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| Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal: |
The Mounting Minuses at Google+ — Playing Catchup to Facebook, Google's Social Network Is a Virtual Ghost Town by Comparison — To hear Google Inc. Chief Executive Larry Page tell it, Google+ has become a robust competitor in the social networking space, with 90 million users registering since its June launch.
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Mixed Media, Bloomberg, Friending Facebook Blog, The Next Web, App Advice, Business Insider, Robert Scoble, AllTwitter, Gizmodo, Marketing Pilgrim, textually.org and Poynter
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| Matt McGee / Marketing Land: |
Google+ Users Spend 3 Minutes Per Month There, ComScore Tells WSJ — With its users only spending an average of three minutes per month on the site, Google+ is a “virtual ghost town” compared to Facebook and other social networking sites. That's how the Wall Street Journal characterizes … | Matt Hamblen / Computerworld: |
Google exec hints of Android 5.0 release this fall — Pattern of earlier releases suggest fall, but Lockheimer says Google wants to be ‘flexible’ on timing — BARCELONA — Google is not letting on much about the next version of Android, even though it is rumored to be coming to a smartphone by early summer.
| Christian Zibreg / 9to5Mac: |
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AndroidGuys, iPhone Buzz, Engadget, Gotta Be Mobile, Android Phone Fans and SlashGear
| Michael J. de la Merced / DealBook: |
Yahoo Warns Facebook of a Potential Patent Fight — As Yahoo struggles to keep up with younger competitors, the Web portal company is weighing a new tactic: threatening legal action over its patent holdings. — Yahoo is seeking to force Facebook into licensing 10 to 20 patents over technologies …
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Tech and China, PandoDaily and Gizmodo
| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
Samsung: 'We're not doing very well in the tablet market' — One Samsung executive gets brutally honest about his company's performance in the tablet market, even while offering up some hope for its line of Galaxy Note mobile devices. — Samsung executive Hankil Yoon speaking during …
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GigaOM, AllThingsD, BetaNews, BGR, Techie Buzz, The Verge, Android Phone Fans, PhoneArena, IntoMobile, Gizmodo, Techland and Electronista
| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
FTC Chairman: New Google Privacy Plan Forces Consumers to Make a “Brutal Choice” — It's just a few days now until Google's new privacy policy goes into effect. And lawmakers and regulators continue to raise eyebrows over the agreement, which will grant the company greater license … | Guardian: |
Apple developing new audio file format to offer ‘adaptive streaming’ — Format will provide high- or low-quality files to iCloud users — Apple is working on a new audio file format that will offer “adaptive streaming” to provide high- or low-quality files to users of its iCloud service.
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9to5Mac, MacNN, MacRumors, iDownloadBlog.com, Macgasm, MacStories, Electricpig.co.uk, iLounge, iClarified and The Loop. Thanks:@tomdavenport
| Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
Chrome now easily opens email links in Gmail, thanks to some HTML5 magic — The next time you open up Gmail in Chrome keep an eye out for the prompt above, which uses HTML5 to finally close the gap between the way Google's browser handles mailto: links and its popular email service.
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PC World, Google Operating System, The Verge, Softpedia News and Gmail Blog
| Michael Gorman / Engadget: |
HBO Go coming to Xbox 360 on April 1st — HBO has slowly been bringing HBO Go to a multitude of connected platforms, from Roku boxes to some Samsung connected TVs, and now we finally know when it'll come to the Xbox 360. Tonight at an HBO event in San Francisco, company Co-President …
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| Andy Greenberg / The Firewall: |
Google Will Offer $1 Million In Rewards For Hacking Chrome In Contest — For the last three years, Google's Chrome browser has left the world's premiere hacking competition unscathed, even as Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari have all been taken down by the assembled security researchers.| Alice Chan / PSFK: |
Mercedes-Benz Brings Siri To Their Cars — Luxury carmaker Mercedes-Benz unveiled plans to integrate Apple's Siri into its A-Class electronics system that would allow drivers access to their iPhone apps using voice commands. The program, called the Drive Kit Plus will work in conjunction … | Brian Stelter / New York Times: |
Once Film-Focused, Netflix Transitions to TV Shows — Belying the “flix” in its name, Netflix is now primarily an Internet streaming service for television shows, not feature films. — TV series now account for more than half of all Netflix viewing. That helps to explain why this Wednesday … | Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
CNBC Claims LTE Quad-Core iPad 3 Coming at New York Media Event Next Week [Updated] — CNBC has just issued a Tweet claiming its sources have indicated that Apple will indeed be launching a quad-core iPad 3 next with 4G LTE cellular data capabilities next week.
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| Bill Rigby / Reuters: |
Microsoft's next Steve: Windows boss faces biggest test — (Reuters) - For Steven Sinofsky, the stern but creative engineering manager who runs Microsoft Corp's flagship Windows division, February 29 is showtime. — On that day, in Barcelona, Sinofsky will preside over the public test release … | Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat: |
Seamless brings super simple food ordering to the iPad — Online food-ordering company Seamless has brought its ordering and menus to the iPad today — a move that hungry couch potatoes will likely applaud. — Seamless currently competes with smaller-but-still-potent startup GrubHub for online delivery and pickup order supremacy.
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Gizmodo and AllThingsD
| Jamie Keene / The Verge: |
Intel lays out its plan for Android, will cut chip size in half by 2014 — As Paul Otellini said at the Intel press event at Mobile World Congress, “it wouldn't be an Intel presentation without a roadmap.” The company has laid out the long-term plans for its mobile processors …
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TechEye, Inquirer, Fortune, The Tech Herald Technology … and SlashGear
| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Microsoft shows ‘Holoflector’ augmented-reality mirror — This afternoon at the Microsoft TechForum event in Redmond, the company's researchers showed a series of prototypes and demos in areas including advanced displays and augmented-reality applications. — One of the research projects …
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Engadget, TechNet Blogs, ZDNet, The Verge, WMPoweruser and Neowin.net
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
IBM takes big steps toward extremely fast quantum computing — IBM is announcing today that it has made major advances toward creating a practical, full-scale quantum computer, a fabled, theoretical machine that relies on the tiniest atomic properties to compute problems faster than any supercomputer that exists today.
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Whole Foods prototype puts Kinect on shopping cart, follows people around store — The quest for a high-tech “shopping cart of the future” is nothing new, but Whole Foods is planning to test a new spin on the concept, using Microsoft's Kinect sensor for Windows.
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Computerworld, Wired, NetworkWorld.com …, WebProNews, Gizmodo, SlashGear, Screenwerk, Neowin.net and Joystiq
| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins, And Obvious Put $4.5M In Sleek Social, Mobile Gifting Platform Karma — Karma, a new social, mobile gifting service from the founder of TapJoy, has raised funding from Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital, The Obvious Corporation, Stephen Gillett, Felicis Ventures and other angel investors.
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AllThingsD, Tech Deals, Techland, CNET, The Next Web, GigaOM and Venture Capital Dispatch
| Don Kingsborough / The PayPal Blog: |
The Home Depot Brings PayPal into its Nearly 2,000 stores in the U.S. — Just six weeks ago we announced a small five-store pilot with The Home Depot to test PayPal's in store payment system. Today we're proud to report that The Home Depot is beginning a national roll-out that will let customers pay …
| Emil Protalinski / Friending Facebook Blog: |
Law firms: Facebook Credits violates antitrust law — Summary: Facebook is once again being accused of violating U.S. antitrust laws by requiring that social game developers use Facebook Credits on its platform. This time two law firms are getting involved.
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All Facebook, The Register and The Next Web
| Wall Street Journal: |
Hot Item: Pre-IPO Facebook Shares — Facebook Inc. isn't publicly traded yet, but that hasn't stopped investors like Leon Cohen from trying to buy the social network's stock now. — The 83-year-old resident of Aventura, Fla., would like to purchase 10,000 or more of Facebook's private, before-initial-public-offering shares.
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| Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land: |
On Google & Being “Evil” — “I don't think they were ever not evil,” I'm quoted as saying about Google in a New York Times column yesterday. True enough, I said that. But I wanted to provide some further context about my comments as well as the truly disastrous two months Google has had on the public relations front.
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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.
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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 …
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