Vodafone turns to AWS for cricket app • The Register

Lessons from Big Brother power live streaming app, lead to cloud CMS at Vodafone Oz Vodafone Hutchison Australia (VHA) “never elegantly and cost-effectively” solved the problem of delivering online content to phone-wielding hordes during its long association with the Australian incarnation of Big Brother. But the company has nailed a cricket-streaming app first time, thanks to cloud services from Amazon Web Services. One of VHA's predecessor companies, 3 mobile, sponsored several series of Big Brother. At the end of many episodes, viewers were exhorted to continue their prurient perving stay in touch with the show by logging on to view...http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2012/05/20/vodafone_aus_cricket_app_in_the_cloud/

 

*Given the state of things, it’s a wonder that European “extremists” aren’t a whole lot extremer than the likes of this guy. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/18/greek-leftist-leader-alexis-tsipras “I don’t believe in heroes or saviours,” says Alexis Tsipras, “but I do believe in fighting for rights … no one has the right to reduce a proud people to such a state of wretchedness and indignity.” “The man who holds the fate of the euro in his hands – as the leader of the Greek party willing to tear up the country’s €130bn (£100bn) bailout agreement – says Greece is on the frontline of a war...http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/index/~3/6p1WKblwQy4/

 

The DIWire Bender, a wire-bending fabricator. | Beyond The Beyond

*Gosh, I love wire art. I bet there’s some way to mash-up an app for Calder-style mobiles to a gizmo like this, and go completely nuts. *That’s really a beautiful example of “cheap complexity” in 3d manufacturing. The DIWire Bender
by PENSA! 2 weeks 3 days ago “The DIWire Bender is a rapid prototype machine that bends metal wire to produce 2D or 3D shapes. “Wire unwinds from a spool, passes through a series of wheels that straighten it, and then feeds through the bending head, which moves around in 3 dimensions to create the desired bends and curves....http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/index/~3/Qp2zzu1L3vY/

 

Mark Zuckerberg marries Priscilla Chan - New Media - New Media | siliconrepublic.com

Mark Zuckerberg marries Priscilla Chan Pictured: Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg on their wedding day yesterday In the same weekend that his eight year old company IPO’d on Nasdaq Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg married Priscilla Chan. Unlike the portrayal of Zuckerberg (28) in the Oscar winning movie The Social Network (the only thing they got right by the way was the wardrobe) the Facebook founder met Chan in their first year at Harvard and have been together ever since. Chan (27) recently graduated from medical school. About 100 friends and family who attended the ceremony weren’t aware of...http://www.siliconrepublic.com/new-media/item/27304-mark-zuckerberg-marries-pri

 

Tech start-up of the week: WorldNet - Start Ups - Start-Ups | siliconrepublic.com

Tech start-up of the week: WorldNet Will Byrne, CEO, WorldNet, and John Clarke, head of product innovation, demonstrate Payjack on iPhone and iPad This week our tech start-up to watch is WorldNet. Around since 2008, it has come up with a new tech innovation called Payjack to allow small businesses accept credit card payments via their mobile. Payjack just launched in the Irish marketplace in the past week and according to WorldNet’s CEO Will Byrne, it’s the first mobile phone app here to allow companies take credit card payments via either iPhone, iPad or Android devices. In the US, for...http://www.siliconrepublic.com/start-ups/item/27301-tech-start-up-of-the-week

 

A Google-a-Day Puzzle for May 20 | GeekDad

Our good friends at Google run a daily puzzle challenge and asked us to help get them out to the geeky masses. Each day’s puzzle will task your googling skills a little more, leading you to Google mastery. Each morning at 12:01 a.m. Eastern time you’ll see a new puzzle, and the previous day’s answer (in invisitext) posted here. SPOILER WARNING:
We leave the comments on so people can work together to find the answer. As such, if you want to figure it out all by yourself, DON’T READ THE COMMENTS! Also, with the knowledge that because others may publish...http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/index/~3/eiGA4lVZoB8/

 

NewsLetter.ie an Irish Company shaking up Facebook

 
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Stop the Tarbosaurus Auction! | Wired Science

The mounted Tarbosaurus skeleton slated to be auctioned tomorrow. Image via Heritage Auctions. Tomorrow, a tyrannosaur will go up for auction in New York City. It shouldn’t. The Tarbosaurus – lot 49315 – was illegally collected and smuggled out of Mongolia. Fossil theft is a major problem. It can happen anywhere , but dinosaur poaching is especially persistent and pernicious in China and Mongolia . Prime specimens are regularly ripped from the rock to be sold to private individuals elsewhere around the world, all against the heritage laws meant to regulate the responsible collection and curation of dinosaurs and other...http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/index/~3/BWtNICrQVeA/