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| Chris Ziegler / The Verge: |
Apple v. Motorola: Judge Posner dismisses entire patent case, no injunctions to be issued — In US federal court this evening, Judge Richard Posner just ruled that the case of Apple versus Motorola will be dismissed in its entirety. The case, in which Apple alleged Motorola was in violation …
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Reuters, 9to5Mac, Chicago Sun Times, AppleInsider, GigaOM, Engadget, BetaNews, JD Supra, Android Police, CNET, AllThingsD and Ars Technica
| Jon Mitchell / ReadWriteWeb: |
Facebook's Zynga Alliance Demonstrates Its Threat to Google — Facebook knows who you are. Google knows what you're looking for. Which piece of information is more valuable? The future of online advertising - and the ad-driven, free sites we use every day - hinges on the answer.
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| Brittany Darwell / Inside Facebook: |
First hints of a Facebook ad network: Sponsored Stories appear on Zynga.com — Zynga's off-Facebook games platform Zynga.com now displays Facebook ads and Sponsored Stories, as part of what could be the beginnings of a Facebook ad network across the web. — According to the Facebook Help Center … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Private Facebook Data Powering Ads Outside Of Facebook — Is The World Ready? — Because investors sure are. Facebook's share price jumped up 3.8% to $33.05 today on news that it's now showing its ads on Zynga.com in a revenue sharing partnership. Most amazingly, neither the press nor users seem … | Om Malik / GigaOM: |
Google to launch Amazon, Microsoft cloud rival at Google I/O — Google is very likely to launch a cloud services platform at its annual developer conference, Google I/O next week in San Francisco. It was one of the topics of discussion in the hallways of our Structure 2012 conference.
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Android News, Rumours …, Ubergizmo, WebProNews, The Verge, ZDNet, Business Insider and Benzinga
| Thor Mitchell / Google Geo Developers Blog: |
Lower pricing and simplified limits with the Google Maps API — Since launching the Google Maps API seven years ago, we've been awed by the many ways developers have used the service to build great mapping apps. As you may know, last year we introduced limits on the number of free maps …
| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Apartment Search Engine PadMapper Gets A Cease-And-Desist From Craigslist, Removes Listings — It's been years since I've had to look for an apartment, but in that time multiple friends have sung the praises of PadMapper (TechCrunch alumnus Greg Kumparak is a fan too).| Paul Sandle / Reuters: |
Acer slates Microsoft's hardware push — (Reuters) - Acer, the world's fourth largest PC maker, has dismissed Microsoft's chances of becoming a rival to Apple by building its own devices and urged its software partner to focus on its new operating system instead.
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PhoneArena, AllThingsD, Shiny Objects, Daring Fireball, CNET, CNET and Engadget. Tweets: @pragpub
| Edmund Lee / Bloomberg: |
New York Times Said To Seek Tech-Savvy CEO For Comeback — New York Times Co. (NYT), seeking a chief executive officer who can reverse a six-year sales slump, is looking for a tech-savvy executive to help wring more revenue from the Internet, according to people familiar with the matter.| Aaron Souppouris / The Verge: |
SSD prices plummeted by 48 percent over the past year — While traditional hard drive pricing remains inflated after last year's Thai floods, the cost of SSDs continues to drop. The Tech Report took a look at the average cost of a number of popular solid state drives over the past year … | Charles Arthur / Guardian: |
Facebook's Instagram bid to be probed by OFT — Office of Fair Trading concerned social network might prevent picture uploads to other sites from the app — The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) is to investigate Facebook's $1bn bid for Instagram, because it is concerned the giant social network …
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| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
RIAA's New War: Shutting Down The Equivalent Of Internet VCRs — The entertainment industry just won't quit trying to kill perfectly legal technologies with substantial non-infringing uses. Back during the big legal fight over Grokster, the RIAA insisted that it had absolutely no interest …
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What's Ailing Google Chief? — Google Inc. GOOG +1.11% says Chief Executive Larry Page has “lost his voice,” but it won't say much more about the matter. Some corporate governance experts think the Internet company should speak up. The billionaire co-founder missed Google's annual meeting Thursday …
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| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Comcast Wins Protest Against “Shake Down” of BitTorrent Pirates — The place where breaking news, BitTorrent and copyright collide — Comcast Wins Protest Against “Shake Down” of BitTorrent Pirates — A big win for Comcast and its subscribers in a federal court in Illinois.
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| Ricardo Bilton / VentureBeat: |
Sony sinks $997M into camera sensor production as revenue slides — With a $5.7 billion loss in 2011, Sony is coming off its worst year ever. Blame the Thailand floods or its collapsing TV business, but either way the result is the same: Sony needs more income. — It may have a plan to make that happen.
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Sony Global, CNET, TechSpot, 1001 Noisy Cameras, The Verge, PC World, Reuters and Engadget
| Deborah Netburn / Los Angeles Times: |
Online donations to bullied bus monitor Karen Klein top $540,000 — People of the Internet donated more than $500,000 in just 48 hours to send a bullied bus monitor on a vacation. — People of the Internet, you did it: In less than 48 hours you managed to raise more than half a million dollars … | Mary Branscombe / TechRadar.com: |
Hands on: Microsoft Surface tablet review — An in-depth look at the new player in the tablet race — 1.Overview and design — Update: We've spent some time updating our experience with the Microsoft Surface tablet's interface - including detailing that elusive portrait mode.
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Marketing Land, Techie Buzz, MobileSyrup.com, Techland, Bloomberg, Business Insider, PhoneArena, TechRadar.com, Unwired View and Computerworld. Tweets: @dannysullivan
| Basil Katz / Reuters: |
U.S. judge sets 2013 trial date for Apple e-book lawsuit — (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Friday set a 2013 trial date for a lawsuit from the U.S. government accusing Apple and book publishers of conspiring to fix the prices of electronic books. — Following a hearing in Manhattan federal court …
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AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, The Next Web and Engadget
| Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal: |
Domain Wheeling and Dealing — Applicants for New Web Extensions Head to Icann Meeting to Gauge Competition — Entrepreneurs and big companies are battling one another for the rights to manage hot new Web address endings, including .app, .home and .book.
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| Sean Buckley / Engadget: |
Nintendo announces $199 3DS XL with 4.88-inch top screen, available August 19th — Folks holding their breath for a “3DS Lite” might want to exhale — Nintendo has decided to go a different route. Company head honcho Satoru Iwata revealed the 3DS LL these evening on Nintendo Direct … | Don Reisinger / CNET: |
Apple's iPad costs you $1.36 per year to charge — Apple's iPad costs precious little for you to charge it each year, according to a new study. — The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) conducted a study recently to see how much the iPad costs in electricity if users fully charge it every other day.
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my.epri.com, App Advice, The Register, TUAW, GigaOM, Macgasm and Datamation.com
| Aaron Souppouris / The Verge: |
HTC reportedly halting all phone sales in Brazil — Reports indicate that HTC is canceling the planned launch of its One series in Brazil and ending all phone sales in the country. As it's exiting the Brazilian market, a number of HTC's employees will lose their jobs … Sponsor Posts
Channel 9:
Defrag Tools: WPT - Command Line — Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder, and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT).
Defrag Tools: WPT - Command Line — Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder, and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT).
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:
Love, Magic, & APIs — I will confess, I am old enough to remember my GeoCities page. Don't hate. It was amazing, it was... this transformative moment in which I took real, actual information, and transformed it into something visible and memorable.
Love, Magic, & APIs — I will confess, I am old enough to remember my GeoCities page. Don't hate. It was amazing, it was... this transformative moment in which I took real, actual information, and transformed it into something visible and memorable.
Hortonworks » Blog:
Hadoop, Hadoop, Hurrah! HDP for Windows is Now GA! — Today we are very excited to announce that Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDP for Windows) is now generally available and ready to support the most demanding production workloads.
Hadoop, Hadoop, Hurrah! HDP for Windows is Now GA! — Today we are very excited to announce that Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDP for Windows) is now generally available and ready to support the most demanding production workloads.
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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