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The House passes CISPA with a vote of 248 to 168 — CISPA, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, has just passed the House by a vote of 248 to 168. The vote was largely along partisan lines, with some leaking. — The bill attracted several amendements along the way to passage today … | Dan Farber / CNET: |
Former Sun CEO says Google's Android didn't need license for Java APIs — Jonathan Schwartz (Credit: Stephen Shankland/CNET) — SAN FRANCISCO — Former Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz took the stand here today as a witness for the defense, and disputed Oracle's claim that Java APIs were proprietary code from Sun.| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
Amazon's Q1 2012: Revenue Up 34 Percent To $13.2B, Net Income Down 35 Percent — Amazon just reported earnings for the first quarter of 2012. Net sales increased 34% to $13.18 billion in the first quarter, compared with $9.86 billion in first quarter 2011.| AJ Glasser / Inside Social Games: |
Zynga reports highest ever bookings for Q1 at $329M — Zynga's made $329 million in bookings and $321 million in revenue for the first quarter of 2012, an increase of 15 percent and 32 percent year-on-year, respectively. The developer reported a net loss at $85.4 million, compared to a net income of $16.8 million for Q1 2011.| Electronista: |
comScore: Amazon Kindle Fire is 54.4% of US Android tablets — comScore shows Kindle Fire propping up Android — Amazon's Kindle Fire now makes up the absolute majority of the Android tablet platform in the US, comScore found in a fresh study. The e-reader and tablet crossover represented 54.4 percent … | Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
Apple planning to build private off-campus restaurant to stop competitors from overhearing staff conversations — Apple has had a planning request approved for a new off-campus restaurant by the Cupertino Planning Commission, providing employees with a place to eat and discuss company plans … | Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Google X founder takes Charlie Rose's picture from Project Glass headset — Google's Project Glass heads-up display was announced weeks ago, but nobody is sure whether the glasses are actually functional or if, as Sergey Brin has said, “you really just see [them] reboot.”| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
Apple: $1,111 Per Share and a $1 Trillion Market Cap in the Next Year — The blowout earnings Apple reported Tuesday inspired a number of big upgrades on the company's stock, but none so bullish as that of Topeka Capital Markets analyst Brian White. — White, who made headlines back in April … | Jonathan S. Geller / BGR: |
Verizon's Summer / Fall 2012 smartphone roadmap — While Samsung's Galaxy S3 has been the star of the rumor show for the past few months — with BGR leading the pack — we now have a clear picture of the smartphone landscape for late summer and early fall this year.| Bloomberg: |
Providence Said Selling Hulu Stake at $2 Billion Value — Hulu.com owners Walt Disney Co. (DIS), Comcast Corp. (CMCSA) and News Corp. (NWSA) are close to buying out Providence Equity Partners Inc.'s stake at a price that values the company at $2 billion, said two people with knowledge of the matter.| Jason Del Rey / AdAge: |
New York Times R&D Group Launches First Commercial Product (and It's for Brands) — Ricochet Helps Brands Drive Traffic to Relevant Articles, Surrounded by the Right Ads — The New York Times R&D Lab has spent the last six and a half years building what its chief calls the equivalent of “concept cars” for the media world.| Supantha Mukherjee / Reuters: |
Trimble Navigation to buy Google's SketchUp — (Reuters) - Trimble Navigation Ltd has agreed to buy SketchUp 3D modeling platform from Google Inc for an undisclosed price, the companies said. — As part of the SketchUp platform, Trimble will partner Google in developing SketchUp's 3D Warehouse … | Brad Molen / Engadget: |
Best Buy Connect no longer accepting new activations, service to end June 1st (update: confirmed) — Remember Best Buy Connect? If so, you'll soon have a few more megabytes of humanized DDR3 freed up, as it appears that the retail giant is ready to put the kibosh on its own branded mobile … | Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD: |
Walmart.com Lets You Pay With Cash When Shopping Online — Walmart.com is launching today “Pay with Cash,” a new feature that enables users to place orders online and then pay for them at a nearby Walmart. — In an interview, Joel Anderson, president and CEO of Walmart.com … | Andy Fixmer / Bloomberg: |
Spotify Said Developing Pandora-Like Online Radio Service — Spotify Ltd., the London-based online music provider, is developing a U.S. Internet radio service that would directly challenge Pandora Media Inc. (P), said two people with knowledge of the situation.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Twitter Updates iPhone and Android Apps: Improves Discover Tab, Search & Push Notifications — Twitter just announced the latest updates to its mobile apps for Android and iOS. With these updates, these apps get a number of much-needed new features, including an improved Discover tab … | Ryan Paul / Ars Technica: |
Precise Pangolin rolls out: Ubuntu 12.04 released, introduces Unity HUD — The developers behind the Ubuntu project have announced the availability of Ubuntu 12.04, codenamed Precise Pangolin. The new version of the popular Linux distribution brings updated software, several major user … | Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Steve Jobs' Plan for a Willy Wonka-Style Celebration of the Millionth iMac — Among the many anecdotes about Steve Jobs included in Ken Segall's new book, Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple's Success, one in particular stands out for its glimpse into Jobs' character … | Nick Denton / Gawker: |
Why Anonymity Matters — Gawker Media is flying in the face of conventional media wisdom. While other outlets are doing away with anonymity, we've built anonymous accounts into our new comment system. We'll accept some disorder if that's the price of freedom in one's personal life, in politics and the press.| Dante D'Orazio / The Verge: |
Netgear announces first 802.11ac router, offers up to 1.3Gbps and is coming in May for $199.99 — Early adopters, take note: Netgear is officially going to make your 802.11n router out of date next month. The company has announced that it'll ship the first 802.11ac (also known as “5G Wi-Fi” … | Chris Ziegler / The Verge: |
Clearwire launching TD-LTE in early 2013 in 31 ‘hot zones’: New York, LA, Chicago, and more — Clearwire is preparing to upgrade its 2.5GHz WiMAX network to support a variant of LTE, TD-LTE, that it's co-developing with China Mobile — and the broadband wholesaler has just announced … | Jennifer Van Grove / VentureBeat: |
YC startup SendHub secures $2M for serious SMS (exclusive) — SMS messages sent for practical, group communication rather than just LOLs is serious enough business that investors have handed SendHub a $2 million check. — Recent Y Combinator graduate SendHub, which bills itself as SMS for organizations … | Mike Swift / Mercury News: |
Announcing TypeScript 0.9: Generics and More — Anders Hejlsberg, Steve Lucco, and Luke Hoban join us for a conversation about TypeScript 0.9. TypeScript now has generics! (and more)
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 …
99.999 Is Not Enough: An OpenCloud Approach to Delivering Application Uptime and Performance — Executive Summary — The pressure to keep vital applications online and performing well is extreme.
University makes major investment in big data development — As news of the benefits provided by big data platforms such as Apache Hadoop spreads, more organizations are investing in the burgeoning technology.This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 8:55 PM ET, April 26, 2012.
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