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It's Official: Google Is Now a Hardware Company — Last August, Google (GOOG) Chief Executive Officer Larry Page fulfilled a pledge made to one of his senior executives, a square-jawed former attorney named Dennis Woodside. Apple (AAPL) CEO Tim Cook had been trying to poach Woodside … | Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
It's Time to Googorola: Acquisition Finally Closes and Google's Dennis Woodside Put in Charge — At long last, Google has completed its $12.5 billion cash purchase of Motorola Mobility, eight months after the deal was announced. — The acquisition had been held up by government approval processes … | Alistair Barr / Reuters: |
Insight: Morgan Stanley cut Facebook estimates just before IPO — (Reuters) - In the run-up to Facebook's $16 billion IPO, Morgan Stanley, the lead underwriter on the deal, unexpectedly delivered some negative news to major clients: The bank's consumer Internet analyst, Scott Devitt, was reducing his revenue forecasts for the company.| Dylan Tweney / VentureBeat: |
Larry Page on Charlie Rose: “We're still waiting” for Facebook to unlock user data — Google chief executive Larry Page appears on PBS show “Charlie Rose” this evening at 11 p.m. local time. — In the show, Page addresses a wide range of topics, starting with today's surprising news … | Jason D. O'Grady / ZDNet: |
TiVo streaming coming to iOS this summer — TiVo fans rejoice! Streaming from the original DVR is finally coming to iOS devices like the iPad and iPhone this summer. — During the 2012 NCTA Cable Show which opened today in Boston TiVo announced two new devices.| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Are You a Human replaces annoying CAPTCHAs with games — Websites need to verify that a visitor is a real person and not an automated bot. But the CAPTCHA test that they came up with — where you have to type in the word that you see in a blurry distorted font image — is extremely annoying and often leads to multiple failures.| Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal: |
A New Home for Computer Screens: The Face — Wearable Glasses Showing Turn-by-Turn Driving Directions, or Displaying Email and Text Messages, Could be the Future — Employees at eyeglasses designer Michael Pachleitner Group have no reason to consult desktop computers … | Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Machinima Gets $35M In Funding, Led By Google — After being first reported by AllThingsD, online video creator Machinima confirmed Monday that it has closed a $35 million funding round led by Google, which also included existing investors Redpoint Ventures and MK Capital.| Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch: |
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Amazon Appstore's Test Drive try before you buy feature now available on Android phones — When Amazon's Appstore initially appeared on the Android scene last year, one of its most innovative features was a Test Drive virtual machine that let users try out apps for free from their desktop … | Joe Moreno / Mea Vita: |
Upside Down Apple Logo — Sometimes, even the science and studies can be wrong. Not because of an error, but because you didn't dig deep enough. — About a dozen years ago we had some discussions at Apple about the placement of the logo on the back of Apple's laptops.| Vlad Bobleanta / Unwired View: |
Samsung Galaxy S III (i9300) pre-orders start at Amazon, yours for $799.99, shipping on May 29 — If you're in the US and are dying to get your hands on a Samsung Galaxy S III, Amazon has come to your rescue. However, you do have to shell out quite a large sum for the privilege … | Chris Dixon: |
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Juniper Networks Invests In Video Conferencing Startup Vidyo, Bringing Total Funding To $97M — Video conferencing startup Vidyo announced Tuesday that it has received a strategic investment from Juniper Networks as part of the network equipment vendor's Junos Innovation Fund.| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Salesforce Chatter To Add Instant Messaging and Screensharing — The team behind Salesforce.com's enterprise social networking app Chatter is making a big push for real-time communication with two new features — Chatter Messenger and Chatter Screensharing.| Erin Griffith / PandoDaily: |
Bootstrapped GitHub Raising a Round from Andreessen Horowitz — Github is nearing a close on a round of venture funding from Andreessen Horowitz, according to sources familiar with the situation. — The popular social network for programmers and code host has famously bootstrapped itself up to this point.| Josh Lowensohn / CNET: |
Obama, Clinton pay tribute to Steve Jobs at the Webbys — A star-studded tribute to Steve Jobs at Webby Awards — Nearly a dozen celebrities, politicians and tech luminaries paid tribute to late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs at today's annual Webby awards show.| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
Nuance launches in-car voice-activated platform — Summary: Nuance has launched a ‘Siri for cars’ — a new voice-activated in-car system — that includes Nuance's trademark ‘intelligent’ natural language search technology. — Nuance, the leading voice recognition software company, today announced an in-car natural language system.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
KurbKarma: A Social Network, And App, To Find Parking Where And When You Need It — We have all been there: you are in your car, you need to park, and you cannot, no matter how much you try, find a space. You see cars pulling away, but it's too far for you to get there before another car swoops in.| Tom Cheredar / VentureBeat: |
Motorola's DreamGallery aims to eliminate crappy TV user interfaces — Sadly, a great number of television sets are currently suffering from bad user interfaces, which is something Motorola plans to change. — At The Cable Show industry event in Boston today, the company showed off … | Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD: |
AmEx to Offer a Prepaid Debit Card that Rewards Users in FarmVille Cash — American Express and Zynga are rolling out a rewards program today that will allow players to earn virtual currency when they spend money in the real world. — For FarmVille fans willing to jump through a number of hoops … | Steven Sinofsky / MSDN Blogs: |
Enhancing Windows 8 for multiple monitors … Connecting multiple monitors to a PC is one of the easiest ways to enhance your Windows experience. Plug in a second monitor and you instantly double your working surface. I've had a multi-monitor setup for the past 10 years … | Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Sidecar offers in-call media sharing, free Wi-Fi calls to US and Canada — All of the above functionality is technically available in other calling apps like Skype or FaceTime, but Williams hopes that Sidecar's ease of use will set it apart: “We do think we have a very unique point of view on it … | Matt Burns / TechCrunch: |
Incident Launches The gTar at Disrupt, An iPhone-Powered Electronic Teaching Guitar — The gTar by Incident is disruption defined. It takes the guitar, an instrument with a steep learning curve, and adds a bit of digital wizardry in the form of an embedded iPhone to make learning dramatically easier.
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)
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 …
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.
Circumventing big data hurdles with Apache Hadoop and Hortonworks — Circumventing big data hurdles with Apache Hadoop and Hortonworks — Big data analytics have gained in popularity over the last few years … This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 11:35 AM ET, May 22, 2012.
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