byte.com executive editor, Brian Burgess, "to pursue other opportunities," according to her website ^[17] -- a week later, she, Burgess and tech pundit John C. Dvorak, her colleague from the 1993 CNET launch team, began talking publicly about "a new domain" they planned to launch "in coming weeks." ^[18]

On November 11, 2011, that new site launched as anewdomain.net, and Smith named among its participating editors two dozen former teambyte edit team members, who also had exited byte.com after her departure ^[19] On December 5, 2011, Smith and Dvorak announced on anewdomain.net that BYTE's flagship columnist Jerry Pournelle was leaving for the new property, too, effectively completing the launch team's exodus into the Smith/Dvorak fledgling property, aNewDomain.net.^[20]

After Smith left BYTE in September 2011, UBM posted Jerry Pournelle's final byte column.^[21]Pournelle soon after began writing regularly for the Smith/Dvorak anewdomain site, which now hosts the famed column in lieu of byte^[22]. UBM continues to show Pournelle's photo on the Byte site, ^[23], though Pournelle's column now runs only at anewdomain.net and Pournelle's site at jerrypournelle.com.

Currently, Larry Seltzer is editorial director of BYTE.com, a URL that now redirects to an informationweek.com Internet address^[24]and runs news from UBM's Informationweek IT-focused news property. BYTE's focus, the site says, is a trend called the "consumerization of IT"^[25]. Smith serves with Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales and Washington DC attorney Andrea Weckerle on the board of a non-profit dedicated to curbing hate speech online.^[26]

[edit]See also

MC die microcomputer-zeitschrift (magazine), a former German magazine similar to Byte.

[edit]References

1. ^ Valery, Nicholas (May 19, 1977). . New Scientist (London: Reed Business Information) 74 (1052): pp. 405–406. ISSN  "Byte magazine, the leading publication serving the homebrew market …"
2. ^ ^ Green, Wayne (August 1975). . 73 Amateur Radio (179): 2. Retrieved 2007-10-09.
3. ^ Carlson, Walter (January 1985). . Folio: The Magazine for Magazine Management. Retrieved 2008-01-16."Green relates that when he arrived at the office one day in November 1975, when the fifth issue was in the works, he found that everything had been moved out--the shoeboxes, the back issues, the articles and the bank account--by his general manager, who also happened to be his first wife, from whom he was divorced in 1965."
4. ^ "McGraw-Hill to Sell Information Group to CMP Media". The New York Times. Reuters: p. D.3. May 6, 1998. "The McGraw-Hill Companies agreed yesterday to sell its Information Technology and Communications Group, which includes Byte and other computer magazines, to CMP Media Inc. for $28.6 million."
5. ^ Napoli, Lisa (June 1, 1998). "New Owners of Byte Suspend Publication". The New York Times: p. D.4. "Byte's circulation has fallen to a recent average of 442,553 from 522,795 in 1996. Advertising has also fallen. In January, for example, Byte published only 61.5 ad pages, less than half the number of pages the magazine had in 1996."
6. ^ ^ Tom R. Halfhill, on his personal website]
7. ^ ^ ^ http://www.amazon.com/101-Computer-Answers-Need-Know/dp/1562763393/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1325565182&sr=8-1
8. ^ http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/187590
9. ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ http://typepad.ginasmith.com
10. ^ http://typepad.ginasmith.com
11. ^ ^ ^ http://www.informationweek.com/byte/commentary/personal-tech/desktop-os/231700019
12. ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ http://civilination.org

Amazon Kindle Fire: Its Dirty, Rotten Secret .... anewdomain.net with Gina Smith and John C. Dvorak

The last piece of 2011 on anewdomain.net comes via my old friend and one heckuva writer, Paul Bonner. Check it out.

Amazon Kindle Fire: Set It Free

By Paul Bonner

Photo Courtesy: Rob Willcox

What’s Amazon’s dirty little secret? Ask aNewDomain’s Paul Bonner.

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aNewDomain.net with Gina Smith, John C. Dvorak, featuring Jerry Pournelle

We are launched. More than two dozen of us from teamBYTE (we are the edit team who relaunched BYTE this July) are at it again.

We are launching a hard core tech coverage site for enthusiasts -- it's a new domain. Literally. It's called:

aNewDomain.net with Gina Smith, John C. Dvorak and Dr. Jerry Pournelle. 

We love a startup. Total editorial freedom. The potential here is dizzying. Many of us were on teamBYTE, which I led until September, but there are several from other properties i helped launch, including CNET, Wired, E3, NIC. It's like putting a band back together! But we never broke up, really : ) This is a super close, supremely talented editorial team, an authoritative content machine.

Let me know what you think at gina@ginasmith.com

What does your eye color reveal about you?d Then check out aNewDomain.net

Check out my new site -- aNewDomain.net -- for edgy tech, scitech and just general geek news. 

The History of the English Language in 10 Minutes

The history of the English language -- in 10 minutes.

LOL gina http://aNewDomain.net

Time: Pink Floyd Lyrics and Video

Lyrics | Pink Floyd lyrics - Time lyrics 

aNewDomain with Gina Smith, Eric Mack, Brian Burgess, John C. Dvorak x3, Mat Lee, Chris Miller ... it's OUT!

We launched it. Thirty-three of my favorite tech journalists and tech geeks launched aNewDomain on Nov. 11 -- Here's just a screen capture. Http://aNewDomain.net

TOP STORIES Amazon Kindle Fire: No Nook Killer (5) Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich: All Your Questions Answered (slashgear) (1) Eric Mack: Founder, News Editor, Rolling out the AND.net team! (1) Apple iPad 3: Is 2048 x 1536 Too Crazy? (1) Google+ Now Integrates with GoogleApps for Business, Home Users (1) RECENT POSTS Apple, Amazon and News on Diaspora Founder’s Suicide: TechNow with Gina Smith Apple iTunes Match Out for iTunes 10.5.1, Today’s Bumpy Release Amazon Kindle Fire: Ships November November 14, Day Early Diaspora Founder Ilya Zhitomirskiy: Dead at 22 by Suicide TheSocialGeeks Episode 39 – Slow Death by Even More

Apple, Amazon and News on Diaspora Founder’s Suicide: TechNow with Gina Smith By Gina Smith Amazon ships its $199 Kindle Fire today, a day early. Apple releases Apple iTunes 10.5.1 with iTunes Match, but not without a few hiccups. And finally, a sad death in tech. One of the young founders of Diaspora, an open source Facebook alternative project, is dead at 22 of suicide. TechNow with Gina Smith runs daily. [...] November 14th, 2011 | Leave a comment | Edit this post Apple iTunes Match Out for iTunes 10.5.1, Today’s Bumpy Release By Gina Smith Two weeks late, Apple delivers iTunes Match for its iCloud and Apple iTunes 10.5.1, released for download this morning. Apple took the download links and menu items down a half hour later, citing excessive traffic. Here’s the skinny. [...] November 14th, 2011 | Leave a comment | Edit this post Amazon Kindle Fire: Ships November November 14, Day Early By Gina Smith Photo courtesy: Creative Commons License Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablet surprises by shipping a day earlier than planned — November 14 — way to light up the tablet competition. Psyche! [...] November 14th, 2011 | Leave a comment | Edit this post

John C. Dvorak X3: Ultimate Battlefield 3 Sim First Look

John C. Dvorak hosts this short form videocast with Andrew Eisner and Joseph Engo. In this episode, the guys show off the Ultimate Battlefield 3 Sim.

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Dang, I love this show. Happy 11.11.11. Enjoy this great short form show from John C. Dvorak and hosts -- and watch for aNewDomain.net LAUNCH today at 11:11 PM on 11.11.11 -- Maybe Hawaiian time : ) gs

John C. Dvorak X3: Ultimate Battlefield 3 Sim First Look

John C. Dvorak hosts this short form videocast with Andrew Eisner and Joseph Engo. In this episode, the guys show off the Ultimate Battlefield 3 Sim.

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Exclusive: Nokia, AT&T collaborating on Lumia 800 with LTE | The Verge

We've learned from people familiar with the matter that Nokia's delayed entry into the US is partly due to the fact that it wants to attack with LTE — and that's a feature that Windows Phone 7.5 doesn't presently support. Our understanding is that Nokia might either launch with Tango — the code name for Windows Phone's next release — or with specific Mango-based code drops that include LTE functionality, but either way, AT&T figures prominently into the equation with a variant of the Lumia 800 that includes LTE on board. (Of course, if the rumors that the Lumia 710 might launch on T-Mobile USA are accurate, that particular device wouldn't be LTE-capable.)via www.theverge.comCongratulations, Chris Ziegler, on this most excellent scoop. Investigative reporting going on at The Verge. Now that's journalism.

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Excellent scoop for The Verge and great job, Chris Ziegler!

Nook Tablet: First Hands On Review

The Verge did the first hands-on review, however brief, of the new Nook tablet. Here it is.

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It's a great first look. Good job, Verge.

Holiday Tech Gift Guide: Best iOS Strategy Games (techradar UK)

If you liked Risk, you'll love these iOS gamesIn Depth: Strategy games for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPadBy Craig Grannell

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I'll be doing a morning show and, quite possibly, an evening news wrap show on YouTube beginning very soon. Here is the very first test. It's rough. But it's what first tests look like, as any producer knows : )

 

 

 

 

Ha, welcome anewdomain.net unplugged!

and aNewDomain.net launching 11.11.11

gs

 

Fake Mars Astronauts Return After 520 Days in Capsule

Moscow: They wanted to see if a group of Russian cosmonauts would survive the conditions of a trip to Mars -- in duration. They did! Welcome home to Earth, fake Mars astronauts.

Fake astronauts return to real Earth after fake trip to fake Mars

By Mark Brown, wired.co.uk | Published 2 days ago

520 days after being locked inside a fake spaceship in a Moscow car park, a six-man team of volunteer astronauts is about to emerge back on planet Earth.

The year and a half of isolation, dubbed Mars500 and run by the European Space Agency (ESA), was designed to see how real space crews would cope with confinement, daily activities and psychological stress on a lengthy trip to the red planet and back.

For the rest of the story from source Wired.UK, click here.

 

Anonymous Hackers: Mexican Drug Cartel Attack Too Risky?

Members of the international hacking group, Anonymous, are divided on whether to take on the powerful, alleged Veracruz, Mexico-based Zeta drug cartel on November 5, as it has threatened.

According to a tweet in Spanish, at least some Anonymous members feel the attack is too risky.

Anonymous, better known for taking down big business and banks with denial-of-service attacks and publishing private email and personal info there, threatened Zeta after Zeta purportedly kidnapped a member of the Anonymous hacking group. Anonymous is demanding the safe return of its member and, in a video published on YouTube in October, threatens to post private info on police, taxi drivers, journalists and others with whom Anonymous believes is in league with Zeta.

Anonymous factions are still at odds as to whether to carry out the attack Nov. 5.

And on Monday, one member of an Anonymous faction went so far as to call it off in the following tweet. (Translation: Anonymous cancels operation against Mexican cartel. We cannot risk our colleagues.)

Whether Anonymous attacks Zeta remains to be seen.

Below in the Anonymous message to the Zeta cartel in Veracruz, in its original (Spanish) version) on October 6, 2011.  Scroll down for an English version. ED: The videos below contain expletives (in Spanish and English) and other material not suitable for children. Discretion advised.

 

Here is the same video, translated by computer into English. As a Spanish speaker, I can tell you it doesn't quite capture the vitriol in the Spanish version.

We'll be updating this story.

 

Google Offers: Android App Free on Market

Watch out, Groupon. With Google bundling every service under the sun into its ecosystem, this should be keeeing Groupon execs awake at night. Google today announced Google Offers for Android, free from the Android Market. Google says an iOS version is coming soon. Hope it works better than Gmail for iOS did yesterday, yikes!

Top 20 best tablet PC iPad alternatives | News | TechRadar UK

This year is going to be the year of the touchscreen tablet, of that there can be no doubt.

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Google Gmail: Off App Store After Three Hours Up

Waiting. Walking. Watching TV. Working out. Winding down. Waking up. We check email pretty much everywhere these days. And when we do, we want easy access to our important messages so we can respond quickly and get back to life -- or slinging birds at thieving green pigs. With that in mind, we’ve created a new Gmail app for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. We’ve combined your favorite features from the Gmail mobile web app and iOS into one app so you can be more productive on the go. It’s designed to be fast, efficient and take full advantage of the touchscreen and notification capabilities of your device. And it’s one more reason to switch to Gmail. Speed We want to give you the information you need quickly, with minimal effort and distraction. So we’ve included some time-saving features:

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Microsoft Fires At Google: Gmail Man Parody Video Scathing, But Kind of Funny

If you saw this short Microsoft-promoted film already, apologies.

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Google Gmail Redesign: Google Demo and Screenshots

You love it? You hate it? You probably heard about it when the Google exec giving the demo below appeared in a temporarily leaked video in mid-October online. Well, now open your Gmail and you'll see most of it, anyway, is at fruition. Below is the leaked video -- rereleased today by Google. Below that, I'll add before and after Gmail change shots. I'll make the leap so you won't have to : ) Thank me later ! ha

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New Google feature tries to explain ads in search, Gmail [Video] - latimes.com

A lot of people still don't understand why certain advertisers target them while they are searching the Web. 

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The industry that purchases gobs of anonymized but extremely detailed user info goes to giant, profitable firms called "data aggregators." Whine. I wanna be a data aggregator. Most people don't seem to know this. They oughta.

Duke Nukem 3D: New in Android Market

Today an old game with some new tricks hit Android. It's Duke Nukem, the 15-year-old classic console game. The object of the 1991 shooter is still to save the women from the invading aliens -- "save our chicks" -- but there are some new features to take advantage of 2011-era mobile tech. Those include the ability to install from an SD card, multi-touch controls and compatibility with an array of Android screen sizes, from phone to tablet and beyond. The game's current owner, Machineworks Northwest, did a version for iOS this summer.

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New microscopy technique accidentally connects to the dark side (of plasmons)

Some papers read a bit like a roller coaster. The title sucks you in with a promise of a revealed truth and excitement. As you proceed though the introductory fluff and get to the anticipated revelation, it begins to dawn on you that what excited them is not going to excite you. It's kind of like going to a showing of The Princess Bride expecting to see a romance film. But you've invested this much time already, so it can't hurt to see it through to the end, can it? And then, like Inigo Montoya, the whole point of the paper jumps out, waves its sword in your face and shouts at you, leaving you wondering how dumb you could have been to not have seen it coming. 

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Apple Siri: Foreign Accent Handling Captured in Video (curated)

Source: TechRadar

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Apple Siri: Foreign English Accents Just Work?

Source: TechRadar

The first thing I thought when I saw Apple unveil the Siri voice-recognition assistant was: would it understand my American South dialect of English, the one I revert to when not broadcasting? Here's a great piece from the folks of TechRadar looking into another aspect of that. Watch A New Domain unplugged (soon anewdomain.net) for my curated list of videos examining Siri with various English dialects and accented English.

When Apple revealed Siri to the world, people gaped at its amazing powers of voice recognition.

Meanwhile, Glaswegians the world over turned to each other and said, "Aye, weel. We'll see aboot tha', pal."

Which got us thinking – just how well can Siri handle the accents of the world? And thus we took to the international population of TechRadar HQ to find out.

Here's the video the TechRadar guy produced -- it'll make you smile -- but it also made me wonder about lesser accents, like my regional American South dialect. Watch here for my curated list of Siri with accented voices videos. It'll help us all decide if Apple Siri is worth bothering with, ya'll.

 

 

Halloween: Double Darth

Best friends Eric L. and Eric S. in San Francisco, Oct. 31, 2011

Halloween: I Just Saw a Ghost

Happy Halloween! Freaky video to kick off the festivities.

Courtesy: Lifetime

 

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I am a gypsy princess on Halloween. This was my high school prom dress!

TaxiMagic for Apple iOS and Android: AND App of the Day

By Todd Moore

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So glad to have Todd Moore joining our aNewDomain.net site, coming November 11, 2011

Todd is a well-known author, security expert, developer of the White Noise mobile app and a danged fine guitarist. Based in DC, follow him @toddmoore

Panasonic Lumix GX1 surfaces in Taiwan with X-series lens screwed on | This is my next...

In Newsvia thisismynext.comCongratulations to Nilay, Josh and the rest of the thisismynext.com team. They are launching The Verge November 1. Have a blast with your launch, guys. You only launch once!Great piece on Panasonic Lumix GX1, btw. gs aNewDomain.net coming 11.11.11

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Google Search: Visual Search Wars Set to Begin

 

In just a few months, you'll be able to take a pic of anything and search for it via visual search on Google. Try taking a shot of the image below and using Google Goggles to see if it works yet. When it does, I declare the Visual Search Wars will begin. And they're going to get bloody.

So. What is this? : ) 



Flexible Smartphone & Tablet Displays the Future of Mobile

Flexible Smartphone & Tablet Displays the Future of Mobile

A New Domain Holiday Shopping Recommendations Begin Monday 8 a.m.

Our edit team is going to start pumping out the aNewDomain.net HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE tomorow. That is exactly one a day from now until King's Day, January 6. We'll pick you the techiest, bang for the buck gifts for all budgets.

Gifts priced from $11 to $1000 beginning tomorrow, Pacific, October 30, 2011. First up: A Yeti Podcast Mic, by Brian Burgess.

Note: This is the behind the scenes launch workblog for edit team of a anewdomain.net, launching 11.11.11.

Start early and maybe save some money and stress? gs

Why Hasn't Yahoo Been Acquired Yet?

Despite the alleged intentions of its board, as well as rumored interest from Google and Microsoft, among others, momentum for a potential acquisition of Yahoo has stalled. But why?

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