We’ve all learned to distrust the computers in our own homes when it comes to backing up data. It pays to save your precious photos and documents to backup drives as well as to servers in data centers at faraway locations.
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Oct 09
The lesson of data disasters? Time to back up your backups
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Oct 09
Start your car and turn on your heater with the iPhone
The iPhone has become everyone’s slave. It’s starting to do tasks we don’t want to do ourselves. A case in point is the Viper SmartStart app, which starts your car and warms up the cabin.
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Oct 09
HP brings touch to the mass market with new laptops and desktops
Hewlett-Packard is launching a series of new products today, including some long-awaited touchscreen laptop computers.
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Oct 09
Ooyala gets $10M more for online video
Ooyala, a video startup founded by a group of former Googlers, has raised $10 million in a third round of venture funding.
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Oct 09
How Yelp deals with everybody getting four stars (on average)
“If everybody is special, then one is.”
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Oct 09
Shared folders make Google Docs better for teamwork
Google has announced that its online word processor Docs just got a little better for team collaboration, with a new feature that allows users to share entire folders.
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Oct 09
5 O’Clock Roundup: Sidekick apocalypse, twilight for email, no freaking way is Sun selling its hardware business
T-Mobile halts Sidekick sales, allows angry, angry customers to cancel contracts for free – The Infocalypse has arrived for some T-Mobile Sidekick owners. After two weeks of service outage, Microsoft’s Danger unit now says some customer data — we’re talking people’s photos here — may be lost forever. Or at least until data recovery can go back in time. I hope Microsoft, rather than trying to bury the details, hires a writer like Gary Wolf to explain the tale to non-techies of future generations.
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Oct 09
Tune in to UN anti-poverty campaign on Ustream
Stand Up 2009 is a UN-sponsored event during which hopeful people all over the world will stand up, literally, and demand that world leaders do something about poverty. I’ve heard Bono has threatened to write more guest columns for the New York Times if Wall Street doesn’t cancel more African debt fast.
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Oct 09
Tune in to UN anti-poverty campaign on Ustream
Stand Up 2009 is a UN-sponsored event during which hopeful people all over the world will stand up, literally, and demand that world leaders do something about poverty. I’ve heard Bono has threatened to write more guest columns for the New York Times if Wall Street doesn’t cancel more African debt fast.
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Oct 09
The Founder Institute’s Adeo Ressi on his plans to leave no entrepreneur behind
Adeo Ressi is best known as the founding member of TheFunded, the site where entrepreneurs can rate venture capitalists. Earlier this year, he got into the startup training business, with the launch of the Founder Institute. It’s not just a clone of better-known incubator Y Combinator. Ressi targets founders far earlier in the process, before they’ve even come up with an idea, and the Institute also introduced a new funding model, where investors in one company actually get shares in all the companies.
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Oct 09
The Founder Institute’s Adeo Ressi on his plans to leave no entrepreneur behind
Adeo Ressi is best known as the founding member of TheFunded, the site where entrepreneurs can rate venture capitalists. Earlier this year, he got into the startup training business, with the launch of the Founder Institute. It’s not just a clone of better-known incubator Y Combinator. Ressi targets founders far earlier in the process, before they’ve even come up with an idea, and the Institute also introduced a new funding model, where investors in one company actually get shares in all the companies.
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Oct 09
The Founders Institute’s Adeo Ressi on his plans to leave no entrepreneur behind
Adeo Ressi is best known as the founding member of TheFunded, the site where entrepreneurs can rate venture capitalists. Earlier this year, he got into the startup training business, with the launch of the Founders Institute. It’s not just a clone of better-known incubator Y Combinator. Ressi targets founders far earlier in the process, before they’ve even come up with an idea, and the Institute also introduced a new funding model, where investors in one company actually get shares in all the companies.
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Oct 09
Soros to pour $1B into clean energy technology
George Soros, famed currency speculator and Democratic party-backer, announced during a speech (aptly in Denmark, where Copenhagen will host the largest climate summit in years in December) that he will be sinking $1 billion into the development of clean energy development. On top of that, he will contribute $100 million ($10 million every year for the next decade), to support a new foundation creating relevant policies called the Climate Policy Initiative.
