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Stop Carrying Two Cell Phones
More companies are letting employees bring their own technology to work By Victor Luckerson Monday, Nov. 11, 2013

Not all gizmos are created equal. As the fall gadget season shifts into gear–Apple and rivals Amazon and Microsoft have all recently unveiled glitzy new smartphones and tablets–consumers are finding themselves shopping for tech they will use at home and for work. That’s because an increasing number of workplaces are adopting bring-your-own-technology policies–BYOT, in the parlance of corporate types–that allow employees to work using personal devices….

http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2156254,00.html

Stop Carrying Two Cell Phones: BYOT, the new corporate rationale for letting employees buy their own laptops
http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2156254,00.html #tech

Can the Climate Corporation Help Farmers Survive? Mining #bigdata changes a most traditional profession
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/11/11/131111fa_fact_specter MT @PernilleT
ANNALS OF SCIENCE
CLIMATE BY NUMBERS
Can a tech firm help farmers survive global warming?
BY MICHAEL SPECTER
NOVEMBER 11, 2013

A Whole New Idea: Half a Camera. Just a lens but @Pogue urges us to wait for version 2 nyti.ms/1aplUR3 #photography

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/26/technology/personaltech/sonys-whole-new-idea-half-a-camera.html

Ex-Googler Gives the World a Better #Bitcoin: #Litecoin which appreciated $30 to $8.4K in past year
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/08/litecoin via @bkunkel3
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/08/litecoin/

Ray #Dolby, 80… Inventing Tech for Sound Clarity. Interesting fact: he was a Marshall & Cantab PhD http://on.wsj.com/1ePvWhS MT @ScLoHo
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324755104579071643240575178.html?mod=wsj_share_tweet

Collaborative Coding to Wedding Invitations: #GitHub Is Going Mainstream – eg its use for English text
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/09/github-for-anything MT @Adaptavist

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/09/github-for-anything QT:
“Some startups won’t even consider applicants who don’t have a GitHub account.”—Robert McMillan in Wired.

#NSA Foils Much Internet Encryption, hurting credibility of
private-company solutions v opensource http://nyti.ms/1aaj0QI MT @BrianBrownNet

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/06/us/nsa-foils-much-internet-encryption.html

Wiped out: race to save our #video heritage b/c ’70s magnetic tape is now rotting http://bit.ly/1dVHiQW MT @justcoachit #archiving

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21929311.500-wiped-out-the-race-to-save-our-video-heritage.html

Watch out for the orange @Memototeam square! #Lifelogging camera shrugs off privacy to seize the moment http://yhoo.it/1dzZMI5 via @luriep
http://phys.org/news/2013-09-lifelogging-camera-privacy-seize-moment.html

MIT balloon at @Harvard-@Yale game would now be a huge terrorist scare: That #Hack, 25 Years Later http://techre.vu/VGeaqN MT @GallivanDan

http://www.technologyreview.com/article/408457/that-hack-25-years-later/