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Sunday, 25th April 2010

Israel Lifts iPad Ban

Israel today lifted its ban on the iPad. After two weeks of banning the popular tablet computers, the Ministry of Communications is allowing them in and returning the confiscated tablets. Moses Kahlon, the Minister of Communications, announced the lift in a press release. The original decision to ban the iPad was made without the minister's…

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What to Do When a PR Disaster Strikes Your Startup

Thursday was a good PR day for the social buying site Blippy. They were featured in two New York Times articles. But Friday wasn't so great, as the major technology blogs reported that credit card information from its users were found on Google. An hour later, Blippy responded with a post on its blog, explaining that the leak was months old…

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Cartoon: Captive Audiences

Here it is 2010, and I'm still sitting through godawful, text-heavy PowerPoint presentations with cheesy transitions, pointless clip-art and (pause, Rob, and try to stop hyperventilating)... Comic Sans. Speakers often focus on what it's like to be giving a presentation, but it's easy to forget what it's like to sit through one - especially the…

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Check Out the Companies That Make ReadWriteWeb Possible

Our readers know ReadWriteWeb as the blog that's ahead of the technology curve. Our sponsors know us as that, too. Once a week we introduce our sponsors to our readers and let them know a little more about who they are and what they do. You can say thanks to the companies that make ReadWriteWeb happen by tweeting them (see the link below each…

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Saturday, 24th April 2010

Cloud Computing

SugarSync: 2 Petabytes and Counting - Welcome to the Personal Cloud

SugarSync is one of several companies competing these days to benefit from the disruptions in the market created by the new ways that people organize and share information from the any number of devices they use in their day. That's a fundamental shift that is happening as people move beyond the desktop as a place to keep their documents, their…

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