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OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion: the Ars Technica review — Apple's traditional desktop computing business has suffered many indignities over the past decade. Once Apple's flagship product line, the Mac first found itself playing second fiddle to the iPod—a mere music player—in the early 2000s.| MG Siegler / TechCrunch: |
OS X Mountain Lion: Quick, Familiar, Cheap, And Drenched In iOS Goodness — Trying to write a review of OS X Mountain Lion is tricky. First of all, I had already written a review back in February, when Apple legitimately surprised the world with the revelation that the ninth iteration of OS X was just about ready to go.| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
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Apple removes Safari for Windows references and download links following version 6 release — Apple introduced its latest Safari 6.0 update for OS X Lion and Mountain Lion users today, but the company appears to have left Windows users out in the cold. An updated Safari page at Apple's site … | Donald Melanson / Engadget: |
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Zynga Falls Short Of Analyst Estimates For Q2: $332M In Revenue, Bookings Decline From Last Quarter, Lowered Outlook — Zynga didn't meet analysts' already-low estimates in its just-released earnings release for the second quarter of its fiscal year, in which it showed revenue of $332 million and lost 3 cents per share.| Emily Steel / @emilysteel: |
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Facebook Is Said To Work With HTC On Mobile Phone For Mid-2013 — Facebook Inc. (FB), owner of the largest social network, is working with HTC Corp. to build its own smartphone for release as soon as mid-2013, people with knowledge of the matter said. — The companies had intended to release … | Adweek: |
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$1,000 for the cheapest Surface? This latest rumor has Microsoft fanboys feeling downcast — Consider this the second time that we have heard rumbles concerning the pricing of Microsoft's Surface line of tablets. Also, consider this the second time that pricing news concerning the Surface has been bad.| Ben Fritz / Los Angeles Times: |
Netflix stock plunges 25% after analysts slash estimates — Shares of Netflix, led by CEO Reed Hastings, plummeted 25% Wednesday, a day after financial results were released. (David Paul Morris / July 25, 2012) — It's looking like another bad summer for Netflix.| Lisa Richwine / Reuters: |
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Meet the ‘bots’ that edit Wikipedia — Wikipedia is written and maintained by tens of thousands of volunteers across the world. Those, in turn, are assisted by hundreds of “bots” - autonomous computer programmes that keep the encyclopaedia running. — “Penis is the male sex organ,” the Wikipedia page in question read.| Reuters: |
New York Times drops BlackBerry app — (Reuters) - Research in Motion's BlackBerry users can no longer use the official New York Times app to read news stories over their devices, in a fresh blow to the maker of the smartphone once considered an essential tool for business professionals.| John Letzing / Digits: |
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With 4 million videos, YouTube now has the largest collection of Creative Commons videos in the world — It's been a year since YouTube launched its Creative Commons video library, inviting people to upload videos that could be repurposed and remixed for brand new content.| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Nintendo reports operating loss of $132M as Wii sales drop off a cliff — Nintendo reported an operating loss of 10.3 billion yen, or $132 million, during its first fiscal quarter ended June 30 as Wii sales dropped significantly. Gamers are awaiting the launch of the Japanese company's … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
24.9M Tablets Sold In Q2, With Apple's Share Of That Now Over 68%, Says Strategy Analytics — One of the strong points in Apple's quarterly earnings report yesterday was sales of the iPad. Globally, they were up 52% by revenue and 84% by unit sales, respectively to $9 billion and 17 million.| Matt Burns / TechCrunch: |
Google Gets Scientific, Adds A Voice-Enabled 34-Button Calculator To Desktop And Mobile Search — Oh Google. Sometimes you're so awesome. — Google search has long featured a built-in calculator function but a recent update added a fully functional 34-button scientific calculator.| Electronista: |
Good Technology: iPad, iPhone dominating enterprise markets — Good Technology has released its analysis of mobile device activations among enterprise customers over the second quarter of 2012. The data collected shows Android smartphone usage doubling, with Apple's iOS continuing to lead, with the iPhone 4S at the head of the pack.
Announcing TypeScript 0.9: Generics and More — Anders Hejlsberg, Steve Lucco, and Luke Hoban join us for a conversation about TypeScript 0.9. TypeScript now has generics! (and more)
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 …
99.999 Is Not Enough: An OpenCloud Approach to Delivering Application Uptime and Performance — Executive Summary — The pressure to keep vital applications online and performing well is extreme.
University makes major investment in big data development — As news of the benefits provided by big data platforms such as Apache Hadoop spreads, more organizations are investing in the burgeoning technology.This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 9:40 PM ET, July 25, 2012.
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