Apple News: Time Warner CEO On Apple Reinventing The Television: “I Hope They Do”
Speaking at the IGNITION Business Insider conference earlier this week, Bewkes was reportedly quoted on his personal opinions of Apple eventually creating a television set. On this very subject, the CEO is reported to have responded: “I hope they do,” … “I think Apple is a great device company.” “They’ve taken devices that were long believed to be commoditized and created differentiation. Bewkes believes Apple can do the same with televisions,” Business Insider says, relaying Bewkes’ comments at the conference. “And, beyond that, he wants to see Apple solve a fundamental problem with the television business.”
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Technology News: Medicare Is Faulted on Shift to Electronic Records
The use of electronic medical records has been central to the aim of overhauling health care in America. Advocates contend that electronic records systems will improve patient care and lower costs through better coordination of medical services. The privacy protection of those records has been a primary concern.
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Programming News: Clean up Python source code with PythonTidy, available as Sublime Text 2 plugin too
PythonTidy is a utility to reformat Python source code according to Python PEP–8 style guide. It cleans up your source code and makes it adhere the community recommended practices. PythonTidy does not lint or validate Python source code – it rewrites it to follow PEP–8 (and other) configured rules.
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Photography News: Is smartphone journalism the way forward?
Filtering apps such as Instagram and Hipstamatic have penetrated the world of photojournalism. The Guardian picture desk receives a lot of filtered photographs from news agencies on the wires. We recently included this Hipstamatic shot in our Picture desk live blog.
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