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15 November, 2013
Why Facebook Would Pay $3 Billion for Snapchat. for teens, much of the value in Snapchat is precisely its distance from Facebook: If you’re friends with your parents and relatives on Facebook, you don’t want to share your most candid pictures there. Snapchat is a safe space away from the judgmental eyes on Facebook
13 November, 2013
The Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, is not just a museum of hardware, but also of software. The Museum has made public such gems as the source code for MacPaint, Photoshop, and APL, and now code from the Apple II. As their site reports: 'With thanks to Paul Laughton, in collaboration with Dr. Bruce Damer, founder and curator of the Digibarn Computer Museum, and with the permission of Apple Inc., we are pleased to make available the 1978 source code of Apple II DOS for non-commercial use.
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Education,
History,
Intellectual Property
Nokia shows us how quickly a dominant tech company can fall from market grace. Ollila had been surrounded by "sycophants who had no competence to address software challenges". Nokia kept developing its Symbian operating system but was slow to introduce touchscreen capability.
Labels:
Critical + Creative Thinking,
History
12 November, 2013
A computer security firm has uncovered data it says belongs to 152 million Adobe user accounts, suggesting that a breach reported a month ago is far bigger than Adobe has so far disclosed and is one of the largest on record. LastPass, a password security firm, said it found email addresses, encrypted passwords and password hints stored in clear text from Adobe user accounts on an underground website frequented by cyber criminals.
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