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GrandCentral, a phone management service that first launched in 2006 and was acquired by Google for $50+ million in 2007, hasn. (Read More)
: Awesome spam opportunity: marketer loads 20 prospect phone numbers into one grand central number, calls that number, talks to whomever answers first--instead of making 20 calls, leaving voicemails, etc.. Then just removes that "successful" number from the 20 and makes the next call.
: Awesome spam opportunity: marketer loads 20 prospect phone numbers into one grand central number, calls that number, talks to whoever answers first--instead of making 20 calls, leaving voicemails, etc.. Then just removes that "successful" number from the 20 and makes the next call.
: Huzzah. SMS aggregation, digital voice mail with free transcription & more. Ridiculously useful...and one more step towards Google having all of my/your/our stuff. Sure hope that "don't be evil" bit holds up.
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["In this episode we’ll discuss an elegant algorithm which solves our particular problem as a special case. On the way we’ll visit dynamic programming, Python decorators, version control and genetics."]. (Read More)
Geekdad
This week in our fortnightly review of iPhone Apps for Kids we are focusing on letters, words and stories. The capacity for the iPhone and touchscreen technology to support children develop literacy and numeracy is powerful. More and more children are instinctively developing the skills to use this technology, it is up to (Read More)
FlowingData
This is a guest post by Martin Krzywinski who develops Circos, a GPL-licensed (free) visualization tool that can help you show relationships in data. This article is based on a longer writeup which you can find here.Suppose that you are reading an article and the text refers you to a table on the next page. Before you turn (Read More)
Digg
The first netbook computer running the Google Inc.-backed Android mobile operating system on a low-cost ARM chip could become available to customers within three months, the maker's co-founder said this week.
The Alpha 680, designed by Guangzhou Skytone Transmission Technologies Co. Ltd., is going through final testing now (Read More)