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Introducing Outlook.com - Modern Email for the Next Billion Mailboxes — Recently, we talked about how we've reimagined cloud services for Windows 8 and Windows Phone. And we described new apps for Windows 8, updates to SkyDrive, and how cloud services power the new Office Preview … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Outlook.com: an all-new Metro style Hotmail with Skype video calling — Microsoft is also tying together its new email service with support for the latest mobile and smartphone devices, along with a tightly integrated aspect to Windows 8. If you're an Outlook.com user and you sign … | Amy Willis / Telegraph: |
London Olympics 2012: Twitter 'alerted NBC to British journalist's critical tweets' — Twitter employees alerted NBC staff to a British journalist's tweets and showed them how to file a complaint against him, the television network has revealed. — Gary Zenkel and Matt Lauer … | Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Google Gets Its Social Ad Start-up By Buying Wildfire — Google tried and failed to buy its way into the social ad business a couple months ago. This time it got it done: The ad giant has picked up Wildfire, which helps marketers manage their presence on social networks like Facebook and Twitter.| Wildfire Social Media Marketing Blog: |
Wildfire is Joining Google! — Four years ago, we set out on a journey to make social media marketing easier and more effective. We thought our idea had potential, but little did we know what an incredible ride it would be. Not only have we helped to define and build an entirely new industry … | Owen Thomas / Business Insider: |
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Hulu Plus Arrives on Apple TV — Keeping up with the latest episode of Family Guy, MasterChef and New Girl on Hulu Plus just got a little easier. And my living room just got a whole lot happier. — Hulu Plus arrives on Apple TV today. — To start watching Hulu Plus shows instantly, find “Hulu Plus” on the Apple TV home screen.| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
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The 7 men and 3 women who will decide Apple v. Samsung — They include a social worker, a systems engineer and a would-be video game designer — FORTUNE — Oh to be a fly on the wall in the jury room for this case. — After more than two years of thermonuclear rhetoric … | Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
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Box Raises $125 Million Growth Round Led by General Atlantic — The reports that Box, the cloud-based enterprise file-sharing and collaboration service that's been growing like the mythical beanstalk in Jack's back yard has been raising capital again are true.| Aaron Levie / The Box Blog: |
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Spotify launches unlimited free radio for Android users in the US — About a month after Spotify launched its unlimited free radio feature for iOS users in the US, the company today announced the same deal for Android users. This is the first time Spotify has allowed Android users to listen … | Paul Sawers / The Next Web: |
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Official Nexus 7 Accessory Lineup Leaks, POGO Dock and Premium Leather Case Incoming — According to leaked slides obtained by Nordic Hardware, the Nexus 7 accessory lineup is about to get a lot more interesting. — You know those pogo pins on the side of the device?| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
Microsoft to Google: Enough With the Diversionary Tactics, Let's Hug It Out — Microsoft is more than happy to take Google and its Motorola subsidiary to the mat over their alleged patent infringement, but it would much prefer to settle its differencies with the companies more amicably.| Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal: |
YouTube to Double Down on Its ‘Channel’ Experiment — YouTube has launched nearly 100 new online video “channels” so far this year, attracting talent such as actor Amy Poehler to create or star in original episodes that can draw new audiences-and blue-chip advertisers-to the Google website.| Justin Sink / Hillicon Valley: |
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App Store infested with zombie software, claims analytics startup Adeven — Zombies may provide a perennial source of material for mobile games, but no developer actually wants their app to be the walking dead. Nonetheless, according to new mobile analytics and ad verification firm Adeven … | Aaron Souppouris / The Verge: |
Sony Xperia Tablet leaks: Tegra 3 SoC, Surface-style keyboard case, starts at $449.99 — The successor to the Sony Tablet S has been leaked through what seem to be internal slides on German news site Mobiflip. The slides reveal a thinner, lighter, and more powerful tablet that refines the Tablet S' folded-magazine aesthetic.| Aaron Souppouris / The Verge: |
Facebook introducing ‘save for later’ feature — Facebook is reportedly rolling out an update to its mobile platform that allows users to save friends' posts for reading later. According to iMore, users will soon see a notification letting them know that they can 'press and hold anywhere … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Amazon Updates Cloud Player: Scan & Match Imports, 256 Kbps Audio Upgrades, Premium Accounts — Amazon just updated its Cloud Player music storage service with a number of interesting new features, including an iTunes Match-like scan and match technology that allows Amazon to just scan … | Chris Ziegler / The Verge: |
Samsung readying 11.8-inch tablet with ‘retina’ display, say court documents — Court documents made public in the epic Apple v. Samsung trial that kicked off in California today reveal that Samsung is working on a tablet codenamed “P10” that would include LTE connectivity and an 11.8-inch display at 2560 x 1600 (WQXGA) resolution.| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
First insider trading lawsuit filed against Zynga after executives cash out — When Zynga went public in December of 2011 at $10 a share, employees and early investors were “locked up,” banned from selling their shares until May 28th, 2012. But a select group of insiders got underwriters Morgan Stanley …
Featured Startup - FormVerse — If there was one tool not made for effective work, it would have to be email. If you take silos of information, and a chronological effect, where old or new is piled on top of each other …
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 …
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 …
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.
“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 3:35 PM ET, July 31, 2012.
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