Archive for the ‘Tech’ Category

TechStars, Helping Build The Next Big Thing

Check out this cool video produced by the crew at TechStars.
Techstars is a start up company incubator that selects 10 companies at a time. The companies are made up of young entrepreneurs to join a summer program where they are exposed to various mentors and investors.
Matt Mullenweg, the founder of WordPress is in this, so [...]

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Amazon’s New Content Delivery Network

In conjunction with its S3 storage offering and other Web Services products, ever-expanding Web giant Amazon has launched a beta version of a content delivery network called CloudFront.
The service, which promises “low latency, high data transfer speeds, and no commitments,” uses a global network of edge locations to keep the system humming.
Amazon announced [...]

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The Matrix…Running On A PC

Being the Apple fanatic that I am, I found this video to be incredibly funny.
Enjoy

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

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GirlInYourShirt.com

I love the name of the website. Outside of a catchy name, JenaĆ© is making the offer to wear a company’s shirt, hoodie, hat, etc. and talk about the company for a mere $75 per day.

For that $75 you also get her posting videos on her site, YouTube, Seesmic and Viddler, she’ll post pictures on [...]

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New Systems For International Space Station Crew

Among the host of upgrades that the International Space Station is set to receive over the next couple weeks is a water purification system that will recycle urine for use as drinking water.
Similar technology has been used in the Salyut and Mir space stations to process water collected from the cabin’s atmosphere (the result of [...]

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iTunes Online Store Movie Deals

This week, Apple launched the $5 movie of the week program.
Until next Tuesday (November 18), the following movies are on sale:

Terminator 2
Total Recall
The Last Action Hero
Red Heat
Air America
Basic Instinct
St. Elmo’s Fire
The Karate Kid
Air Force One
A Guy Thing

These movies are not rentals (which is even better).
In addition to movies, Apple is also offering iTunes albums [...]

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TED Spread

In this time of fiscal madness, I’m continuing in my series of relevant terms that shape our economic landscape
The TED spread is the difference between the interest rates on interbank loans and short-term U.S. government debt (”T-bills”).

Initially, the TED spread was the difference between the interest rates for three-month U.S. Treasuries contracts and the three-month [...]

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Obama Knows His Technology

In what could be a sign of things to come, an unnamed staffer was pictured on Election Night showing Vice President-Elect Joe Biden something on a MacBook Air. Biden also appears to be holding an iPhone 3G with a sticker on the back.
Biden was apparently observing something on screen, while President-Elect Barack Obama celebrated in [...]

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Social Networking Do’s and Don’ts

I found this story on CNN, thought it was worth sharing.
Certain predicted technological revolutions are more myth than reality.
After all, TV phones and laserdiscs were hailed as the wave of the future and yet, despite influencing today’s technology, they’ve gone by the wayside.
Social networking sites might have seemed as if they’d follow the same route, [...]

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