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Taylor Wimberly / Android and Me:
Google's response to Siri is codenamed Majel, could be released by end of year — I wrote about Google's response to Apple's Siri voice assistant several months ago and over the last couple weeks I received further details about the secret project. For starters it is codenamed Majel …
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Mike Torres / The Windows Blog:
Introducing SkyDrive for iPhone and Windows Phone — SkyDrive is your personal cloud for your documents, notes, photos and videos. Move your files into SkyDrive and immediately they're available from any web browser anywhere in the world. As we detailed a few days ago …
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eWeek, GigaOM, Digital Trends, Inquirer, ZDNet, The Register, VoIP & Gadgets Blog, All about Microsoft Blog, blog.chron.com, Lifehacker, WebProNews, O'Grady's PowerPage, Appolicious Advisor, AnandTech, ITProPortal, Softpedia News, Silicon Republic, Engadget, everythingiCafe, TUAW, LiveSino, TechNet Blogs, The Verge, MSDN Blogs, BetaNews, PC World, LiveSide.net, ReadWriteWeb, All About Windows Phone, PC Magazine, IntoMobile, iPhone in Canada Blog, CNET News, SlashGear, MacRumors, CodenameWindows, GottaBeMobile, Gizmodo and Forbes, Thanks:weemundo
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Ellis Hamburger / Business Insider:
Microsoft Just Gave Every iPhone User 25 GB Of Cloud Storage — Microsoft just launched SkyDrive for iPhone, the company's cloud storage and document collaboration service. — It will let you upload, store, and share things like videos, pictures, and documents.
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LAPTOP Magazine, LiveSide.net and ZDNet
DigiTimes:
Apple may launch new MacBook Pro with 2880 by 1800 display resolution, say sources — Apple is likely to launch its new MacBook Pro lineup with a display resolution of 2880 by 1800 in the second quarter of 2012, setting a new round of competition for panel specifications in the notebook industry …
John Cook / GeekWire:
Tech CEO report card: Approval ratings drop for Ballmer, Bezos and others — Microsoft's Steve Ballmer and Skype's Tony Bates announce the deal in May. — Glassdoor.com is rolling out its annual “Naughty and Nice” list for technology CEOs. And, as it turns out, it looks …
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Hardware 2.0 Blog, PC World and Glassdoor Blog
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Facebook, Google, Apple And Rackspace Rated Best Places To Work in 2012 — Glassdoor, a jobs and career community where employees can anonymously rate companies and CEOs, has just released its fourth annual Employees' Choice Awards, listing the top 50 “Best Places to Work,” based on surveys collected from U.S. employees in 2011.
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All Facebook
Jason D. O'Grady / The Apple Core Blog:
FAA approves iPads in the cockpit; American Airlines to start Friday — In June the Allied Pilots Association noted that American Airlines (AA) conducted the first tests of iPads for all phases of flight. AA pilots received Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) approval to test iPads …
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Engadget, Appolicious Advisor, Fast Company, GottaBeMobile, Guardian, T3 News, Pocket-lint, SlashGear, Gawker, Silicon Republic, AllThingsD, MacRumors, Pulse2, Gizmodo, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch and Electronista
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Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Why apps are not the future — I hear it everywhere. The web is dead, apps are the future. — I heard it first on the cover of Wired Magazine in March 1997 and again in August 2010. I was so impressed I added it to my blogroll, as a reminder to all that you're reading a dead medium.
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Scott Hanselman, Stowe Boyd, @loic, Scripting News, inessential.com, @davemcclure, @dougw, @arrington, @msuster, Kindle Review and @abrams
Richard MacManus / ReadWriteWeb:
ReadWriteWeb Acquired by SAY Media — I'm thrilled to announce that ReadWriteWeb has been acquired by SAY Media, a digital publishing company headquartered in San Francisco. ReadWriteWeb will anchor SAY Media's growing Technology channel, which reaches more than 75 million global consumers each month.
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Adweek, Betabeat, mocoNews, TechCrunch and dailywireless.org, more at Mediagazer »
Jenna Wortham / New York Times:
As Facebook Aims at Millions of Users, Some Are Content to Sit Out — Tyson Balcomb quit Facebook after a chance encounter on an elevator. He found himself standing next to a woman he had never met — yet through Facebook he knew what her older brother looked like, that she was from a tiny island off …
Bloomberg:
Facebook Plans First Foray Into Mobile Ads — Facebook Inc. plans its first push into mobile advertising by the end of March, giving the company a fresh source of revenue ahead of a possible initial public offering, two people with knowledge of the matter said.
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Mobile Marketing Watch, Business Insider, FierceMobileContent, Inside Facebook, Marketing Pilgrim, CNET News, The inneractive Blog, AdExchanger.com, VatorNews, Digiday, the Econsultancy blog, Friending Facebook Blog, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Silicon Republic, NBC Bay Area, Marketing Land, Pulse2 and paidContent
Shayndi Raice / Digits:
Tagged Acquires Facebook Competitor Hi5 — Hi5, once one of the top three global social networks, was acquired by San Francisco-based Tagged on Wednesday, as some of the remnants of the social network space clear out in the wake of Facebook's overwhelming dominance.
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TechCrunch and The Technology Chronicles
Lauren Goode / AllThingsD:
TaskRabbit Raises $17.8 Million, Brings in Eisner as Adviser — TaskRabbit, the Bay Area-based start-up that outsources human “rabbits” to perform odious chores for neighbors, has raised its second cash pile in eight months. — It's also bringing former Disney chief executive officer Michael Eisner on board as a strategic adviser.
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Venture Capital Dispatch, VentureBeat, VatorNews, Taskrabbit Blog, Xconomy, GigaOM, Bits, TechCrunch, Betabeat, GeekWire and CNET News
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Outbrain Raises $35M In Series D Funding For Content Discovery Platform — Today, content discovery platform Outbrain is announcing it has secured $35 million in Series D funding in a round led by Index Ventures. Existing investors Carmel Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners also participated in the round.
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VentureBeat, Fast Company, VatorNews, Business Insider, Betabeat, AllThingsD, GigaOM and paidContent
Dan Frommer / SplatF:
Tweetbot rides the NewNewTwitter wave — For a strong take on what people don't like about the new Twitter iPhone app, read John Gruber's article, “R.I.P. Tweetie.” And then, you might want to check out Tweetbot, which seems to be the unofficial-Twitter-app-of-choice on the iPhone these days.
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Daring Fireball
Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:
Louis CK declares $5 standup special a success, sells 110k copies for $200k profit in 3 days — Comedian Louis CK has announced some numbers related to his recent experiment to sell his latest comedy special, Live at the Beacon Theater, for $5 online, instead of offering it through a distributor.
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PC Magazine, Betabeat, Business Insider, CNET News, Marketing Pilgrim, VentureBeat, Electronista, New York Magazine, SplatF and ArtsBeat
Naval / Startup Boy:
Why You Can't Hire — There isn't a shortage of developers and designers. There's a surplus of founders. — The cost of starting a company has collapsed. It's now just (minimal) salaries. For entrepreneurs, desks are free, hosting is free, marketing is online, and company setup is cheap.
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@ryanchris and @nivi
Simla Ceyhan / The LinkedIn Blog:
Buzzwords 2011: Who's been ‘creative’ and ‘effective’ this year? — With the New Year right around the corner, the LinkedIn team thought it would be a great time to refresh one of our most popular analyses from last year - overused professional buzzwords! Maybe during the last year …
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TechCrunch and SocialTimes.com
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Investors Were Kicked Off The Twitter Board “For The Good Of The Company” — In digging around trying to investigate rumors that KPCB VC John Doerr lost his “board observer"status at Twitter two weeks ago, I came across the information that almost all investors including Doerr were told …
Christian Zibreg / 9to5Mac:
Apple hires designer Jan-Michael Cart praised for his iOS interface concepts — Apple is hiring dozens of talented people on a daily basis, but this one deserves your attention. Jan-Michael Cart, a mass media arts student from Georgia, is the brains behind a bunch of very insightful iOS …
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Gizmodo, Jan-Michael Cart, MacRumors, Ars Technica, ReadWriteWeb, SlashGear, Computerworld, MacStories, iPhone in Canada Blog and PhoneArena
Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
Apple has big lead over Intel in mobile chips, analyst says — Steve Jobs introducing the A5. — A chip analyst has written a sobering assessment of Intel's chip prowess vis-a-vis Apple in the mobile device race, an odd underdog position for the largest chipmaker.
Asher Moses / Sydney Morning Herald:
Apple made Galaxy Tab a ‘household name’: Samsung — Asher Moses — Samsung Australia's mobile chief says that far from killing its Galaxy Tab 10.1, Apple's court case was almost a blessing in disguise that made the product a “household name”. — Samsung's tablet will arrive in stores …
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9to5Google, GigaOM, Inquirer, Sammy Hub, TechEye, Softpedia News and PhoneArena
Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch:
Battle Of The Browsers: iOS 5′s Browser Is Still (Slightly) Better Than Android's — Alright, fanboys: get your flamethrowers ready. HTML5 framework development house Sencha has just put a wide array of performance tools to use to answer one of life's geekiest questions: Who's got the better browser, Android 4 or iOS 5?
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Sencha Blog
Jim Edwards / Business Insider:
Google Kills ‘Google Shoot View’ Video Game — Google has killed off “Google Shoot View,” a first-person shooter video game based on Google's Street View mapping product. The game used Google's Street View database of 360 degree street-level photography, and imposed an automatic rifle sight and some sound effects on top of it.
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SlashGear, Examiner, VentureBeat and Stuff.co.nz
Sebastian Anthony / ExtremeTech:
Caltech sets 186Gbps internet speed record — A delicious combination of high-energy physicists, engineers, and computer scientists from Caltech and the University of Victoria have broken the world record for sustained, computer-to-computer transfer over a network.
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Lookout's 2012 Mobile Security Threat Predictions: SMS Fraud, Botnets And Malvertising — Lookout, a company that offers security services for a number of smartphone platforms, is releasing its 2012 Mobile Malware Predictions, based on data collected from its Mobile Threat Network …
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BGR, CNET News, The Official Lookout Blog, SiliconANGLE, PhoneArena and ReadWriteWeb
Dieter Bohn / The Verge:
Microsoft confirms Windows Phone SMS flaw, working on a fix — Microsoft has confirmed that the bug in Windows Phone that allows an SMS message is disable the messaging app and reboot the phone is indeed legitimate and the company is actively investigating.
Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
Hipstamatic Goes Social With Communal Photo Albums — Hipstamatic — which kick-started the artsy filtered photo craze with its iPhone app a couple years ago, but got upstaged by Instagram and its social network* — is now trying for some social pixie dust of its own, through a cute idea …
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GigaOM, VentureBeat and MacNN
Amy Or / WSJ Blogs:
Now Trending: Turning Tweets Into Trades — It's time to stop calling Derwent Capital “the Twitter hedge fund,” because it's no longer the only one plumbing social media for investment ideas. — Derwent made a splash earlier this year after pioneering a strategy that involved digging through …
