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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).
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CNET, TechCrunch, Google Watch, Android Community, Geek.com, PC Magazine, pocketnow.com, SlashGear, BGR, WebProNews, Digital Trends, The Tech Report, Gizmodo, Android Phone Fans, Electronista, Technologizer, T3 News and Business Insider. Tweets: @qthrul
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Wolfram Alpha Pro democratizes data analysis: an in-depth look at the $4.99 a month service — On Wednesday, February 8th, Wolfram Alpha will be adding a new, “Pro” option to its already existing services. Priced at a very reasonable $4.99 a month ($2.99 for students) …
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Guardian, New York Times, MacStories and memeburn
| Rachel King / Between the Lines Blog: |
| 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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PhoneArena, iDownloadBlog.com, Techie Buzz, eWeek, TechCrunch, WebProNews, SlashGear, PalmAddicts, TUAW, Electronista, CNET, MacDailyNews and iClarified
| Josh Ong / AppleInsider: |
Apple intern's thesis leaks secret project to port Mac OS X to ARM processors — An academic paper written by a former Apple intern who now serves as a Core OS engineer at the company has revealed that it was working on a secret experiment to port Mac OS X Snow Leopard to the ARM architecture.
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VentureBeat, Gizmodo, iMore, ITProPortal and App Advice
| 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 … | 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.
| 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.
| Arnold Kim / MacRumors: |
Rogers and BCE Already Have the Apple iTV in Their Labs, Controlled with Voice and Hand Gestures — The Globe and Mail reports that Apple is actively seeking launch partnerships with Canada's Rogers Communications and BCE Inc. to offer their upcoming Apple TV.
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The Next Web and iClarified
| Andrew Ross Sorkin / DealBook: |
Those Millions on Facebook? Some May Not Actually Visit — On the first page of Facebook's prospectus for its sale of stock to the public, it pegs the number of its “monthly active users” at a whopping 845 million people. The social networking site arrives at an even more astounding number … | Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Vice President of iPhone and iPod Engineering David Tupman left Apple at the end of last year — Last year Apple saw the loss of many executives ranging from its OS X chief, iAd chief, and Global Security chief, and 2012 has started off with another leave: the departure Vice President David Tupman.
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IntoMobile and MacNN
| 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 … | 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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Softpedia News, MacRumors, RazorianFly, Electronista and O'Grady's PowerPage
| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
IDC says Apple finished 2011 on top of the Smartphone world, here are the numbers — Analytics firm IDC just released a report covering the top five smartphone vendors by shipments and market share for Q4 2011. Apple not surprisingly takes the top position.
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Fortune, IDC, My Nokia Blog and Electronista
| 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 … | 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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Public Knowledge, VentureBeat, The Huffington Post, TechCrunch and Electronista
| Steven Musil / CNET: |
Hackers wanted $50,000 to keep Symantec source code private — Symantec told a hacker group that it would pay $50,000 to keep the source code for some of the company's flagship security products off the Internet, the company confirmed to CNET this evening. — An e-mail exchange revealing …
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Computerworld, The Verge, Inquirer, The Firewall, Pastebin, Gizmodo, Reuters, Digital Trends, PC Magazine and SecurityWeek
| 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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VentureBeat, Google+ Platform Blog, ReadWriteWeb and WebProNews
| Neil Hughes / AppleInsider: |
Third-gen iPad's ‘window of opportunity’ expected to drive Apple market share gains — Apple's third-generation iPad is expected by one market watcher to soon arrive during an advantageous “window of opportunity,” in which competitors have nothing significant to offer, that will further increase …
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Macgasm and Softpedia News
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Google to strip Chrome of SSL revocation checking — Google's Chrome browser will stop relying on a decades-old method for ensuring secure sockets layer certificates are valid after one of the company's top engineers compared it to seat belts that break when they are needed most.
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| Jeff Barr / Amazon Web Services Blog: |
Amazon S3 Price Reduction — As you can tell from my recent post on Amazon S3 Growth for 2011, our customers are uploading new objects to Amazon S3 at an incredible rate. We continue to innovate on your behalf to drive down storage costs and pass along the resultant savings to you at every possible opportunity.
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SiliconFilter, All Things Distributed, eWeek, GeekWire and The Next Web
| Esther Dyson / TechPresident: |
Commentary: Is the Open Web Doomed? Open Your Eyes and Relax — We asked veteran technology writer and investor Esther Dyson, a longtime friend of Personal Democracy, for her thoughts on a current controversy: is the open web dying? —The Editors — I'm wading into an argument that I think may be overblown.
| 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 … | Aaron Souppouris / The Verge: |
Intel SSD 520 review roundup: too expensive — The first reviews of the Intel SSD 520 were published today, giving us a good idea of whether or not Intel's latest solid-state drive deserves to find its way into your next laptop, HTPC or gaming rig. — PC Perspective, Tech Report, AnandTech …
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Electronista, The Tech Report, PC Perspective, The SSD Review, VR-Zone, StorageReview.com, AnandTech, 9to5Mac, CNET, Engadget and Macworld
| Frederic Lardinois / SiliconFilter: |
Adobe Puts Flash for Firefox in a Sandbox — Love it or hate it, but Adobe's Flash plugin is likely one of the world's most widely distributed pieces of software. Given its popularity, it doesn't come as a surprise that Flash is also popular with hackers, who do their best to exploit flaws in it.
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Featured Startup - FormVerse — If there was one tool not made for effective work, it would have to be email. If you take silos of information, and a chronological effect, where old or new is piled on top of each other …
Featured Startup - FormVerse — If there was one tool not made for effective work, it would have to be email. If you take silos of information, and a chronological effect, where old or new is piled on top of each other …
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:
An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
Hortonworks » Blog:
Mobile Telco Dials In and Harnesses Big Data with Hadoop — Smartphones have transformed our daily lives. A key indicator of this trend is our increased spend on data plans versus voice.
Mobile Telco Dials In and Harnesses Big Data with Hadoop — Smartphones have transformed our daily lives. A key indicator of this trend is our increased spend on data plans versus voice.
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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