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Event: Aberdeen TechMeetup no. 26 ~ Wednesday 15th February, 2012 (via @Scharlau)

Bruce Scharlau, writting for TechMeetup:

The next TechMeetup Aberdeen talk is on Wednesday, 15th February at 6:30pm in the foyer of the North entrance to the Meston Building.

ASP.NET MVC 3 with a touch of Entity Framework 4.1..

An introduction to the current MVC offering from Microsoft. Getting you started with a simple application highlighting some of niceties provided by the frameworks and Visual Studio 2010 (Express Edition - keeping it free*).

Warning: we will be looking at actual code (maybe even writing some ;-)

*Requires appropriate windows licence

As always, come for the talk and to meet people who share a passion for tech.

Another TechMeetup awaits us this week, same time and location as usual. Come along for some pizza, beers, and good old tech talking plus the standard networking!

(via @Scharlau)

Apple 'one of the best' at monitoring factory staff, says Chinese activist (Wired UK)

Duncan Geere, reporting for Wired UK:

The founder of a Chinese activist group called China Labor Watch has come out in defence of much-criticised technology giant Apple, saying it’s “one of the best” at monitoring its factories.

Li Qiang told Laptop Magazine through a translator: “Although I know that the iPhone 4 is made at sweatshop factories in China, I still think that this is the only choice, because Apple is actually one of the best. Actually before I made a decision, I compared Apple with other cell phone companies, such as Nokia, and the conditions in those factories are worse than the ones of Apple.”

Bankrupt Kodak to stop making cameras in 2012 (Wired UK)

Mark Brown, reporting for Wired UK:

In a drastic bid to cut costs, bankrupted Eastman Kodak Co plans to stop making cameras in the first half of 2012.

It’s always sad to see stories like this surface, but Kodak can’t blame anyone else for this.

Sonic Notify: the inaudible QR codes only an app can hear (Wired UK)

Duncan Geere, for Wired UK:

A startup called Sonic Notify is working on a product that embeds inaudibly high-pitched signals into music and audio, which can be detected by your smartphone.

When a compatible app hears the signal, it could be triggered to take an action — linking you to a website, displaying text or an image, or bringing up a location on a map. That yields all sorts of possibilities — you could vote on your favourite song of a performance, or be directed to a secret aftershow party, for example.

I think this is awesome. Just imagine walking into a restaurant, launching a global menu application and the app would auto-load the specific menu for the restaurant you’re in… I can think of a bunch of scenarios where this could come in useful, and I really hope this takes off.

iPad 3 launch event coming in first week of March, according to All Things D | The Verge

Vlad Savov, reporting for The Verge:

Apple’s going to host a launch event for the iPad 3 in the first week of March, according to sources familiar with the company’s plans, as reported by All Things D. San Francisco is the location of the event, but there’s no date yet for when the upgraded tablet will be available to buy.

iBooks Author 1.01 out with updated EULA

parislemon:

Notes Megan Lavey-Heaton for TUAW:

The change is an important one though, clarifying that Apple has rights over the format a book is in, not the content.

And we have yet another bit of controversy to file away under: Apple Is Not Fucking Stupid.

I haven’t weighed in on the EULA hubbub for this exact reason. If Apple was actually trying to suggest that they own the content of all iBooks published via iBooks Author, then yes, obviously that’s bad. But get this: Apple is neither the devil nor are they fucking stupid — as we’ve seen before.

Drewbot: The Huffington Post Streaming Video Network is Doomed

dbreunig:

The NYT’s Brian Stelter reports on AOL/The Huffington Post’s live streaming video network announcement:

AOL and The Huffington Post are readying a live video network that will have 12 hours of programming every weekday when it starts this summer…

Roy Sekoff, a founding editor of The…

ShipAIS - Current AIS map

Anna Cook:

Serious nerd love for this: Live mapping for ships in British waters.

Live mappings are some of my favourite visualisations - this one’s great.

(via @Anna_Cook)