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Microsoft at Work on Meshing Its Products With Skype — PALO ALTO, Calif. — By some measures, Tony Bates has accomplished a lot at Skype since Microsoft paid $8.5 billion for the Internet calling service. — The statistics tell the story. In seven months, the number of people using … | Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Samsung Galaxy S III launches in 28 countries, to be available in 145 by July — Although some retailers are saying they don't expect to have inventory right away, Samsung is officially claiming that it has launched the Galaxy S III in 28 countries today. That's a massive launch … | Stuart Miles / Pocket-lint: |
Samsung Music Hub: Samsung's streaming iTunes service debuts on Galaxy S3, has eyes on your TV and fridge — Samsung's new music service, Music Hub, plans to take on virtually every music service currently available from Sotify to iTunes offering users the chance to listen to music …
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A boo.com Moment? Facebook's IPO Faceplant, Carnage in Social Media Stocks — The Facebook (FB) fiasco has spooked a lot of tech investors, especially those holding shares of recently-launched social media companies with similarly unproven earnings streams.
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Prototype Original iPad with Dual Dock Connectors Surfaces — Ever since its initial introduction in early 2010, the iPad has offered a single dock connector oriented in portrait mode. But a rumor just prior to that introduction had indicated that the device would include …
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| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Pirate Bay Ready For Perpetual IP-Address Whac-A-Mole — The Pirate Bay is arguably the most censored website on the Internet. — Courts all around the world have ordered Internet providers to block subscriber access to the torrent site, and the end is still not in sight.
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Eduardo Saverin Finally Opens Up: ‘No Hard Feelings Between Me And Mark Zuckerberg’ — It took almost a decade, one Hollywood flick and roughly a billion friends for Eduardo Saverin to agree on telling his side of the story about the founding of Facebook, the social-networking website that since 2004 has changed the way we communicate.
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Is Yandex behind Facebook's rumored Face.com deal? — Facebook's apparent interest in Israeli image recognition startup Face.com could rely on an unexpected partner — the Russian search engine Yandex, according to reports. — Rumors that Mark Zuckerberg is interested in purchasing …
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Sweet irony: EU imposes cookie law, ignores own rules — On all European Union institution websites, you will be lucky to find a single page that asks the visitor for permission to set cookies. But they're using them all the same. — The ‘cookie law’ requires any company …
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Google Apps receives ISO 27001 certification — In the early days of the cloud, security concerns were often at the top of business minds as they considered moving to Google Apps. More recently, though, security has become a major reason businesses are moving to the cloud.| Tarleton Gillespie / limn: |
Can an Algorithm be Wrong? — How do we know if we are where it's at? Tarleton Gillespie explores the controversy over Twitter Trends and the algorithmic ‘censorship’ of #occupywallstreet. Throughout the Occupy Wall Street protests, participants and supporters used Twitter (among other tools) … | Graham Spencer / MacStories: |
Apple Posts Initial WWDC 2012 Schedule, Releases Official App — With less than two weeks to go until WWDC 2012 kicks off, Apple has this morning released the conference schedule as well as the official iOS app and some guides for the conference goers. Developers who were lucky enough …
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Apple rejected Flattr... and it's not the end — Those following us on Twitter already know that last week Apple rejected Instacast, a well-love podcatcher, over its Flattr integration. What does this mean for the future of Flattr inside applications for iPhone and iPad?
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