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December 2010 Archives

Tuesday, 28th December 2010

JFK: Bio App Puts Camelot on Your iPhone

On the 50th anniversary of his taking office, MultiEducator has debuted JFK Historymaker 1.0. The iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch app contains 36 chapters, 250 high-res photographs, the full text of over 200 speeches, 60-plus pages of bio, and 35 video clips.

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Top 10 RSS and Syndication Technologies of 2010

"RSS is Dead", tech sage Steve Gillmor said in May of 2009. I know that's not true, because I spend a lot of my work and my leisure time reading RSS and other forms of syndicated content feeds. If you're not familiar with Really Simple Syndication (RSS) - it is, in the simplest of terms, a powerfully simple technology that delivers new content…

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An Examination, in Nine Haiku, of IBM's Breakthrough in Racetrack Memory

How do computers Remember? By disc and RAM, And now by "racetrack"! Discs spin, cheap but slow; RAM is quicker but costly; Racetrack's fast and cheap.

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5 Cloud Startups to Watch in 2011 #2: Netuitive

As 2010 draws to a close we're taking a look at a few cloud startups that show promise and that we haven't covered on ReadWriteCloud. Netuitive is an automated, cloud-based IT monitoring system for both traditional and virtualized IT environments. It applies predictive analytics to IT management by using algorithms to determine the "normal" state…

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Groupon May Be Raising Almost $1b in Financing, 5X All Previous Investments Combined

Online coupon company Groupon may be raising, or may have already raised, up to $950 million more in venture capital, according to documents reported on today by venture blog VC Experts. This would be the company's Series G round of funding. Rounds A through F totalled $171 million, according to Crunchbase. That means that after walking away…

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