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Judge who shelved Apple trial says patent system out of sync — (Reuters) - The U.S. judge who tossed out one of the biggest court cases in Apple Inc's (AAPL.O) smartphone technology battle is questioning whether patents should cover software or most other industries at all.
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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.| Bryan Bishop / The Verge: |
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 …
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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.| Joseph Walker / Wall Street Journal: |
Google Revamps Its Workforce Education Programs — Google Inc. Chief Executive Larry Page has spent the past year trying to bring a renewed sense of urgency and focus to the search company, in what he calls putting “more wood behind fewer arrows.” Playing a big part in that effort …
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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 … | Stephanie Clifford / New York Times: |
Retailers Encourage Shoppers to Buy Online and Pick Up In-Store — As online shopping has surged, traditional retailers have lost millions in sales to so-called showrooming — when shoppers check out products in stores that they then buy from Web sites like Amazon.
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Apple Said To Pick AutoNavi To Offer IPhone Maps In China — AutoNavi Holdings Ltd. (AMAP), a Chinese maker of electronic navigation tools, was chosen by Apple Inc. to offer map services for users of future iPhones and iPads in China, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.
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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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Motorola Atrix HD revealed with 4.5-inch Colorboost HD display, ICS and Droid RAZR looks — The next Motorola Atrix phone has been revealed on the company's website as the Atrix HD. According to the listed specs, it features a 4.5-inch Colorboost HD display, will ship with Android 4. Ice Cream Sandwich … | Ryan Kim / GigaOM: |
Try-before-you-buy YBuy subscription services raises $1M from Eric Schmidt — One of the biggest hurdles to buying stuff online is the inability to try products out first hand before knowing whether you want to purchase it. But increasingly, companies are getting around that by offering …
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Wikileaks starts publishing two million ‘Syria Files’ emails — Julian Assange in England in December 2010. — (Credit: CNET, CBSNews.com: Screenshot by Jonathan Skillings) — Wikileaks, the highly controversial whistleblowing gruop, has begun publishing more than two million emails … | 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.| 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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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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Featured Startup - FormVerse — If there was one tool not made for effective work, it would have to be email. If you take silos of information, and a chronological effect, where old or new is piled on top of each other …
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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 …
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An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
Hortonworks » Blog:
Mobile Telco Dials In and Harnesses Big Data with Hadoop — Smartphones have transformed our daily lives. A key indicator of this trend is our increased spend on data plans versus voice.
Mobile Telco Dials In and Harnesses Big Data with Hadoop — Smartphones have transformed our daily lives. A key indicator of this trend is our increased spend on data plans versus voice.
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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