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Inflatable Lamp Lights Up Places Off the Grid
[TechNewsDaily via Yahoo News] At least 1.3 billion people have no access to a power grid, according to the International Energy Agency. And many others can’t count on 24/7 electricity service. A New York City startup called Mpowerd is trying … Continue reading
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Techie Volunteers Get New Yorkers Online After Sandy
[TechNewsDaily – via LiveScience] The days of techies hiding in their basements or thinking only about stock options and foosball tables are long gone in New York City. Instead, they are organizing en masse to help small businesses, schools and … Continue reading
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New Yorkers Trek to Keep Gadgets Powered in Sandy’s Wake
[TechNewsDaily – via NBC] ] Residents of the city that never sleeps also loathe letting their gadgets sleep. But for the lower third of Manhattan, and a great deal of the Tri-State area, getting power requires an expedition. And with electrical service expected … Continue reading
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Maps Just Latest Apple Online Service Fail (Viewpoint)
[TechNewsDaily – via NBC] How could Apple nail it so well with the iPhone 5 (some Wi-Fi and possible battery problems notwithstanding), but blow it so badly with Maps? A lot of it came from failed negotiations with Google, but … Continue reading
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How an Accessory Maker Guessed Right on the iPhone 5 and Wrong on the iPad Mini
[FOX] Inside is a glittering showroom of sorts (called the “Dream Gallery”) displaying every product the company has made. It also included 25 case models for the new iPhone 5 and one for the iPad Mini — manufactured and ready … Continue reading
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Meet the naked cowboy of iPhone repairmen
[Fox] “Sometimes they drop them as soon as they walk out of the store,” said Gopal Gupta, a muscle-bound 42-year-old repairman sitting shirtless at a table in the pedestrian section of Broadway near 34th Street here. iPhone innards were spread before him … Continue reading
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Victim Jessica Redfield Personifies Denver Theater Shooting on Twitter
[TechNewsDaily – via NBC] But one Twitter handle has also been prominent — that of Jessica Redfield (@JessicaRedfield), one of the deceased. Redfield, whose legal last name was Ghawi, was a Denver sports reporter and Texas transplant with a special … Continue reading
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‘Twittamentary’ Uses Twitter to Tell American Stories
[TND] The movie is a road-trip documentary, from New York City to Los Angeles, that uses the Twitter to trace the stories of Americans across the country — from a stock trader to a homeless woman, from an improv comedian … Continue reading
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The Internet Was Invented in 1934 (Sorta)
[TechNewsDaily via Yahoo News] Forget Al Gore. The Internet — at least as a concept — was invented nearly a century ago by a Belgian information expert named Paul Otlet imagining where telephones and television might someday go. That was … Continue reading
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Occupiers open Free University
[Salon] While reports were bouncing around Twitter about vandalism in San Francisco and arrests on New York City’s Williamsburg Bridge, birds were chirping in Madison Square Park where perhaps several thousand students (by organizers’ estimates) were attending nearly 100 open-air lectures … Continue reading
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