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Apple Buys Samsung's Android Security Partner AuthenTec For $356M — Amid fierce smartphone competition between Samsung and Apple that has spilled into a multinational patent battle, it looks like Apple may have opened yet another front on the M&A side: it is buying mobile security company AuthenTec …
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| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Why Apple wanted AuthenTec: Thwart Samsung, Android in BYOD — Summary: If Apple didn't buy AuthenTec, a cash strapped mobile security player, it's likely another rival would have. Apple's courtship of the enterprise via the bring your own device continues. — Larry Dignan — Follow @ldignan| Matt Warman / Telegraph: |
Google: we failed to delete all Streetview data — ‘Human error’ prevented Google from deleting all the data it collected from Streetview snooping, the search giant has admitted. — Despite repeated assurances in public and to the Information Commissioner, Google has admitted …
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| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Apple's Mountain Lion Off to a Roaring Start — Thanks to its easy download and low price, Apple's Mountain Lion appears on pace to be one of the most quickly adopted operating systems in history. — After just its first 48 hours on the market, Apple's new Mountain Lion already accounts …
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Apple, Google Line Up to Bid for Kodak's Patents — Battle lines are forming in Eastman Kodak Co.'s patent sale ahead of Monday's initial bid deadline. — At least two groups are expected to bid on Kodak's trove of 1,100 patents, with a bevy of technology and patent heavyweights picking sides …
| Jack Purcher / Patently Apple: |
Apple Working on Advanced Display for Future Video Glasses — Apple has been toying with a heads-up display or video glasses since 2006 and they've already been granted a patent for their invention. Then earlier this month Apple's video glasses project won a surprising second patent …
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| Dan Levine / Reuters: |
Apple U.S. margins for iPad roughly half of iPhone: court filing — (Reuters) - Apple Inc earned gross margins of 49 to 58 percent for U.S. iPhone sales between April 2010 and the end of March 2012, while gross margins on the iPad were much lower during much of that period, according to a court filing.
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| Noel Randewich / Reuters: |
Far from Silicon Valley, tech industry finds an oracle — (Reuters) - Anand Shimpi is one of the most influential tech industry figures you've never heard of. — From his start as a teenager building PCs for students and faculty at a college in his hometown of Raleigh, North Carolina …
Tweets: @peterlauria3, @lianabaker, @anandshimpi and @trixxy
| Aaron Souppouris / The Verge: |
Google+ traffic soars: 66 percent increase in nine months — Traffic analytics site ComScore has revealed a large increase in visits to Google+. According to ComScore, the number of unique visitors to the social network has increased by 66 percent over the last nine months … | Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
OAuth 2.0 leader resigns, says standard is ‘bad’ — The standard grew too far away from its roots as a simple Web authentication technology, author Eran Hammer-Lahav says, and now is insecure and overly broad. — OAuth 2.0 author Eran Hammer-Lahav has declared the authentication standard a failure.| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Samsung, Apple Even At Odds Over Where they Will Sit at Trial — How deep do the disputes go between Apple and Samsung? — Well, the latest motion from Samsung concerns where each party will sit during the trial and how each will refer to the other. — Samsung takes issue with being called the …
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| Mark Gillett / The Big Blog: |
What Does Skype's Architecture Do? — In the last few days we have seen reports in the media we believe are inaccurate and could mislead the Skype community about our approach to user security and privacy. I want to clear this up. — At Skype, we continue to be humbled and grateful …
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| Harrison Weber / The Next Web: |
OUYA secures OnLive partnership, teases controller design as it passes $5.5M on Kickstarter — OUYA, the wildly successful Kickstarter project that recently passed $5.5M in funding, has just announced a partnership with cloud gaming service OnLive, which delivers popular gaming titles on-demand over the Internet.
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The Next Web, CNET, OnLive Blog, Ars Technica, TechCrunch, TechnoBuffalo, Ubergizmo, SlashGear, Gamasutra, Kotaku, Inquirer and Engadget
| Brendan Sasso / Hillicon Valley: |
Senate amendment would allow Facebook users to share Netflix videos — A proposed amendment to a Senate cybersecurity bill would allow Facebook users to opt-in to automatically share which videos they have watched on Netflix. — The Senate could vote on the amendment, filed by Sen. Patrick Leahy …
| John Ribeiro / Computerworld: |
Samsung's Q2 smartphone shipments nearly twice those of Apple, say research firms — The smartphone market grew 32 percent year-over-year in the quarter to reach 146 million units, said Strategy Analytics — Samsung shipped nearly twice the number of smartphones as Apple during the second quarter …
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The Original iPhone 4 Design Prototype From 2006 — More ancient Apple prototypes revealed by court filings this week : What looks like the first, Sony-inspired design prototype of the iPhone 4/4S, along with an iPhone that looks like a giant iPod mini that never saw the light of day.| Bryan Bishop / The Verge: |
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Inside NuGet for C++ — NuGet support for C++ projects in Visual Studio has arrived in NuGet 2.5! It's been around for about a month now so we figured we'd go talk to one of the developers who helped make it happen, Garrett Serack.
Inside NuGet for C++ — NuGet support for C++ projects in Visual Studio has arrived in NuGet 2.5! It's been around for about a month now so we figured we'd go talk to one of the developers who helped make it happen, Garrett Serack.
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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 …
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An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
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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.
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“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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