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| Fred Wilson / A VC: |
Mobile Is Where The Growth Is — If you look at any of the top web properties on comScore, Quantcast, Alexa or any other third party reporting service you will see that they all have been fairly flat over the first half of the year. You might think that all these big web services are flatlining.
| Mathew Ingram / GigaOM: |
Careful, Twitter — remember what happened to MySpace and Digg — Twitter sent some shock waves through the technology community with a blog post on Friday that talked about its plans for the future, and suggested that those plans don't necessarily involve third-party services and apps.
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| Arnold Kim / MacRumors: |
Apple Shuts Down MobileMe, Data Available for ‘Limited Time’ — As promised, Apple has shut down the MobileMe web service but is still allowing users to migrate their data for a “limited time”. Apple had been sending out warnings to users of the impending shutdown.
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The Next Web, Macworld, MacStories, 9to5Mac, Fortune, CNET, The Verge, Gizmodo and CNET
| Nick Wingfield / Bits: |
The Well, a Pioneering Online Community, Is for Sale Again — Before Facebook, Twitter, Google — heck, even before the Web — there was The Well, an online discussion community founded in Northern California in 1985 that became home to the early denizens of what used to be called cyberspace.
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Looks Like Apple Has Changed Its App Store Algorithm Again — Last week we were alerted to an interesting tweak that had appeared in the Apple App Store: searches for apps were suddenly ranking results higher by user ratings and app descriptions, rather than the names of the apps themselves.
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iPhone Hacks, MacGazette, iDownloadBlog.com, AppleInsider, App Advice, TUAW, Inside Mobile Apps and Forbes
| Spencer Ackerman / Wired: |
It Only Took the Army 16 Years and 2 Wars to Deploy This Network — In October, the Army will do something it's wanted to do for more than a decade: send a pair of combat brigades to a warzone equipped with a new data network, and the hardware to operate it.
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Engadget, PC Magazine and PhoneArena
| Brian Prince / eWeek: |
Mac, Windows Malware Campaign Targets Uyghur Activists — Security pros have spotted a Mac Trojan and Windows malware being used separately in targeted attacks against political activists in Central Asia. — Researchers at Kaspersky Lab say Mac malware is being used in an advanced persistent …
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The Register, The Verge, threatpost, CNET, Alienvault Labs and Securelist
| Jeff Atwood / Coding Horror: |
The PHP Singularity — Look at this incredible thing Ian Baker created. Look at it! — What you're seeing is not Photoshopped. This is an actual photo of a real world, honest to God double-clawed hammer. Such a thing exists. Isn't that amazing? And also, perhaps, a little disturbing?
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rc3.org, Marco.org, Lucas Gonze's blog, Ian Landsman and Slashdot
| Kathleen De Vere / Inside Mobile Apps: |
The state of the Android platform: from monetization to China to the Nexus 7 — As Google's annual developer conference I/O winds down today, it's clear Google is trying to evolve Android — not only as a platform, but as an experience for both users and developers.
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| Matt Gemmell: |
Replying to App Store reviews — In the wake of the recent announcement that Google Play will allow developers to respond to user reviews of apps (Google Play being the Android version of Apple's iOS App Store, iBookstore and iTunes Store combined), there's been a resurgence of sentiment amongst iOS …
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Marco.org, furbo.org, Matthew Panzarino and The Loop
| Megha Rajagopalan / ProPublica: |
Cellphone Companies Will Share Your Location Data - Just Not With You — Cellphone companies hold onto your location information for years and routinely provide it to police and, in anonymized form, to outside companies. As they note in their privacy policies, Verizon, Sprint, AT&T … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Could Instagram And Other Sites Avoid Going Down With Amazon's Ship? — When we heard about Instagram (and other sites) going down when Amazon Web Services' North Virginia hub was hit by a storm — not the first time AWS has gone down (April 2011 was another notable outage) we couldn't help but wonder: could it have been avoided?
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