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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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“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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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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Engadget, The Verge, Engadget, TechCrunch and Digits
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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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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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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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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.| 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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TechnoBuffalo, Computerworld, Ars Technica, Examiner, CNET, Pulse2 Technology … and Neowin
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Global Copycats: The Sincerest Form of Flattery — Copycatters used to knock off designer shoes. Now they knock off online shoe sellers, daily-deal sites, and any other Internet-based business you can name. Is this just a fact of business in a connected world?| 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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Engadget, MacStories and TUAW
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Mac App Store vs Buying Direct — Since the launch of the Mac App Store, a common question potential customers ask developers is “Should I buy your app directly or through the Mac App Store?” — Developers have been remarkably cagey, mostly replying with the non-answer “choose whichever is better for you”.
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App Advice, Alfred App, MacStories, Daring Fireball and Computerworld
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Windows Store Weekly — This week we take a look at: Star Trek App, Box, Fling Theory, StumbleUpon, and wordBrush.
Windows Store Weekly — This week we take a look at: Star Trek App, Box, Fling Theory, StumbleUpon, and wordBrush.
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:
DevOps: Improved Productivity, Higher Value — Those of us who have been aligned with DevOps for some time already know that the greater agility and closer collaboration it enables deliver real business value for our organizations.
DevOps: Improved Productivity, Higher Value — Those of us who have been aligned with DevOps for some time already know that the greater agility and closer collaboration it enables deliver real business value for our organizations.
Hortonworks » Blog:
Get Started with Hadoop on Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 for Windows — We are excited to release the Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 for Windows as a Generally Available product.
Get Started with Hadoop on Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 for Windows — We are excited to release the Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 for Windows as a Generally Available product.
Unison's blog:
Skype in the browser — Whether you like the Skype app or not, until now, you've had no choice but to download something to make voice and video calls — either an app like Skype, or a Flash plugin (yikes) for your browser.
Skype in the browser — Whether you like the Skype app or not, until now, you've had no choice but to download something to make voice and video calls — either an app like Skype, or a Flash plugin (yikes) for your browser.Who's Hiring In Tech?
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