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Here Comes Nexus 7 Nightmare: The IPad Mini — Apple Inc. (AAPL) plans to debut a smaller, cheaper iPad by year-end, two people with knowledge of the plans said, to help maintain dominance of the tablet market as Google Inc. (GOOG) and Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) prepare competing handheld devices.| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Apple Planning for 7.85-Inch ‘iPad Mini’ with IGZO Display Later This Year? — Claims of an “iPad mini” have been circulating for some time now, with a number of the reports indicating that Apple is planning to launch the device with a 7.85-inch display later this year.| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Google, Samsung to Release Software Patch To Keep Galaxy Nexus on the Market — Google isn't taking a sales ban on the Galaxy Nexus lying down. — First and foremost, Samsung and Google have a software patch that they believe avoids infringing the Apple patent that led to the injunction.| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Judge Denies Reprieve in Galaxy Nexus Case, Allowing Sales Ban to Take Effect — A federal judge on Tuesday refused to hold off on an injunction that prevents U.S. sales of the Galaxy Nexus smartphone, ruling that Samsung is unlikely to prevail in a patent infringement suit brought by Apple.| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Galaxy Nexus no longer available to purchase from Google Play website, will return next week — In April, Google started selling unlocked Samsung Galaxy Nexus smartphones from its own store, for $399 a pop. Six days ago, the price dropped to $349. Now, however, the phone is listed as “coming soon” on Google's website.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google Shutdowns Continue: iGoogle, Google Video, Google Mini & Others Are Killed — Google is continuing to shut down services which aren't core to its business - something it has been actively doing ever since Google co-founder Larry Page took over as CEO.| Vanity Fair: |
Microsoft's Downfall: Inside the Executive E-mails and Cannibalistic Culture That Felled a Tech Giant — Analyzing one of American corporate history's greatest mysteries—the lost decade of Microsoft—two-time George Polk Award winner (and V.F.'s newest contributing editor) Kurt Eichenwald traces the … | Halberenson / Hal's (Im)Perfect Vision: |
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Nexus 7 Teardown — Google announced the Nexus 7 at their I/O keynote on June 27, 2012. Five days later, we tore one down. Some are calling the Nexus 7 a ‘Kindle Fire killer,’ but can it stack up to the Fire's impressive eight out of ten repairability score? We just had to find out.| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Kim Dotcom: Joe Biden Ordered the Megaupload Shutdown — When Megaupload was raided in January, questions were raised as to why the U.S. Government acted so aggressively against a company that seemingly played by the rules. — It's no secret that the MPAA provides the authorities with … | Jonathan Hutchison / New York Times: |
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Android 4.1 Jelly Bean review — Do UI refinements, Google Now, and a few new features add up to a must-have smartphone OS? Google's latest version of the Android operating system is here and will be rolling out to a precious few devices later this month.| Julie Bort / Business Insider: |
Bill Gates Explains Why Microsoft Had To Punch Its PC Partners In The Guts — Bill Gates thinks Microsoft was right to build its own tablets and that Windows 8 is going to kill the traditional PC. — Gates was a guest on Charlie Rose last night where he talked about Microsoft's decision to make its own tablet.| Bobbie Johnson / GigaOM: |
Microsoft in the dock over French tax fraud claims — A bad week for Microsoft just got worse. After taking a $6.2 billion hit on aQuantive and facing claims about Steve Ballmer's “foolish” leadership in Vanity Fair, the company is now in the dock over its tax affairs in France.| Martin Bryant / The Next Web: |
The BBC unveils its first ‘Perceptive Media’ experiment - and you can try it now — The BBC's R&D department has just demoed the first public example of what it calls ‘Perceptive Media’, and has published it online so you can try it for yourself. — What is Perceptive Media?| Matt Lynley / Business Insider: |
One Month Later, Here's What's Happened To Sean Parker's Ultra-Hyped App Airtime... Sean Parker's Facebook-connected video chat application, Airtime, launched with an enormous amount of hype last month. — So, where is it now, about a month later? — Well, if you take a look at Airtime on AppData … | Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Ouya: a $99 hackable Android game console designed by Yves Behar — We don't often report on startups without a physical product to their name, but when you've got sponsors like Ouya does, it's hard not to pay attention. According to a posting on AngelList, Ouya has recruited the talents … | Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent: |
Fastest growing segment of piracy? Live TV — A chart from the report “The six business models for copyright infringement.” Click to expand. — A new Google study entitled “The six business models for copyright infringement,” just released with the UK's PRS (Performing Right Society) … | Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: |
Louis C.K. sees ticket scalping drop over 96% by switching to selling tickets himself — Comedian Louis C.K. made the technology world turn his direction when he decided to sell his latest comedy special himself, digitally, and DRM free. It was a smashing success.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Little “Want” Button Code Foreshadows Big Things For Facebook Ecommerce — Last week, developer Tom Waddington uncovered Facebook code that points to the creation of a “Want” button — a plugin that potentially points to a new kind of commercial innovation being developed by Facebook itself … | Louis Goddard / The Verge: |
Navigon for iOS update includes Google Street View — Hot on the heels of Apple's controversial decision to drop all Google Maps services — including Street View — from the default Maps application in its future iOS 6 release, popular navigation app Navigon has released an update which includes the feature.| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
New patent shows Apple is at least thinking about wearable computing devices like Google Glass — It's incredibly foolhardy to ascribe any concrete plans to Apple based on the publishing of a patent. The company is incredibly prolific in this department, publishing literally thousands a year.| Peter Ha / TechCrunch: |
Rumor: Twitter To Acquire Sense Networks To Better Target Local Ads — A good source tells me that Twitter is set to make its sixth acquisition of 2012 with NY-based Sense Networks. Terms of the deal are still under wraps but it is expected to go through this month. — Twitter declined to comment.| Wagner James Au / New World Notes: |
Will The WELL Survive? Members Pledge $100K+ to Buy Influential Virtual Community from Corporate Owners — The WELL is a virtual online community with user-generated content that was so influential, it was once featured on the cover of Wired magazine, and a top 80's UK pop star created an account, to promote his brand there.| James Brightman / GamesIndustry International: |
EA is “going to be a 100% digital company, period” says Gibeau — EA's Labels president also tells us that NPD's monthly reports are “totally irrelevant” — Electronic Arts is one of the publishers in this industry that is at the forefront of the digital transition.| Emily Parkhurst / bizjournals: |
RealNetworks CEO resigns, Glaser steps back into role for now … After only eight months on the job, RealNetworks CEO Thomas Nielsen has stepped down. Former CEO and current Chairman of the Board Rob Glaser will step in as interim CEO until a replacement can be found.| Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
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)
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 …
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.
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.This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 4:55 AM ET, July 4, 2012.
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