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Apple vs. Samsung Trial Forces Companies to Open Up the Books — Everyone knows Apple and Samsung sell a lot of phones. Thanks to earnings reports there is even a pretty good sense of how many both companies sell in total each quarter. — However, the Apple-Samsung trial is providing …
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| Dan Levine / Reuters: |
Courtroom tension boils in Apple-Samsung showdown — (Reuters) - It was the end of a long week in court in the Apple-Samsung legal war, and Samsung attorney John Quinn was trying to block his adversary, Apple attorney Bill Lee, from showing the jury a document.
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| Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune: |
Apple sold 5.7 million tablets in the U.S. last quarter, court documents show. Samsung sold 37,000 — Reports of Galaxy Tab sales, like Mark Twain's death, have been greatly exaggerated — FORTUNE — In early December 2010, dozens of reporters happily repeated Samsung's claim …
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Microsoft now using ‘Modern UI Style’ to refer to Windows 8 ‘Metro Style’ apps — Microsoft may have nixed its “Metro” branding for the new tile-based design in Windows 8 and Windows Phone, but the company appears to be split over its replacement naming. Earlier this week it was reported … | Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
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RIM Said To Draw Interest From IBM Over Enterprise-Services Unit — Research In Motion Ltd. (RIMM)'s enterprise- services unit has attracted the interest of International Business Machines Corp. (IBM), according to two people familiar with the situation. — IBM made an informal approach … | Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Photos of purported next-gen iPhone's thinner, higher capacity battery: 3.8V, 1440 mAh — As the launch of the next iPhone approaches, lots of parts have been leaking out and we've been able to put the pieces together almost like a reverse iFixit teardown.| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Exclusive: Yahoo's Mayer Eyeing Twitter's Stanton for Big Media Role — Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has been trying to recruit Katie Jacobs Stanton, Twitter's head of international markets, to take a major job on the media side of the Silicon Valley Internet giant, according to multiple sources close to the situation.| Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD: |
DowninthedumpsVille: Morale Sinking at Zynga Along With Stock Drop — Will more Zynga employees be on their way out the door, as the company continues to struggle after going public only eight months ago? — Yes, indeed, if morale at the San Francisco-based social games company continues to sink as quickly as its stock has been.| Douglas MacMillan / Bloomberg: |
| Meghan Casserly / Forbes: |
Here's What Happens To Google Employees When They Die — Google employee benefits last into the afterlife — It's no surprise that the employee benefits of Google are among the best in the land—free haircuts, gourmet food, on-site doctors and high-tech “cleansing” toilets are among the most talked-about … | Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider: |
Apple files hint at re-engineered iMac and Mac Pro models, potentially without optical drives — Internal configuration files in Mountain Lion make apparent references to yet-unreleased new generations of Apple's iMac (iMac13,) and Mac Pro (MacPro6,), both in the context of USB booting options …
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| Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land: |
Study — Perhaps Flawed — Finds Sharing Much Higher On Twitter & Facebook, But Why Google+ Is Still Worth The Time — How popular is Google+? We could have the debate over active users again, but we've been there, done that. Instead, a new study is out that tries something different …
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| Nick Bilton / NYT Bits: |
How to Make a Dead Cat Bounce on Twitter — I've been told that in the olden days, reporters would write articles on these things called “typewriters.” And get this: These machines weren't even connected to the Internet! — The tools have since changed. We have blogs, smartphones, digital cameras and Wi-Fi.| Evan Rodgers / The Verge: |
Samsung Exynos 5 Dual detailed: DirectX 11 and USB 3.0 in a 32nm SOC — Samsung has released all the details about the Exynos 5 Dual, the company's upcoming dual-core 1.7GHz mobile CPU based on ARM Cortex-A15 architecture, as reported by Android Authority. The 32nm Exynos 5 Dual … | Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Apple Retail Stores Begin Price Matching iPhone Discounts from Carriers and Major Retailers — With a number of retailers and carriers beginning to drop prices on the iPhone as the introduction of Apple's next-generation hardware approaches, Apple has officially continued to maintain standard … | Kurt Opsahl / Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
Good News: Craigslist drops exclusive license to your posts — In a welcome course correction, craigslist has removed its short-lived provision that required users to grant it an exclusive license to—in other words granting them ownership of—every post. We were unhappily surprised …
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| Jordan Golson / MacRumors: |
Blizzard's Battle.net Hacked; Company Recommends All Users Change Their Passwords — Blizzard Entertainment, the company behind Warcraft, Starcraft and Diablo, today informed customers that their internal security network had been breached. — The company doesn't believe that financial information … | Jared Newman / Computerworld: |
New Xbox to Launch Within 18 Months, Says Microsoft Job Listing — Microsoft's job listings have been a little leaky lately. First came news of next-generation Surface PCs, and now there's word of a new Xbox coming within a year and a half. — Microsoft's job listings have been a little leaky lately.
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| Shara Tibken / Wall Street Journal: |
Nvidia Partnering With Lenovo on Windows RT Device - Sources — Nvidia Corp. (NVDA) will supply chips to Lenovo Group Ltd. (LNVGY, 0992.HK) on a device running Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT) Windows RT operating system, people familiar with the matter said, giving Nvidia another partner in its push into mobile devices.
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| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
The Spotify Effect Shows Up: Streaming Music Boosts Warner's Bottom Line — Streaming services like Spotify and Pandora have made a lot of noise. Now they're actually generating money for the music labels, too. — Warner Music Group says streaming services contributed 25 percent … | Billy Steele / Engadget: |
OUYA console pre-order now available for non-backers starting at $109, slated to ship in April — Miss out on your chance to snag the Android-based gaming console during OUYA's Kickstarter tour-de-force? Worry not, friends. The outfit has opened up pre-orders it promised … Sponsor Posts
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Featured Startup on Windows 8 - Spotted Zebra — Spotted Zebra is a one-man independent game company focused on making original games for new platforms. You will notice one thing about Spotted Zebra right away — that name.
Featured Startup on Windows 8 - Spotted Zebra — Spotted Zebra is a one-man independent game company focused on making original games for new platforms. You will notice one thing about Spotted Zebra right away — that name.
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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