Apple News: It’s Time For Apple To Unleash A Major Software Overhaul
The Apple backlash is in full swing right now. But it really started this summer. In our office, the people who review gadgets started grumbling that iOS was stale. These grumbles were crystallized in Farhad Manjoo’s story for Slate titled, “The iPhone is Boring.” Manjoo wrote, “Apple’s mobile platform used to be unquestionably the best smartphone operating system on the planet. Now it feels just as good as everything else.”
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Technology News: How will owners of Intellectual Property cope with the era of big and open data?
The concept of Intellectual Property (IP) is well proven as a powerful incentive that drives creativity and innovation, but it is increasingly being challenged by a highly connected world, particularly in all aspects of digital information and content life-cycle To further complicate matters, rapid changes in the enabling technology / triggers are only likely to increase or accelerate, and according to Gartner, some of these developments, (e.g. Big Data, Cloud, Mobile & Social) have combined to produce a paradigm shift in the way we do business. Such worrisome trends are only exacerbated by the fact that IP sits right in the middle of it all.
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Programming News: Multiple ways in implementing delegation pattern in ruby
There are multiple ways to implement the delegation pattern in ruby. This blog post will illustrate four of them. Let’s provide some context first. Harping on academia domain context (again), let’s say a class Document has an attribute called @resource, which is an instance of some other class. For the sake of this instruction, let @resource be an instance of Article class. An instance of the Article class has the following attributes: @title [String], @content [String], @authors [Array]. @resource can also be an instance of Book class, Web resource class etc, which is why Article is a separate class added into Document. Title, content and authors can be considered the lowest common denominator attributes in @resource. So, if I want the title, content or authors of a document instance, implementing a delegation pattern will make more sense to keep the code tidier.
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Photography News: HeadMyShoebox Launches Free and Unlimited Cloud Storage for Photosline
MyShoebox is a new photo storage and sharing service that has been making a splash after launching a little over a week ago. Its offering is easy to describe: free and unlimited cloud storage for photos that can then be viewed from anywhere. Think of it as a Dropbox dedicated to preserving and enjoying photos.
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