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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.| 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 … | 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).| 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.| 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.| 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.| Todd Shields / Bloomberg: |
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Nexus 7 sees “incredible demand”, sells out at major retailers — Summary: The Nexus 7 has already sold out at retailers such as GameStop, Staples, and Costco. Here's how you can get one. — Ed Burnette — Follow @eburnette — Introduced 3 weeks ago at Google I/O 2012 … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Intelligent, Context-Aware Personal Assistant App “Friday” Makes Its Public Debut — How appropriate. That crazy Android personal assistant app called Friday is debuting today, on a Friday. Marketing genius! Friday comes from a startup called Dexetra, the same folks who previously launched the Siri-like Android app Iris.| BBC: |
Microsoft fixes ‘big boobs’ coding gaffe — Microsoft is gearing up for the release of Windows 8 that will run on desktops, tablets and phones — Microsoft has swiftly fixed an embarrassing gaffe which saw a chunk of code labelled “big boobs”. — The hexadecimal string 0xB16B00B5 … | John Markoff / New York Times: |
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Don't Do. Just Tell. With Zoho MCP for Bigin. — Dear small business owners,This one's a little different.We're not here to walk you through a checklist of features. We're here to tell you about something …
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
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