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Nokia's Bad Call on Smartphones — Frank Nuovo, the former chief designer at Nokia Corp., gave presentations more than a decade ago to wireless carriers and investors that divined the future of the mobile Internet. — More than seven years before Apple Inc. rolled out the iPhone … | Robin Wauters / The Next Web: |
Nokia's Q2 2012: $1 billion operating loss, $9.21 billion in net sales, 4 million Lumia phones sold — Beleaguered phone maker Nokia this morning published its financial results for the second quarter of 2012, reporting a $1 billion (826 million euros) operating loss on $9.21 billion in net sales (7.5 billion euros).| Kit Chellel / Bloomberg: |
Apple Must Publish Notice Samsung Didn't Copy IPad In U.K. — Apple Inc. (AAPL) was ordered by a judge to publish a notice on its U.K. website and in British newspapers alerting people to a ruling that Samsung Electronics Co. didn't copy designs for the iPad.| BuzzFeed: |
The Original iPad Was Gigantic — Revealed in court filings (which were first noticed by NetworkWorld) is a prototype/mock up ("035") for an Apple tablet created between 2002 and 2004 — years before the iPad came out. It still looks like an iPad, but crossed with an old iBook. And man oh man it is FAT.| Yoni Heisler / Network World: |
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Steve Jobs shouldn't influence upcoming Apple/Samsung trial: judge — (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Wednesday approved Apple Inc's request to bar disparaging statements by Steve Jobs about Google's Android operating system from an upcoming patent trial against Samsung Electronics Co Ltd.| Joel Rosenblatt / Bloomberg: |
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Official: Google “Share” Experiment Sends Pages From Search To Google+ — A Tweet this morning from @BerianReed, head of search marketing of AutoTrader UK, uncovered some potentially deeper integration between Google Search and Google+. Reed spotted a new option in the results that showed up next to the URL, a “Share” link.| Nathan Ingraham / The Verge: |
Verizon Q2 2012 financial results: 888K new wireless subscribers, half of customers using smartphones — Verizon just announced its financial results for Q2 2012 and the wireless business had yet another strong quarter. The nation's biggest wireless carrier added 888,000 new postpaid subscribers … | Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD: |
eBay's John Donahoe Seeing a “Staggering Surge” in Mobile Shopping — EBay has revised its mobile revenue figures, once again. — In what is becoming a routine move, the company said today during its second-quarter earnings release that it is now expecting eBay and PayPal mobile to each transact $10 billion in volume this year.| Spencer Ackerman / Wired: |
Newest U.S. Counterterrorism Strategy: Trolling — In the decade since 9/11, the U.S. government has used a wide variety of tactics against terrorists. It's invaded countries where they operated (and ones where they didn't). It's tried to win the backing of foreign populations in which the terrorists hide.| Avram Piltch / LAPTOP Magazine: |
McDonald's Denies Employees Assaulted Human Cyborg Steve Mann — In response to a storm of controversy surrounding its treatment of Human Cyborg Steve Mann, McDonald's has issued a statement, claiming that it has investigated the incident and determined that it “did not involve a physical altercation … | Charles E. Schumer / Wall Street Journal: |
Memo to DOJ: Drop the Apple E-Books Suit — Restoring Amazon's monopoly in digital publishing is not in the public interest. — Recently the Department of Justice filed suit against Apple and major publishers, alleging that they colluded to raise prices in the digital books market.| Emil Protalinski / CNET: |
Facebook ad rates surge 58 percent, leaves Twitter in the dust — Study results represent great news for Facebook ahead of its second-quarter earnings call on July 26. — Facebook's average cost per thousand impressions has increased by 58 percent in the second quarter of 2012 compared … | Gregg Keizer / Computerworld: |
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Microsoft-owned GroupMe sues fellow NY startup Groupie over trademark dispute — GroupMe, the mobile messaging service provider that was bought by Skype and thus became part of Microsoft, has filed a complaint against fellow New York City-based tech startup Groupie in an effort to increase … | Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
New Mobile App Vyclone Aims to Remix Social Video From Every Angle — Instagram proved there is such a thing as a billion-dollar app. Now everyone wants a shot at being the next messiah. Naturally, Instagram's photographic medium laid the foundation for the current round of contenders: Video.| Brad Linder / Liliputing: |
Raspbian Linux now available for Raspberry Pi: Up to 40 percent faster than Debian — Raspbian is a Linux-based operating system optimized for the Raspberry Pi, a low power, inexpensive mini-computer with a 700 MHz ARM11 processor. Up until recently, the folks behind the little computer … | Brad Calder / MSDN Blogs: |
Windows Azure Storage - 4 Trillion Objects and Counting — Windows Azure Storage has had an amazing year of growth. We have over 4 trillion objects stored, process an average of 270,000 requests per second, and reach peaks of 880,000 requests per second. — About a year ago we hit the 1 trillion object mark.| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Apple Now Including Unique Identifiers for In App Purchase Receipts to Combat Hack — Following last week's launch of a hack that allowed users to obtain In App Purchase content free of charge by routing their purchase requests through a server run by a Russian hacker, Apple began taking steps to thwart the method.| Cecilia Kang / Washington Post: |
As Apple and Samsung vie over tablet patents, judge at center of a tech storm — As Apple and Samsung escalated a multibillion-dollar war over one of the hottest consumer gadgets of our time, the tablet computer, a little-known judge did for Apple what the company couldn't do on its own: She shut down the competition.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
IOC Gets Social With New Olympics Hub Integrating Instagram, Facebook, Google+, Twitter, Tumblr, Foursquare — With the Olympics due to start in just over a week, the International Olympic Committee has finally taken the wraps off a new social media hub, apart from its main website, for athletes and fans to cosy up to one another.| Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch: |
Fab Seals The Deal On $105 Million In New Funding — Design-oriented flash sales site Fab has raised $105 million in new funding, the company announced today. The news was first reported by the Wall Street Journal and was subsequently confirmed by Fab CEO Jason Goldberg in a detailed blog post.| Paul Mozur / China Real Time Report: |
Can Apple Launch in China Without Incident? … The big question for the China launch of the new iPad on Friday isn't whether it will sell well, but if the retailer can keep the police out of it. — When the iPhone 4S launched in January, hundreds of customers waited overnight outside … | Dante D'Orazio / The Verge: |
64GB Samsung Galaxy S III not canceled, set for release later this year — We had all but forgotten about it, but the 64GB version of the Galaxy S III is alive and well. We heard a few reports yesterday that the high-capacity variant was canceled — the source of the news was a notice …
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 …
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 …
DevOps: Improved Productivity, Higher Value — Those of us who have been aligned with DevOps for some time already know that the greater agility and closer collaboration it enables deliver real business value for our organizations.
Get Started with Hadoop on Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 for Windows — We are excited to release the Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 for Windows as a Generally Available product.
Skype in the browser — Whether you like the Skype app or not, until now, you've had no choice but to download something to make voice and video calls — either an app like Skype, or a Flash plugin (yikes) for your browser.This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 9:40 AM ET, July 19, 2012.
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