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It's the battery, stupid: The looming 4G smartphone crisis — What's your favorite thing about your smartphone? Is it its minimalist design? Its pretty interface? How about the fantastic HD display, the apps, 4G networking, or great cloud backups? Or maybe it's all of those things?
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Daring Fireball, TechPinions, parislemon, The Next Web, Telecompetitor, TUAW and Internet2Go
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The Real SXSW “Winner” Is The Mophie Juice Pack — So Highlight didn't “win” SXSW, as some tech bloggers had hypothesized, for many reasons. It did however have a close relationship to what eventually ended up winning, as its background GPS turns out to significantly strain iPhone battery life.| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
Great App-pectations: When Innovation Leapfrogs Phone Capabilities — As comic Louis C.K. would say about technology: Everything is amazing and nobody is happy. — Nowhere is that more true as app developers push the possibilities of how to use our smartphones' location awareness and reach …
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Tech Cocktail
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SUPPORT THE JOBS ACT — Urge the Senate to pass this important startup bill Startups are forbidden to: Publicly discuss that they are raising money Raise money through crowdfunding Receive services like standard docs from incubators and online platforms Stay private if they have over 500 shareholders …
| David Grant / Christian Science Monitor: |
JOBS Act: Why are Democrats suddenly raising red flags? — No one wants to vote against jobs, but a wide swath of critics - ranging from the SEC, the AFL-CIO, and pension funds - worry that features in the proposed JOBS Act could hurt investors. — WASHINGTON
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| Daniel Terdiman / CNET: |
Parker, Fanning: Napster was still better than what we have now — Although new services like Spotify and Rdio offer users the ability to legally listen to vast collections of music at no cost, Napster's founders lament that music sharing today is still behind 1999. — Follow @GreeterDan
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The Register and The Verge
| Greg Sandoval / CNET: |
Paperwork goof may mean Kim DotCom can reclaim assets — New Zealand authorities may be forced to return Kim DotCom's cash and cars as a result of a procedural error. — (Credit: Screen shot by Greg Sandoval) — Authorities in New Zealand have acknowledged making a procedural error prior …
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PC World, TorrentFreak, New Zealand Herald and Gizmodo
| Eric Eldon / TechCrunch: |
Rejoice, Twitter Power Users: “Next Generation” Tweetdeck Apps Coming For Android And iOS — The big Twitter redesign at the end of last year seemed to mean that the company was ditching power users to get more mainstream. The website and the mobile apps added “Connect” and “Discover” …
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SlashGear, Android Phone Fans and MacNN
| Connie Loizos / PE Hub Blog: |
Esther Dyson on the Angel Crowd: It's “Very Self-Referential” — If Ron Conway is the godfather of Silicon Valley, Esther Dyson might well be considered the godmother. — At least, Dyson has been actively angel investing in startups roughly as long as Conway, and her track record … | 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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VentureBeat, CNET, Neowin.net, 9.blog and Search Engine Roundtable
| Zach Epstein / BGR: |
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, Softpedia News, PhoneArena, Bits, Business Insider and Computerworld
| Alex Dobie / Android Central: |
CyanogenMod 9 makes root access an option, not the default — Since the earliest days of unofficial Android ROMs, root access and custom firmwares like CyanogenMod have gone hand in hand. However, future versions of CyanogenMod will take a step back from always-on root … Sponsor Posts
Microsoft BizSpark:
Featured Startup - FormVerse — If there was one tool not made for effective work, it would have to be email. If you take silos of information, and a chronological effect, where old or new is piled on top of each other …
Featured Startup - FormVerse — If there was one tool not made for effective work, it would have to be email. If you take silos of information, and a chronological effect, where old or new is piled on top of each other …
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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