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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 …
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Jobs' Rejection Of TV Designs “Isn't A Huge Deal” Says Former Apple Engineer — It's a sin I know almost too well as a blogger. It's slow going for news on a Friday night and the pageview gods send you a reprieve in the form of a tweet. — A former Apple engineer is berating … | Cody Fink / MacStories: |
Regarding Apple's Edge and the new Apple TV Interface — Alongside a hardware update that supports 1080p playback, the new Apple TV introduced a brand new grid-like interface that draws upon influences from iOS. Where previous Apple TV interfaces were more or less clickwheel-iPod inspired …
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XBMC 11.0 - Eden — It's been over a year in the works and today we are excited to announce that XBMC 11.0 is finally ready and available for download. You can find XBMC 11.0 here. — XBMC 11.0 Milestones include Addon Rollbacks, vast improvements in Confluence (the default skin) … | Farhad Manjoo / PandoDaily: |
Why “Don't Be Evil” Is Evil, and Why Google Isn't So Bad — Early in 2000, a tiny but much-beloved search company held an employee meeting to figure out something that all successful firms feel they have to face at a certain point: What should we be about? — For most companies … | Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
Instagram opens registration for its new Android app — We knew that Instagram was coming to Android, it was just a matter of when. Today, the company has opened registration for Android device owners, providing them with the chance to be ‘first in line’.
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Twitter Not So Good At Predicting Box Office Revenues After All — A new study of tweets about movies suggests they are not necessarily a good predictor of box office revenues, say computer scientists — The online social network Twitter has recently gained a reputation for a certain degree of clairvoyance.| Eric Eldon / TechCrunch: |
Pair Is A Path For The Two Of Us — Let's say you're in a serious relationship, but you work all the time and you're long-distance. How do you stay close to the other person? I've personally had this situation for the last year and a half. My girlfriend and I use Skype, email, our phones … | Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Microsoft Censors Pirate Bay Links in Windows Live Messenger — The place where breaking news, BitTorrent and copyright collide — Microsoft Censors Pirate Bay Links in Windows Live Messenger — The Pirate Bay is not only the most visited BitTorrent site on the Internet, but arguably the most censored too.
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Why I am letting my Google IO invitation expire — Hi, [REDACTED]. Thanks for writing to express your concern about my failure to redeem my Google IO promo code. It's kind of a funny story. — I received a Google IO invitation (copied and pasted below) but didn't follow …
| Darren Murph / Engadget: |
Sony VAIO VCC111 Chromebook passes through FCC, Chrome OS flies its flag — Wondering if Chrome OS has a future? Wonder no more. After Samsung and Acer ushered out Chromebooks of their own following Google I/O 2011, it looks as if Sony's planning to usher in one of its own prior to this year's gala.| 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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