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Surface by Microsoft — From touch to type, office to living room, from your screen to the big screen, you can see more, share more, and do more with Surface. Create, collaborate, and get stuff done with Office. Explore your world with fast, fluid Windows 8 apps.
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Microsoft Announces Surface: New Family of PCs for Windows — Microsoft-made hardware to be available starting with release of Windows 8 and Windows RT. — Today at an event in Hollywood, Microsoft unveiled Surface: PCs built to be the ultimate stage for Windows.
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Thanks:@ryanburk| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Microsoft announces new 10.6″ Microsoft Surface tablets, running Windows 8 in RT and ‘Pro’ flavors — Microsoft held an event today at Milk Studios in Hollywood CA, where it announced its new line of Microsoft Surface tablets, devices that it calls a ‘whole new family of computing devices’.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Microsoft Surface with Windows RT hands-on pictures and video — Here it is, Microsoft Surface, the all new, Microsoft-made tablet. We just had our hands on the sleek new device, and we must say — it does feel incredibly well designed. — Microsoft is only showing off the Windows RT version … | Darren Murph / Engadget: |
Microsoft Surface tablets: the differences between Windows RT and Windows 8 Pro models — Surfaces. Turns out, the plural form of Microsoft's new tablet range rolls off of the tongue with ease, but understanding the differences between the first two models may not be quite as easy — particularly for the everyman.
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| Dan Frommer / SplatF: |
Microsoft Finally Has A Tablet Business Model With Surface — Microsoft just unveiled its new tablet, Surface. It actually looks pretty nice, though I obviously have no idea if it works well or is worth buying. You can find the details, as they become available, on Techmeme.| Nathan Ingraham / The Verge: |
Microsoft Surface Touch Cover has a full multitouch keyboard and touchpad — As part of its announcement of the Microsoft Surface tablet, the company just revealed that the Surface Touch Cover will contain an integrated multitouch keyboard and trackpad. As Steven Sinofsky said when introducing …
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| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Microsoft's First Surface Video Is Super Serious, in a Techno-Funk Kinda Way — What does Microsoft's Surface tablet look like? What kind of specs does it boast? Head over to Ina Fried's liveblog, for all of those details, right now. — How does Microsoft want you to feel about the Surface?| Peter Rojas / gdgt: |
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Awesome News - Facebook Acquires Face.com — Facebook has acquired Face.com! Our mission is and has always been to find new and exciting ways to make face recognition a fun, engaging part of people's lives, and incorporate remarkable technology into everyday consumer products.
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| Mg Siegler / TechCrunch: |
The MacBook Pro Strikes Back (With Retina Power) — It was nearly two years ago that I said goodbye to my MacBook Pro. I loved the device, but the new MacBook Air was that good. My Pro — which was only six months old at the time! — seemed like total overkill for my computing needs.| Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
Oracle Kills It in Q4, Buys Back $10 Billion Worth of Shares — Oracle just released its fourth-quarter earnings results three days earlier than planned, and they're a lot stronger than anyone expected. — The highlight is that it beat the consensus EPS by four cents … | Peter Farago / The Flurry Blog: |
Microsoft May Be Closer Than It Appears in Android's Rearview Mirror — This week, wedged between Apple's WWDC and Google I/O is Microsoft's Windows Phone Summit in San Francisco on Wednesday, June 20. Additionally, Microsoft is holding a last-minute press conference that “you don't want to miss” tonight in Los Angeles.
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| Basil Katz / Reuters: |
Ex-AT&T employee admits leaking Apple, RIM info — (Reuters) - A former AT&T (T.N) employee admitted on Monday to sharing company secrets such as sales numbers for Apple Inc's (AAPL.O) iPhone to traders who illegally bought shares on the information. — Alnoor Ebrahim, 57 …
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| Zachary Lutz / Engadget: |
Nokia 808 PureView announced for US, available soon through Amazon at $699 — Color us surprised — or whatever the antonym of that word may be — but Nokia has announced the availability of its 41-megapixel 808 PureView smartphone for the United States, which will be distributed through Amazon.
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| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Sonos Raises $135 Million From KKR, Redpoint, Elevation — Wireless music systems maker Sonos has a round of primary and secondary financing of $135 million, a figure that is more than double what it has previously raised in total, according to sources close to the situation.
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Previously jailbreak only, Apple allows iOS Display Recorder app into App Store — The ability to record your iOS display was a functionality previously limited to a Cydia app for jailbroken iPhone users that is called “Display Recorder.” As noted by JBN, Apple has allowed an app of the same name … | Goodfilms: |
Netflix Quietly Smothers 3rd Party App Ecosystem — On Friday afternoon, Netflix published a blog post announcing a breaking change to their API, and dedicated a small paragraph to the fact that their API terms of use had been updated. On a technical level, these changes will cripple …
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Introducing Thimble: webmaking made easy — Today we are proud to launch a new Mozilla Webmaker app to the world. Meet Thimble, the new tool that makes it incredibly simple for anyone to create and share their own web pages and other projects in minutes. — Thimble is webmaking made easy.| Om Malik / GigaOM: |
Twitter slowly unfolding its search ambitions — It has been fairly obvious for a few years that the search-driven, URL-centric web would converge with the web of social objects. It is something that is driving Google's paranoia. It is also something Facebook dreams about.
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Backpage.com and the prostitution law that could take down Twitter, YouTube, and Wikipedia — If you want to pay for sex in the United States — or offer sex services for a fee — and you'd rather not troll derelict city street corners late at night, chances are you're going to use backpage.com.| Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal: |
App Developers Who Are Too Young to Drive — Paul Dunahoo went on a business trip to San Francisco last week, where he attended technical sessions at Apple Inc.'s developer conference, networked with other programmers and received feedback from Apple engineers on his six productivity apps.
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| Adam Lashinsky / Fortune: |
Where LinkedIn is headed next — CEO Jeff Weiner discussed the volatility of the stock's first year, as well as the company's plans for future growth. … ADAM LASHINSKY: Okay, so extremely exciting time here a year after your IPO. IPOs are all the rage again with Facebook's IPO.
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WebProNews and Business Insider
| Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
Sharp partners with design agency frog to launch Feel UX, another unique Android user interface — Sharp has become the latest in a long line of Android smartphone makers to announce that it is to build a customized user interface for the platform, partnering with design agency ‘frog’ to launch “Feel UX” later this summer.| PC Magazine: |
Exclusive: Testing Sprint's New 4G LTE Network — Sprint will be switching on its 4G LTE network soon. We got an exclusive first glimpse as part of our Fastest Mobile Networks project. — Sprint's 3G network is painfully slow. Its old 4G WiMAX network has been punted over to Virgin and Boost.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 …
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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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