In Case You Missed It: June 7 - June 13
The biggest problem with having Steve Jobs kick off the WWDC with the iPhone 4 announcement is that all the developer news that also happened gets buried in the press that follows. We would gladly trade three "Steve Jobs Couldn't Get Wi-Fi To Work" articles for just one great new app announcement or dongle sweetness article.
Well, we haven't forgotten that other news happens, so join the Mac|Life stafff, won't you, for all the other stuff that happened this week that isn't just about the iPhone.
Features:
- - There's not a thing in the world quite like good quality free software. And if you're a writer, there are literally hundreds of choices. We've narrowed that down to three gotta haves for your Apple products for when you just have to get that idea out onto the screen.
- - Of course, you're not going to get any writing done if you gets sucked into the gaming world on Facebook, but there are some pretty fun time killers nonetheless.
How-Tos:
- - This regular feature can help you learn a thing or two that you might not have stumbled on yourself. Want to check your iPhone data usage? Want to find an app quickly? Keep reading.
- - See, now, there are things that happen that don't involve Apple products, like the World Cup. But since our readers are Apple junkies, there must be some way to bring futbol and iProducts together. Well we've got the best of the best all ready for you to shout GOOOOOOOOAAAALLLLLLLL!!!!!!
Reviews:
- - The Six-String Thing - Maybe sports isn't really your thing. Or maybe just not soccer. No, maybe you're more a rocking out kinda guy. If that's the case, app developers are taking advantage of all that big screen goodness on the iPad to hook you up with plenty of six-string love.
- - While a lot of apps make use of the iPad's greater screen size to cram more stuff in, an often overlooked wonderful addition is how much more beauty you can see. Star Walk takes the familiar iPhone app and brings the gorgeous night sky and interstellar space to the big screen. And at $4.99? That's a steal, people.
News:
Of course, of course, we're getting to it. Yes, the iPhone 4 was announced, with pre-orders beginning next week and shipping out the week after. Meanwhile, in our photo gallery...and here's the rates on you'll be chewing through thanks to AT&T...plus, the list of where to buy your newest iPhone is growing as ...., though with Apple's tight price controls, it's not like they can offer quite the deep cuts they'd like to...or if you're across the pond (wondering why England could only TIE the US soccer team), ...and if this leak is to be believed, Apple plans on shipping a whole bunch of the new handsets; how many? How does sound?...just don't drop it when you get your hands on the new iPhone, because iFixYouri claims , and a lot.
Of course, the feature packed iOS 4 will be coming along shortly too, and for some people with beta versions of the software, ...maybe instead of worrying so much about rolling out iBooks, Cupertino can , as these gurus are betting the keynote gaffe was related to iOS 4's drivers...maybe someone can look into the and see if there isn't something glitchy going on in there; perhaps someone in the jailbreak community.... since Apple doesn't seem to be able to keep the dev community from , as one enterprising hacker's already jailbroken it.... of course, all that jailbreaking will need updates once iOS goes live with a , though we're sure they'll get around to it...and apparently from Cisco, much like how they got the iPhone name and the iPad from Fujitsu.
Meanwhile, the iPad's been making some news, first because AT&T is often a bag of fail and managed to leave a that Goatse Security drove a truck right through...upon driving said truck, Goatse loaded up on sensitive email addresses attached to the SIMs of these iPads, but really? ...of course we know who in government got their hands on the tablet, as many of the emails grabbed were attached to ...which means of course that now the in this...in more jolly iPad news, the continues to get new wrinkles...and Hulu better get on the stick, because mobilely speaking, netbooks are looking to be around much longer...and we can't tell if this is we've seen lately...or if these are. You tell us.
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Easy way to save money: Free apps help identify no-fee ATMs when you travel
Use iPhone app to identify no-fee ATMs
Want to save money when you travel? Sure, you can look for cheap airfares, budget hotels and discount car rentals. But here’s a simple change that can save you big bucks over the long haul: Stop paying ATM service fees.
After all, why should you pay a few dollars to withdraw money from a machine just because your bank doesn’t have a branch nearby?
Fortunately a handful of apps can help you locate ATMs that won’t charge you fees.
I tried two on my iPhone, and both were free. So it costs you nothing to save some dough on the road or even in your hometown.
The first app I tried is from Allpoint. It’s a network of about 37,000 ATM locations around the world. A few thousand are in the United Kingdom and the rest are in the U.S.
The ATMs are usually in drug stores, retail outlets and the like. The network charges you zero to withdraw money — though your own bank might charge you something for using an out-of-network ATM.
The app is easy to use. You can search from your current location or by address. It shows nearby Allpoint locations on a map or in list form with distance noted. I used it awhile back to find an ATM close to work. It turned out that machine was even closer than the bank I’d used occasionally at $3 a pop.
Allpoint’s app works seamlessly with the iPhone’s map function to give directions to whichever location you choose. The network also offers apps for BlackBerry and Android smart phones.
I also tried CO-OP Network’s app. It bills itself as the largest credit union-only ATM network in the country. For those with credit union accounts, the app serves much the same function as Allpoint.
It has fewer locations than the first app. And it was a bit slower on my iPhone. There were fewer locations as well. The credit union app offers a link to the location’s website and shows it on a map or in list form. But it didn’t offer step-by-step directions like the Allpoint app.
But either one can save some serious money over time. Consider that a $3 surcharge to withdraw $20 is like paying a 15 percent fee to withdraw your money.
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Applelinks iPhone And iPad News Reader - Tuesday, June 8, 2010
• Prisoner Of iTunes - The iPad File Transfer Horror
• Can Windows Phone 7 Gain Momentum With All Eyes On Apple?
• From iPhone To iOS - Apple Nabs (Another) Cisco Handle
• Cisco and Apple Agreement on iOS Trademark
• Google Still The Word On iPhone Search Box
• NY AG Cuomo Looks Into iPad Sales Over Discrimination Claim
• Free "iPad Basics" Ebook Introduces Full iPad Documentation
• The Tech Night Owl: The WWDC Report: An iPhone or a Tricorder?.......
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Microsoft Office Web Apps: Why to use and Why not
Microsoft’s going the Google way to offer its widely used and highly-priced Office Suite Online for free. The Redmond company offers free online office components that comprises Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote as a part of free online suite called Office Web Apps. That said, the online edition of the Microsoft Office is an substantial development for consumers in the current round of updates. Overtly, it projects Microsoft’s commitment to cloud computing - - promoting applications online instead of desktop programs. On a broader perspective it seems the software giant is all set to take on the rivals such as Google and Zoho offering online office suites. With a week’s time for the release of new version of traditional desktop Microsoft Office version - Office 2010, we decided on an extensive comparison with online version. Before you set out to purchase the desktop version, you need to see whether the online version of Office Suite has enough to do with.
In order to use the free Office Web Suite you need to visit the office.live.com. To work on the new online Office you will need a free account for the company’s broader Windows Live onilne service.
The Office Web Apps run smoothly on all major browsers - Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari and Chrome. As is expected, the online version of Office suite lacks some of the local desktop version of Office. Microsoft is trying to ensure that the profitability of its Desktop suite is not compromised. Then, why did Microsoft launch the online Office Web Apps? The software major is draws a line between the two versions — referring the Office Web Apps as a companion to desktop Office for “light” work.
Let’s take a look at the major pros and cons of using the Office Web Apps over Office 2010
Pros
User Interface
Online version of the Office suite wears a simpler look and feel than its desktop counterpart. It includes the Ribbon feature.
Storage
The new Web Apps boasts of a 25 gigabytes of free online storage for the documents, via a companion Microsoft online storage system called SkyDrive. The Office Web Apps produce documents that use the same file formats as the desktop programs. The desktop program gets fully accurate when it is opened in desktop Office. This is clearly fidelity. In the tests the claim is held true, at least on my Windows PC.
Features
- The new version of desktop Office suite has several new features, but most of them are devoted to power users or corporate users. It isn’t a big change as the predecessors.
- Two web apps, Excel and OneNote allow multiple users to log on work on the same document togather. The Excel online is a reduced version of the
- The Office Web App use a variety of fonts and styles, insert and resize photos and create tables.
- It allows you to view documents but not edit them on your iPhone or iPad. It also works with other mobile devices.
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December 28, 2012
Brit office worker flashes bra at Google Street View camera
By ANI
Thursday, June 10, 2010
LONDON - An office worker in Britain has become an Internet sensation after she flashed her bra at a Street View camera car.
The busty woman, who lifted her top as the car drove past her workplace, escaped being disciplined by her bosses at the Doma Farm Nursery in Uckfield, East Sussex.
“It made me laugh,” the Sun quoted web user LAP, who spotted her, as stating.
Another called Bernard Stotesbury added: “One presumes that she did not have enough time to remove the bra?”
Street View is said to cover 96 percent of Britain’s roads. (ANI)
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Review: Microsoft’s Web Apps are free, but limited, taste of Office
Review: Web Apps are limited free taste of Office
NEW YORK — This week saw the launch of a free version of Microsoft’s flagship Office software, available online. In other news, hell just froze over.
The idea of Microsoft Corp. letting people use its software for free will take some getting used to. But rest assured, it makes sense: The new Office Web Apps are rather stripped-down versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote.
In our test, it’s evident that Microsoft is positioning these free “Web applications,” which run in a browser, as extensions of and supplements to its full Office suite, rather than as standalone replacements in the vein of Google’s Docs, which has been available since 2006.
That said, the free Microsoft programs can still prove valuable for those who don’t want to buy the software. Microsoft is releasing its latest version, Office 2010, to consumers next week. The “Home and Student” package, which consists of the same four applications that are available on the Web, will cost $149 for the full, packaged product, and $119 for a download.
In particular, the Web Apps will be helpful for those who collaborate with people who have the full Office suite. You can open documents they send and modify text, spreadsheets and so forth. But the bulk of the formatting will still need to be done with the desktop application.
The Web Apps can also be a standalone alternative to Google Docs, if your demands are low. You can create, share and print new documents in the browser. Web-created Word documents may satisfy many users, while PowerPoint decks will be very crude.
As is Microsoft’s intent, the Web Apps are most useful to those who also buy the software. You can shuttle your documents back and forth between the desktop and Web versions. For instance, if you have Office on your work computer, you can now make changes from your home computer, even if it’s a Macintosh or a puny netbook.
So how do you access the Web Apps? If you have a Windows Live or Hotmail account, you will notice a link to “Office” at the top of the screen after you log in. Otherwise, sign up for an account. The files will live in a Web-based “SkyDrive” tied to the account.
A word about browsers: If your computer is on the old side, or a low-powered one like a netbook, you’ll want to avoid using the Web Apps with Microsoft’s own Internet Explorer. In my test on a computer that’s seen four or five summers already, typing in the Word Web App using Internet Explorer 8 was painful. The text took too long to appear, and the sentence wavered up and down as if I were hammering on a mechanical typewriter. The app simply overloaded the PC’s processor, and it was unable to keep pace with the typing.
I didn’t have the same problem when using Internet Explorer on a new, faster laptop, nor was it a problem when I used the Firefox browser on the old PC. Google Inc.’s Chrome browser did an even better job of keeping the load on the processor light, though an add-on program that makes it easy to send Web documents to the desktop version of the Office program does not work in Chrome.
Here’s a rundown of the Web Apps, and the differences from the offline versions:
Word — The most fully featured of the apps. You can type, check spelling, set headlines, create tables and insert pictures. You can’t tweak the margins, create columns, or access footnotes or comments, though you can view all these features in a “Reading View” if they’ve been added in the desktop program. Note that unlike the other Web Apps and Google Docs, Word Web App does not automatically save your document as you work — you have to hit the Save button. Google Docs’ word processor is more fully featured, but fancy stuff, including footnotes, doesn’t work well when imported into Word.
Excel — You can enter data and formulas in spreadsheets and have them calculated correctly. You can’t adjust the layout of the sheet or create pie charts or other graphics. Oddly, you can’t move cells or columns around: You have to cut them out, make space for them somewhere else, and then paste them. You can’t open some spreadsheets that have “comments, shapes or other objects.”
PowerPoint — You can edit text and add slides, but you can’t adjust graphic elements. If you have an arrow pointing the wrong way, you can delete it, but you can’t make it point the right way. You can create a presentation with pre-formatted boxes and diagrams, but your options are very limited. The Web App is mostly good for minor edits or last-minute changes.
OneNote — Microsoft’s sleeper Office app, designed to help you collect information and notes in one, easily searchable place. The Web App lets you paste pictures into your notes, but the more useful features of the desktop program, like inserting PDFs and clippings from Web pages, are missing. The app is supposed to be able to send notes to the desktop program and vice versa, but this didn’t work — I got error messages instead. A Microsoft representative said this may be a symptom of the flood of users trying the Apps this week.
Online:
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December 27, 2012
‘Generation Next’: Young up-and-comers being pegged, labeled before they even come of age
CHICAGO — They aren’t even out of grade school. But already, people are trying to name the youngest up-and-coming generation, and figure out who they might be and how they might be different from their predecessors.
At a loss for something more original, many call them Generation Z, because they follow Generations X and Y. They’ve also been referred to as Generation Net or “iGen,” since they’ve never known a world without the Internet.
Beyond being the tech savviest of generations, some generational experts think these kids will be different — and perhaps less entitled — because they’re growing up in a recession.
But other experts who study young people say they have their doubts about that.
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Dell lowers 1st-qtr profit by $100M to set aside legal reserve it may have to pay SEC
Dell lowers 1Q profit to build $100M legal reserve
ROUND ROCK, Texas — Dell Inc. said Thursday that it lowered its first-quarter results by $100 million, or 5 cents per share, to set aside a $100 million reserve it may need to pay out as part of a settlement related to an ongoing SEC accounting probe into the computer maker’s accounting and financial reporting practices.
The company also said its CEO, Michael Dell, is talking with the Securities and Exchange Commission about a possible settlement.
Dell first disclosed an internal investigation into its accounting in 2006, saying it was notified in August of that year of an SEC inquiry related to its revenue recognition and financial reporting.
In 2007, it said it would restate more than four years of financial results with lower earnings after the probe found that its employees had misled auditors and manipulated results to meet performance targets.
Dell said Thursday that a settlement would include negligence-based fraud charges and non-fraud based charges connected to disclosures and alleged omissions that occurred before fiscal 2008 as part of its relationship with chip maker Intel Corp.
Dell said in a statement that its CEO and the SEC have begun talking about a “settlement framework” to resolve the allegations against it.
In the statement, Dell said that a settlement would not prevent Dell from working as an officer or director of a public company, and “would be made without admitting or denying the SEC’s allegations.”
In May, the company had reported a profit of $441 million, or 22 cents per share, for the Feburary-through-April quarter. The company says its profit for that period is now $341 million, or 17 cents per share. Its adjusted earnings remain the same at 30 cents per share.
Dell’s shares dropped 30 cents, or 2.3 percent, to $12.77 in after-hours trading following its news release. It ended the regular session up 29 cents at $13.07.
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December 26, 2012
Allscripts-Misys buying Eclipsys in $1.3B deal combining healthcare information tech companies
NEW YORK — The health care information technology company Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions Inc. is buying rival Eclipsys Corp. for about $1.3 billion in stock, the companies said Wednesday.
Allscripts is a leader in providing physicians and their offices with ways to keep tabs on patient care records while Eclipsys provides similar services for hospitals and health systems. Those records include test results and medical histories.
The combined company’s client base will include over 180,000 U.S. physicians, 1,500 hospitals, and nearly 10,000 nursing homes, hospices and home care organizations, the companies said.
The combined company’s increased size and resources may also give its clients greater access to about $30 billion in federal funding for hospital and physician adoption of electronic health records as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the companies said. The incentives, which aim to shift the health care system to more efficient portable electronic records from paper records, begin in 2011.
“For the first time, we have a company with the size, scale and reach to allow that to happen, said Allscripts Chairman and CEO Glen Tullman, citing the shift to electronic records. “Think of this as doing what the Internet did for computers.”
Adoption of electronic records by physicians is projected to grow from 12 percent to 90 percent by 2019, the companies said, citing a Congressional Budget Office’s March 2009 report. That same report said total spending on health care services would shrink because of the reduction in paperwork and inappropriate tests, along with lower administrative overhead. The report did not provide an estimate, but said there would likely be lower costs for private payers and lower health insurance premiums in the private sector.
Under the deal, Eclipsys shareholders will receive 1.2 Allscripts shares for each Eclipsys share, a 19 percent premium over its closing price Tuesday, the companies said.
Shares of Allscripts, based in Chicago, fell $1.66, or 9 percent, to $16.76 in morning trading Wednesday while shares of Eclipsys, based in Atlanta, rose 53 cents, or 2.9 percent, to $19.04.
Allscripts’ Tullman will be CEO of the combined company while Eclipsys CEO Phil Pead will be chairman.
The deal has been approved by both companies’ boards of directors and is subject to shareholder approval of both companies.
Separately, the British information services company Misys PLC will reduce its almost 55 percent stake in Allscripts to 10 percent through an underwritten secondary equity offering of its Allscripts shares and by selling shares to Allscripts.
Misys acquired a 54.5 percent stake in Allscripts for $330 million in 2008.
In a separate deal in the healthcare technology field, Cardinal Health Inc. said Wednesday it is buying Healthcare Solutions Holding LLC for $517 million, in a move to expand its tools and services for health care data and claims management.
UBS, Barclays Capital and J.P. Morgan acted as financial advisors to Allscripts in the Eclipsys deal.
Allscripts expects its buyout of Eclipsys to boost net income, excluding charges, in 2011. The company expects its fiscal year net income in 2010 to reach the high end of its 64 cents to 65 cents per share guidance, excluding charges, on revenue between $700 million and $705 million. Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters expect net income of 65 cents per share on $702.3 million in revenue.
The fiscal year ends in May. After the buyout closes, Allscripts expects to report financial results on a calendar year basis.
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“I Speak Dragon†2010 Contest For Dragon NaturallySpeaking or MacSpeech Dictate Users
Are you using Dragon NaturallySpeaking on your PC or MacSpeech Dictate on your Mac? Nuance wants you to tell them how ... they really want to know, and you could win an iPad or fr
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December 25, 2012
NYC mayor unconcerned after his e-mail address is among 100,000 leaked in iPad security breach
NYC mayor shrugs off iPad e-mail address leak
NEW YORK — Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s e-mail address was exposed because of a security vulnerability with his new iPad, but the billionaire media mogul shrugged it off Thursday and said he didn’t understand the fuss.
“It shouldn’t be pretty hard to figure out my e-mail address,” Bloomberg said, “and if you send me an e-mail and I don’t want to read it, I don’t open it. To me it wasn’t that big of a deal.”
AT&T Inc. said Wednesday that a security weak spot exposed the e-mail addresses — but nothing else — of more than 100,000 iPad users. Only users who signed up for AT&T’s “3G” wireless Internet service were affected.
The problem had to do with the way AT&T’s website prompted iPad users to log onto their AT&T accounts.
A hacker group that calls itself Goatse Security claims to have found the weakness and said it was able to trick AT&T’s site into giving up more than 114,000 e-mail addresses, including those of famous people and government officials.
Bloomberg, who founded the financial information company Bloomberg LP and has an estimated $18 billion fortune, said such glitches are part of modern life.
“We live in a world where information is available all over the place, and there’s going to be security breaches every day all over the world,” he said. “That’s what happens when you have information.”
In recent weeks, the mayor has often touted the Apple Inc. tablet as a helpful tool for managing a city of 8.4 million people.
AT&T said Wednesday it would notify all iPad users whose e-mail addresses may have been exposed.
“We take customer privacy very seriously and while we have fixed this problem, we apologize to our customers who were impacted,” the company said in a statement.
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December 24, 2012
Walmart Offering Up iPhone 4 On Launch Day
As Apple is preparing to meet a large demand for iPhone 4, Walmart can now be added to the list of distributors on the launch day of June 24, according to .
The reason for the move is an attempt to help Apple alleviate some of the stresses of good 'ol supply and demand, giving customers an opportunity to purchase the handset from multiple retail stores. Best Buy and Radio Shack are also ramping up to offer up the newest iPhone on June 24 as well.
This would be the first time that Walmart will be selling the iPhone on a launch day of the device. Before, only previous versions of the iPhone were made available by the company, much later on. We all remember the of huge lines outside of AT&T and Apple Stores.
It should be noted though that Walmart will not be participating in pre-orders of the device, which are slated to start this coming Tuesday, through Apple as well as AT&T.
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Softheon in partnership with Falconstor to provide data protection for health care market
By AP
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Softheon in partnership with Falconstor
HAUPPAUGE, N.Y. — Healthcare software maker Softheon Inc. said Thursday that it has formed a strategic partnership with Falconstor Software, a company that provides data storage and protection products.
Softheon, a privately held company, said the deal will allow it to offer Falconstor data protection and archiving for customers of its Internet-based software.
Financial terms were not disclosed.
Falconstor Software Inc. shares rose 4 cents, or 1.3 percent, to $2.89 in midday trading.
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December 19, 2012
The coffee is better in space
Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield (top) boards a Soyuz rocket with his crew mates, NASA flight engineer Tom Marshburn and Soyuz commander Roman Romanenko.
Early this morning in Kazakhstan, Milton, Ont.-native Chris Hadfield blasted off in a Russian Soyuz rocket and is currently orbiting the Earth, en route to the International Space Station.
Not only will Hadfield be traveling to the ISS for the second time, and returning to space for a third time, but he’ll be staying aboard the orbital outpost for five months and taking over its command in March. He’ll be the first Canadian to command the best foothold humanity has ever had in space, and the largest international construction collaboration ever completed. It’s a serious job.
As a veteran astronaut, there’s no doubt Hadfield is serious about his work and set for the mission at hand. In addition to that, he’s got a sense of humour. It’s one that’s come through in my encounters with him over the years as I’ve written about Canada’s space program.
Space coffee comes in Hazelnut
I first met Hadfield when working at Discovery Channel Interactive in 2007, where I was writing space and science news briefs for the Web site. Hadfield was coming in to be interviewed on Daily Planet, and also answer a few questions on camera that we’d use as extra video online. We got the chance to chat with Hadfield in the minutes before he went into the studio. He graciously answered our nerdy questions about his line of work (What does space smell like? Apparently, a strong metallic odor lingers in the airlock after it’s sealed following a spacewalk).
When someone asked him if he wanted a beverage, he asked if there was somewhere he could get a decent cup of coffee. “The stuff they’re serving in the cafeteria is terrible,” he said. Which is true, but the comment caught me by surprise. “It must be better than the coffee on the International Space Station,” I inquired. Turns out that’s not true.
Leave it to NASA, they’ve got a system that shoots a pressurized stream of water through special space-ready coffee crystals. It works in anti-gravity and the coffee grinds never go bad. It keeps the astronauts happily caffeinated as they go about their busy routines and is better than the instant coffee you made this morning. “They even have different flavours,” Hadfield said. “Like hazelnut.”
Htc pure Twitter comes of age but still has room to grow
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December 15, 2012
Windows 8′s ‘one OS to rule them all’ approach forgets the shared PC
Microsoft's
vision with Windows 8 is to provide one OS to rule them all. Users sign in and whether they are using a tablet, a laptop, or a media centre PC, their experience is the same. Settings and preferences are synced via the cloud and you're presented with the same desktop on any device that you log in too. But the assumption that I'll always want the same user scenario is flawed - sometimes I want to have an experience specific to a device.
Fido unlock code by imei The Golden Gobblers Awards
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December 11, 2012
SR&ED and the law of unintended consequences
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December 08, 2012
Startup TO – Interview with AngelHack Toronto Organizer JJ Beh
I had a chan
ce to catch up with JJ Beh, one of the geeks of Hackernest, the group responsible for bringing AngelHack to Toronto. I wanted to hear his thoughts on the event’s success and secrets behind AngelHack’s momentum.
Championship: A rising tide floats all ships
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December 07, 2012
Strong startup community ‘gives before it gets’
Strong startup community ‘gives before it gets’
We asked Nathan Monk, to provide a guest post about MaRS Lean Startup Day hosted earlier this week. Nathan is a go-to-market mentor with MaRS’ Information Technology, Communications and Entertainment (ICE) practice.
What an exceptional week for Toronto’s technology startup community. Monday we held Lean Startup Day at MaRS and yesterday we heard the news that Toronto’s Startup Weekend winner, Groupnotes, won the Global Startup Battle.
For me, Lean Startup Day is a day I will look back on as the elixir moment, where a diverse group of over 500 Toronto entrepreneurs, mentors, investors, educators and large and small enterprises all came together to produce magic via lean methodology.
Nathan Monk
The inspiration for the day came from Brad Feld’s book, Startup Communities, in which he uses the Boulder Thesis to describe a startup community that “gives before they get†and creates an inclusive, not exclusive, ecosystem for startups. In order for this community to sustain itself, Feld states that four things must happen:
- Entrepreneurs must lead the startup community
- The leaders must have a long-term commitment (20+ years)
- The startup community must be inclusive of anyone who wants to participate
- The startup community must have continual activities that engage the entire entrepreneurial stack (like Lean Startup Day)
Here are some of the highlights from Lean Startup Day:
- Over 1.7 million impressions (“eyeballsâ€) were generated, reaching over 300,000 user accounts from Twitter alone
- There were over 800 registrants for both the morning and afternoon streams, with 60 per cent coming to see the MaRS morning programming specifically
- Over 40 per cent of the audience was female, a statistic not typically seen at this type of event and noted by our participants
- 32 co-founders from 16 startups demoed, including Startup Weekend winner Groupnotes, HealthAware, Cogniciti, ShelfLife and Papyrus among others
- 30 lean startup business canvases were created, including a landing page
- 12 partners contributed their time for the day, including BDC, Ryerson Digital Media Zone, Microsoft BizSpark and Usability Matters among others
- Eight startup community leaders selflessly gave their time to be there for the Lean Panel
- Â Our incredible host, David Crow, whose provocative nature and quick wit spoke directly to this audience
- The incredible sketch notes by Brad Feld-endorsed Sacha Chua
Please take some time to check out Sacha Chua’s sketch notes, as well as the photos and conversations on Storify, Epilogger, and Twitter. We also announced the winner of our Lean Video Challenge, Motion and Still. To watch their video, click here.
As Marc Andreessen (from Andreessen Horowitz) mentions: Lean methodology is a lot like the theory of relativity. There are a lot of answers today for startups that we didn’t have 12 years ago during the tech bubble.
Building a startup makes a lot more sense today then it ever did. At the MaRS Commons, we couldn’t agree more. The entrepreneur and lean methodology are at the heart of everything we do. From market sizing through our market intelligence to business strategy and model validation through Ostwerwalder on up to investor pitch coaching and ecosystem integration through events like Lean Startup Day, this is what we do. And, we love what we do. Our motto in the MaRS ICE practice is: “You can do hard things.â€
So as we move into 2013, think about how you can contribute to the startup community. Every one of you has something you can give: whether it’s a talent, a skill or simply some support for our entrepreneurs as they search for a repeatable and scaleable business model under extreme uncertainty. We are here at MaRS to support you if you so choose.
For more information on the Lean Startup movement, visit Eric Ries’s website, theleanstartup.com, and follow him on Twitter via @theleanstartup or the hashtag #theleanstartup. Also check out this great blog post by Lily Liu on the MaRS website, as well as the following two resources:
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