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iOS and Mac apps reportedly crashing due to corrupt App Store updates — One of Apple's selling points with its iOS and Mac App Stores is that it can provide a safe, trusted location for users to update their apps knowing any changes have been vetted by Apple — though in the last few days … | Seth Fiegerman / Business Insider: |
Here's Why It Really Sucks To Be An App Reviewer For Apple — Apple's app review process gets a lot of hate from developers and customers alike, but before you judge Apple's reviewers too harshly, consider what they have to put up with. — Mike Lee, a former senior engineer at Apple …
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Fortune, PhoneArena, WebProNews, Jailbreak | iOS, Kotaku, 9to5Mac, App Advice and iDownloadBlog.com
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www.pocketgamer.biz and TUAW
| David Pogue / New York Times: |
Nexus 7, Google's New Tablet, Seriously Challenges the iPad — You can love Apple or you can hate Apple, but one thing's for sure: its favorite game is Lead the Industry. And the industry's favorite game is Follow the Leader. — Steve Jobs hated the mimicry.
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A VC, ZDNet, Guardian, TechEye, Softpedia News, ABCNEWS and TechCrunch
| Graeme Burton / Computing: |
Nokia should fire Elop and the board should go too - Jean-Louis Gassée — Stephen Elop ought to be fired as the CEO of Nokia and the rest of the board should join him, according to Silicon Valley veteran Jean-Louis Gassée (pictured). — “I think that Elop will have to go … | Locus Online Perspectives: |
Cory Doctorow: Music: The Internet's Original Sin — From the July 2012 issue of Locus Magazine — In a recent Search Engine podcast, host Jesse Brown wondered about music's ongoing centrality to the debate over file-sharing and freedom. After all, the music industry has all but abandoned lawsuits …
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| Horace Dediu / asymco: |
Building and dismantling the Windows advantage — When the Macintosh was launched in 1984, computers running the MS-DOS operating system were nearing a dominant position in the market. Having launched in 1981 as the IBM PC, they were quickly cloned and four years later “PCs” were selling at the rate of 2 million/yr.
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Betabeat, Business Insider, PhoneArena, The Verge, MacNN and Daring Fireball
| Henry Blodget / Business Insider: |
| CBC News: |
Thousands could lose internet access July 9 due to virus — On July 9, thousands of Canadians and hundreds of thousands of people worldwide could be without access to the internet after the FBI shuts down temporary DNS servers used to assist victims of a massive internet fraud ring.
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PC Pro, Toronto Sun, Global TV Edmonton News and Mediacaster Magazine
| Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
Apple and Samsung drop additional claims against each other ahead of U.S. trial — On May 1 and May 7, Apple and Samsung had already dropped some claims against each other from their first California lawsuit (which is scheduled to go to trial on July 30). Further narrowing resulted …
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IntoMobile, PhoneArena, Electronista and AppleInsider
| Carly Page / Inquirer: |
UK Google Nexus 7 tablets won't feature music, magazines or TV shows — GOOGLE'S NEXUS 7 TABLET won't arrive with all of the company's touted features including TV shows, music and magazines, Google has confirmed, making its £159 price-tag seem like less of a bargain.
| Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
Facebook, Google, Microsoft and RIM sign up to Telefonica mobile billing partnership — European mobile giant Telefonica is set to make it easier for its customers to purchase digital items and subscribe to services using their mobile devices following a new deal with Facebook, Google, Microsoft and RIM.
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| iFixit: |
Nexus Q Teardown — Did it come from outer space? Did it rise up from the depths of the lost city of Atlantis? How much of it was really made in the United States? When Google announced the Nexus Q at the I/O keynote on June 27, 2012, we decided to take one apart and see what we could uncover.| David Talbot / Technology Review: |
L.A. Cops Embrace Crime-Predicting Algorithm — A recent study suggests that computers could be better than seasoned police analysts at predicting when and where crime will strike next in a busy city. Software tested in Los Angeles was twice as good as human analysts at predicting … Sponsor Posts
Channel 9:
Windows 8 Tips — Tips and tricks for Windows 8 users.
Windows 8 Tips — Tips and tricks for Windows 8 users.
Cloud Foundry:
Want to Contribute to Cloud Foundry? Come on in! — Cloud Foundry is an Open Platform-as-a-Service, and an Open Source project. It has attracted phenomenal interest from the community - including partners …
Want to Contribute to Cloud Foundry? Come on in! — Cloud Foundry is an Open Platform-as-a-Service, and an Open Source project. It has attracted phenomenal interest from the community - including partners …
Rackspace Blog:
How ImgPage Uploads 25 MB Photos to Cloud Files Using the Mailgun API — The team over at Mailgun just posted a Python tutorial written by Mailgun customer Paul Finn about how to use Python and the Mailgun API to upload large images to Cloud Files.
How ImgPage Uploads 25 MB Photos to Cloud Files Using the Mailgun API — The team over at Mailgun just posted a Python tutorial written by Mailgun customer Paul Finn about how to use Python and the Mailgun API to upload large images to Cloud Files.
Hortonworks » Blog:
Week in Review: SQL IN Hadoop and Hive, Beyond Batch with YARN, NFS access to HDFS and HBase MTTR — Or as it's more commonly being called: Week-ish in Review. Let's recap on the latest - there's some juicy technology goodness here.
Week in Review: SQL IN Hadoop and Hive, Beyond Batch with YARN, NFS access to HDFS and HBase MTTR — Or as it's more commonly being called: Week-ish in Review. Let's recap on the latest - there's some juicy technology goodness here.
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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