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In a Shift, Firms say U.S. Will Lead IT Growth | CFOworld
IT hardware and software companies expect to see most of their revenue coming this year from the U.S. market, which is a reversal from the last two years when China and India led, according to KPMG in its annual survey of the technology business climate.
KPMG, an audit, tax and advisory firm, found in its survey that the U.S. market will provide the highest percentage of revenue and employment growth over the next 12 months, besting China, Brazil and India in both areas.
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Shark fin soup: Battle over shark fin soup in California heats up - latimes.com
An emotional battle over a traditional soup has split California's Chinese American community as environmental and animal welfare groups push the Legislature to ban the sale and possession of shark fins.
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NEW YORK — The philosopher Isaiah Berlin once remarked that the United States was “aesthetically inferior but morally superior” to Europe.
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Google Introduces Facebook Competitor, Emphasizing Privacy - NYTimes.com
Google took its biggest leap yet onto Facebook’s turf on Tuesday, introducing a social networking service called the Google+ project — which happens to look very much like Facebook.
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Google+, Its Most Facebookish Effort Yet - TheStreet
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- On Tuesday Google(GOOG_) launched Google+, its latest social networking project, with big hopes you'll attend the virtual party.
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Borrowing heavily from Facebook and its own mediocre social efforts like Buzz and Wave, Google+ is designed to give users a social homepage to organize friends and interests.
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Your next job: Mobile app developer? - Computerworld
Computerworld - As market demand surges for apps to run on iOS, Android and whatever operating system will power the next wave of smart devices, companies are facing a dearth of mobile development talent. For IT professionals with programming skills, that gap represents a fresh opportunity to embark on a career makeover.
To put the demand in perspective, consider that Apple racked up $1.78 billion in app sales in 2010, and global mobile app sales are forecast to hit $4 billion this year, according to market researcher IHS. -
My Syria, Awake Again After 40 Years - NYTimes.com
IN 2009, National Geographic published an article on Syria by a special correspondent, Don Belt, who had interviewed President Bashar al-Assad. In 2000, shortly after the funeral of his father, President Hafez al-Assad, the son entered his father’s office for only the second time in his life. His first visit had been at age 7, “running excitedly to tell his father about his first French lesson.” The president “remembers seeing a big bottle of cologne on a cabinet next to his father’s desk,” Mr. Belt wrote. “He was amazed to find it still there 27 years later, practically untouched.”
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TSA Makes Cancer Patient Remove Adult Diaper - The Daily Beast
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US police smash camera for recording killing - Features - Al Jazeera English
A picture may be worth 1,000 words, but Narces Benoit's decision to videotape a shooting by Miami police landed him in jail after officers smashed his cell-phone camera.
It was 4am on May 30 when Benoit and his girlfriend Erika Davis saw officers firing dozens of bullets into a car driven by Raymond Herisse, a suspect who hit a police officer and other vehicles while driving recklessly. Herisse died in the hail of lead, and four bystanders also suffered gunshot wounds, the Miami Herald newspaper reported.
Police noticed the man filming the shooting and an officer jumped into his truck, and put a pistol to his head, Benoit said. The video shows officers crowding around Herisse's vehicle before opening fire, followed by indistinguishable yelling at onlookers, including Benoit, to stop filming.
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How to Land Your Kid in Therapy - Magazine - The Atlantic
IF THERE’S ONE thing I learned in graduate school, it’s that the poet Philip Larkin was right. (“They fuck you up, your mum and dad, / They may not mean to, but they do.”) At the time, I was a new mom with an infant son, and I’d decided to go back to school for a degree in clinical psychology. With baby on the brain and term papers to write, I couldn’t ignore the barrage of research showing how easy it is to screw up your kids. Of course, everyone knows that growing up with “Mommy Dearest” produces a very different child from one raised by, say, a loving PTA president who has milk and homemade cookies waiting after school. But in that space between Joan Crawford and June Cleaver, where most of us fall, it seemed like a lot could go wrong in the kid-raising department.
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From Richard Steinberg/Mr. Smarty Pants (The Austin Chronicle):
Professor Corbato
I write a trivia column for a newspaper called The Austin Chronicle. Someone has asked me the origin of the word daemon as it applies to computing. Best I can tell based on my research, the word was first used by people on your team at Project MAC using the IBM 7094 in 1963. The first daemon (an abbreviation for Disk And Executive MONitor) was a program that automatically made tape backups of the file system. Does this sound about right? Any corrections or additions? Thank you for your time! -
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Mystery File System
Last week Jim posted a comment asking about reverse engineering the firmware for some Chinese routers with the intention of extracting the Web files and translating them to English.
Although I usually work with Linux based firmware, this sounded interesting so I thought I’d investigate. Although I wasn’t able to completely recover the Web files, the process of reversing a file system format seemed like a good subject for discussion.
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What has the war in Afghanistan really achieved? - Asia, World - The Independent
At least 60 people died in a suicide bombing just 25 miles from Kabul yesterday. In a few days' time, a report on Afghanistan from the International Crisis Group will say that violence and the billions of dollars in international aid have brought wealthy officials and insurgents together. As a result, "the economy is increasingly dominated by a criminal oligarchy of politically connected
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Them That’s Not Shall Lose - NYTimes.com
“Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.”
James Baldwin penned that line more than 50 years ago, but it seems particularly prescient today, if in a different manner than its original intent. -
Generation Facebook - NYTimes.com
“My e-mail?” The boy looks at me as if I had just suggested staying in touch by carrier pigeon. “What, you don’t have an email?” I ask, insecure now. “Sure I do. But I only use it for my parents and my grandparents,” he says. “Aren’t you on Facebook?” I am. Phew. Of course I mostly check my Facebook profile when I’m prompted by an e-mail notification, but I don’t tell him that. Trevor Dougherty is 19 and to him, I am a geriatric 36-year-old who belongs to that amorphous generation of people-who-don’t-really-get-social-networking that stretches all the way back to, well, his grandparents.
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Four things Google needs to do to beat Facebook on the social web - Fortune Tech
FORTUNE -- Google is confronting a series of rugged (and, perhaps, ultimately insurmountable) challenges. And make no mistake: these challenges loom large, because Google's dominance of the Internet landscape is increasingly being threatened by Facebook's rise.
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Windows 8 for software developers: the Longhorn dream reborn?
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No interviews, Twitter, travel for Chinese artist Ai: source | Reuters
(Reuters) - No talking, no tweeting and no travel for a year -- these are some of the conditions of Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei's release from more than two months in detention, a source close to the family told Reuters on Friday.
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American Express Teams With Foursquare - NYTimes.com
When the New York start-up Foursquare Labs made its debut in 2009, it quickly began popularizing the idea of “checking in,” or using a cellphone application to tell friends that you are at a particular restaurant, bar or park.
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Harrowing, Heartbreaking Tales of Overworked Americans | Mother Jones
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Krokodil: The drug that eats junkies - Europe, World - The Independent
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c - Why a*a*a*a*a*a cannot be optimized to (a*a*a)*(a*a*a)? - Stack Overflow
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Why Microsoft has made developers horrified about coding for Windows 8
Why Microsoft has made developers horrified about coding for Windows 8
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