July 21 - Early Week Readings

• Why Surface RT failed and iPad didn't (NYT)
• A telling lesson on why too many options is not necessarily a good thing
• Tiny lasers will speed up future computers (ars)
• Apple TV: Cooperating with content providers (NYT)
• Economics 101: Killing America (salon)
• Economics is not science, agree to that
• 10 mind blowing technologies that will appear by 2030 (io9)
• Why retailers ask for ZipCode when you checkout (forbes)
• Ofcourse for marketing purpose.. but can lead to unexpected consequences
• This debate never dies off
• Charcoal grilling is better than gas (wired)
• Gas grilling is better than charcoal (wired)
• Finance set to surpass tech as the most profitable industry (usatoday)
• Which investment is better: Hollywood or Siliconvalley (NYT)
• History of Apps pricing, why most apps are free (flurry)
• How Windows monopoly is getting destroyed (BI)
• Give me back my iPhone (slate)

July 17, Mid-Week Readings

• PivotalHD is available for download by SK (yours faithfully) (gopivotal)
• Pivotal ships Hadoop to masses - my first appearance in The Register (TheRegister)
• Social Media bubble is deflating (BW)
• Pivotal ships Hadoop distro complete with SQL (jexenter)
• Hey engineers - Your product manager needs a hug (aha.iohttp://blog.aha.io/index.php/hey-engineers-your-product-manager-needs-a-hug/)
• Practical introduction to Data Science skills (google)

July 15, Early week Readings

• The Dropbox opportunity (link)
• Microsoft overhauls the Apple way (NYT)
• How to tell you've a lousy 401k (YahooFinance)
• Cars are fast becoming Smartphones on wheels (TR)
• You want to hide from NSA? Guide to nearly impossible (wired)
• Not even Hadoop is free of patent-troll attack (NYT)
• Warren: Human Bigdata engine (gooddata)

Mid-Week: Reads

Mid-Week Readings:

• Unexpected use for Enron emails - BigData! (MIT Tech Review)
• Tech spending will reach $3.7 trillion in 2013, Gartner predicts (AllthingsD)
• How Apple and IBM learned to change with times (USANews)
• The essential WallStreet summer reading list (NYT)
• What's wrong with technology fixes (BostonReview)
• Why doesn't Apple enable sustainable business on the AppStore (Stratechery)
• Pandora paid over $1300 not $16 for playing one million songs (Link)
• How to give a killer presentation - a story of "lion lights". Inspiring (HBR)

Mid-Week Watch list:

• Art of choosing: Fascinating book about the choices we make. Quick intro by author (Columbia U's Sheela Iyengar)  (video)