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Facebook e-mail mess: Address books altered; e-mail lost — An alarming number of people are reporting that the new e-mail address Facebook forced on users this week is changing their address books while intercepting and losing unknown amounts of e-mail. — Facebook users say contacts' e …
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| Dave Copeland / ReadWriteWeb: |
Facebook Blames Email Problems On User “Confusion” — If you're missing email messages, don't blame Facebook: The social network says you are simply “confused.” — Facebook spent a second straight weekend dealing with complaints from users about a switch in the default user email addresses … | Horace Dediu / asymco: |
RIM's tailspin — The number of BlackBerry phones sold fell 41% year-on-year in the last RIM fiscal quarter. Sequentially the fall was 30%. Though surprisingly poor, I note that Nokia's smartphone business fell even more dramatically last quarter (down 50% y/y and 39% sequentially).| Brooke Crothers / CNET: |
The other Windows 8 hits some snags — Microsoft Surface tablet packing an Nvidia ARM chip. — (Credit: Microsoft) — Don't be surprised if the other version of Windows 8 — you know, the one that doesn't run on Intel chips — stumbles out of the gate.
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| Brian X. Chen / New York Times: |
Uber, an App That Summons a Car, Plans a Cheaper Service Using Hybrids — Uber, a start-up based in San Francisco, has won a following among urbanites with its novel twist on calling a car service: its app lets you summon a luxury sedan with a tap on your phone.
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A Solution to the Twitter API Problem — I am writing this article because I love Twitter, and I've built a business around making sense of Twitter data. — I am concerned by the recent “ominous” signs that Twitter may be heading down a path towards becoming a closed platform … | Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
Dell acquires Quest Software for $2.4 billion to expand its security and data solutions — Strengthening its systems management, security and data protection services, Dell has agreed to acquire enterprise software specialists Quest Software for $2.4 billion, at $28.00 per share.| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Apple agrees to pay Proview $60m to settles China iPad trademark dispute — Apple has ended the ongoing issue surrounding the ownership of the iPad trademark in China by agreeing to pay Taiwanese firm Proview $60 million, according to AP reports. — Proview has been on negotiating for some time …
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| Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE gets July 5 release date, available on Verizon for $149.99 — Launched at this year's CTIA Wireless 2012 event, HTC's Droid Incredible 4G LTE has finally received a release date, coming to Verizon stores and its website on July 5 for a price of $149.99 (after rebate) on a two year contract.| Chris Velazco / TechCrunch: |
Mozilla's Boot To Gecko Becomes Firefox OS, Scores Support From Sprint, Deutsche Telekom, ZTE, And More — Mozilla's Boot to Gecko project has come a long way in just under a year — what began with the idea of building a mobile operating system based on open web standards like HTML5 has led …
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| Dante D'Orazio / The Verge: |
VLC 2.0.2 adds Retina display support, kills font cache, and more — VLC 2.0.2 has just been released for Windows and OS X, and while the update further tweaks video playback on both platforms, the major changes come to the version for Apple's desktop OS. For those who took the plunge …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
MasterCard Ties Up With T-Mobile For NFC Mobile Payments In Europe — Another strong step ahead of mobile payments today: MasterCard and Deutsche Telekom have announced that they will work together to roll out services across DT's footprint in Europe, starting with an NFC wallet solution …
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| Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
VLC for Android beta officially launches, now available to download on Google Play — After years in development, the VideoLAN team have finally launched their popular VLC video player on Android, meaning that if you own one of the newer ARMv7-powered Android devices, you will be able …
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| Zack Whittaker / CNET: |
Nokia: We have a Windows Phone ‘contingency plan’ — Nokia has a plan in its back pocket should a deal with Microsoft fall through, or the forthcoming Windows Phone 8 software update fail to generate interest, according to Nokia's board chairman. — Speaking on his debut television appearance …
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| Mike Snider / USA Today: |
Beats Electronics acquires MOG music service — Beats Electronics, the company best known for its Beats By Dr. Dre headphones, is acquiring the online music service MOG. — The parties did not disclose the terms of the acquisition, the first for the company co-founded by rapper and producer …
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| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Google Glass Team: ‘Wearable Computing Will Be the Norm’ — Even though I followed Google's I/O Conference from across the country, the event made it obvious that a company created with a strict focus on search has become an omnivorous factory of tech products both hard and soft.Sponsor Posts
Microsoft BizSpark:
Featured Startup on Windows 8 - Spotted Zebra — Spotted Zebra is a one-man independent game company focused on making original games for new platforms. You will notice one thing about Spotted Zebra right away — that name.
Featured Startup on Windows 8 - Spotted Zebra — Spotted Zebra is a one-man independent game company focused on making original games for new platforms. You will notice one thing about Spotted Zebra right away — that name.
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:
99.999 Is Not Enough: An OpenCloud Approach to Delivering Application Uptime and Performance — Executive Summary — The pressure to keep vital applications online and performing well is extreme.
99.999 Is Not Enough: An OpenCloud Approach to Delivering Application Uptime and Performance — Executive Summary — The pressure to keep vital applications online and performing well is extreme.
Hortonworks » Blog:
University makes major investment in big data development — As news of the benefits provided by big data platforms such as Apache Hadoop spreads, more organizations are investing in the burgeoning technology.
University makes major investment in big data development — As news of the benefits provided by big data platforms such as Apache Hadoop spreads, more organizations are investing in the burgeoning technology.Who's Hiring In Tech?
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