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Beats Vs. Spotify: Let The Streaming Wars Begin

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Beats Music is being launched today to much fanfare and rightfully so. Using “music curation” as its main calling card, it’s a different take on a theme used by other competitive services. Whether...

Writing Off Justin Bieber’s $75,000 Strip Club Bill

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Justin Bieber allegedly dropped $75,000 in just a few hours in a Miami strip club. The King of Diamonds club told TMZ that Mr. Bieber “got $75k in 1 dollar bills and went wild.” It may sound silly,...

Verizon 250MB Share Everything Plan makes Smartphones cheaper

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Verizon Wireless has added a new Share Everything data plan to its line that lets people that don’t need a lot of data each month get into a new device on the cheap. The new plan has a scant 250MB of...

Jamaican Bobsled Team Seeks Funding for Winter Olympics

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The twin athletes from Jamaica who have qualified for the Sochi Olympics are having pecuniary problems. Way back in 1988, the Jamaican bobsled team got medals in memory of which a movie by the name...

Gun-Toting At The IRS

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The IRS wields enormous power, but should agents be armed too? With all of the controversy facing the IRS and the tax system these days, it can seem doubly scary to contemplate tax collectors being...

Proposing A Compelling OSCON Talk

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By Simon St. Laurent The OSCON call for proposals closes on January 30th. I’ve seen some great explanations of how to write a conference proposal generally, and my co-chair Matthew McCullough has an...
    






2014 Detroit Auto Show: The Dozen Biggest Production Debuts Of NAIAS

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Performance cars supplanted alternative-fuel vehicles as the main attraction at this year’s North American International Auto Show. But just because automakers are busy unveiling fast and powerful...
    






NSA Reforms: A Step In The Right Direction Or PR Stunt?

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The complexity of privacy discussions in a hyper-connected world of free services was made clear this morning. In a speech that was high on rhetoric but short on details (which will be made clear in...