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Here comes Yahoo's own Web browser — Axis — Axis replaces the standard search results page with a horizontal, scrollable list of thumbnails. iPad version shown. — (Credit: Screenshot by Rafe Needleman/CNET) — Yahoo is announcing tonight that it's getting into the browser business with its new Axis browser.| Yahoo! Screen: |
Yahoo! Axis Demo — Yahoo! Axis is a new kind of browser that redefines what it means to search and browse the web. Watch this video to see how Axis works on your computer, iPhone and iPad.| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Yahoo Axis on desktop, iOS unifies your bookmarks, makes the web visual (hands-on) — We're all familiar with syncing bookmarks and save-for-later web services like Instapaper, but it's not often that they come with a full web component. Yahoo's hoping to hit the proverbial two birds tonight with Axis … | Drew Olanoff / The Next Web: |
Who's the big winner in the release of Yahoo! Axis? Microsoft's Bing — Now that we know what Yahoo! Axis is, and that it's a pretty good product from what I can tell so far, there's a huge winner. — That winner? Microsoft's search engine Bing. Since the desktop version of Yahoo! … | Cliff Kuang / Co.DESIGN: |
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Meet Facebook's Fall Guy — I've only been skimming the news about Facebook's IPO over the last 24 hours, but two or three times now I've read that Facebook's CFO David Ebersman “decided” to increase the size of the offering at the last minute. Example (and, shame on the WSJ for just publishing what was fed to them).| 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.| Joseph A. Giannone / Reuters: |
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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.| 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.| Hewlett-Packard: |
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HP plans to lay off 27,000 people — 8 percent of the workforce — Stung by its failures in the mobile computing business, Hewlett-Packard said it would cut 27,000 jobs today. That amounts to 8 percent of its 325,000-person work force. — The cuts will be implemented by October 2014 … | 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.| 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.| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Siri-like Voice Dictation coming to OS X Mountain Lion? — Voice is Apple's next important field of computer-input, and Siri on the iPhone 4S and voice-dictation on the third-generation iPad makes this clear. Siri, in its current implementation, seems perfect for mobile devices like the iPhone 4S … | David Kravets / Wired: |
New York Legislation Would Ban Anonymous Online Speech — Did you hear the one about the New York state lawmakers who forgot about the First Amendment in the name of combating cyberbullying and “baseless political attacks”? — Proposed legislation in both chambers would require New York-based websites … | 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.| 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.| Greg Sandoval / CNET: |
Why Apple needs to settle its e-book suits — A group of attorneys general from 29 states filed documents last week, which included charts illustrating the many phone calls made between CEOs of the top publishing companies as Apple prepared to launch the iBookstore.| 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 … | Douglas MacMillan / Business Week: |
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Windows 8 Secrets: Internet Explorer 10 will Ship with Adobe Flash — With tech enthusiast web sites from around the world starting to leak Windows 8 Release Preview screenshots, your intrepid “Windows 8 Secrets” co-authors offer a bit of color commentary about what you're seeing and how these features will really work.
Windows Store Weekly — This week we take a look at: Star Trek App, Box, Fling Theory, StumbleUpon, and wordBrush.
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 …
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 …
Mobile Telco Dials In and Harnesses Big Data with Hadoop — Smartphones have transformed our daily lives. A key indicator of this trend is our increased spend on data plans versus voice.
“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).This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 11:30 PM ET, May 23, 2012.
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