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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
iOS 6: Apple drops Google Maps, debuts in-house ‘Maps’ with incredible 3D mode — Rough mockup showing the user-enabled 3D mode (on the right) — According to trusted sources, Apple has an incredible headline feature in development for iOS 6: a completely in-house maps application.
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Tweets: @jsnell, @jsnell and @marshallk
| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
iCloud beta website reveals plans for Notes and Reminders web apps, affirms iOS 6 beta coming soon — We know that Apple has been busy tweaking their iCloud.com website and testing new features like iOS 5-like notification banners, and now it appears that Apple is expanding the website's web-application library.
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BGR, MacStories, The Verge, iPhone, Gizmodo, Redmond Pie, Ars Technica, Gotta Be Mobile, CNET, iLounge, everythingiCafe, App Advice, The Next Web, MacRumors and Business Insider. Tweets: @khanov
| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
Apple's Coming Map App Will “Blow Your Head Off” — A 3-D view of San Francisco from C3 Technologies — Between 2009 and 2011, Apple acquired three mapping companies in quick succession: Placebase, in 2009; 3-D mapping outfit Poly9 in 2010; and in 2011, C3 Technologies, a second 3-D mapping company.
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iMore, Daring Fireball, Mobile Marketing Watch and iDownloadBlog.com
| MG Siegler / TechCrunch: |
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Fleshes Out Privacy Policy To Comply With Data Protection Audits, Will Hold Q&A On Monday — Today Facebook will start sending the first of three billion notices to users about proposed changes to its privacy policy, which were made to comply with a Spring deadline …
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| Kashmir Hill / The Not-So Private Parts: |
Facebook Privacy Policy Change Paves Way For Off-Facebook Advertising — Facebook is revamping its privacy policy* (which it likes to call a “data use policy"), fulfilling a pledge it made to the Irish privacy regulator to be more transparent and detailed about how it will and won't use the dirt it has on its users.
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| Bloomberg: |
Facebook Co-Founder Saverin Gives Up U.S. Citizenship Before IPO — Eduardo Saverin, the billionaire co- founder of Facebook Inc. (FB), renounced his U.S. citizenship before an initial public offering that values the social network at as much as $96 billion, a move that may reduce his tax bill.
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Bits, The Register, VentureBeat, Digital Trends, AllFacebook, PC Magazine, Guardian, CNNMoney.com, Digital Media Wire, msnbc.com, CNET, Pulse2 Technology …, Hit & Run, Betabeat, The Next Web, NBC Bay Area, Mashable!, SlashGear, Business Insider, WebProNews, Tech Daily Dose and Hillicon Valley. Tweets: @erickschonfeld
| Bangkok Post: |
HP restarts tablet manufacturing — SHANGHAI : Hewlett-Packard (HP) has announced it will resume production of consumer tablets but says it will run them on Microsoft's new Windows 8 operating system. — The world's largest technology firm suspended its touchPad WebOS tablet production line last year on poor sales.
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| Mary Jo Foley / CNET: |
Microsoft's Windows 8 upgrade offer: What's coming when — It's just about time for Microsoft to launch its expected Windows 8 upgrade program. — For the past several years, in order to keep PC sales from falling off a cliff in the months shortly before Microsoft and partners are poised …
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| Yoni Heisler / Network World: |
Apple accuses Samsung of purposefully destroying evidence — On May 1, Apple filed a motion in the Northern District of California alleging that Samsung intentionally destroyed documents it was obligated to hand over as part of the discovery process, an act referred to as “spoilation of evidence” in the legal parlance.
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| Neal Ungerleider / Fast Company: |
USPS To Stop Delivering iPads And Kindles To Troops And Overseas Consumers On May 16 — The United States Postal Service has banned all international shipments of electronics with lithium batteries effective May 16. The cost for families to send gadgets via private parcel service …
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PC Magazine, LAPTOP Magazine, CNET, Engadget, Gotta Be Mobile, TechSpot, Geeky-Gadgets, WebProNews, PhoneArena, PadGadget, Ars Technica, Liliputing, CNET, Ubergizmo and Gadgetsteria. Thanks:@noahr
| Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider: |
LinkedIn Is NOT Buying Monster: Here's The Real Story — Just got off the phone with a source close to LinkedIn. — LinkedIn is not going to buy Monster, and it was never particularly interested in doing so. — Basically, a little while back, Monster's Bank of America bankers called LinkedIn …
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| Robin Wauters / The Next Web: |
Apple's Siri: the ‘best smartphone ever’ is the Nokia Lumia 900. Wait, what? — When you break out your iPhone 4S and ask Siri what the ‘best smartphone ever’ is, your humble virtual assistant will recommend you to buy Nokia's Lumia 900. — Which is, of course, a decent phone indeed.| Karen Weise / Business Week: |
On Diaspora's Social Network, You Own Your Data — Sitting along Yankee Stadium's third base line during New York University's rainy graduation two years ago, Max Salzberg couldn't focus. The phone in his pocket wouldn't stop buzzing. With each notification, the NYU senior wiped water off … | Kathryn Zickuhr / Pew Internet: |
Three-quarters of smartphone owners use location-based services — A new report finds that 74% of smartphone owners use their phone to get real-time location-based information, and 18% use a geosocial service to “check in” to certain locations or share their location with friends.| Candice Katz / iPad - Spotify: |
Playlist-based radio, post to Tumblr and embeddable Play Buttons come to Spotify for Windows and Mac OS — We've added some new features to our Windows and Mac OS apps that we wanted to let everyone know about. Spotify Version 0.8.3 which starts rolling out today includes the following updates:
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Mobile devices account for nearly 10 percent of internet traffic, according to StatCounter — On April 7th, web analytics firm StatCounter recorded a milestone event: for the very first time, mobile devices reportedly accounted for over 10 percent of traffic on the global internet.
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IntoMobile and Know Your Mobile
| Neil Hughes / AppleInsider: |
Dropbox fixes app rejection issue, complies with Apple's rules — Applications using the Dropbox development kit for iOS are no longer being rejected from the App Store by Apple after links to an external purchase option were removed. — Filip Radelic, developer of the Cambox application for iPhone …
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MacRumors, The Next Web and App Advice
| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Verizon Refuses to Identify Alleged BitTorrent Pirates — Last fall, John Wiley and Sons became the first book publisher to go after BitTorrent users in the US. — By filing a mass-BitTorrent lawsuit the company became one of the many copyright holders who together have sued a quarter million people in the country since early 2010.
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| Dan Seifert / MobileBurn.com: |
Samsung: PenTile AMOLED displays last longer, that's why we use them — Samsung announced its new Galaxy S III smartphone to great fanfare last week, though some observers weren't terribly happy with one particular feature: the 4.8-inch 720p Super AMOLED display uses a PenTile(INFO) …
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| Brian X. Chen / Bits: |
Facebook Is Killing Text Messaging, Report Says — Apple's iMessage, the free, Internet-based text-messaging service, isn't the only thing AT&T's chief executive should lose sleep over. Facebook is also eating into text-messaging revenues for carriers, according to a report.
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| Jeff Blagdon / The Verge: |
Droplr Pro: file-sharing service goes big-time with 100GB of cloud storage for $3 a month — There are lots of options out there for quickly sharing files, blocks of text, screenshots, and the like, but several of us at The Verge are big fans of Droplr. It's a great free service … | Bloomberg: |
Sony, Panasonic Fall to 30-Year Lows — Sony Corp. and Panasonic Corp. (6752), Japan's biggest consumer-electronics makers, fell to the lowest level in three decades after forecasting earnings that missed estimates because of a failure to end losses from TVs.Sponsor Posts
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Defrag Tools: WPT - Command Line — Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder, and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT).
Defrag Tools: WPT - Command Line — Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder, and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT).
Cloud Foundry:
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 …
Rackspace Blog:
Love, Magic, & APIs — I will confess, I am old enough to remember my GeoCities page. Don't hate. It was amazing, it was... this transformative moment in which I took real, actual information, and transformed it into something visible and memorable.
Love, Magic, & APIs — I will confess, I am old enough to remember my GeoCities page. Don't hate. It was amazing, it was... this transformative moment in which I took real, actual information, and transformed it into something visible and memorable.
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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