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A TED speaker’s worst nightmare
Posted on 23. Mar, 2012 by Jes Darmanin.
Colin Robertson had 3 minutes on the TED stage to tell the world about his solar-powered crowdsourced health care solution. And then… the whole talk turned out to be a wonderful and hilarious prank by ImprovEverywhere.
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Shireburn Software exhibits at two international shows
Posted on 17. Mar, 2012 by Jes Darmanin.
Shireburn Software will be exhibiting their unique Concessionaire Analyzer+ (CA+) product on standard 5316 at Passenger Terminal Expo 2012 in Vienna from 18th to 20th April and on stand 13 at the ACI EUROPE Airport Trading Conference and Exhibition, taking place in Oslo between 23rd and 25th April. Concessionaire Analyzer+ allows sales data from concessionaires to be centrally collected, and be the subject [...]
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Dropbox Meets P2P – Space Monkey Cloud Storage
Posted on 12. Mar, 2012 by Jes Darmanin.
Storage startup company Space Monkey is challenging cloud storage services like Dropbox (which seems to be doing pretty well). With people storing more and more videos and images and other multimedia, it becomes increasingly expensive to keep that data in someone else’s cloud, and increasingly slow to push those files through your Internet connection. Space [...]
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Windows 8, where shutting down is almost impossible
Posted on 05. Mar, 2012 by Jes Darmanin.
Whilst I think Microsoft has done a great job of making the Metro UI in the Windows 8 Consumer Preview easy to use and great for tablet use… There are some things that in my opinion still have to be fixed. It took me quite a while to find out where to do something as simple [...]
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Download Windows 8 Consumer Preview
Posted on 01. Mar, 2012 by Jes Darmanin.
If you’ve been itching to get your hands on a Windows 8 preview version… we have good news! You can now download the consumer preview right now from Microsoft from http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/consumer-preview. We have already tried installing this new preview OS on an older laptop and surprisingly enough it worked even faster than Windows 7! The [...]
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Data Wind: Ubislate, which sells for £22!
Posted on 01. Mar, 2012 by Jes Darmanin.
Datawind was among four finalists in a competition organised by UK Trade and Investment. Seventy-nine UK-based companies entered the competition in December. The firm hopes the Ubislate, which sells for £22 ($35), will make digital connectivity more affordable. A key factor in selecting the finalists was that they demonstrated the potential to become global businesses. [...]
