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| Andy Greenberg / The Firewall: |
Here's How Law Enforcement Cracks Your iPhone's Security Code (Video) — Set your iPhone to require a four-digit passcode, and it may keep your private information safe from the prying eyes of the taxi driver whose cab you forget it in. But if law enforcement is determined to see the data you've stored … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Oh, That “Pull To Refresh” Thing In iOS? Yeah, Twitter Has A Patent App On That — Like that “pull-to-refresh” feature found in many popular iOS apps, including Twitter, Facebook, Tweetbot, Sparrow and others? Been wondering why Apple hasn't implemented the same thing in its own apps …
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Dustin Curtis, One More Thing Conference 2012, Obama Pacman, The Loop, Jeremy Stanley, iPhone Hacks, SlashGear, iPhone Buzz, MacStories, memeburn, iPodNN, Cult of Mac and kottke.org. Tweets: @rickstawarz
| Farhad Manjoo / Slate: |
Apple Doesn't Need To Make the TV of the Future — The revolution is already here—and it's called the Xbox. — If the rumors are true, Apple will release a television set later this year that it will tout as the most amazing boob tube ever invented. Apple's TV will be able to access shows …
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| Scott Gilbertson / Webmonkey: |
Microsoft Unveils New Plan to Speed Up the Web — Microsoft wants in on the drive to speed up the web. The company plans to submit its proposal for a faster internet protocol to the standards body charged with creating HTTP 2.0. — Not coincidentally, that standards body …
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MSDN Blogs, SlashGear and Pulse2 Technology …
| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
RapidShare Declared Legal In Court, With a Twist — In the aftermath of the Megaupload shutdown, people have been keeping a close eye on court cases involving other file-hosting services, RapidShare included. — During the past several years RapidShare has made tremendous efforts to cooperate …
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Techdirt, The Verge, Inquirer, Softpedia News and SlashGear
| Pamela Parker / Search Engine Land: |
Google Research: Even If You Rank #1 Organically, You Can Double Your Clicks With Paid Search — When marketers have scrutinized Google's research on how organic and paid search results work together — the search giant concluded that nixing the paid ads would result in a 89% drop in clicks — it's been clear there's more to the story.| Lauren Rae Orsini / Daily Dot: |
A Pinterest spammer tells all — Last week, the Daily Dot taught you how to spot a Pinterest spammer. Now that same spammer has spotted us. — After he read our article about his process of spamming Pinterest through thousands of bot accounts, Steve, who declined to give his last name …
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the Econsultancy blog, Total Pinterest, SocialTimes, Naked Security, msnbc.com, The Verge, Digital Trends and Gizmodo. Thanks:@loganwtf
| Ron Rosenbaum / Smithsonian Magazine: |
Richard Clarke on Who Was Behind the Stuxnet Attack — America's longtime counterterrorism czar warns that the cyberwars have already begun—and that we might be losing — The story Richard Clarke spins has all the suspense of a postmodern geopolitical thriller.| Bryan Bishop / The Verge: |
Samsung reports 5 million Galaxy Notes shipped, will launch in Japan on April 6th with LTE — Sure, the Galaxy Note is beloved by elephants, but how is it doing in the real world? Not too bad, it turns out: Samsung has announced it has moved 5 million units of the device since its launch last October.
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CNET, Los Angeles Times, Business Insider, AllThingsD, The Mobile Gadgeteer Blog, Engadget, VentureBeat, Electronista, 9to5Google, TechPinions, BGR, AndroidGuys, SlashGear, Android Community, Gotta Be Mobile, Softpedia News, WebProNews, Know Your Mobile, Gizmodo UK, MobileSyrup.com, The Next Web, T3 News and Gizmodo
| James Grimmelmann / Ars Technica: |
Feature: Death of a data haven: cypherpunks, WikiLeaks, and the world's smallest nation — A few weeks ago, Fox News breathlessly reported that the embattled WikiLeaks operation was looking to start a new life on the sea. WikiLeaks, the article speculated, might try to escape its legal troubles … | Andrew Sinkov / Evernote Blogcast: |
Evernote for Android Update: Speech-to-text and Big Widget Enhancements — Today, we have an exciting update to Evernote for Android (3.6). We've added a great speech-to-text capability that makes dictating notes in Evernote really easy, plus we have a bunch of new features for the Evernote Widget app.| Jenna Wortham / New York Times: |
A Surge in Learning the Language of the Internet — Parlez-vous Python? What about Rails or JavaScript? Foreign languages tend to wax and wane in popularity, but the language du jour is computer code. — The market for night classes and online instruction in programming and Web construction …
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WebProNews and Gizmodo UK
| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
Microsoft takes ASP.NET MVC into the open with community patches and bug-fixes — Scott Guthrie, Vice President in Microsoft's Developer Division, has announced that ASP.NET MVC and related Microsoft projects will now be developed in the open, using the Apache license, and hosted on CodePlex using the new git support.
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ScottGu's Blog, ZDNet, Scott Hanselman, WebProNews, Techie Buzz, Neowin.net, InfoQ and MSDN Blogs
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Anatomy of a leak: how iPhones spill the ID of networks they access — An Ars story from earlier this month reported that iPhones expose the unique identifiers of recently accessed wireless routers, which generated no shortage of reader outrage. What possible justification does Apple … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
TechCrunch's Picks: The 10 Best Startups From Y Combinator Demo Day — 66 startups showed off today at Y Combinator's Demo Day, and we covered all 39 that were ready to for the public. After talking to VCs and tech moguls, the TechCrunch teamed huddled up and picked these 10 companies as the best.
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Business Insider, The Next Web, The Next Web, Xconomy, CNET and VentureBeat
| Eric Eldon / TechCrunch: |
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Uncrunched, CNET, TechCrunch, Venture Capital Dispatch, Google+ and VentureBeat
Tweets: @lizgannes, @arrington, @levie and @scobleizer
| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
Flat-Panel TV Sales Flatten in U.S. — After years of consecutive growth, flat-panel TV sales in the U.S. are beginning to stall out. — Market research firm IHS iSuppli said Tuesday that U.S.-bound shipments of flat-panel TVs will drop 5 percent in 2012, slipping to 37.1 million units from 39.1 million units in 2011.| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Official Complaints Over ‘4G’ Marketing of New iPad Taking Hold in Europe — Yesterday, we noted that Australian regulators are targeting Apple over its “misleading” marketing of the new iPad as a “4G” device in the country despite the fact that the device is incompatible with LTE networks being rolled out there.| Leigh Beadon / Techdirt: |
Patents Threaten To Silence A Little Girl, Literally — Slashdot points us to a sad story from blogger Dana Nieder, providing yet more evidence of how patent monopolies can hold back innovation and do very real damage to people's lives in the process—and how people are interested in progress, not patents.
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PC World, TeleRead and Uncommon Sense
| Yoni Heisler / Network World: |
Steve Jobs wasn't a fan of the Siri name — Steve Jobs, according to Siri co-founder Dag Kittlaus, wasn't particularly fond of the Siri moniker — h(f)){c=a.createElement('script'); c.type='text/javascript';c.src='http:// ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/'+ g+'/jquery.min.js'; …
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MacRumors, 9to5Mac, VentureBeat, AppleInsider, TechCrunch, WebProNews, PhoneArena, MacNN, App Advice and iPhone. Thanks:@ionapple1
| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Yahoo-Geddon: Leaders to Debate Layoffs, Asset Sales, Search Deals and More Today, as a Major Restructuring Looms — What is Yahoo? — While that has been the perennially unanswered question at the Silicon Valley Internet giant for many years, according to dozens of sources inside and outside the company … | Chris Ziegler / The Verge: |
Nokia won't license ‘essential’ patents if Apple's nano-SIM standard is selected — The saber-rattling continues today ahead of the ETSI's vote on the future of the nano-SIM standard later this week, a vote that has significantly different proposals from Apple and a consortium of Nokia, Motorola, and RIM in the mix.
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Computerworld, Electronista, TUAW, FOSS Patents, iDownloadBlog.com and Dice Blog Network. Tweets: @edbott
| Jay Greene / CNET: |
The iPad app that will remind you of Microsoft's old Courier project — (Credit: Tapose; screenshot by Jay Greene/CNET) — Tapose, the iPad app that aims to mimic much of the content creation capability of Microsoft's ill-fated Courier tablet, just won approval from Apple to be sold in iTunes.
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Tapose, The Verge, iDownloadBlog.com, everythingiCafe, I4U News and 9to5Mac
| Jeff Roberts / paidContent: |
Hasbro Can't Stop Sale Of ‘Transformer Prime’ Tablets — In a court ruling that reads at times like a pop culture or consumer gadget review, a federal judge gave tablet maker Asus a green light to sell its “Transformer” tablets. — Hasbro filed a lawsuit against Asus late last year …
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Pocket-lint, Softpedia News, TeleRead, The Verge, Gizmodo UK, Know Your Mobile, PC Magazine, PhoneArena, TechCrunch and Geek.com. Thanks:@jeffjohnroberts
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nokia brings Windows Phone to China with Lumia 800C and 610C — Nokia unveiled its first Windows Phones in China today, set to go on sale in the coming months. The Lumia 800C is Nokia's Chinese variant of its flagship Lumia 800 device, and includes the same styling and hardware specifications.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Consumer Group Turns The Screws In Euro Google Antitrust Investigation, Outcome Expected ‘In Days’ — The European antitrust investigation of Google, originally filed November 2010, looks like it might be entering the next stage of its development. — The European Consumer Organisation … Sponsor Posts
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Windows 8 Tips — Tips and tricks for Windows 8 users.
Windows 8 Tips — Tips and tricks for Windows 8 users.
Cloud Foundry:
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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