Xbox 720 news & rumors - New Xbox to feature interactive TV content?
Developing a responsive, Retina-friendly site
<Great article from HERE>
“This post will mainly cover coding up responsive design and the third and final post will cover retina media queries, responsive images and more.
Jekyll + Rack on Heroku
I last redesigned my blog in 2010 when I migrated from WordPress to Jekyll. I eventually forked jekyll to support a separate photos post type outside of the main site.posts. I then wrapped it in Rack::Rewrite with Rack::TryStatic so I could host it on Heroku and 301 some old permalinks. I won’t cover the details of that too much, but I recall reading this post by Matt Manning when I made the switch.
Most of the configuration is in the config.ru file. I loathe URLs that end in .html so my jekyll fork is based on this gist for Apache-inspired “multiviews” support — basically it writes links without the file extension and then I get Rack to do the same.”
Autistic workers can thrive in IT
For those with Autism, the social isolation of staring at a computer screen all day may be a welcoming environment. NPR has an uplifting story about how engineers with the socially challenging Aspergers Syndrome are thriving in technology jobs. “ We’ve got this one guy, for example; his productivity is three times as productive as the person doing his job who did not have cognitive disabilities before him. And his error rate is 2 percent. He is 98 percent accurate. He’s a phenomenal worker,” explained Alliance Data Vice President, Jim Pierce, who has hired a dozen workers with intellectual disabilities…
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Techquity: WhatsApp with Google?
A LOT OF GAMES. LIKE, A LOT.
Boasting both award-winning developers and up-and-comers, you’ll always be on the cutting edge of game releases, as OUYA delivers every genre you love, from shooters and action adventures to RPGs and puzzles. And since OUYA downloads all its games directly, that means no compact discs cluttering the coffee table. Hope you have some sick days stored up.
MUCH MORE THAN JUST GAMING.
All that 1080p goodness isn’t just for gaming. OUYA brings all your favorite apps to the big screen, streaming shows, movies, and music directly into the living room. We’ve already partnered withTwitch.tv, Crunchyroll, iheartradio, TuneIn, XBMC, Plex and Flixster and are adding more to our list daily.
What a great event at the NY Tech Meetup last night. Great presentations and demos from Foursquare, Shutterstock, Yext, Clarity, Moveline, and many others.
A lot of big things on the horizon for some of these companies.
Where is the internet going?
Google Glass. The purported Apple iWatch. The thought that smartphones had already brought us the ‘Internet everywhere’ is about to be shown up as small fry…
Datapearl: A Fully Integrated Healthcare Analytic Platform
News from TechCrunch
Firefox OS Hits the ground running…
Firefox OS, the new, HTML5-friendly mobile OS from Mozilla, is today taking a big step forward in its strategy to become a viable third player in the smartphone landscape currently dominated by Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS. Mozilla is announcing that 18 carriers have now committed to its Open Web HTML5 device push; the launch of the Firefox Marketplace app store to aggregate content for the platform; and some of the first low-cost handsets coming out of its carrier partnerships that will be coming out this summer.
Telefonica — whose ZTE-made handset is pictured here — will sell its first Firefox-powered phones in Latin America and Spain; and Deutsche Telekom will debut its handsets in Poland before expanding to other markets in Eastern Europe. Other operators announcing handsets today include Latin American powerhouse America Movil (starting first in its home market of Mexico) and Norway’s Telenor, which has operations across Eastern Europe and Asia, including Malaysia, Pakistan and Bangladesh.
The idea is that carriers may have a better opportunity in markets with lower overall smartphone penetration, and a customer base interested in low-cost handsets (versus premium devices like the iPhone or a Samsung Galaxy device). “In Latin America, 82% of the population does not have a smartphone today, so we have the potential to make the market in those developing economies,” said Matthew Key, CEO of Telefonica Digital, told TechCrunch. “They’re at a different stage of development.”
