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Google Says Some Apple Inventions Are So Great They Ought to Be Shared — Patent wars, Apple CEO Tim Cook once said, are “a pain in the ass.” Few more so than the one the company is waging against Google's new Motorola Mobility division and the new argument the defendants are making around standards-essential patents (SEPs).| Sam Biddle / Gizmodo: |
The Secret Online Weapons Store That'll Sell Anyone Anything — The Bushmaster M4 is a 3-foot rifle capable of firing thirty 5.56×45mm NATO rounds, and used by spec ops forces throughout Afghanistan. It's a serious weapon. But in the Internet's darkest black market, it's all yours.| Dana Mattioli / Wall Street Journal: |
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Why Google or Facebook Buying Your Favorite Startup Means It's Probably Toast — When I learned this morning, via Twitter, that the small company behind Mac/iOS e-mail app Sparrow was being bought by Google, I almost didn't need to read the startup's announcement to know the upshot.| Tom Simonite / Technology Review: |
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‘Sparrow for Windows’ was never an official Sparrow client, not even close to ‘weeks away’ — We've just heard from sources close to Sparrow that the man behind “Sparrow for Windows,” Panos Tsimpoglou, was never hired by Sparrow CEO Dom Leca, and was never officially associated with the company's brand.| Robert McMillan / Wired: |
Darpa Funds Hack Machine You'd Never Notice — PwnieExpress' all-new Power Pwn. All Images: PwnieExpress — If you saw this bad boy under your desk, would you say anything? — It may look like a surge protector, but it's really a remote access machine that corporations can use to test security and log into branch offices.| Andrew Phelps / Nieman Journalism Lab: |
That plan to archive every tweet in the Library of Congress? Definitely still happening — A little more than two years ago, the Library of Congress announced it would preserve every public tweet, ever, for future generations. … Fifty million tweets a day. How cute.| Jacob Bunge / Wall Street Journal: |
Windows Store Weekly — This week we take a look at: Star Trek App, Box, Fling Theory, StumbleUpon, and wordBrush.
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 …
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 …
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 4:45 AM ET, July 22, 2012.
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