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Google halts new orders for 16GB Nexus 7, surprised by demand — Heavy demand for the 16GB version of the new Nexus 7 tablet has caught Google out after it expected more customers ordering through Google Play to want the 8GB version — Sources close to Google say the search giant seriously underestimated …
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| Dana Mattioli / Wall Street Journal: |
Kodak Loses Patent Case Against Apple, RIM — Eastman Kodak Co. has lost a patent case against Apple Inc. and Research In Motion Ltd., dealing a blow to the onetime film giant's efforts to raise billions of dollars by selling off its intellectual property. — Kodak filed a complaint …
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| Matt Gemmell: |
Entitlement and Acquisition — Sparrow (a popular Mac and iOS email client) has been acquired by Google. The apps are essentially being put in maintenance mode, with no additional features planned for the future. — Cue predictable squawking on the internet.
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Marco.org, Thought Clusters, LaptopMemo, Matthew Panzarino, HotHardware.com News and Gadgetsteria
Tweets: @mikeisaac and @dannysullivan
| Rian van der Merwe / Elezea: |
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Scripting News, Matthew Panzarino, Techland, Marco.org, eWeek, The Verge and Softpedia News. Tweets: @tapbot_paul
| Jeffrey R. Young / Chronicle of Higher Education: |
Inside the Coursera Contract: How an Upstart Company Might Profit From Free Courses — Coursera has been operating for only a few months, but the company has already persuaded some of the world's best-known universities to offer free courses through its online platform.| Nick Bilton / Bits: |
Disruptions: Looking Beyond Silicon Valley's Bubble — A party to celebrate AirBnB's new headquarters. A select group of people in the Valley are oblivious to the rest of the world, ensconced in their own protective bubble. — It is still up for debate whether there is a bubble in Silicon Valley.
Tweets: @dannysullivan, @gpanger, @owenthomas, @davepell, @miguelrios, @tcarmody and @dbasch
| Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
Samsung's Galaxy S III surpasses 10 million sales in less than two months — Samsung's newest Android flagship smartphone — the Galaxy S III — has surpassed 10 million sales in less than two months after going on sale, selling at a rate predicted by the company just last month, Samsung president Shin Jong-kyun (JK Shin) has revealed.| 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.
Tweets: @fmanjoo, @pkedrosky, @carnage4life and @stroughtonsmith
| Ryan Paul / Ars Technica: |
Dell launching Sputnik, the Ubuntu developer laptop, this year — Dell launched an experiment earlier this year to see if it could build a compelling Linux laptop for software developers. The effort, which is codenamed Project Sputnik, pairs the XPS13 Ultrabook with Ubuntu 12.04.
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| 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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The Verge, parislemon, Redmond Pie and Neowin
| Brian Proffitt / ReadWriteWeb: |
VMware Denies Cloud Spin-Off Rumors - Keeps Focus on Platform-as-a-Service — Rumors of a VMware/EMC spin-off are “completely unfounded,” according to a company executive, who sees little chance that VMware will change its approach to cloud computing during its current transition in leadership.
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| Jeff Blagdon / The Verge: |
W3C and WHATWG finalize split on HTML5 spec, forking ‘unlikely’ — One final link holding together two versions of the HTML specification is being severed, as the W3C (the web's largest standards-making body) and the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG) separate editing duties.
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I Programmer News, TechCrunch and Tim Anderson's ITWriting
| Craig Platt / Canberra Times: |
Qantas to provide passengers with iPads — Qantas will provide iPads to both business and economy class passengers for inflight entertainment on its Boeing 767s. — Qantas passengers on the airline's 767 planes will be provided with iPads for their inflight entertainment …
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Forbes, The Register and The Verge
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Defrag Tools: WPT - Command Line — Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder, and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT).
Defrag Tools: WPT - Command Line — Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder, and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT).
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:
Getting the most out of business analytics — One of the most prevalent uses of Hadoop architecture by enterprises is to create business intelligence and analytics tools that can be leveraged to identify areas …
Getting the most out of business analytics — One of the most prevalent uses of Hadoop architecture by enterprises is to create business intelligence and analytics tools that can be leveraged to identify areas …
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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