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Earlier this week, in an unprecedented step, Wikimedia Foundation, which oversees Wikipedia, banned seven editors based out of Mainland China over “infiltration concerns.” Plus, the non-profit revoked access of 12 editors from an “unrecognized group.” The foundation investigated an unofficial group of300 Wikipedia power users, known as Wikimedians of Mainland China (WMC). It found out that some of the group’s editors were taking unfair advantage of their privileges to promote “the aims of China, as interpreted through whatever filters they may bring to bear....

The company that built and shipped Windows Vista, Internet Explorer 8, and the Kin, is dead. The new Microsoft that has risen from the sad ashes of its former self is a company that is looking to tear up its past, and go in a completely new direction. The transition that Microsoft is embarking upon began with Windows 7, Windows Phone 7, Internet Explorer 9, Xbox LIVE, and Zune. Windows 8, Windows Phone 7....

Ever since the untimely demise of the Kin line of phones, Microsoft’s mobile efforts have not been treated with much reverence. In fact, Windows Phone 7 is often viewed by fans of iOS and Android handsets as little more than a distraction. This view is not without point: Windows Phone 7 (WP7) is still a sliver compared to those larger, more popular, and better established platforms. While that is the case, Microsoft simply cannot give up on WP7....

In what seems like a huge waste of paper for the sake of art, London-based artist Rob Matthews printed out all ofWikipedia’s “featured articles,” totaling 2,559 entries and about 5,000 pages worth of content. Since Wikipedia has 3,597,798 articles in English alone, this project doesn’t demonstrate its potential aim of how much information the Internet helps us store. Please don’t consider that a challenge. Don’t like reading on the Internet? Buy a Kindle instead....

Why you need Design Thinking and Proofs of Concept to level up your business Reconnecting with customers using design thinking 70% of new startups flop. There are a number of different reasons why but, believe it or not, after interviewing 339 failed startups,CBI Insightsfound that the number one reason was that there was simply no market need for their product. And it’s not just startups. Consider Google Glass or Apple’s Butterfly Keyboard, two inventions with suchhigh expectationsand then a quick drop down to reality....