Live in a Mario Level With This 15-Foot-Long Poster | Hitwise: Google US Search Share Down 5% In The Last Year; Bing, Yahoo Gained | Why Microsoft's purchase of Yammer is the smartest deal of the year | Star Trek's Dr. McCoy and DevOps 2.0 | Sony Debuts New Android 4.0 Xperia Miro and Tipo via Facebook Campaign

Live in a Mario Level With This 15-Foot-Long Poster

Posted by PCWorld
Plaster you wall in the pixelated world of Mario with this very long poster that displays a whole level from the original Super Mario Bros. game[...]
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Hitwise: Google US Search Share Down 5% In The Last Year; Bing, Yahoo Gained

Posted by TechCrunch
Google is still by far the most dominant search engine in the U.S., but in the last year it actually lost some momentum while Yahoo and especially Microsoft’s Bing both saw increases, according to figures out today from Experian Hitwise, and bolstered by separate numbers released yesterday by Compete, with both calculating searches between May 2012 and May 2011.
According to Hitwise’s figures,�Google accounted for 65.02 percent of all U.S. searches conducted in the four weeks ending June 2, 2012, compared to�68.11 percent in the same period in 2011 — down by 3.09 percent, or a percentage change of negative 5 percent.
Meanwhile Bing-powered searches accounted or 28.12 percen[...]
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Why Microsoft’s purchase of Yammer is the smartest deal of the year

Posted by VentureBeat
That didn’t take long. It’s less than 24 hours after the news broke, and critics have already come out of the woodwork to denounce Microsoft’s $1.2 billion acquisition of enterprise social networking platform Yammer.
Analysts are panning the move. And PandoDaily?s Sarah Lacy is begging Yammer CEO David Sacks to reconsider.
They’ve got it all wrong. This is the best Silicon Valley deal we’ve seen all year. Facebook’s $1 billion purchase of Instagram makes Microsoft’s pickup of Yammer look like the Louisiana Purchase by comparison.
(Full disclosure: Sacks is an investor in my company, CapLinked. I also worked for Sacks at PayPal, and CapLinked has an e[...]
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Star Trek’s Dr. McCoy and DevOps 2.0

Posted by Gigaom
“Crazy way to travel – spreading a man’s molecules all over the universe.” — Dr. McCoy, Star Trek, the original series, “Obsession“
Dr. McCoy was always one of my favorite Star Trek characters. Among his many endearing quirks was a healthy skepticism of transporter technology. Being a doctor, he understood the complexity of the human body and all its constituent systems. Taking someone apart, molecule by molecule, and then reassembling them somewhere else is fraught with peril.
It?s not enough to get the skeleton and muscles right. You need the heart and lungs to be there, too, in the right places. You need the brain, down to every firing neuron and[...]
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Sony Debuts New Android 4.0 Xperia Miro and Tipo via Facebook Campaign

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Japanese electronics maker Sony has announced two new smartphones - the Xperia Miro and Xperia Tipo - both running on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich[...]
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