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| Shane Richmond / Telegraph: |
Jonathan Ive interview: Apple's design genius is British to the core — Apple's design guru Jonathan Ive, who receives a knighthood today for creating products such as the iPad, tells Shane Richmond why this country's industrial heritage lies behind his success.
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Business Insider, ABCNEWS, Los Angeles Times, Gizmodo, Wired, TechEye, Ars Technica, SplatF, Business Insider, Computerworld, Fortune, SlashGear, Know Your Cell, TUAW, Mashable!, ValueWalk, everythingiCafe, Redmond Pie, I4U News, GigaOM, Gotta Be Mobile, App Advice, PhoneArena, The Verge, CNET, Macgasm, MacDailyNews and BGR. Thanks:@shanerichmond
| Guardian: |
Arise, Sir Jonathan: Apple designer knighted — Designer behind iPhone, iPod, iMac and iPad flies from US with family to be knighted by Princess Anne — The Apple designer Sir Jonathan Ive has spoken of the “thrilling” moment when he was knighted by the Princess Royal at Buckingham Palace.| Reuters: |
Facebook, Zuckerberg, banks sued over IPO — (Reuters) - Facebook Inc, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg, and several banks led by Morgan Stanley were sued by shareholders, who claimed the defendants hid the social networking leader's weakened growth forecasts ahead of its $16 billion initial public offering.
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Bloomberg, Tech Trader Daily, Inquirer, Forbes, Guardian, Techland, Marketing Land, msnbc.com, GigaOM, Business Insider, WebProNews and SlashGear. Tweets: @dannysullivan
| Wall Street Journal: |
Inside Fumbled Facebook Offering — Less than three days before Facebook Inc.'s initial public offering, Chief Financial Officer David Ebersman decided to boost the number of shares the company would offer investors by 25%, said people familiar with the planning.
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PE Hub Blog, Reuters, Gizmodo, Business Insider, Felix Salmon, Uncrunched, Hillicon Valley, Bloomberg, Mashable! and Gizmodo UK
| Salvador Rodriguez / Los Angeles Times: |
Mark Zuckerberg earns $1.1 billion from selling Facebook shares — Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday completed the transaction of the 30.2 million shares he sold in Facebook's IPO Friday. — The shares he disposed of sold for $37.58 a piece, bringing him a cool $1.1 billion.
| Joseph A. Giannone / Reuters: |
| Jonathan S. Geller / BGR: |
Microsoft set to release Office for iOS and Android tablets in November — BGR has learned from a reliable source that Microsoft is currently planning to release the company's full Office suite for not only Apple's iPad, but for Android tablets as well. The company is targeting November of this year for both launches.
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Mobile Marketing Watch, MacRumors, ZDNet, The Next Web, 9to5Mac, Android News, Rumours …, SlashGear, Android Community, everythingiCafe, MobileSyrup.com, InvestorPlaceGadgets …, Gotta Be Mobile, Know Your Mobile, Macgasm, PhoneArena, Redmond Pie, Cel mai citit blog …, Business Insider, Pocketnow, iDownloadBlog.com and Android Phone Fans
| Robert McMillan / Wired: |
IBM Outlaws Siri, Worried She Has Loose Lips — Siri doesn't work on IBM's internal networks. (Image: Flickr/Photo Giddy) — If you work for IBM, you can bring your iPhone to work, but forget about using the phone's voice-activated digital assistant. Siri isn't welcome on Big Blue's networks.
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CNET, PC Magazine, Geekosystem, Gizmodo, VentureBeat, Business Insider, Digital Trends, ZDNet, DVICE, MacNN, 9to5Mac, Know Your Cell, MacRumors, Tnooz, TechSpot, PhoneArena, InvestorPlaceGadgets …, The Verge, SlashGear, Cel mai citit blog …, Ubergizmo, IntoMobile, Macgasm, MobileBurn.com, WebProNews, TechWeekEurope UK, iDownloadBlog.com, Phones Review and Internet Cases
| Bryan Bishop / The Verge: |
Jury: Google did not infringe Oracle patents with Android — Over a week after it began deliberations, the jury has returned a verdict in the patent infringement case between Oracle and Google, finding that the search giant did not infringe upon Oracle's patents with Android.
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CNET, The Next Web, Ars Technica, IntoMobile, BGR, Marketing Land, TechCrunch, GigaOM, Techdirt, Gizmodo, Tech Trader Daily and Groklaw
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| Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Social Media Marketer Vitrue Has Been Bought By Oracle For $300 Million — Breaking news: TechCrunch has discovered that software giant Oracle has made a big investment in social media today. The company has bought Vitrue, the social media marketing company that is a close partner to Facebook.| Enigmax / TorrentFreak: |
Rickroll Meme Destroyed By Copyright Takedown — Anyone who has spent much time online, especially on Internet message boards of any kind, will be aware of Rickrolling. — It's an incredibly simple concept. The meme is based on a bait and switch, whereby someone posts a hyperlink …
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Ars Technica, Betabeat, Gizmodo, Plagiarism Today and Macgasm
| Noah Levin / The Official Google Blog: |
A faster, simpler Google Search app for iPhone — Starting today, when you use the Google Search app on your iPhone, you'll see a completely redesigned interface that gives you faster results, beautiful full-screen image search, and a simple way to access all your Google apps in one place.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon Partners With Paramount, Brings Hundreds More Movies To Prime Instant Video Service — Amazon is continuing to grow its collection of streaming video titles at Amazon Prime Instant Video, and is today announcing another new agreement with Paramount Pictures bringing “hundreds” of new movies to the service.| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Nvidia reveals Kai: a platform for building quad-core Android tablets priced at $199 — When Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang said we might see $199 Tegra 3 tablets this summer, he wasn't speculating idly. Nvidia has revealed that it's working on just such a tablet: Kai.
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Wired, CNET, Android Community, Ubergizmo, Know Your Mobile, SlashGear, Liliputing, Geeky-Gadgets and 9to5Google
| NPD DisplaySearch: |
Apple Maintains Top Mobile PC Share in Q1'12 on Strong iPad Shipment Growth — HP, Acer, Lenovo, and Dell Round Out Top Five Spots; China Market Posts Sequential Growth Santa Clara, Calif., May 22, 2012—Apple shipped nearly 17.2 million mobile PCs in Q1'12, accounting for 118% Y/Y shipment growth …
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Internet2Go, AllThingsD, 9to5Mac, Macgasm, PadGadget, The Verge, IntoMobile, ITProPortal and Guardian. See also Mediagazer
| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
How Apple Could Play the Bigger-Display iPhone Thing at WWDC, Which I Swear, I'm Still Not Convinced Is for Real But We're Getting to the Point Where There's an Awful Lot of Smoke for There Not to Be a Fire So Let's Run With It — For the sake of argument let's take it as a given …
Thanks:@srikardr
| New York Times: |
F.C.C. Weighs Treating Video Sites Like Cable Companies — BOSTON — Most consumers have no idea what an M.V.P.D. is, but they mail a check to one every month. What they call Comcast or Time Warner Cable or DirecTV, the government calls a “multichannel video programming distributor,” or M.V.P.D. for short.| Declan McCullagh / CNET: |
FBI quietly forms secretive Net-surveillance unit — The FBI has recently formed a secretive surveillance unit with an ambitious goal: to invent technology that will let police more readily eavesdrop on Internet and wireless communications. — The establishment of the Quantico, Va.-based unit …
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Pulse2 Technology … and Internet Evolution
| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Google to Warn 500,000+ of DNS Changer Infections — Google plans today to begin warning Internet users if their computers show telltale signs of being infected with the DNSChanger Trojan. The company estimates that more than 500,000 systems remain infected with the malware …
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PC World, Google Online Security Blog, Inquirer and USA Today
| Daryl Savage / Palo Alto Online: |
Shop Talk: Apple Store headed for Stanford? — APPLE STORE IN STEALTH MODE ... A new Apple Store is quietly beginning construction at the Stanford Shopping Center. No one will publicly talk about it, yet no one will deny it. But it can't be missed. At 12,100 square feet …
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TUAW, MacRumors, ifoAppleStore, MacDailyNews, iDownloadBlog.com and iClarified
| Joanna Stern / ABC News: |
Qwiki Aims To Turn Everyone into a Multimedia Storyteller — A year ago, a small start-up set a goal of changing the way we get information online. In a digital world littered with blogs, articles and videos, Qwiki and its founder Doug Imbruce worked toward a simpler way to bridge those things together.| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Windows 8 boots ‘too quickly’ to be interrupted, Microsoft adding a new ‘boot options’ menu — Did you know that an SSD-equipped Windows 8 PC can boot up in under seven seconds? Watch the video below if you don't believe it, Microsoft has really optimized the hell out of the startup operations …
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Ars Technica, LAPTOP Magazine, Gizmodo, VentureBeat, Pulse2 Technology …, MSDN Blogs and Gizmodo UK
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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 …
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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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