Friday, February 06, 2015

Economy

Both Republicans and Democrats praised another crappy jobs report.
"Employers added a higher-than-expected 257,000 jobs in January, while the unemployment rate ticked up to 5.7% as more Americans reentered the labor force."
It might be higher than expected, but it's still pathetic. We're still down ten million jobs since 2007, and the few that have been created are poor jobs and they've been taken mostly by immigrants.

Ubuntu phone's innovative plans.
"The phone — the Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition, made with Spanish manufacturers BQ — won't feature apps. Instead, it will have a new user experience paradigm called Scopes. These are "essentially contextual home-screen dashboards that will be much simpler and less time-consuming to develop than full-on native apps." For instance, the music Scope will pull songs from Grooveshark alongside music stored locally on your device, without strong differentiation between the two. The user experience, writes Jay Cassano at Fast Company, seems a lot more intuitive than the "app grids" that dominate most devices."
Nice.

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