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| 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, Bits, PC Magazine, Pulp Tech Blog, Digital Trends, The Verge, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, The Tech Report and Gawker. Tweets: @levie
| Amit Runchal / Interactioned: |
Who Do We Blame? — This story by Nick Bilton in the New York Times, which John Brownlee first wrote about in Cult of Mac, discusses an iOS app called Girls Around Me. Creepy doesn't begin to describe it: … Foursquare shut them down after learning about it, but it's clear from Bilton's article …
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| 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, PC Magazine, Computerworld, NPR, Gawker and The Daily Caller. Tweets: @youranonnews
| Wall Street Journal: |
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 and MacDailyNews
| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
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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AllThingsD, msnbc.com, Google Operating System, PC World, 9to5Google, VentureBeat, YouTube, Pulse2 Technology …, Mashable!, I4U News, google-latlong.blogspot.fr, Engadget, Laughing Squid, WebProNews, Gothamist, gameinformer.com, Joystiq, CNET and The Verge
Tweets: @zpower, @ryan, @googlemaps and @mattcutts
| 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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Pulse2 Technology …, Business Insider, CNET and CNET
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
TweetDeck back online, unauthorized access was ‘random’ and likely never ‘used maliciously’ — TweetDeck, taken down earlier today, is now back online for everybody. The original issue appeared when a user in Australia discovered he was able to access hundreds of Twitter and Facebook accounts.| Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch: |
| 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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The Verge, Pulse2 Technology …, iClarified, MediaPost, MacNN and MacRumors
| 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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Coyote Tracks, GigaOM, Pulse2 Technology … and parislemon
| 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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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 … 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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