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| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Yahoo Sues Facebook for Patent Infringement, Which Social Network Calls “Puzzling” (Including Filing) — In what is either the boldest gamble of its history or the most boneheaded, Yahoo has filed a massive patent infringement lawsuit against Facebook. — The attack by the Internet icon …
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See also Mediagazer| Jeff Roberts / paidContent: |
Meet The 10 Patents Yahoo Is Using To Sue Facebook — Yes, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) went there today—claiming in a lawsuit that it, not Facebook, is the real king of social networks. The company points to ten patents that it says cover features like messages, advertising and privacy settings.
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| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Worst But First: Yahoo Uses Words of Facebook's Zuckerberg to Poke Him in Patent Lawsuit — On the sixth page of its just filed patent lawsuit against Facebook, Yahoo quotes the social networking company's CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg: — “Getting there first is not what it's all about.”
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| Sachin Agarwal / The Official Posterous Space: |
Posterous is Joining the Flock at Twitter — Big news: Posterous has been acquired by Twitter! — The opportunities in front of Twitter are exciting, and we couldn't be happier about bringing our team's expertise to a product that reaches hundreds of millions of users around the globe.
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See also Mediagazer| Tim Carmody / Wired: |
The Damning Backstory Behind ‘Homeless Hotspots’ at SXSW — It sounds like something out of a darkly satirical science-fiction dystopia. But it's absolutely real — and a completely problematic treatment of a problem that otherwise probably wouldn't be mentioned in any of the panels at South by Southwest Interactive.| John Herrman / BuzzFeed: |
Organizers Defend “Homeless Hotspots” at SXSW — The talk of Austin is a jarring campaign in which homeless people actually become Wi-Fi hotspots. “The worry is that these people are suddenly just hardware,” admits its organizer. — Source: hardlynormal.posterous.com
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| Joe Palazzolo / Law Blog: |
So Sirious: iPhone User Sues Apple over Voice-Activated Assistant — Siri, the iPhone 4S's deadpan voice-activated assistant, is imperfect. She's stumped easily. Her command of English is only so so. In the U.K., she's a man. But is Siri a fraud? — A New York man represented … | Noah Shachtman / Wired: |
Exclusive: Darpa Director Bolts Pentagon for Google — Darpa director Regina Dugan will soon be stepping down from her position atop the Pentagon's premiere research shop to take a job with Google. Dugan, whose controversial tenure at the agency lasted just under three years, was …
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Intel Developing Web-Based TV Service — Intel Corp. is developing an Internet-based TV service that it hopes to sell to U.S. consumers, a strategic shift for the chip maker that makes it the latest technology company to look at a foray in the pay-TV business.| Dan Rayburn / StreamingMediaBlog.com: |
Report: Walmart To Charge $2-$4 Per DVD To Convert Movies To UltraViolet Cloud — Tomorrow at 1pm ET, Walmart along with UltraViolet partners Universal, Paramount, Warner Brothers, Sony Pictures and Fox will announce Walmart's UltraViolet offering. Studio execs I have spoken with say that consumers …
| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Kim Dotcom: Many Megaupload Users at the US Government — In the wake of the MegaUpload shutdown many of the site's users complained that their personal files had been lost due to collateral damage. — From work-related data to personal photos, the raid disabled access to hundreds of thousands … | Sebastian Anthony / ExtremeTech: |
Microsoft unveils universal translator that converts your voice into another language — Microsoft Research has shown off software that translates your spoken words into another language while preserving the accent, timbre, and intonation of your actual voice.
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Hollywood Studios Warm To Apple's iCloud Effort — Apple Inc. and Hollywood are proving how complicated it is to build alliances in the digital-media business. — Last week Apple said five major movie studios had agreed to allow consumers to buy their films on one Apple device …
| Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
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| Alyson Shontell / Business Insider: |
OMG: 5-Week-Old App Draw Something Hits 20 Million Downloads And Generates 6-Figures Per Day — Three weeks ago, we wrote about OMGPOP's mobile app, Draw Something. The ten-day-old social game had been downloaded more than 1.2 million times. Now the company has shared even more staggering numbers with us.
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Foursquare, Vevo, Fandango, and The Onion launch new Facebook Timeline apps — THERE ARE 2 COMMENTS. ADD YOURS. — The timeline for Facebook pages is one big mess — So to use the foursquare integration, I'm assuming we just have to share our check-in to Facebook from the app?
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| Hamilton Nolan / Gawker: |
We Don't Need No Stinking Seal of Approval from the Blog Police — David Carr's column today is partly about a plan masterminded by Ad Age columnist Simon Dumenco to create, quote, a “Council on Ethical Blogging and Aggregation,” which will ostensibly serve as a sort of trade group or …
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Google+ updates mobile UI, still no iPad app — Google rolled out a new design for its Google+ mobile site Monday morning, which now looks more like the Google+ apps for Android and iOS. That's especially good news for Google+ iPad users, who have been waiting for a native app for the social network for some time.
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Tom Charytoniuk, The Verge, The Next Web, WebProNews and Ubergizmo
| Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent: |
Exclusive: Amazon Has Sold Over Two Million Kindle Singles — When Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) launched the Kindle Singles program a little over a year ago, nobody knew whether there was a market for e-books that are shorter than full-length books but longer than most magazine articles.| Ben Popper / VentureBeat: |
Wikia, Jimmy Wales' for-profit company, passes IGN to become the largest network of gaming sites on the web — What happens when you combine the Wiki model of open, collaborative editing with just a pinch of old-school-oversight? In the case of Wikia, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales for-profit company …
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| Om Malik / GigaOM: |
As web booms, so does demand for data centers — Almost overnight, Pinterest is racking up billions of page views. Instagram is touching the 27-million-member mark. Zynga wants to build its own platform. Everywhere you look, you see the web economy booming and growing like never before.| Mark Prigg / This Is London: |
Sir Jonathan Ive: The iMan cometh — Mark Prigg meets Sir Jonathan Ive, the British man behind the design of Apple's iconic products — Sir Jonathan Ive, Jony to his friends, is arguably one of the world's most influential Londoners. The 45-year-old was born in Chingford — and went to the same school as David Beckham.| Robin Wauters / The Next Web: |
Building a digital media empire: SB Nation and The Verge owner Vox Media raises $17 million — Online media publisher extraordinaire Vox Media, which owns and operates fast-growing tech news site The Verge, sports blog network SB Nation and an upcoming game industry news outlet tentatively named Vox Games …
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iTunes 10.6 adds option to sync 192kbps, 256kbps quality audio to devices — In the newly released iTunes 10.6, Apple has quietly added the ability for users to select higher quality audio conversion bitrates when syncing to an iPhone, iPod or iPad. — Previously, users were given the option …
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