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Building the search engine of the future, one baby step at a time — Larry Page once described the perfect search engine as understanding exactly what you mean and giving you back exactly what you want. It's very much like the computer I dreamt about as a child growing up in India …
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Google Search app for iPad and iPhone adds voice-based answers, available in the ‘next couple of days’ — Google has updated its search app for iOS to include voice-based questions and answers. You can “ask for the weather in a natural way” and it will provide results.| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
Google Adds Personal Gmail Results Into Search — In a major move to integrate personal search and Web search, Google is adding some users' Gmail into their search results as a “limited field trial,” it said today. — So when participating users search for “Amazon,” information … | Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD: |
Zynga's COO John Schappert Steps Down, Effective Immediately — Zynga has announced that the company's COO John Schappert has stepped down from the company and its board of directors, effective immediately. — This comes as perhaps no surprise given that last week it leaked …
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ThinkPad Celebrates 20 Years, Announces Windows 8 ThinkPad Tablet 2 — 1992 was a big year. Bill Clinton was elected president. Price Charles and Diana separated. And the first ThinkPad laptop was released by IBM. — Twenty years have passed now and a lot has changed.
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Borrowing from Google, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Begins Makeover — Yahoo Inc.'s rookie chief executive Marissa Mayer has made one thing clear to employees at the outset of her bid to revive the Internet company: Product comes first. — Since taking over Yahoo three weeks ago …
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A breakfast with Square and Starbucks: CEOs Dorsey and Schultz explain their unique partnership — Last night's announced partnership between Square and Starbucks came as a surprise, but after hearing CEOs Jack Dorsey and Howard Schultz discuss how the arrangement came to be …
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If Xerox PARC Invented the PC, Google Invented the Internet — The truth about Jeff Dean appeared on April Fool's Day 2007. — Somewhere inside Google, a private website served up a list of facts about Dean, one of Google's earliest employees and one of the main reasons the web giant handles … | Dalton Caldwell: |
App.net is not vaporware — We shipped an alpha version of App.net. You can browse the global feed at alpha.app.net. This is a webapp that we built in the last two weeks on top of our documented API. Think of this web application as a “proof of concept”.
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Daring Fireball, Marco.org, The Mactivist, MG Siegler, The Next Web and The Next Web. Tweets: @janole
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Samsung Galaxy S III Usage Growing Significantly Since its Release — Available to consumers for just over a month, the Samsung Galaxy S III has emerged as one of the hottest Android phones on the market, boasting positive reviews along with impressive sales figures.
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Introducing new Skype Cards in Mexico — Skype is always working towards more and more ways to bring people together whenever they are apart. At Skype today we are happy to introduce a new payment option for the Mexico market, Skype Cards. — Skype users in Mexico will now have all the benefits …
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NYPD Unveils Creepy New Surveillance System Developed with Microsoft — “Wait, can't I just Google the address?” — Just last week, news broke that the NYPD would soon begin rolling out new tech that brings together information streams like CCTV footage and criminal databases.
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Pinterest Finally Ditches Invitations, Now Lets Anyone Sign Up — Calling all chefs, wedding planners, stylists, and crafty-types: Pinterest has just opened registration to the public after two years of requiring an invite to join. Anyone can now sign up with Twitter, Facebook, or just an email address.
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Watch: The moment Kim Dotcom's mansion got raided by police — A New Zealand news outlet has released video footage of the controversial police raid of Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom showing multiple helicopters and several police vehicles converging on his mansion.
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Nikon rumored to launch Android-based Coolpix S800 with Google Play access on August 22nd — If you've been waiting for something new from the compact camera market, Nikon might have a doozy coming soon — if the latest rumors are to be believed. Nikon Rumors is reporting that the company … | Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: |
40% of top brands use Instagram, love image filters — Today, Seattle-based Simply Measured launched its Instagram analytics tool for both the public, and its enterprise customers. In conjunction with that release, the company made public a study that it executed of the Interbrand 100 firms, concerning their usage of Instagram.
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After 5 Years With Facebook, Ben Blumenfeld Leaves To Beautify The Future At Designer Fund — A designer's eye can change the world, but some don't know how to build a company. So today, veteran Facebook designer Ben Blumenfeld revealed to me that he's moving on to co-direct Designer Fund … | Anita Li / Mashable!: |
Mars Landing Broadcast on Ustream Outperforms Cable TV — New stats from Ustream suggest that more people are forgoing television for online sources when it comes to getting news. — More than 3.2 million people tuned in to the live streaming platform to see Sunday night's landing …
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CNET, The Verge and TVbytheNumbers
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U.S. will not challenge computer fraud case to high court — (Reuters) - The government has decided not to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review a divided appeals court ruling in a criminal case that drew attention to a 28-year-old computer hacking law that critics argue is being used too broadly.
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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.
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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