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Everything Apple's Trying to Kill with OS X Mountain Lion — Apple's OS X Mountain Lion brings a lot of new features to the table. It's the future of instant messaging, for one thing, and probably more than a few other things as well. — But with the update, Apple's also moving to push …
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| Chris Forsythe / Growl: |
Growl's response to Notification Center: Welcome to the party, we were worried that we were being stood up — OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion was revealed yesterday. A few people have noticed a new feature that is somewhat similar to Growl. Apple calls it Notification Center.
| Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider: |
Mountain Lion focuses on Cocoa, drops X11 and deprecates Carbon Core — In a continuation of its efforts to prune OS X of bundled support for alternative platforms to instead focus on Cocoa, Apple's Mountain Lion depreciates more Carbon APIs and drops X11, although users will still be able …
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| Ashley Lutz / Bloomberg: |
Retailers Shut Facebook Storefonts Amid Apathy — Last April, Gamestop Corp. (GME) opened a store on Facebook to generate sales among the 3.5 million-plus customers who'd declared themselves “fans” of the video game retailer. Six months later, the store was quietly shuttered. — Gamestop has company.
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New Web Order, 9.blog, P Morgan Brown, Friending Facebook Blog, Andrew Lark, Tech~Surf~Blog, Social Media, Jon Burg's Future Visions, Pulse2 Technology …, All Facebook and Marketing Pilgrim. Tweets: @cdixon. Thanks:@sarahfrier
| Josh Lowensohn / CNET: |
Settlement reached in iPhone 4 antennagate suit — A settlement has been reached in a class action lawsuit targeting the antenna in Apple's iPhone 4. Original buyers are entitled to $15 or a new bumper case from Apple. — An iPhone 4 being tested inside one of Apple's anechoic chambers …
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| Kevin Lincoln / Business Insider: |
Pinterest Might Be Enabling Massive Copyright Theft — Pinterest is one of the fastest-growing web sites in history. — Launched about six months ago, the site already has more than 10 million monthly visitors and, among social networks, is ranked below only Facebook and Tumblr in terms of average time-spent-per-user per month.
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| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Apple posts gorgeous new ‘how to get started as an iOS developer’ guide — If there is one aspect of Apple's iDevice ecosystem that deserves a ton of credit for both growing and cementing its user base, it has to be the way developers flock to it. Apple wants developers on that line, Apple needs developers on that line.
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Cult of Mac, AppleInsider, iDownloadBlog.com and The Loop
| Federico Viticci / MacStories: |
VLC 2.0 Released: What's New, And An Interview With VideoLAN Developers — Back in February 2010, I wrote a post for MacStories about Lunettes, a codename of a new interface for VideoLAN's popular media player VLC. Back then, I used to spend a good portion of my days fiddling with media players …
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VideoLAN, The Verge, 9to5Mac, Electronista, feepk@videolan and Slashdot
| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Evidence of extended Microsoft SkyDrive plans, apps for Mac and Windows — Microsoft has been making huge improvements to its cloud storage service SkyDrive lately. Over the past year it has integrated it into Windows Phone Mango, improved its capabilities significantly with HTML5 video support …
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LiveSide.net, Techie Buzz, The Verge, gHacks Technology News, Neowin.net and WMPoweruser. Thanks:@martinsfp
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Report: UK anti-terror plan to sweep up email, phone, online records — Data on all phone calls, text messages, email traffic and online visits would be stored for a year in vast databases under a new anti-terrorism plan in Britain, The Telegraph reported Saturday on its website.
| Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land: |
Google Didn't “Track” iPhones, But It Did Bypass Safari's Privacy Settings — The Wall Street Journal is out with a story about how Google has been “bypassing the privacy settings of millions of people” who use Apple's Safari web browser, along with a headline about “Google's iPhone tracking.”
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FT Tech Hub, eWeek, PandoDaily, PC Magazine, Techland, Inside Google, Washington Post and Business Insider
| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
More reports claim localized Windows Phone ‘Tango’ will hit China in March — A localized version of the Windows Phone 7.6 operating system, known as ‘Tango’, is set to arrive in China in March through devices from at least four manufacturers, according to local reports.
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LiveSide.net, WMPoweruser, WMPoweruser, The Verge, PhoneArena and The Windows Blog
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Inside NuGet for C++ — NuGet support for C++ projects in Visual Studio has arrived in NuGet 2.5! It's been around for about a month now so we figured we'd go talk to one of the developers who helped make it happen, Garrett Serack.
Inside NuGet for C++ — NuGet support for C++ projects in Visual Studio has arrived in NuGet 2.5! It's been around for about a month now so we figured we'd go talk to one of the developers who helped make it happen, Garrett Serack.
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 …
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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:
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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