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AT&T Chief Regrets Offering Unlimited Data for iPhone — When Randall Stephenson, AT&T's chief executive, spoke about the state of the wireless industry at a conference this week, he shared some surprisingly frank comments about the iPhone. In particular, he said that he wished the company …
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Thanks:@mattlynley
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Resume Trips Up New Yahoo Chief — Hedge fund Third Point LLC continued its attack against Yahoo Inc.'s management, calling for the immediate termination of Chief Executive Scott Thompson amid admitted inaccuracies in his academic credentials. — Third Point, which owns about 5% of Yahoo … | John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
Loeb Demands Yahoo Board Fire CEO by Monday Over False Resume — Now that activist shareholder Dan Loeb has discredited Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson's educational credentials and credibility, he's going full bore after the company's directors. — In a new letter to Yahoo's board of directors today …
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DealBook, Business Insider, CNET, Neowin, the Econsultancy blog, Business Insider, CNET, CNBC.com Links List Headlines and Dice Blog Network
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| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
| Sara Forden / Bloomberg: |
Google Said to Face Fine by U.S. Over Apple Safari Breach — Google Inc. (GOOG) is negotiating with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission over how big a fine it will have to pay for its breach of Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s Safari Internet browser, a person familiar with the matter said.| Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Buys Location-Based Discovery App Glancee — A little under one month after its acquisition of Instagram, Facebook has acquired Highlight competitor and ambient location app Glancee. — The social network has already shut down the developer's passive location app and all three co-founders …
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AllThingsD, GigaOM, Inside Facebook, AllFacebook, Bloomberg, Tecca, Mashable! and The Next Web
Tweets: @alexia, @scobleizer, @mathewi and @hunterwalk
| Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech: |
The iPad 2,4 Review: 32nm Brings Better Battery Life — When Apple launched the 3rd generation iPad (as the new iPad), it also dropped the price of the entry-level 16GB WiFi iPad 2 to $399. Apple's products tend to hold their values exceptionally well, so this two-tablet strategy made sense.| Declan McCullagh / CNET: |
FBI: We need wiretap-ready Web sites — now — The FBI is asking Internet companies not to oppose a controversial proposal that would require firms, including Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo, and Google, to build in backdoors for government surveillance. — In meetings with industry representatives …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Messenger Apps Get More Life-Like, Now Show If Someone's Read Your Message — Facebook thinks mobile messaging should feel like you're having a face-to-face conversation, so today it updates its Messenger for iOS and Android apps with the ability to see if someone's read your message …
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Jury in Oracle v. Google Has Reached a Verdict on All Questions but One - Will Try Again Monday — The jury in Oracle v. Google is reentering the courtroom, according to the tweeting journalists at the courtroom, asking what to do. They have reached a unanimous verdict on all the questions except for one.
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| Chris Kanaracus / Computerworld: |
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| Eric Mack / CNET: |
Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 up for preorder now, in stores May 13 — There aren't any big upgrades to the Galaxy Tab 2 10.1, but the price has taken a big drop. — (Credit: Samsung) — The follow-up to the big boy of Android tablets, the 16GB Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 can be preordered online today …
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The Verge, BetaNews, Gotta Be Mobile, Android Phone Fans, Liliputing and Engadget
| Tyler Lee / Ubergizmo: |
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| Siddharth Cavale / Reuters: |
Sprint CEO to take pay cut as iPhone costs pinch — (Reuters) - Sprint Nextel chief Daniel Hesse said he would take a cut in pay this year, after coming under fire from some shareholders disappointed with the hit the company's results took from subsidizing Apple's popular iPhones.
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| Chitika Insights: |
Study: Apple iPad Accounts for 94.64% of all Tablet Web Traffic — What do you think of when you hear the word “tablet”? For most it would be Apple or more specifically the iPad. When the iPad was released in 2010 it quickly gained popularity amongst the masses.
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AppleInsider, Ubergizmo, Daring Fireball, PC Magazine, MacDailyNews, MacNN and AllThingsD
| Chris Foresman / Ars Technica: |
iOS app success is a “lottery”: 60% (or more) of developers don't break even — There is no shortage of stories about lone developers who made an app for the iPhone or iPad and had runaway success. But in the real world, the majority of app makers struggle to break even, according to a recent survey by marketing firm App Promo.
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| Josh Halliday / Guardian: |
Cameron to consider ‘opt in’ porn plan — Government to consult with internet service providers on blocking adult material on the internet in the UK — The government is to consider introducing new filters for online pornography, in a move likely to be fiercely resisted by internet service providers.
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The Register, BBC, XBIZ Newswire, Wired.co.uk, Telegraph, Out-Law News, Open Rights Group, The Consumerist and GigaOM
| Othman Laraki / Twitter Blog: |
Innovate through experimentation — In order to offer you the simplest and most engaging Twitter experience, we frequently test hundreds of variations of new features and designs with small groups of users. We test everything from subtle tweaks in the language of our sign-up pages and removing …
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CNET, WebProNews and The Next Web
| Andrew Feinberg / Hillicon Valley: |
Verizon moves toward 911 texting — Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski praised Verizon Wireless on Friday for selecting a vendor to help deploy its first-in-the-nation implementation of its “text-to-911” service. — The service will allow wireless phone users …
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Ars Technica, The Next Web, FierceWireless, SlashGear and VentureBeat
| Robin Wauters / The Next Web: |
Nokia and execs hit with lawsuit alleging fraud over meager Lumia sales, failed turnaround — Troubled Finnish phone giant Nokia is increasingly troubled, unicorns be damned. — The latest bad news for the phone maker: along with high-ranking executives Stephen Elop (CEO) and Timo Ihamuotila … | Chris Velazco / TechCrunch: |
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Nokia, The Register, IntoMobile and GigaOM
| Nick Farrell / TechEye: |
John McAfee arrested in Belize — John McAfee, who founded McAfee Antivirus, is in trouble with a country which he has given millions of dollars to help out. — McAfee lives in Belize and has even given the country's Coastguard a patrol ship. — Now he says that he has become a target … | Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Microsoft to Botmasters: Abandon Your Inboxes — If the miscreants behind the ZeuS botnets that Microsoft sought to destroy with a civil lawsuit last month didn't already know that the software giant also wished to unmask them, they almost certainly do now.
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WebProNews, Neowin and ZDNet
| Alistair Barr / Reuters: |
EBay, Wal-Mart search for revved-up search engines — (Reuters) - EBay Inc and Wal-Mart Stores Inc are developing new Web search engines to better compete against Amazon.com Inc in the fast-growing e-commerce market. — As more people shop online, they often end up at the top of a website typing in a product name.
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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).
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