Clearly out of touch.
I would imagine hundreds of people have posted “Presidential
Selfies.” Just because Samsung wasn't a large contributor to the
President's campaign (like Google) is no reason to brand them as
Capitalist Dogs.
White
House objects to Samsung Ortiz and Obama selfie
The White House has
objected to the tweeting of a selfie snapped by a member of a leading
baseball team which included President Obama in the photograph.
The White House said
the President's image should not be used for commercial gain.
David Ortiz denied that
he was paid by Samsung to take the picture, as Alpa Patel reports.
It's war! Granted,
it's polite war, but it's still war. (At $100 per user, consider the
winner in this war could have 7 billion users.)
From the moment
Facebook announced
in February 2014 that it had bought the mobile messaging service
WhatsApp, everyone’s been talking about the price that CEO Mark
Zuckenberg parted with for the acquisition. Nineteen billion dollars
(albeit $4 billion in cash and the rest in Facebook shares) is one of
the largest sums ever paid for a venture-capital-backed start-up that
is just five years old.
What’s really
significant, though, is that by buying WhatsApp, Facebook has
signaled its intention of taking on Tencent, China’s biggest
Internet company, which is trying to become the global leader in the
instant messaging market. Tencent’s mobile messaging service,
WeChat (known as Weixin in China), has over 300 million users
worldwide, and standalone, it is already valued at around $30 billion
compared to WhatsApp’s $19 billion price-tag.
Very early days yet,
but think of them as low-level communication satellites.
Google's
Project Loon balloon goes around the world in just 22 days
Perhaps a way to
introduce my students to programming?
Microsoft
eases development for Windows and Windows Phone with new App Studio
Microsoft’s App
Studio beta test has been expanded to allow novice developers to
build applications for Windows tablets and PCs, in addition to
Windows Phone.
Last year Microsoft
introduced a beta version of Windows
Phone App Studio in an effort to increase the number of apps for its
smartphone OS by letting almost anyone build an application. The
company has now expanded the platform to let users build
for tablets and PCs at the same time, and renamed the
service Windows
App Studio, it said in
a blog post on Friday.
… Materials
for teachers
Check out the 5-hour
App Studio Curriculum at App
Studio Education. Get your students building apps and extending
them with code today!
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