Harvard design iPad book will never go out of date

An iPad Guide To Building The Perfect Sustainable City
By Kyle VanHemert, fastcodesign.com

Ecological Urbanism,” a book of essays published by the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 2010, was destined to fall out of date. The iPad version won’t have that problem.

In 2010, Har­vard’s Grad­u­ate School of Design pub­lished…

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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 on …

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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 mea­sure­ment of 7.…

RT @ejacqui: In case you missed it by following election stuff yesterday, my iPad mini review is up at Ars: http://flpbd.it/yaLR2 http://flpbd.it/FQycp

People Are Literally Allergic To BlackBerry phones

People Are Literally Allergic To BlackBerry Phones
By Colin Lecher, popsci.com

Like, an actual itching allergy. But, come on, there are lots of other reasons to dump BlackBerry.

Black­Ber­ry has been hav­ing a rough go of it late­ly, slow­ly slid­ing into irrel­e­vance as Android and iPhone cor­ner the mar­ket. Now add one…

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Hard cider is rediscovered

Americans Rediscover The Kick Of Hard Cider
Nina Keck, npr.org

Americans Rediscover The Kick Of Hard Cider NPR Morning Edition

A cou­ple hun­dred years ago. hard apple cider used to be the drink of choice for thirsty Amer­i­cans. It was easy to make and easy to find. But as peo­ple moved into cities, and be…

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Why pirates make the best change agents according to Steve Jobs

An HR Lesson From Steve Jobs: If You Want Change Agents, Hire Pirates
By Peter Sander, fastcodesign.com

Why? Because pirates can operate when rules and safety nets break down.

[The fol­low­ing is an excerpt from What Would Steve Jobs Do?: How the Steve Jobs Way Can Inspire Any­one to Think Dif­fer­ent­ly and Win by Peter Sander (McGraw…

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iPod Touch makes point and shoot camera pointless

The New iPod Touch Will Further Obliterate The Point-And-Shoot Market
Mg Siegler, techcrunch.com

It’s easy to for­get that the iPod touch didn’t even include a cam­era until 2010. While such a key fea­ture has been stan­dard on the iPhone since its ini­tial unveil­ing in 2007, Apple appar­ent­ly didn’t think it was one of the must-have fea­tu…

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Avado shows healthcare is ready to move past the server huggers

Healthcare Finally Moving Past Wang-Like Legacy Systems
Dave Chase, techcrunch.com

Edi­tor’s note: Dave Chase is the CEO of Avado.com, a patient por­tal and rela­tion­ship man­age­ment com­pa­ny that was a TechCrunch Dis­rupt final­ist. Pre­vi­ous­ly he was a man­age­ment con­sul­tant for Accen­ture’s health­car…

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Samsung patents voice recognition for emotional state

Samsung patent ties emotional states to virtual faces through voice, shows when we’re cracking up
Jon Fingas, engadget.com

Voice recog­ni­tion usu­al­ly applies to com­mu­ni­ca­tion only in the most util­i­tar­i­an sense, whether it’s to trans­late on the spot or to keep those hands on the wheel while send­ing a text mes­sage. Sam­sung has just been grant­ed a US pate…

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