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iPad launch day: Where are all the sell-outs? — iPad launch day is quite a fiasco. Apple Stores around the country see eager customers line up hours or even days ahead of the tablet's release, and people often wait hours before they finally make it into the store to purchase an iPad — if there are any left.
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CNET, eWeek, PhoneArena, Softpedia News, Business Insider, Bits and Computerworld
| Manan Kakkar / Techie Buzz: |
Apple Copies Zune Tag Line For iTunes — This is too good to not be reproduced. Looks like the photocopiers at Cupertino are working overtime. Perhaps, the artists at Cupertino are out of innovation. Use any of the many smart retorts by the loud Apple fans over the years against Microsoft and reverse the company names.| Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: |
Too Much SEO? Google's Working On An “Over-Optimization” Penalty For That — Google's Matt Cutts announced that Google is working on a search ranking penalty for sites that are “over-optimized” or “overly SEO'ed.” — Matt announced this during a panel Search Engine Land's Editor-In-Chief …
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| Rob Schmitz / Marketplace from American Public Media: |
An acclaimed Apple critic made up the details — Apple got a lot of attention recently over conditions in the Chinese factories that make its iPhones and iPads. The public radio show “This American Life” aired an electrifying account of one man's visit to several factories.
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See also Mediagazer| Laura June / The Verge: |
Excerpts from ‘This American Life’ on Mike Daisey: ‘Why not just tell us what really happened?’ — We've received an early transcript of the episode of This American Life which will air this evening at 8:00PM ET entitled “Retraction.” The episode features Mike Daisey … | Bryan Bishop / The Verge: |
AT&T brings customer's throttling dispute to an end with $850 payout — AT&T's back-and-forth with Matt Spaccarelli, the customer that took the carrier to small claims court for its throttling practices on unlimited data plans, appears to be over. AP reports that the carrier sent Spaccarelli …
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PC World, Business Insider and Associated Press
| Andrew Rassweiler / iSuppli: |
New iPad 32GB + 4G Carries $364.35 Bill of Materials — The new iPad, equipped with 32 Gigabytes (GB) of NAND flash memory and 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) wireless capability, carries a bill of materials (BOM) of $364.35. When the $10.75 manufacturing costs are added in, the cost to produce the new iPad rises to $375.10.
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CNET, blogs.ft.com and AllThingsD
| Christopher S. Stewart / Wall Street Journal: |
Glenn Beck Rallies Troops For Revolution Against TV — Glenn Beck still rails against his usual enemies, from the “hardcore socialist left” to “extreme Islam.” Now there is a new target: mainstream television. — After parting company with Fox News last year, Mr. Beck took his message of outrage and self-reliance online.| Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
Apple loses final ITC ruling against Motorola Mobility: preliminary finding of no violation affirmed — On January 13, an Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) at the ITC made an initial determination (a recommendation for a decision) that didn't hold Motorola Mobility to infringe three Apple patents.
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Engadget and AppleInsider
| Marco Arment / Marco.org: |
Introducing Instapaper 4.1 for iPhone, iPad — With so many Retina iPad updates, it looks like the App Review team is working overtime to approve apps quickly. In a very pleasant surprise, my 4.1 update was approved much more quickly than I expected. Thanks, App Review team!| Declan McCullagh / CNET: |
Fred Amoroso: Is this the man behind Yahoo's patent offensive? — Fred Amoroso joined Yahoo's board of directors in February. About a month later, Yahoo unleashed a massive patent lawsuit against Facebook. — Coincidence? Probably not, since Amoroso is one of Silicon Valley's most enthusiastic proponents of patent warfare.| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
Google Apps VP Dave Girouard Leaving to Start a Company — Dave Girouard, who is Google's VP of apps, is leaving the company, Google said today. — Girouard had been responsible for Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs and other cloud applications. — After eight years at Google …
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Featured Startup on Windows Phone - Digital Geek — You know how you are at the beach sometimes, listening to your portable listening device, jamming to some music and you realize, “Actually, at this moment …
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Want to Contribute to Cloud Foundry? Come on in! — Cloud Foundry is an Open Platform-as-a-Service, and an Open Source project. It has attracted phenomenal interest from the community - including partners …
Want to Contribute to Cloud Foundry? Come on in! — Cloud Foundry is an Open Platform-as-a-Service, and an Open Source project. It has attracted phenomenal interest from the community - including partners …
Rackspace Blog:
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.
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.
Hortonworks » Blog:
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.
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.
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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