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| Paul Graham: |
Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas — One of the more surprising things I've noticed while working on Y Combinator is how frightening the most ambitious startup ideas are. In this essay I'm going to demonstrate this phenomenon by describing some. Any one of them could make you a billionaire.
| Brad Molen / Engadget: |
Exclusive: Sprint iPad shows up in Best Buy's database — If you were keeping score during Apple's iPad keynote on Wednesday, you noticed AT&T and Verizon listed amongst the carriers that will get the new iPad, but what about Sprint? It's going to be rockin' LTE in the not-too-distant future, after all.
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Sprintfeed, Gotta Be Mobile, CNET, PhoneArena, AppleInsider, everythingiCafe and MacNN
| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Apple has now completely sold out first online shipment of new iPads worldwide — Apple has run through its initial online shipment of the new model of iPad worldwide. The shipment dates on Apple's site have now slipped to March 19th from March 16th in the US.
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Tech Shout!, VentureBeat, Edible Apple, Engadget, MacStories, The Verge and Daring Fireball
| Jonathan S. Geller / BGR: |
AT&T's Nokia Lumia 900 launch delayed, now set to debut on April 22nd for $99.99 — BGR exclusively reported this past January that the Nokia Lumia 900 will retail for a mind-blowing $99.99 with two-year agreement when it launches on AT&T. We also reported that the sleek smartphone was slated … | Charles Annis / DisplaySearch Blog: |
How Apple Squeezes Four Times the Number of Pixels into its New iPad Retina Display — Apple's new iPad offers multiple enhancements, the most prominent of which - and clearly the focus of Apple's marketing campaign - is the 2048 × 1536, 264 ppi retina display.| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Tether launches $30/year web-based tethering service for iPhones, works around Apple's restrictions — Tether made news in November, 2011 when Apple seemingly accidentally accepted their application into the iTunes App Store. The $14.99 piece of iPhone software allowed anyone to simply download …
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App Advice, Tether.com, CNET, Engadget, The Verge, Gotta Be Mobile, The Next Web, Electronista, MacRumors, iPhone Savior and everythingiCafe. Thanks:@markgurman
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Gundotra: Google+ Won't Let 3rd-Party Apps Post Because “Your Stream Could Easily Be Overwhelmed” — Today at his SXSW fireside chat, head of Google+ Vic Gundotra said “I am 100% to blame” for the social network lacking an API seven months after launch. The reason?
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SiliconFilter, ABCNEWS, The Verge, CNET, Marketing Land and AllThingsD
| John P. Holdren / White House Blog: |
Todd Park Named New U.S. Chief Technology Officer — I'm very excited that President Obama today is appointing Todd Park as the new U.S. Chief Technology Officer, with the important task of applying the newest technology and latest advances to make the Federal government work better for the American people.
| Josh Ong / AppleInsider: |
Apple provides additional details, renders for Cupertino campus project — The city of Cupertino released on Friday updated plans and renders for Apple's Cupertino campus project providing additional views of the proposed facility. — Late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs first unveiled plans …
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iPhone in Canada Blog and Cupertino City News
| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Army Warns Of Danger Of Geotagging — While for an ordinary civilian the automatic geotagging of your photos or check-ins might be convenient, in the military it can be a lethal mistake. In 2007, geotagged photos of a new fleet of helicopters allowed enemy forces to mortar the base …
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Telegraph, Gizmodo, WebProNews, INFOdocket and army.mil
| Foursquare Blog: |
Is it open? Business hours are now on foursquare! — On the prowl for a late night snack? Or a cafe that's open super early? Or a place that's still serving brunch on a late Sunday afternoon? — Now when you're looking for great places to try, you'll see a business' hours …
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Pulse2 Technology …, The Next Web, App Advice, Tip Desk, WebProNews and VentureBeat
| Know Your Cell: |
Popular mobile game developer Mika Mobile ending support for Android — Mika Mobile, developer of the popular games Battleheart and Zombieville USA, announced today that it will no longer be developing games for Google's Android mobile OS — Mika Mobile, developer of the hit Android games Zombieville USA … | Scott Gilbertson / Webmonkey: |
Twitter Catches the ‘SPDY’ Train — Twitter has embraced Google's vision of a faster web and is now serving webpages over the SPDY protocol to browsers that support it. — SPDY, pronounced “speedy,” is a replacement for the HTTP protocol — the language currently used when your browser talks to a web server.| Wall Street Journal: |
How ‘Kony’ Clip Caught Fire Online — An Internet video seeking to draw attention to fugitive African rebel leader Joseph Kony now stands as the fastest-growing viral phenomenon in Web history, thanks to informal celebrity advocates and young viewers. — Posted online on Monday …
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| Ryan Tate / Gawker: |
Twitter's Secret History As the World's Worst Tech or Media Business — Twitter Inc.'s been spinning quite a turnaround story in the press lately. The microblogging service “has finally turned a corner,” declares the cover of Bloomberg Businessweek. “It's a juggernaut,” a company executive tells the magazine.
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CNET, AllTwitter, Business Insider, SiliconBeat, Bloomberg Businessweek, Business Insider and The Next Web
Tweets: @antderosa and @pkafka
See also Mediagazer| Matt Thomas: |
Something's Unraveling, Alright — Jolie O'Dell at VentureBeat: Apple's press conference showed a brand unraveling While today's Apple event unveiled a couple new improvements to an expected lineup of products, it also revealed a certain sloppiness that was absent from former, Steve Jobs-led launches.
Tweets: @jamesdickson and @carnage4life
| Zack Whittaker / Between the Lines Blog: |
Anonymous leaks Symantec's Norton anti-virus source code — Summary: Anonymous has released what appears to be the source code from Norton Antivirus 2006, in what could be a seriously damaging exercise for Symantec. — Anonymous, for which LulzSec was distantly related to …
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The Verge, Datamation.com, Business Insider and Inquirer
| Jennifer Howard / Chronicle of Higher Education: |
Google Begins to Scale Back Its Scanning of Books From University Libraries — Google has been quietly slowing down its book-scanning work with partner libraries, according to librarians involved with the vast Google Books digitization project. But what that means for the company's long-term investment in the work remains unclear.
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New York Times
| Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
Apple brings in 73 Korean-American contract attorneys and 20 reviewers to sift through tons of Samsung documents — Apple is facing a huge challenge in dealing with truckloads of Korean-language documents produced by Samsung in two federal lawsuits in California and two ITC investigations.
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MacNN
| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
PayPal's New Digital Wallet Will Offer Personalized Deals, Flexible Payments, And More — We've been hearing recently about PayPal's in-store payments platform for large retailers (which will soon be rolled out to small businesses as well). But we haven't seen PayPal do much in the past few months …
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VentureBeat and GigaOM
| Jennifer Van Grove / VentureBeat: |
Cha-ching! Chegg raises $25M more for textbook and education platform — Textbook rental service Chegg has raised nearly $25 million in equity funding, according to a form D the company filed Friday with the Securities and Exchange commission. — “The funding is led by existing investors …
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PE Hub Blog
| Agam Shah / Computerworld: |
Intel aims for faster Thunderbolt with PCI-Express 3.0 — Intel is working to boost data transfer speeds with a faster pipe on Thunderbolt, a high-speed connector technology that link computers with peripherals, the company said on Thursday. — Intel is working to boost data transfer speeds …
| Ed Bott / The Ed Bott Report Blog: |
Mozilla begins development of Firefox for Metro — Summary: Mozilla today announced that it has begun “a very large project” to build a Metro styled version of Firefox for Windows 8. Can Firefox for Metro really be ready this summer? — Mozilla's Brian R. Bondy revealed today that development has begun on Firefox for Metro.
| Telegraph: |
Digital ‘map’ of the Titanic to be released for 100-year anniversary — Researchers have pieced together the first comprehensive map of the Titanic's debris field, saying they plan to release the new images next month to mark the 100-year anniversary of the ship's sinking. — The starboard side of the Titanic bowSponsor Posts
Channel 9:
Windows Store Weekly — This week we take a look at: Star Trek App, Box, Fling Theory, StumbleUpon, and wordBrush.
Windows Store Weekly — This week we take a look at: Star Trek App, Box, Fling Theory, StumbleUpon, and wordBrush.
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:
Mobile Telco Dials In and Harnesses Big Data with Hadoop — Smartphones have transformed our daily lives. A key indicator of this trend is our increased spend on data plans versus voice.
Mobile Telco Dials In and Harnesses Big Data with Hadoop — Smartphones have transformed our daily lives. A key indicator of this trend is our increased spend on data plans versus voice.
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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