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FCC Fires Back at AT&T Over T-Mobile Job Cuts — The Federal Communications Commission rejected the idea, put forth by AT&T earlier on Friday, that job cuts at T-Mobile are a sign that regulators should have allowed its megadeal to proceed. — “In a short period of time … | Chris Ziegler / The Verge: |
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Digital Trends, VentureBeat, BGR, Android Community, GigaOM, TechCrunch, GeekWire, Hillicon Valley, TmoNews, Business Insider and AT&T Public Policy Blog. Tweets: @tomkrazit
| Joshua Schnell / Macgasm: |
Former Apple TV Engineer: ‘Those New Apple TV Designs Were Tossed Out 5 Years Ago’ — An interesting tweet by Michael Margolis, a former Apple TV engineer at Apple Inc., popped up in our Twitter feed this evening, and we thought it was worth passing on. According to Margolis … | Rene Ritchie / iMore: |
New iPhone (iPhone 5,1) coming fall 2012 with LTE, similar sized screen — While Apple has only just released the new iPad, iMore has already started to hear more about the next generation iPhone (iPhone 5,1). We previously reported that Apple was working to reduce the size … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft Store swapping rival smartphones for Windows Phones in latest ‘Smoked’ challenge — Microsoft is turning its $100 “Smoked by Windows Phone” campaign into a $1,000 challenge at its retail stores across the US this weekend. Visitors can walk into a Microsoft Store between noon …
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Pulse2 Technology …, BGR, Softpedia News and WMPoweruser
| Kevin Fitchard / GigaOM: |
Is Apple planning its own mobile voice service? — Light Reading has dug up some very interesting job postings on the Apple's Website. Apple is looking for telephony software engineers to work on iOS. Judging by the list of experience requirements in the postings, Apple is looking to add voice-over-IP …
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AppleInsider, MacNN, PadGadget, PhoneArena, App Advice and DSLreports
| Donald Melanson / Engadget: |
US Army debuts app marketplace prototype: iOS first, Android coming soon — The promise of an Army app store has been bandied about for quite a while now, but it looks like it's slowly becoming a reality. The US Army has today officially announced a prototype of the Army Software Marketplace …
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army.mil, The Verge, Pulse2 Technology … and AppleInsider
| Bloomberg: |
Bats Withdraws IPO After Errors Pummel Its Stock, Halt Apple — Bats Withdraws IPO After Computer Problems — Bats Global Markets Inc (BATS)., the six- year-old equity exchange, canceled its initial public offering, stunning Wall Street after errors on its own computer systems kept the stock …
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Forbes, Felix Salmon and IR Web Report
| Ben Fritz / Company Town: |
Internet to surpass DVD in movie consumption, not revenue — Consumers will watch more movies online than on DVDs in 2012 for the first time, but will spend far less doing so, according to a new report. — The number of movies rented or bought online from outlets like Netflix and iTunes …
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Sky News Australia, Bloomberg and Inquirer
| Jennifer Van Grove / VentureBeat: |
Pinterest revises terms of service, gives up right to sell your content — The providers of an inspiration service turned inward for some much-needed inspiration of their own, and have updated their terms of service following feedback from community members.
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ReadWriteWeb, Oh, How Pinteresting!, TechCrunch, The Next Web and Social Media
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| Rafe Needleman / CNET: |
Box.Net became a .Com for just shy of a million bucks — CEO Aaron Levie got lucky: The company that owned the .com of his company name wanted a lot, but not as much as they could have got. — Just Box. — I just had a nice talk with Aaron Levie, the CEO of Box.net. I mean, Box.
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| Scott McCartney / Wall Street Journal: |
To Tweet From 30,000 Feet: Picking Planes Wired for Wi-Fi — More passengers are downloading books, sending Tweets and updating their Facebook pages in the middle of a flight—even as they complain about steep prices. — Currently, about 1,700 planes in the U.S. have Internet access … | Drew Olanoff / The Next Web: |
Thanks to Google Voice, you can now make phone calls from within Google+ Hangouts — The Google+ team continues to graduate features from its sandbox into prime time for its Hangouts product. Last week, the company announced the addition of Google Docs into Hangouts, and today the service …
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Google+, Softpedia News, LEWIS 360°, Neowin.net, CNET, SlashGear and WebProNews. Thanks:@tweepsmap
| Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch: |
6waves Lolapps' CTO and Chief Product Officer Rue And Sethi Step Down — Just a few days after social gaming company 6waves Lolapps said it was laying off most of its development staff to focus on publishing, its chief product officer Arjun Sethi and chief technology officer Brian Rue have stepped down.
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Arjun Sethi's Blog and VentureBeat
| Aaron Souppouris / The Verge: |
Meet Svbtle, the beautiful blogging platform you're not invited to, and Obtvse, its open-source clone — A couple of months ago well-known writer and UX designer Dustin Curtis, tired of the “uninspiring nature” of the blogging platforms, built his personal blog from the ground up.
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TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, Dustin Curtis, howells.ws and nwienert
| Andy Greenberg / The Firewall: |
Shopping For Zero-Days: A Price List For Hackers' Secret Software Exploits — This story accompanies a profile of the French exploit-selling firm Vupen in the April 9th issue of Forbes magazine. — A clever hacker today has to make tough choices. Find a previously unknown method …
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Gizmodo, iDownloadBlog.com and iClarified
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Intel's 22nm Valley View Atom SoC leaks out, may have Ivy Bridge graphics for 4x performance — Now that tablets and ultrabooks have effectively displaced the netbook class of computer, the Intel Atom chips that powered them don't seem quite so interesting anymore... but what if we told …
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DailyTech, TechSpot, SlashGear, Liliputing, Electronista, GSMArena Blog, Softpedia News, Gizmodo and Engadget
| Bloomberg: |
AOL Said to Hire Evercore to Find Buyer for 800-Patent Portfolio — AOL Inc. (AOL) hired Evercore Partners Inc. (EVR) to find a buyer for its more than 800 patents and explore other strategic options, three people with knowledge of the matter said. — Private-equity firms … Sponsor 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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