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Google's first April Fool this year is brilliant: ‘Maps 8-bit’ for the NES — Google offers its Maps product on a huge variety of different systems, but the one that it has so far neglected is the hugely popular Nintendo Entertainment System. Finally, the search giant has answered the cries …
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Examiner, Google LatLong, YouTube, Techi.com, VentureBeat, msnbc.com, Pulse2 Technology …, Laughing Squid, Mashable!, WebProNews, Gothamist, Google Operating System, gameinformer.com, AllThingsD, Joystiq, I4U News, 9to5Google, Engadget, The Verge and CNET
Tweets: @ryan, @zpower, @googlemaps and @mattcutts
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RIM Weighs Bleak Options — Research In Motion Ltd.'s new chief executive faces two bleak options: Attempt a bold turnaround of the embattled BlackBerry maker, or find a willing buyer. Neither will be an easy task. — RIM said sales of BlackBerrys fell sharply in the latest quarter …
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TechCrunch, WMPoweruser, Electronista, SeekingAlpha.com and MacDailyNews
| Somini Sengupta / New York Times: |
With Advance Warning, Bracing for Attack on Internet by Anonymous — SAN FRANCISCO — On a quiet Sunday in mid-February, something curious attracted the attention of the behind-the-scenes engineers who scour the Internet for signs of trouble. There, among the ubiquitous boasts posted …
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Zero Day Blog, NPR, Gawker, PC Magazine, Computerworld, Errata Security and The Daily Caller. Tweets: @youranonnews
| John Brownlee / Cult of Mac: |
This Creepy App Isn't Just Stalking Women Without Their Knowledge, It's A Wake-Up Call About Facebook Privacy [Update] — This app is meant to all be in good fun, but it's potentially a weapon in the hands of stalkers. — “Boy, you sure have a lot of apps on your phone.” — “Well, it's my job.”
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Digits, Charlie's Diary, Computerworld, Pulse2 Technology …, Online Dating Insider, Business Insider, MacNN, PC Magazine, Bits, Pulp Tech Blog, Digital Trends, The Verge, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, The Tech Report and Gawker. Tweets: @levie
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| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
French ‘Three Strikes’ Law Slashes Piracy, But Fails to Boost Sales — It's a cheerful day for the copyright industry. In France the controversial “graduated response” law (Hadopi) has evaporated unauthorized file-sharing. — A new report from the Hadopi office, conveniently written …
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Smartbooks redux: Qualcomm promises ultrathin quad-core laptops — Windows 8 may bring a failed computer category back from the dead: in late 2009, Qualcomm promised that an ARM-based laptop computer called a “Smartbook” would change the industry, and today, PCWorld reports that the company is promising ARM-based laptops once again.
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CNET, PC World, Liliputing, Neowin.net and netbooknews.com
| Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land: |
Debunking Senator Al Franken On Google, The Internet & Privacy — I liked Al Franken as a comedian. I liked the idea of him becoming a US Senator. I definitely like the idea that he wants to defend Americans from potential privacy problems. But I don't like that he sounds like an uneducated senator of old.| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
SecondMarket Lays Off 10 Percent in Light of Facebook IPO — SecondMarket, the marketplace for private company shares that built much of its business on pre-IPO interest in Facebook equity, laid off 10 percent of its staff today. Prior to the layoffs, the New York City-based company employed approximately 150 people.
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| Diane Bartz / Reuters: |
E-books settlement talks advancing: sources — (Reuters) - The Justice Department could reach a settlement in the next few weeks with Apple Inc (AAPL.O) and some of the major publishers suspected of colluding to push up electronic book prices, according to two people close to the negotiations.
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CNET, Pulse2 Technology …, The Verge, iClarified, MediaPost, MacNN and MacRumors
| Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land: |
How Serious Is Facebook About Search? — An article in BusinessWeek suggests that Facebook is planning a deeper push into search. Will that be limited to improving search for the site — or will it be something more comprehensive? — It's clear that Facebook needs better internal search.
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Techi.com, Pulse2 Technology …, I4U News, Business Insider and bub.blicio.us
| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
China's latest crackdown on microblogs sees comment feature ban after coup speculation — The Chinese government has once again cracked down on Chinese microblog services Sina Weibo and Tencent Weibo, after it temporarily banned the comment features on both services following … | Sascha Segan / PC Magazine: |
Why Google's Tablet Store Isn't the Nexus One All Over Again — The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that Google is starting a store to sell Android tablets online. This is an attempt to jumpstart the sales of tablets running Google-approved versions of Android …
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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.
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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.
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“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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