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iPhone 4 International Launch Day
Congratulations to the 17 countries who, today, can purchase their very own Apple iPhone 4. The countries added to the fold today are Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, New Zealand, Singapore, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland. The handset will be available for purchase through Apple’s retail and online [...]
HP says prefab data center cuts costs in half
Hewlett-Packard thinks it can build data centers faster and more cheaply by using standard, pre-built components that are assembled on site in a “Lego-like” fashion.
Using Social Media To Get A Job
The IT-centric website Toolbox.com recently completed their 2010 Employment Survey and there was some interesting data that was uncovered about how job seekers are using social media to find employment. The survey primarily focuses on salaries, locations where the “best paying jobs are”, and how long a typical job search lasts. But check out the [...]
Blogging For Your Business
Jim Turner, Beth Hayden, and Bethany Siegler discuss common questions related to business blogging. Is blogging really a necessity for my company? How do I get the most out of blogging? How can WordPress help to market our products or services? How can we make sure it actually reaches our target clients? What should we [...]
Now Hiring: New Jersey Nets
You don’t have to have killer skills on the basketball court for this job (actually these jobs). The Nets basketball organization currently has two openings; one for a Creative Manager and another for an Interactive Marketing Coordinator. Here are the specifics: Job Title: Creative Manager Reports To: Creative Director Summary: Support all marketing efforts through [...]
Finally Seesmic Replaces TweetDeck For Me
I’m not a big fan of downloadable, desktop apps to manage my online, social life. I’m more in alignment with web-based tools like Google Docs, Threadsy, Tungle, and now Seesmic Web. True, Seesmic Web has been out for a while now with some great functionality; Twitter streams, Twitter Lists, and even Foursquare location-based integration. But [...]
Wal-Mart Moonwalk – Latest Viral Video
It’s about a year old, but it’s gained in popularity as of recent. YouTube popdog04 posted this gentlemen on a stroll through the aisles of Wal-Mart. dtsv.dtse_post_14411_permalink = ‘http://www.thetechscoop.net/2010/07/27/wal-mart-moonwalk-latest-viral-video/’; dtsv.dtse_post_14411_title = ‘Wal-Mart Moonwalk – Latest Viral Video’;
iPhone 4 Diamond Edition
For the tech enthusiast with cash to burn (a lot of cash…), luxury goods designer Stuart Hughes has unveiled the world’s first diamond iPhone 4G. This most expensive phone from the Stuart Hughes collection features a surrounding frame encrusted with 6.5cts of top quality VVS, colour ‘F’ diamonds. The rear section houses beautiful solid platinum [...]
iPhone Jailbreak To Be Legal?
WASHINGTON – Owners of the iPhone will be able to break electronic locks on their devices in order to download applications that have not been approved by Apple. The government is making that legal under new rules announced Monday. The decision to allow the practice commonly known as “jailbreaking” is one of a handful of [...]
WordCampSF 2010 Recap
WordCampSF 2010 is done and in the books. If you’re a designer, developer, enthusiast or newbie there was something during the conference for you. This was actually my very first WordCamp and I must say that the experience was pretty amazing. There are two reasons that made this event really resonate with me on a [...]
AT&T Published iPhone 4 Activation Tips
Ah bless their hearts…AT&T reaching out to the iPhone 4 community with some “tips” dtsv.dtse_post_6693_permalink = ‘http://www.thetechscoop.net/2010/06/23/att-published-iphone-4-activation-tips/’; dtsv.dtse_post_6693_title = ‘AT&T Published iPhone 4 Activation Tips’;
SNL Pokes Fun At The iPhone
We iPhone users will tell you that there is definitely truth the Verizon vs. AT&T commercials touting who has the better 3G coverage. Plain and simple – Verizon is better (sorry AT&T, get your coverage upgraded). With that, Seth Meyers took a few moments to poke a jab, more at AT&T than at the iPhone, [...]
In Other Tech News
All Things i (iPhone, iPod, iPad,…)
Truphone Goes Multitasking, Where’s Skype?
With VoIP a fiercely combatted section of the market, Skype seems lagging behind, having not offered VoIP 3G or a multitasking, iOS 4 compatible version yet. Their competition, on the other hand, is doing just fine. TruPhone just updated their VoIP app, which now runs in the background, can call over a 3G network, and [...]
WWDC Stevenote Recap
It is finally real; no more leaked photos, no more prototypes being left in the a silicon valley bar. Say hello to iPhone 4G Everyone and their mother is writing about today’s Stevenote – we here at THE Tech Scoop will take the relevant data and aggregate and consolidate it for you – essentially we’re [...]
iPhone 4 International Launch Day
Congratulations to the 17 countries who, today, can purchase their very own Apple iPhone 4. The countries added to the fold today are Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, New Zealand, Singapore, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland. The handset will be available for purchase through Apple’s retail and online [...]
Apple To Fix The iOS4 Death Grip
Lefties out there, it’s not you – Apple doesn’t have a bias against you – there’s actually a software issue that’s causing the much talked about iPhone 4 reception issues. Clear observations of mobile signal strength and how they are affected by the placement of users’ hands are difficult to perform in part because there [...]
Cloud Computing
PaaS Elasticity Is Harder to Achieve Than You Think
As the ideas and concepts behind PaaS platforms continue to evolve, it is becoming quite clear that they those platforms will consist of many facets. These systems will consist of application runtime services (both shared and dedicated), application modeling capabilities, and runtime monitoring to name but a very few. While all of these will be necessary to deliver a truly effective PaaS platform, if you ask the casual cloud follower what they identify as the key characteristic for PaaS, and I would be willing to wager that 9 out of 10 say runtime elasticity. read more
Cloud Computing Confidence Expected to Drive Economic Growth
The flexibility of cloud computing could help organizations recover from the current global economic downturn, according to 68 percent of IT and businesses decision makers who participated in an annual study commissioned by Savvis, Inc., a provider of cloud infrastructure and hosted IT solutions for enterprises. Vanson Bourne, an international research firm, surveyed more than 600 IT and business decision makers across the United States, United Kingdom and Singapore, revealing an underlying pressure to do more with less budget (the biggest issue facing organizations, cited by 54 percent of respondents) and demand for lower cost, more flexible IT provisioning. read more
Blog Stuff
Salesforce Launches WordPress Plugin
Major Software as a Service provider, Salesforce is providing users of the popular blogging platform WordPress with a time-saving plugin: WordPress-to-lead for Salesforce CRM. WordPress-to-Lead provides small businesses that use WordPress as their primary web platform a way to add contacts and customers automatically to their Salesforce CRM. In the past, WordPress users had to [...]
WordPress 101 Training
The crew over at iThemes does some fantastic work with creating premium WordPress themes and providing consultancy services. Along with those staple services, they team does regular, recurring trainings on WordPress usage, setup, and configuration tips. What’s really cool is that many of these trainings are free ! Check out this quick WordPress 101 video [...]
SEO Plugin Updated [image]
I’m doing an interesting experiment on a handful of my WordPress blogs; this one is part of the test. I recently removed one of the major, well-known and highly promoted SEO plugins. I’ve, in turn, replaced it with…nothing; I’m using the SEO functionality integrated directly with this theme. I’ve maintained the exact same naming, tagging, [...]
Video Games
Buying used games? Stay away from EA!
Electronic Arts makes some of the best games in the industry today with all of the sports franchises being EA ranging from football, baseball and even golf. Each of these games has a online mode and in the past if you bought these new or used it would be fine and you could still access [...]
Ten PC Games that are free to play online
With the rising cost of games during a recession like this most people have been cutting back on entertainment because it is very expensive. But people fail to realize if you have a good computer and a fast internet connection there are games that are out there that cost nothing to play! So what’s the [...]
Joystiq Launches iPhone App
Joystiq, a very in-depth (and cool) site about video gaming, has launched an iPhone/iPod Touch app. The new app gives you quick and easy access to catch up on the latest news while on the go, and the category view gives you the ability to focus on reviews, interviews, contests, or updates for your favorite [...]
Social Media
Twitter Developer Conference
Needless to say, I want to go to Chirp, the Twitter Developer Conference. The event will be on April 14-15 in San Francisco at The Palace of Fine Arts Theatre. Day 1 will be jam-packed with speakers like Biz Stone, Ev Williams, Ryan Sarver, and Dick Costolo – sounding good so far ?? Then Day [...]
Look Who’s Back Blogging…Julia Roy
After many months, a job change here and there and other random life events, the original Digital Girl is back to doing the blogging thing ! You remember Julia as the host and founder of the viral video series Tweet Week, and one of the first to be referred to as a “Twilebrity” – check [...]
Top 20 Social Media Books
Crowdsourcing is a wonderful phenomenon. You get the input of many as it pertains to a single point/topic. In this case, crowdsourcing was used to determine the book suggestions for Designing For Social Media; which is a course in the Masters program in Professional and Technical Communication at New Jersey’s Science & Technology University. It’s [...]
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