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Xbox 720 document leak reveals $299 console with Kinect 2 for 2013, Kinect Glasses project — While it's clear Microsoft isn't planning to introduce its next-generation Xbox console this year, all signs indicate that a 2013 launch is on the cards. A newly leaked 56-page document sheds …
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Facebook to pay $10 million to settle suit — (Reuters) - Facebook Inc has agreed to pay $10 million to charity to settle a lawsuit that accused the site of violating users' rights to control the use of their own names, photographs and likenesses, according to court documents made public over the weekend.
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| Kyle Wiens / Wired: |
The New MacBook Pro: Unfixable, Unhackable, Untenable — This week, Apple delivered the highly anticipated MacBook Pro with Retina Display — and the tech world is buzzing. I took one apart yesterday because I run iFixit, a team responsible for high-resolution teardowns of new products and DIY repair guides.
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| Greg Cox / Expletive Inserted: |
Lessons from the Failure of Readability's Author Payment Plan — Yesterday Readability announced that they were shutting down their experiment to take payments on behalf of authors and then distribute them (minus a 30% cut) to those authors. The announcement talks about learning from the experiment …
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Dwolla's First FiSync Banking Customer Goes Live, Eliminates ACH Delays With Real-Time Bank Transfers — A major milestone for disruptive payments platform Dwolla: the company has just switched on FiSync, its real-time money transfer system which aims to replace the outdated - and much slower - ACH process.| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Vizio reboots the PC: a quiet American success story takes on sleeping giants — McRae is more blunt, as usual. “Trackpads have sucked for a really long time,” he says. “We wanted to get it right.” The machines I saw at CES had finicky pre-production trackpads, but McRae says the company …
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Gotta Be Mobile, Neowin, InfoWorld and BuzzFeed
| Greg Sandoval / CNET: |
Amazon's music cloud is licensed by all top labels — Warner Music Group, which produces albums by singer Bruno Mars (above), is one of the top-four record labels to license Amazon's cloud service. — (Credit: Harper Smith) — Amazon's cloud music service is fully licensed … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Twitter Finally Ditches “50+”, New and Old Tweets Now Show Exact Counts Of Retweets and Favorites — Tweets past, present, and future now show their exact number of retweets and favorites instead of showing “50+” if they pass that count — a move that could promote vanity and competition on Twitter.
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| Ian Hardy / MobileSyrup.com: |
Samsung Galaxy S III Canadian launch delayed, now happening on June 27th — One of the most anticipated Android devices to land on Canadian soil is the Samsung Galaxy S III. This has already seen global pre-orders rise to over 9 million and basically every Canadian carrier is on board to launch it … | Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Zynga And CBS Are Working To Bring Draw Something To Primetime TV — So you wondered how Zynga was gonna make money off its $210 million acquisition of OMGPOP? How about this: Hit game title Draw Something will soon be at the center of a new primetime game show, according to a report by Variety.
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| Andy Greenberg / Forbes: |
New Grad Looking For a Job? Pentagon Contractors Post Openings For Black-Hat Hackers — Mikko Hypponen enjoys his position as the chief research officer at the Helsinki-based security firm F-Secure. He has no intention of leaving. But lately, he's been spending a lot of time looking at job openings.| Jason Boog / GalleyCat: |
eBook Revenues Top Hardcover — Net sales revenue from eBooks have surpassed hardcover books in the first quarter of 2012. — According to the March Association of American Publishers (AAP) net sales revenue report (collecting data from 1,189 publishers), adult eBook sales were $282.3 million … Sponsor Posts
Channel 9:
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:
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:
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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