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Nintendo Wii U Gamepad officially unveiled — Today during a streaming video conference, Nintendo detailed the final version of the Wii U controller, which it is calling the Wii U Gamepad. Nintendo has made some notable tweaks and revisions to the prototype version detailed last year at E3 …
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Nintendo teases Wii U Pro Controller, black Wii U hardware (update: video) — Aside from officially detailing tweaks to its Wii U Gamepad today, Nintendo has announced a secondary controller for those who'd prefer a more traditional control method. Dubbed as the Pro Controller … | Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Patent Peace: Yahoo and Facebook in Advanced Negotiations to Settle Fractious Infringement Lawsuits — Top execs at Yahoo and Facebook have been hammering out the outlines of a deal over the last several days to end their contentious patent infringement litigation, according to multiple sources close to the situation.
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The New Persuaders, VentureBeat, CNET and The Verge
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“Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.” What Would a Siri API Look Like? — It has been widely rumored that Siri will be supporting 3rd party apps. Right now most heavy users of Siri have become accustomed to the multitude of apologies and I-don't-knows that accompany out-there queries. Examples:
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The Apple Television Is Coming, And This Is Why It's Going To Be Revolutionary — Apple analyst Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray has a big report on Apple's plans for the TV industry. — He says it's a question of “when” Apple releases its television, not “if” now.| Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch: |
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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CNET, VatorNews, Mashable!, VentureBeat, PhoneArena, Engadget, The Next Web, App Advice, blog plz, Pulse2 Technology …, GigaOM, The Next Web and MacNN
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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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PC Magazine, TechnoBuffalo, Ars Technica, Computerworld, Pulse2 Technology …, Examiner, CNET and Neowin
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Any.do task manager launches for iOS and Chrome, now syncs across platforms (hands-on) — Any.do is one of the most popular and acclaimed to-do list apps for Android, and today the company behind it is bringing the same app and experience to the iPhone and the Chrome browser.
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TechCrunch, GigaOM and Android Phone Fans
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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.
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How Do Top Android Developers QA Test Their Apps? — A couple weeks ago I ran this post showing how one Hong Kong developer, Animoca, tests its Android games. The company, which has had more than 70 million downloads, tests every one of their apps on about 400 different devices.| Brian Anthony Hernandez / Mashable!: |
Foursquare App Getting a Face-Lift This Week [PICS] — Location-based service Foursquare will get a major revision in the coming days, donning a personalized Maps tool and other discovery features. — The new elements look as though they'll supplement the app's Explore tab … | Harry McCracken / Techland: |
Newton, Reconsidered — A hands-on assessment of Apple's pioneering, ill-fated Personal Digital Assistant, twenty years after its original unveiling. — In the grand scheme of things, 1992 is such recent history that it barely qualifies as history. When it comes to portable gadgets …
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Want to Contribute to Cloud Foundry? Come on in! — Cloud Foundry is an Open Platform-as-a-Service, and an Open Source project. It has attracted phenomenal interest from the community - including partners …
Want to Contribute to Cloud Foundry? Come on in! — Cloud Foundry is an Open Platform-as-a-Service, and an Open Source project. It has attracted phenomenal interest from the community - including partners …
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How ImgPage Uploads 25 MB Photos to Cloud Files Using the Mailgun API — The team over at Mailgun just posted a Python tutorial written by Mailgun customer Paul Finn about how to use Python and the Mailgun API to upload large images to Cloud Files.
How ImgPage Uploads 25 MB Photos to Cloud Files Using the Mailgun API — The team over at Mailgun just posted a Python tutorial written by Mailgun customer Paul Finn about how to use Python and the Mailgun API to upload large images to Cloud Files.
Hortonworks » Blog:
Week in Review: SQL IN Hadoop and Hive, Beyond Batch with YARN, NFS access to HDFS and HBase MTTR — Or as it's more commonly being called: Week-ish in Review. Let's recap on the latest - there's some juicy technology goodness here.
Week in Review: SQL IN Hadoop and Hive, Beyond Batch with YARN, NFS access to HDFS and HBase MTTR — Or as it's more commonly being called: Week-ish in Review. Let's recap on the latest - there's some juicy technology goodness here.
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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