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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Upcoming iOS 6 is scalable to taller, 640 x 1136 iPhone display, shows possible next-generation device user-interface — Mockup of rumored next-generation iPhone design — With the next-generation iPhone's announcement and release approaching for next month, one of the most present rumors is a larger, nearly-four inch display.
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Examiner, AllThingsD, MacRumors, TechCrunch, Wired, Macworld, Gotta Be Mobile, iDownloadBlog.com, Redmond Pie, parislemon, Macgasm, Los Angeles Times, App Advice, MobileSyrup.com, Geek.com, Gizmodo, BGR, Pocketables, The Verge, I4U News, Pocketnow, TechnoBuffalo, IntoMobile, TechGlued, Apple Bitch, iLounge, iPhone in Canada Blog, Business Insider, TodaysiPhone.com, everythingiCafe and WebProNews
| Nathan Olivarez-Giles / Wired: |
Amazon Quietly Closes Security Hole After Journalist's Devastating Hack — Amazon closed a privacy hole on Monday that previously allowed hackers access to Amazon accounts over the phone using just a name, email address and mailing address — three pieces of information easily found for many on the web.
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The Verge, Ars Technica, The Atlantic Online, CNNMoney.com, Forbes, Los Angeles Times, TUAW, PC Magazine, Gizmodo, Gizmodo, Technology Review, Daring Fireball, blog.chron.com and SlashGear. Tweets: @robpegoraro. Thanks:@strngwys
| Matt Cutts: |
Please turn on two-factor authentication — You should read Mat Honan's heartbreaking tale of a hack attack and the ensuing discussion on Techmeme. Much of the story is about Amazon or Apple's security practices, but I would still advise everyone to turn on Google's two-factor authentication … | Nathan Olivarez-Giles / Wired: |
| Yoni Heisler / Network World: |
The iPhone patent Steve Jobs particularly cared about - inertial scrolling — Steve Jobs seemingly had a special affinity for Apple's '381 patent, which covers intertial scrolling — h(f)){c=a.createElement('script'); c.type='text/javascript';c.src='http:// ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs …
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TUAW, TechnoBuffalo, Redmond Pie, ReadWriteWeb, 9to5Mac, The Next Web and iDownloadBlog.com. Thanks:@ionapple1
| Josh Lowensohn / CNET: |
Mac designer: Samsung phone fooled me — Apple's expert design witness, and former Mac icon designer says that she mistook one of Samsung's devices for Apple's. — SAN JOSE, Calif. — One of Apple's early designers apparently picked up a Samsung device believing it had been made by Apple.
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Ars Technica, The Verge, Wired, VentureBeat, CNET, 9to5Mac, BGR, MacRumors, Wall Street Journal, The Verge, Droid Life, Reuters, Bloomberg and TechnoBuffalo
| Greg Sandoval / CNET: |
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| Jim Dalrymple / The Loop: |
| Steven Musil / CNET: |
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| Chris Urmson / The Official Google Blog: |
The self-driving car logs more miles on new wheels — Technology is at its best when it makes people's lives better, and that's precisely what we're going for with our self-driving car project. We're using advanced computer science to try and make driving safer and more enjoyable.
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CNET, VentureBeat, 9to5Google, msnbc.com, Mashable!, The Verge, The Next Web and Techie Buzz
| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
The New Yorker Lands on the iPhone, With Help From Lena Dunham and Jon Hamm — Here's another way to crack the “big stack of old New Yorkers you don't have time to get to” problem: You can now read the magazine on your iPhone, via a new app. — If you've used the New Yorker's iPad app … | Jason Feifer / Fast Company: |
Who's That Woman in the Twitter Bot Profile? — They're sometimes called “bimbots”—the army of Twitter bots with pretty profile pictures. Who are the women pictured in those photos? This is the story of the quest to find out. — After weeks of trying, I'd nearly found the real person behind a Twitter bot.
Tweets: @sethporges
| Adrianne Jeffries / The Verge: |
Cell phone radiation limits under government scrutiny for the first time since 1996 — Americans are getting pretty cozy with their cell phones. We're on them at work, at home, on the weekends, and even in bed; we're also getting our first phones at a younger age than in the past.
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CNET, ZDNet and Know Your Cell
| Donna Tam / CNET: |
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| Todd Wasserman / Mashable!: |
Apple's ‘Genius’ Ads Disappear From the Olympics — 1 of 3 — Have you noticed that Apple's much-debated “Genius” ads have disappeared from the Olympics? — Well, you're not imagining things. A rep for TBWA/Media/Arts Lab, Apple's ad agency, says the ads are not running anymore, but that was the plan all along.
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TechCrunch, Forbes, VentureBeat, MacRumors, iPhone in Canada Blog, TUAW, GigaOM and SlashGear
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Only Windows Phone 8 will support in-app purchasing — Microsoft has revealed that its plans to support in-app purchasing on Windows Phone will be limited to its upcoming version 8 release. In MSDN documentation, the software maker advises developers that you can only add in-app products to Windows Phone 8 apps.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Office 2013 RT for Windows RT tablets will ship as Preview, lack macros and other features — Microsoft is planning to remove certain features from its Office 2013 RT edition, according to sources familiar with the company's plans. The software maker is planning to ship a Preview version …
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PC Magazine, The Register, Wired, parislemon, Daring Fireball, Neowin, TechnoBuffalo, iDownloadBlog.com and VentureBeat
| Greg Sterling / Marketing Land: |
Study Shows Price The Top Consideration For Kindle Fire, Android Tablet Owners — Measurement firm comScore is launching a new tracking and metrics program for tablets. To publicize the new service comScore released some initial data, “based on a 3-month rolling sample of 6,000 US tablet owners.”
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GeekWire, CNET, The Verge, Inside Mobile Apps, TechSpot, CNET and PC Magazine
| Janko Roettgers / GigaOM: |
The Internet Archive teams up with BitTorrent, starts seeding 1M torrents — The Internet Archive just embraced P2P in a big way: The site is making more than one million torrents of its books, movies, TV show episodes and music albums available for free download.
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Internet Archive Blogs and TorrentFreak
| Brendon Lynch / TechNet Blogs: |
Do Not Track in the Windows 8 Setup Experience — With Windows 8's recent release to manufacturing, we know many people are interested in how customers will discover Do Not Track (DNT) in Internet Explorer 10. DNT will be enabled in the “Express Settings” portion of the Windows 8 set-up experience.
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Computerworld, PC Magazine, WebProNews, Techie Buzz and BetaNews
| Louis Goddard / The Verge: |
Craigslist reportedly removes listings from search engines, blocking 3Taps and PadMapper — Listings site Craigslist has reportedly asked all general search engines to stop indexing its postings, effectively obsolescing data provider 3Taps and sites and apps which use its API, including the popular PadMapper.
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digitaltrends.com, TechSpot, GigaOM, Business Insider, Ars Technica, BuzzFeed, VentureBeat, Betabeat and Daily Dot
Tweets: @dannysullivan, @3taps and @3taps
| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
LinkedIn to Developers: We'll Give You the Clarity the Other Platforms Won't — In light of frustration with platform policy changes on other social media services like Twitter, LinkedIn today pushed out updated terms of service, a revamped developer-resources Web site and a more explicit approved-developer program.
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VentureBeat, CNET, LinkedIn Blog, SocialTimes, The Next Web and WebProNews
| Andy Greenberg / Forbes: |
Black Market Drug Site ‘Silk Road’ Booming: $22 Million In Annual Sales — In the year since Senator Joe Manchin called for the “audacious” drug-selling website Silk Road to be “shut down immediately,” the world's most high-profile underground pharmacy hasn't just survived.| Julie Bort / Business Insider: |
Judge Orders Google, Oracle To Confess If They Paid Off Bloggers To Write About Their Lawsuit — The judge overseeing the Oracle vs. Google lawsuit has just ruled that both parties have to disclose if they paid off any journalists or bloggers to write or comment on the case, according to court documents filed today.
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Ars Technica, AllThingsD, Wired, Betabeat, Computerworld, Ars Technica, Bloomberg, paidContent and CNET. See also Mediagazer
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Unveils First Non-Social Mobile Ad Unit, Allowing Developers To Buy Clicks To App Stores — Until now, every Facebook mobile ad had to be triggered by you or a friend's activity, but today Facebook begins testing a new non-social ad unit that lets developers buy mobile news feed ads …
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VentureBeat, Engadget, GigaOM, Facebook Developer Blog, Forbes and The Next Web. Thanks:@joshconstine
| Louis Goddard / The Verge: |
XBMC and Ouya team up on integrated Android media center — The team behind XBMC — the iconic cross-platform, open source media center which recently made its way on to Android — will receive early access to prototypes of the much-anticipated Ouya games console, making sure that the app provides a smooth experience on the platform.| Stephanie Mlot / PC Magazine: |
SiriusXM Adds On Demand Option for Web, iOS — SiriusXM's new On Demand subscription option provides users with access to their favorite radio stations on their own schedule. — The company announced today that its On Demand option offers the ability for listeners to choose their favorite episodes …
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PR Newswire, The Verge, Seeking Alpha, TechnoBuffalo and SlashGear
| Jeff John Roberts / GigaOM: |
Facebook says ‘Likes’ are free speech in sheriff case — Facebook is supporting the court appeal of a deputy sheriff who lost his job after he ‘Liked’ the Facebook campaign page of his boss's rival. The case is helping to define the extent of free speech rights in the age of social media.
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Featured Startup on Windows Phone - Digital Geek — You know how you are at the beach sometimes, listening to your portable listening device, jamming to some music and you realize, “Actually, at this moment …
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Want to Contribute to Cloud Foundry? Come on in! — Cloud Foundry is an Open Platform-as-a-Service, and an Open Source project. It has attracted phenomenal interest from the community - including partners …
Rackspace Blog:
How ImgPage Uploads 25 MB Photos to Cloud Files Using the Mailgun API — The team over at Mailgun just posted a Python tutorial written by Mailgun customer Paul Finn about how to use Python and the Mailgun API to upload large images to Cloud Files.
How ImgPage Uploads 25 MB Photos to Cloud Files Using the Mailgun API — The team over at Mailgun just posted a Python tutorial written by Mailgun customer Paul Finn about how to use Python and the Mailgun API to upload large images to Cloud Files.
Hortonworks » Blog:
Week in Review: SQL IN Hadoop and Hive, Beyond Batch with YARN, NFS access to HDFS and HBase MTTR — Or as it's more commonly being called: Week-ish in Review. Let's recap on the latest - there's some juicy technology goodness here.
Week in Review: SQL IN Hadoop and Hive, Beyond Batch with YARN, NFS access to HDFS and HBase MTTR — Or as it's more commonly being called: Week-ish in Review. Let's recap on the latest - there's some juicy technology goodness here.
Unison's blog:
“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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