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| Chris Ziegler / The Verge: |
Exclusive: HP's webOS Enyo team is going to Google — The HP team responsible for Enyo — webOS's HTML5-based application framework that debuted on the TouchPad — will be leaving the company and starting at Google shortly, The Verge has learned. What this means for the future of Open webOS is unclear …
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PC Magazine, Engadget, Business Insider, TechCrunch, VatorNews, MobileBurn.com, Ars Technica, SlashGear, VentureBeat, Pulse2 Technology …, CNET, Gizmodo UK, TechnoBuffalo, Android News, Rumours …, PhoneNews.com, TechWeekEurope UK, Liliputing, MobileSyrup.com, AllThingsD, The H Open Source, FierceMobileContent, Know Your Cell, Techie Buzz, PhoneArena, 9to5Google, The Tech Report and IntoMobile. Tweets: @jkendrick. Thanks:@forrestkoba
| Scott Lowe / The Verge: |
Apple introduces ‘editors’ choice' and free ‘app of the week’ on the Mac App Store and iTunes — Apparently we weren't the only ones excited about the release of Cobook, as today Apple began promoting the intelligent contact manager on the Mac App Store with its new “editors' choice” branding.| Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica: |
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| Nate Lanxon / Wired.co.uk: |
Microsoft to offer 80-inch Windows 8 tablets for offices — “Steve Ballmer has an 80-inch Windows 8 tablet in his office. He's got rid of his phone, he's got rid of his note paper. It's touch-enabled and it's hung on his wall.” — This description of the Microsoft CEO's workspace … | Brad Sams / Neowin: |
This is Dell's Windows 8 tablet — Dell is working on a Windows 8 tablet; we know this because Dell told us that they are planning to launch a Windows 8 tablet, easy enough. What we did not know is what will be driving the tablet under the hood, at least, until now.
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LAPTOP Magazine, eWeek, Computerworld, The Verge, SlashGear, Ubergizmo, ZDNet, Liliputing, I4U News, Gotta Be Mobile, GadgeTell, TechnoBuffalo, The Tech Report, Softpedia News, Pocket-lint, Pulse2 Technology …, PhoneArena, The Next Web, CNET, Engadget, Business Insider and MobileSyrup.com. Thanks:@bdsams
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
First video sample from Google's Project Glass — Although we're still not sure exactly how Google's Project Glass wearable glasses work, the company has been testing them in very public ways over the past couple of months. Google co-founder Sergey Brin showed off the glasses at a charity event … | Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Odd That Microsoft Demands Google Take Down Links That Remain In Bing — We just wrote about Google's very cool, new copyright transparency tool, which lets you dig into the details of all the search takedowns that Google gets. As people start to play around with the site, some interesting things are coming to light.| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Samsung Galaxy S III review — Everyone promises a better camera, Samsung actually delivers — The Galaxy S II set a high bar for smartphone camera performance, but the Galaxy S III has beaten it. Image quality on this phone is simply excellent. Full-resolution pictures look sharp and detailed …
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| Robin Wauters / The Next Web: |
Facebook to acquire browser maker Opera? Maybe. Here's what we know. — Juicy rumor coming from Pocket-lint this morning: Facebook is reportedly eyeing a takeover of desktop, tablet and smartphone browser maker Opera Software. — Citing an unnamed source, Pocket-lint … | Bloomberg: |
Dell Said To Weigh Buying Quest To Add Computer-Management Tools — Dell Inc. (DELL) is in discussions to acquire Quest Software Inc. (QSFT), a maker of tools that help companies manage their computer systems, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
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| Rocky Agrawal / VentureBeat: |
Groupon is testing a payments offering to compete with Square and PayPal — Groupon is testing out an offering of its own in the increasingly crowded payments space, according to an email I was forwarded by a business that was solicited for the service. (Disclosure: I have various puts against Groupon.)
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Internet2Go, Business Insider, The PayPal Blog, GigaOM, FierceMobileContent, Bloomberg and WebProNews. Thanks:@rakeshlobster
| Alexis Madrigal / The Atlantic Online: |
How Google Can Beat Facebook Without Google Plus — Look, Google, we've got a plan to help you win on social. There's only one catch: you have to give up the notion that animates Google Plus. — Out in the Mojave Desert, there's a place called California City that's fascinated … Thanks:@alexismadrigal
| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Facebook adds ability for developers to offer tiny playable versions of games right in news feed — Facebook has announced a cool new feature for developers of games today. Feed gaming will allow developers to include a short sample of their game in posts that people share about it.| Pino Bonetti / Nokia Conversations: |
Nokia brings live traffic advice and geocoding to Bing — As you all know, our partnership with Microsoft goes beyond Windows Phone on our Nokia Lumia smartphones. We're also teaming up with Bing to offer the best location-based services and apps. — One of the results of this partnership …
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Bing, Geeky-Gadgets, MediaNama, SlashGear, My Nokia Blog, The Verge, Engadget, LiveSide.net and Neowin
| Matt Marshall / VentureBeat: |
The inside story: How Facebook panicked and botched its IPO — There's been a ton of coverage about the Facebook IPO disaster, but very little of it looks at the crucial point two weeks ago where things went terribly wrong. It's becoming increasingly clear that Facebook itself made a strategic blunder at that juncture.
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Thanks:@venturebeat| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
More on Apple's Removal of Airfoil Speakers Touch From the App Store — After some interesting back-and-forth with a few informed sources, I think Apple's removal of Airfoil Speakers Touch from the iOS App Store is not as mysterious or capricious as I first thought. The key is to focus on what's new in version 3 of the app:
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PhoneArena, Guardian and The Next Web
| Mike Shields / Adweek: |
NBCU Exploring Buyback of MSNBC.com — Rachel Maddow, Lawrence O' Donnell and Chris Matthews Photo by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images — Chris Matthews must be getting that tingling feeling down his leg again. He and his colleagues may soon have a giant news site to call their own.| Andy Greenberg / The Firewall: |
Reddit Founder And Activists Aim To Build A ‘Bat-Signal For The Internet’ — Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian protesting the Stop Online Piracy Act in January. — The “blackout” of Web sites to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in January was an unprecedented show of Internet solidarity against bad legislation.
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Betabeat, GamePolitics blogs and Daily Dot
| Jim Duffy / Network World: |
Cisco all but kills Cius tablet computer — Cisco is slowly killing off its Cius business tablet less than a year after it started shipping. The Android-based collaboration tool, which featured a 7-inch touchscreen and was not intended to challenge more consumer-oriented tablets such as the Apple iPad …
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PC Magazine, Business Insider, Computerworld, 9to5Google and Cisco Blog
| Mat Honan / Gizmodo: |
Meth Labs and Dead Dogs: How the Founder of McAfee Antivirus Went on the Run in Belize — It's been a while since I've posted anything. “I've been busy” is everyone's excuse for laziness, but I can't come up with a better one. For those of you who follow the news in Central America … Thanks:@leshorn
| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
No-cost desktop software development is dead on Windows 8 — You won't be able to use the free Visual Studio Express to develop desktop apps. — Photo illustration by Aurich Lawson — Microsoft wants Windows developers to write Windows 8-specific, Metro-style, touch-friendly applications … | Owen Thomas / Business Insider: |
Silicon Valley's In Crowd Just Lost BetterWorks, A $10 Million Startup — BetterWorks, a Santa Monica, Calif.-based startup with a who's-who of Silicon Valley behind it, just announced it's shutting down at the end of the month. — The company had raised $10 million from Redpoint Ventures …
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| Bryan Bishop / The Verge: |
Google prepping ‘Events’ and ‘Local’ features for Google+? — Google rolled out version 2.6 of the Google+ app for Android today, updating its UI and adding several new features, but it appears to have left something hidden under the hood as well. A source informed us — and we have confirmed …
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Softpedia News, WebProNews, AndroidGuys, Ubergizmo and 9to5Google
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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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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.
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.
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“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).
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