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Motorola wants 2.25% of Apple's sales in return for license to standard-essential wireless patents — In my previous post (on Motorola's lawsuits against the German Apple Stores), I said that a statement by Apple's counsel at yesterday's Mannheim trial made me aware of a discovery request … | John Battelle / John Battelle's Search Blog: |
It's Not Whether Google's Threatened. It's Asking Ourselves: What Commons Do We Wish For? — If Facebook's IPO filing does anything besides mint a lot of millionaires, it will be to shine a rather unsettling light on a fact most of us would rather not acknowledge: The web as we know it is rather …
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Google hires a senior director at Apple for a top secret project (exclusive) — Google has pulled off a coup by hiring an Apple senior director of product integrity for a secret project, VentureBeat has learned. — The recruiting feat is historic since Google has never hired such a senior person away from Apple.| David Kocieniewski / New York Times: |
Zuckerberg's Big Tax Bill May Benefit Facebook — Few billionaires are willing to reveal much about their taxes. — But the Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg has indirectly done so in the documents for his company's public stock offering later this year.
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| Dan Frommer / SplatF: |
How Does Facebook Make Money? — Facebook's IPO filing this week confirmed what we already knew: Facebook makes the vast majority of its money by selling ads on its site. — But now we know just how much of its revenue comes from advertising: 85% in 2011, with the remaining 15% coming from payments and other fees.
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| Robert McMillan / Wired.com: |
AMD Eyes ARM Alliance in War on Intel — Could the low-power chip design that's used in your iPhone someday show up inside the chips built by Intel rival Advanced Micro Devices? — Definitely maybe. Or as AMD's brand new Chief Technology Officer Mark Papermaster put it to us: “The answer is not no.”
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The Verge, Electronista and Computerworld
| Danielle Kucera / Bloomberg: |
Yelp Reports Wider Loss for 2011 After Marketing, Development Costs Climb — Yelp Inc. (YELP), the user-generated review site that's planning an initial public offering, reported a wider loss in 2011 after increasing spending to attract reviewers and make the service easier to use.
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| Arnold Kim / MacRumors: |
AT&T Starts Throttling Unlimited Data Users after 2GB of Monthly Usage — In October, AT&T announced that they would start throttling data usage amongst mobile Unlimited Data Plan users. While AT&T no longer offers an Unlimited Data plan to new customers, many of the original iPhone purchasers are still grandfathered into that plan.
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John Cozen, MacGazette.net, Electronista and PhoneArena
| Arnold Kim / MacRumors: |
Apple Revises Snow Leopard Security Update and Pulls 10.7.3 Delta Update — After a couple of issues with some software updates, Apple has made some quiet revisions to address the problems. — The first was a Snow Leopard security update which inadvertently caused problems with Apple's PowerPC emulation layer Rosetta.| Noel Randewich / Reuters: |
Micron appoints Durcan CEO after Appleton's death — (Reuters) - Memory chipmaker Micron Technology's board appointed company veteran Mark Durcan as chief executive a day after longtime Chairman and CEO Steve Appleton was killed in a plane crash. — Hours after Appleton's death on Friday morning …
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| T.C. Sottek / The Verge: |
Accidental espionage: how iMessage conversations end up in the wrong handsets — Terrifying tales have surfaced recently of unsuspecting iPhone users that have had their private conversations swiped by thieves or intercepted by accident, and through our own independent test we've confirmed …
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Gadget Lab, Softpedia News and ITProPortal
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Apple Kicks Chart Topping Fakes Out Of App Store — Temple Jump, Tiny Birds, Numbers With Friends. These are not the apps you love. They're fakes designed to scam you out of $1.99 when you go to buy Temple Run, Tiny Wings, or Words With Friends. Today Apple took a stand against plagiarism …
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Computerworld, PadGadget, MacGazette.net, Guardian, iDownloadBlog.com, AppleInsider, TechCrunch Japan, Softpedia News, MacNN, CNET and TECH.BLORGE.com. Thanks:@grg
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Defrag Tools: WPT - Command Line — Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder, and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT).
Defrag Tools: WPT - Command Line — Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder, and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT).
Cloud Foundry:
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
Rackspace Blog:
Love, Magic, & APIs — I will confess, I am old enough to remember my GeoCities page. Don't hate. It was amazing, it was... this transformative moment in which I took real, actual information, and transformed it into something visible and memorable.
Love, Magic, & APIs — I will confess, I am old enough to remember my GeoCities page. Don't hate. It was amazing, it was... this transformative moment in which I took real, actual information, and transformed it into something visible and memorable.
Hortonworks » Blog:
Hadoop, Hadoop, Hurrah! HDP for Windows is Now GA! — Today we are very excited to announce that Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDP for Windows) is now generally available and ready to support the most demanding production workloads.
Hadoop, Hadoop, Hurrah! HDP for Windows is Now GA! — Today we are very excited to announce that Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDP for Windows) is now generally available and ready to support the most demanding production workloads.
Unison's blog:
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).Who's Hiring In Tech?
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