Month: January 2013

Business Cloud Culture

Amazon’s Cloud Drive Photos for Android gets auto-save feature, additional functionality Mobile

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As reported on Engadget. By Edgar Alvarez Despite being a little too busy scooping up companies and striking new streaming deals, Amazon hasn’t exactly been overlooking its set of mobile and desktop applications. Most recently, the online retail behemoth announced a refresh was on hand for Cloud Drive Photos on Android, providing users of said app with an auto-save option that, as you likely guessed, allows pics to be automatically uploaded to ones cloud account — this, according to Amazon, was “the most…

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Apple

Apple drops supplier over underage labor violations, hails ‘high compliance’ with reducing excessive work hours

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As reported on Engadget. By Mat Smith Apple’s latest Supplier Responsibility Report has just been published, detailing 393 audits focused on the plants and suppliers that help make all that hardware. The audit number is a 72 percent increase in what it covered in its last annual report, whileApple was also quick to highlight its contracting companies’ high compliance (92 percent) with a maximum 60-hour work week. Senior vice president of operations Jeff Williams told Reuters that underage workers and limiting working hours…

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Application Social Networking

Yandex launches Wonder, a voice-controlled social search app for the US market Mobile

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AS reported on Engadget. By Sarah Silbert Yandex, the Russian search giant, has just launched its first product for the US market: a voice-controlled social search app called Wonder. Available on iOS, the app pulls data from your Facebook, Foursquare, Instagram and Twitter accounts to answer questions like “What music do my friends listen to?” Essentially, it’s a mobile version of Facebook’s new Graph Search, which also uses data from your social network contacts to answer questions. Wonder uses…

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Politics

Iran Says War Is The Only Thing That Can Stop Them Now

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As reported on Businessinsider.com by Agence France Presse AP Photo/IRNA, Mostafa Qotbi The United States has nothing left to pressure Tehran over its nuclear programme except for war, and if it chooses conflict Iran could close a key energy chokepoint, its envoy to Baghdad told AFP on Thursday.  Ambassador Hassan Danaie-Far insisted in an interview that Tehran retained the right to close the Strait of Hormuz, through which a third of the world’s traded oil…

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Culture

Write Down Three Positive Things About Each Day, Every Day

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As reported on LifeHacker. by Alan Henry It’s difficult enough to stay motivated and upbeat without the rest of the world weighing on your shoulders. If you’re feeling unmotivated or starting to feel a bit down, Zack Shapiro, an engineer at previously mentioned Taskrabbit has a suggestion for you: take some time each day to write down three positive things that have happened to you. It improves your mood, and gets you thinking positively, which in itself can be a…

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Culture

How to Pick a Career You Actually Like

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As reported on LifeHacker. by Penelope Trunk Most career problems stem from the fact that we are terrible at picking jobs. We think we are picking a good job and then it turns out to be a bad job. It’s almost impossible to pick a good job on the first try, actually. So don’t think you’ll be the exception. Economist Neil Howe says that only 5% of people pick the right job on the first try. He calls those…

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Space Story

The Solar System’s Most Spectacular Geology Revealed by 50 Years of Robotic Exploration

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As reported on Wired. BY ADAM MANN Before 1962, most of the planets in our solar system appeared as hardly more than blurry dots in some astronomer’s telescope. The most that scientists knew about Mercury, Venus, or Jupiter was their size, surface temperature, and atmospheric composition. But on Dec. 14, 1962, the Mariner 2 spacecraft flew by Venus. For the first time, researchers had detailed and up-close information about another world, helping spawn new scientific fields…

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Science

How Scientists Stalked a Lethal Superbug — With the Killer’s Own DNA

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As reported on Wired. BY CARL ZIMMER Klebsiella pneumoniae Photo: Dan Forbes A lethal bacterium was running rampant at an NIH hospital. Antibiotics were useless. Then two scientists began a frantic race to track down the killer—with the superbug’s own DNA. On September 19, 2011, Evan Snitkin sat staring at a computer monitor, its screen cluttered with Perl script and row after row of 0s sprinkled with the occasional 1. To Snitkin, a bioinformatician at the National…

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Business Games

THQ dissolved, studios sold off, CEO announces in letter to staff

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As reported on Polygon. By BRIAN CRECENTE THQ will be broken apart, its games sold off to at least five different publishers, according to a letter sent to employees today from Brian Farrell, THQ CEO, and Jason Rubin, the company’s president. In a hearing in open court today, lawyers for those involved presented the seven sales to five publishers to U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Mary F. Walrath. The hearing ending without a final decision, but it…

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Business

‘Dell Dude’ wants to save Dell by bringing back the ‘Dell Dude’

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As reported on The Verge. By Amar Toor Ben Curtis is probably best known as the half baked star of the “Dude, you’re getting a Dell” from the early 2000s. In Curtis’ mind, though, he’s the answer to all of Dell’s problems. With the once-proud PC maker currently going through a financial transition, Curtis, now 32, says he has a simple solution to all of Dell’s woes, as he explained in an e-mail toBloomberg: “I think they’re making…

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