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Apple reportedly to release US$799 MacBook Air in 3Q12 — Apple is reportedly considering responding to the upcoming second-generation ultrabooks by launching a US$799 MacBook Air in the third quarter of 2012, according to sources from the upstream supply chain.| Chee Chew / The Official Google Blog: |
Google+ Hangouts On Air: broadcast your conversation to the world — Last year we introduced Hangouts On Air to a limited number of broadcasters, enabling them to go live with friends and fans, for all the world to see. Since then, this small community has grown the feature in lots of creative ways.| Miyoung Kim / Reuters: |
LG Electronics to launch Google TV in U.S. in late May: executive — (Reuters) - LG Electronics Inc, the world's No.2 TV maker, plans to launch Internet-enabled TV based on Google's platform in the United States in the week of May 21, as the South Korean firm seeks to gain a larger share …
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| Jason Pontin / Technology Review: |
Why Publishers Don't Like Apps — The future of media on mobile devices isn't with applications but with the Web. — By the time Apple released the iPad in April of 2010, just four months after Steve Jobs first announced his “magical and revolutionary” new machines in San Francisco …
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Dave Winer's …, Beet.TV, Digiday and The Huffington Post
| Henry Blodget / New York Magazine: |
The Maturation of the Billionaire Boy-Man — Incredibly, Mark Zuckerberg has grown up to become an ace CEO—one whose way of thinking might drive Wall Street nuts. — If all goes as planned, Facebook will finally pull the trigger later this month on its long-salivated-over IPO.
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| Martin Bryant / The Next Web: |
Evernote acquires iPad app Penultimate to boost its handwriting recognition capabilities — Fresh from its $70m funding round last week, note-taking service Evernote is looking to expand its handwriting recognition capabilities with the announcement today that it has acquired San Francisco … | Loretta Chao / Wall Street Journal: |
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| Nick Bilton / Bits: |
Disruptions: Indiscreet Photos, Glimpsed Then Gone — People once took photographs so they could capture a moment for themselves and keep it forever. Then digital cameras and cellphones turned photos into something more ephemeral and more easily shared. But as the case of Anthony Weiner demonstrated … | Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
As Yahoo CEO Reaches Out to Top Staff, Board Meets to Weigh “Options” (i.e., Deciding Who Gets to Take the Borked Bio Blame) — Even as Yahoo's board was kibitzing all weekend about how to handle the continuing resume-padding controversy around its recently hired CEO Scott Thompson …
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| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
Color's Plan C (Or Is It B.5?): Becoming Verizon's Live Mobile Video Partner — Color, the famously overfunded social app shop, is still looking for its first big hit. But the company has found a way to get some help, with a deal with Verizon Wireless to pre-install Color on some of its Android smartphones.
| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Apple Seeks to Gain Control of iPhone5.com Domain — While there has been much debate about whether Apple will refer to the next-generation iPhone as “iPhone 5”, “iPhone 6”, simply “iPhone”, or something else entirely, Fusible notes that Apple has filed a claim with the World Intellectual …
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PC Magazine, Computerworld, Gotta Be Mobile, AppleInsider, Appolicious Advisor, The iPhone 5 News Blog, Phones Review, PhoneArena, Softpedia News, iHackintosh, CNET, iLounge, Examiner, VentureBeat, Fusible.com, Apple Bitch, Pulse2 Technology …, Business Insider, iClarified, App Advice and iDownloadBlog.com
| Nathan Ingraham / The Verge: |
Droid Incredible 4G LTE announced for Verizon: 4-inch Super LCD, dual-score S4, and Android 4.0 — It's been a few weeks since Verizon teased us with some images and specs for the HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE, and now the carrier has gone and officially announced its latest Android phone.
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LAPTOP Magazine, CNET, GigaOM, BGR, Engadget, TechCrunch, The Next Web, Verizon Wireless News Center, GadgeTell, IntoMobile and SlashGear
| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
AT&T Introduces Digital Life: IP-Based Home Automation And Security System With 24/7 Monitoring Centers — AT&T has just announced a new security and home-automation system called Digital Life, which will be an IP-based platform that allows users to monitor and detect activity throughout …
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PC World, AllThingsD, PC Magazine, blog.chron.com, AT&T, 9to5Mac, The Verge, App Advice, BGR and iDownloadBlog.com. Thanks:@jordanrcrook
| Natalie Apostolou / The Register: |
Pirate island attracts more than 100 startup tenants — Green-card-free startup ship off closer to international waters — Over 100 international tech companies have registered their interest in the floating geek city, Blueseed, which will be launched next year in international waters outside of Silicon Valley.
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Google Gets Deeper Into the Content Business, by Putting Money Into Machinima — Google has been handing out money to video makers so they'll make more stuff for YouTube. Now it's putting money into a video maker itself. — The search giant is set to invest in Machinima … | Zach Epstein / BGR: |
AT&T to launch $49.99 Focus 2 Windows Phone on May 20th — Samsung and AT&T on Monday announced the Samsung Focus 2, a budget-friendly Windows Phone launching on May 20th for just $49.99 on contract. The handset features a 4-inch Super AMOLED display, a 5-megapixel camera, Windows Phone 7.5 and 4G LTE connectivity.
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LAPTOP Magazine, Seattle Times, ZDNet, LiveSide.net, TechCrunch, GigaOM, CNET, Engadget, The Next Web, The Verge, ATT Blogs, Neowin, The Windows Blog, IntoMobile, WMPoweruser, PhoneArena and AT&T
| Robin Wauters / The Next Web: |
Zynga sues Microsoft-backed social gaming startup Kobojo over ‘PyramidVille’ game — Last week, social gaming juggernaut Zynga filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against one of Europe's leading social games companies, venture-backed Kobojo. — The Paris, France-based social games studio … | Emil Protalinski / ZDNet: |
Warren Buffett advised Mark Zuckerberg, won't buy Facebook shares — Summary: Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently asked Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett for advice. Although the two men talked for hours, Buffett doesn't plan to invest in Facebook.| Wall Street Journal: |
India Launches Antitrust Probe of Google — NEW DELHI—India has launched an antitrust probe of Google Inc.'s online advertising business to investigate potential anti-competitive practices, according to government officials familiar with the matter. — The probe, which could take several months …
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Marketing Land, Times of India, The Next Web, MediaNama and SlashGear
| Steven D. Jones / Wall Street Journal: |
A Pivotal Fight Over ‘Essential Patents’ for Microsoft, Motorola — Microsoft Corp. and Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. will get their day in a Seattle court Monday, as a federal judge considers whether they are unfairly wielding patents involving standard technologies.
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Inside NuGet for C++ — NuGet support for C++ projects in Visual Studio has arrived in NuGet 2.5! It's been around for about a month now so we figured we'd go talk to one of the developers who helped make it happen, Garrett Serack.
Inside NuGet for C++ — NuGet support for C++ projects in Visual Studio has arrived in NuGet 2.5! It's been around for about a month now so we figured we'd go talk to one of the developers who helped make it happen, Garrett Serack.
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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 …
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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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