How social media may be hurting your career, according to this TED Talks success expert

Want to achieve your professional goals? Log out of your Facebook, says success expert Richard St. John. The bestselling author, who has interviewed over 1,000 successful people including Bill Gates,…

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Streamroot raises $3.2 million for its peer-to-peer video delivery technology

French startup Streamroot just raised $3.2 million from Partech Ventures, Techstars Venture Capital Fund, Verizon Ventures* and R/GA. The company is taking advantage of WebRTC to make video streaming much cheaper. When you’re watching…

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Technology and the quest for sporting records

Game Changer: The Technoscientific Revolution in Sports. By Rayvon Fouché. Johns Hopkins University Press; 264 pages; $29.95.ATHLETES have always sought an edge. Ancient Greeks at the original Olympics wrote jinxes against their…

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Governor’s Technology Awards showcases 17 ‘creative’ technologies in Virginia

(Getty Images) Smarter use of data, the spread of citizen-centric websites and the creation of new digital services are the fastest growing trends in state and local government, if Virginia's latest awards…

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Solaris update plan is real, but future looks cloudy by design

Oracle looks like it's going to suggest Solaris users move to its SPARC-powered cloud. Ever since Oracle quietly announced it would not deliver any more point-zero upgrades to its Solaris operating system…

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Everything You Need to Know About Hidden Text & SEO

Hidden text is one of the oldest tricks in the SEO handbook. If you’re hoping hidden text will somehow boost your SEO efforts, you’ll quickly discover this outdated tactic is…

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JetBlue’s Head of Technology And Digital Also Runs The Company’s Venture Arm

The marriage between chief information officers and venture capital firms is a logical one, as CIOs are often the consumers of the enterprise portfolios of the venture community. There is…

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I used to think social media was a force for good. Now the evidence says I was wrong

I used to think social media was essentially a force for good, whether it was to initiate the Arab spring of 2011, or simply as a useful tool for bringing together…

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Podcast SEO 101: The Beginner’s Guide

Podcasts are hot right now. Over 112 million Americans have listened to a podcast, which is more than 40 percent of Americans age 12 or older, and 67 million Americans listen to…

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Mobile phone use in pregnancy may not affect kids’ brains

According to a study, children born to mobile phone users had an 18 per cent lower risk of low motor skills compared to children born to non-users of mobile phones.…

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