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Author: Markus Perdrizat

  • Unique in the Crowd: The privacy bounds of human mobility

    Unique in the Crowd: The privacy bounds of human mobility: We study fifteen months of human mobility data for one and a half million individuals and find that human mobility traces are highly unique. Wow – they know who I am just from my location patterns. No use signing in and out of different accounts…

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  • Samsung, Mozilla and Google Browser News

    Samsung and Mozilla collaborating on ‘next generation’ Android browser engine: Mozilla and Samsung have announced a partnership to build a new web browser engine for ARM devices and Android, Servo. Mozilla says the new engine will take advantage of “tomorrow’s faster, multi-core” computing architectures, casting aside “old assumptions” about how a browser engine should work.…

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  • Problem Management Screws Up Our Metrics!

    Problem Management Screws Up Our Metrics!: “Perhaps Problem Management is such as challenge due to the fact that we have lost sight of the forest by focusing on the daily grind of managing trees! Or perhaps a more accurate statement is that we don’t have a forest or trees problem at all. What we have…

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  • Tableau Files For IPO As Strong Run For Business Software Companies Continues

    Tableau Files For IPO As Strong Run For Business Software Companies Continues: Tableau Software is set to hold its initial public offering, according to an S-1 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission today, continuing a strong period of market debuts for enterprise software companies. The data visualization company is the latest business software firm…

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  • How Samsung Became the World’s No. 1 Smartphone Maker

    How Samsung Became the World’s No. 1 Smartphone Maker: Samsung is having a moment. It’s dominant in TVs and sells a lot of washing machines, but it’s smartphones that made Samsung as recognizable a presence around the world as Walt Disney and Toyota Motor. If Samsung isn’t yet as lustrous a brand as Apple, it’s…

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  • The Kickstarter Principle: Crowdfunding doesn’t work without transparency and trust

    The Kickstarter Principle: Crowdfunding doesn’t work without transparency and trust: Every now and then, there’s a truly heart-warming story about crowdfunding, like the case of the school-bus monitor who was tormented by kids on her bus and wound up with a windfall of $700,000. […] If you are going to appeal to the crowd for…

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  • Should I Work for Free?

    Should I Work for Free? Who’s ready to stop working for free? Hopefully you are! If you have any doubts, consult this handy chart below. Start in the middle and work your way to your answer! Download the original English jpg here! Via Do not work for free and Should you work for free? Yes…

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  • End of the road for Roadrunner

    End of the road for Roadrunner: LOS ALAMOS, N. M., March 29, 2013—Roadrunner, the first supercomputer to break the once-elusive petaflop barrier—one million billion calculations per second—will be decommissioned on Sunday, March 31. Found via World’s top supercomputer from ‘09 is now obsolete, will be dismantled: Five years ago, an IBM-built supercomputer designed to model…

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  • The Bitcoin surge is a crisis of faith

    The Bitcoin surge is a crisis of faith: Simultaneously [with the Cyprus crisis], the value of BitCoin shot through the roof.Why? Is it because BitCoin is well designed as a replacement for the currency that currently operates enormous economies in seventeen industrialized nations? Could it possibly be used as a replacement for the currency that…

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  • Mumps: the NoSQL Proto Database

    Mumps: the proto-database (or how to build your own NoSQL database): I think that one of the problems with Mumps as a database technology, and something that many people don’t like about the Mumps database is that it is a very basic and low-level engine, without any of the frills and value-added things that people…

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