Google now serves images through a proxy server to improve both security and the user experience. Marketers might not like the change, though.
By Thomas Claburn Editor-at-Large, 12/12/2013
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I agree with Li. The value of a human is not doing repeatable tasks over and over. It is the ability to put many pieces toghether and create new ideas from disparate places. Although manufacturing and services jobs with...
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This has some great and entertaining ideas for the technically inclined on your list. I especially like the Space Invaders wall decals. They would add some geek bling to any office or cubicle wall.
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Great read! I usually check for reviews of the best tablets on http://blaketablets.com/, they really helped me decide which to buy.
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The exchanges will mean that freelancers like me will be able to buy insurance for the same price that an employer with multiple employees can. Yes, freelancers will still forgo that "defined contribution," but we won't...
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WOW.... isn't internet amazing?! It already has biometric database to authenticate everybody... and Santa is no exception!
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Interesting to read Chairman Wheeler's own take on expanding access to wireless services on board aircraft. Here's what he said today on the matter: STATEMENT OFFCC CHAIRMAN THOMAS E. WHEELEREXPANDING ACCESS TO MOBILE...
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Whatever happened to "A wink of his eye and a twist of his head,Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread"?
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Boy, we've sure come a long way from "visions of sugarplums"!
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The old axiom is that no CIO survives an SAP implementation. I've lost count of the number of SAP implementation horror stories like this one that I've heard through the years. It appears these stories are fairly...
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I think you allude to a couple of things that really resonate. There will certainly be more orchestration of workloads across networking, compute, and storage. I do think that means we will see the beginning of a new skill...
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Couldn't risk getting skipped, so I put the security checkpoint in AFTER the bag's already in the house.
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Mrs. Claus has him on a short leash after those Facebook pictures last year...
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I'm glad we asked for the DIY home security kit last year.
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I think Roslyn makes an important distinction. While I'm in the camp with what seems like the rest of the world that getting stuck next to some loudmouth passenger with a phone is a horrifying thought, I agree that...
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You'd think he'd be too busy for a hand selfie.
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You have tech support on speed dial just in case, right?
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I hope that's not the hand he wipes with!
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I don't get it... he's already in the house, and we're supposed to be sleeping or he doesn't show up...
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What happens after I get on the list of people who congregate in the chocolate aisle? Hopefully, I get chocolate coupons -- but if Facebook is any example, I also get lots of weight loss ads. Blech. If the marketers are...
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We do know that SAP demonstrated an Avon-sales-rep-facing iPad app at Sapphire in 2011, and an Avon executive participated in the demo. But it's not clear that the app used in Canada was mobile or was entirely developed...
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