Mac News: Tweetbot for Mac Alpha Releases New Update with Several Attractive Features
Tweetbot for Mac alpha recently received a substantial update that brings new features allowing users to have a setup similar to that of Hootsuite or Tweetdeck if they choose to. Originally spotted by The Next Web, Tweetbot for Mac now features the ability to pop out separate timeline windows and easily dock them together to create a Tweetdeck-like interface, notification improvements, and a new menu in the menu bar allowing you to manage signed-in accounts more easily and to compose a new tweet.
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Technology News: Atos at London 2012 debates; what will Sport and Technology look like in 2020?
Whilst we all enjoy the Olympic Games of London 2012, futurologists, sport experts and Business Technologists from Atos are already turning the attention to how the role of technology within sport is evolving and what this could mean for business. Today, Atos unveils a dramatic vision for the future of the sport industry in 2020 …
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Programming News: How one bad algorithm cost traders $440m
Knight Capital, a firm that specialises in executing trades for retail brokers, took $440m in cash losses Wednesday due to a faulty test of new trading software. This morning reports were calling it a trading “glitch”, which isn’t nearly as accurate as the term I’d use: “f**king disaster”.
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Standards News: ISO workshop tackles global water challenges
More than 150 participants attended the ISO international workshop on water access and use, organized in conjunction with the Sewage Works Exhibition in Kobe, Japan – one of the world’s largest events on the subject. The workshop, “Global water challenges – How can ISO standards help?”, hosted by the Japanese Standards Association (JSA) on 25-26 July 2012, aimed to …
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