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‘Find Friends Nearby’: Facebook's New Mobile Feature For Finding People Around You [Updated] — Facebook has created a new feature that lets users find friends and potential friends nearby. Initially called “Friendshake” and also accessible through a URL that is the abbreviation of … | Nick Wingfield / New York Times: |
With Tablet, Microsoft Takes Aim at Hardware Missteps — SEATTLE — Around the time the iPad came out more than two years ago, Microsoft executives got an eye-opening jolt about how far Apple would go to gain an edge for its products. — Microsoft learned through industry sources that Apple …
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Microsoft: Apostasy Or Head Fake? — My appetite whetted by three days of rumors, I went online last Monday and watched Microsoft introduce its Surface tablets. After the previous false starts — the moribund Tablet PC and the still-born Courier — Microsoft finally took matters into its own hands.
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RIM may sell handset business, according to The Sunday Times — The Sunday Times reports today that RIM is considering a plan to split its handset division and messaging network into two separate companies, and will sell off the struggling BlackBerry hardware business.| Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
Winamp's woes: how the greatest MP3 player undid itself — 15 years on, Winamp still lives—but mismanagement blunted its llama-whipping. Tens of millions of Winamp users are still out there. MP3s are so natural to the Internet now that it's almost hard to imagine a time before high-quality compressed music.| Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
Google TV goes international, Sony NSZ-GS7 set-top box up for preorder in the US and UK — Sony mentioned during CES 2012 that it would bring its Google TV-powered hardware to Europe this summer, and now it's official. Along with Google, it's announced preorders are available …
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Fast Company, The Next Web, Inquirer, Gizmodo, The Verge, Electronista, Softpedia News, The Verge and Guardian
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The New York Times Brings All Its Content to Flipboard — and Its Pay Wall, Too — Times Calls Move Part of ‘NYT Everywhere’ Strategy — The New York Times has found a way to finally make all its content available on Flipboard, the popular reading app for tablets and smartphones: It's bringing its pay meter to Flipboard as well.
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AllThingsD, Business Wire, Bits, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, CNET, The Next Web, JIMROMENESKO.COM and The Verge
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Apple To Feature Yelp Check-Ins Within IPhone Maps App — Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s coming iPhone map application will include Yelp Inc. (YELP)'s “check-in” feature to let users broadcast their whereabouts to friends, according to materials Apple distributed to software developers.
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Business Insider, 9to5Mac and iDownloadBlog.com
| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Samsung expects sales of the Galaxy S3 to pass 10 million during July — Mobile giant Samsung has said that it expects that cumulative global sales of its the Galaxy S III, its latest flagship smartphone, will pass 10 million units during next month, as it begins to see the effects of launching in the US and other significant markets.
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digitaltrends.com, Reuters, Guardian, The Verge, TechEye, Bloomberg, The Verge, Engadget, SlashGear, Wall Street Journal, IntoMobile and Pocketnow
| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Boxopus Downloads Torrents Directly to Your Dropbox — Founded in 2007, Dropbox has quickly become the leading player in cloud hosting and synchronization services. — The service is loved by many for its ease of use, and thanks to the newly launched Boxopus site, BitTorrent users … | Megan Garber / The Atlantic Online: |
Apple Wants to Protect Your Identity ... by Cloning You — The company just acquired a patent aimed at fighting the Internet's “Little Brothers.” — It's common to worry about Big Brother. But what about ... Big Brother's brothers? — As one company put it,
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| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
PayPal Bans BitTorrent Friendly VPN Provider — In response to new Internet surveillance initiatives there is a growing interest in privacy enhancing services such as VPNs and proxies. — TorGuard is one of the many companies catering to this demand. As the name suggests …
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Windows Store Weekly — This week we take a look at: Star Trek App, Box, Fling Theory, StumbleUpon, and wordBrush.
Windows Store Weekly — This week we take a look at: Star Trek App, Box, Fling Theory, StumbleUpon, and wordBrush.
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:
An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
Hortonworks » Blog:
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.
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.
Unison's blog:
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.
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.Who's Hiring In Tech?
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