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Submission + - 5 mobile apps that will find you a place to work (citeworld.com)

rfran writes: How easy is it to find a shared workspace of any whether you're on vacation, traveling for work, or need a coworking community in your hometown? Maybe it's easy in major cities, but what about the smaller cities and towns that dot the U.S. landscape?

Submission + - Why Silicon Valley is suddenly in love with Slack (citeworld.com)

mattydread23 writes: For all the hype, Slack only really shines in the specific use-case of teams, likely distributed across geographies, who have to share and act on information from multiple sources really, really fast in order to produce something digital. It's probably not going to make as much sense for, say, a field sales force. Or the HR department. Or retail workers.

Submission + - Why Microsoft Azure will get the last laugh in the cloud wars (citeworld.com)

mattydread23 writes: Venture capitalist Brad Feld recently argued that Amazon's cloud dominance is over, and said that it's a good time to be Microsoft or Google. In this article, CITEworld editor Matt Rosoff argues that Microsoft is in fact in the driver's seat — Azure is a core part of its strategy, not a low-margin side business like Google Cloud Engine is for its parent company.

Submission + - The hunt for electric bacteria to power tiny devices (citeworld.com)

mattydread23 writes: As the tiny machines of the Internet of Things spread to each corner of life, researchers have increasingly looked for new ways to power and connect them. Several researchers are focusing on the tiniest form of life — bacteria.

Submission + - Your mobile app sucks (citeworld.com)

Gamoid writes: Building a mobile app is easy. But you need to measure and monitor performance and quickly build to improve it or users are going to ditch it and go back to Dropbox and Gmail.

Submission + - Despite bolstering its offerings, BlackBerry is still stuck in the past (citeworld.com)

mattydread23 writes: The BlackBerry Security Summit gave the company a chance to announce its acquisition of Secusmart and affirm its commitment to delivering and expanding highly secure devices and services. While there were high points, it also demonstrated that BlackBerry is still out of touch in some key areas.

Submission + - Why Frank and Oak uses Looker to keep its data looking sharp (citeworld.com)

Copy that 2 writes: Frank and Oak, an online men's clothing retailer, requires that users sign up to shop, offering them a new collection of clothes to choose from each month. With 1.5 million members, the company's previous BI platform wasn't cutting it and it soon ran into a bottleneck problem that will sound familiar to many users of such tools.

Submission + - The cloud price wars will hurt everybody (reddit.com) 1

Gamoid writes: I had some thoughts on how Amazon Web Services' willingness to cut into its own profit margins to squeeze out the competition is a Walmart-like move that's going to hurt the entire industry.

Submission + - It's now possible to print computer memory on paper (citeworld.com)

Caleb Garling writes: Paper is cheap, flexible, and widespread, making it a good candidate as a substrate, but one of the issues with printing conductive materials to paper is one of the reasons paper works so well for ink: absorption. Being porous and uneven is an unwanted quality when trying to lay down the very precise structures necessary for electronics.

To get around this, principal researcher Der-Hsien Lien and team first coated the paper in a layer of carbon. Their aim was to make a type of resistive random access memory (RRAM), where a voltage is applied across a layer of insulator via an electrode. Each "bit" on the paper would be an insulator sandwiched by two electrodes with a state of 1 or 0.

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