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App Developers Signal Apple Allegiance Ahead of WWDC and Google I/O — This month, the world's two largest mobile app platform providers, Apple and Google, enter what is arguably the most critical month of the year for each company, when each hosts their annual developer conference … | MG Siegler / TechCrunch: |
Dear Eric Schmidt, It's Been 6 Months — Where Are Those iOS-Slaying Android Exclusive Apps? — Flashback to December 6, 2011: Google Chairman Eric Schmidt is on stage at LeWeb in Paris and is asked by an audience member why most application developers still choose to develop for iOS first rather than Android?
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Behold, Facebook's New App Center Leaks Into iOS — Facebook is planning to launch a new mobile App Center in the coming days — possibly at an app-themed press event that the company is holding this evening in San Francisco. In the meantime, we've just received a slew of screenshots … | John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
The New iPad's Closest Competitor? The Old iPad. — During Apple's last earnings call, CEO Tim Cook said the iPad 2′s new lower price point was unlocking demand among price-sensitive customers. So how is it selling? — Very well, turns out. — According to new data …
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If a Tweet Falls In the Forest... Twitter has proven to be an effective way for the average Internet user to get @ your favorite NBA player or indie rocker. And yet as the site grows, the noise of individual tweets is being drowned out. Enter Thunderclap, a Twitter app from Chinatown-based De-De … | Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media: |
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“RIP Good Times”: Silicon Valley's Cuban Missile Crisis — Not too long ago, I found myself sitting in the second row of a conference room, anxiously scribbling notes, at what is now known as the “RIP Good Times” presentation. The presentation has become a cultural touchstone of modern-era silicon valley.
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Change your Last.fm password now, there may have been another security breach — 24-hours after LinkedIn confirmed a massive password leak, online music streaming service Last.fm has issued a statement saying that it's currently investigating whether it too has leaked some of its users' passwords.| Bloomberg: |
Apple Said To Add Baidu As Iphone Search-Engine In China — Apple Inc. (AAPL) plans to add Baidu Inc. (BIDU)'s search engine on iPhones in China, part of a push to broaden its services and user base in the world's most-populous nation, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.| Matt Macari / The Verge: |
Ultrabooks beware: Apple receives broad patent on MacBook Air wedge design — It's been pretty easy to look at recent Apple design patents and see that they haven't carried with them the broad patent coverage many might think, but that isn't the case with Apple's new US patent — D661,296 — that issued on Tuesday.| bitly blog: |
Speedier Shortening — We mean it when we say we've been reading all your tweets and emails. And we're listening! In the week since our release, we're already making adjustments, so that saving and shortening links in the new bitly is a whole lot easier.
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| Ryan Singel / Wired: |
IE 10′s ‘Do-Not-Track’ Default Dies Quick Death — Well, that didn't take long. — The latest proposed draft of the Do Not Track specification published Wednesday requires that users must choose to turn on the anti-behavioral tracking feature in their browsers and software.| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
RIM discontinues 16GB PlayBook, still ‘committed to the tablet space’ — RIM's beleaguered PlayBook line is being pared down. The company has confirmed that it's canceled the 16GB PlayBook and will be moving forward with only the 32GB and 64GB models. While there are still …
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Video hands-on with the purported next-generation iPhone metal back — In late May, we had exclusive high-resolution photos of both black and white next-generation iPhone backs. These backs showed a brand-new, thinner design with a smaller dock connector, new speaker grills, and a new metal back plate.
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Wired, LAPTOP Magazine, BGR, MacRumors, Cydia Blog, ETrade Supply Blog, Phones Review, everythingiCafe, Gotta Be Mobile, App Advice, PC Magazine, iDownloadBlog.com, Business Insider, TechCrunch, Engadget, Ubergizmo, Gizmodo UK, CNET, MobileSyrup.com, Computerworld, Gizmodo, Neowin, Electricpig.co.uk, Apple Bitch, ZDNet, PhoneArena, Mobile Magazine and iPhone in Canada Blog. Thanks:@jryankennedy
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Chrome For Metro Set To Arrive In Next Dev Channel Release — As the release of Windows 8 draws closer, all of the major browser vendors are also preparing to launching their applications for the touch-centric Metro UI that will prominently feature in next version of Microsoft's flagship operating system.| Miyoung Kim / Reuters: |
Samsung Elec names components chief Kwon as new CEO — (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co (005930.KS), Asia's technology powerhouse, reshuffled some of its top team on Thursday as it battles Apple Inc (AAPL.O) for supremacy in smartphones and leads the charge to new chip technology.| Scott Kirsner / Boston Globe: |
SCVNGR finds $12 million more to support LevelUp mobile payment product — SCVNGR, the Boston company that originally set out to develop mobile games that could be played in the real world, has raised another $12 million from investors. But the money will go to support a newer SCVNGR product …
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In Battle With Oracle, HP Outs Customer Cell Numbers — As part of its court battle with Oracle, HP has released names, email addresses, and cell phone numbers from over 150 customers. But why? Image: Peter McCollough/Wired — When Oracle announced plans to dump support …
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Why Google Couldn't Pal Up With Buddy Media — Marc Benioff is a big, intimidating dude who is also a billionaire. He runs a company that did more than $2 billion in sales last year. But compared to Larry Page, he's a piker. — So how did Benioff end up with Buddy Media this week … | Ross Miller / The Verge: |
Microsoft SmartGlass and Internet Explorer for Xbox 360 video walkthrough — Following up on our Microsoft SmartGlass in-depth preview, Senior Product Manager Peter Orullian gave us a pretty thorough walkthrough of the service and its level of functionality right now.| Gerry Shih / Reuters: |
Twitter's mobile revenue surpassed Web on many days: CEO — (Reuters) - Twitter has generated more advertising revenue from its mobile platform than from its website on many days in the last quarter, CEO Dick Costolo said Wednesday, highlighting Twitter's progress in squeezing ad dollars … | Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
Confirmed: Sprint's Virgin Mobile second US carrier to offer prepaid iPhone; from June 29, plans start at $30 — Apple's push into the US prepaid market has been given another significant boost after Sprint-owned Virgin Mobile announced that it will become the second operator to offer the iPhone to its customers.
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Facebook Trading Losses May Near $200 Million, Knight CEO Says — Industry trading losses from Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. (NDAQ)'s mishandling of Facebook Inc. (FB)'s initial public offering may be close to $200 million, Knight Capital Group Inc. (KCG) Chief Executive Officer Thomas Joyce said.
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How Google and Microsoft taught search to “understand” the Web — Inside the architecture of Google's Knowledge Graph and Microsoft's Satori. — Photo illustration by Aurich Lawson — Despite the massive amounts of computing power dedicated by search engine companies to crawling …
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The Next Web and WebProNews
| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Matthew Modine of ‘Full Metal Jacket’ and Josh Gad from ‘Book of Mormon’ cast in ‘jOBS’ with Ashton Kutcher — As the Ashton Kutcher film jOBS prepares to start filming, we're seeing some more information about the other actors. Entertainment Weekly has reported that Matthew Modine …
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Gizmodo and Gizmodo UK
| Darrell Etherington / BetaKit: |
Algoriddim Makes Any iPad a Real-Time Video Editing Suite With vjay — German multimedia company algoriddim today released its latest product, a video editing and remixing suite for the iPad called vjay ($9.99). It's a spiritual successor to the company's djay music-mixing software, which appears on Mac, iPhone and iPad devices.
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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
An Ivy Bridge too far? AMD may have finally lost the battle against Intel's juggernaut — Welcome to Computex 2012, the coming-out party for Intel's Ivy Bridge CPU refresh and Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system. The two halves of an irresistible hardware-software combination …
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| Jennifer Van Grove / VentureBeat: |
Social marketing is hot: Unified scores $14M following big industry exits — Facebook's market value may be plummeting, but the demand for its ads, and social ads in general, remains at fever pitch. Here to help brands and enterprises with their social play-calling is startup Unified … | Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent: |
B&N: DOJ e-book suit endangers consumers, bookstores and copyrighted expression — In a complaint sent to the Department of Justice this morning, Barnes & Noble says that the DOJ's proposed settlement with HarperCollins, Hachette and Simon & Schuster for allegedly colluding to fix e-book prices … | Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
MD5 password scrambler ‘no longer safe’ — Summary: MD5 encryption is “no longer considered safe” by the original software developer, a day after the leak of more than 6.4 million LinkedIn passwords. — The original author of the MD5 password hash algorithm has publicly declared … Sponsor Posts
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Windows 8 Tips — Tips and tricks for Windows 8 users.
Windows 8 Tips — Tips and tricks for Windows 8 users.
Cloud Foundry:
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 …
Rackspace Blog:
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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