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Los Angeles Unified School District Drops Millions on iPads, Gets Burned image

Reading Time: 2 minutes “Come on, Daddy needs a new education curriculum!” A friend sent this link to me earlier this week, on a deal between Apple and The Los Angeles Unified School District: LAUSD Apple iPad Deal This is akin to a bad football team buying fancier, flashier jerseys in a bid to play better on the field.[[MORE]] …

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Case Study on Negotiation: Negotiating With Steve Jobs

Reading Time: < 1 minute (‘Thanks’ to Chris Horner for passing the this story along) This is an excellent article on creative thinking in times of crisis. An entrepreneur facing an ultimatum from Steve Jobs negotiates a deal to sell her product to Jobs’ new tech company, NeXT. Some of the lessons learned are invaluable.

“Not Impressed” By Jobs and Wozniak: An Interview With A Founding Father of Modern Computing

Reading Time: 3 minutes   Antoine Sylvia sent me a magazine article on the late Jerry Lawson. An electronic engineer by trade, Lawson was a central figure in the computer and videogame movement in America. One of the only blacks on the tech scene in the 70’s, he was a pioneer in every sense of the word. The article …

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iPads and Jordans: The Economics of Hot-Ticket Items

Reading Time: < 1 minute December 2011 saw the re-launch of one of the most popular pair of sneakers of all time. The release of the Air Jordan XI “Concord saw mini-riots and consumer craziness in cities across the country. Long lines are the norm for the release of a highly-anticipated consumer good. So is widespread disappointment. The onllne marketplace …

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Decrease Your Website Load Time by 50% and Eradicate Spam. Here’s How

Reading Time: < 1 minute When I first heard that there was a technology start-up that “accidentally” discovered a way to shrink your webpage load times, I was intrigued. It’s quite a story, actually.  It starts in Silicon Valley…. http://thenextweb.com/industry/2011/06/07/cloudflare-a-website-security-product-accidentally-makes-sites-60-faster/ Details on Cloudfare available here. Read the fine print and do some reconnaissance to determine if the service is right …

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More Free Stuff You’re Bound to Like

Reading Time: < 1 minute I stumbled on a fantastic “How-To” technology website last week. Here it is: http://www.freewaregenius.com It offers all of the (legally) free, open-source applications you might ever need for a wide range of projects including: * Converting MS-Word Documents to PDFs and other formats * Access to Magazine Subscriptions * Converting Video Files to DVD * …

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