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Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Apple News:Facebook to buy messaging app WhatsApp for $16B plus $3B in RSUs

Facebook to buy messaging app WhatsApp for $16B plus $3B in RSUs - Facebook said it will keep the cross-platform messaging app an independent entity and run the service much like the current implementation of Instagram.



I can see the elance postings now: "Wanted, WhatsApp clone, budget $50.00".

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Monday, February 17, 2014
Apple News:Sun power goes big time with the world's largest solar thermal plant | VentureBeat | Green | by Barry Levine

Sun power goes big time with the world's largest solar thermal plant | VentureBeat | Green | by Barry Levine - In what could be a major turning point for industrial-grade solar energy, the Ivanpah solar power plant — the largest solar thermal project of its kind in the world — formally opened Thursday in the Mojave Desert.



This is really cool. Er, I mean hot!

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Saturday, February 15, 2014
Apple News:Apple wants to stop, track down spammers with automated disposable email addresses

Apple wants to stop, track down spammers with automated disposable email addresses - According to Apple's patent filing, suitably titled "Disposable email address generation and mapping to a regular email account," the integrated system would work at the server level to act as a screen for incoming spam mail.



Basically, what's going on in email marketing is as follows: if you're a big American media company, you can send as much spam as you like, guaranteed that your peers (other big American media companies) will deliver your bulk mail. Everyone else, small business and (spammers) has to bow down and worship a small group of sysadmins who think they should be in charge of what email gets delivered. It's nauseating. I get so much spam from Silicon Valley companies. It's almost all from them. Facebook is especially clever. If you go in and turn off all the email notifications, they add new categories that are automatically selected. Then, you have to login again and deselect those. Then they add more categories.


Personally, I find the 3 line spam emails from the Eastern Europeans about erection drugs to be the least intrusive of all the bulk email. You can tell it's spam from the word erection in the title.


Google only recently started sending bulk email. They are few and far between and I hope they stay that way.


The big loser here is small businesses trying to manage their customer lists of less than 10,000 people.

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Monday, February 10, 2014
Apple News:Opinion: Will the next Mac mini be a lot more mini than ever before? | 9to5Mac

Opinion: Will the next Mac mini be a lot more mini than ever before? | 9to5Mac - Both Asus and HP have announced i7-powered machines that make the latest Mac mini look positively porky. Here’s the ASUS Chromebox, due to go on sale next month, measuring just five inches square



Great little piece of writing and reporting.

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Friday, February 7, 2014
Apple News:Sony sells Vaio PC business to focus on mobile, splits out TV biz, & cuts 5,000 jobs | VentureBeat | Business | by Devindra Hardawar

Sony sells Vaio PC business to focus on mobile, splits out TV biz, & cuts 5,000 jobs | VentureBeat | Business | by Devindra Hardawar - Amid its third-quarter 2013 earnings report today, Sony confirmed reports that it plans to sell its Vaio PC business to investment firm Japan Industrial Partners.



Whoever gets the VAIO business could have a diamond for the Surface-led changes in the PC market. They're lusty machines. Maybe the only ones in the PC world.

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Thursday, February 6, 2014
Apple News:Steve Jobs wanted Sony's Vaio computers to run Mac OS X

Steve Jobs wanted Sony's Vaio computers to run Mac OS X - "Steve Jobs believed that Mac-compatible business would harm not only Apple's business but also the 'Mac' brand," Hayashi wrote. "But that same Steve Jobs was willing to make an exception in 2001. And that exception was Sony's VAIO."



Terrific insight. Those VAIO's are still sexy. I bet many are running Hackintosh.

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Monday, February 3, 2014
Apple News:Apportable - Objective-C for Android

Apportable - Objective-C for Android - Completely native C/C++/Objective-C on bare metal Android - no Javascript or HTML5 required.



I gave this a test drive and it's terrific. Can't wait to put it into acting. I was looking at robovm.org, but I much prefer to code in Obj-C.

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Saturday, February 1, 2014
Apple News:Tired of waiting for Apple to upgrade the Mac mini to Haswell? Make your own … | 9to5Mac

Tired of waiting for Apple to upgrade the Mac mini to Haswell? Make your own … | 9to5Mac - If you’ve decided you’ve waited long enough for Apple to update the Mac mini with a Haswell processor, you can always create a Hac mini.



Hackintosh!

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