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ust a decade ago, sequencing a human genome was a monumental international effort costing more than $2 billion. Just after a decade the cost of sequencing a human genome is about to drop to just $1000. Thanks to one man’s personal motivation has made that sci-fi fantasy to reality. Jonathan Rothesberg’s Life Technologies launched his [...]
Google announced that in an effort to make Google privacy policies simpler and easier to read and understand, Google is uniting more than 60 privacy policies from its products. The biggest upshot is that by combining privacy policies, Google can treat you as a single individual across multiple Google products, when signed in to your [...]
Apple announced that it posted a record revenue/profit in its 2012 first quarter financial results. In the Apple’s quarter without Steve Jobs, thanks to its awesome line of products and the holiday season, Apple did extremely well. Apple’s iPhone, iPad and Mac drove Apple’s growth this quarter. Apple sold a whopping 37.04 million iPhones in [...]
Verizon announced that it is dropping the price of Droid RAZR by $100 to just $199 now. Verizon launched the Android 4G Smartphone Droid RAZR in November for $299.99 with a new two year contract. DROID RAZR is the thinnest 4G LTE smartphone powered by dual-core 1.2 GHz processor with 1 GB of RAM and [...]
Yahoo announced that Yahoo’s co-founder Jerry Yang is resigning from all things Yahoo. Jerry Yang and David Filo founded Yahoo in 1994 when they were graduate students at Stanford University. Yahoo started just as an internet directory and grew to be a top media company now. Jerry Yang is serving in Yahoo’s Board of Directors [...]
Facebook announced that it is opening the registration for Facebook’s second annual Hackers Cup. Facebook Hackers Cup is a global programming contest to solve challenging algorithmic problems. Hackers Cup has five rounds of programming challenges and the winner who hacks through the challenges get to be be World champion and win $5000. Runners up get [...]
The big brother IBM has once again lent its hands to help Google by selling more patents on mobile and java. The patent transfer detective SEO by Sea has found the IBM to Google patent transfer once again. SEO By Sea reports that Google ended the year 2011 by acquiring 188 granted patents and 29 [...]
Just as everyone recovering from the New Year party, SEO Boook and SearchEngineLand uncovered a not so proud beginning for Google this year. Google has found to be either directly or indirectly paid to get the link juice violating its own SEO policy for Google Chrome. To keep the Google search results clean, Google does [...]
AllThingsD, the ever reliable on “All things Apple” news, is reporting that Apple is planning a special event this month at New York City. AllThingsD’s reliable sources also report that the NY special event is going to be a non-iPad, non-Apple TV event. As a way of ruling out NY to launch a big product [...]