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| Brandon LeBlanc / The Windows Blog: |
Windows 8 has reached the RTM milestone — Today, I am excited to announce that Windows 8 has been released to manufacturing (RTM)! This means we've completed the product development and testing of the product and have started handing off the final code to our OEM partners.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft completes Windows 8 development, announces RTM — Microsoft has announced that Windows 8 development is now complete. The final Release to Manufacturing (RTM) code will now be delivered to the company's hardware partners within the next few days to ready PCs and tablets …
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| Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac: |
Amazon Instant Video app for iPad hits the App Store with offline viewing and Prime streaming — Click to view slideshow. — Just 24 hours after Hulu started popping up on Apple TV, We now see Amazon's Instant Video Store in the App Store for iPad. It looks like a full app capable …
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CNET, USA Today, GeekWire, VentureBeat, LAPTOP Magazine, Tech Trader Daily, GigaOM, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, AllThingsD, Liliputing, MobileBurn.com, The Next Web, Geeky-Gadgets, Macworld, TUAW, Zatz Not Funny!, Engadget, GadgeTell, Macgasm, Mashable!, Lifehacker, IntoMobile, The Verge, Business Insider and App Advice. Thanks:@llsethj
| Aditya Agarwal / The Dropbox Blog: |
Security update & new features — A couple weeks ago, we started getting emails from some users about spam they were receiving at email addresses used only for Dropbox. We've been working hard to get to the bottom of this, and want to give you an update. — Our investigation found …
| Rip Empson / TechCrunch: |
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Craigslist Now Wants Your Postings Under ‘Exclusive’ Terms: Padmapper Fallout Continues — Another development in the ongoing Craigslist data scraping story: Craigslist has added in a new proviso for those posting ads, telling them that Craigslist now becomes the “exclusive licensee” of the content in that ad.| Megan Garber / The Atlantic Online: |
The Power of Internet Censorship, in 1 Chart — Sometime late in the evening of July 28, Twitter suspended the account of journalist and NBC naysayer Guy Adams. Earlier today, with apologies from Twitter's lawyer to Adams, the service reinstated his account. — There are many lessons to be learned from this brief affair.| Jeff John Roberts / GigaOM: |
| Robin Wauters / The Next Web: |
Apple's CPU architect Jim Keller departs to head up chipmaker AMD's processor group — Chipmaker AMD this morning announced that it has hired Jim Keller as corporate VP and chief architect of the company's microprocessor cores. — Before, Keller was a director in the platform architecture group at Apple …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
The @outlook.com email addresses Microsoft forgot to reserve — Microsoft's new Outlook.com webmail service launched yesterday as a public preview, leaving thousands of Hotmail users scrambling to reserve their shiny new @outlook.com email addresses. After a million signups in just a few hours …
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| Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: |
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
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| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
Samsung Goes Public With Excluded Evidence to Undercut Apple's Design Claims — Denied the opportunity to make the argument in court that the design of the original iPhone was derived from Sony concepts, Samsung has decided to make it in the court of public opinion.
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| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
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| Katherine Rushton / Telegraph: |
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Google Tightens Up App Policy, Gets Stricter On Naming/Icon, Payments, Privacy, Ads And Spam Rules [Developer Letter] — Looks like Google Play is growing up, combing its hair and trying to move away from its Wild West image: Android's app store team has sent out a letter to its tens … | Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
The Future of Twitter's Platform Is All in the Cards — On June 29, Twitter VP of Product Michael Sippey posted a foreboding 439-word letter to the company blog, broadly sketching the direction Twitter's platform is headed. — Upon its reception, most of the public attention focused on a single passage … | Benjamin Jackson / The Next Web: |
First Look: Simple Reimagines Banking — You and I probably don't see eye to eye on everything. You may not agree with my taste in music, or my politics, or my positions on the Oxford comma and tucking in of collared shirts (pro, and only when worn with a tie).| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Nearly 40 iPhone and iPad prototypes revealed in Samsung trial — Today at the Apple vs. Samsung trial, Apple designer Christopher Stringer took to the stand as Apple's first witness. In the course of his testimony about Apple's design process, he showed dozens of rejected iPhone and iPad designs …
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| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Back to square one: Hulu blocks overseas Apple TV owners streaming via US iTunes accounts — A number of us across TNW's global team got rather excited when appeared that Hulu was allowing Apple TV owners to use its service from anywhere in the world so long as they had a US iTunes account …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Digg launches redesign and new app with editorial curation, no comments — Digg's “Rethought' redesign after its acquisition by Betaworks has just gone live, just one day after the company showed off its v1 preview that was the result of a very rapid 6-week redesign process.
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The Next Web, Engadget, Business Insider, Inquirer, memeburn, Laughing Squid, NYT Bits, CNET, Betabeat, Gizmodo, IntoMobile, iDownloadBlog.com, Macgasm and kottke.org. Tweets: @joshconstine. See also Mediagazer
| Anton Troianovski / Wall Street Journal: |
New Rules on Kids' Web Ads — Social networks and Internet advertisers are likely to face new restrictions on how they interact with children online. — The Federal Trade Commission is expected to announce Wednesday new rules that close loopholes that currently allow companies … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Better Get Mobile Quick. 102M People Accessed Solely From Mobile In June, Up 23% Since March — There's a staggering new statistic in Facebook's 10-Q SEC document today: 102 million people accessed Facebook solely from mobile in June, a massive 23% increase over the 83 million mobile-only users in March.| Dante D'Orazio / The Verge: |
Google suspends Nexus Q launch, will send free dev devices to pre-order customers — Google has just let us know that it is delaying the launch of the Nexus Q as it works to improve the device. The Nexus Q order page on Google Play has been taken down, and now simply leaves customers with a note that the device “is coming soon.”| Dave Greenbaum / GigaOM: |
Google Fiber in the real world: Here's what's good and what needs work — Although Google Fiber is not yet available to residential customers, select Retail Partners in Kansas City went live on Saturday, July 28th. One of these places was Mud Pie Vegan Bakery.| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Apple Expands Build-to-Order Configuration Options on Retina MacBook Pro [Updated] — Apple today quietly expanded the available configuration options for the Retina MacBook Pro, now offering a full slate of individual upgrade options on the base model that starts at $2199.| Evan Perez / Wall Street Journal: |
FBI Files Go Digital, After Years of Delays — Computer System 12 Years in the Making Is Aimed at Better Sharing of Information; Effort Cost More Than $600 Million — WASHINGTON—Federal Bureau of Investigation agents have finally ditched paper files for a new computer system …
| Louis Goddard / The Verge: |
Android 4.0 ported to Raspberry Pi, supports HD video but not audio — A working version of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich has been ported to the credit card-sized Raspberry Pi computer, allowing the $25 device to perform many of the functions of a modern smartphone or tablet, albeit at a somewhat slower pace.
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CNET, ZDNet and Raspberry Pi
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Lenovo Windows 8 ThinkPad Tablet 2 aimed at iPad business users, includes pen input and dock — Lenovo has previously shown off a prototype Windows 8 tablet back at Computex Taipei in June, which recently passed through the FCC. A leaked Lenovo document on the tablet, sent to us by a tipster …
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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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