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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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Matthew Panzarino, Gadgetsteria and ITworld.com
| 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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Marco.org, Scripting News, Marco.org, eWeek, Softpedia News, The Verge and Droid Life. Tweets: @tapbot_paul
| Harry McCracken / Techland: |
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Daemonic Dispatches, Boing Boing and Selligy Blog
| Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
Apple and Google subsidiary Motorola Mobility both appeal Judge Posner's ruling — When Judge Posner dismissed an Apple v. Motorola Mobility patent infringement lawsuit in Chicago about a month ago, I analyzed his decision in detail and agreed with him in many ways, though I also predicted …
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Bloomberg, ITworld.com, PhoneArena, AppleInsider and CNET
| 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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Android Phone Fans, Open Gardens, SlashGear, MacDailyNews, MacRumors, Macgasm and AppleInsider
| 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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Fortune, AppleInsider, App Advice, CNET and Techie Buzz
| 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: @stroughtonsmith, @carnage4life and @pkedrosky
| 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, Neowin, SlashGear and CNET
| 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.| 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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Engadget, PC Magazine, ZDNet, DVICE, The Verge, Slashdot and Boing Boing
| Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
‘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.
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IM.Everydaypanos and Gadgetsteria
| 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:
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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