Top 10 Culture-Tech Stories of 2011

Technology is frequently examined as though it were the reason for its own being, a kind of byte-driven tautology or spectacularly dry religious sect. But technology is a means to address questions. In that spirit, here are the top 10 stories about how we've employed the social web to ask and answer questions about our lives. These are "top" stories in the sense that they are representative, not exhaustive. I'm focusing on culture, specifically...

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Instagram on Track to Oust Foursquare as Biggest Mobile Social Network

For a service that only exists on one platform, Instagram has been wildly successfully. The photo-sharing app for iOS is now on track to hit 15 million users, which as a post SocialFresh points out, is how many people are using Foursquare today. Among mobile-first social services, Foursquare is arguably the biggest right now, but the geolocation check-in app is on track to be surpassed soon, despite being a year older than Instagram...

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Join Storify's Story Of The Year Contest & Win An iPad 2

Storify is announcing a contest to find the best story of 2011. The team has pulled together 10 nominees, but all Storify posts are eligible to win. Users can vote by clicking the Storify 'Like' button at the top of each story. You can like as many as you want, but you can only like each story once. The story with the most likes by December 29 wins Story Of The Year, and the author wins an iPad 2.The Story Of The Year page will keep a running...

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Dumbest Moves of the Year in Web Enterprise Services

It was quite a year of mistakes, with Carol Bartz leaving Yahoo, HP trying once again to re-orient itself and hiring ex-California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman. On top of this comes various reports that once again email is dead or dying (this could be a tedious repetition of the "year of the LAN" that we went through in the 1990s, even though email has been incorporated at the main notification mechanism of just about every piece of...

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You Don't Have To Use Twitter To Invest $300M In Twitter

The $300 million secondary investment Twitter confirmed  Monday morning comes from a key figure in a region where Twitter is experiencing some of its fastest growth.Never mind that Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, the Saudi investor whose Kingdom Holding investment firm has stakes in Apple, Citigroup, and now, 3% ownership of Twitter, isn't a big user of the service himself (Prince Alwaleed follows just 25 users with his account - including Fox...

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Facebook Has More Android Than iOS Mobile Users

AppData.com revealed that daily average use on Facebook for Android has, for the first time ever, surpassed  Facebook for iPhone. The Android Facebook app now has 58.8 million daily average users, while Facebook for iPhone has only 57.6 million daily average users. This new data also coincides with the worldwide rollout of Facebook Timeline, which finally happened on December 15, 2011.Last week, Facebook released Timeline  for Facebook.com...

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France gets four bids in 4G auction

France's telecoms regulator has received bids from all of the country's major operators for a second batch of higher-quality fourth-generation mobile licenses and will choose winners in the coming weeks.ARCEP said in a statement on Thursday that France Telecom, SFR, Bouygues and Iliad had submitted offers but did not disclose how much each company had bid.The French government aims to raise at least 1.8 billion euros ($2.33 billion) in the second phase of the auction, which offers "golden frequencies" in the 800 MHz band, so dubbed because they allow mobile signals to travel long distances without losing strength.France has already sold off...

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ABB to power Facebook data center in Arctic Circle

Sony Corp said it was keeping to its target to sell 15 million PlayStation 3 game machines in the year to end-March, even as a long-running debt crisis grips Europe, one of the Japanese electronics group's most important markets.Welsh-born Andrew House, who took over as head of Sony Computer Entertainment, the group's video games business, less than four months ago, told reporters on Thursday that PS3 sales were, if anything, slightly ahead of...

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ABB to power Facebook data center in Arctic Circle

Swiss engineer ABB has won an $11 million contract to power Facebook's first data centre outside the United States, covering an area in the Arctic Circle equivalent to 11 soccer pitches, it said on Thursday.Facebook chose Lulea, northern Sweden, as the site for its green data center -- set to be the largest of its kind in Europe -- because of its access to renewable energy and the cold climate that is crucial to help cool the huge server buildings.Data...

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Apple to open R&D center in Israel

Apple will open a research and development center in Israel that will focus on semiconductors, the Globes business daily reported on Thursday. The Israeli newspaper said the maker of iPods, IPads and iPhones has already hired Israeli high-tech veteran Aharon Aharon to run the center. Apple was not available for comment. Globes said that although Apple was a global innovation leader, it is a small investor in R&D. It invested $2.4...

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Sony eyes Vita push, feels Fitch heat

Sony Corp, set to report a $1 billion loss this year, is banking on a big slate of new software to drive sales of its new PlayStation Vita handheld games device, even as Fitch downgraded the Japanese electronics giant to a notch above junk. Welshman Andrew House, who took the top job at Sony Computer Entertainment in September, must plot a much-needed success story for the Vita, negotiating a minefield of consumer gloom and competition...

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AutoKill Task Manager Pro 1.0.12 Apk 2011

AutoKill Task Manager Pro 1.0.12 Apk | 570.4 KB | Mediafire DownloadRequires Android:1.6 and upV1.0.12 update:# AutoKill Task Manager Pro is coming up!Please buy “AutoKill Task Manager Pro Key” for the pro version.“AutoKill Task Manager” is an app manager tool which can kill running apps to speed up your device and save your device’s battery life. It is “Auto Kill” enabled task killer which can help reduce your efforts to kill apps manually.We...

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Go!Chat for Facebook Pro v4.3.3 Apk 2011

Go!Chat for Facebook Pro v4.3.3 Apk | 2.19 Mb | Mediafire Download  Requirements: Android OS 1.6 an upGo!Chat for Facebook lets you talk with your friends via Facebook chat ..Go!Chat for Facebook lets you talk with your friends via Facebook chatRated by users as the best Facebook chat experience for Android. Pro exclusive features:•NO ADS!•Exclusive and improved landscape layout for chat window•Ignore/mute contactsFeatures•Easy & Secure...

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TweetCaster Pro for Twitter 4.5 Apk 2011

TweetCaster Pro for Twitter 4.5 Apk | 4.3 MB | Mediafire DownloadRequires Android:1.5 and upV4.5 update:# One TweetCaster – Phone and tablet versions combined into one# Saving Your Place – Fix implemented to save place in timeline when switching accounts# Links – Links now open in external browser (tablet)TweetCaster is the #1 Android Twitter app with the most innovative features!TweetCaster Pro is the banner ad-free version of TweetCaster, the...

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How to change the serial number used in Windows XP

Valid for XP CorporateStep 1Open Start/Run... and type the command:regedit and click "OK" (or press ENTER).Go toCode:HKey_Local_Machine\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\Current Version\WPAEvents,on the right double click on "oobetimer" and change at least one digit of this value to deactivate windows.Click "OK" and close the Registry Editor.Step 2Open Start/Run... and type the command:Code:%systemroot%\system32\oobe\msoobe.exe /a and click "OK" (or...

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Electronic Gadgets That Won’t Drain Your Bank Account

Christmas is coming, and invariably you have some tech loving people on your gift list expecting the latest electronic gadgets. If you aren’t technologically inclined, it may be difficult to know what to buy unless someone has been very specific. If you find yourself struggling to choose the perfect tech toy, here is a list that is sure to help. Best of all: none of these gifts will break the bank!Electronic Gadgets That Won't Drain Your Bank...

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Bloggers Are Creative Creatures – Easy Ways To Get Inspired

Anyone who has a blog knows that it takes effort to keep it alive. It doesn’t matter how great of a writer a person is, there comes a time when our work needs a boost.At times, the topic well has dried up while other times it all blurs and looks the same. If looking for inspiration is taking up more time than your planning or writing stages, then you have come to the right article.I have been in the above scenario more times than I can count. However...

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How to get great deals on hot gadgets

Best Buy The holidays are just around the corner, and for many that means trying to get great deals on those hot gadgets everyone in the family seems to be screaming about. However, not all gadgets are created equal and there are several that will definitely be best buys during this years holiday season. Great gadgets worth buying this year include:Kindle FireFor those interested in tablets who don’t want to pay the high price of the iPad, the...

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Low Cost Options for High Tech

Everybody wants the latest and greatest. We all see the ads and read the reviews of the newest, most spectacular electronic devices on the market. Unfortunately, most of us simply do not have the money to buy every new gadget that comes out. Most of us don’t even need all the features of these hot products. What can we do? There are a lot of products available that may not be the absolute best, but are still extremely good products. In most cases,...

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Samsung Galaxy II To Beat Apple iPhone?

Samsung Galaxy 2 vs Apple Iphone The newest Galaxy S2 was recently released in more than 100 countries and the phone is expected to reach the US within a month. Since the demand for the new smartphone was higher than what the company expected, Samsung wasn’t able to meet the number of mobile devices that consumers were expecting that they could buy. After 85 days of being out in the market, Samsung was able to sell more than five million units...

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The Keys Points In Running A Successful Business

Running a business today is a path that many people choose to go down, rather than being a part of a larger machine. It’s not for everyone, and with uncertain economic times it can be tough, but being in control of your own destiny is a definite plus point. You don’t have to rely on a larger company for your job prospects, but at the same time you have to make sure you begin in the right way. When it brings success it is one of the most rewarding...

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US calls out Russia and Chinese over hacking attacks

US GOVERNMENT REPORT has come out swinging at Russia and China, and accused the countries of hacking and spying. The report titled "Foreign Spies Stealing US Economic Secrets in Cyberspace" is dated October and comes from the Office of Counter Intelligence. It says that hacking attacks are increasing on government and financial institutions. A graphic in the report shows the Wall Street sign and some Chinese currency, just in case we were in any doubt of where it was going. Although Russia is a player on the battleground of US computer systems, China and its attacks dominate the US report (pdf). That country, though its government has always...

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Oracle, Dell, EMC and VMware want it to be in the server

There is a battle going on behind the scenes over the location of storage's soul: the controller hardware and software. Oracle, Dell, EMC and VMware want it to be in the server, while NetApp and HDS want it to be in the array, an array operating with servers but distinct from them. The picture is not as clear-cut as this on the surface – NetApp is working with Oracle for example – but this is my take on what is happening down in the development...

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Nvidia is looking to push future Tegra chips into servers

Looking beyond graphics processors, Nvidia is looking to push future Tegra chips into servers as the chip maker tries to break Intel's dominance in that market.Nvidia is developing its first CPU for PCs and servers, code-named Project Denver, which is based on the ARM architecture and also aimed at mobile devices. The Denver core will go into future Tegra chips, and special improvements will be made to server chips, said Steve Scott, chief technology...

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ASP.NET Assaults Strike Over 1m Websites

Google discloses a bulk contamination spree that disrupted innumerable websites using malware, which attacked ASP.NET or ASP Web-application protocols, published Softpedia dated October 13, 2011.Essentially, more than 600,000 websites were affected when an SQL-insertion assault targeted ASP.NET sites. And during the period when Armorize publicized this finding, merely 6 security firms from a total of 43 managed to identify the malicious program.Apparently, the contamination involves a code insertion inside online sites that hospitals, restaurants along with other small-sized companies operate as well as implanting of a web-link, that's invisible,...

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Five Features To Witness On A Cloud Hosting Control Panel

The ability to access information from anywhere and with different devices is a great benefit of cloud hosting. The control panel, however, needs to have a few basic features to get the most out of the service. In particular, five features should be on a cloud server hosting cpanel. When working with cloud computing, an individual or a business needs to be able to access, maintain, and alter the files on the virtual system. The ability to...

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