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| Jay Yarow / Business Insider: |
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.”
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| Peter Ha / TechCrunch: |
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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See also Mediagazer| 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 … | Paul Sonne / Wall Street Journal: |
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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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Screenwerk, New York Times, BuzzFeed, Anil Dash, GigaOM, TUAW and iPhone Alley
| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
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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| 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 … | Jung-Ah Lee / Wall Street Journal: |
Samsung CEO Calls for Software Improvements — SEOUL—Samsung Electronics Co.'s new chief executive on Monday reiterated the need for the company to beef up its software competence in order to maintain its leading position in the technology industry. — Over the past year …
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| 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 … | Joseph Menn / Reuters: |
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 …
| 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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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
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| Kim Zetter / Wired: |
Arvind Narayanan Isn't Anonymous, and Neither Are You — World's Most Wired — Arvind Narayanan — Arvind Narayanan in his tiny office at Stanford University, where he has been working on a post-doc. The chair on the desktop at left serves as a makeshift standing-desk for him.
| Vint Cerf / BBC: |
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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| 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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