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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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The Next Web, The Next Web, memeburn, Between the Lines Blog, Gizmodo, CNET, VatorNews, All Facebook, Marketing Land, T3 News, Social Media, Wall Street Journal, SEO by the Sea, Reuters, Mercury News, Geekosystem, Inside Facebook, Between the Lines Blog, Bloomberg, eWeek, SlashGear, paidContent, Mashable!, The Verge, WebProNews, Ars Technica, NBC Bay Area, Engadget, the Econsultancy blog, Neowin.net, Internaut and Friending Facebook Blog
Tweets: @levie, @amir_efrati, @abrams, @jeffjarvis and @dannysullivan
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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| Matt Rosoff / Business Insider: |
Microsoft Can — And SHOULD — Save Facebook From This Lame Yahoo Patent Suit — After a few weeks of threats, and what Facebook calls some token negotiation tactics, Yahoo has sued Facebook for patent infringement. — Normally in cases like this, the company being sued would look through …
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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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Sachin's Space, CNET, The Next Web, Mashable!, AllTwitter, Twitter Blog, gHacks Technology News, VatorNews, Paints The Future, Wired, Reuters, Rich Man Poor Man, PC Magazine, Computerworld, BetaKit, Marketing Land, Techie Buzz, VentureBeat, We Are Social, ReadWriteWeb, Geek Beat Technology News, ABCNEWS, Ars Technica, Engadget, SplatF, GigaOM, Betabeat, The Register, The Tech Trade, TechCrunch, Current Editorials, TechCrunch Japan, SiliconFilter and AllThingsD
Tweets: @agarwal, @marcoarment, @thomasborowski and @kfury
See also Mediagazer| 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 … | Marco Arment / Marco.org: |
I'm not a “curator” — Curator's Code is an attempt to codify and standardize “via” links and attribution from link blogs and aggregators with two new symbols: — á"¥ means “via” — means “hat tip” — It's completely misguided. — First of all, readers aren't going to learn what those symbols mean.
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Tweets: @dannysullivan, @mathewi and @om
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: |
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Techland, BuzzFeed, LAPTOP Magazine, Geekosystem, Geek News Central, Gawker, Gizmodo, PhoneArena, io9 and NYT @ SXSW. Thanks:@fwd
| 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 …
| 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.| 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 … | Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
SXSW 2012 on BitTorrent: 7.51 GB of Free Music — The South by Southwest (SXSW) music festival is one of the largest and most popular in the United States. Since 2005, the festival has published thousands of free tracks from participating artists. For some of the previous editions …
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| Ryan Kim / GigaOM: |
Rumored: PayPal to launch Square competitor — PayPal's plans to announce a solution for small businesses at an event this Thursday includes a mobile payment dongle that would compete against Square, Intuit (intu), Verifone and others, according to sources we've talked to who are familiar with PayPal's plans.
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Business Insider, CNET, The Verge and SlashGear
| 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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A Store in Your Pocket: Retailer Mobile Websites Beat Apps among US Smartphone Owners — Smartphone owners are increasingly using their devices for shopping, from researching products and reviews, to comparing prices, finding retail locations, and redeeming coupons.| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Foursquare, Vevo, Fandango, and The Onion launch new Facebook Timeline apps — Facebook just announced a few high-profile additions to its roster of Timeline apps: Foursquare, Vevo, Fandango, The Onion, Viddy, Endomondo, and RootMusic all have new ways to share what you're doing with your friends.
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Facebook, VentureBeat, ABCNEWS, VentureBeat, GigaOM, MediaPost, Mashable!, TechCrunch, The Next Web, BetaKit and All Facebook. Thanks:@hamburger
| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Galaxy S II Android 4.0 update rolling out today in Korea, Poland, Sweden, and Hungary — As promised, Samsung is finally rolling out Android 4.0 to Galaxy S II users in Korea, and has also announced the first details of European availablity. Poland, Sweden, and Hungary will also be getting … | 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.| Frank Langfitt / NPR: |
iPad Workers: Plant Inspected Hours Before Blast … Workers burned during an explosion at an Apple supplier factory in Shanghai are seen at a hospital where they are receiving continued treatment for their injuries. According to the factory, 24 workers were burned in the explosion.
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BGR, Electronista, The Atlantic Wire, 9to5Mac and Gizmodo
| Bobbie Johnson / GigaOM: |
Finally Spotify says guten tag to German users — As we reported several weeks ago, Spotify has been preparing to launch in Germany for some time: and, as expected, the service went live overnight on Monday. — Germany — Western Europe's largest internet market and strongest economy …
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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.
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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.
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“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).
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