The Great Tablet War Of 2012

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Make no mistake: There’s a full-blown battle on for the future of computing.

Forget all the fragmentary skirmishes for your pocket, for your set-top, for your living room, and for your desk.

It’s become increasingly clear that the tablet is the defining device of the next couple decades of computing, as the PC was in the ’80s.

Handheld touchscreen devices are the key way we’ll consume content and buy things.

So that’s extremely interesting to anyone who makes devices, serves up content, or sells things.

Top 15 Web Design Trends of 2012

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Internet technology and design industry have seen constant evolution ever since their inception. By the year 2011, we all have seen positive growth in the design industry; not only this, learning web designing has also become a lot easier thanks to all the information available over the internet and in libraries. Today, we will be discussing a few designs which have gained popularity in 2011 and are becoming the trendiest web designs of 2012. These trends have introduced and include some great new design techniques and they have been playing a great role in designing trendiest websites. Also, implementing these features is not a big deal because they are easy to understand with less complex coding.

Gadgets You Can Expect Before The End Of 2012

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This fall, expect to see some amazing new devices.

Companies like to get their gear out on shelves well before the holiday shopping season.

And based on past product-release cycles, we should be seeing new stuff from Apple, Microsoft, Samsung, Nintendo, Amazon, and others.

More importantly, new technologies are coming out that promise to make this next generation of products worth opening your wallet.

Only when they land will we know if they live up to the hype.

The Social Network Olympics - Infographic

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We love the Olympics, but an international social media showdown is a little more our speed.

Ignite Social Media is back with the 2012 Social Network Analysis Report, breaking down demographic, geographic and search data that shows which networks are the underdogs and which are mounting the winners’ podium.

Here at Mashable, we can’t get enough GIFs and hashtags. We’re excited to see that this type of digital currency is gaining value — Twitter and Tumblr are among the top five networks with the strongest rate of growth. Pinterest, Reddit and LinkedIn round out the pack.

Launched just over a year ago, Google+ was included in the report for the first time this year but is notably absent from the list of fastest growing platforms. And while Facebook is actively continuing its quest for world domination, it’s hard to improve your growth rate when practically everyone’s already joined the club.

2012 Cyber Security Research Report

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The age of digital media, internet technology, and worldwide e-commerce, is upon us, and what that really means is that, for most of us, our lives are now almost completely entwined with the internet in some way or another, whether it is for personal use, social use, business, use or otherwise. With so much of our daily lives and pieces of our identities living on the internet, the new danger that comes with that is cyber security hacks and vulnerabilities.

Hackers and thieves used to have to take our purses and wallets, or lift numbers off our credit cards or social security identifiers in order to compromise our personal or business information; today, all a hacker needs to do is find the appropriate online platform that has poor security, and take all the database information that lies within it. Pretty scary, if you think about it. This infographic, the 2012 Cyber Security Research Report lays out the fine details and statistics about the state of Cyber Security today and how it affects all of us as internet users.

25 Best Portfolio WordPress Themes of 2012

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Professional looking portfolio WordPress themes are really important for designers and photographers. A good WordPress theme plays an important role in winning a client. If your own portfolio site is attractive then chances become high to win a new client. So here are 25 best Portfolio WordPress themes of 2012 for you. This collection includes both free and premium WordPress themes.

50 Most Inspiring Pictures of Best Workstation Setup in 2012

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Nice, clean, slick workstation can bring out the best of your creative work. Not only the workstation setup can affect you, the environment around can give you a fresh start of a day as well. Especially for freelancers or anybody works in office or at home, a cozy workspace design is very important. Many inspiring pictures of people’s workstations are posted on Flickr and other design specific websites, which can just make you feel jealous of them. Today we gathered 50 the most slick and inspiring workstation that can really kick ass. But don’t hold yourself only within designs like these, your own unique workspace can be way better than them.

Tech acquisitions so far in 2012

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Big fish eat little fish. It’s the way of the business world. Sometimes, it’s a welcomed meal for the “eaten” when a larger company gives them a lot of money to get their assets and often their people as well such as with Microsoft’s purchase of Yammer. For others, it’s not quite as welcome. In the case of Digg, the company passed on a deal worth $80 million in 2011 only to be scrapped for parts by 3 bigger fish for a total of $16 million (and that number is a bit generous).