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Microsoft Manufacturing Tablet to Rival Apple iPad, Says Insider (Exclusive) — Microsoft is set to unveil a tablet next week that will mark its entry into rival Apple's territory with its own branded product, TheWrap has learned. The company has scheduled a secretive event for Monday … | Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Microsoft Schedules L.A. Event for Some Windows Tablet Talk — After months of being secretive about its work to bring Windows 8 to ARM-based tablets, Microsoft is about ready to raise the veil. — The company has scheduled an event on Monday in Los Angeles where it is expected … | Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Nokia to End “Meltemi” Effort for Low-End Smartphones — One of the casualties of Nokia's latest cuts is Meltemi, the company's effort to create a new Linux-based operating system for low-end smartphones. — The project was aimed at offering smartphones at prices that neither Android … | Wall Street Journal: |
Yammer Agrees to Sell Itself to Microsoft — Business-software company Yammer Inc. agreed to sell itself to Microsoft Corp. for $1.2 billion, according a person familiar with the matter, in a sign Microsoft may be trying to plug holes in its ubiquitous Office software.
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Apple expected to launch 13" Retina MacBook Pro by early Oct. — Apple will bring a high-resolution Retina display to its 13-inch MacBook Pro with a product update set to launch this October, according to one insider. — Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI shared in a note with AppleInsider … | Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Dropbox for iOS updated with automatic photo uploads, gallery view, and a new way to earn bonus storage — Dropbox has just updated its iOS client to version 1.5, and the new release includes some notable additions. First on the list is automatic uploads for photos and videos in your camera roll …
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| Matt Burns / TechCrunch: |
Secret Agent Samsung: How The Handset Maker Kept The Galaxy S III Hush-Hush — Samsung pulled off a sort of miracle last month by announcing the Samsung Galaxy S III prior to it leaking. Admittedly, the specs leaked, but the final design was kept a secret until the official reveal … | Om Malik / GigaOM: |
Parts of Amazon Web Services suffer an outage — Amazon web services are having trouble this evening and in the process are taking down some major sites. Among sites being impacted are Quora and HipChat. In addition, the Amazon outage has had an impact on Heroku, a division of Salesforce.
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Facebook Asks Every User For A Verified Phone Number To Prevent Security Disaster — Every single Facebook user is or will soon be seeing a link at the top of their desktop news feed asking them to “Stay in control of your account by following these simple security tips”.| Sam Biddle / Gizmodo: |
Vizio's Beautiful Sci-Fi Computer Fleet Lands Now for Cheapish (Updated: Hands On) — It takes a lot to make us genuinely excited about a laptop, or even worse, another desktop PC. But cheap TV king Vizio's done just that. We loved them at CES, and now the all-in-one and superskinny laptop line's official.
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AllThingsD, PC World, Liliputing, ABCNEWS, The Verge, LAPTOP Magazine, Engadget and Engadget
| Danielle Sacks / Fast Company: |
Can VCs Be Bred? Meet The New Generation In Silicon Valley's Draper Dynasty — Over the course of a half-century, the Draper family has carved out a name (and a fortune) in a place where breeding and ancestry are thought to be irrelevant. Now it's time for the debut of the youngest generation.| Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
Judge changes mind, grants Apple an injunction hearing against Motorola (and vice versa) — Judge Richard Posner, the Seventh Circuit judge sitting by designation on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois to preside over an Apple v. Motorola lawsuit …
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PC World, AllThingsD, The Verge, CNET, Los Angeles Times, Ars Technica, GigaOM, Engadget, Fortune and iClarified
| Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo: |
Apple Adds Gay and Lesbian Couple Icons to iOS 6 — The new version of Apple's iPhone operating system comes with new emojis, the popular emoticons that are often used in texting and email, especially by young kids and nerdy adults like me. Two of these new pictograms represent gay and lesbian couples for the first time.
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Macgasm, TechCrunch, The Register, WebProNews, MacDailyNews, Know Your Cell and Pulse2 Technology …
| Marco Cimmino / Skype for Linux: |
Skype 4.0 for Linux — First off, we'd like to thank our Skype for Linux users for your patience awaiting Skype 4.0 for Linux, codenamed ‘Four Rooms for Improvement,’ which is now available. With this release, we have finally filled the gap with our other desktop clients and we are now making …
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Geek.com, Techie Buzz, The H Open Source and ZDNet
| Evelyn M. Rusli / DealBook: |
Forthcoming Facebook Motion Said to Discuss Nasdaq's Role in I.P.O. — Facebook is preparing for battle. — One month after its botched initial public offering, the social network is set to file a motion to consolidate all the shareholder lawsuits against the company …
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The Atlantic Wire, Wall Street Journal, Reuters and CNET
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Ethiopian Government Bans Skype, Google Talk And All Other VoIP Services — The Ethiopian government, Al Jazeera reports, has criminalized the use of Skype and other VoIP services like Google Talk. Using VoIP services is now punishable by up to 15 years in prison.
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The Stream and VentureBeat
| Alan Travis / Guardian: |
‘Online snooping’ scheme to cost £1.8bn — Home Office reveals pricetag for tracking emails, phone use and Facebook and Twitter accounts as Theresa May attacks critics as ‘conspiracy theorists’ — The government's “online snooping” scheme to track email, Facebook …
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BBC, Main DeviceMain Device, thinkbroadband, The Verge, ZDNet, TechWeekEurope UK and The Register
| Dave Thier / Forbes: |
Reddit General Manager Erik Martin Respons to Domain Ban Controversy — Yesterday, reports that Reddit administrators have been banning high-quality publications like The Atlantic and Business Week from their site as a punishment for — spamming attempts.
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Daily Dot and Social Media
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Carat: The Brilliant App That Increases Your Battery Life By Showing What Other Apps To Kill — “Kill Pandora - Expected Battery Life Improvement: 1 hour 50 minutes” This is what you'll learn from Carat, an incredibly useful free new iOS and Android app that's the first to give … | Ben Popper / The Verge: |
Karma: a 4G provider that rewards users for sharing their data plan with strangers — “Something is fundamentally broken in the market for mobile providers,” says Robert Gaal, one of the founders of Karma, a startup that just graduated from the TechStars NY accelerator program.| Tom Cheredar / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft's NUads on Xbox Live ‘motions’ boring TV commercials forward — The traditional television commercials that play between programs on a TV set are long overdue for an upgrade, which Microsoft is more than happy to provide. — The technology giant announced today … | Nate Anderson / Ars Technica: |
App Store enigma: the patent holder, the developer, and the voiceless child — Apple's “benign dictatorship” of the App Store leaves users, devs in the dark. — The Unity language implemented on a Prentke Romich AAC device — Prentke Romich Company — Few apps available for the iPad sell …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
To Fight Off Airtime and Google+ Hangouts, Facebook Tests Adding Video “Call” Button To Profiles — Desperate to increase video chat usage, Facebook is testing out a “Call” button on top of people's timeline profiles. I don't think I've received a Facebook video chat since Facebook partnered …
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Los Angeles Times, CNET, YouTube Blog, The Next Web, PandoDaily, Ubergizmo, Engadget and AllThingsD. Tweets: @joshconstine
| Staska / Unwired View: |
Apple's idea for optical zoom, stroboscopic flash, etc; in the next iPhone: removal back panel with optics — Since iPhone 4, camera experience on Apple phones was among the best in the industry. But it's only so much you can do with the camera quality in such a tightly packed device as a smartphone.| Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch: |
Kevin Rose On His New Gig At Google Ventures, What He Looks For In A Startup Founder, And More [TCTV] — Kevin Rose has been a familiar face in the tech scene for more than a decade now — first as a startup employee during the first dot-com boom, then as a host on some very popular tech shows … 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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