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Last week, Facebook made its largest ever acquisition: Instagram, the popular photo-sharing service that lets you snap, filter and send with the click of a button. While the fit seems to make sense – a major reason to use Facebook is to share photos; the more photos you share the more time you spend on the site; the more time you spend, the happier the advertisers – the $1bn price tag raised many an eyebrow.
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Technology Tidbits: Thoughts of a Cyber Hero: 15 Sites for Finding Images and Clip Art for Education
A while back I did a top 10 sites for finding images and clip art for education. However, a lot of things have changed since then and a few of those sites no longer exist. That being said a handful of new and exciting sites have been developed for education for finding images which led me to creating a new list.
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Hands-on: getting work done with Google's new Aura interface for Chrome OS
Google attempted to introduce a new approach to computing when it first launched Chrome OS in 2010. The operating system consists of little more than a fullscreen Web browser perched atop a rigorously-hardened Linux environment. The platform makes some unusual trade-offs, eschewing conventional native applications in exchange for bulletproof security and low-maintenance stateless computing.
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The 6 Biggest "Oops!" Moments in Microsoft's History
We’ve grown to appreciate the success of Microsoft’s Windows 7, but no one – not even Microsoft fanboys – can say that the company has actually done its homework before releasing every product.
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India hires Microsoft in 'largest cloud deployment ever' | ZDNet
Summary: India has hired Microsoft to roll-out student cloud email services to 7 million students in the country; thought to be the world’s largest cloud deployment to date.
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This is your brain on Oregon Trail: Lessons learned from a childhood of gaming
Gaming isn’t the violence-inducing waste of time it’s sometimesmade out to be. Here are some important life lessons I learned from my childhood screen time.
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So What Has Changed Since I Started Blogging and Tweeting? | Connected Principals
My activity on my blog as well as on Twitter have diminished as of late. I still find an incredible amount of value/entertainment by engaging in the online discussions, I just find it harder to make time to write and send out 140 character tidbits.
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