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The Instagram Effect? Mobile Photo Sharing App PicPlz To Shut Down Permanently On July 3 — PicPlz, the mobile photo sharing app that is perhaps known best for being an early and direct competitor with Instagram, will shut down permanently on July 3. — PicPlz delivered the news through …
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The Next Web, Engadget, GigaOM, The Next Web, blog plz and Mashable!
| David Streitfeld / New York Times: |
Lawsuit Against Kleiner Perkins Is Shaking Silicon Valley — MEN invented the Internet. And not just any men. Men with pocket protectors. Men who idolized Mr. Spock and cried when Steve Jobs died. Nerds. Geeks. Give them their due. Without men, we would never know what our friends were doing five minutes ago.| Dante D'Orazio / The Verge: |
Exclusive: new Verizon FiOS plans coming June 17th, 300Mbps service to cost $204.99 per month — Verizon offered up quite the tease last week when it revealed that it was boosting speeds on its FiOS internet plans while refusing to detail how much it was going to charge for each tier.
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| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Movies.io Reinvents Movie Torrents, With Style — Every year hundreds of new torrent sites are launched, but only a few manage to rise to the top. Movies.io is one of these newcomers, and since it has something unique to offer it is likely to stick around.| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Android 4.0 now on 7.1 percent of devices, still woefully behind previous versions — Google tracks the different version numbers of Android devices that access Google Play (nee Android Market) and every month or two we check in to see how the latest versions are doing.
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Android Police, 9to5Google, PC World, Ars Technica, PC Magazine, MobileBurn.com, parislemon and Engadget
| Jacob Aron / New Scientist: |
Over-55s pick passwords twice as secure as teenagers' — People over the age of 55 pick passwords double the strength of those chosen by people under 25 years old. That's according to the largest ever study of password security, which also found that most of us choose passwords that are less secure than security experts recommend.
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VentureBeat, threatpost, Tecca, CNET, SlashGear, Mashable!, Geekosystem, Slashdot and BGR
| Fortune: |
Tim Stevens is the nicest guy in tech — Not to mention one of the most powerful. The editor in chief of Engadget plays a crucial — if not always acknowledged — role in the $190 billion consumer electronics industry. And, in a cast of blowhards and rascals, he's a different sort of editor …
Tweets: @stroughtonsmith and @tim_stevens
| David Smith: |
iAd's Hopefully Long Future — Following Tim Cook's appearance at the D10 conference I've heard murmors questioning the future of iAd. Specifically Tim was asked by a Google exec about Apple's advertising business, he replied that it wasn't one of the legs of Apple's stool.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
As Facebook Rumors Swirl, Opera Plays Up Its Social Cred In New Opera Mini 7 Browser For ‘Basic’ Phones — Talk about coincidence. Just earlier this week, in a post on Facebook and the possibility of buying web browsing company Opera and facial recognition company Face.com … | Frank Sennett / Wall Street Journal: |
Behind Groupon's $6 Billion Brushoff — If you believe the rumored numbers, it would have been the biggest acquisition in Internet history—and you definitely should believe the numbers. In the fall of 2010, search giant Google GOOG -1.70% offered nearly $6 billion to buy Groupon …
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Pulse2 Technology … and Business Insider
| Wailin Wong / Chicago Tribune: |
| Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
Stuxnet admission likely to have foreign policy consequences — Given the unofficial confirmation Friday that the United States was behind Stuxnet—the malware designed to sabotage the Iranian nuclear program—political and technical experts suggest that this may effectively put the United States …
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| Guilbert Gates / New York Times: |
| Ron Amadeo / Android Police: |
Mysterious New Files In The Google Maps 6.8 APK: History Timeline, Latitude G+ Integration, And More — So Google Maps hit version 6.8 yesterday, bringing with it the crazy Zagat/Google+ mashup that was detailed earlier. The “What's New” section in the Play Store lists …
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TechnoBuffalo, Ubergizmo, The Verge, Android and Me and The Next Web
| Chris Ziegler / The Verge: |
Samsung Galaxy S III for T-Mobile USA leaks with Euro-style home button — The Verge has just received pictures of T-Mobile USA's branded Galaxy S III from Samsung that's expected to be announced in the coming weeks. The strangest thing about the leaked phone is what isn't different about it … Sponsor Posts
Channel 9:
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.
Cloud Foundry:
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 …
Rackspace Blog:
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 …
Hortonworks » Blog:
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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