Contents Nexus 7 Tablet Reviews & Teardown • Netflix Beats Cable • Yahoo Facebook Make Up • Amazon Smartphone? • Amazon Web Service Outage • RIM Mismanagement • Microsoft Mismanagement • Windows 8 Upgrades • 3D Printing Breakout • Art and Mathematics Nexus 7 Tablet Gets Good Marks Reviews Engadget says the new Google Nexus…
Trustworthy Online Controlled Experiments: Five Puzzling Outcomes Explained by Ron Kohavi, Alex Deng, Brian Frasca, Roger Longbotham, Toby Walker and Ya Xu. There are a lot of people doing online A/B and multivariate testing these days, but few of them bring as much analytic rigor to the process as Ronny Kohavi and his colleagues. Ronny…
Contents Expedia a Major Ad Buyer • 3D Printing a Disruptive Meta-Trend • Surface Tablet Secrecy • New Internet Domain Land Rush • Another MacBook Pro Review • Apple Drops “Do Nothing” Security Advice • Appleserfs • Online Maps Market • SSD Prices Down • Quadrotors Steal the Show at Cannes Google, Amazon, EBay and Expedia…
Details just went up at http://www.microsoft.com/surface/en/us/whatissurface.aspx Product website: http://surface.com Briefly from today’s presentation: It is a Windows 8 Tablet, sold directly by Microsoft and branded as “Surface” 10.6 inch 16:9 aspect ratio Proprietary magnesium case with built-in stand Magnet cover with built-in multi-touch keyboard Two lines: Windows 8 RT ARM processor Windows 8 Pro based…
A Better Hadoop • Microsoft Cool? • MacBook Pro “Least Repairable Ever” • Apple Kills the GPS • Stiktu: Good or Graffiti? • Troll Repellent • Microsoft Tightens Certificate Security • DOJ Looks at Cable Antitrust • AWS Stores 1 Trillion Objects • Google Blockly • Just One More: Gorgeous Star Trails Big Data gets…
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