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| Joseph Volpe / Engadget: |
BlackBerry 10 dev alpha unit unveiled: 4.2-inch screen, 1280 x 768 resolution — Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words. In this instance, it just leaves us wanting more. The image you see above is RIM's official dev unit for its just launched BlackBerry 10 platform.
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Ars Technica, TechCrunch, PC Magazine, BGR, Digits, New York Times, ZDNet, Business Insider, VentureBeat, ABCNEWS, The Verge, Boing Boing and Pocket-lint
| Marguerite Reardon / CNET: |
No new devices, but RIM talks up its virtual BlackBerry keypad — RIM won't have any new BlackBerry devices until much later this year, but it's showing off its new BlackBerry 10 OS and an updated virtual keyboard at its annual BlackBerry World conference. ORLANDO, Fla. …
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The Verge, ReadWriteWeb, LAPTOP Magazine, BetaNews, Forbes and CIO Network
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
BlackBerry 10: a closer look (video) — We've taken a closer look at the UI elements revealed during RIM's BlackBerry World keynote and put together a video detailing the major new elements we've seen. Firstly and foremost, RIM is focusing heavily on gestures to move between and within apps.
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| Daniel Cooper / Engadget: |
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PC World, AllThingsD and Engadget
| New York Times: |
Data Engineer in Google Case Is Identified — At the center of the uproar over a Google project that scooped up personal data from potentially millions of unsuspecting people is the company software engineer who wrote the code. — Google has declined to identify the engineer, as has the Federal Communications Commission.
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GigaOM, The Atlantic Wire, eWeek, Computerworld, Marketing Land, The Not-So Private Parts, Washington Post, Guardian, 9to5Google, The Register, Pulse2 Technology …, The Next Web, AllThingsD, BuzzFeed, GeekWire, blog.chron.com, Betabeat, dailywireless.org, Inquirer, WebProNews, The Precursor Blog, Gizmodo and Naked Security. Tweets: @explanoit
| Chris Sogohian / Wired: |
| Russell Goldman / ABCNEWS: |
Zuckerberg's Dinners with Girlfriend Help Spur Life-Saving Facebook Tool — Conversations over the dinner table with his med-student girlfriend helped Mark Zuckerberg formulate his latest big idea — harnessing the power of Facebook to help eliminate the critical shortage of organs …
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The Next Web, TechCrunch, ZDNet, ZDNet, Inquirer, Yahoo! Good Morning America, VentureBeat, Computerworld, PC World, PC Magazine, Forbes, Pulse2 Technology …, Computerworld, Associated Press, ReadWriteWeb, Daily Dot, AllThingsD, Softpedia News, iDownloadBlog.com, The Verge, Techland, Redmond Pie, Neowin, ZDNet, Gizmodo, iClarified, Reuters and Lost Remote
Tweets: @evgenymorozov and @pkafka
| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Facebook IPO Docs Could Get Approval This Week, Followed by Road Show With Zuckerberg (No Guarantee on Tie) — According to sources close to the situation, Facebook is anticipating getting approval from government regulators to officially distribute its S-1 public offering prospectus …
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| Adrianne Jeffries / Betabeat: |
This Is What a Kickstarter Scam Looks Like — “Seth Westfall,” the creator and cofounder of “Little Monster Productions.” (kickstarter.com) — When Kickstarter projects go wrong, backers often think they've been scammed; usually, the creators simply overpromised.| Satya Patel / Twitter Blog: |
Discover better stories — The Discover tab makes it easy to discover information that matters to you without having to follow additional accounts. Starting today, the Discover tab will begin to surface content that is even more personalized and meaningful to you.
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| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Nope! Still No Bubble Here, Says Marc Andreessen. — It will be a man-bites-dog story when a prominent tech investor comes out and declares that we are in fact in a bubble, and that they've stopped investing in tech companies. — But for the record: Marc Andreessen …
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| Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter: |
Apple Doesn't Want Musicians to See Secret Steve Jobs Deposition — In bringing a class-action lawsuit against Universal Music over digital music revenues, musicians trigger a big objection from Apple. — Steve Jobs — Aftermath Records, a division of Universal Music Group …
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| Rory Cellan-Jones / BBC: |
iPad ‘4G’ claims face scrutiny from UK regulator — In Australia, iPad users unhappy with 4G claims were offered refunds — The Advertising Standards Authority has widened its inquiry into the advertising of the Apple iPad. — The BBC understands the regulator is not satisfied that Apple …
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PC Magazine, TechSpot, VR-Zone, The TechBlock, Telegraph, SlashGear, The Next Web, The Register, Inquirer, MacNN, Know Your Mobile, T3 News, Light Reading and GigaOM
| Jbat / John Battelle's Search Blog: |
Does the Pebble Cause a Ripple In Apple's Waters? — Ever since the Pebble watch became an cause célèbre in tech circles for its kickass Kickstarter moves (it's raised almost $7mm dollars and counting), something's been nagging me about the company and its product.
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Betabeat, Pulse2 Technology …, TechSpot, TechCrunch and CNET
| Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
Apple wants U.S. district court to obscure Samsung logo on video display for jurors — After just blogging about the technical and timeline-related part of a joint Apple-Samsung filing made a few hours ago, I now have some tidbits from the filing that are, in a way, more entertaining.
| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
HTML5 Start-Up Crocodoc Signs Up Dropbox, LinkedIn and SAP as Paying Customers — Crocodoc, a start-up that quickly converts PDFs and Office documents to HTML5, already has an impressive list of customers: Dropbox, LinkedIn, SAP, Yammer and Edomodo. — The Crocodoc founding team breaks for a glamour shot.
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VatorNews, TechCrunch, BetaKit, PandoDaily, GigaOM and VentureBeat
| Burt Helm / Inc.com: |
Turntable.fm: Where Did Our Love Go? — The partners behind a one-time “next big thing” go to South by Southwest to win back the adoration of the tech world—and figure out how to make their partnership work. — Last summer, Turntable.fm set techie hearts pounding: Billy Chasen and Seth Goldstein … | Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Digg's Tech Team Heads for the Washington Post, and Digg Looks for a Lifeline — Digg isn't done. Yet. — But it's looking pretty close. The Washington Post is in the process of buying/hiring the news aggregator's technology team, but isn't purchasing the business itself …
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VentureBeat, Pulse2 Technology …, SocialTimes, The Next Web, The TechBlock, TechCrunch, Washington Post, Ubergizmo, paidContent, The Verge, Neowin, Fast Company, Gizmodo, The Next Web and Business Insider
Tweets: @davepell, @edbott, @mathewi, @lessien, @robpegoraro, @jayrosen_nyu and @mathewi
See also Mediagazer| AppleInsider: |
Samsung overtakes Apple to claim smartphone market share lead — Despite strong growth year-over-year, Apple ceded its spot as the world's top smartphone vendor in the first quarter of 2012 as Samsung boosted both smartphone and feature phone shipments to record levels.| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
Newvem Raises $4M From Greylock, Eric Schmidt To Help AWS Customers Spend Less Money — EXCLUSIVE-Startup Newvem, which offers a SaaS based service for Amazon/AWS customers that aims to help businesses spend less money and gain more value from Amazon's cloud infrastructure …
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GigaOM and The Next Web
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft outlines plans to clean up the Windows Phone Marketplace — Microsoft appears to be taking an even tougher stance on bulk publishing and “spam” apps in the Windows Phone Marketplace this week. In a blog post addressed to Windows Phone developers, Todd Brix, Senior Director of the Marketplace … | Ryan Kim / GigaOM: |
Signpost, the AdSense for local business, raises $3.75M — As local businesses move their marketing spending from Yellow Page listings and mailers to online ads, there's a growing opportunity to help them make the transition. Signpost, a New York start-up, has been growing quickly by filling this gap for local merchants.
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| Alexis Madrigal / The Atlantic Online: |
Where Do All Those BuzzFeed Cute Animal Pictures Come From? — BuzzFeed founder Jonah Peretti discusses the copyright implications of all the adorable cats, disappointed otters, and worried monkeys that grace the site. — It all started when I was looking at a photograph of an otter that was … Sponsor Posts
Microsoft BizSpark:
Featured Startup on Windows Phone - Digital Geek — You know how you are at the beach sometimes, listening to your portable listening device, jamming to some music and you realize, “Actually, at this moment …
Featured Startup on Windows Phone - Digital Geek — You know how you are at the beach sometimes, listening to your portable listening device, jamming to some music and you realize, “Actually, at this moment …
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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