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Washington, Massachusetts Top TechNet State Broadband Rankings

Posted on January 11, 2013April 24, 2013 by timbatchelder

Washington, Massachusetts Top TechNet State Broadband Rankings
John Murrell, allthingsd.com

If the local broadband climate is a major factor in deciding where in the U.S. to settle your family or business, TechNet has some guidance to offer.

The technology advocacy group surveyed the states to compare indicators on…

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Washington state No. 2 in startup jobs (bizjournals.com)
As Internet gets faster, Hong Kong & South Korea lead the broadband speed derby [GigaOM] (gigaom.com)
Comcast’s Arbogast: You’re Confused, U.S. Broadband is Awesome – Contests Numerous Studies Suggesting We’re Utterly Mediocre (dslreports.com)
Boot camps train up software engineers in just weeks (nzherald.co.nz)

Lumoback Posture-Monitoring

Posted on January 11, 2013April 23, 2013 by timbatchelder

Start-Up Behind Lumoback Posture-Monitoring Gadget Raises $5M
Liz Gannes, allthingsd.com

Lumo BodyTech, which makes a wearable waistband that tracks posture and movement and vibrates when the wearer slouches, has raised $5 million in Series A funding led by Madrona Venture Group.

The Palo Alto, Calif.-based start-up double…

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Posture Police (wired.com)
LUMOback Posture Sensor (werd.com)
By 2020, You’ll Own 50 Internet-Connected Devices (huffingtonpost.com)
Home and health devices controlled by apps on the rise (reuters.com)
SXSW: Use big data tools to chart your own data (zdnet.com)

Minority Report tech: coming to your living room

Posted on January 1, 2013January 2, 2013 by timbatchelder

Dan Lyons, readwrite.com

The company is called Leap Motion, and if you want to get an idea of how much everyone in San Francisco is buzzing about them, consider this: A few weeks ago I was visiting a different hot new startup in San Francisco, and in the middle of their d…

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This Tiny Gizmo Could Be A Very Big Deal In 2013 – And Beyond

This Tiny Gizmo Could Be A Very Big Deal In 2013 – And Beyond (timbatchelder.wordpress.com)
This Tiny Gizmo Could Be Very Big In 2013 (huffingtonpost.com)
ReadWrite – This Tiny Gizmo Could Be A Very Big Deal In 2013 – And Beyond (readwrite.com)
This Tiny Gizmo Could Be A Very Big Deal In 2013 – And Beyond (ddrrnt.com)

UC Berkeley LEED bioscience building

Posted on December 27, 2012April 22, 2013 by timbatchelder

UC Berkeley’s LEED Gold-Designed Energy Bioscience Building Leads by Example
Andrew Goodwin, inhabitat.com

UC Berkeley’s new Energy Bioscience Building is home to the Energy Biosciences Institute, a public-private partnership that develops solutions to global energy challenges. The five-story, $133 million biofuels research facility was designed by…

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UC Berkeley selected to build NASA’s next space weather satellite (terradaily.com)
Launch of antimalarial drug a triumph for UC Berkeley, synthetic biology (newscenter.berkeley.edu)

New York start-ups’ own flavour

Posted on December 25, 2012April 20, 2013 by timbatchelder

bbc.co.uk

How New York’s new tech firms differ from Silicon Valley rivals

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New York start-ups’ own flavour

Dubstarts jobs fair to link up start-ups with job-seekers (siliconrepublic.com)
Immigration and America’s high-tech industry (economist.com)
A comprehensive List of Tech London Start ups (semanticreatures.com)
Why the Lean Start-Up Changes Everything – Harvard Business Review (lifechngr.com)

Silicon Valley, meet Genome Valley

Posted on December 10, 2012May 28, 2013 by timbatchelder

Maggie Koerth-Baker, boingboing.net

More than 100 biomedical and life science companies are clustered in Genome Valley, a research park in Hyderabad, India. (Via Joanne Manaster)

Silicon Valley, meet Genome Valley

The Other Silicon Valley That The Tech Industry Is Leaving Behind [Video] (techcrunch.com)
Silicon Valley to boost clout in Washington (phys.org)
You’re comparing Boston to Silicon Valley. Stop it. It’s boring. (bizjournals.com)
The Real Silicon Valley Vs India’s Silicon Valley: An Entrepreneur’s Perspective (nextbigwhat.com)

Gatorade contains flame retardant according to petition

Posted on December 4, 2012April 26, 2013 by timbatchelder

Petition Claims Ingredient In Gatorade Is A Flame Retardant, Unsafe For Consumption
Mary Beth Quirk, consumerist.com

(Clean Wal-Mart)Gatorade is under fire from a new consumer petition claiming that the company’s beverage contains an unhealthy ingredient, brominated vegetable oil (or BVO), that was developed as a flame retardant. Opponents of the emulsifier, whi…

Top Scary Food Additives (worldtruth.tv)
EPA To Investigate The Safety Of Flame Retardants (thinkprogress.org)

Silicon Valley’s Hottest Commodity: The Design-Savvy Founder

Posted on November 7, 2012March 31, 2013 by timbatchelder

Eric Markowitz, inc.com

Inc.com staff

Don’t get an MBA. Don’t even learn to code. If you really want to start a great company, hone your design skills.

Reams have been written about the importance of founders that can code—or, in Silicon Valley parlance, the…

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Silicon Valley’s Hottest Commodity: The Design-Savvy Founder

Silicon Valley to boost clout in Washington (phys.org)
Myth Busters: Money Does Not Grow On Trees In Silicon Valley (nibletz.com)
Silicon Valley Space Center to Develop Suborbital Payloads for Lynx (parabolicarc.com)
Equity Office selling two major Silicon Valley office parks to Rreef, KBS (bizjournals.com)
The Real Silicon Valley Vs India’s Silicon Valley: An Entrepreneur’s Perspective (nextbigwhat.com)
Asia, Give Up On The Dream Of Being Silicon Valley (techinasia.com)
Silicon Valley HVAC firms heat up the local hiring scene (bizjournals.com)

Visualizing who spends what on political campaigns

Posted on November 6, 2012March 31, 2013 by timbatchelder

A Visualization Of The Most Invisible, And Influential, Part Of Political Campaigns
By Emily Elert, popsci.com

An animation by Northeastern University’s LazerLab shows what’s being donated, and where.

When I hear the phrase “political action,” I think of public demonstrations. But the most influential form of political action has nothing to do…

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Ozean selected for Google Glass Explorers (ozeanmedia.com)
Poll: Should Taxpayers Fund Political Campaigns? (billmoyers.com)
New appointees to California’s campaign watchdog panel FPPC have political ties (sacbee.com)

Get Back Inc.: Saving, and Creating, the Best American-Made Industrial Furniture

Posted on November 3, 2012March 27, 2013 by timbatchelder

Get Back Inc.: Saving, and Creating, the Best American-Made Industrial Furniture
core77.com

Connecticut-based designer Tim Byrne has my dream job: He founded and runs Get Back Inc., a company that scours the American countryside gathering up U.S.-built furniture from the Industrial Revolution era and onwards. Gems like t…

http://flpbd.it/d8EfS

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