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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.”| 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.| 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 … | 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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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.| 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 … | 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| Jung-Ah Lee / Wall Street Journal: |
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Bizarre security vulnerability found in every x86-64 Intel processor — Given how long 64-bit processors have been on the market, it's a bit surprising to see a vulnerability that takes advantage of AMD's x86-64 instruction set on Intel processors surface this late in the game.| Joseph Menn / Reuters: |
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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.| Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
Samsung Makes Galaxy S III and Other Android Devices Enterprise-Ready — One of the big things that IT departments at big companies are coping with these days is the BYOD — bring your own device -trend. It refers to the tendency of people to take their personally owned mobile phones … | 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 … | Rip Empson / TechCrunch: |
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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.
Featured Startup - FormVerse — If there was one tool not made for effective work, it would have to be email. If you take silos of information, and a chronological effect, where old or new is piled on top of each other …
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 …
DevOps: Improved Productivity, Higher Value — Those of us who have been aligned with DevOps for some time already know that the greater agility and closer collaboration it enables deliver real business value for our organizations.
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.
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.This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 11:55 AM ET, June 18, 2012.
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