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| Nathan Olivarez-Giles / Wired: |
After Epic Hack, Apple Suspends Over-the-Phone AppleID Password Resets — Apple on Tuesday ordered its support staff to immediately stop processing AppleID password changes requested over the phone, following the identity hacking of Wired Reporter Mat Honan over the weekend, according to Apple employees.
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Tweets: @edbott and @waxpancake
Thanks:@nateog| 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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| AllThingsD: |
Samsung's 2010 Report Says Its Galaxy Would Be Better if It Were Just More Like the iPhone — As part of its case against Samsung, Apple has shown snippets of an internal Samsung document comparing the original Galaxy S phone with the iPhone. — On Tuesday, Apple managed to get the whole 132-page document admitted into evidence.
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Tweets: @cdixon and @counternotions
| Peter Ha / TechCrunch: |
Square Partners With Starbucks Raises $25M For Series D; Howard Schultz Joins The Board — It might not be the funding announcement we've been hearing rumors about but today Square announced that they've partnered with Starbucks. But there's more! — Square will soon begin processing …
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BBC, Starbucks Newsroom, Square, CNET, The Verge, AllThingsD, SplatF, Wall Street Journal, The Next Web, Digital Media Wire, Wired, VentureBeat, GigaOM, Engadget, IntoMobile, NBC Bay Area, bub.blicio.us, MacStories, Business Insider and Business Insider
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| Josh Ong / The Next Web: |
| Michael Arrington / Uncrunched: |
Up Next: Highlight (Or Something) To Crush Craigslist — Twas just a week ago that the NY Times argued that Craigslist was virtually bulletproof. Not because it's anything special, but because they cultivate a false image of doing good while simultaneously bullying competitors with their lawyers:
Tweets: @mattrosoff
| Sascha Segan / PC Magazine: |
Microsoft's Massive Metro Mistake — Don't call it Metro. Call it overkill. — There's an old saw that Windows users adopt every other version of Microsoft's OS, and Microsoft seems to be trying to make this “new every two” legend come true, if we believe Microsoft guru Mary Jo Foley's recent story …
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| Matt Hamblen / Computerworld: |
Verizon Wireless reveals $150 20GB shared data plan, and four others — The high-end plans are available, but are not posted on Verizon's Web site — Verizon Wireless Tuesday revealed that there are five additional data tiers over and above the six tiers announced with its Share Everything plans earlier this summer.
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| Mary Branscombe / TechRadar.com: |
Microsoft is already working on Surface 2 tablets — Exclusive A dozen job adverts for “the next generation” posted online — Microsoft Surface: great design but there's more to come — The Surface tablets that Microsoft will start selling on 26 October at Microsoft Stores …
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Gizmodo, PhoneArena, CNET, I4U News, Pocket-lint, Phones Review, PC Magazine, The Next Web and Computerworld. Thanks:@marypcbuk
| 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.| Groklaw: |
SCO Files for Chapter 7: “There is no reasonable chance of ‘rehabilitation’” — SCO Group has now filed [PDF] for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection. They are in Chapter 11 now. What is the difference? Chapter 11 means you are trying to reorganize and survive as a corporate entity.| Jim Louderback / AllThingsD: |
The Bottom Line on Apple and YouTube — Normally, losing home page placement for an app on the iPhone and iPad would cause gnashing of teeth and wailing of tongues in the afflicted boardroom, along with wholesale firings and restructuring. — But in YouTube's case, losing that coveted spot … | TechCrunch: |
Realtime Gets $100 Million To Build “Whole New Era Of The Internet,” AKA The Real-Time Web — Realtime, a technology developed by a company which has been around since the Internet's earliest days with the practically un-Googleable name “Internet Business Technologies,” …
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
iOS 6 points to new 9-pin connector: is this the new, smaller dock port? — At this point, it seems highly likely that the next-generation of Apple's iOS devices will carry smaller dock connectors. That new hardware feature has been reported by multiple sources.| Ron / WinBeta: |
Windows Essentials 2012 released, comes with new Movie Maker and Photo Gallery — Microsoft has released Windows Essentials 2012, which comes with Movie Maker and Photo Gallery for both Windows 7 and Windows 8. Movie Maker and Photo Gallery for Windows 8 comes with numerous enhancements tailored to the Windows 8 experience.
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Engadget, LiveSide.net and The Windows Blog
| David Kravets / Wired: |
Appeals Court OKs Warrantless Wiretapping — The federal government may spy on Americans' communications without warrants and without fear of being sued, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday in a decision reversing the first and only case that successfully challenged President George W …
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Gizmodo, DSLreports, The Verge, Politico and Engadget
Tweets: @qthrul, @ioerror and @dangillmor
| Reuters: |
Analysis: EBay lures big retailers in Amazon battle — (Reuters) - EBay Inc, once a scrappy auction site for mom and pop sellers, is enticing some of the world's largest retailers by arguing it can help them compete better against e-commerce leader Amazon.com Inc.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Sprint CEO Dan Hesse's plan to fight AT&T and Verizon: ‘doing the right thing’ — Sprint is feeling pretty positive about itself these days. Most obviously, it dodged a bullet when AT&T failed to acquire T-Mobile, but since then Sprint's last quarterly results were better than usual …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft Office 2013: Bye-bye add-ins, hello apps — Summary: Microsoft is looking for developers to ‘think different’ when developing apps for Office 2013 and SharePoint 2013 and their respective Stores. — In the new Office 2013 and SharePoint 2013 worlds, add-ins are passe. Apps are in.
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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.| Sarah Silbert / Engadget: |
Lenovo's ThinkPad X1 Carbon Ultrabook gets official: on sale August 21st for $1,399 and up — Lenovo's ThinkPad X1 Carbon has been a known entity since May, when the company gave us a look at the 14-inch, Ivy Bridge-packing Ultrabook. Up until now, though, the successor …
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GadgeTell, ZDNet, Softpedia News, Mashable!, LAPTOP Magazine, The Verge and SlashGear
| 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.| 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 We're about a week into the Apple-Samsung trial, and so far the bulk of the testimony has centered … Sponsor Posts
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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:
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 …
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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