Google Play Music All Access Review: It’s Not a Spotify Competitor After All

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Let’s get this out of the way: Google Play Music All Access is a terrible name, rolling off the tongue like a mouthful of marbles. I’m not sure what Google was thinking here, adopting such a clunky moniker for a fledgling streaming music service whose media-decreed rivals go by punchier handles like Pandora, Spotify, Rdio and Grooveshark. Why not something simpler like Google Music, leaving “All Access” to describe one of the subscription tiers? Even the name Google Play sounds catchier … [Read more...]

Top Mobile Issues Right Now – An Overview

People everywhere are increasing the time they are spending on their mobile devices, according to Visually, Inc. We are using our phones to browse the Internet, stay on top of emails, check in on social networks, play games, read news, listen to music and much more. In fact, we are adopting new uses for our mobile devices daily. Research firm Gartner estimates that in 2013, we will use our mobile phones more than our PCs to access the Web. In the article, "Mobile growth is about to be … [Read more...]

If You Don’t Ask, You Don’t Get

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Walk in to any bookstore and you will likely find shelf after shelf of books geared towards career development. Self-help books, instructional guides, biographies of those who paved the way before us. But none of those books know your journey; know your skills, abilities, talents and aspirations. On top of that, the business world is changing so dramatically: roles, responsibilities, and social rules – these are very difficult things to navigate. So if you can find somebody who knows you … [Read more...]

Jomi’s Smart Water Bottle Sleeve-Plus-App Wants To Track & Chart Your Liquid Intake To Make You Drink More

Jomi’s Smart Water Bottle Sleeve-Plus-App Wants To Track & Chart Your Liquid Intake To Make You Drink More

Move over HAPIfork. Estonian startup Jomi Interactive is cooking up a pair of smart devices that will remind people to drink more water. Or at least whatever liquid/poison of choice you put in your water bottle. The aim, says the startup, is to encourage healthy behaviour and counteract the mild dehydration we are all apparently afflicted with. No, not just hungover folk; everyone who fails to glug down the requisite 2.5-3 litres of water per day. Jomi is prototyping a device — or rather … [Read more...]

Pro-Chavez Venezuelans mark coup anniversary on eve of election

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(Reuters) - Hugo Chavez loyalists on Saturday on the eve of a presidential vote celebrated across Venezuela a milestone in the late leader's socialist revolution, irking the opposition that complained of a campaign tipped in favor of the government. Saturday marked the 11th anniversary of Chavez's return to power after a two-day coup tacitly backed by the United States. The event galvanized support for the former paratrooper and prompted him to push ahead with increasingly radical … [Read more...]

Mr. Wed – I Read It On Twitter

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Facebook – The Things That Connect Us

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If You Are Not Moving Forward You Are Moving Backward

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Detroit's auto industry once stood for the symbol of American innovation and entrepreneurship. For thirty years from the early nineteen forties until the end of the nineteen sixties, Detroit was an outlandish city which stood for "the industrial greatness of America" as told by President Harry Truman. But what happened to Detroit? How did the city go from prosperous beyond measure to half of its children who now live in poverty? How did the city which once rivaled such cities as Chicago … [Read more...]

Finding The Entrepreneur In You

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Reid Hoffman, cofounder and chairman of LinkedIn, recently came out with a book labeled the "start up of you." In the first few pages, Reid explains to his readers the importance an entrepreneur can have on society. However, most people in this world are not cut out to be an entrepreneur, Reid goes on to explain, due to the high risk of failure, stress brought on from slaking co workers and difficulties in time management skills. To find the right balance of an entrepreneurial mindset and … [Read more...]

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