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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 … | 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 …
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Announcing The Declaration Of Internet Freedom — A whole bunch of organizations and individuals are getting together today to launch the beginning of a process, the creation of an Internet Declaration of Freedom. We've seen how the internet has been under attack from various directions … | 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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| 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 … | Surur / WMPoweruser: |
New Arc soft keyboard may be coming to Windows Phone 8 — More than a year ago we reported on Microsoft designing a “one handed and next gen soft keyboard” for Windows Phone 8. — We now have a picture of the keyboard in question, courtesy of a leaked Microsoft Research presentation.| 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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Amazon's Flow App Brings Barcode Scanning & Augmented Reality To Android Users — Amazon Flow, the barcode scanning/augmented reality app from Amazon subsidiary A9.com, has arrived on Android today, following its November 2011 iOS debut. To refresh your memory, the app lets shoppers scan things like CDs … | Jack Neff / AdAge: |
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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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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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PC World, Examiner, SiliconANGLE, Pocket-lint, VentureBeat, bigstory.ap.org, Reuters, Macworld, Wall Street Journal, The Verge, MacRumors, Forbes, BGR, The Register, GigaOM, Gotta Be Mobile, Geekosystem, MacNN, Computerworld, BBC, iMore, App Advice, Mashable!, memeburn, IntoMobile, Guardian, TechnoBuffalo, TechEye, Neowin, SlashGear, WebProNews, iClarified, CNET, Fortune, Electricpig.co.uk, Engadget, AppleInsider, Business Insider, Pulse2 Technology …, PadGadget and Inquirer. Tweets: @ap
| Nova Spivack: |
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 …
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InfoWorld, The Register, hypebot, SocialTimes, Computer Business Review, Open IT Strategies, CNET and API Voice. Thanks:@novaspivack
| Mat Smith / Engadget: |
Samsung launches S Health services: Monitors weight, blood sugar and graphs it all — Samsung mentioned its S Health app in passing during the grand unveiling of the Galaxy S III — presumably due to the glut of similarly S-suffixed apps and services that were also unveiled.
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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 … | Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune: |
Net Applications: iOS Web share hit record 65.3% in June — Android grew faster (38% to 24.5% year over year) but still trails the iPhone/iPad combo — FORTUNE — The presence of Apple's (AAPL) mobile devices on the Web continues to surge according to Net Applications and StatCounter …
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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: |
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.Sponsor Posts
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Announcing TypeScript 0.9: Generics and More — Anders Hejlsberg, Steve Lucco, and Luke Hoban join us for a conversation about TypeScript 0.9. TypeScript now has generics! (and more)
Announcing TypeScript 0.9: Generics and More — Anders Hejlsberg, Steve Lucco, and Luke Hoban join us for a conversation about TypeScript 0.9. TypeScript now has generics! (and more)
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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