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| Steve Lo / M.I.C. Gadget: |
Hands-on with iPad 3 Front Glass, Rear Shell, and Cases (video) — Keeping you, our dear M.I.C. readers updated, we have some very interesting news for you. Despite the rumors that Apple would be having no home button on their next-generation iPad, we have gotten our hands on the parts through our sources … | Arnold Kim / MacRumors: |
iPad 3 Parts Put Together on Video, iPad 2 Smart Cover Still Works — Although we've already seen many stories about possible iPad 3 part leaks over the past few weeks, MIC Gadget has been able to get its hands on the rumored parts for the iPad 3 Front Glass, Rear Shell, and 3rd party cases.| Om Malik / GigaOM: |
Naveen Selvadurai, Foursquare co-founder is leaving — Last week when I heard the news that Foursquare investors were buying up stock from current employees, it piqued my interest - who is Spark Capital buying stock from? For nearly three years, it has been one of my favorite apps and I keep close tabs on the company.| Eric Eldon / TechCrunch: |
SV Angel Also Buying Up Foursquare Stock. Dennis Crowley Emerges As Big-Company CEO — Spark Capital isn't the only existing investor buying Foursquare employee stock in an up round, I've learned. Legendary investor SV Angel is, too. That's an unusual move considering that the firm typically focuses on early-stage deals.
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| Naveen Selvadurai / STREAM: |
next — three years ago this week, when dennis and i were putting the finishing touches on the vision for this company, we had a hundred or so beta testers who helped us reach the finish line. we went down to sxsw to tell the world about foursquare. — it's hard to believe that now …
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CNET, VentureBeat and Betabeat
| Enigmax / TorrentFreak: |
BitTorrent Pirates Go Nuts After TV Release Groups Dump Xvid — Every now and again, the world's most famous piracy release groups get together and have a big old meeting to decide how they'll carry out their future activities. At the top of the agenda is an item of utmost importance …
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The Verge and Boing Boing
| Chris Ziegler / The Verge: |
Android ‘Key Lime Pie’ comes after Jelly Bean — We've been tipped by a reliable source today that Google will be using the name “Key Lime Pie” for the version of Android that comes after Jelly Bean (in fact, the information comes from the very same source that tipped us to the Jelly Bean codename last year).
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PhoneArena, 9to5Google, MobileSyrup.com, Android Phone Fans, Gizmodo and Electronista
| Douglas MacMillan / Business Week: |
The Rise of the ‘Brogrammer’ — Danilo Stern-Sapad writes code for a living, but don't call him a geek. He wears sunglasses and blasts 2Pac while programming. He enjoys playing Battle Shots—like the board game Battleship, but with liquor—at the office.| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Exclusive: Yahoo Labs Head Raghavan Departing to Google — Prabhakar Raghavan, the well-respected head of Yahoo's Labs unit and also recently its head of strategy, is leaving the company to take a job at Google. — The departure comes ahead of possibly deep cuts in his division …
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| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Anonymous, Decentralized and Uncensored File-Sharing is Booming — The avalanche of negative file-sharing news over the past weeks hasn't gone unnoticed to users and site operators. — From SOPA to Megaupload, there is a growing uncertainly about the future of sharing.
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WebProNews, TechSpot and Slashdot
| Electronista: |
AT&T starts pushing 2G phone users to 3G as GSM ramps down — ATT to start repurposing 2G bands for 3G and 4G — AT&T in remarks confirmed what should be a long, gradual transition away from GSM and EDGE networks. Company letters, as well as official commentary to MarketWatch … | Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider: |
SURPRISE: Silicon Valley Hero Marc Andreessen Is Backing Romney — Silicon Valley has a reputation for leaning left. — Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and Google exec Marissa Mayer have hosted big fundraisers for Democratic candidates. — Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt is a huge Obama booster.| Eric Eldon / TechCrunch: |
Foursquare And Glancee Are Cool, But Here's Why I'm So Excited About Using Highlight At SXSW — The crowds and hype of South By Southwest make the massive Austin tech and media conference the perfect place for launching, well, any sort of app that needs crowds and hype to break out of tech circles and into the mainstream.
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Digital Trends, bub.blicio.us and CNET
Tweets: @semil, @scottbeale, @scobleizer and @hunterwalk
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Channel 9:
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 …
Rackspace Blog:
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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