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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).| 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 … | Eric Eldon / TechCrunch: |
Those Millions On Facebook? They Actually Visit, And It's Not A Huge Deal Anyway. — Traffic numbers provided by companies should always be questioned — I mean, of course each company is going to try to present the data in a way that makes them look as good as possible.
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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.
| 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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| 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.
| 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 … | 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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| Globe and Mail: |
Rogers, BCE vying for a bite of Apple's iTV — Canada's largest telecommunications companies are squaring off in a fight about the future of television. — Rogers Communications Inc. RCI.B-T and BCE Inc. BCE-T are in talks with Apple Inc. AAPL-Q to become Canadian launch partners … | Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
BlackBerry App World stats: six million daily downloads, higher profitability than Android — Alec Saunders, RIM's VP for Developer Relations, used the BlackBerry DevCon Europe stage today to “bust a few myths” about the state of the BlackBerry app ecosystem.
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| Tom Kaneshige / PC World: |
IPad 3: Predictions and Challenges From iFixit — Kyle Wiens of iFixit, a Web site that provides free repair manuals and advice forums, has been a reliable prognosticator of everything Apple. With the next iPad expected to come out in March, Wiens recently gazed into his crystal ball.
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| Ryan Paul / Ars Technica: |
Raspberry Pi's $35 Linux computer on track to launch later this month — The first model of the Raspberry Pi Foundation's low-cost Linux computer will likely be available for purchase later this month. The organization announced today that manufacturing on the first batch is set to complete on February 20.
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Raspberry Pi, Inquirer, The Verge, Business Insider, Softpedia News, SlashGear, Liliputing and Slashdot
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Yelp Ads Are Not A Rip-Off, You Pay To Seal The Deal — Yelp built its ad business by attracting users that know what they want, just not who to buy it from — exactly when ads are most effective. That's why I find today's VentureBeat piece by Rocky Agrawal titled “Yelp advertising … | Rocky Agrawal / VentureBeat: |
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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.| 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
| 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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The Register, Computerworld, Pastebin, Inquirer, The Verge, PC Magazine, The Firewall, Reuters, Gizmodo, Digital Trends and SecurityWeek
| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple in early discussions to open stores inside of Sam's Club locations — Apple and Walmart subsidiary Sam's Club are in early discussions to widen their already existing partnership. Sam's Club currently sells Apple's iPhone, iPad, and iPod lines within its large retail chain …
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Business Insider and Electronista
| 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.
| 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 … | 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 … | 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, VR-Zone, The SSD Review, StorageReview.com, AnandTech, 9to5Mac, CNET, Engadget and Macworld
| 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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Softpedia News, Google+ Platform Blog, VentureBeat and ReadWriteWeb
| Jacob Schulman / The Verge: |
Adobe Creative Cloud to be priced at $49.99 monthly, includes Creative Suite 6 and Lightroom 4 — Later in the first half of 2012, Adobe will introduce Creative Cloud, an end-to-end service offering that will grant users access to its upcoming Creative Suite 6 apps and provide ancillary services starting …
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9to5Mac and MacStories
| Ryan Paul / Ars Technica: |
Canonical ending support for Kubuntu, reassigning lead developer — Jonathan Riddell, the lead developer of the Kubuntu project, announced today that his work on the KDE-based Ubuntu variant will no longer be funded by Canonical after the upcoming 12.04 release.
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lists.ubuntu.com, Softpedia News and Slashdot
| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Romanian Prime Minister Admits He Has No Idea Why Romania Signed ACTA — Here's a bizarre one. With Poland putting ACTA ratification on hold, and Slovenia apparently regretting its signature, now we've got Romania's Prime Minister, Emil Boc, admitting that he doesn't understand why the country signed ACTA.
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| 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.
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