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| Joshua Topolsky / The Verge: |
Exclusive: Valve said to be working on ‘Steam Box’ gaming console with partners, could announce at GDC — Recently there's been chatter that Valve — the company behind the massively popular gaming service Steam — has been considering getting into the hardware business.
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TechCrunch, CNET, Digital Trends, Pulse2 Technology …, Joystiq, Electronista, Kotaku, VG247, gameinformer.com, Forbes, MCV: Home Stream, GeekWire, Blue's News and Slashdot. Tweets: @joshuatopolsky
| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
iPad 3 prices and features matrix revealed — iPad 3 price matrix will be the same as iPad 2, above — One of the remaining mysteries ahead of the iPad 3 launch next week are the prices and configurations. If you don't like surprises we have good news.| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
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Softpedia News, Phones Review, Digital Trends, Wired, Mashable!, Computerworld, The Verge, Macgasm, Know Your Cell, PC Magazine, Business Insider, iDownloadBlog.com, OS X Daily, WebProNews, I4U News, Geek.com, Gizmodo, Redmond Pie, PadGadget, Gotta Be Mobile, iClarified, MobileSyrup.com, eBookNewser, SlashGear, Current Editorials, IntoMobile, 9to5Mac, The TechBlock, TUAW, PhoneArena, parislemon, everythingiCafe and iLounge
Tweets: @marshallk and @gaberivera
| Andrew Tarantola / Gizmodo: |
Anonymous Members Hacked During Their Own DDoS Attacks — Membership in the Anonymous hacker collective is not without its dangers—and I don't mean just the 25 Guys in custody. Turns out that someone slipped a Trojan into some popular Anon DDoS software and has been stealing bank info from anyone that runs it.| Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch: |
Google's Plan To Compete With Apple's Multi-Platform Siri? Google “Assistant” — The tech world woke up today to reports of an imminent Apple TV, as Apple works to solidify deals with content providers. The rumored television product could indeed be ground-breaking, not just for television, but for computing as a whole.
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PC World, Pulse2 Technology …, Electronista, Android and Me and WebProNews
| Henry Blodget / Business Insider: |
Hey, People Buying YELP At $25 A Share, What On Earth Are You Thinking? — The king of online local restaurant reviews, Yelp, went public this morning. — Its stock is now trading at $25 a share, ~70 percent above the price institutional investors paid for it last night.
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| Horace Dediu / asymco: |
When will tablets outsell traditional PCs? — I truly believe, and many others in the company believe, that there will come a day that the tablet market in units is larger than the PC market. Tim Cook Discusses Q1 2012 Results - Earnings Call Transcript - Seeking Alpha Question is when?
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| Drew Olanoff / The Next Web: |
Google+ adds new mask effects for Hangouts, so go turn yourself into a cat — I'm a huge fan of Google+ Hangouts and I think that the company is really onto something when it comes to interaction over video. It beats the absolute crap out of a Skype conversation, and has fun effects like Apple should be creating for Facetime.| Sebastian Anthony / ExtremeTech: |
Vortex radio waves could boost wireless capacity “infinitely” — After four years of incredulity and not-so-gentle mocking, Bo Thide of the Swedish Institute of Space Physics and a team in Italy have finally proven that it's possible to simultaneously transmit multiple radio channels over exactly the same wireless frequency.
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Gizmodo, BBC, PC Pro, TechSpot, Electronista, TechEye, The Register and Slashdot
| Mathew Ingram / GigaOM: |
Twitter & Facebook share a problem: Proving social ads work — There's a been a big focus recently on the advertising strategy at both Twitter and Facebook, with two in-depth profiles of Twitter in the Wall Street Journal and BusinessWeek that spent a lot of time talking about the company's ad model … | Elinor Mills / CNET: |
EFF publishes mobile user privacy bill of rights — Speakers at privacy event warn developers that regulation will come if they don't shape up. — Kurt Opsahl of the EFF, Geoffrey Clapp of Rock Health and Kenesa Ahmad of the Future on Privacy Forum speaking at the App Privacy Summit at CNET.| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Apple's App Store hits 25B downloads right when we predicted, at a rate of 48.6M a day — Apple has announced that there has been 25 billion downloads from the App Store to date. The countdown to 25,000,000,000 apps began on February 17th when Apple said it would give away a $10K gift card … | Richard Gaywood / TUAW: |
Retina display Macs, iPads, and HiDPI: Doing the Math — Love Apple gear? Like math? TUAW's Doing the Math series examines the numbers and the science behind the hardware and software. — The rumourmill has been busy lately with claims that we might get “Retina display” Macs soon … Sponsor Posts
Microsoft BizSpark:
Featured Startup on Windows Phone - Digital Geek — You know how you are at the beach sometimes, listening to your portable listening device, jamming to some music and you realize, “Actually, at this moment …
Featured Startup on Windows Phone - Digital Geek — You know how you are at the beach sometimes, listening to your portable listening device, jamming to some music and you realize, “Actually, at this moment …
Cloud Foundry:
Want to Contribute to Cloud Foundry? Come on in! — Cloud Foundry is an Open Platform-as-a-Service, and an Open Source project. It has attracted phenomenal interest from the community - including partners …
Want to Contribute to Cloud Foundry? Come on in! — Cloud Foundry is an Open Platform-as-a-Service, and an Open Source project. It has attracted phenomenal interest from the community - including partners …
Rackspace Blog:
How ImgPage Uploads 25 MB Photos to Cloud Files Using the Mailgun API — The team over at Mailgun just posted a Python tutorial written by Mailgun customer Paul Finn about how to use Python and the Mailgun API to upload large images to Cloud Files.
How ImgPage Uploads 25 MB Photos to Cloud Files Using the Mailgun API — The team over at Mailgun just posted a Python tutorial written by Mailgun customer Paul Finn about how to use Python and the Mailgun API to upload large images to Cloud Files.
Hortonworks » Blog:
Week in Review: SQL IN Hadoop and Hive, Beyond Batch with YARN, NFS access to HDFS and HBase MTTR — Or as it's more commonly being called: Week-ish in Review. Let's recap on the latest - there's some juicy technology goodness here.
Week in Review: SQL IN Hadoop and Hive, Beyond Batch with YARN, NFS access to HDFS and HBase MTTR — Or as it's more commonly being called: Week-ish in Review. Let's recap on the latest - there's some juicy technology goodness here.
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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