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| Panos Tsimpoglou / IM.Everydaypanos: |
Shh.. Sparrow for Windows was just a few weeks away. — First of all, this is NOT a whining post. I just want to share some thoughts. — Almost a year ago I emailed Dom telling him I would love to do Sparrow for Windows. Begged really. He replied positively and a few days later …
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The Verge and Gadgetsteria
| Rian van der Merwe / Elezea: |
The real reason we're upset about Sparrow's acquisition — When the news hit that Sparrow has been acquired by Google, you could almost hear the collective sigh from those who use and love this wonderful iOS and Mac OS X email client. Many people (myself included) took to Twitter to voice …
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Scripting News, Matt Gemmell, Gadgetsteria, Marco.org, Matthew Panzarino, eWeek, Softpedia News, The Verge and Droid Life. Tweets: @tapbot_paul
| Harry McCracken / Techland: |
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.
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Daemonic Dispatches, Boing Boing, Selligy Blog and The Verge
| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
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).
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CNET, Bloomberg, FOSS Patents, MacRumors, Open Gardens, The Loop, SlashGear, MacDailyNews, Android Phone Fans, Macgasm and AppleInsider
| 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.
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PC Magazine, DVICE, The Verge and Boing Boing
| Anna Heim / The Next Web: |
Audio brand Beats buys back 25% of its own shares from HTC — Audio equipment brand Beats is buying back 25% of its shares from HTC, the smartphone manufacturer announced today. As you may know, the brand is best known for its “Beats by Dr. Dre” headphones.
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Engadget, The Verge and Android Phone Fans
| Tom Simonite / Technology Review: |
Microsoft Mulls a Stylus for Any Screen — Adding a camera to a stylus could let it interact with any device—even one without a touch screen. — Microsoft is considering whether to release a stylus that could, after a software upgrade, interact with almost any existing display or device.
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Redmond Pie, Neowin, SlashGear and CNET
| Lucas Atkins / N4BB: |
Siri-like Voice Commands on BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha (Video) — Yesterday, Research In Motion released an OS update to the BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha. While some were struggling with problems getting the new update installed, others were lucky enough to begin playing with the update and finding out all of the new features.
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The Verge, MobileSyrup.com, VentureBeat, PhoneArena, Engadget, Geek.com and TechnoBuffalo
| Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch: |
Instagram For The Web Coming Soon? Online ‘View Profile’ Link Spotted In The Wild — Instagram became a billion dollar company with a service that existed entirely within the realm of mobile apps. But it's looking like the social photo-sharing juggernaut may be about to unveil its own bridge to the web, too.
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PC Magazine, CNET, Mashable!, App Advice, WebProNews and Instagramers.com
| Jacob Bunge / Wall Street Journal: |
Brokers Face Choice in Nasdaq's Facebook Plan — Brokers seeking compensation for financial losses driven by Nasdaq OMX Group Inc.'s mishandling of the Facebook Inc. stock-market debut will have to choose between an amount offered by the exchange that will likely not make up their losses …
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Financial Times, Times of India and Bloomberg
| Stephany Nunneley / VG247: |
Uniloc files patent infringement suit against Mojang — Uniloc has filed a patent infringement suit against Mojang, in which the firm claims the Android version of Mindcraft (sic) uses claim 107 of patent #6,857,067 without its expressed permission. — The patent description is for a …
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PC Magazine, Boing Boing, Joystiq, Ars Technica, Geekosystem, Kotaku and Level Save
Tweets: @notch, @notch, @mattcutts, @fosspatents and @notch
| Todd Shields / Bloomberg: |
White House Advisers Tell Obama To Share Airwaves For Broadband — Federal agencies should share airwaves with commercial users to ease a shortage of frequencies and help meet surging demand from wireless smartphones and other mobile devices, a White House advisory panel said.
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Ars Technica, Hillicon Valley and GigaOM
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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 …
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 …
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:
Love, Magic, & APIs — I will confess, I am old enough to remember my GeoCities page. Don't hate. It was amazing, it was... this transformative moment in which I took real, actual information, and transformed it into something visible and memorable.
Love, Magic, & APIs — I will confess, I am old enough to remember my GeoCities page. Don't hate. It was amazing, it was... this transformative moment in which I took real, actual information, and transformed it into something visible and memorable.
Hortonworks » Blog:
Hadoop, Hadoop, Hurrah! HDP for Windows is Now GA! — Today we are very excited to announce that Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDP for Windows) is now generally available and ready to support the most demanding production workloads.
Hadoop, Hadoop, Hurrah! HDP for Windows is Now GA! — Today we are very excited to announce that Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDP for Windows) is now generally available and ready to support the most demanding production workloads.
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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