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Ashton Kutcher to play Steve Jobs — Indie pic ‘Jobs’ to be directed by Joshua Michael Stern — The King of Twitter is now the King of Apple, as “Two and a Half Men” star Ashton Kutcher is attached to play Steve Jobs in the indie pic “Jobs,” which Joshua Michael Stern ("Swing Vote") will direct from a script by Matt Whiteley.
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AppleInsider, Hollywood Reporter, The Verge, Edible Apple, /Film, VentureBeat, 9to5Mac, Electronista, The Huffington Post, Business Insider, Gizmodo, App Advice, MacRumors, The Next Web, Techi.com, Techie Buzz, iClarified, CNET, iPhone Savior, memeburn, Slashdot and Inside Movies
Tweets: @theinsneider, @theinsneider, @spencerchen and @eldon
| Robin Sidel / Wall Street Journal: |
Card Processor: Hackers Stole Account Numbers — Global Payments Inc., the credit-card processor that reported a significant security breach Friday, said that hackers stole account numbers and other key information from up to 1.5 million accounts in North America.
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Gizmodo, Krebs on Security, PC World, New York Times, The Next Web and Ars Technica
| Steven Musil / CNET: |
Up to 1.5M credit card numbers stolen from Global Payments — Payments processor believes no names, addresses, or Social Security numbers were stolen in the security breach. — Follow @stevenmusil — As many as 1.5 million Visa and MasterCard customers may have been affected … | Scott Austin / Digits: |
‘Girls Around Me’ Developer Defends App After Foursquare Dismissal — The developer of a controversial mobile app that used data from Facebook and Foursquare to reveal the location of nearby women defended its intentions Saturday after drawing a firestorm of criticism over privacy concerns.
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TechEye, Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life, msnbc.com, CNET, ShortFormBlog, Business Insider, TechNewsDaily.com, AllThingsD, TechCrunch, MacNN, Appolicious Advisor, textually.org and Cult of Mac. Tweets: @pkafka
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OMGPOP CEO tweets that only employee not to transition to Zynga was the “weakest” one (UPDATED) — As reported last week, Shay Pierce was the only OMGPOP employee to decline a position with Zynga after it bought the Draw Something developer for $180 million.
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Pulse2 Technology …, Dave Winer's …, Boing Boing and Epeus' epigone
Tweets: @tfadp, @tfadp, @dickc, @mat, @notch, @tomcoates, @helloandy, @tziegmann and @tapbot_paul
| Jeff Grubb / VentureBeat: |
| TechCrunch: |
April Fools 2012: We Ruin Every (Tech-Related) Joke On The Internets — Happy April 1st, Everybody! It's that very special time of year — the day when tech companies break out their clown shoes to make their annual attempt at being funny. As a public service, we've rounded … | Zee / The Next Web: |
| Tom Cook / Quora: |
| Korey Nicholson / BriefMobile: |
Exclusive: Android 4.0.4 IMM76D Leak for Nexus S 4G — This is not an April Fools joke — With rumored dates for the Nexus S 4G Android 4.0 update on the horizon, the official stock image files have finally surfaced. Thanks to a source, we were leaked the files with exclusive access.
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Phones Review, Engadget, Android Phone Fans, The Verge, Ubergizmo, PhoneArena and Softpedia News
| Cade Metz / Wired: |
Exclusive: Google, Amazon, and Microsoft Swarm China for Network Gear — Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Facebook buy more networking hardware than practically anyone else on earth. After all, these are the giants of the internet. But at the same time, they're buying less and less gear from Cisco …
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
IBM takes on a gigantic computing task to find the universe's origins — Some of the biggest friggin' computers you'll ever see are going to help decipher data from the world's largest telescope as it explores the origins of the universe. — IBM announced today it has won a $42 million contract … | Eric Lichtblau / New York Times: |
Police Are Using Phone Tracking as a Routine Tool — WASHINGTON — Law enforcement tracking of cellphones, once the province mainly of federal agents, has become a powerful and widely used surveillance tool for local police officials, with hundreds of departments, large and small … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Fragmentation? Open Source? Buzzwords For Android, And Also Google's Latest Effort, Google Campus — London's claim to being the hub for tech startups in Europe got a boost last week, when Google opened the doors of its latest effort, Google Campus, a seven-story centre for startups …
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VC Cafe, Springboard and Search Engine Watch
| Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch: |
What Does A Post-UDID World Look Like For iPhone And iPad Developers? — This past week has been a big wake-up call for the iOS developer community. The need to move away from UDIDs, or an ID scheme that many developers rely on to power advertising and store data about their users … 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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