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WSJ Live Blog: Blackberry Maker RIM's Earnings Call — The grim news continues from BlackBerry maker Research in Motion. Today it reported its first quarterly operating loss in seven years, as revenue fell 33% from a year earlier. And it will be laying off 5,000 jobs-about one-third of its workforce …
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Guardian, PC World, AllThingsD and TechCrunch
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RIM posts huge Q1 miss: First net loss in 8 years, BlackBerry 10 launch delayed, 5,000 jobs cut — Analysts anticipated another miss ahead of Research In Motion's first-quarter earnings report on Thursday as sales continue to stall ahead of the struggling smartphone vendor's …
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Engadget, GigaOM, The Next Web, AllThingsD, eWeek, DailyTech, PhoneArena and CNET
| Chris Velazco / TechCrunch: |
RIM's Q1 2013 Results: $518 Million Loss On $2.8 Billion In Revenue, BlackBerry 10 Launch Pushed To 2013 — RIM has just released their Q1 2013 financials, and they're about as bleak as the company expected. The Canadian company reported a loss of $518 million (which breaks down to $0.99/share diluted) on revenues of $2.8 billion.| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
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Fortune, Gizmodo and The Loop
Tweets: @johnpaczkowski, @zpower, @ldignan, @edbott, @parislemon, @spencerante and @nichcarlson
| Laura June / The Verge: |
Google announces Chrome for iPhone and iPad, available today — On stage at Google I/O, Brian Rakowski, Vice President of the Chrome division at Google has just announced Chrome for iPhone and iPad. It's something iOS users have been asking for for a very long time, and plenty of people will be happy.
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PC World, VentureBeat, AllThingsD, Business Insider, ZDNet, TechCrunch, Engadget, ABCNEWS, LAPTOP Magazine, BetaNews, Social Markets, MacRumors, Mashable!, 9to5Google, 9to5Google, iPhone Hacks, SlashGear, PC Magazine, AnandTech, Gotta Be Mobile and Daring Fireball. Tweets: @parislemon
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The Problem With Chrome For iOS — Don't get me wrong, I would love Chrome on my iPhone and iPad. But Chrome for iOS isn't really Chrome — it's a much slower version of Mobile Safari. — Facebook revealed yesterday that it is finally making a real, fully native iOS app.| Brian Klug / AnandTech: |
Some Impressions and Benchmarks from Chrome on iOS — Earlier today, Google announced Chrome for iOS (iPhone and iPad), and thanks to Richard Gaywood finding a direct link to the App Store, I got the chance to play around with it in-between a busy schedule of sessions and meetings at I/O 2012.
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| Scott Knaster / Google Developers Blog: |
Google Compute Engine: Computing without limits — Over the years, Google has built some of the most high performing, scalable and efficient data centers in the world by constantly refining our hardware and software. Since 2008, we've been working to open up our infrastructure to outside developers …
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ZDNet, ReadWriteWeb, AllThingsD, The New Persuaders, Forbes, ProgrammableWeb, BetaNews, Computerworld, GeekWire, Engadget, Computerworld, Data Center Knowledge, ZDNet, The Verge, Ars Technica, the Econsultancy blog, The Diversity Blog, Slashdot, GigaOM, Numerate Company Blog, TechCrunch and The Next Web
Tweets: @levie and @davewiner
| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Google launches alleged Amazon Web Services killer, but lacks maturity, options — Summary: Google has thrown down a Amazon Web Services challenge, but has a way to go to match its rival on breadth and depth. — Google launched Compute Engine Infrastructure as a Service in a bid …
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Google Enterprise Blog, WebProNews and CNET
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Hands On With Google Drive On iOS — As promised at this morning's Google I/O conference, Google has launched a version of its Google Drive application on iOS today, which offers native support for the service formerly known as Google Docs on both iPhone and iPad.
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The Verge, MacStories, Redmond Pie and iPhone
| Joseph Volpe / Engadget: |
Google announces offline editing for Docs, available later today — We're live at day two of I/O and the theme of this keynote is all about “Going Google.” With this focus on Mountain View's various cloud-based apps, Clay Bavar, Director of Product Management for Google Apps, announced that Docs will now work offline for editing.
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PandoDaily, VentureBeat, TechCrunch and Docs Blog
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| Tim Stevens / Engadget: |
Nexus 7 review: the best $200 tablet you can buy — In 2008, when the Eee PC was revolutionizing the computing world and driving every manufacturer to make cheaper and smaller laptops, Sony washed its hands of the whole thing. The “race to the bottom,” the company said … | Brian Klug / AnandTech: |
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The Next Web, ExtremeTech, AllThingsD, Engadget, Business Insider, Washington Post, Telegraph and PhoneArena. Thanks:@nerdtalker
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft details its Windows 8 upgrade plans — Summary: Microsoft is getting closer to the Windows 8 finish line, and is finalizing details like its upgrade paths from older Windows releases to the coming version. — Microsoft has shared with select partners some specifics …
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The Verge, Business Insider, Engadget, Wired, TechSpot, The Next Web and Neowin
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Microsoft Said To Plan Xbox Music Rivaling Apple, Spotify — Attendees at the E3 Expo in Los Angeles, June 5, 2012. Microsoft Corp. expanded the sports and entertainment content offered through the Xbox, and is planning to add iTunes and Spotify for music.| Om Malik / GigaOM: |
Google vs everyone: an epic war on many fronts — June, it seems, is the season for new product announcements in Silicon Valley. At its annual WWDC shindig, Apple announced a slew of new products including its hot-new Macbook Pro with Retina display and iOS 6.
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BGR, TechCrunch, GeekWire, Search Engine Watch, 9to5Google, Gotta Be Mobile, ZDNet, SocialTimes, VoIP Watch, Webomatica and CNET
| Kashmir Hill / The Not-So Private Parts: |
Supreme Court Disappoints Facebook, LinkedIn, Zynga and Yahoo — Supreme Court disappointed Obamacare haters and tech firms today — The big Supreme Court news today is that Obamacare got five thumbs up from the Court, meaning the president probably did this at some point this morning.
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eWeek, PE Hub Blog and WebProNews
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Apple Said To Prepare ITunes Changes To Improve Sharing — Apple Inc. (AAPL) plans an overhaul of iTunes that would mark one of the largest changes to the world's biggest music store since its 2003 debut, according to people with direct knowledge of the matter.
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Fortune, GigaOM, BGR, DailyTech, msnbc.com, PC Magazine, Pocketnow, Evolver.fm, AllThingsD, Kirkville, Know Your Cell, VentureBeat, TUAW, Macgasm, MacStories, Los Angeles Times, digitaltrends.com, The Tech Trade, iPhone Hacks, 9to5Mac, everythingiCafe, Gizmodo, TechSpot, Business Insider, Softpedia News and WebProNews. Tweets: @johnpaczkowski
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China to launch Netflix-like movie service — (Reuters) - The government-run China Movie Channel will launch an online service like Netflix in China this year, promising a big new revenue source for Hollywood from streaming its films and TV shows to subscribers in the world's most populous nation.
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Hollywood Reporter, NBC Bay Area and Variety
| Barry Collins / PC Pro: |
Why Microsoft killed the Windows Start button — Microsoft claims it took the controversial decision to remove the Start button from the traditional Windows desktop because people had stopped using it. — The lack of a Start button on the Windows 8 desktop has been one of the most divisive elements of the new user interface.
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CNET, VentureBeat, DailyTech, TechSpot and Gizmodo
| Ben Jones / TorrentFreak: |
Megaupload Search Warrants Ruled Illegal by High Court — A case that seemed, just 5 months ago, to be a veritable David and Goliath fight is certainly living up to its billing. — The battle between Megaupload (David) and the US Government and the MPAA (Goliath) started out with a flurry … | Chris Pendleton / Bing: |
Bing Venue Maps Goes International Adding Thousands of Shopping Malls — Whether you live in Poland or Spain, Russia or Belgium, or pretty much anywhere in-between, you will now be able to explore your local shopping mall through Bing maps - helping you locate the stores you are looking for …
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Search Engine Land, The Verge, Ubergizmo, WebProNews, All Points Blog, Inquirer, LiveSide.net and Neowin
| Laura June / The Verge: |
The Modbook Pro returns, morphing a MacBook Pro into a pen-based tablet — You may recall a little product called the Modbook, an after-market mod for Apple's MacBooks. The mod kits — which have previously cost upwards of $5,000 — turns a MacBook Pro into a tablet computer by ripping off …
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TUAW, 9to5Mac, Engadget, MacRumors, Ars Technica, Liliputing and CNET
| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Rupert Murdoch Announces The News Corp. Divorce: The Full Memo — Here's Rupert Murdoch's official “internal” announcement explaining the News Corp. split. — The important stuff: — Murdoch will remain CEO of both the publishing business and the entertainment business.| Andrew Webster / The Verge: |
Verizon's ‘Share Everything’ plans are now available — As promised, Verizon's new “Share Everything” plans have launched today. The new packages let you share voice, text messages, and data across multiple devices, including smartphones and tablets. The plans will cost you between $50 and $100 …
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9to5Mac
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Instagram moves closer to the Web, overhauls page design to allow likes and comments from the browser — To our surprise, Instagram has quietly updated its Web presence to allow for comments and likes (example). More than anything else, this move, which the company calls “the new Photo Page … | Aaron Souppouris / The Verge: |
National Weather Service to send severe weather warnings directly to smartphones — Starting today, the National Weather Service (NWS) will send severe weather warnings to smartphone users in the path of dangerous conditions. The Wireless Emergency Alerts system will notify people of approaching tornadoes … Sponsor Posts
Channel 9:
Inside NuGet for C++ — NuGet support for C++ projects in Visual Studio has arrived in NuGet 2.5! It's been around for about a month now so we figured we'd go talk to one of the developers who helped make it happen, Garrett Serack.
Inside NuGet for C++ — NuGet support for C++ projects in Visual Studio has arrived in NuGet 2.5! It's been around for about a month now so we figured we'd go talk to one of the developers who helped make it happen, Garrett Serack.
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:
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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