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cheap to meter? Will data be too

thumpad.com — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 07:12:48 +0000

The data acquisition process should be increasingly automatic, and so increasingly cheap. I'm hoping for a world where information producers are p……

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unlock your N8 in a pop intelligently, Nokia Bubbles

thumpad.com — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 01:39:35 +0000

The humble unlock screen gets ever fancier, and Nokia Bubbles is one of the fanciest we've seen yet. Like a variety of aftermarket lock screens it enables you to control your media player or initiate calls before you even unlock your handset, but does so in an interesting way. You just grab the bubble for what you want and drop it on what you want to do. A simple unlock entails dragging the key onto the lock, and if you have a missed call you can grab that person's bubble and drag it to……

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In Honeycomb what’s New

thumpad.com — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 05:39:38 +0000

Google just released a preview of the Honeycomb SDK. It includes an emulator that will run the Honeycomb operating system, so you can get a taste of what it will……

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Farmville likely to go down in history, Social gaming numbers on the rise

thumpad.com — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 05:32:40 +0000

We've seen console gaming numbers as a whole dip somewhat over the past few months, but gaming numbers on the social networking side have been anything but down. A new report on the matter from the NPD Group asserts that a full 20 percent (that's 1 in 5, if you're counting) of Americans ages 6 and older have played a social networking game of some sort, and we're guessing that number would be far higher if people weren't embarrassed to admit the truth. Unfortunately, the rep……

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Hip hip hurray Cobol turns 50

thumpad.com — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 18:58:54 +0000

COBOL celebrated its 50th birthday on September 18, 2009. Many developers see COBOL as a relic, a dying dinosaur, or a stodgy language that has been superseded by more powerful systems. I believe that viewpoint as being uninformed. In honor of COBOL’s 50th birthday, here’s an overview of COBOL’s history and place in the current development landscape.
COBOL’s origins

COBOL was designed by the late, great Grace Hopper. Ms. Hopper had an extraordinary influence on the computing industry, including writing the first compiler, the “A compiler.” In addition, she served in the U.S. Navy, eventually attaining the impressive rank of rear admiral; there is even a U.S. Navy dest……

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