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Exclusive: Microsoft's Ballmer Throws Down Gauntlet Against Apple — Declaring that Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT) and its partners had in the past “ceded some of the boundary between hardware and software innovation” to Apple (NSDQ:AAPL), Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told CRN in an exclusive interview Monday … | John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
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Expansive experiences in latest mobile apps for iPhone, Android — Today you can download new versions of Twitter for iPhone and Twitter for Android. These new apps contain several updates to bring you closer to everything you care about. — Expand Tweets| Hugo Miller / Bloomberg: |
RIM Said To Sell Jet To Help Save $1 Billion — Research In Motion Ltd. (RIMM), which has lost 95 percent of its market value since 2008, is selling one of its two business jets under a plan to save $1 billion in operating costs, two people with knowledge of the matter said.| Omar El Akkad / The Globe and Mail: |
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Rumor: Next-gen iPhone, ‘iPad mini’ engineering samples pictured — A pair of reports on Tuesday allege to show an “engineering samples” of Apple's rumored next-generation iPhone and smaller 7-inch iPad, the latter being one of the first mock-ups to hit the web.
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CNET, MacRumors, Gotta Be Mobile, Business Insider, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Macworld Australia, Ubergizmo, BGR, Redmond Pie, Geek.com, SlashGear, iClarified, everythingiCafe, Gotta Be Mobile, The Droid Guy, MacNN, iDownloadBlog.com, MobileSyrup.com, TechnoBuffalo, MacDailyNews, TechnoBuffalo and App Advice
| Joel Schectman / The CIO Report: |
San Francisco Officials Plan to Block Apple Procurement — San Francisco city officials say they are moving to block purchases of Apple desktops and laptops, by all municipal agencies, after the company removed a green electronics certification from its products.| Bradley Horowitz / The Official Google Blog: |
Google+ app for iPad available now in the App Store — In May, we redesigned the Google+ experience for iPhone, adding full bleed photos that fall into place and bold visual elements that bring your stream to life. Today, we're introducing new features for iPhone and an iPad app that you won't be able to put down.| Phil Nickinson / Android Central: |
Samsung to offer hacker-friendly ‘developer edition’ Galaxy S III on Verizon — Want a Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III without all the huffing and puffing that comes a long with encrypted bootloaders? The manufacture has you covered, as it will offer a “developer edition” Verizon Galaxy S 3 through its developer portal for $599.| Sam Oliver / AppleInsider: |
Google set to pay record $22.5M fine for violating Apple users' privacy — Google is expected to pay a $22.5 million fine, the largest in the history of the Federal Trade Commission, for bypassing the privacy settings of users of Apple's Safari Web browser.| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
Bitly Raises $15M Led by Khosla Ventures — Bitly, the link-shortening and tracking service, has raised $15 million in a funding round led by Vinod Khosla at Khosla Ventures. — The round is aimed to help Bitly hire and grow. “We make many millions of dollars per year … | Eliza Kern / GigaOM: |
Dropbox offers pro users twice the space as competition heats up — This story was corrected at 11:10 a.m. with the correct pricing for Box.net's services. — Dropbox pro subscribers can now get excited about twice as much storage space on their accounts for no additional cost … | Don Beck / The Involver Blog: |
Oracle Buys Involver — Today we are excited to announce that we have signed an agreement for Oracle's purchase of Involver and we expect the transaction to close in the summer of 2012. The proliferation of social media has changed the way that organizations and consumers interact.| Bryan Bishop / The Verge: |
Android 4.1 Jelly Bean begins rolling out to the HSPA+ Galaxy Nexus — We knew it was just a matter of time, and now Google has announced that Android 4.1 Jelly Bean has begun rolling out to the HSPA+ Galaxy Nexus. For owners of the phone, the new OS will be appearing over the next few days …
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| Diane Bartz / Reuters: |
Congress to discuss sales bans if key patents infringed — (Reuters) - The Congress is considering whether companies that hold patents essential to a standard, such as a digital movie format, should be forbidden from asking that infringing products be banned from the U.S. market.
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Ouya console meets $950,000 Kickstarter funding goal in 8 hours — The makers of Ouya, the low-cost video game console based on Google's Android OS and designed by Yves Behar, have already surpassed their $950,000 fundraising goal on Kickstarter. The project, a $99 game console and controller …
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The Atlantic Online, Business Insider, Engadget, Engadget, Gotta Be Mobile, Joystiq, 9to5Google and Techli
| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
13-Inch Retina MacBook Pro Shows Up in Benchmarks — Amid continued rumors that Apple intends to release a 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro in the coming months, a Geekbench 2 benchmark submitted late last month as a “MacBookPro10,2” appears to represent the machine in question.
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Macworld Australia, CNET, DigiTimes, TechnoBuffalo, Pocketables and Examiner
| Noah Shachtman / Wired: |
Exclusive: Darpa Gets a New Boss, and Solyndra Is in Her Past — New Darpa director Arati Prabhakar. Photo courtesy of SRI International — Until last year, Arati Prabhakar worked for the venture capitalists who backed Solyndra, the green-tech firm that imploded in a scandal described … | Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat: |
FreedomPop raises $7.5M to free you from your carrier shackles (exclusive) — The seemingly mythical FreedomPop, which aims to disrupt the mobile broadband landscape by offering a freemium 4G service, is one step closer to reality. The company has raised $7.5 million in a first round of funding … Thanks:@devindra
| Claire Atkinson / New York Post: |
Facebook eyeing Hulu's Kilar for senior position — With Facebook stepping up its courtship of the media business, the buzz is building that Mark Zuckerberg is eyeing Hulu chief Jason Kilar for a top job. — Sources say that Zuck “likes” Kilar, a well-respected Internet executive … | Derrick Harris / GigaOM: |
Take that, vCloud: Microsoft opens Windows Azure to web hosts — Updated: It looks like Microsoft is serious about becoming the operating system for cloud computing. At its Worldwide Partner Conference on Tuesday, the company announced what amounts to a white-label version …
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ZDNet, Apprenda, InfoWorld, Softpedia News and SlashGear
| Jack Purcher / Patently Apple: |
Apple Wins a Major Patent for iTravel & More — The US Patent and Trademark Office officially published a series of 23 newly granted patents for Apple Inc. today. In our first granted patent report of the day we mainly focus on a major patent relating to iTravel, Apple's transportation check-in system.
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CNET, Unwired View, PadGadget, iDownloadBlog.com, ZDNet, iClarified, Mobile, MacNN, 9to5Mac and Los Angeles Times
| Alana / Nielsen Wire: |
Global Internet Ad Spend Sees Double-Digit Growth, Outpaces Other Media — With consumer confidence up and brands looking to reconnect, spending on advertising is on the rise—around the globe and across media types. TV, newspapers, radio, outdoor, Internet, and cinema all saw an increase … | Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
Judge Will Let Kleiner Perkins Ask Again for Arbitration in Gender Discrimination Case — As promised, a judge today ruled against venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in its efforts to compel its partner Ellen Pao to arbitrate her gender discrimination and retaliation suit.
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A Reality Series Intrudes on Silicon Valley, and Finds It Cringing — SAN FRANCISCO — Silicon Valley is finally getting the treatment once reserved for rowdy housewives and excitable chefs: its own Bravo reality series. But the tech world is not quite ready for its close-up.| Martyn Williams / Macworld Australia: |
Apple sued over noise reduction technology — A small Silicon Valley company is suing Apple, alleging the computer maker infringed its patent covering noise-reduction technology for cell phones. — Noise Free Wireless said it presented its technology at several meetings at Apple's Cupertino …
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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.
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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.
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“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).
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