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Top Apple Executive Saw Market for 7-Inch Tablet in 2011, Said Company Should Do One — Apple executive Eddy Cue sent an e-mail in January 2011 to CEO Tim Cook and others recommending that the company build its own 7-inch tablet. — “I believe there will be a 7-inch market and we should do one …
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| Josh Lowensohn / CNET: |
Here's Apple's e-mail thread about a 7-inch iPad — Apple may not have a 7-inch version of the iPad available, but a newly unearthed piece of evidence in shows the company's top brass was into the idea. — Follow @Josh — Apple's current-sized iPad. — SAN JOSE, Calif. …
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| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Phil Schiller on History of the iPhone, Advertising, and Market Research — Phil Schiller is currently on the witness stand in the trial of Apple versus Samsung, and Apple's marketing chief is offering a bit of insight into the history of the iPhone, making the argument that Apple revolutionized …
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| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Apple's Scott Forstall on How “Project Purple” Became the iPhone — Apple iOS head Scott Forstall testified on Friday that he had a really tough challenge as he tried in 2004 to assemble a team to build the iPhone, or “Project Purple” as it was known then. — Adam Tow / AllThingsD.com
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| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Apple Loses Bid to Keep Customer Survey Secret — The judge overseeing Apple's patent lawsuit against Samsung said Apple can't keep secret a marketing survey it took of its customers. — Apple argued that the survey's release would aid competitors as the data is not available elsewhere.
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San Francisco Chronicle, CNET, The Next Web, Network World, Macgasm, VentureBeat, SlashGear, Mashable!, App Advice, GeekWire, PhoneArena, 9to5Mac, Pocketnow, SlashGear, The Verge, Macworld, everythingiCafe, BGR, CNET, Examiner, CNET, FOSS Patents, TechCrunch and MacRumors. Tweets: @cdixon
| Mat Honan / Emptyage: |
Yes, I was hacked. Hard. — So maybe you saw my Twitter going nuts tonight. Or you saw Gizmodo's Twitter account blow up. Or you saw this in AllThingsD. Or this in the DailyDot. Although embarrassing, Twitter was the least of it. In short, someone gained entry to my iCloud account …
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AllThingsD, Daily Dot, Softpedia News and TUAW
| Emil Protalinski / ZDNet: |
Gizmodo's Twitter account hacked — Summary: Gizmodo's Twitter account was hacked today. — Emil Protalinski — Follow @emilprotalinski — Gizmodo's Twitter account was hacked on Friday evening by a group calling itself Clan Vv3. The breach didn't last long, but it was enough …
| Thomas Gryta / Wall Street Journal: |
AT&T Ending 2G Network by 2017 — AT&T Inc. is shutting down its second-generation, or 2G, wireless networks by 2017 as it continues to upgrade its systems to faster technology and better use its limited airwaves. — The telecom giant said about 12% of its contract wireless customers …
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Engadget, iDownloadBlog.com, PC Magazine, FierceWireless, Gotta Be Mobile, The Next Web, BGR, Pocketnow, VentureBeat, The Verge, ZDNet and Slashdot
| Chris Foresman / Ars Technica: |
Mountain Lion having mysterious effect on battery life for some users — A large number of Mac users are reporting that installing OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) is causing a major drop in battery life on MacBook Pros and Airs. Those users have been posting about battery life problems …
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Another Round Of Google Shutdowns: Google Apps For Teams, Google Listen & Google Video For Business — Google just announced yet another batch of services it plans to discontinue in the near future. Most of these are relatively obscure products that probably didn't have a large amount of traction.
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The Official Google Blog, Neowin, The Verge, Computerworld, VentureBeat and AllThingsD
| Josh Lowensohn / CNET: |
iPhone 5 event rumors pump eBay smartphone trade-ins — The online sales site says that more people than usual are trading in their smartphones on rumors that Apple has a new iPhone just around the corner. — Follow @Josh — iPhone 4's lined up at an Apple store when the product launched in 2010.
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iPhone in Canada Blog, App Advice, WebProNews and Computerworld
| Jennifer Van Grove / VentureBeat: |
Dalton Caldwell's App.net, a social utopia, makes its alpha debut — A select bunch of social media idealists are now taking up residence at App.net, the would-be status update safe house for consumers running away from advertisers and developers seeking refuge from hostile platforms like Facebook and Twitter.Sponsor Posts
Channel 9:
Announcing TypeScript 0.9: Generics and More — Anders Hejlsberg, Steve Lucco, and Luke Hoban join us for a conversation about TypeScript 0.9. TypeScript now has generics! (and more)
Announcing TypeScript 0.9: Generics and More — Anders Hejlsberg, Steve Lucco, and Luke Hoban join us for a conversation about TypeScript 0.9. TypeScript now has generics! (and more)
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:
99.999 Is Not Enough: An OpenCloud Approach to Delivering Application Uptime and Performance — Executive Summary — The pressure to keep vital applications online and performing well is extreme.
99.999 Is Not Enough: An OpenCloud Approach to Delivering Application Uptime and Performance — Executive Summary — The pressure to keep vital applications online and performing well is extreme.
Hortonworks » Blog:
University makes major investment in big data development — As news of the benefits provided by big data platforms such as Apache Hadoop spreads, more organizations are investing in the burgeoning technology.
University makes major investment in big data development — As news of the benefits provided by big data platforms such as Apache Hadoop spreads, more organizations are investing in the burgeoning technology.Who's Hiring In Tech?
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