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| Bryan Bishop / The Verge: |
Sources: Apple's new iPad makes the leap to 1GB of RAM — There were a lot of hardware specs bandied about at this morning's iPad event: an A5X processor with quad-core graphics, a 2048 x 1536 Retina Display, and LTE. One piece of information that wasn't mentioned, however, was RAM.| Jonathan S. Geller / BGR: |
Apple sells out of multiple AT&T iPad models already [updated] — A quick glance at Apple's online store tells us that customers who want to place orders for an AT&T 4G iPad won't be receiving them at the same time the iPad makes its debut. Shipping times have already fallen to March 19th from March 16th …
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The Next Web, MacRumors, Android and Me, PadGadget, RazorianFly, 9to5Mac, CNET, TechCrunch, PhoneArena and Softpedia News
| K. T. Bradford / Gotta Be Mobile: |
Mobile Hotspot Included in Verizon's iPad 4G LTE Data Plan — As expected, Apple's new iPad 3rd generation tablet is available with sweet and speedy 4G LTE from Verizon Wireless and AT&T. Tim Cook also announced that customers will be able to use the tablet as a mobile hotspot as well — that's even better.
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The Verge, BGR, MacRumors, Gizmodo, Engadget, App Advice, Macgasm, iDownloadBlog.com, 9to5Mac and everythingiCafe. Tweets: @attcustomercare
| Dan Frommer / ReadWriteWeb: |
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| Jonathan Bennett / OpenStreetMap Foundation: |
Welcome, Apple! — Yesterday Apple launched iPhoto, its photo management app, for the iPad and iPhone... and we're rather pleased to find they're the latest to switch to OpenStreetMap. — The desktop version of iPhoto, and indeed all of Apple's iOS apps until now, use Google Maps.
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Alastair Aitchison, parislemon, Guardian, The Verge, Ars Technica, VentureBeat, Know Your Cell, PhoneArena, MacStories, MacRumors, iDownloadBlog.com, Gotta Be Mobile, 512 Pixels, The Next Web, 9to5Mac, The Loop, iPhone Buzz, Macgasm, Edible Apple, Pulse2 Technology …, Spatially Adjusted, Pocket-lint, SiliconFilter, MacNN and Google Maps Mania
| Greg Sterling / Marketing Land: |
Apple Using OpenStreetMap With Its Own Tiles Instead Of Google Maps In Select Cases — As you may have seen by now there were some new iOS screenshots showing maps that don't look like they are from Google. Below are a couple of the shots in question (via 512Pixels and The Next Web).
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| Wall Street Journal: |
U.S. Warns Apple, Publishers on E-Book Pricing — Justice Department Threatens Lawsuits, Alleging Collusion Over E-Book Pricing — The Justice Department has warned Apple Inc. and five of the biggest U.S. publishers that it plans to sue them for allegedly colluding to raise the price of electronic books …
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GigaOM, paidContent, CNNMoney.com, eWeek, Los Angeles Times, BetaNews, GeekWire, TechCrunch, TechFlash, PC Magazine, Computerworld, Inquirer, VentureBeat, Wired, Media Decoder, Pulse2 Technology …, WebProNews, Forbes, Fortune, Ars Technica, Washington Post, msnbc.com, The Technology Chronicles, Bloomberg, MacRumors, Engadget, FierceMobileContent, Techland, Fast Company, MobileBurn.com, TechEye, PadGadget, Rex Hammock's RexBlog.com, BGR, App Advice, Between the Lines Blog, PhoneArena, Mashable!, TUAW, InvestorPlace, Know Your Cell, T3 News, 9to5Mac, Business Insider, Reuters, The Verge, iClarified, The Next Web, Boing Boing, iLounge, Electronista and Gizmodo. See also Mediagazer
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| Jay Greene / CNET: |
Former Microsoft exec Ozzie: 'Of course we're in a post-PC world' — Speaking at the GeekWire Summit, Microsoft's former chief software architect also sheds little new light on his startup, Cocomo. — Ray Ozzie answers a question at the GeekWire Summit in Seattle
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Path will protect private user data with ‘hashing’ in next release — Path's big 2.1 release today comes with a promise of another update coming shortly: version 2.1.1. The extra .1 on the end represents Path's intention to add “hashing” to any contact data it collects.| Frederic Lardinois / SiliconFilter: |
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Social Markets, 9to5Mac, CNET, Business Insider, Path Blog, The Verge, PandoDaily and The Next Web
| Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog: |
Nvidia on Apple's iPad A5X graphics claims: Show us the benchmarks — Summary: Apple's A5X allegedly has 4X the performance of Nvidia's Tegra 3 chip, but without benchmarks and footnotes the claims ring hollow. — Apple took direct aim at Nvidia's Tegra 3—a processor for a new batch of superphones—as it launched its latest iPad.| Stephen Wolfram Blog: |
The Personal Analytics of My Life — One day I'm sure everyone will routinely collect all sorts of data about themselves. But because I've been interested in data for a very long time, I started doing this long ago. I actually assumed lots of other people were doing it too, but apparently they were not.| Bloomberg: |
Dell Seeks Edge Over IPad With Business-Friendly Windows Tablet — Dell Inc. (DELL) Chief Executive Officer Michael Dell said there's growing demand for tablet computers that can run the next version of Windows, which may help his company siphon away corporate customers from the iPad.
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Pulse2 Technology …, SlashGear, Techie Buzz and MacNN
| Cotton Delo / AdAge: |
Twitter Plots Big Changes to Brand Pages — E-Commerce, Contests, Sweepstakes Among Features Planned for Advertisers — Big changes are coming to Twitter's “brand pages,” the landing pages it offers to some marketers that also spend ad dollars on the network.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Plucks At Twitter With Launch Of News Feed Interest Lists — Appealing to power users and Twitter loyalists, Facebook today lets users start creating and subscribing to “Interest Lists”. You can view updates from these collections of Pages and public figures in a dedicated news feed.| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Holey chip! IBM drills holes into optical chip for terabit-per-second speed — IBM researchers have built a prototype optical chip that can transfer a terabit of data per second, using an innovative design requiring 48 tiny holes drilled into a standard CMOS chip, facilitating the movement of light.| China Real Time Report: |
Proview's Ominous Open Letter to Chinese iPad Vendors … Apple Inc.'s trademark dispute with a Chinese affiliate of Hong Kong-based Proview International Holdings over use of the iPad name took a confusing turn yesterday when a company claiming to represent Proview's state-run creditors … | Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
Yobongo Acquired by Mixbook; Will Shut Down and Become Mobile Team — Yobongo, a mobile social discovery app, will be acquired by the fast-growing photo book creation service Mixbook, the two companies announced today. — Yobongo had only tens of thousands of monthly active users … | Alyson Raletz / Kansas City Business Journal: |
Missouri approves Google's request to set up video services in Kansas City … has the go-ahead to provide video services in Kansas City. — The Missouri Public Service Commission has granted Google Fiber Missouri LLC the authority to build a video service network along public rights of way, according to a March 1 order.| Ben Sisario / Media Decoder: |
Sequoia Capital Invests $10 Million in Songkick — Songkick, an online service that alerts fans about local concerts by their favorite artists, has been growing fast since it started in London in 2007. — The site is dedicated to the idea of making the concert-going process as easy …
| Nick Brown / Reuters: |
Apple barred from pursuing Kodak patent claims now — (Reuters) - Apple Inc, the biggest company by market value, was told it cannot now pursue an ongoing patent infringement lawsuit against Eastman Kodak Co, and was ordered not to file similar new litigation against the bankrupt photography company.
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Bloomberg and The Next Web
| Frederic Lardinois / SiliconFilter: |
Study: Pinterest Now Drives More Referral Traffic Than Twitter — It looks like 2012 will be Pinterest's year to shine. Even if it's not your cup of tea, you can't ignore that fact that it is one of the fastest growing startups ever. According to the latest data from online sharing tool Shareaholic …
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ReadWriteWeb, memeburn, Shareaholic Blog and The Huffington Post
| Andy Greenberg / The Firewall: |
With $1 Million On The Line, Chrome Finally Cracked In Hacking Competition — It took four years and possibly the biggest reward a software company has ever offered for information about its own security flaws, but Google finally found what it was looking for: A few hackers willing and able to dismantle its browser in public.Sponsor Posts
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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