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Om Malik: Amprius has built a lithium ion battery that can last 25% longer than today’s batteries
A lithium ion battery that can power a smart phone or tablet for up to 25 percent longer between charges than current alternatives is now out in the marketplace, from a venture capital-backed battery startup that has been very quiet for several years. The...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 12:16pm -07:00T (422 words)
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Om Malik: From Cronkite to Couric: Internet Archive gets $1 million to expand TV news collection
The 20th century’s printed output is available in digital format, but that’s not the case for television — decades worth of TV broadcasts, which represent a rich news and cultural heritage, are instead locked up and unavailable. The Inte...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 12:16pm -07:00T (399 words)
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Om Malik: Yahoo swears it isn’t going to screw up Tumblr — but how realistic is that promise?
As the dust begins to settle from one of the most significant acquisitions in web-land since the Facebook/Instagram deal, the warm glow of euphoria created by Yahoo’s $1.1-billion takeover of Tumblr has given way to the harsh reality of blending &md...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 12:16pm -07:00T (1038 words)
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Om Malik: Microsoft announces new Xbox One with live TV guide, media multitasking and Skype group video chats
Microsoft announced its new Xbox called Xbox One at a press event in Redmond, Wash. Tuesday that puts a heavy emphasis on TV and living room entertainment with a heavy focus on live TV. Don Mattrick, President of Interactive Entertainment at Microsoft, ca...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 11:01am -07:00T (306 words)
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Om Malik: Considerations for rolling out an NoSQL strategy in the enterprise
The information-processing demands of many of today’s businesses have long outgrown legacy RDBMS software from Oracle, IBM, Sybase, Microsoft SQL Server and MySQL. In many cases DBAs are still stitching these systems together, adding another table and a...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 9:46am -07:00T (268 words)
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Om Malik: Report: one in four online teens now use Twitter
What social networks are teens flocking to these days? That’s the billion dollar question as we see companies like Yahoo snapping up Tumblr in an effort to keep a younger audience. But teens are a tough audience to predict, and trends can change dra...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 9:46am -07:00T (533 words)
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Om Malik: Leaked benchmarks suggest Intel could power Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 3 10.1
Intel may be poised to get its silicon inside Samsung’s popular brand of Galaxy tablets based on online benchmark test results. The GFXBench site, which gathers user-submitted device performance test data from a benchmark app, shows a “Samsun...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 9:46am -07:00T (342 words)
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Om Malik: The future of propaganda: A Q&A with Sean Gourley about big data and the “war of ideasâ€
In 2009, Sean Gourley, an Oxford-trained physicist, gave a TED talk called “The Mathematics of War.â€Â Gourley had been working with the Pentagon, the United Nations and the Iraqi Government to help them better understand the nature of the insurgency ...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 8:31am -07:00T (2678 words)
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Om Malik: Powermat marries PowerKiss, vows to use same wireless charging standard
Travelers between the U.S. and Europe have one less barrier to deal with when it comes to wireless charging a mobile phone or tablet. Powermat, a joint venture with Duracell, and Helsinki-based PowerKiss reconciled their differences and became one on Tues...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 8:31am -07:00T (338 words)
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Om Malik: Brow.si wants to make mobile websites behave like native apps
Publishers these days have a choice when it comes to mobile: design for the mobile browser, or go the app route. Apps tend to allow greater functionality, but it’s a lot more efficient to create a website that renders well on both the desktop and mo...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 8:31am -07:00T (568 words)
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Om Malik: Knewton teams up with Macmillan to bring adaptive learning beyond K-12 and higher ed
Education technology startup Knewton just inked another deal with a major education publisher. But, for the first time, the initial audience for its partnership with Macmillan isn’t high school or college students — it’s for adults aroun...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 7:16am -07:00T (355 words)
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Om Malik: Why one startup thinks laying a few bets could help companies convince employees to slim down
I like going to baseball games for the camaraderie, ice-cold beer and general excuse to sit out in the summertime sun. But the only way I can actually pay attention to what’s happening on the field (unless maybe it’s the last inning of the last game...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 7:16am -07:00T (864 words)
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Om Malik: Six finalists in the book discovery Publishing Hackathon; winner to be announced at BEA
The Publishing Hackathon, held this past weekend at coworking space The Alley in New York, gave 30 teams a little over a day to come up with an idea for a book discovery startup, build a demo and pitch it to a panel of judges. Six finalists were chosen Su...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 7:16am -07:00T (398 words)
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Om Malik: Why racist, nasty comments are better than none at all
Above the Law is a tabloid blog where the legal community comes to get news and gossip — and to say terrible things about one another. Many of the reader comments on the site are so mean or hurtful that they make notorious troll forums like Gawker f...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 6:01am -07:00T (541 words)
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Om Malik: With $10M, ConsultingMD helps patients get speedy second opinions from top specialists
ConsultingMD, a startup that connects patients with leading medical specialists, has raised a $10 million round of funding from Venrock Capital. The company, which launched earlier this year and previously raised $1 million from Harrison Metal, enables pa...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 4:46am -07:00T (529 words)
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