Foursquare Data Viz Shows The Pulse Of New York, London, Tokyo
The secret sauce of Foursquare is the massive amount of location data it collects: 4.5 billion check-ins shared by its 40 million users. For non-MIT graduates, however, it’s often hard to grasp why such data–or any Big Data, for that matter–is even valuable, especially given the unwieldy cache of information Released today,…
What Foursquare Check-Ins Look Like Around The World
A fog of skepticism still swirls around Foursquare: Is the check-in service actually, y’know, a thing? Do people actually want to broadcast their location to the Internetand use the resulting data to discover new places to go in the places they live? A new set of data visualizations from Foursquare…
LA officials seek fix to $1B program after students crack iPad security …
Education officials in the nation’s second-largest school district are working to reboot a $1 billion plan to put an iPad in the hands of each of their 650,000 students after an embarrassing glitch emerged when the first round of tablets went out. Instead of solving math problems or doing English homework, as…
British magazine says LG’s G2 smartphone new king of Android
SEOUL, Oct. 6 (Yonhap) — A British magazine has praised the G2, the latest flagship smartphone of South Korean tech giant LG Electronics Inc., by calling it the new king of Android. Stuff said in its September issue posted on its website that the G2 marks LG’s magnificent return to form…
How to help iOS 7 run faster on an older iPhone
iOS 7 for the iPhone is much more colorful.(Photo: Apple)Story HighlightsOnce you have upgraded to iOS 7, there’s no turning backEase the burden of the new OS by adjusting settingsIf your device is super slow, try reinstalling everything from scratch Q: Ever since I downloaded iOS 7 onto my iPhone A:…
Robotics competition pulls in students and big name companies Press-Register
MOBILE, Alabama — At the center of a hardwood basketball court, a different kind of game is underway. A crowd cheers from the grandstand. Cheerleaders yell spirited words. But beneath the blare of a marching band’s tune, four students jostle with a joystick, struggling to get a wooden peg in…
Ersteindruck: Das Aldi-Netbook Medion Akoya E1318T
Medions Netbook Akoya E1318T mit 10-Zoll-Touchscreen Ein Netbook bleibt ein Netbook, also ein Kleinst-Notebook mit spartanischer Ausstattung zum niedrigen Preis. Dennoch ist das Akoya E1318T, das letzte Woche bei Aldi Sued und heute bei Aldi Nord fuer 299 Euro den Besitzer wechselt, praxistauglicher als die Netbooks von vor ein paar…
Google is building Chrome OS straight into Windows 8
Google unveiled its Chrome Apps initiative recently to launch apps that exist outside of the browser and extend its reach into more of a platform, but it looks like the company has a whole lot more planned. Over the past few weeks, Google has been updating its developer version of…
The iPhone 5C Can Now Be Yours for Just $45
The five colors of the new iPhone 5C are seen on screen at Apple’s media event in Cupertino, Calif., on Sept. 10, 2013 Just two weeks after it first went on sale for $99, Apple’s colorful new iPhone 5c is already on the bargain racks. First Best Buy rolled out a promotion Starting…
The World According to Foursquare in Beautiful Time-Lapse Maps
Foursquare has gathered a year’s worth of check-in data from all over the world and made it into these cool time-lapse maps of the activity in major cities. To me, they look a little like a swarm of fluorescent bees descending on a city, feasting on it and then fading…
