Category: Knowledge Management

  • Black Friday 2012: the best deals from Target, Best Buy, Apple, Sony, and more By Laura June, theverge.com The day after Thanks­giv­ing is on its way, and you know what that means: Black Fri­day. Black Fri­day is an over­whelm­ing shop­ping day for many peo­ple, and there are many, many sales to keep orga­nized. That’s where…

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  • Misfit wearable is superior to Fitbit

    Watch Out Fitbit, This Badass New Activity Tracker Is Out to Eat Your Lunch Peter Ha, gizmodo.com You might not have ever heard of Mis­fit Wear­ables but you’ll want to pay atten­tion start­ing now that its first gad­get has made its debut. Found­ed by Aga­ma­trix founders Sonny Vu and Srid­har Iyen­gar, the Red­wood City-based com­pa­ny…

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  • Real political map of US

    This Is the Real Political Map of America—We Are Not That Divided Jesus Diaz, gizmodo.com This is the real polit­i­cal map of the Unit­ed States of Amer­i­ca after the pres­i­den­tial elec­tion. A fas­ci­nat­ing view, much dif­fer­ent from the maps you saw that night, which showed an arti­fi­cial, bina­ry divide. But these maps… This Is the…

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  • Best LTE providers for iPad

    4G iPad Mini: Which Carrier Has the Best Deal? Brad Chacos – Laptop Mag, gizmodo.com The iPad mini’s pint-sized frame was made with porta­bil­i­ty in mind, and the arrival of a 4G LTE-equipped model at three of the nation’s top cel­lu­lar providers this morn­ing makes it eas­i­er than ever to keep your tablet con­nect­ed while…

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  • iPad mini review

    Review: The skinny on the iPad mini—it’s not the size that counts Jacqui Cheng, arstechnica.com For­mer Apple CEO Steve Jobs famous­ly trashed 7” tablets as being “dead in the water” in 2010. Two years later, under the reign of new CEO Tim Cook, Apple has released its own minia­ture tablet—one that has a diag­o­nal screen…

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  • Built to win: Deep inside Obama

    Built to win: Deep inside Obama’s campaign tech Sean Gallagher, arstechnica.com The reelec­tion of Barack Obama was won by peo­ple, not by soft­ware. But in a con­test as close as last week’s elec­tion, soft­ware may have given the Obama for Amer­i­ca orga­ni­za­tion’s peo­ple a tiny edge—mak­ing them by some mea­sures more… RT @NathanMattise: This is…

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  • Romney’s orca system caused campaign meltdown

    Which consultants built Romney’s “Project Orca?” None of them Sean Gallagher, arstechnica.com In the wake of Mitt Rom­ney’s Elec­tion Day defeat, frus­tra­tion with the Rom­ney cam­paign’s get-out-the-vote effort led to reports of an IT melt­down. Project Orca, the sys­tem the Rom­ney cam­paign used to con­nect to an army of vol­un­teer… RT @arstechnica: Which consultants built…

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  • Obama tech crippled Romney campaign

    How Team Obama’s tech efficiency left Romney IT in dust Sean Gallagher, arstechnica.com Despite run­ning a cam­paign with about twice the money and twice the staff of Gov­er­nor Mitt Rom­ney’s pres­i­den­tial bid, Pres­i­dent Barack Obama’s cam­paign under-spent Rom­ney’s on IT prod­ucts and ser­vices by $14.5 mil­lion, putting the… Related articles Obama’s Budget Would Cap Romney-Sized…

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  • Harvard bio library stores 70 billion books on DNA

    Harvard Stores 70 Billion Books in Record Breaking DNA Bio-Library the Size of a Thumbnail | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building GreatEmerald says:, inhabitat.com DNA photo from Shut­ter­stock A team from Har­vard Uni­ver­si­ty’s Wyss Insti­tute for Bio­log­i­cal­ly Inspired Engi­neer­ing has dis­cov­ered a way to store 70 bil­lion books in a space…

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  • Obama wins election of the nerds

    Obama wins the nerdiest election ever By Spencer Ackerman, wired.co.uk Politics Con­grat­u­la­tions, Barack Obama: you have pre­vailed in the nerdi­est elec­tion in the his­to­ry of the Amer­i­can Repub­lic. If 2008 was about hope and change, 2012 was about data and memes. The unem­ploy­ment rate. The effec­tive … http://flpbd.it/i8Wy9 Related articles Despite “Jedi” flap, Obama still…

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