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| 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 …
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Friending Facebook Blog, Marketing Land, Business Insider, All Facebook, CNET, Tech and China, Social Media, Softpedia News and Fast Company. Tweets: @eldon
| 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.| Chris Hall / Pocket-lint: |
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Engadget and PhoneArena
| Chris Ziegler / The Verge: |
Chrome for Android beta launches with place shifting, faster rendering, and card view — Chrome for Android — the long-rumored, oft-requested grand unification of Google's mobile and desktop browsing technologies — has just been announced today, and it's being made available immediately …
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Google Chrome Blog, TechCrunch, parislemon, Business Insider, CNET, mocoNews, AllThingsD, Mercury News and The Next Web
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
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Bits and ImperialViolet
| 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.
| 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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PC Magazine and The Tech Herald Technology …
| 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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Computerworld, Computerworld, BGR, Softpedia News, TG Daily, TUAW, Geek.com, The Register, iMore, SlashGear, VentureBeat, Gizmodo, Electronista, App Advice and ITProPortal
| 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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Digital Trends, PC Magazine, MacRumors, WebProNews, Business Insider, Electronista and iLounge
| 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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BGR, TechEye, VentureBeat, Help Net Security, Gizmodo, The Firewall, Ars Technica, Computerworld, Network World, eWeek, Pastebin, Techie Buzz, The Register, ITProPortal, SecurityWeek, TechSpot, FierceCIO News, Slashdot, WebProNews, PC Magazine, Gizmodo, The Verge, Digital Trends, Softpedia News and Inquirer
| 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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9to5Mac, RazorianFly, MacStories, Macgasm, TUAW, Techland, Guardian, New York Times, Softpedia News and iClarified
| 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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RazorianFly, iLounge, Softpedia News and IntoMobile
| 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.
| 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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PC World, The Register, CNET, Techie Buzz, Redmond Pie, Techland, ITProPortal, Gotta Be Mobile, The Verge, Google Watch, pocketnow.com, Android Community, Electricpig.co.uk, Geek.com, SlashGear and TechCrunch. Tweets: @qthrul
| Jonathan Allen / Search Engine Watch: |
Charles Dickens' 200th Birthday Marks First Google Doodle as Promotional Vehicle — Google's latest Doodle marks the 200th Birthday of british novelist Charles Dickens but also marks the first time that the company has used their logo change to specifically promote a product or service.| 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, MacStories and Electronista
| 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.| Lynn La / CNET: |
Samsung reduces its LTE chip cost by half — For every new iteration of mobile phones, it's easy to assume that products are getting pricier because the insides are getting just as expensive. — A sample picture of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus' baseband chip.
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PC World, VentureBeat, GigaOM, Gotta Be Mobile, DigiTimes and eWeek
| Zach Epstein / BGR: |
Verizon's Motorola DROID 4 launches on February 10th for $199.99 — Verizon Wireless on Tuesday finally confirmed launch details for the latest addition to its popular DROID family of Android smartphones, the Motorola DROID 4. The sleek QWERTY slider will become available later this week … | 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, Business Insider, AfterDawn.com, Inquirer, The Verge, SlashGear, Softpedia News and Liliputing
| Deborah Gage / Venture Capital Dispatch: |
In Customer Service Push, Microsoft Invests In 24/7, Which Acquires Voxify — People who are forced to engage in online chats with virtual customer service agents-or who are passed from agent to agent without getting their problems solved-are likely to get highly frustrated and take their business elsewhere.
| Daisuke Wakabayashi / Wall Street Journal: |
Picture Dims for Japanese Electronics — Over a span of three days last week, a trifecta of Japan's most-celebrated electronics companies—Sony Corp., Sharp Corp. and Panasonic Corp.—gave up hope for an annual profit, projecting combined losses of nearly $17 billion for the March-ending fiscal year.| 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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GigaOM and DomainIncite
| Arnold Kim / MacRumors: |
Apple Warns Developers Not to Manipulate App Store Rankings — Yesterday, a TouchArcade thread was posted that warned about fraudulent App promotion services that guarantee Top 25 rankings for a modest fee. According to the poster, these services utilize automated scripts or bots … | Danny Schreiber / Silicon Prairie News: |
Dwolla raises $5m Series B round led by Union Square Ventures (Video) — Dwolla, now at around 20 employees, expects to double in size following its latest raise of funds. Above, the Dwolla team at its meetup in December. — Dwolla, an online and mobile payments network based in Des Moines … Sponsor Posts
Channel 9:
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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