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OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Server: A Review — Apple has released the ninth iteration of OS X, 10.8 Mountain Lion, to the masses. Alongside OS X 10.8 Client, Apple has also released OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Server. As expected OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion has integrated even more features from iOS, Apple's mobile operating system.| John Siracusa / Ars Technica: |
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: |
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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 … | Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch: |
Path Debuts Version 2.5: Bigger Photos And Videos, Book And Movie Sharing, New ‘Nudge’ Feature — Path, the mobile-based social networking app aimed at helping people connect with their close circle of friends and family, is rolling out the latest update to its app: Path Version 2.5.| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
Apple: Google Warned Samsung Against Copying Us — When Apple's patent battle with Samsung heads to trial next week, the iPhone maker plans to build its case using its Korean rival's own words against it. An unredacted version of Apple's trial brief bluntly states that Samsung was well aware … | Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: |
$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.| Adweek: |
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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.| comScore, Inc.: |
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Project Glass pre-orderers welcomed as ‘Explorers’, promised super secret updates on progress — Google's Project Glass had a surprisingly large presence (skydivers) during its I/O event earlier this year, and now company co-founder Sergey Brin has checked in with the attendees who promised $1,500 … | Alyson Shontell / Business Insider: |
Ex-Googlers Relaunch Their Startup Stamped And Get Ryan Seacrest, Justin Bieber And Ellen DeGeneres To Invest — Last Spring, Robby Stein and Bart Stein (not related) left their jobs at Google to start a company, Stamped. — Stamped received funding from Google Ventures and others to become … | Rich Miller / Data Center Knowledge: |
The Olympian Infrastructure Challenge — The view of the Olympic Stadium from Cisco House in London, an “executive experience” showcasing the company's technology. (Image: Cisco) — The 2012 Summer Olympics in London will be the most connected Games in history.| Saabira Chaudhuri / Wall Street Journal: |
Symantec Replaces CEO As Profit Falls 10% — Symantec Corp.'s fiscal first-quarter profit dropped 9.9% as the maker of security software saw higher costs that offset a slight rise in revenue. The company also disclosed Chief Executive Enrique Salem has stepped down effective immediately and will be replaced by Chairman Steve Bennett.| Daniel Nasaw / BBC: |
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.| 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.
Windows 8 Tips — Tips and tricks for Windows 8 users.
Want to Contribute to Cloud Foundry? Come on in! — Cloud Foundry is an Open Platform-as-a-Service, and an Open Source project. It has attracted phenomenal interest from the community - including partners …
How ImgPage Uploads 25 MB Photos to Cloud Files Using the Mailgun API — The team over at Mailgun just posted a Python tutorial written by Mailgun customer Paul Finn about how to use Python and the Mailgun API to upload large images to Cloud Files.
Week in Review: SQL IN Hadoop and Hive, Beyond Batch with YARN, NFS access to HDFS and HBase MTTR — Or as it's more commonly being called: Week-ish in Review. Let's recap on the latest - there's some juicy technology goodness here.
“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).This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 12:50 AM ET, July 26, 2012.
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