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| Seth Weintraub / 9to5Google: |
HUD Google Glasses are real and they are coming soon — We detailed the first information about the Google [x] Glasses project in December. … Since then, we have learned much more regarding Google's glasses... Our tipster has now seen a prototype and said it looks something like Oakley Thumps (below).| Jeff Atwood / Coding Horror: |
Farewell Stack Exchange — I am no longer a part of Stack Exchange. — I still have much literal and figurative stock in the success of Stack Exchange, of course, but as of March 1st I will no longer be part of the day to day operations of the company, or the Stack Exchange sites, in any way.
| Jack Purcher / Patently Apple: |
Apple's Macroscalar Architecture: Will it Take iOS to the Next Level? — The general consensus in the market today is that Apple's upcoming A6 quad core processor is to bring more performance to the 2012 iPad and iPhone. It's said that it will also preserve battery life due to a shift from a 40-nanometer to a 28-nanometer process.
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RazorianFly, MacRumors, Electronista and O'Grady's PowerPage
| Kasper Jade / AppleInsider: |
Halliburton to ditch BlackBerrys in corporate transition to Apple's iOS platform — Exclusive: In yet another blow to troubled Research in Motion, one of the world's largest energy service corporations — Halliburton — plans to phase out thousands of employee BlackBerrys in favor of advancing …
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TechCrunch, CNET, Electronista, SlashGear, iDownloadBlog.com, WebProNews and TUAW
| Greg Sandoval / CNET: |
Redbox pays $100 million for NCR's Blockbuster Express — Redbox announced today that it has acquired the assets NCR's entertainment business for $100 million. — NCR is a company that specializes in retail kiosks and it began operating more than 10,000 Blockbluster Express DVD kiosks … | Austin Carr / Fast Company: |
| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
Honeywell Files Patent Lawsuit Against Smart Thermostat Developer Nest — Conglomerate Honeywell, which develops thermostats, has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Nest Labs, the developer of the innovative smart thermostat. The lawsuit, which was filed United States District Court …
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AllThingsD, The Verge, Gadget Lab, CNET, GigaOM and Electronista
| Katie Fehrenbacher / GigaOM: |
| Chris Ziegler / The Verge: |
‘Apple HDTV’ imagined in Best Buy survey: 42-inch model for $1,499 — Best Buy appears to be sending surveys to customers getting feedback on potential new products and services — something that virtually every consumer-facing company does on a regular basis — but one thing stood out this time around … | Michael Kozlowski / Good E-Reader: |
Amazon in the Process of Launching a Retail Store — Amazon sources close to the situation have told us that the company is planning on rolling out a retail store in Seattle within the next few months. This project is a test to gauge the market and see if a chain of stores would be profitable.
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Examiner, Screenwerk, PC World, msnbc.com, BGR, ReadWriteWeb, GigaOM, Fortune, TechCrunch, Electronista, Geek.com, PC Magazine, GadgeTell, The Verge, VentureBeat, The Next Web, NBC Bay Area, Gawker, paidContent, WebProNews, Washington Post, The Tech Trade, Neowin.net, Business Insider, SplatF, Techie Buzz, Pulse2, GeekWire, The Seattle Times and Network World. Tweets: @jason. See also Mediagazer
| Matt Lynley / Business Insider: |
An Ex-Zynga Engineer Is Ripping The Company Apart In Plain Sight — Whales, abusing contractors, and pushing metrics. — That's pretty much all Zynga is about, according to a former engineer. — An ex-engineer who was there about six months ago is opening up on an “ask-me-anything” question and answer thread in Reddit.| The Official Google Blog: |
Super Bowl XLVI: Mobile, Manning and Madonna — Now that the final Super Bowl touchdown has been scored, the dip bowl wiped clean and the last of the chicken wings devoured, we're taking a look at some game-day search trends to see what football fans were searching for this year.| Zach Epstein / BGR: |
Samsung's quad-core Galaxy S III reportedly just 7mm thick, set to launch in May — Samsung's next-generation Galaxy S III will reportedly be one of the thinnest smartphones in the world when it is unveiled in the coming months. South Korea's Electronic Times News on Monday cited unnamed sources … | John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
New High-DPI UI Resources in 10.7.3 — Have you noticed that Safari's hovering-over-a-link pointing-finger cursor looks a little different in Mac OS X 10.7.3? It's not just that the finger is at a slightly different angle — it's a new UI resource that scales gracefully to larger sizes.
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Gizmodo, MacRumors, TodaysiPhone.com and Electronista
| Enigmax / TorrentFreak: |
You Can't Copyright Porn, Harassed BitTorrent Defendant Insists — When confronted with an accusation that they have illegally shared unauthorized material online, Internet users quickly realize they are in a Catch 22 situation. Even if innocent, these accusations cost money to deflect …
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| David Kravets / Threat Level: |
Defendant Ordered to Decrypt Laptop May Have Forgotten Password — A Colorado woman ordered to decrypt her laptop so prosecutors may use the files against her in a criminal case might have forgotten the password, the defendant's attorney said Monday. — The authorities seized the Toshiba laptop … | Rachel King / Between the Lines Blog: |
Wolfram|Alpha Pro launching this week — Summary: Wolfram|Alpha's founder explains the next big step in the evolution of the “knowledge engine,” which is touted to enable users to dig deeper than ever into its vast library and personalize their experiences.
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The Verge and MacStories
| T.C. Sottek / The Verge: |
SOPA and PIPA prompt Reddit, Mozilla, and 73 others to ask Congress to halt work on intellectual property laws — A coalition of 75 groups including Reddit, Mozilla, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Public Knowledge, Open Congress, and Human Rights Watch, have sent an open letter …
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TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Public Knowledge, Electronista and The Huffington Post
| Susan Decker / Bloomberg: |
Google Loses Bid to Exclude E-Mail From Oracle Trial — Feb. 6 (Bloomberg) — Google Inc., fighting a patent lawsuit filed by Oracle Corp., lost its appeals court bid to keep secret an engineer's e-mail that says the Web search company should negotiate a license for Java technology.
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The Register, FOSS Patents and Electronista
| Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo: |
Designing Windows 8 or: How to Redesign a Religion — There are lot of hard jobs at Microsoft. Like the guy who collects Steve Ballmer's dry cleaning. But Sam Moreau just might have the hardest gig in Redmond. Or at least the most harrowing. Over the past five years … | Rocky Agrawal / VentureBeat: |
Yelp advertising is a rip-off for small advertisers — Yelp! — That word could be coming out of the mouths of small-business owners when they hear how much the online reviews site is overcharging them for advertising. At a time when much online advertising is being sold … | Anna Heim / The Next Web: |
Brazil wants Twitter to close accounts that warn of traffic controls — The Brazilian Federal Attorney's Office has filed a lawsuit against Twitter Inc., as the press agency O Globo reports. Filed with a motion for preliminary injunction, the lawsuit asks the Federal Justice of the state … | CHINAdaily: |
Apple accused of patent infringement — SHENZHEN - A Shenzhen-based enterprise has accused technology giant Apple of patent infringement on the iPad - a trademark both companies claim. — The Pudong district court in Shanghai will hear the case this month.
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CNET, PalmAddicts, TUAW, ecns and Gizmodo
| Nate Anderson / Ars Technica: |
Whatever happened to that “six strikes” P2P notice system? It's coming soon — Whatever happened to the “six strikes” system that was to help civilize the American Internet? — Three years ago, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) gave up its mass litigation strategy …
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DSLreports and WebProNews
| Joshua Brustein / Bits: |
At Fashion Week, a Peek at a New Tactic for Marketers — Watching the runways at New York Fashion Week can be an overwhelming experience for the editors and buyers who will descend on the city in the next few days. — Several dozen models will sashay up and down the stage in just over 10 minutes …
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| Kim-Mai Cutler / Inside Facebook: |
Facebook's 99%: Later employees may pay almost double the tax rate that early employees will — Even Facebook isn't immune to the “Warren Buffett” problem. The widely-respected billionaire investor has famously said that he pays a lower rate on his taxable income than his secretary.
| NPD Group: |
The NPD Group: Apple Leads Mobile Handsets in Q4 2011, But Android Attracts More First-Time Smartphone Buyers — According to The NPD Group, a leading market research company, Apple leaped past Samsung and LG to become the best-selling U.S. handset brand in the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2011.| Drew Olanoff / The Next Web: |
Google+ launches a developer page for its yet-to-exist developer ecosystem — One of the things that I'm not too fond of when it comes to the launch of Google+ thus far is the lack of a proper API for developers to create cool tools and uses for Google's social network.
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Google+ Platform Blog, VentureBeat and ReadWriteWeb
| The Official Google Blog: |
What's your X? Amplifying technology moonshots — Last week, we ran an experiment. We hosted a gathering, called “Solve for X,” for experienced entrepreneurs, innovators and scientists from around the world. The event focused on proposing and discussing technological solutions to some of the world's greatest problems.
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9to5Google, PC Magazine, Googling Google Blog and Solve for X
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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:
Getting the most out of business analytics — One of the most prevalent uses of Hadoop architecture by enterprises is to create business intelligence and analytics tools that can be leveraged to identify areas …
Getting the most out of business analytics — One of the most prevalent uses of Hadoop architecture by enterprises is to create business intelligence and analytics tools that can be leveraged to identify areas …
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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