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FT.com / Technology – Google to map inflation using web data
Google is using its vast database of web shopping data to construct the ‘Google Price Index’ – a daily measure of inflation that could one day provide an alternative to official statistics. The work by Google’s chief economist, Hal Varian, highlights how economic data can be gathered far more rapidly using online sources. The official […]
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the Qt contribution ecosystem
After recently writing about the broken contribution process in Qt, I got a little bit inspired to see what the current ‘lay of the land’ of the Qt contribution ecosystem looks like. So, I did what any self-respecting hacker would do, and wrote a quick script over the course of a few hours to generate […]
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Backup and Run Yahoo Pipes Pipework on Google App Engine
Wouldn’t it be handy if you could use Yahoo Pipes as code free rapid prototyping development environment, then export the code and run it on your own server, or elsewhere in the cloud? Well now you can, using Greg Gaughan’s pipe2py and the Google App Engine “Pipes Engine” app. As many readers of OUseful.info will […]
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ST-Ericsson glues gstreamer into Android – and makes it proprietary
It is always surprising what kind of things the industry is coming up with 😉 Here at ELCE, ST-Ericsson has just presented how they replaced OpenCore with gstreamer as the supplier/provider of multimedia encoding/decoding to the Android software stack. This is definitely an interesting technical solution – probably one that makes sense if you have […]
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The Nexus One Was Google’s Dream. The Carriers Were Freddy Krueger.
Robert Scoble painted a similar (though much more brief) picture over Twitter of the story I just told. “My conversation last night with a Google VP confirmed that they threw their principles under the bus in order to gain Android market share,” he tweeted this morning. “What did the Google VP say? They learned from […]
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Why Broadband Changes Everything
The slow and steady increase in broadband speeds means we are using the Internet more often for more things. Statistical proof of this trend came via the latest edition of Cisco Systems Visual Networking Index (VNI) Study. According to the study, the average broadband connection is now generating 14.9 GB of Internet traffic per month, […]
