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Apple Officials Said to Consider Stake in Twitter — Apple, which has stumbled in its efforts to get into social media, has talked with Twitter in recent months about making a strategic investment in it, according to people briefed on the matter. — While Apple has been hugely successful …
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Microsoft's Lost Decade — Once upon a time, Microsoft dominated the tech industry; indeed, it was the wealthiest corporation in the world. But since 2000, as Apple, Google, and Facebook whizzed by, it has fallen flat in every arena it entered: e-books, music, search, social networking, etc., etc.| Jay Yarow / Business Insider: |
You Have To Read This Blistering Response From Microsoft's PR Boss On Its ‘Lost Decade’ — We missed this when it was first posted, but it's so good, we have to post it here. — Vanity Fair had a big expose on Microsoft in its August issue about the company's “Lost Decade.”| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple airs ad about the Genius Bar during Olympic Games opening ceremonies — During the opening ceremonies for this year's Olympic Games in London, Apple aired a new television ad. The new ad is strikingly different than any other Apple ad that we've seen air before.
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Business Insider, MacRumors, Fortune, Cult of Mac, The Verge, iDownloadBlog.com, The Next Web and iClarified
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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 …
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Pulse2 Technology …, Techie Buzz, PhoneArena, CNET, Neowin, Engadget, iDownloadBlog.com, T3 News, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Business Insider, Seattle Times and The Next Web. Tweets: @dkberman
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Leaked RIAA Report: SOPA/PIPA “Ineffective Tool” Against Music Piracy — “These illicit sites are among the culprits behind the music industry's more than 50 percent decline in revenues during the last decade, resulting in 15,000 layoffs and fewer resources to invest in new bands,” … | Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
RIAA: Online Music Piracy Pales In Comparison to Offline Swapping — In April, one of the RIAA's key employees informed a group of music industry insiders about the upcoming six-strikes anti-piracy scheme in the U.S. TorrentFreak received a copy of the presentation sheets which include … | Elinor Mills / CNET: |
NSA director finally greets Defcon hackers — National Security Agency Director Gen. Keith Alexander calls Defcon the “world's best cybersecurity community” and asks for their help. — Follow @elinormills — Pre-teen hacker CyFi gets congratulated by National Security Agency Director …
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Bitly is working on an “Internet attention ranking engine” called Realtime — Bitly, the company that basically ushered the world into short links on sites like Twitter, is playing around with a new service, launching it under its “Bitly Labs” umbrella. — It's called Realtime, and is available at http://www.rt.ly| Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: |
Government: we can freeze Mega assets even if case is dismissed — The United States government said today that even if the indictment of the Megaupload corporation is dismissed, it can continue its indefinite freeze on the corporation's assets while it awaits the extradition of founder Kim Dotcom and his associates.Sponsor Posts
Channel 9:
Windows Store Weekly — This week we take a look at: Star Trek App, Box, Fling Theory, StumbleUpon, and wordBrush.
Windows Store Weekly — This week we take a look at: Star Trek App, Box, Fling Theory, StumbleUpon, and wordBrush.
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:
DevOps: Improved Productivity, Higher Value — Those of us who have been aligned with DevOps for some time already know that the greater agility and closer collaboration it enables deliver real business value for our organizations.
DevOps: Improved Productivity, Higher Value — Those of us who have been aligned with DevOps for some time already know that the greater agility and closer collaboration it enables deliver real business value for our organizations.
Hortonworks » Blog:
Get Started with Hadoop on Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 for Windows — We are excited to release the Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 for Windows as a Generally Available product.
Get Started with Hadoop on Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 for Windows — We are excited to release the Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 for Windows as a Generally Available product.
Unison's blog:
Skype in the browser — Whether you like the Skype app or not, until now, you've had no choice but to download something to make voice and video calls — either an app like Skype, or a Flash plugin (yikes) for your browser.
Skype in the browser — Whether you like the Skype app or not, until now, you've had no choice but to download something to make voice and video calls — either an app like Skype, or a Flash plugin (yikes) for your browser.Who's Hiring In Tech?
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