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Exclusive: Yahoo Director in Charge of Botched CEO Vetting to Step Down From Board — CSLie has claimed its first victim, although the mystery is still unsolved. — Patti Hart — the Yahoo director in charge of the search that resulted in the hiring of Scott Thompson as its CEO … | Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
CEO Says Sorry to Yahoos for Borked Bio “Distraction” — But Will Mea Culpa Work Without an Apology and Explanation for Actual Error? (Memo) — He's sorry. Deeply regrets. Apologizes. Take full responsibility for the unfortunate distraction to the people.| Michael Arrington / Uncrunched: |
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Apple and Samsung drop claims against each other but disagree more than ever on key issues — Late on Monday by local time, Apple made a filing in its first California litigation with Samsung that offers a truly impressive narrowing of its infringement claims in that action …
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ITC judge throws out 3,000+ pages of attachments filed by Apple to challenge Samsung's patents — While the ITC is slow compared to German courts, it adjudicates patent infringement complaints faster than most U.S. district courts, and in order to be able to do so, it has strict timelines and page limits.
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AT&T Mobility CEO: Family data plan coming soon (scoop) — AT&T's Ralph de la Vega says he feels good about the plan, a reversal of the uncertainty he expressed just a few months ago. NEW ORLEANS—AT&T's version of the family data plan may be coming sooner than you think.| James Kendrick / ZDNet: |
Skype killing Windows Phone: Nokia responds — Summary: Nokia responds to a recent article about Nokia's partnership with Microsoft and how it is hurting Lumia sales. The transcript and video of CEO Elop's comments are included here. — Nokia has responded to a recent ZDNet Mobile News article … | Mat Smith / Engadget: |
| Seth Weintraub / 9to5Google: |
Google: AT&T's CEO doesn't understand how Android phones get updated — In response to last night's report—where AT&T's CEO Randall Stephenson told a questioner that the fault of Android smartphones not receiving updates is Google's. — Stephenson blamed Google, claiming … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Want To Know What Apple Will Do Next In Mobile Commerce? Check Out The Pirq It's Giving To Employees — As device makers like RIM, Samsung and Nokia incorporate NFC technology into their mobile devices, Apple has been radio silent on what its plans will be in mobile commerce and payments.| Fortune: |
How Hewlett-Packard lost its way — Léo Apotheker's disastrous tenure as HP's CEO revealed a dysfunctional company struggling for direction after a decade of missteps and scandals. Can his replacement, Meg Whitman, fix the tech giant? — By James Bandler with Doris Burke| Vaibhav Sharma / The Handheld Blog: |
A Detailed Look At Tizen on Samsung's First Prototype Device — Tizen just hit the 1.0 release last week (codenamed Larkspur), and at the Tizen Conference I've had the chance to play with the prototype device that Samsung has been handing out to developers to test their applications.| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
FCC Chairman: Rejection of AT&T's T-Mobile Deal Isn't Causing Higher Prices — AT&T has recently made the case that the failure of its effort to buy T-Mobile is behind recent price hikes. — Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski isn't buying it.
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RIM Names Kristian Tear COO, Frank Boulben CMO — Research In Motion this morning announced two addition to its management team. — The company named Kristian Tear as chief operating officer. Tear has been with Sony Mobile Communications, where he served as executive VP.| Neil Hughes / AppleInsider: |
Apple says lack of multi-user support on iPad is a ‘known issue,’ ‘being investigated’ — Apple has signaled that it is aware of a desire to support multiple users on one iPad, and that the issue is “currently being investigated” by the company's engineering team.
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T-Mobile: iPhone network compatibility coming this year — T-Mobile's network will be compatible with the iPhone later this year — even if it isn't selling it, the company said today. The wireless carrier added that it had tapped Ericsson and Nokia-Siemens for its $4 billion 4G LTE deployment.
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The Race: Build the Instagram of Video — Newest App Phenomena Draw Big Money From Investors, Film Stars and Even Laurene Powell Jobs — Facebook Inc.'s $1 billion acquisition of photo-sharing start-up Instagram has shifted the spotlight to the newest phenomena in mobile apps: uploading personal videos from smartphones.| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Passpoint WiFi tech promises cellphone-like handoff between hotspots — An industry group that aims to make WiFi access from smartphones and other devices as simple as connecting to a cellular network will begin certifying WiFi network equipment and end-user devices for the new connection method next month.
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On Thneeds and the “Death of Display” — It's all over the news these days: Display advertising is dead. Or put more accurately, the world of “boxes and rectangles” is dead. No one pays attention to banner ads, the reasoning goes, and the model never really worked in the first place (except for direct response).
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Hulu To Users: Connect Your Facebook Account Or No Social For You — Some angry Hulu users created this logo to protest a push to integrate their accounts with Facebook — Last month, video provider Hulu made changes to its social sharing features. For Facebook users, it was great … | Josh Lowensohn / CNET: |
Apple's reputation untarnished by tax issue, study says — Apple's use of various tax loopholes to save money, as chronicled in a recent New York Times story, has not damaged the company's reputation, according to a new study. — Polling firm YouGov — which we've previously mentioned …
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Exclusive: Kinect Play Fit to offer universal exercise tracking with ‘Joule’ heart rate monitor — Microsoft is preparing to update its Xbox 360 dashboard software to include a cross-application exercise tracking system, according to our sources. Kinect Play Fit will allow Xbox gamers … | Federal Trade Commission: |
Myspace Settles FTC Charges That It Misled Millions of Users About Sharing Personal Information with Advertisers — Settlement Will Require Regular Privacy Assessments for the Next 20 Years — Social networking service Myspace has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges …
| Rip Empson / TechCrunch: |
Crowdfunding: $1.5B Raised, 1M Campaigns Funded In 2011; Figures Set To Double In 2012 — Well, it's been quite a year already for the crowdfunding industry. With the JOBS Act becoming law, the tech industry (and the economy at large) are headed for some big changes.
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| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
Customer Loyalty And Rewards Platform For Local Businesses Belly Raises $10M From Andreessen Horowitz — Chicago-based Belly, a startup that is a fast-growing contender in the local business customer loyalty and rewards space, has raised $10 million in Series B funding from Andreessen Horowitz.
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Social Markets, VatorNews, ZDNet, VentureBeat, CNET, GigaOM, PandoDaily, AllThingsD, Fast Company and InvestorPlaceGadgets …
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Viddy hits 26M users, consistently registering over 500K a day — On April 16th, I wrote an article about how popular video sharing app Viddy had hit 6.5M users. Less than a month later, the company tells me that it's starting to consistently sign up over 500K new users a day, and currently boasts a userbase of 26M.| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Lumia 900 wins outdoor readability test, Galaxy S and iPhone 4 split second — Nokia's Lumia 900 is the best smartphone in the world — in one important usability aspect, anyhow. The DisplayMate labs have been busy collating viewability data on mobile device displays and the results rank the Lumia 900 as the best performer.
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Gotta Be Mobile, PhoneArena, Gizmodo, DisplayMate, WMPoweruser, My Nokia Blog, Softpedia News and Neowin
| Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
Google gets license to test drive autonomous cars on Nevada roads — On Monday, the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles approved Google's license application to test autonomous vehicles on the state's roads. The state had approved such laws back in February, and has now begun issuing licenses based on those regulations.Sponsor Posts
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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)
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)
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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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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.
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.
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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.
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.Who's Hiring In Tech?
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