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Windows 8 boots 55.26% faster than Windows 7, and that's important for tablet devices — At its BUILD event last September, Microsoft presented an operating system that it claimed would boot faster than its predecessors, and consume less memory. Back then, only Windows 8′s developer preview was made available.
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| Martin Bryant / The Next Web: |
That was quick. Facebook shuts down Face.com APIs, kills Klik app, enrages developers — Fresh from its acquisition by Facebook last month, Face.com is closing down its facial recognition APIs over the next 30 days. While such a move isn't that surprising, third-party developers … | Joe Pollicino / Engadget: |
PSA: Galaxy Nexus HSPA+ up for sale again at Google Play store, ships in ‘2-3 weeks’ — And just like that it's back. Following a yesterday's temporary stay of the ban on Google's HSPA+ Galaxy Nexus by Judge Koh, the soon-to-be Jelly Bean-loaded device is again up for sale at the Play store — and a bit early than expected.
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Ex-Nokia staff to build MeeGo-based smartphones — A group of ex-Nokia staff and MeeGo enthusiasts has formed Jolla (Finnish for “dinghy"), a mobile startup with the aim of bringing new MeeGo devices to the market. According to its LinkedIn page, Jolla consists of “directors and core professionals …
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Engadget, VentureBeat, Techie Buzz, UnleashthePhones, Pulse2 Technology … and Slashdot. Tweets: @jollamobile
| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Pirate Bay Founder Submits Emotional Plea for Pardon — After his sentence was made final earlier this year, Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde was due to go prison early May. — However, due to various delays, he has yet to be committed to confinement. — This week in a final attempt …
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| Matt Buchanan / BuzzFeed: |
It Never Gets Better — Why you should never buy a mediocre piece of technology expecting that it'll be more amazing tomorrow than it is today. — Source: dahlstroms — There's an update waiting for you. For your apps, for your computer and phone and tablet and the box attached to your TV.
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| Amy O'Leary / New York Times: |
Tech Companies Leave Phone Calls Behind — Quora is a Web site that crowdsources answers to just about any question imaginable, including “What is the meaning of life?” and “Is it possible to stick someone to the wall with Velcro?” But anyone searching for a phone number for the company is out of luck.
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| Joel Schectman / The CIO Report: |
NBC, Google, Stage ‘War Games’ To Prepare for Olympic Disruptions — NBC and Google are conducting “war games” in at least three countries, to prepare for the possibility of hacker attacks or hardware malfunction disrupting the online streaming of the Summer Olympics Games in London, which start this month.
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Mashable!, Boing Boing and The Next Web
| Joel Schectman / The CIO Report: |
Apple Removes Green EPEAT Electronics Certification From Products — Apple has pulled its products off the U.S. government-backed registration of environmentally friendly electronics. — Apple asked EPEAT, the electronics standards setting group, to pull its 39 certified desktop computers …
| Arnold Kim / MacRumors: |
7.85-Inch iPad to Ramp Up Production in September at Foxconn Brazil — Bits of information about the rumored 7.85 “iPad Mini” continue to leak out. Japanese blog Macotakara now claims that the smaller iPad will be produced in Brazil and will ramp up production starting in September.
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AppleInsider, TechCrunch, msnbc.com, PadGadget, TechnoBuffalo, everythingiCafe, Business Insider, 9to5Mac and PC World
| Zach Epstein / BGR: |
RapidShare unveils Dropbox competitor: RapidDrive — RapidShare this week unveiled a new cloud sync and storage solution called RapidDrive. The service competes directly with offerings such as Dropbox and SugarSync, integrating directly with a computer's file system interface …
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Neowin and TorrentFreak
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Canada's vanishing tech sector — If Research in Motion Ltd. is no longer Canada's most valuable publicly-traded high tech company, what is? The answer may surprise you. You won't find it in the S&P/TSX information technology index. Except for its stock market listing in Toronto … Sponsor Posts
Channel 9:
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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