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Sources: Microsoft And Barnes & Noble To Announce Tablet With Xbox Live Streaming Tomorrow — There's a ton of speculation around what Microsoft will be announcing on Monday in Los Angeles. Both the Wrap and ATD claim the event will showcase a Microsoft built Windows RT/Windows 8 tablet.
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Barnes & Noble Is NOT A Part Of Today's Big Microsoft Event — Microsoft will not be announcing a tablet made by Barnes & Noble today, despite a report to the contrary. — Dow Jones reports that the speculation that Barnes & Noble is a part of today's announcement is “not true at all.”| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Mozilla takes aim at the iPad browser market with its ‘Junior’ prototype — When it comes to browsing the web on iOS, there are plenty of third-party alternatives to Apple's Safari. Atomic, Dolphin, Mercury, Opera, and Skyfire are just a few that have enjoyed some measure of success on the platform …
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| Andy Greenberg / The Firewall: |
U.S. Government Requests For Google Users' Private Data Jump 37% In One Year — Updated with a correction from Google below. — The American government's appetite for Google's data is growing. — In the second half of 2011, Google received 6,321 requests that it hand over its users' private data …
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Linus Torvalds: ‘f**k you, Nvidia’ for not supporting Linux — Linus Torvalds isn't someone you'd accuse of excessive diplomacy and his answer to a question about Nvidia's lack of support for Linux with its Optimus technology has been far from compromising.
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Public Transit in iOS 6 — By now it is public knowledge that there will be no in-house replacement for routing via public means of transport in iOS 6. Indeed if you hold an iOS 6 phone (that somebody maybe has left in a bar) and you try to plan a route from point A to point B you find …
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Hacked companies fight back with controversial steps — (Reuters) - Frustrated by their inability to stop sophisticated hacking attacks or use the law to punish their assailants, an increasing number of U.S. companies are taking retaliatory action. — Known in the cyber security industry as …
| Ben Drawbaugh / Engadget: |
Verizon intros FiOS Quantum, officially priced up to 300Mbps — What's faster than FiOS internet service? FiOS Quantum evidently, as Verizon's latest high-speed internet service gets an official name and pricing. Effectively doubling every tier — except the entry-level 15/5 … | Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
It's Official: Michael Barrett Talks About New Job as Yahoo Ad Czar — Yahoo has confirmed that it has hired Google ad exec Michael Barrett as its new chief of revenue. — As I reported earlier, Barrett will be in charge of advertising revenue and operations worldwide at the Silicon Valley Internet giant … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Facebook's Social Olympic Ambition, Explore London 2012: A Dedicated Athlete Portal, But No Ads — A lot of Londoners (me included) haven't been able to get tickets to the London Olympics this summer. But we'll all get something else, Facebook announced today.
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| Rip Empson / TechCrunch: |
Video Services Provider Ooyala Lands $35M From Australian Telco Giant Telstra To Go Big Overseas — Back in 2007, Bismarck and Belsasar Lepe and Sean Knapp left Google with aspirations to revolutionize in-video advertising. Ooyala didn't quite revolutionize advertising …
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| Zack Whittaker / CNET: |
‘Censorship creep’: Pirate Bay block will affect one-third of U.K. — Censorship is a slippery slope. The United Kingdom: my home. Case in point. — Most U.K. customers accessing The Pirate Bay will see this, or a similar message. — (Credit: Zack Whittaker/CNET)
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Alan Turing: why the tech world's hero should be a household name — Turing Award winner / Chief internet evangelist, Google — The life and achievements of Alan Turing - the mathematician, codebreaker, computer pioneer, artificial intelligence theoretician, and gay/cultural icon …
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With 16 petaflops and 1.6M cores, DOE supercomputer is world's fastest — Giant cluster built to test nuclear weapons stockpile breaks HPC speed record. — An IBM technician loads CPUs into Sequoia, the world's fastest supercomputer. — Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory| Chris Velazco / TechCrunch: |
Does Auto Layout In iOS 6 Mean A Larger iPhone Screen Is Coming? — The WWDC keynote came and went with nary a mention of a new iPhone, but that didn't stop people from ruminating about Apple's newest mobile juggernaut. Apple's brass spent much of their time on-stage pulling back the curtains … Thanks:@sohear
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